@p13puneetc @ambedkariteIND Some people have actual productive things to do than engage with trolls 🫠
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Prashant Kalvapalle
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Prashant Kalvapalle
@prash_kalva
Postdoc: microbial synthetic biology | Lecturer: Statistics+R. Slowly moving onto the fediverse here @[email protected]
Katılım Mart 2018
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@prash_kalva @ambedkariteIND Took you 2 months to come back with this🥴
You people are truly slower and dumber than the world realises!
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#Congratulations Shankar Arun from the Tribal community in Maharashtra has been selected for the University of California with a ₹75 lakh scholarship to pursue a PhD in Ethnic Studies. From a daily-wage family, he’s the first from his village to reach this height. Jai Bhim ✊🏾
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@circles_r_phun @brian_armstrong Yeah, It's a long way from working in a real settling for sure.
Not sure if I understand what you mean by restricting topics but for voting we would want to favor inclusion. Maybe some weighted scoring based on expertise rating or something is a good middle ground?
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@prash_kalva @brian_armstrong I understand the intention/ambition - I don't think it could ever truly work that way unless either topics/fields themselves were restrictive to some degree or voting was restricted to specific fields, then it could work;
but restriction is the opposite of what's wanted, right?
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Need to fix the replication crisis in science.
Crowd sourced voting on which papers to test and prediction markets on what will replicate offers a potential path.
ResearchHub Foundation@ResearchHubF
We just completed our first replication study on @ResearchHub. From preregistration → funding → experiment → results A full scientific lifecycle, run in the open, with community input. We also tested something new along the way: prediction markets for science. Here’s how it played out. 👇
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@circles_r_phun @brian_armstrong hmm, I think the eventual idea is that people who know more (field experts) will bet more money and the market tilts towards actually informative price signals.. This is my reading of it, maybe incorrect?
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@brian_armstrong Why would I give a fuck what a bunch of dipshits who don't understand the papers they're voting for think should be studied?
Fundamentally dumb idea.
Might as well suggest we all vote on what everyone has for dinner.
Pass.
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@DaveScolte @ATinyGreenCell @brian_armstrong @ayirpelle I agree this is a decent start for some low hanging fruit. (may not be the kind that you mention though)
The original post from Brian could have done better with adding some caveats/context where this would apply better which is more useful than some tech-bro dust storm
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@DaveScolte @brian_armstrong @ayirpelle What? Review articles are often part of PhD student theses as chapter 1, often the first papers they write as first author. The cost of that is orders of magnitude cheaper than clinical trials...
Incomparable.
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@ResearchHubF @ResearchHub Pretty cool idea to use markets to generate signals. There may be niches where this is useful and it definitely will not apply to all of science or be a fix-all solution to the replication crisis!
It should be tried out more with various flavors in small tests like these!
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We just completed our first replication study on @ResearchHub.
From preregistration → funding → experiment → results
A full scientific lifecycle, run in the open, with community input.
We also tested something new along the way:
prediction markets for science.
Here’s how it played out. 👇
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@p13puneetc @ambedkariteIND I think you didn't understand what I wrote, but I'm sure LLMs can help you.
I wouldn't waste electricity by transmitting abuse across the Internet for no good reason.
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@venky4a Haha, interesting!
Just to add a cynical take: then the interviewers can happily walk away with your presumably open source work for free and dismiss the position.
So AI does the job for them for free: using the potential employees subscription and effort overseeing it
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Arjun had no experience. But he read the job posting, studied the company, built an AI agent using Claude, pushed it to GitHub, and demoed it live in the interview.
They stopped the interview early.
To give him the offer.
Proof of work - This is the new resume
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@p13puneetc @ambedkariteIND I believe he will help accelerate the "Annihilation of Caste". It shall be infinitely more impactful than anything you can do with a technical education devoid of any social context.
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@ambedkariteIND And what exactly will he do after completing PhD in ethnic studies? Teach ethnic studies?🤡
And what career options will his student have? Teaching ethnic studies!?🤡
Study something meaningful, with which you can create value!
Ethnic studies padh ke savarno se aage nhi badhoge!
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Wow, this is heartwarming. Such a difficult journey but reaching the peaks.
I am certain that he will bring such unique perspectives to the field and the University. Hope he has a fulfilling PhD journey!
This article elaborates it with more perspective
odishatv.in/education/from…
The Dalit Voice@ambedkariteIND
#Congratulations Shankar Arun from the Tribal community in Maharashtra has been selected for the University of California with a ₹75 lakh scholarship to pursue a PhD in Ethnic Studies. From a daily-wage family, he’s the first from his village to reach this height. Jai Bhim ✊🏾
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@DrJesseMorse Thank you, but you can keep your creatine. I prefer to actually sleep.
Did you know that lack of sleep is also linked to lack of empathy?
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…
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Creatine:
A 2024 Nature Scientific Reports study found a single high dose (~20g) improved processing speed by 24.5% and buffered against sleep deprivation for 9 hours.
While 5g saturates muscle, recent reviews suggest 15–20g is necessary to maximize brain creatine level.
You should be taking 15-20 grams of creatine a day!
Mark Kretschmann@mark_k
Creatine recommendations of 5g/day are based on 1990s muscle research. Your brain requires a different protocol. After digging into 1,000+ papers, the data on cognitive function is startling. A 2024 Nature Scientific Reports study found a single high dose (~20g) improved processing speed by 24.5% and buffered against sleep deprivation for 9 hours. While 5g saturates muscle, recent reviews suggest 15–20g is necessary to maximize brain creatine levels (9–11% increase vs. 4–6%). Vegetarians respond nearly 2x better due to lower baselines. The safety data holds up, kidney and cramping myths have been thoroughly debunked by the ISSN. I’m shifting from a flat 5g/day to experimenting with 15–20g doses before intense mental work.
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@Native3rd Interesting thoughts.. though not sure what to take away from this
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“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves.
If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth couldn't be measured by it.
We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn't cheat. We really were in a bad way before the white men came, and I don't know how we managed to get along without these basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized
society.”
~ John Lame Deer, Miniconjou-Lakota,
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@lymanstoneky I don't understand the right wing obsession with fertility rates.
There is no use worrying about some future collapse of the population when climate change is threatening the livelihoods of people in the current and near future; which I bet is essential to a thriving population?
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Taiwan spent $600 billion to discover what has been obvious for a very long time:
Childcare subsidies are almost uniquely ineffective at boosting fertility in societies where work demands are not capped or restrained in some way.
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@Jeffrey28627067 @chazgao @dividendgrowth1 @lymanstoneky Another key point is that most of the under/developing countries today have strong community pushed notions of children's "duty" towards their parents etc.
Given that modern/developed economies also promote more individualism, this situation seems no longer tenable
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I didn't say it was "money", I said it was economically positive/negative. Right now, we've socialized all the historical advantages to having kids (they don't take care of you in old age, they don't help you work). This is the core reason why super poor countries still have high fertility rates - their kids help them their entire lives, outside of early childhood. In the West, kids are an enormous expense and take a lot of work.
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@JoshSchoen @dividendgrowth1 @lymanstoneky Yeah, that is because when given a real choice people actually chose to be careerist rather than some lifestyle of "tradition" and subjugation.
Having children is just a choice like any other
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@dividendgrowth1 @lymanstoneky still women are expected to put careers first across europe, especially in western/northern, any kind of traditionalism is frowned upon
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@lauriewired I was curious what is the benefit of using egg proteins here apart from the novelty aspect.
Given that the world is looking towards plant based proteins, would that be something to look into for an albumin alternative!?
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Follow me if you want to keep up with Egg Computing.
It’s a fast-growing field, here’s some interesting papers.
Chicken Albumen Dielectrics in Organic Field-Effect
Transistors:
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201102124
Freestanding eggshell membrane-based electrodes for high-performance supercapacitor and oxygen evolution reactions:
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR04603C
Flexible bio-memristive devices based on chicken egg albumen:Au@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticle nanocomposites:
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12209-6
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Every year, we get closer and closer to a true “Egg Computer”.
We’ve already made:
- Egg Transistors
- Egg Resistive Memories
- Egg Supercapacitor electrodes
Albumin is a hilariously good organic semiconductor material.
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@yian_yin @Nature @dashunwang @bfjo @RyanReedHill @CornellCIS @CornellInfoSci @NICOatNU @KelloggCSSI Interesting work. Assuming that researchers come into a home field in a PI's orbit or having some network in the field so papers might be published in higher impact journals easily. Compare that to entering new territory and you are on your own. Is this plausible?
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🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share our latest on @Nature today: The PIVOT PENALTY in research. nature.com/articles/s4158…
More than five years in the making. Key finding: The impact of new research steeply declines the further a researcher moves from their previous work.
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I guess they always had the freedom to go to the industry. What was stopping them?
This should tell you that there's a market for researchers wanting to be in a university model.
Achieving goals through coercion with funding cuts doesn't really reflect free-market thinking.
Bryan Caplan@bryan_caplan
In the long-run, even cuts to STEM funding are very good. Top STEM researchers belong in industry, not academia.
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@bryan_caplan I guess they always had the freedom to go to the industry. What was stopping them?
This should tell you that there's a market for researchers wanting to be in a university model.
Achieving goals through coercion with funding cuts doesn't really reflect free-market thinking.
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In the long-run, even cuts to STEM funding are very good. Top STEM researchers belong in industry, not academia.
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@AdamRochussen @ScienceKyle Interesting discussion. Sure the criticism is valid, but it is being used to strawman the argument using what should be a separate discussion.
It is our job to help improve shortcomings of universities and it is also our job to object to equivalence to market driven research
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@ScienceKyle Fair points. Critics might argue that (2) and (3) apply to universities too. I guess it’s our job to help steer universities towards alignment with public good and efficient high quality outcomes to try and reduce the validity of that criticism!
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Who is going to train and educate these “top STEM researchers” so that they can go into industry?
Bryan Caplan@bryan_caplan
In the long-run, even cuts to STEM funding are very good. Top STEM researchers belong in industry, not academia.
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