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Show HN: Ducks, the Python Object Indexer

github.com
2 points·by manimino·4 ปีที่แล้ว·2 comments

Show HN: Ducks, a Python library for database-like object lookups

ducks.readthedocs.io
6 points·by manimino·4 ปีที่แล้ว·0 comments

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manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Promethease (1) is a great site for doing this. You upload a genome (which they promise to delete), and download an HTML interactive report. The report spans thousands of studies, and it will tell you about any rare genetic disorders or interesting findings.

The cost is about $18, one time, iirc.

(1) https://promethease.com/
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I have used Nebula. Did a group buy of the kits with several friends to obfuscate shipping address. Signed up via a protonmail address, and accessed the site only through VPN. Then deleted my data after downloading all of it.

I believe it would be very difficult to tie my identity to my genome because of these steps.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yep. Standard clickbait formula, stir up emotions, add no new information. So easy an AI could do it.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Which is a bit surprising, given that RL is the most likely path to the scary AI future everyone loves to blog about.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
An article criticizing the US with a .cn domain. Chinese propaganda.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
"Average % Revenue growth in pre-seed companies" is a very noisy metric.

Example:

Suppose you had one company doing $10 in sales a year, now it's doing $100 per year. 900% growth!

When you average 900% with the rest, it will skew the results wildly.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
An AI model that can only repeat its training data would be no better than normal text search.

AI models are useful precisely because they can interpolate - make guesses that incorporate information from many examples.

And this interpolation is called "hallucination" only when it happens to be a wrong answer?
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
All these AIs are doing is sampling from some continuous space. Every answer is a "hallucination".

AIs are useful because many (most?) of those hallucinations happen to be useful.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Selling it as "free up the parents to do other things" is not going to fly. But enhancing the baby's experience or learning is fine.

An AI-powered rocker that plays soothing music till the baby sleeps would be great. People already use rockers, it's very accepted.

I would never have trusted a computer to be in charge of my infants. Even trusting another human adult is pretty tough already.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
If you rented out that house, what would you charge? Would you charge 3k, and lose 2k / month?

That doesn't make sense; so how are landlords surviving in your market then?
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
No opinion on whether the US did it.

But Hersh's essay indicates there were last-minute changes to the detonation method. That adds risk, which could have manifested as failure of some detonations.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
When the evidence is thin, it's best to avoid committing to a belief either way, despite the temptation.

Related Paul Graham essay, "Keep your identity small": http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Apple hasn't cut employees so far. But nothing is stopping it from announcing layoffs tomorrow.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
If you want zsh that acts like fish, try "fizsh".
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This is the right question to ask. Caffeine causes mood swings, anxiety, and poor sleep.

After over a decade of regular caffeine use, I stopped it entirely last year. The benefits were tremendous. The "decaf" subreddit is full of people with similar experiences.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Referential humor should stay on Reddit. It's chuckle-worthy, sure, but this forum is one of the few places we have for serious discussion.

When people upvote jokes, the high-value expertise people freely share here gets drowned out, and will eventually disappear.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Laying off X% of your staff can be required to raise capital. Gotta show the investors you aren't being frivolous.

You can, of course, hire the same people back (assuming they are still willing to work there).
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Sounds right. Around 2.2 million, your money starts to generate more income than your labor can, unless you have an exceptionally high paying job.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Businesses solve the problems people have right now. It is good at scratching itches.

Academics solve long-term problems. They do not need to chase profits, so they can tackle bigger ideas. The risk is higher, but the rewards to humanity as a whole can be far greater - just less immediate.

Note that there is a significant amount of "academia" that happens inside large tech co's, such as Google / Facebook / Microsoft, just as Bell Labs did in yesteryear.
manimino
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This is one of the great disconnects between computer scientists and biologists. Computers are man-made, and fundamentally knowable - answers will be definitively, provably, right or wrong.

Biology is different. Sure, at a molecule level, you can make definite conclusions. "This drug binds to that receptor."

But the kind of biology that is immediately useful to humans - where it touches on psychology or sociology - is too complex to get 100% right. So how do you do 'science' in these fields?

The answer is that you make up some cohesive theory based on existing research and do studies in that direction. You try to prove yourself right.

And it works! Theories that come out of this sort of research can turn out to be 100% true. Or 90% true - where they are wrong under some conditions, but still very useful. Or they can be complete bunk - not predictive, and a waste of time.

When anyone presents a cohesive theory of a complex system, they are probably not 100% right. Doesn't make them entirely wrong, though, and certainly not useless.