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I agree. I have an iPhone 18 Pro. I don’t notice the difference between it and my older, non-ProMotion iPad that I use side by side.

It’s a penis measuring contest for display enthusiasts, much like gold connectors are for audio enthusiasts.

It’s amazing how dietary restrictions and medical issues track with political affiliation. Who knew?

Another reason is nowadays with all the variety of dietary restrictions in vogue, it’s much harder for a host to prepare a meal everyone can share. Potlucks or a bland collection of help-yourself dishes (which often are nothing more than an odd collection of appetizers) is standard fare.

I’m fortunate to have friends in their 60s and 70s where I can still enjoy the traditional dinner experience.

I can’t tell if this scientific article summary is bad AI writing or bad human writing.

This rant reminds me why Linux has limited penetration. Its user base is made up of opinionated users who view compromise along the way to something larger as a moral failure.

We need to go nuclear with the newer type of plants. Built at scale, they are cost effective. Otherwise we are cooked, perhaps quite literally.

As long as we acknowledge that is your perspective, and in my opinion based on 30+ years of experience, is one that is typical. Most people on the data side, enjoy their work and are well paid, perhaps not near FAANG standards, but they do enjoy their work and life.

I have no doubt you had a bad experience. There are a LOT of egotistical professors and grad studentss who don’t value others. Have you given industry a fair go yet though? You may find a job there more to your liking. The people are generally less arrogant than those in academia, and we view ourselves, rightfully so, as cogs in a big machine.

Did you see the announcement from Moderna today? That was the result of decades of us grunts chipping away the problem.

Your post sounds like it is made by a disgruntled misanthrope. I lead teams of biologists and data scientists and both are part of a vast team, each of us playing our bit part, myself included. If your desire is to be the center of attention, you are in the wrong field.

And lay off the immigrants. Jeez.

Again Nick, you don’t understand the nature of the problem. In the vast sea of biology, protein folding is well circumscribed problem. Klaus Schulten’s group and dozens of other groups were already making good progress since the nineties chipping away at this problem.

Once you move up to protein-protein interactions in living cells, post transcriptional modification, epigenetics, lipidomics, glycomics, and the the arrangement of said cells into the 3D tissue environment, and then into organs and complex biological organisms, all of which have a paucity of good training compared to what we possess in the protein folding domain, the problem becomes computationally intractable. We need to get in the lab.

You tech bros are entirely ignorant of these challenges and are making fools of yourselves.

I can’t overemphasize how happy I am that people are taking the surveillance threat that Flock represents seriously. Ordinarily, the “I haven’t done anything wrong so I have nothing to worry about” fallacy tends to dominate the discussion.

Yeah buddy, asking for a backdoor to all my private files on iCloud is just a noble attempt to protect children. What else are you selling?

“Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today. By automating the loops of discovery, the world will be able to make much more rapid advances across countless fields of science.”

The key point is these jackasses explicitly state, “ a handful of people” can replace “massive teams of scientists and engineers”.

These guys don’t even understand the nature of the challenge and neither do you apparently. If they did, they would realize that it indeed does require “massive teams of engineers and scientists” to solve our most pressing problems.

From the self-stated bios, this group consists solely of CS guys. No biologist, physicist, linguist, chemist, biophysicist to be found. Based on this observation alone I call nonsense. These is AI bullshittery. These guys aren’t close enough to the problems to understand the challenges.

Source: PhD Computational biophysicist turned experimentalist. I work with genuine scientists across a range of disciplines from neurodegeneration, cancer, to fibrosis. Getting in the lab and generating data is absolutely key, among other things.

I imagine elements in the Taiwanese govt are pushing a massive drone network to turn the nation into a porcupine.

You find NIMBYs on Hacker News as well unfortunately.