- I was a grad student at UCSD when Ed Vul published Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience [1], which stoked a severe backlash from the fMRI syndicate resulting in a title change to Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition [2]. There is a lot of interesting commentary around this article (e.g., “Voodoo” Science in Neuroimaging: How a Controversy Transformed into a Crisis [3]). To me it was fascinating to watch Vul (an incredibly rare talent, perhaps a genius), take on an entire field during his 1st year as assistant professor.
1. http://prefrontal.org/blog/2009/01/voodoo-correlations-in-so...
2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01...
- As a government contractor, using a Chinese model is a non-starter.
- > I'd rather have a winning google than openai or meta anyway.
Why? To me, it seems better for the market, if the best models and the best hardware were not controlled by the same company.
- Impressive. However, still a-ways to go before its as degenerate as viruses like SARS-CoV-2 (which have an order of magnitude fewer base-pairs)
- Looking through the list,
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-road-taxes-fu...
that's about what I expected. And that's not even including sales tax from car purchases, and maintenance related spending. Suffice to say, without cars, a year bus pass would need to run ~ however much the average person spends per year on all car related taxes.
- Why are you equating busses to roads and not cars? Cars are not subsidized and in fact car-related taxes (vehicle sales, gas tax, yearly registration fees, in some cases tolls) have historically covered the majority of roadway infrastructure costs. Without car related taxes, we would absolutely need to charge bus fees to subsidize roadway costs, and they would probably need to be pretty steep.
- Car-related taxes (vehicle sales, gas tax, yearly registration fees, in some cases tolls) have historically covered the majority of roadway infrastructure costs. I don't think free buses are going to be able to maintain the roadways.
- Electric golf carts have existed since the 1950s, and are the cart type available at most golf courses in the US. Regarding factories, a variant with a pallet mover or fork lift would be handy (but electric lifts are probably the second most common type if they haven't already surpassed propane).
- There are already bigger lanes - it's where the cars drive. What is the difference between a Tesla and a TM-Q loaded with 30 amazon packages?
- The modern news website: 15 sentences, 6 Shutterstock photos, 35 ads
- Does Nebula or Dante provide BAM or just VCF?
- Unfortunately the future of sports media is ownership by parent companies that also own sports betting sites. The yearly revenue of the largest gambling sites in the US rivals the combine revenue of the MLB, NHL, NBA, and NFL, and some major sports coverage media outlets.
Penn entertainment for example acquired Barstool Sports and The Score, and entered into a 10-year deal with ESPN to create ESPN-bet, for cash and a stake in the company. ESPN is now directly invested in the gambling industry.
- When I was in grad school, I worked in a lab that performed research on children with Asperger's syndrome (AS), mainly through fMRI and DTI brain imaging techniques. AS was merged into Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), but at the time was considered a high-functioning form of autism. I met dozens of children with AS; they were typically between 9-13 years old. All the children I met were clearly autistic. I'm not going to attempt to describe what that means here, but the nature of their disorder was evident, compared to other disorders and compared to the age-matched controls [1]. Back then I'd confidently tell you I could easily pick out the kids in a classroom with an AS diagnosis. These days, I have no confidence I could do so (mostly due to false negatives).
[1] anecdote: at the end of explaining the fMRI procedure to the participant children and their parents, I'd ask if the child had any questions. Neurotypical children would usually ask about any reward $ for completing the task. AS kids would usually ask something poignant about the experiment.
- HELIOS is currently on USS Preble.
- If the severance is significant, it's because they are making a deal with you, not because they are being nice.
Option 1: take the severance package/non-disparagement agreement and decline the $500k book deal focused on disparaging facebook
Option 2: decline the severance and take the $500k book deal.
- What are the odds this behavior is not completely hostile from the side of the builder ant? There seems to be some implication of symbiotic relationship, but maybe I'm reading too much into it.
The interesting part is whether M. ibericus queens do actively remove their own genetic from eggs fertilized with builder sperm. Why would they do this?
- This "Almost Friday" skit about the Google Pixel is comedy gold...
- Because thoughts and prayers don't pay the rent? If they did enhance the quality of the community, they would be patroned at a level that sustains them. If you simply enjoy knowing a local bookstore exists as a storefront in your downtown district, maybe you could rally the community to subsidize their economics like a park or swimming pool, and perhaps you could even rent books for nearly free - just stamp the back.
- Gotcha. We happen to be on government Azure as a contractor, which took years to secure (and one reason our execs want to be beyond sure everything is locked down)
- The following is required from the company using a provisionally authorized vendor service:
* organization required to perform a Risk Assessment (is this standardized?)
* organization must issue an Authority to Operate (ATO) (example? to whom?) to use it for CUI as the data owner.
* organization must ensure data is encrypted properly both at rest and in transit (is plain text typed into a chat window encrypted at rest?).
* organization must ensure the system is documented in a System Security Plan (SSP) (example?).
* organization must get approval from government sponsor of each project to use CUI with AI tools
I am the one pushing for adoption, but don't have the time or FedRAMP/DISA expertise, and our FSO/CISO would rather we just not.
- See my comment above.
- I ask, because according to MS...
"GPT-4o is now available as part of Azure OpenAI Service for Azure Government and included as part of this latest FedRAMP High and DoD IL4/IL5 Authorization."
...we have everything setup in Azure but are weary to start using with CUI. Our DoD contacts think it's good to go, but nobody wants to go on record as giving the go-ahead.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azuregov/azure-openai-fedramp...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-government/com...
- Do you work with OpenAI models via FedRAMP GGC High Azure? If so I would love to hear more about your experience.
- Think of all the trivial ways an image generator could be used in business, and there is likely a similar use-case among the DoD and its contractors (e.g. create a cartoon image of a ship for a naval training aid; make a data dashboard wireframe concept for a decision aid).
- We're looking for house! Come on, house!
Holographic white Oakley's... not bad, it pairs with day drinking.
- Me checking my inbox at 9:30am...
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The question then is, do you expect a person who is really good at mental arithmetic to have less neural firing on arithmetic tasks (e.g., what is 147 x 38) than the average joe. I would hypothesize yes overall to solve each question; however, I'd also hypothesize the momentary max intensity of the expert to peak higher. Think of a bodybuilder vs. a SWE bench-pressing 100 lbs for 50 reps. The bodybuilder has way more muscle to devote to a single rep, and will likely finish the set in 20 seconds, while the SWE is going to take like 30 minutes ;)