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New comment by fht in "Claude Fable 5"

fht — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:37:50 +0000

I am a PhD student in Computational Biology, essentially just doing statistics on some biological data. By now some of the things I am working on have found its way to Claude's memory so literally any chat with Fable gets immediately flagged.

New comment by fht in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

fht — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:47:32 +0000

Hi Peter,

Current Bio PhD student here. I would like to know more about ~ minimum requirements and costs for applying for an EB2 NIW. Bio papers take a long time to come out, so I would like to know whether I can still apply during the PhD while some of the papers are still in peer review or whether I would have to wait for a postdoc.

Thanks for doing this!

New comment by fht in "A mechanical keyboard with programmable knobs and full color screen panel"

fht — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:36:05 +0000

would order this immediately if it had a function row

New comment by fht in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

fht — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:49:36 +0000

Hi Peter, PhD student here with some publications thinking about staying in academia. What do you think are the chances for a green card during the PhD i.e. EB1b or EB2NIW?

New comment by fht in "Advice for Prospective PhD Students"

fht — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:44:11 +0000

> For neuroscience, where there is relatively little competition

Insane take. Neuroscience is highly competitive. As someone in both fields, I would say it is only a little bit less competitive than AI/ML.

I largely agree with the rest of your advice, but I would argue that having multiple extremely positive reference letters from different research experiences are worth more than some middle author publication.

New comment by fht in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

fht — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:18:38 +0000

I get that the mini didn't sell well. But a refresh every few years would be nice.

New comment by fht in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

fht — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:46:46 +0000

On firefox you can also use sidebery. If I recall correctly it worked decently well. Currently I'm using Arc which performs well enough for my use cases, although being locked into chromium kinda sucks.

New comment by fht in "Proton Drive Windows App"

fht — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:22:41 +0000

The first thing I do on a fresh Windows install is unlink OneDrive. Always so annoying.

New comment by fht in "PhD Simulator"

fht — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:58:37 +0000

Current 4th year in Biology. Generally, 1 paper is expected, but it is not strictly necessary to graduate. Highly doubt that the PI will let you go without finishing your project though.