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AlphaGenome Model Programmatic Access

the_optimist — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:23:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphagenome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44384161

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New comment by the_optimist in "Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure"

the_optimist — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:50:35 +0000

Quite oddly in the context of all these varied comments, this key claim is demonstrated as false.

New comment by the_optimist in "Airport for DuckDB"

the_optimist — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:41:30 +0000

What’s the situation where this is useful? Seems like ‘replace your remote duckDB instance—used to replace a DB server—with duckDB instance + a flight server (or a bunch of them!)’. Who has a problem for which this is the solution?

New comment by the_optimist in "Discover is now part of Capital One"

the_optimist — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:43:16 +0000

How? The Discover network will be substantially better positioned to influence visa mastercard and amex, which are each expensive and oligopolistic. You know anything about this, or just spitballing here?

New comment by the_optimist in "Discover is now part of Capital One"

the_optimist — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:17:15 +0000

Cool. Great company, more competition among the payment networks should result in better and less expensive products. Maybe Discover will finally achieve its potential.

New comment by the_optimist in "Manufactured consensus on x.com"

the_optimist — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:48:39 +0000

Reddit mgmt itself has significant concerns, according to anonymous sources. You heard it here first.

New comment by the_optimist in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

the_optimist — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 01:05:50 +0000

The article does not define or discuss the authority of DOGE.

New comment by the_optimist in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

the_optimist — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:57:30 +0000

I appreciate the question. The most obvious is that this is an “audit the auditors” exercise, and they do not want to leak information toward a likely adversarial counterpart. If they have the authority to so, then they do. An adjacent complaint about “not following Treasury policy is similar.” If these systems exist, there is a governing authority structure, and that does not begin at the level contemplated in this document.

New comment by the_optimist in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

the_optimist — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:32:56 +0000

For those genuine actors here: this theoretical outrage assumes the premise of something immoral or illegal, and completely ignores the authority structure. This looks and smells like an info operation.

New comment by the_optimist in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

the_optimist — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:16:00 +0000

Explain please.

New comment by the_optimist in "Make no mistake, employees will always be just a line item"

the_optimist — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:49:52 +0000

Agree with the overall perspective, but the union thing is marginal at best. Do you think swearing alliance and allegiance to a different org, delegating authority to it, and funding it is a guaranteed success? The game theory of this is tipped to iterate to failure.

Just plug in to something you like, do your best, and recognize it for what it is. You should have neither an adversarial nor misrepresented relationship. If you have it, you by definition support it.

New comment by the_optimist in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

the_optimist — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:45:37 +0000

Okay. Let’s say you have a compelling and coherent argument. Where can I go to read more about each of the things you write of, and share community with like-minded people?

New comment by the_optimist in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

the_optimist — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:16:43 +0000

Genuinely, thanks for your response.

New comment by the_optimist in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

the_optimist — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:13:56 +0000

Do you anticipate that someone is going to tell you, specifically, that they do not support rabid DEI, some of the highest tax rates in the world, widespread and severe drugs, poverty, and homelessness, endless war, vote dilution through importation of new voters, calling a random sample of political nemeses rapists and racists, and now, painting Swastikas on vehicles? Do you truly both believe that is disconnected from reality, and that someone would reveal this in a conversation with you?

New comment by the_optimist in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

the_optimist — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:06:49 +0000

This is not a grounded critique. It is unbalanced and lacking in insight.

New comment by the_optimist in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

the_optimist — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:35:04 +0000

I think it’s safe to say that there is severe overfitting and pattern matching behavior involved. When I come across someone who says something so broadly judgmental and unfounded, I become immediately intrigued as to how this person is either exploiting or exploited, one of which is assured. I hope you are doing okay.

New comment by the_optimist in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

the_optimist — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:12:25 +0000

You speak oddly of people like they are monolithic and lacking perceptive nuance (more like animals than any people I know). In the US, of all places, there is tremendous heterogeneity. What are the key elements that you know of “they”?

New comment by the_optimist in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

the_optimist — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:09:12 +0000

You have remarkable authority on this. Can you tell us more about it?

New comment by the_optimist in "OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules"

the_optimist — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:42:49 +0000

You’re looking for the logical argument here, not the statistical one. You sampled from snakes and said there is a 100% correlation with being a snake (notwithstanding the counterarg in an adjacent comment about scale-free snakes).

I am noting that the logical argument does not hold in the provided definition. If “some” attributes hold in a definition, you are expanding the definitional set, not reducing it, and thus creating a low-res definition. That is why I said: ‘this is a poor definition.’

New comment by the_optimist in "Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg"

the_optimist — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:34:37 +0000

The story itself is a marketing piece.