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There's also recent Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design methods that allow you to directly design experiments using gradient ascent. Not sure how it compares with BayesOpt on your…

github copilot won't pay for itself.

Their paper is more for the case of "we can't gather more data, so what to do?" but your solution is in line with optimal experimental design and choosing a utility function to dis…

Here's a good recent paper that looks at this problem and provides remedies in a Bayesian manner. https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11678

min{d(problem)/d(theta)} is essentially what LLMs are doing with a prompt. Every session that a chatgpt user has leads to either a resolution or not, which is the loss function giv…

Thanks for sharing and i'm happy to be your friend :)

I see your point and agree it can be frustrating if DEI initiatives are used as a political tool or blindly without considering the pitfalls of a naive implementation.

Indeed, I didn't cite any sources but I'm fairly sure there's literature studying this phenomenon. I agree that DEI when used as a political tool is a distraction for a company.

I think many of the things you mentioned w.r.t. diversity is actually forward-thinking and potentially yields more returns later. If there's a brilliant swe that feels uncomfortabl…

Equivariance is growing in popularity in machine learning, so these tricks will be helpful if one wants to study, or publish, in that area (I'm thinking about it). I'd recommend fo…

So you `pip install`ed them at a new company? I'll see myself out.

Here's a short (unscientific) article (that kinda links to scinetific articles) about the link between lactic acid buildup and its relation in the brain. Sounds like exercise gener…

Very cool. Can you comment on how this compares with tensorflow similarity? https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/09/introducing-tensorflow-s...

Couldn't read the article but yea, if it's a small molecule, most likely it's inhibiting some protein specific to cancerous cells. In this case, it sounds like it's blocking some p…

Briefly, no. Why: they're most likely not training your average ML models on this dataset. Instead, they are likely taking a model of some physics and seeing how it performs in the…

That's a strategy but there are issues with immune rejection since that's a xenograft. I think there are some products based off of this concept for other areas (skin grafts) after…

Bioengineer here able to chime in with niche expertise. Cartilage is and has been a holy grail in biomedical engineering but is very difficult to grow and transplant. There have be…

The way I've seen startups make it work is to save part of the indirect for the worst-case scenario of no bridge funding for the 3-6 month period. If you are able to get into an ac…

I'd be interested in seeing citations for the known death valley. This is the second time I've heard this anecdote but have never seen the evidence.

With hard science ventures that sometimes have a hard time findng the 'killer app' for the technology, I think the experience and learning from ping ponging around is a feature. Ye…

SBIR funding is critical for hard science ventures early on. It's also a good indicator to future investors of potential hard science projects that a panel of experts in the area h…

I'm not an economist but this also seems like an indirect, peer to peer, way to establish 'credit' of an individual, rather than relying on centralized institutions with dubious se…

Is Morgan Freeman the most used celebrity?

This could work out pretty well. I remember reading somewhere (can't find the article) that Brian Eno works with artists this way as a producer, creating artificial constraints to …