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New comment by greenflag in "Asking authors about their own papers"

greenflag — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:11:55 +0000

One larger problem here is the value of a research paper is rarely the specific knowledge it adds but in the process of researching that adds to the collective knowledge+experience of those involved, especially training graduate students. AI papers shortcut this entirely. Academia has a lot to answer for this too by making papers the currency of success. AI generated papers are almost shortcut learning at a full system level.

New comment by greenflag in "Becoming a dad changes men's brains"

greenflag — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:06:49 +0000

Becoming a dad simultaneously made me more empathetic (seeing a little person from the beginning for all they are) but also more impatient (fewer hours in the day), but beyond that not much. Given the notoriety about some of the techniques referenced in this article [0] curious if others notice anything more consistent.

0: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/e53/4032512

Tempus acquires digital pathology company Paige for $81M

greenflag — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:09:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tempus.com/news/tempus-announces-the-acquisition-of-paige/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988571

Points: 1

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New comment by greenflag in "Positron, a New Data Science IDE"

greenflag — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:30:10 +0000

For R+RStudio users, any opinions on the switch? Assistant seems to be the big departure, trying to work out if worth losing keyboard shortcut muscle memory for

New comment by greenflag in "This website is for humans"

greenflag — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:23:08 +0000

Beside the point but I really love the rainbow sparkles trailing the cursor on the netscape theme of this blog. Takes me back to a time when the internet was...fun

New comment by greenflag in "Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery"

greenflag — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:25:53 +0000

Someone has pointed out on X/Twitter that the "novel discovery" made by the AI system already has an entire review article written about the subject [0]

[0] https://x.com/wildtypehuman/status/1924858077326528991

New comment by greenflag in "What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute?"

greenflag — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:28:07 +0000

While this is an excellently written piece and really insightful into the state of higher education funding, what seems to be missing from the debate is concrete ideas of what should be done differently (either in 2014 or today). A lot of US innovation success comes from deep pockets of private venture capital, which is just missing in the UK. So if you're a politician/bureaucrat with a (let's face it) relatively small budget and much politics to deal with, the best strategy to take is not obvious (at least to me).

Nvidia, AI Chip Peers Tumble on DeepSeek Implications

greenflag — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:21:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.investors.com/news/technology/nvidia-stock-ai-chipmakers-tumble-on-deepseek-news/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42842702

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Emerging Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning Is Both Effective and Efficient

greenflag — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:04:27 +0000

Article URL: https://hkust-nlp.notion.site/simplerl-reason

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42822871

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Simulating 500M years of evolution with a language model

greenflag — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads0018

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731579

Points: 2

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Dissecting the ESM3 Model Architecture

greenflag — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:12:38 +0000

Article URL: https://ericmjl.github.io/blog/2024/8/25/dissecting-the-esm3-model-architecture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731572

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Using AI in Academia

greenflag — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:15:39 +0000

Article URL: https://arjun-raj-lab.gitbook.io/arjun-rajs-tools-for-science/how-to-do-science/using-ai-in-academia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42216096

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Bluesky for Science

greenflag — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:26:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/bluesky-for-science

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42196759

Points: 2

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AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human

greenflag — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:48:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240612-the-people-making-ai-sound-more-human

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40752443

Points: 1

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New comment by greenflag in "Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?"

greenflag — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:43:38 +0000

It seems the take home is weight decay induces sparsity which helps learn the "true" representation rather than an overfit one. It's interesting the human brain has a comparable mechanism prevalent in development [1]. I would love to know from someone in the field if this was the inspiration for weight decay (or presumably just the more equivalent nn pruning [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning_(artificial_neural_net...

New comment by greenflag in "Gut–brain axis study shows autism-associated molecular, microbial profiles"

greenflag — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:52:55 +0000

Interestingly, on Monday a preprint [1] was posted calling into question a major Nature paper from 2020 that associated the microbiome with multiple cancer types [2] (though within each tissue sample, not the gut).

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.28.550993v1 [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2095-1

New comment by greenflag in "Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL"

greenflag — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:53:47 +0000

Does anyone have high level guidance on when (deep) RL is worth pursuing for optimization (e.g. optimizing algorithm design) rather than other approaches (e.g genetic)?

What makes a good computational genomics method?

greenflag — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:39:58 +0000

Article URL: https://kieranrcampbell.github.io/posts/notes-comp-bio/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36153715

Points: 1

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Many bioinformatics programming tasks can be automated with ChatGPT

greenflag — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 18:23:36 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13528

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35544388

Points: 1

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New comment by greenflag in "[dead]"

greenflag — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 01:32:10 +0000

The divide between literature/arts and STEM feels related to a push in modern culture that every moment must be productive (or in some sense profitable), though I have a hard time unpicking whether things really did used to be “better” or this is just getting older and realizing how the world works.