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Maybe I'm cynical, but I always get excited, only to be really disappointed by the other person's thoughts :/ They never feel like they're contributing much.

Anyone more econ literate know why Coase isn't trivially answered by accounting for corporate time-discounting? Maybe I'm missing something, but this always confused me.

If you could beat Godot and Unity in two weeks with AI, why doesn't everyone just do this? (A: there be dragons)

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def not life. there is no sense in which a virus... 'does' anything, it's not agentic. it's kind of like a free-floating loaded spring.

i've wondered for a long time why this isn't a more common solution to these services that are almost inevitably monopolous. power, water, and internet kind of things.

the thing about being human is you internalize cultural values as your own. if you lived in a society that valued, i dunno, tracking and hunting down giraffes in small groups, woul…

i'm well aware of how medications are developed. i'm talking about biology, not medicine. there is a world of difference. pharma companies combine tech that gets developed in acade…

I used to be like this back when I chronically under-exercised, it was the only thing that would help me sleep. And even then, I struggled with insomnia. Personally I need 10-20 ho…

I mean, for like, some ML research, sure. For certain, even most, aspects of electrical engineering, absolutely. But for biology? Absolutely not. And even in more computer-adjacent…

uh... maybe in your field. personally i've never seen good physics on Vixra or good biology anywhere except in biorxiv or journals.

i'd say the success of substack flies directly in the face of your claim

This is crazy to me because when I've run labs in the past, there were equipment failures literally all of the time. When you teach lots of people, shit breaks. Quite often if some…

'flunked everyone who claimed they got the supposed "correct" answer to three significant digits because that was impossible.' while I've never seen anyone flunked for this, I cert…

not sure about anyone else, but the scientists I know who worked there only stayed for a few seasons, which makes this pretty damning.

Oh huh. Just quickly glancing, it seems that indeed you may be right, at least for a lot of the standard things it's used to treat. The exception seems to be allergies? I'm not sur…

I think my favorite point to this effect is that there's plenty of medical literature (in the Lancet, and others) suggesting hypnosis is as effective as certain drugs for killing p…

Typically a FOSS community seems to take a while to get started, but once it gets going (Blender, Linux, etc) it tends to stick around and even seriously gain traction.

it looks alright -- 10 bucks is not much for a book. but there are already many great graphics books out there, and resources like inigo quilez's blog are absolutely incredible for…

Also happen to be in microbiology, but pretty far from the medical side of things. Do you have a citation on the fact that 'most' pathogenic strains have a plasmid making them so? …