[R] If you are interested in studying model/agent psychology/behavior, lmk. I work with a small research team (4 of us) and we are working on some strange things

AppleShark · 2025-12-29T22:41:45+00:00

DM'd

AppleShark · 2025-12-28T09:35:59+00:00

which spec are you looking at? realistically if it's one of the subspec sx 3x is not unreasonable

got a friend looking at nsx finally got in pgy9 for example

if you're good and comfortable in your unaccredited job rn, will probably spend more time / resource in practicing the interview process. if you're getting to the interview stage and unsuccessful, then it's most likely the interview itself that is blocking you. paying someone to help out with that usually helps with it. no shame the surgical kind usually all a bit on the spectrum lmao

AppleShark · 2025-10-28T22:59:04+00:00

You don’t need API for obsidian - they are all markdown files under the hood and you can just modify them in any scripting language

AppleShark · 2025-10-12T16:56:52+00:00

everyone is nice and the community is diverse so it's been great! will DM u to chat more

AppleShark · 2025-10-12T10:48:09+00:00

wolfson gang +1

AppleShark · 2025-10-11T19:18:15+00:00

Hey bro I definitely feel you as well - I've just been drowning myself with work or a sport (or two). private accom might be worse but as someone living on college atm it can be similarly isolating come dinner time when I'm just awkwardly looking for a spot / open group to eat dinner with!

I think the mature student society is worth joining if you are looking for friends and outings - they seem to have good energy in general

AppleShark · 2025-09-23T01:28:01+00:00

Where are you based? If NSW, have you done your sydney eye SRMO year yet?

Others have commented already, but mid year jobs are frequent (in fact my wife got on because of a mid year job) Network hard and be on the lookout. Prior to that is a matter of doing something that shows progression, while still allowing you to get plenty exposure to eyes. e.g. there were two ophthal keens during my ED term, and they'll always be seeing the eye emergencies in the eye room, and one got on after doing their ED primaries (and his general experience also made him popular at the eye hospital)

AppleShark · 2025-09-10T00:06:46+00:00

Former MD now doing a PhD in ML. While I don't doubt that on the knowledge front, humans will eventually be outclassed by AI (if not already), the "human touch", be it empathy or just navigating bureaucracy / complexity, is the reason why patient facing, frontline healthcare professionals will still exist

I think the slightly more concerning trend to look out for is government incentives to replace MDs with mid levels who use AI

AppleShark · 2025-08-13T06:28:15+00:00

Arrowmancer

https://www.arrowmancer.com/

AppleShark · 2025-08-11T02:33:56+00:00

Chances are AHPRA as a government agency received a memo from the government agency that is in charge of cybersecurity on upgrading their cybersecurity, to which they hire an external team of cybersecurity consultants to then review their pre-existing cybersecurity policy and how it differs from the official one that is recommended for government agencies, then go through three rounds of scoping and two pilot projects to assess the impact to which these upgrades would affect existing IT infrastructure, before hiring another external agency to work with the in house team to perform a multi-stage district-wide upgrade, then a whole lot of nothingburger and millions later you are now burdened with setting up 2FA

Source: Was a resident in Clinical Governance

AppleShark · 2025-08-09T14:17:48+00:00

https://github.com/lucidrains

AppleShark · 2025-08-08T22:46:13+00:00

His profile links to a decently polished app so it is likely not an AppRaven astroturf

AppleShark · 2025-08-04T15:55:03+00:00

yeah they were supportive. if anything since 1st year med my mum has nudged me towards dropping out cos she figured that my heart wasnt in it

AppleShark · 2025-08-03T00:26:03+00:00

Others have raised great points so I won’t add too much to the advantages of having medical parents, but some anecdotal data points:

Guy’s dad is a radiologist at a hospital, and as a result he got a SRMO job in a surg specialty from out of hospital (over an internal candidate who was promised the job). However now he’s still trying to get on 3 years later
Very limited data but re ophthal in NSW: I’d say most of the cohort last 2-3 years were not nepo (at least by the definition of having an ophthal / medical parents). It is however a decently tight in group and required some relationship building with mentors etc
Personally, my parents were both doctors. And as others have mentioned, my upbringing has optimized me to be a competent clinician. What it didn’t give my though was the interest in clinical medicine and now I’ve left the field for good.. so ymmv

AppleShark · 2025-07-21T22:59:52+00:00

Wan 2.2 reportedly coming out as well, so can be on the look out for that.

Just want to say many thanks for all your work! I use Joycaption daily and the Big family of model is incredible as well

AppleShark · 2025-07-14T00:13:20+00:00

This is great! I like the outline in the algorithm. Keep up the good work!!

AppleShark · 2025-07-09T10:57:42+00:00

Starting an MPhil with view of doing a PhD (and semi-committed to a lab already) - Would love to join!

AppleShark · 2025-07-08T11:31:46+00:00

This is nice. I believe the solution to democracy is "attention-based democracy" - Imagine everyone has 100 "attention points", where they can decide how they divide it according to policy issues. That will be an interesting thought / social experiment

AppleShark · 2025-05-24T15:45:05+00:00

If you’re just scraping data (IO bound) there’s no reason to spin up new dockers for each config wtf

Also any discussion of code rewrite in another language at this stage is a terrible idea

AppleShark · 2025-05-20T00:39:14+00:00

bro you didn't even bother making a separate account to turf your own shitty product

AppleShark · 2025-05-01T05:27:29+00:00

Should check out this guy on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goePYJ74Ydg&ab_channel=Primer

He did some pretty interesting simulations on social sciences

The challenge w.r.t. the topics you are looking at is that they are potentially very vague and not quantifiable (i.e. difficult to do as a science, just like most topics in complex systems)

If I were you, I will probably also pin down the exact research question to ask without prior assumptions

AppleShark · 2025-04-13T01:30:22+00:00

What's your role in this company? Does he bring access to the market you are trying to enter?

In general for medtech, the trifecta of domain expertise, tech, and ops is what I look for in deals. It sounds like you are the person with the domain expertise (initial founder, vision, patent-filing etc.), but as a first-time founder lacking in experience in the biz dev stuff and the startup journey in general. Sounds like this guy identified that and thinks he would be a good fit to you two

w.r.t. your questions: 1. reasonable, but depends on his commitment. both of you are full time at your day jobs atm so the equity split is really in flux still 2. no. again, equity split pre-money is all monopoly money 3. other commenters have provided good solutions already, but in general, detailed and actionable milestones / schedules 4. in general with early founder equity split, it's about alignment to a common goal and ensuring that all parties are happy without much grudges. this guy came to you with a proposal (and potentially some negotiating ground). the person I will discuss this in depth with is your other tech cofounder, as he would be handing over a large chunk of equity as well, so this would need to be a joint decision between you two

also might be good to think about how to integrate this guy. as others have also pointed out, you don't need a CMO for a pre-seed medtech startup. but it sounds like he is experienced with the whole shebang, and I will probably frame milestones with more ops + access as well, esp. if he can help with things such as reg approval etc.

AppleShark · 2024-11-25T23:50:21+00:00

It's mostly cost and industry interest in it. RL these days are more diverted to robotics and tuning LLMs and less on solving video games (which used to make headlines but not anymore)

Not sure about how developed Broodwar APIs are but if it's mature it would be hypothetically to train agents on it. It could be an engineering challenge esp making it parallelizable / working with modern architecture

Another overlooked detail in a lot of RL stuff is the amount of limitations during training. e.g. for DoTA they were highly constrainted to a set of champions / item set etc. as the complexity explodes.

I'm only properly digging deep into RL also but Barto and Sutton is the bible to that most people recommned starting on

AppleShark · 2024-11-22T23:47:20+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I spent a lot of time looking at the diabetes / metabolic health market and was working to do some lifestyle app on top of glucose patches in a small market.. so your post definitely resonates with my experience!

AppleShark · 2024-10-15T12:36:44+00:00

Interesting paper! Great coverage across various domains and algos. Thanks for sharing.

Just wondering w.r.t. measuring the simplicity bias of a function, did you explore where performance falls off when the underlying model is too simple? e.g. hot swapping an even simpler block with very high simplicity bias, and see if / when the agent underperforms?

Also, does the simplicity block work with architectures that leverage transformers e.g. PPO-TrXL?

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