Research Scientist in NeuroAI at the Astera Institute. Previously a research engineer for VERSES AI and postdoctoral research fellow at Vanderbilt Data Science.
> In the mean time, I will gladly switch to Codex.
IME Codex had a bit of a big head/ego about writing what it thinks I ought to want rather than what I actually ask for, and I've had to spend some time cleaning up its slop.
Culture my foot! It's a difference of law. American employment is "at-will", meaning they can legally fire you for "any reason or no reason", with the only asterisk being that "any reason" cannot violate civil-rights law (eg: they can't fire you for your race, sex, or age). European and Japanese law penalize laying off an onboarded, long-term, full-time employee who's already passed probation and acquired years of seniority.
If I didn't want companies focused on making money to exclusively target the life sciences, I would simply fund literally anything or everything else commensurately with how much money is thrown at the life sciences for the sheer garbage they actually practice and produce. Don't like it?
Most of what's impressed me in working with LLMs is just how much "intelligence" you can get out of the agent iteratively refining something it looks back at with each turn, without its ever actually exhibiting human-level intelligence. I've always been an embodied-cognition guy, and it really seems to me like "agent harnesses" are basically task-specific pseudo-embodiments for LLMs.
Matplotlib? Ha! There are loads of academic fields where you still write data analyses by hand, one at a time, in Matlab, without proper version-control or libraries.
I'd like to try and give you some sympathy, but my last landlord was a well-regarded property management firm who left me with no heat from the end of October to the weekend of Martin Luther King Day in New England, effectively only fixing it once I withheld rent, got on the local news, and was threatening a lawsuit. So, uh... yeah plenty of landlords have done a lot to earn that reputation for the class as a whole.
I mean, to be fair, having your population semi-permanently depleted by two major wars and a fundamental loss of national economic centrality and prestige will help you keep a fixed stock of social housing lasting longer.
When I aim to accomplish something, to destroy some institution, I tend to favor the direct way, because it relies on fewer intermediate points of failure than the indirect way.
This is the policy I was always told to exercise about cold emails, both those I receive and those I send. Someone seems to have spent weeks reading your books and papers before emailing to meet with you? Make time for that guy. Someone just asks if you've got time to meet about your work because they'd like to work for you? LOL they didn't check enough to realize you're not a supervisor.
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