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epgui

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MSc biochemistry, Sr Software Engineer at Teamshares, photographer, academic at heart.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/epgui; my proof: https://keybase.io/epgui/sigs/y564TgN5chSlzKFy-9SIa9Lpqeo22kBECpmXwEVwMJ8 ]

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epgui
·há 4 dias·discuss
That’s quite judgmental and shows an impressive lack of scientific curiosity.
epgui
·há 4 dias·discuss
Nanopore data is a lot easier to analyze than short read sequencing data. You just don’t get the same alignment/assembly issues: these things sequence incredibly long reads.

(also a biochemist, MSc)
epgui
·há 6 dias·discuss
The word abstraction does not mean the same thing as the words analogy or comparison.
epgui
·há 12 dias·discuss
What does that have to do with the article?
epgui
·há 17 dias·discuss
I thought half the point of captchas was to train vision models?
epgui
·há 17 dias·discuss
They don’t create energy, but they do create heat. It’s entropy, can’t avoid it.
epgui
·há 18 dias·discuss
> What would you say are the benefits of the grammar-of-graphics approach?

When a mathematical formalism exists, just use that. Other approaches just reinvent the wheel on an ad-hoc/piecemeal basis and end up making all sorts of unnecessary compromises.
epgui
·há 18 dias·discuss
The selling point is the grammar of graphics. See Wilkinson on the subject.
epgui
·há 22 dias·discuss
Presumably they should have said “sources” but that’s not a helpful answer
epgui
·há 25 dias·discuss
I find them just as complicated as k8s.
epgui
·há 27 dias·discuss
I think everyone deserves to participate in meaningful and dignified work.
epgui
·há 27 dias·discuss
Yes, iphones do process images using AI.
epgui
·mês passado·discuss
I wouldn’t.
epgui
·mês passado·discuss
I’ve never thought of Linear as particularly fast.
epgui
·mês passado·discuss
Cognitive ability can be highly specific. If you don't use it you lose it. You may be able to keep your chess ELO high, but realize you can't implement basic algorithms in C++ quite as readily as you used to. Or you can't write as well as you used to. Or you can't quite make that old recipe taste as good as you remember.

We can argue about what skills are important or not, but these things tend to sneak up on us.
epgui
·mês passado·discuss
> I don't think my actual cognitive skills have declined by using AI

I'm not speaking about you but... I know most people would not have much awareness of their cognitive decline. I know this because that awareness gap is there with or without LLMs, across all age groups and cultures.
epgui
·mês passado·discuss
It’s easy to imagine this being a problem both in quality and in volume. Verifiable work is less valuable than verified work. And noise is always costly.
epgui
·mês passado·discuss
That seems about as shortsighted as claiming the value of human understanding has cratered after the invention of the electronic calculator.
epgui
·há 2 meses·discuss
The “higher level of abstraction” phrase used to describe what LLMs are in relation to programming… That phrase needs to die.
epgui
·há 2 meses·discuss
Yes.