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Meanwhile the current administration is actively taking formerly publicly available data sets that are critical for research offline.

The whole modus operandi for LLMs at this point is to produce a flood of material and then hope someone else will have to do the hard work of verifying it while you gloat about your productivity.

Once you know about it, there's also a lot of symbolic shorthand for recognition and the like.

Honoring a beloved medieval art historian professor of mine:

"It's more properly the Bayeux Embroidery"

Yeah - I don't want AI writing "notes" in the academic sense, but minutes.

Of course the problem with this for me (I'm a state employee) is that said transcript is a public record.

Sarah Taber has given some interesting talks about this - the short version is there is probably a fair amount of outbreaks caused by small farms, they just don't have the reach to be detected.

The FoodNet thing, while bad, has a bit of nuance in the system was not meant to do outbreak detection, so likely wouldn't have helped here.

But it does cripple our ability to ask if this was a one-off, or if we're seeing long term trends that should be worrisome.

This. As an infectious disease epidemiologist, the number of people who will work their way into laboratory confirmed case reports is a small fraction of the total number of people impacted.

You are almost certainly not reflected in those numbers.

Honestly, I think we would do well to dispose of both "founder" and "startup".

We had words for this. "Small business" and "Small business owner".

Why, in particular, above any other aspect of society?

In contrast, I loved biology and felt its applications call to me, and it took me like five years after struggling through calculus to go "Oh, that's what that's for."

One of the things that struck me the most, watching keynote presentations from the absolute best-of-the-best in my field (infectious diseases) was how often those presentations, which were often reflections on the path of ones career, involved a liberal arts education.

Who said anything about surgery? He expressed some problems with things like dogs having trouble with profiles, and reacting poorly to the mask/helmet things - that's the type of thing where veterinary schools have literal experts that extension can help connect you with.

Ironically, probably the one thing a vet extension can't help with? Cheap surgery.

You seem to be conflating something being legal with it being either ethical or desirable.

"And now everything is stale and the same."

AI content is not exactly helping everything feeling like Extruded Product.