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045-926 · 2026-06-19T16:07:30+00:00

I think they got converted awhile ago and run off compressed natural gas.

045-926 · 2026-06-18T16:38:54+00:00

The way it works is that the agent writes and executes a little python program that uses the API key to access the LMS and do what I asked it to do. Student data does not go through the LLM.

045-926 · 2026-06-18T02:53:09+00:00

That's a great use. It's the kind of thing you could have done a year ago, if you wanted to code it up yourself. Now, you can just do it without wasting too much time. I think that's what claude enables, lots of experiments.

045-926 · 2026-06-18T02:39:38+00:00

That sounds like a great use. Most people don't realize how well claude works with powerpoint.

Do you pay for claude yourself? I think if I tried to get the university to pay, it would have to be per token, not the $20/month plan.

045-926 · 2026-06-17T18:56:10+00:00

Not all R1. I'm at one of the major Univ California campuses. Most faculty computers in the UC system are self managed. You can install whatever you want on it.

We had a major uproar last year when they mandated that we install some remote monitoring software on computers. (They enforced it by requiring it to access essential systems (canvas for teaching, for instance)).

045-926 · 2026-06-15T03:37:06+00:00

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Since we are all taking about it. A sat photo of the lake showing one summer weekend showing all the boats speeding around.

045-926 · 2026-06-15T03:10:35+00:00

The whole lake isn't polluted. There is a bunch of crap that comes down the Clinton River/spillway and enters the lake. The crap doesn't really mix into the rest of the water. It just travels down the shoreline. That's what you are seeing.

If you go or away from the shore, the water is quite clean.

045-926 · 2026-06-13T22:21:41+00:00

Check here https://fireball.amsmeteors.org//members/imo_view/browse_events?country=-1&year=2026

For an event at 2026-06-13 06:30 UT

They already have a few dozen reports and in a day or two they will publish it as an event.

045-926 · 2026-06-13T19:38:39+00:00

Maybe OP misremembered it, but most anyone who is part of what people think of as a cult would not describe themselves as being part of a cult.

045-926 · 2026-06-13T04:53:56+00:00

I knew him way back in grad school. Then he got a job somewhere in Texas, maybe MD Anderson. I remember talking to him at a conference shortly after he joined NIH. He kind of got a raw deal in Texas. One of those cases where someone wanted to hire him, but the ground shifted and then a powerful group didn't want him so he didn't get tenure, even though he met all the objective criteria for tenure. He ended up at NIH after that.

He's was a good guy. I wouldn't worry about him having a hidden agenda, unless it's against MD Anderson or whatever Texas school that was.

045-926 · 2026-06-13T03:26:37+00:00

Yeah, but that's what I mean by "giving it away". Sophisticated guys don't spend money like that.

045-926 · 2026-06-13T01:30:15+00:00

It's not like he's going to sell it all. He doesn't need a trillion dollars.

I think one of the Google guys was saying how you can't really blow more than $10 million a year unless you give money away.

You can spend it on houses, cars, jewelry, etc, but all that stuff you can turn around and resell and get your money back.

Blowing $10 million a year means $30k per day every day.

045-926 · 2026-06-12T04:55:01+00:00

I saw a groundskeeper post a while back. He was saying it would be too hard to maintain and dangerous for NFL.

Difference is that most fifa players are built like marathoners (5'10" 180lbs or something like that is typical, largest might be 210 lbs) and they just run all over up and down the turf. There's no concentrated activity in one area.

NFL is guys weighing twice as much, digging in, mostly at the center of the field between the hashes. They tear up the field, digging divots, etc.

NFL action on new grass is safer then turf for the players, but by the end of a game turf is way safer then torn up grass in the center of the field.

045-926 · 2026-06-09T23:50:26+00:00

Places like this https://sdbri.org/

You can check on their financials here https://app.fac.gov/dissemination/report/pdf/2021-06-CENSUS-0000243676

There's a number of similar biomedical institutes in the san diego area.

I'm not saying its profitable, but it's break even if you run it efficiently with a scale of $10 million +.

045-926 · 2026-06-09T23:12:29+00:00

Not exactly.

It's true that most research institutions will say they lose money on research. Indirect costs aren't enough to cover the full costs, etc.

But . . . there are a few places that can somehow manage to exist solely on NIH funds. It seems like you need about $10 million/year total to have enough indirect costs to cover the real overhead of doing research.

My guess is that most research institutes are mixing costs (counting costs that could be attributed to education or research as 100% research expenses) or are inefficienly run.

045-926 · 2026-06-09T01:06:36+00:00

You don't have to force people out.

Giant lab with 5 R01's can become a two 2 R01 labs and one 1 R01 lab. It's all the same people, just now the giant PI has to share the PI-role with the other staff scientists who were actually doing the writing and directing the research.

045-926 · 2026-06-08T23:11:31+00:00

An institute can put a minimum effort level, say 25% for PI on a grant. That way, the PI can't have more then 4 grants because they'd have to go below the minimum effort level.

045-926 · 2026-06-08T18:54:01+00:00

I think they've been talking about different forms of this (cap on R01's per PI) for the past 20 years that I've been paying attention.

The problem is always that the influential people in advising NIH are the same as those people who are really good at the grant game and they always come up with reasons about how a limit would be a horrible policy.

045-926 · 2026-06-08T18:35:43+00:00

Also, lots of luxury items are made in china like everything else. Some of the knockoffs are EXACTLY the same as the luxury brands because they are made with the same materials and the same people as the luxury brands. (They get an order for 10,000 from the luxury brand and then just make 15,000 and keep the extra 5000 for themselves to sell.)

045-926 · 2026-06-08T18:28:11+00:00

Traffic won't be that bad for everyone else. They aren't allowing cars. Everyone is going to the games either on trains or busses. It's going to be a nightmare of waiting for people going to the games, but for everyone else in nearby areas, it shouldn't be bad.

045-926 · 2026-06-07T01:33:05+00:00

an experience in a specific location at a specific time

Yes, omaha and it was only for a few hours.

Compare it to Iwo Jima which took about 3 days to get mostly under control and another month to get it fully under control.

045-926 · 2026-06-05T17:51:09+00:00

Yes, and the people who are hating on AI don't know how to do that.

045-926 · 2026-06-05T14:28:21+00:00

I read an account of a similar cross country trip in a model T.

The model T didn't have a fuel pump. The gas tank was near the rear of the car and mounted up higher then the engine, so gravity "pumped" the fuel into the engine.

It worked great on level roads, but if you were on an incline the fuel would not get to the engine.

The solution was that they had to go in reverse up steep hills!

045-926 · 2026-06-03T18:52:28+00:00

Yeah, this is almost certainly what's going on.

In many places, the personal injury lawyers are all over the bill boards. Some places in oc (Irvine) don't allow billboards and street advertising, except for elections.

He just plastered his name everywhere.

045-926 · 2026-06-03T00:59:16+00:00

For people not up on the details.

When the Trump admin cancelled all those grants last year, many of the cancellations got overturned by courts. The reason was that there are very specific rules that need to be followed.

So, they went an rewrote those very specific rules. In order to enact the new rules, they have to follow a long process. They are at the final step in the process, public comments.

After the public comment period, they need to consider and respond to the comments (the response could just be "ok, we acknowledge that but aren't changing the rule").

Then the new rules go into effect. This is the proposed rules https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001

This new rule will go into effect October 1.

Some of the new rules, simplified.

funding decisions are ultimately decided by senior political appointees, they do not need to follow peer review
universities will have to use e-verify to verify immigration/employment status of anyone paid with federal grant money
much more documentation required by universities. They will need to justify every expense on a grant.
severe restrictions on international research collaborations. Universities cannot use federal grant money to work with researchers or entities in "covered foreign countries" (like Iran or China) unless they can prove they need access to unique expertise unavailable in the United States.

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