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New comment by muaytimbo in "2025 Hiring Pause"

muaytimbo — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:49:20 +0000

10.7B endowment. Clearly can't make it without federal funds.

New comment by muaytimbo in "Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts"

muaytimbo — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:12:07 +0000

22.3 billion endowment. Maybe they can fund a little research without taxpayers?

New comment by muaytimbo in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

muaytimbo — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:18 +0000

giving DOGE sudo is a whole article?

New comment by muaytimbo in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

muaytimbo — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:47:48 +0000

I will elaborate, for the intentionally obtuse and for people who have not lived in the world of academia. When writing NIH grants you typically have a section describing prior foundational work in the field or in the lab itself that the grant proposes to fund.

In our lab, at the time I was there, the majority of our publications were from 2 white and a chinese male. When writing grant proposals to continue this work (to be continued by the same 3 chemists) the gender/racial characteristics of other members of the lab who were female and of other racial backgrounds were described in great detail, even though they had not contributed to the prior work and were not going to continue the project in the future. Our backgrounds were left unmentioned. This was the way to secure funding was what the PI in our lab told me when I inquired about the glaring discrepancy.

It is my opinion that backgrounds should be irrelevant and funding should be granted on the strength of the proposal. That's not the case today.

EDIT: I left academia in 2013, maybe things have changed.

New comment by muaytimbo in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

muaytimbo — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:33:32 +0000

It's past time these institutions were audited. I had an NSF fellowship and was on numerous NIH grants during my PhD work (Chemist). All of them, even in 2013, had DEI language that made it clear if you were a white/chinese/indian male you were not going to be funded. The institutions, already, were self sabotaging, doling out tons of taxpayer money, not to the best ideas, but to labs that had a few women of various colors other than white working in them. It pushed me and almost all of the other chemists (who were generally white/chinese/indian males) in my class to leave the field either after our PhD or post-doc.

New comment by muaytimbo in "A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance"

muaytimbo — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:13:54 +0000

Center left is already authoritarian IMO. She’s definitely not the worst, her views are on her medium: https://medium.com/@marietje.schaake

Take from it what you will.

This very article reeks of authoritarianism. Read her blog, not the first time she’s advocated for bureaucratic regulation of tech companies.

New comment by muaytimbo in "A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance"

muaytimbo — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:46:56 +0000

The author is an authoritarian lawmaker. This is a false flag to consolidate additional power over the last vestige of the free Internet.

New comment by muaytimbo in "California bans legacy admissions at private universities"

muaytimbo — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:07:59 +0000

CA wants to control who sits on private company's boards and who can be admitted to private school's student bodies. Is there any limitation on what CA can require of a non-public entity in the state?

New comment by muaytimbo in "Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home"

muaytimbo — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:58:10 +0000

What is the purpose of the 34k? Why not just put them on a plane back to their country of origin?

Are they not able to be found?

New comment by muaytimbo in "Officer who ignored NYPD's 'courtesy cards' receives $175K settlement"

muaytimbo — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:02:37 +0000

One set of rules for the ruled and another for the rulers. This is well known, what’s new here?

New comment by muaytimbo in "AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research"

muaytimbo — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:22:52 +0000

This is interesting work but I think something has been intentionally overlooked. Creating proteins is difficult and it's also unclear how many of these sequences folded into the predicted 3d structure. Small molecule synthesis is still easier, cheaper, and more scalable than protein therapeutics. I think this would've been more impactful had they focused on improving on the SOTA small molecule - protein interaction models.

New comment by muaytimbo in "SpaceX Pulls Employees from Brazil, Discourages Travel There"

muaytimbo — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:05:23 +0000

some things are more important than returns, I'd rather export free speech than import censorship. That said you should know that up front.

New comment by muaytimbo in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

muaytimbo — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:58:41 +0000

Yup, lots of moochers out there. Makes sense to me.

New comment by muaytimbo in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

muaytimbo — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:36:37 +0000

Probably none, 50% of the population pays NO federal income tax.

New comment by muaytimbo in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

muaytimbo — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:44:34 +0000

Totally agree, it doesn't matter who earned the money, only that the government needs it for welfare

New comment by muaytimbo in "Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US"

muaytimbo — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:42:26 +0000

Exactly, I think the US ought to make some extremely ambiguous laws and fine EU companies, dollar for dollar.

New comment by muaytimbo in "Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US"

muaytimbo — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:41:55 +0000

"What about the users' freedom to live without being spied upon?" Pretty simple, don't use Uber.

New comment by muaytimbo in "Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US"

muaytimbo — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:37:55 +0000

It has indeed. American companies basically finance the EU superstate bureaucracy. I'd like to see some reciprocity on the American side, fining EU businesses dollar for dollar.

New comment by muaytimbo in "Transformers in music recommendation"

muaytimbo — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:07:53 +0000

it says the track embedding vectors are inputs, the music representations are probably learned in an earlier model, w2v or a two tower model.

New comment by muaytimbo in "X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders"

muaytimbo — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:01:14 +0000

and vietnam.