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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
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That’s quite judgmental and shows an impressive lack of scientific curiosity.
epgui
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·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
·6 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The word abstraction does not mean the same thing as the words analogy or comparison.
epgui
·12 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
What does that have to do with the article?
epgui
·17 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I thought half the point of captchas was to train vision models?
epgui
·17 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
They don’t create energy, but they do create heat. It’s entropy, can’t avoid it.
epgui
·18 วันที่ผ่านมา·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
·18 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The selling point is the grammar of graphics. See Wilkinson on the subject.
epgui
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Presumably they should have said “sources” but that’s not a helpful answer
epgui
·25 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I find them just as complicated as k8s.
epgui
·27 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think everyone deserves to participate in meaningful and dignified work.
epgui
·27 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yes, iphones do process images using AI.
epgui
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I wouldn’t.
epgui
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I’ve never thought of Linear as particularly fast.
epgui
·เดือนที่แล้ว·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
·เดือนที่แล้ว·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
·เดือนที่แล้ว·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
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
That seems about as shortsighted as claiming the value of human understanding has cratered after the invention of the electronic calculator.
epgui
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The “higher level of abstraction” phrase used to describe what LLMs are in relation to programming… That phrase needs to die.
epgui
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yes.