dhfromkorea
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Comment · 1 month ago
Tempus AI | AI Scientist (Staff, Senior) | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | https://www.tempus.com
Tempus is a leading precision medicine AI company with an exceptional data flywheel in oncology: multi-modal data (pathology, DNA/RNA, spatial -omics, longitudinal outcomes, etc.) for millions of patients and deployment channels to the majority of the hospitals in the US.
As an AI scientist at AI Products group, you will build frontier clinical AI products for clinicians and life sciences partners, on top of our portfolio of foundation models in oncology. If you get excited about proving a novel product is feasible at all, or building predictive biomarkers for a new drug out of a small cohort, and you want impact beyond the benchmark results, this is the group for you.
Many of us come from Paige AI, the creators of Paige Prostate (the first FDA-cleared pathology AI application). We look for future colleagues who are smart, driven, and good at working out hard problems together.
Staff: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4387110060/
Senior: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4453706650/
Please apply and email donghun(dot)lee@tempus(dot)com
Referrals are very welcome.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is really cool. I searched for "Korea" and the third result was a page of Richard Stallman's website about his visit to Korea in 2000, from which I discovered he wrote about an array of big companies and why not to use them---pretty interesting. Last time I met him was in Finland. Such a consistent, profound character.
Comment · 7 years ago
> "SoftBank routinely selling assets to its Vision fund."
Can anyone help me understand the real reason Softbank does this and whether investors of VF are okay with it? One case I know of is Coupang [1], a Korean E-commerce company, recently "priced" by VF at $9B. Last year, Softbank sold its 20% shares in Coupang to VF at a 30% loss (down-valuation) and then VF poured in an additional $2B to Coupang. It appears Masa did double down on Coupang but why bother to sell its long position at a loss? Not a domain expert on this, so I wonder what is really going on...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/softbank-...
Comment · 7 years ago
It would have been more interesting if they could share deeper, nuanced arguments for setting wealth as the objective function. Sure, wealth past a certain point admits a lot of freedom---but what next beyond that point? But the utility function over wealth (x: wealth, y: utility) is sub-modular in nature. When the curve gets flat, what metric must one use to measure her life's worth? Is there even one as such? Having followed their opinions for quite some time, I know they must have some good opinions on these...
Comment · 7 years ago
> The idea that priors are somehow ruining an "objective" model is just absurd to me.
I think some caution can be justified to a certain extent (not the blind "emotional" objections). When establishing priors in a low data regime, one must necessarily be careful. It's a knob whose mass can change a lot in the inference conclusion. That said, if we trust our belief about the region the available data do not inform us well of, why not utilize our domain knowledge/belief?
Comment · 7 years ago
one vote for BDA. For programmers who learn better by implementing things, this book [1] is also good:
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Methods-Hackers-Probabilisti...
Comment · 7 years ago
The employment rate has increased by somewhat unnoticeable amount over the past 10 years [1]. The increased housing supply is mostly due to cost factors (tax breaks from the previous administrations, low interest rate) and the demand due to decline of small cities (demand gets concentrated around Seoul, the capital city; people buy houses around Seoul while living far away in another place on rent). As for the office/factory/commercial space, there has been a sharp increase in supply, and the vacancy rate (spaces that cannot find tenants) is 10-20% in major cities. Folks still buy buildings with a yield of 2.5-4% because the interest rate is so low. I am currently based in Cambridge, Boston. There are empty stores that have been looking for tenants for more than a year.
Comment · 7 years ago
I am not convinced. The attribution to the simple zoning system is surely not a complete proof, if any. Consider a counter-example: South Korea that has a very similar zoning system. Yet the housing price around Seoul soared roughly by 60% the past 3 years---so did rents (to a smaller but still significant rate). All the while the apartments supply has been at record high in 10 years. That zoning policy may be a factor but clearly not sufficient.
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