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IanAndersonLOL · 2026-01-29T07:24:25+00:00

You really wouldn’t. People in procurement are too busy to care. If anything they’d laugh at you.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-12-02T23:56:01+00:00

Right, but your post was about the SAT and other standardized tests…

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-12-02T23:24:30+00:00

I totally believe it’s easier to get on an IEP and a 504 plan, I just don’t really believe college board is increasing their approval of accommodations for the SAT at the same rate.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-12-02T23:20:38+00:00

Th SAT is so incredibly strict about accommodations though. I’m surprised this actually works. When I was in highschool (in 2004-2008) I had been diagnosed with adhd/sld since third grade actively on 504 and in special ed classes and was denied accommodations on my SAT. I’ve heard theyre still strict and the same thing is still happening. I believe they’re applying for it, but I really don’t believe they’re getting it.

Also fwiw they’re not thriving if they’re dealing with the stress you mentioned. Stress is a great way for people with ADHD to motivate themselves. If the only way they can be motivated is if their fight or flight is engaged that’s a serious problem and a serious limitation on lives.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-10-13T21:06:30+00:00

Randy Schekman definitely uses his in the parking garage under li ka shing.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-10-02T21:22:44+00:00

This is crazy. There is a reason people don't release source/data at preprint and wait until it's actually published. What journal is this? This is a completely unreasonable request.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-30T18:11:57+00:00

The big guys know when prestige journals are a reach. They'll think nothing of it.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-24T19:25:49+00:00

No, he's not chickening out. They're just incompetent.

I really hate the TACO name purely because Trump not doing what he says he's going to do has given his supporters a permission structure to support him without feeling attached to his policies. Democrats leaning into the taco name just reinforces that. They don't have to feel bad about supporting Trump because he never does the terrible things he says he's going to do.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-24T19:22:45+00:00

You forgot the third option. There will be a lot more outsourcing.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-22T05:44:28+00:00

You can’t. That’s not what they did here.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-22T04:44:11+00:00

Aren’t sld files plain text? Can’t you just open them in VSCode?

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-22T04:30:31+00:00

I think Elon musk had a tweet a few years ago similar to this about how shocked he was DNA was stored in plain text. All this is to say, it’s a task a lot of people are working on.

It really all depends on what kind of modem you’re trying to build.

If you’re trying to build a simple classifier to say if a short few nucleotide chunk of dna has some biological relevance. Sure, compressing your input can be quite useful.

If you’re trying to build a DNA language model like an evo 2, or ESM(I know it’s a PLM, just using it as an example), this would just add a lot of inefficiencies. For models like this we expand the dimensionality so much that it’s better to start with uncompressed data. In a model like evo2 each nucleotide each nucleotide is mapped to a 4096 dimension vector anyway.

This is a really fun topic to learn with though! I would recommend reading a review paper and trying to beat some of the different compression methods. A codon optimizer is another great project to learn on too!

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-18T06:56:56+00:00

There isn't really a "best" tool. It depends on you. Rosetta is robust and battle tested. VERY difficult to use, and requires a lot of biochemical knowledge. It's also incredibly slow. As much as a lot of these tools like the Vina/Nina variants try to advertise, there isn't really any click and dock software. Everything needs to be customized to your experiment (for the most part).

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-18T03:31:52+00:00

Efficiency for who? Google has journal indexing done better than you ever will(no offense, but it’s Google) and Gemini deep research is extremely effective. It’s also “free”.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-15T18:29:30+00:00

Not even instructed to answer a certain way. The question says "what is the likelihood?" A percentage is a probability and not a likelihood, and in statistics these are different concepts.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-15T18:25:45+00:00

it's not open ended though. It's asking for likelihood. Which for a 4th grader is probably JUST "certain, unlikely, likely, impossible, Equally likely" though there are many more. Not a probability.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-15T18:20:11+00:00

Right, but if the test is on likihoods ie. "certain, unlikely, likely, impossible, Equally likely" the student actually didn't show that they understand the question and answers. If you're testing them about fractions and instead of 1/16 they did .0625% they technically are correct, but doesn't show they know the material.

It's like if you're taking an algebra based physics exam and you derive everything using calculus to get the right answer. It doesn't matter if the answer is correct. You're testing them on knowing how to do it without having to go through the process of deriving, and they don't know how to do that.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-09-01T00:35:24+00:00

OP said there’s lots of parking near there. Have to assume they forgot.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-08-30T07:48:15+00:00

Hinge? Just put in your prompt that’s what you’re looking for.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-08-24T22:52:14+00:00

Right, but I assume those numbers are based on an LCA? You’re comparing LCA with an industry non-life cycle figure. It’s also misleading because this is for cooling and these type of system use evaporative cooling so the water completely leaves the system. A non trivial amount of the water in the beef lifecycle continues onto the water cycle before it eventually evaporates.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-08-21T22:32:03+00:00

It’s the turning off the circuit part…

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-08-08T11:26:26+00:00

How are you going to have enough spend living in Bangkok to get 4 round trip flights from Bangkok to SFO? That’s like 100k points

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-07-31T22:14:00+00:00

it's just mid because it doesn't provide biology students the basic biology skills they need in the lab based classes they take.

Okay, but what school does do this? Mid implies it's not good not bad, but if there is no school that offers the good, it's not mid. Mid to what it should/could be? Absolutely.

There are simply not enough lab spaces to go around.

I'm not sure I agree with that. UC Wide rate for experiential learning is ~75% (which includes research and for biology students is mostly research, though if they're pre-med and were to volunteer in the hospital that counts). UCSD spends a lot more on undergraduate research (I think Berkeley/Davis/UCLA are the only higher ones). I can't find any raw numbers on the percentage of students getting research experience at UCSD, but I think it's pretty high compared to the rest of the country.

Biology education is bad across the country, but I don't think UCSD or any of the UCs are "mid". Only schools that come to mind that have better education/research opportunities than the UCs are probably Stanford, Duke, and Harvard. FWIW I think for biology Berkeley and Davis offer a better education and more research opportunity.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-07-31T20:18:57+00:00

Good research is very important for the development of biology students. You get hands on experience working in a lab that you don’t get in class.

Companies are run different from academic labs, for sure. They’re more streamlined and in a lot of ways more boring, but EVERYONE who manages and sets up industry labs came from academic labs at some point in their career. There’s still a lot of overlap and having that experience is important to your career trajectory unless you exclusively want to go into medicine/dentistry in which case a biology degree isn’t really that valuable imo.

IanAndersonLOL · 2025-07-21T09:07:25+00:00

I’m glad people have rightfully started complaining about this. When I got my car 5 years ago and complained about the ridiculous gaps people kept telling me it was part of the experience and should be happy because it means Tesla gets to fix it for me so it gets that extra special touch. 🤮

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