Mark N

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Mark N

Mark N

@mviski

Mostly having a good time. Interests: immunology, Waymo, AI, electric bikes, China, trains, writing sci fi.

San Francisco, CA Katılım Ocak 2010
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@chowtato Allow AI companies to build on Treasure AILand with unlimited density and no affordability requirements, in exchange for funding a second transbay subway
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cato 😾@chowtato·
Why haven’t we solved the housing crisis in the Bay Area? Here’s a simple solution: fill in this water area with dirt and make new land. Fund the project by letting an AI company purchase the naming rights. Palo Alto who? I live in Anthropicia
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@tracewoodgrains The Baptist bible study group that met at the Panera I worked at in high school ended up becoming a bunch of gays and leftists.
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looking back at my childhood in Utah Valley: - three of my friends later transitioned - about a quarter of the kids my age in my local Mormon ward turned out to be gay - the two girls I went on dates with in high school both turned out to be lesbians I was surprised every time
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@amazonmilkfrog Why are Europeans so insistent on eating bread that slices the roof of your mouth?
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@tracewoodgrains People have too much free time and keep getting drawn into online debates. If we had a Land Value Tax, we’d be too busy with economically valuable activities to be distracted by such trifles.
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Jack@tracewoodgrains·
we all know that poster who drags every conversation towards their Special Interest, returning to every reply like a dog with a ball hoping for another throw
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@willsolfiac We need two modern day equivalents of the 1853 Perry Expedition to Japan: 1. U.S. ship delivers U.S.-made Feta cheese to an E.U. port 2. Foreign flagged ship transports cargo from Miami to San Juan
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Will Solfiac@willsolfiac·
There is no specific place named "Feta" in Europe.
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@SarahAMcManus My old roommate used to step into the street like “you better stop, bitch!”
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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·
We may eventually see a small cultural backlash against dogs. Nothing crazy, everyone still loves them. But there might be stricter norms: leash your dog, pick up poop, stop bringing them into grocery stores. The Millennials and Zillennials have pushed things too far.
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@avrilbradley23 We need a California law that upzones this whole area to 6-story mixed-used development by right
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Jerome Sneed Democrat@avrilbradley23·
It's crazy Santa Cruz is one of the fastest declining parts of the country when it's climate and geography is not just one of the best in America but arguably the world. A testament to coastal California's housing crisis.
Siddharth Khurana@SidKhurana3607

Fastest declining metro areas from 2024-25: Guayama, PR: 65K → 64K (-1.2%) Ponce, PR: 266K → 263K (-1.1%) Watertown, NY: 113K → 112K (-1.1%) Kahului, HI: 162K → 161K (-1.0%) Santa Cruz, CA: 261K → 259K (-1.0%) El Centro, CA: 183K → 181K (-0.7%)

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@Aella_Girl All these polls are a giant experiment to precisely quantify human altruism and how altruistic people perceive others to be
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Aella@Aella_Girl·
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 20% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 20% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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Josh Billinson@jbillinson·
The number of people who walk directly past the four foot tall sign at my Trader Joe’s telling them not to bring their dogs into the store is stunning. Do you guys not know how to read
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@cornoisseur @sam_d_1995 I do all the time! They always give you a safe distance when they pass and never make aggressive or threatening maneuvers.
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@AaronBergman18 Metric of high quality urbanism: proportion of $100k+ households that don’t own cars
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I didn’t realize how universal car ownership is in the US Nobody can afford rent. But ~everyone, somehow, can afford a car Decade old data (2017) but apparently these rates are pretty stable
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@ryxcommar Imagine if you added “if blue wins, everyone survives and red has to wear a red pin for the rest of their lives.”
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Senior PowerPoint Engineer@ryxcommar·
I think it would be kinda fun to vote blue. We'd be posting memes like "blue gang rise up" and "wagmi" and "blue man group" and when we all end up living, we'd throw a party and the red voters wouldn't be invited. Gametheorycels would never experience the joy of being a bluechad.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

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@coryfromphilly Alamo Square, North Beach, and Russian Hill all have population densities >30,000/sqmi. They are in no way “suburban.”
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@SFMTA_Muni should consider installing one of these on the north side of 17th street at Treat. This is in a flood zone, cars frequently block the bike lane, and there’s poor visibility for cars pulling out of the parking lot.
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BART@SFBART

Did you know BART has been installing bioretention areas, often called “rain gardens,” at stations across the system? These landscaped areas are designed to slow, capture, and naturally filter stormwater, removing pollutants like harmful hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and debris. #EarthDay

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@Smirkley Need a public awareness campaign to reduce crime by the Algerians and Guineans: “This is Germany. We hate the French too.”
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Smirkley@Smirkley·
Germany just released 2025 crime data. Overall, Algerian nationals commit crime at 18x the rate of Germans and nearly 100x the rate of Japanese nationals. 1/11
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@cremieuxrecueil The goal wouldn’t be to replicate the entire body of work, just the core findings, particularly simple in vitro and in vivo studies.
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@cremieuxrecueil We need a Division of Replication and Validation for the NIH/NSF. Labs scattered in universities across the country and staffed by the most meticulous scientists imaginable. Funded as a fraction of each grant. Labs are blinded to prevent corruption.
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
Science is about to get absolutely nuked. Unless we get extremely strict about providing and opening up code and data and documenting lab experiments rigorously, a torrent of credible-looking but fraudulent papers is upon us.
Ruslan Rust@rust_ruslan

Can water intake prevent Alzheimer’s disease? No. This is fully AI-generated… but the data below could easily pass as real. The new ChatGPT image model is truly impressive, but I think it poses a real risk for scientific integrity in future. For example, I could just generate a dataset with a single prompt that appears to show something like water preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Ironically, we used to laugh at obvious “AI slop” (like those weird generated mice), but that’s changing pretty fast. If I were reviewing this fake figure today, I’m not sure I could reliably tell whether this figure is real or AI-generated? The bigger issue is that the usual signals we rely on e.g., how realistic or plausible something looks are no longer enough. I think we really need more comprehensive AI detection and, more importantly, stronger verification standards for scientific submissions going forward. We’ll probably also need better ways to digitize lab notebooks and ensure access to raw data, something closer to how code and version history are tracked...

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