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Comment · 5 days ago
How long until we see similar announcements for (wet lab) chemistry, medicine or material science? Months? Years? Never?

(Never would mean AI will be used in future labs like a fancy calculator, but not much more changes)

Comment · 1 month ago
If agents need to run on the desktop or logged into a user's real browser, the alternative would be Ui.Vision MCP. But stagehand is designed for backend use, so apples and oranges.
Comment · 2 months ago
"insulin resistance trends" - whaaaaat? how would they do THAT? That would be huge for so many people, including diabetics, obese people or women with PCOS (PCOS alone affects more than 10% of women of reproductive age)

Is that measurement accurate? Like, a person starts taking Metformin -> and a few days later the watch detects a drop in insulin resistance?

Comment · 3 months ago
>(because you shouldn’t move a small town if you are non white)

Where does this rule come from? It does not match my experience.

Comment · 5 months ago
"Early 2025: First enterprise contracts secured" "Today: Powering Fortune 500 engineering teams" - I guess that is all that is publicly available for now.
Comment · 5 months ago
Built what you want to use yourself. AI for engineering and physics sounds like the perfect product a company like ASML (Mistral investor) could use.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yes and they are open about it. That is why they are building their own data centers in Paris and other places.
Comment · 1 year ago
What does a Physics prof at Berkely earn these days? In Germany it would be around 10K€/month (lets ignore all tax etc stuff, just ballpark figure)
Comment · 1 year ago
The challenge with CO2 monitoring is the sensor, not the electronics. Sensor accurracy and service life are key information.

It is easy to create a low power chemical CO2 sensors with a service life of a few weeks/months. Obviously not pratical for real world applications. So critical data is missing in this press release.

Comment · 1 year ago
"it is the exact contract in force for May 2025." - No, it is not. That is your mistaken thinking.

In 2025, TV-L 13 starts with 4629€ a month and goes up to 6580€ (= 78K€+), depending on experience.

Indded, the raw tax difference is substantial. But the social benefits, health insurance, vacation days,... need to be considered for a complete comparison. But that was never the topic of discussion.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
So you are saying the average German Postdoc salary is NOT >= Harvard salary?

What numbers do you have in mind?

Comment · 1 year ago
We have 2025, not 2022. So it is certainly not current. Inflation is a thing! ;-)

My data (see above) is from the same source ("Tarifvertrag"), but from 2024.

I am really surprised that PhD/PostDocs earning more (or at least same) in EU than the US is controversial. I tought everyone knows that.

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