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PSA to check if your health insurance gives gym membership rebates. It probably does! Use an AI assistant to check quickly, then verify on the plan site.

@FriedKielbasa @amiomariam @crosstown_line are there proposals for addressing distressed building that do not directly adjust rents in a more tailored way? if so, what is your analysis of these proposals?

@amiomariam @crosstown_line but if you have 9% of buildings that literally can't afford to maintain themselves. this is a big issue. the bigger issue is that freezing rents for 4 years will cause that number to increase by a lot adjusting rents in a more tailored way would fix this issue

why does an NYC landlord “need” to charge $4k or more for a basic walk-up apartment that costs $1k in Philly just to “break even”?having lived in both cities, the cost of goods, services, and taxes is not 400% more in NYC. not even close.

@FriedKielbasa I'm not clear on why exactly this is the case though, since Major Capital Improvements (MCI) iiuc are eventually amortized into NOI. My understanding on first read is that MCI costs can be recovered over 30 yrs by compounding 2% rent increases (unclear if that's enough).

@FriedKielbasa nvm, I thought some improvements are not included in NOI, but they are. It's more about low NOI resulting in inability to secure loans for improvements.

a fact check of Mamdani's appearance on Derek Thompson's podcast

@FriedKielbasa Ah, I see, thanks for the reference! It's not clear the intent of this passage is to cover this scenario, but a plain reading suggests it is applicable.

@FriedKielbasa "it’s a reasonable metric..." - in some cases, yes, but seems like we're saying that it is not in many cases. But the RGB from my (limited) reading primarily uses NOI, and makes limited use of others, so this seems like an important topic of discussion.

@FriedKielbasa Yea since the topic is on distinguishing these metrics, I think it's important to clearly indicate which is being discussed (and ideally discuss the relative merits of each meanwhile).

@FriedKielbasa But it's less clear to me in what sense labor unions are stronger. My interpretation of "stronger unions" is that there are laws that force the government to accept these labor requirements as truly necessary. Is that the case, and if so, what are these laws?

@FriedKielbasa The NYT report provides lots of evidence that the project involved unnecessary labor requirements, even getting some union leaders to admit so (though wasn't clear to me on first skim what proportion of excess was due to excess union labor costs).

@FriedKielbasa Where does Mamdani say that he has a solution and/or that his solution is to have the city takeover the homes? Is this a reference to plans to build homes using government dollars?

@FriedKielbasa What kind of building upgrades are needed that are excluded from O&M (and thus excluded from NOI)?

🚨ICML Paper Alert🚨 What if finding the right protein homologs wasn't a slow search, but a learned part of the model itself? We introduce 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, an end-to-end framework that learns to retrieve the most useful homologs for self-supervised reconstruction! (1/12)

🧬 Announcing PoET-2: A breakthrough protein language model that achieves trillion-parameter performance with just 182M parameters, transforming our ability to understand proteins.

Excited to share PoET-2, our next breakthrough in protein language modeling. It represents a fundamental shift in how AI learns from evolutionary sequences. 🧵 1/13

@cloneofsimo What's the source of the figure?

Pre-RMSNorm + QK (RMS) Norm is actually kinda weird if you think about it. as a whole, its essentially norm preserving operation Something is fundamentally so wrong about deep learning lmfao

Turns out PoET embeddings are powerful for protein representation learning, especially with small mutagenesis datasets. With PoET, we match the performance of ProteinNPT with 15x less data! 1/4

✒️PoET is our generative protein language model for controllable sequence generation, zero-shot protein mutagenesis & clinical variant effect prediction. ⚡️Unparalleled accuracy, speed, & generalizability 🧬Learn more in our latest blog post: openprotein.ai/poet-a-high-pe…

In a new blogpost for @openprotein, @TimT51 and I dive into some new results for PoET. Turns out PoET reaches perplexities on heldout UniRef50 sequences that would require 500 billion parameters with a typical masked protein language model! 🤯 openprotein.ai/poet-a-high-pe…

👑New model topping the ProteinGym leaderboard👑 Congrats to the SaProt team! @duguyuan @LTEnjoy Exciting to see the progress happening at the intersection of protein sequence & structure modeling.