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because commenting is easy and solving hard problems is hard

I don’t think they are a compute partner for stargate.

Link seems broken and un-editable, but here it is: https://mdme.ai/blog/2025/01/17/ai-art

To make sure user id U doesn’t always end up in eg control group it’s useful to concatenate the id with experiment uuid.

You can assign multiarm bandit trials on a lazy per user basis.

So first time user touches feature A they are assigned to some trial arm T_A and then all subsequent interactions keep them in that trial arm until the trial finishes.

It’s LinkedIn jobs board + HN who is hiring. Everyone who applies tends to have some development experience. We interviewed maybe 30 best resumes out of the 3k applicants. Lots of people fail relatively basic python or typescript coding challenge, a few fail basic “designs an api” round. We did filter a few people in culture match but thats rare, most fail the technical rounds.

We are seed stage startup, we post salary range 130-180k + competitive equity for mid to senior level fully remote.

We don’t support h1b, of the last 3000 applicants we had only 1 was qualified. It’s super hard to hire strong swe.

Why are you replying to my comment with this? It has no relevance to anything I wrote.

You emphasized systemic racism as being a major cause, but group differences can be both non-biologic and NOT related to systemic racism

not only the value system of the victims but also that of the perpetrators and the system itself.

This assumes the answer (systemic racism) in the premise. The values of the system can be good (agency, hard work, academic pursuit, etc) and misaligned with some group. That group would then do poorly, but not because the system or its values are racist.

And also consider the history.

I did, this is why I compared to early/mid 20th century Ashkenazi and mid/late 20th century Asians. Both were very persecuted.

And consider the financial differences that often exist

Most asians fleeing to the US in mid 20th century were much poorer than both current as well as at that time median underperforming groups in the US.

Consider destruction of cultures.

If anything, current underperforming groups (eg african americans) are famous for having a lot of cultural products. This is where they thrive.

Consider the dietary and health issues that are faced.

Again, both ashkinazi and asian groups suffered famines + serious malnutrition. Very few in american disadvantaged groups are in danger of starvation or serious malnutrition.

Consider the overwhelming economic and media environments that 7 years olds grow up within and how that environment is often more impactful than parents could ever hope to be.

Everyone has access to all the same media. There is a significant effort (which I agree with) to over-represent underprivileged groups as successful heroes in modern TV/etc. Parents have significant influence on which media mix is consumed and what counts as "success." Both asians and ashkinazi were represented very negatively in the media mix of mid 20th century, yet they thrived. Nigerian american diaspora today thrives as well (unlike most other african american groups).

And, if we want to focus on biology, consider the role that vision, in particular color of skin, plays in our emotions, decision and behavior. Consider how we use color of skin to read health and emotions and intentions and how it might be harder to read those when the skin is imbued with unfamiliar tones and how on a population level, such misreads can build into mistrust and conflict.

I specifically didn't focus on biology, but Ashkenazi were clearly targeted based on how they looked. Caricatures of "the Jew" were popular and everywhere in early to mid 20th century Europe. People perceived them especially as untrustworthy. Asians are also obviously and easily identified by a quick look at their face. South asians also have "brown" skin color, that is very similar to that of disadvantaged groups in the US, yet they do well academically/financially/etc. Most people can't tell apart nigerian americans from other african americans, yet nigerian americans tend to do well.

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In all of this i'm not saying hardship doesn't exist, or that racism doesn't exist, or that differences are biological. I am saying that there is a confounding factor that is essentially bigger then all of this. I think this confounder is "culture/value system" of the group. Not all cultures/value systems are equal, not all of them lead to the same outcomes, these differences are not racist.

But why assign any specific value to systemic racism vs some groups value family + education more than others. Poor Asian families suffered a lot of discrimination (and still do) but their kids do well in these tests. Ashkenazi suffered a ton of discrimination especially early/mid 20th century but still did extremely well academically. I am not even saying they are inherently smarter, I’m just saying that their value system is demonstrably different, they suffered obvious discrimination, and yet had significantly above average educational outcomes.

These are not the only three alternatives.

And looking at actual outcomes in the US it’s easy to see that the truth is different. It’s not even white kids that come up on top, it’s mostly Asian kids (and before that Ashkinazi kids). It’s not because they have some institutional privilege. It’s because culture matters and valuing smarts and education is important not just for test taking but also for benefiting the society long term.

If you do merit based acceptance into programs then obviously it will have a different demographic makeup than population at large. We can discuss the causes of this elsewhere, but obviously test/school performance varies significantly by ethnicity today in the US.

Trains where train cars separate for better last mile logistics.

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We want to help every person to feel in control of their healthcare: to know what's going on with their body and to not feel alone.

MDandMe (https://mdme.ai) builds generative AI technology that allows people to make sense of their health at all steps along their healthcare journey: from a conversational symptom checker when you first feel unwell, to a community where you are matched to others with near-identical medical histories, to follow-up conversations where you can have diagnostic reports, lab values, and doctors notes explained in plain language.

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A "safe" AI is one that allows humans freedom/self actualization while solving all intelligence/production problems. An "unsafe" AI is one that kills all humans while solving all intelligence/production problems.

They're trying to birth a god. They hope they can birth a benevolent god.

This isn't about AI that spreads/doesn't spread misinformation/etc, this is about control of the light cone, who gets to live to see it happen, and in what state do they get to live.

It has been trained on public test set as it’s on github

If you ask HR then that’s the answer, if you ask employees they will give you a pretty useful reference (having done reference calls quite a bit, basically from folks at every major US tech company).

Sure, subs also have a place. I’m just saying that conventional warfare with high tech weapons favors resource decentralization. Right now things are easier to blow up than defend.

I am not sure capital ships are as critical now. With drones/hypersonics it seems they are too vulnerable for use in any peer conflict. Pretty sure if China/US were to wage war in 5 years then all the capital ships from both sides in the conflict zone will be scrap within 24 hours. Send 100 hypersonics per ship and one will hit.

When you work for a startup you have a ton of insider information not available to outsiders, even investors. If you think your startup won’t be successful then obviously just find a different job.

This so much. So many folks in this thread are talking about series B+ and only paying themselves under 100k/yr and that’s just a scam. Once you have institutional money you can just start paying yourself enough to live ~comfortably.

All of this after 7 to 10 years of working 80+ hours week, no social life, loosing family, sacrificing health, taking less than $100k/year salary

If you are taking less than $100k/year salary for 7 to 10 years while also absolutely no-lifing then that’s on you.

It’s true that early on you prob take ramen salary, but that’s for one or two years. You can prob scale to 200k by year 3 if your thing is viable. No-lifing when your startup is in year 5 is just a personal choice. If by year 5 you aren’t on a path of unicorn then prob it’s time to evaluate if it’s worth so much sacrifice or if you should run it as a lifestyle business (or just go do something else).

Has to be a low depth random forest

Yeah, people do things financially not optimal for the sake of ethics. That’s a key part of living in a society. That’s part of why we don’t just murder each other.

Depends on use case, we generally do “per encounter” rather than api call, but we are early and can be flexible. Email me ilya@auxhealth.io

I think that corresponds to well worn phrases being a “single token”

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