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Here is what ACT had on Neom: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/model-city-monday-8122

In medical images, you don't record first and then compress later. Instead, you make sparse measurements and then reconstruct. Why? Because people move, so getting more frames/sec is a thing; you don't want people to stay for too long in the machine; and (ideally) with the same setup, you can focus on a smaller area and get a higher resolution than standard measurements too.

Probably not for a few years, you need a (maybe few) A100(s) to be able to backprop a model that big with float32.

Or $X.69! OP, do you even Matt bro?

I was about to recommend the same book. Also, recommend Klosterman's interview with Tyler Cowen [1] if you want to get a sense of what the book feels like.

[1] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/chuck-klosterman...

It randomly deletes all of the comments in the file. I had this happen at least four times. Preview overwrote the file, deleted all of my comments, which were at least a couple of hours of work.

Great points but email is the easiest thing to A/B test in the world. If you were correct, somebody would have figured it out by now.

In theory, they should have failed the class or been expelled, but the professor didn't want such a high rate of her class failing and just gave them a zero for the one assignment.

It's likely that this decision was not up to the professor. Unless you have massive proof, deans (and the administration in general) hesitate against taking serious action. I'm talking from my own experiences.

I'm down

Santosh Vempala is also considered to be a genius, at least in the statistical learning community.

I don't know how he didn't get tenure from MIT though

1/3rd I can agree with, but 1/10th?? That has to be a senior L7/L8 salary

She interviewed just the right people too! She is like the equivalent of Ed Yong for math

Also the Simons Foundation, which funds the Simons Institute, which is just fantastic

This is one of those "I can't prove it but I know this to be true"s. I would bet on this with 1/50 odds.

I think that the proper hierarchy is as follows: new Magic card smell > new GPU smell >= new laptop smell > old book smell

Expanse but actually shot in space

Expanse has a tendency to get preachy, like BSG did, about politics. I found B5 a lot purer and more universal, but maybe that's just my selective memory/recollection

I agree but it's not fair to rate these series on that basis. BSG was really preachy at some points, but they got some of the other things so right, that it doesn't really matter.

Still, I think B5, despite its many flaws, will always be the definitive TV space opera in terms of narrative arcs.

I think we would agree to disagree. Bears, Beets, BSG

All of the authors are respected academics in the field of medicine, health policy and epidemiology.

That was true as of January 2020, it is no longer true now. I don't know about Gupta, but both Bhattacharya and Kulldorff (and Ioannidis) are being hated by most of their colleagues at the moment.

I would even conjecture - in 10 years, if you are a recent PhD/fellow from one of those labs, you will have a very tough time in the job market.

At that point, why not get an actor and use a ton of make up to cover the imperfections?

This is fucking genius. It's like coding in a comic book world.

It's ridiculous people are buying this shit.