KuriousCat

I mean it could just point to published papers or say I can’t answer that question, why flag it as a violation of use policy?

Does the paper assume uniform settings through out the training phase? Or is it the bound no matter what training strategy is used given the dataset?

Are you inspired by http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ and flipped the script?

We are not even remotely close to creating sentience with AI. I would fear the control of few unaccountable humans over a vast number of robots compared to a sentient AI.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39192304 - https://github.com/wasp-lang/open-saas

Keep working in the background and unblock yourself. You should be prepared to do it all by yourself and handle the scenario of rest of your collaborators shelving the paper. You should not be delegating to seniors, that never works. Ideally, I would list things that need to be done. I would have a group meeting and ask what people are excited to do and how I can help them in the parts they are not ready to pick up.

Why are we still relying on an antiquated system to share the findings? In this era, it does not cost any where near to host a static website and share the findings, reviews, results and code openly compared to paying money to a top tier journal.

AI is already free for a limited number of requests. In that sense free email style AI is already there.

I still don't get it. What was the USP here? What is the allure in it for the investors?

How did they secure funds in that case?

This is a very bad idea. So if I want to conduct an experiment I have to convince the fund raiser or play to his tunes. I wish I could downvote it 10 times :)

Is that the right strategy for generative AI?

Can you include some form an MLM scheme into subscriptions as well?

Surely a well meaning joke that I missed :)

The language and messaging is very negative.

- Introduction: In the first line "but are ashamed of what Imgur has become?" why should I be ashamed of imgur?

- Emotional Appeal: If you are referring to a person who is willing to pay a non zero amount of money as "You are cheap" why would one go ahead and press the pay button?

- Screaming I don't care : You seek feedback and state that you might not do anything about it in the same sentence.

I guess you might have actively prevented few willing customers and made them to reconsider their choices.

Looks like self reported happiness has been declining in USA even though the GDP keeps improving. I wonder what is the inflection point or key decisions that lead to improvements in GDP but decline in life quality? Do we have something similar for how happy people are on the internet as a whole? Something like Gross Netizen Happiness? What is the best way to measure it?

What makes it hard to estimate? Is it a very intractable problem?

The problem is that people can survive with food on their table and roof on their heads while feeling miserable. So there will always be people willing to offer themselves up that allows people who can siphon off value to profit even more and become more powerful. It is a powerful flywheel which is quite hard to stop in practice.

"Postdocs are a critical component of the research and development workforce.": This is what first grade BS sounds like. Full time well paid scientists with autonomy and long term job security are critical. Not underpaid overworked staff with little or no security.

It is not just the managers. It is the price you pay for selling your time. The ICs under a bad manager have it even worse. And it is also not like non toxic work environments don’t exist. Usually companies benefit from the toxicity. A toxic place usually allows profitable organizations to siphon off more value and usually companies gravitate to a point where that siphoning is maximized while maintaining steady stream of people to employ. Of course the not so profitable will crumble. My sympathies and best wishes for you but definitely not for you as a “manager” but for facing less than fulfilling work environment.

Most of the social media platforms optimize their content for engagement, they discovered that one of the most effective filter is the one that would present enraging content. However, what’s gradually eroding is the bull shit filter in peoples mind. Countering bs takes a lot more energy than producing it. With influx of so much content people are gradually drained out of the energy which effectively erodes their bs filters. This is further amplified by an unprecedented squeeze of the middle class.

Depends on the kind of work you would like to do. I would say you can easily get L6+ level Applied Research Scientist roles (Amazon) or roles like Principal Data Scientist. There could be better fitting bioinformatics roles at places like Calico or J&J. What do you want to optimize for? Money? Research? If I am already holding a tenured track position, I would go for visiting faculty position at places like Meta. They used to bring in people for 2-4 years.

1 dollar more would do it?

Sometimes I wonder how companies like Amazon arrive at those numbers? Why 2.7 billion? Why not 1 billion or 3 billion? I am very curious in this case why that number is the sweet spot that ensures optimal returns.

Postdoc system must be abolished. It is meant for individuals seeking some skills outside their discipline and has crept under the carpet to a toxic level. A PhD degree essentially states that the individual is strong enough to conduct independent research. It is oxymoronic that additional training is mandated after that.

I meant it in a much more loose sense, how easy it is for people to cross the borders and get something of interest done, may be business, study or just enjoy a vacation.

I thought this information is already available publicly, would it be difficult to look up the address using business registration records?

The point I was trying to make is this, the fear driven conformal behavioral training or we can even call it draining in this case during the formative years is making many people lean towards their zombie mode and is killing their critical questioning faculty. Even simple decisions like what phone I would use are shaped by the green tick marks and peer perception.

I think in the last couple of years more established people are getting back to Academia. The sad part is not SV pricing out academics, industry has massively influenced academic conferences and has resulted in a lot of herding and a lot less tolerance to novel/fragile ideas. If you have not bench marked your idea on some large databases (costs multiple thousands of dollars) your idea is not worth publishing. This has resulted in explosion of incremental ideas and reduced the tendency of people to explore on their own which is perceived to be too risky.