This person should not hold any government office. This, along with innumerable other things, are clear evidence to any reasonable observer of his insanity. The other members of the United States government hold the power to remove him from office and have not. This is a clear moral failure.
I remember being fairly horrified at the time reading about the permanent brain damage he suffered afterwards.
This is one of the hardest parts about working in health research in general. So much of the time, the clearly large changes that can be made to improve outcomes are already completely known, we simply don't do them for political reasons. No comment on the dog vaccine, haven't read enough on it.
Why would a convoy of tens of thousands of trucks driving in a straight line be *less* vulnerable to disruption than the oil tankers? How would you even get that many vehicles assembled in the area?
I feel like people just refuse to think about how scale affects things.
These places are all connected by land already to this person's proposed pickup point! There's already pipelines doing this in essence! If it was viable to move that oil by land, you don't think they might have tried that in the last century? You would need 10,000 truck drivers for each tanker!
Listen, there's a lot of reasons why this is an incredibly stupid idea. The logistics of moving load from a tanker (2 million barrel capacity) to trucks (200 barrel capacity), the number of people needed, drones, pickup point being a village...
But one easy visual is to zoom out the map a little.
This is so insanely cool.
I didn't really think this blog post I wrote last year was gonna be relevant again so quickly tjmorley.com/blogposts/co...
But this sort of labor is truly physically demanding in a such a way that casting it as some sort of self-actualization experience, divorced from the actual reality of that labor, is somewhat bizarre.
There's certainly an honesty and a sense of accomplishment from doing real physical work such as farming that you don't get in other labor. There's satisfaction in knowing you did a good job on something hard and can see the physical results of your labor, often in the form of food.
Stacking hay is hard and painful. The air is thick with razor sharp dried grass that you end up picking out of your skin for hours afterwards, little drops of blood every time. A hayloft is suffocatingly hot, so hot you can't even think straight, and your sweat is stinging your eyes the whole time.
As someone who spent the first 18 years of their life growing up on a farm, and whose family has farmed for generations, seeing someone reduce the difficult labor that is farming to "it's plants and fresh air!" is honestly somewhat offensive. It is work. My family worked, and works, extremely hard.
It can't be a particularly good PR type move because it looks like zero commitment. It's an ongoing problem with Google products in general though w.r.t. strategy. Tons of command line utils I've used from them where I had the choice of "old tool, not maintained" and "new tool, missing features."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Like, with the seeds?
Very curious to see how Claude Code works with the 1M token context in Opus 4.6
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university
Formal Verification
Prehistoric Archaeology
Philosophy of Mind
Natural Language Processing
Applied Machine Learning
Plus, we just recently finished whole genome sequencing of 250,000 patients (soon to be even more), and the dataset has linkage to rich clinical data at the hospital (de-identified). There's a lot of opportunity to explore this data in depth for medical advances.
If anyone is looking for a position as an Assistant or Associate professor researching genetics, the Genetic Medicine division (where I work) is hiring!
There's a lot of great resources here, we have very straightforward access to great resources, clinical+genetic data.
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I wonder why I dislike interacting with tech through voice or video so much. Maybe it's because I can read much faster than it can speak back to me. Another thought is that it feels extremely rude to use anything that I talk to or that talks to me in public (e.g. watching videos without earbuds).
I suppose it's probably useful for a model the same reason I do it. It's easier for me to go from desired concept->natural language of what I want the code effect to be before I just write the code that does that. So it makes a little labelled pair.
This makes me feel like I need to comment less in my own code, I often just write every step in a function as comments first and then fill in the actual code afterwards... maybe people like me did this to the llms
Aftyn stands for science, and we are standing with her.
All of America is watching. Will you do your part? tr.ee/sufs-aftyn
I have rewatched that contraband video so many times, it feels like every frame has something inexplicable in it.
Why is the music like smooth jazz. Why does he say "there are no first amendment rights in your household."
"Your house is open to inspection by your house" what did he mean by this
Truly the way that extremely important guidelines should be decided, huh. Just based on what some guy with no qualifications feels like it should be. Vibes based medical policy.
Stuttering is the most common speech fluency disorder and is as heritable as many common complex traits. Yet, genetic research of stuttering has lagged behind other human traits. In collaboration with #23andme we conducted the first large-scale GWAS of stuttering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's such an awful phenomenon how vitriolic these people get towards people who are complete strangers to them online...
Fair point
Do any of them actually think they're the most moral? It seems hard for me to believe they can actually convince themselves of that, rather than just knowing that they get a large material reward for being the winner. I suppose the justification could just be for other's opinions.
