Hacker News: sjg007

New comment by sjg007 in "Stanford gets $1.1B for new climate school from John Doerr"

sjg007 — Wed, 04 May 2022 19:05:03 +0000

All new construction in California has to have solar panels. So the long term end game is set.

New comment by sjg007 in "Lego to expand online ambitions by tripling total of software engineers"

sjg007 — Wed, 04 May 2022 12:47:14 +0000

There is a huge pile of money for Lego if they can execute. * Metaverse concept with Epic. * AR applications * Movies * Next generation Mindstorms

New comment by sjg007 in "OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 03:33:38 +0000

How about smaller more performant models? There’s so much redundancy in language that it should be possible.

New comment by sjg007 in "An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 03:07:57 +0000

Drewmal is wrong, it’s just nonsense. Call up your local university extension program and ask. Not hard.

New comment by sjg007 in "How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 03:03:28 +0000

A racist would make the same argument about Brown vs Board.

New comment by sjg007 in "How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 02:43:50 +0000

Maybe something about the Thomas’s …

New comment by sjg007 in "How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 02:40:24 +0000

If the Supremes overturn Roe vs Wade they will lose all of the legitimacy they’ve spent the last 70 years building.

At that point the Court itself is fubar. It probably already is fubar since Trump anyway. Clarence Thomas and his wife’s Jan 6th involvement is just the cherry on top of a shit show.

In the end they are falliable humans like the rest of us so perhaps we hold too high an opinion.

New comment by sjg007 in "An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 01:36:06 +0000

How do you know they don’t? The bacteria will die if they don’t get what they need to live.

New comment by sjg007 in "An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 01:23:45 +0000

We use less herbicide if the crop is roundup ready vs conventional crops.

New comment by sjg007 in "An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 01:21:32 +0000

Talk about selective quoting…

Read the whole paragraph. Less herbicide if the crop is roundup ready.

New comment by sjg007 in "An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser"

sjg007 — Tue, 03 May 2022 00:24:53 +0000

You all think you know what you are talking about but never look at the research.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14865

New comment by sjg007 in "An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser"

sjg007 — Mon, 02 May 2022 23:16:44 +0000

Nope I meant herbicide. Look it up.

New comment by sjg007 in "An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser"

sjg007 — Mon, 02 May 2022 22:52:13 +0000

Ummm no, less herbicide actually

New comment by sjg007 in "Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings"

sjg007 — Mon, 02 May 2022 21:20:17 +0000

It is a strange hill to decide to die on. Even if you are the expert in the area, AI is weird and changing the world.

Most Nature papers have something wrong with them. I don't see any reason that reinforcement learning cannot learn the best layouts or what not. I don't know the space though enough to say more than that.

The NYTimes article alleges that he waged a misinformation campaign against two researchers. So there's that in the mix as well.

New comment by sjg007 in "Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings"

sjg007 — Mon, 02 May 2022 21:16:19 +0000

Checks a box that outside regulators can look at. Otherwise outside regulators would likely try to investigate and regulate. Also Google's own research can be used to counteract AI ethics claims that are existential to Google. These are likely going to be Big Data type claims. Big ominous future threats like the GDPR for example.

We know the oil and gas industry produce copious amounts of CO2 causes global warming -- they knew because they funded the research. But publicly their position was "uncertainty".

New comment by sjg007 in "Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings"

sjg007 — Mon, 02 May 2022 19:05:23 +0000

Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Data.

New comment by sjg007 in "Ask HN: Engineers Running a Business?"

sjg007 — Mon, 02 May 2022 17:28:39 +0000

Assign the role to one of yourselves and rotate the position. When you get large enough, hire someone when you understand the role.

New comment by sjg007 in "US plans campaign to attract Russian scientists, engineers to America & CERN"

sjg007 — Sun, 01 May 2022 23:13:10 +0000

>PhD are super-specialized

Yes they have specific expertise in some field. But also they know how to do intendent research. This is the critical skill.

New comment by sjg007 in "US plans campaign to attract Russian scientists, engineers to America & CERN"

sjg007 — Sun, 01 May 2022 23:11:40 +0000

We do need a big ARPA like investment in research. Right now we depend on defense spending but we are simply not spending enough on research.

New comment by sjg007 in "US plans campaign to attract Russian scientists, engineers to America & CERN"

sjg007 — Sun, 01 May 2022 23:10:26 +0000

I use to think this way. I do not anymore. A PhD is independent research training which is by far the most important skill for new knowledge and hence new business and new technology creation. We need way more PhDs than we have if we are to survive and thrive as a species.