semenko
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Comment · 6 months ago
GitHub's COO shared this under-reported X post last month [1] on their exponential growth. I'd love to see more proactive messaging on their growth rate / vision for agentic interactions.
> … platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
> GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.
Comment · 8 months ago
I have "Advanced Protection" turned on, so I just can't use this at all, because my newly created Google Cloud GCP app isn't trusted (even though I own it and I'm requesting read-only scopes). What a mess.
Access blocked: [app name] is not approved by Advanced Protection. Error 400: policy_enforcedComment · 10 months ago
I found the most interesting part of the NIST outage post [1] is NIST's special Time Over Fiber (TOF) program [2] that "provides high-precision time transfer by other service arrangements; some direct fiber-optic links were affected and users will be contacted separately."
I've never heard of this! Very cool service, presumably for … quant / HFT / finance firms (maybe for compliance with FINRA Rule 4590 [3])? Telecom providers synchronizing 5G clocks for time-division duplexing [4]? Google/hyperscalers as input to Spanner or other global databases?
Seriously fascinating to me -- who would be a commercial consumer of NIST TOF?
[1] https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-se...
[2] https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-se...
[3] https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/4...
[4] https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2019/8/what-you-need-to-kno...
Comment · 2 years ago
I was optimistically hoping some of the MV3 changes would result in Chrome webstore policy enforcement being standardized, but that hasn't happened.
Sensor Tower (https://sensortower.com/) makes a lot of popular extensions, like StayFocusd https://www.stayfocusd.com/. They seem to resell ad data (in violation of [1]?) and ship likely obfuscated code [2] (in violation of [3]?), but there's no enforcement or even clear reporting mechanism.
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/program-policies/...
[2] https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fclients2.googl...
[3] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/program-policies/...
Comment · 2 years ago
This is incorrect. The abstract clearly describes both cell line and in vivo experiments after modeling.
Comment · 3 years ago
Agreed! This specifically is for adjuvant osimertinib for EGFR+ Stage IB–IIIA completely resected NSCLC.
The headline here is really strong -- and the actual abstract is much more sober: "5-year OS rate was 88% with osimertinib vs 78% with placebo" [Full abstract is here: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/219805 ]
P.S. Hi Chris! (I think I picked up a summer student from you last week!)
Comment · 3 years ago
This title has little to do with the article (and keeps changing).
This piece compares non-surgeon MDs with non-MDs (medical assistants) performing minor surgeries in resource-limited settings.
Its a bit of an odd comparison, as the non-MDs have specifically trained in a 3-year program to perform minor surgeries (CapaCare).
Comment · 4 years ago
>they wouldn't be able to afford it.
Oberlin has an endowment valued at approximately $1 billion — this is ~3% of that. (Understanding all those funds may not be liquid, they certainly have some assets.)
Comment · 4 years ago
I just stumbled upon NumWorks and was excited to see some competition for TI's calculator monopoly [1].
It looks like NumWorks is open source (including the hardware) [2] and supports Python and Rust! [3]
[1] https://gen.medium.com/big-calculator-how-texas-instruments-...
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Via MIT EECS / WashU Med / Mass General Brigham
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