
Adam Ashwal
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Adam Ashwal
@interwound
Head of data/ml @deployconduit The pursuit of happiness starts with material abundance
SF เข้าร่วม Nisan 2010
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Progress in Biology Is Slow - Here's How We Can Speed It Up
Why aren't we living forever? I wrote about why this problem still exists and what the solution is.
Hint: we're gonna need a lot of mice
adamashwal.com/irreducible
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@zachglabman 10/10. But, wasted money on decor. Spend that money on tooling!
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@itsdannypereira sounds like someone hasn't read the sacred texts training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/ar…
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My team is building the world model for factories. We're controlling heavy machinery, robots, sensors across the US.
Right now it's Starcraft: humans in control, optimizing assets via our command center. Next step: AI in-the-loop
I'm hiring DS/ML/whatever - dm me
danny@itsdannypereira
Fleetglue began as the easiest way to manage fleets of mobile robots - today we take the next step with Conduit. Our factory command center is deployed across the US - AMRs, CNCs, cameras, sensors all monitored and controlled from a single platform. A 🧵 on what we've built:
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@interwound @kenbwork These long tail exceptions are true when building “typical” tech/software on cloud, too.
Difference is it’s easy to connect some custom, non-AWS/GCS tool into some step in your cloud workflow.
Bio experiments aren’t (de)composable. Requires full coverage.
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Cloud wet labs don't work yet and probably won't for a while. Many focus on the market, but the issue is hardware.
The way we reason about, design and execute experiments will completely change as constituent measurement devices jump in throughput, assay more things and remove "human glue" by moving molecules + cells around with lithography etched electrodes. You don't need PCR if you can move a single molecule of RNA directly next to a single cell with precision.
Building a cloud lab today is equivalent to standing up a datacenter in 1986 with 80386s and 10MB SCSI drives, and wondering where the demand is while network bandwidth is choked sharding an object across 16K machines I can comfortably fit in my laptop memory today.
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@cremieuxrecueil Similar vibes to the literature that when the supposed targets for cancer drugs are removed they still work!

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@jay_azhang Also true in practice, e.g. in medicine - AI + Dr. performs worse than just AI lol

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@ZeeGum spacex launch : ) you'll see this when they launch from Vandenberg
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A lot of you weren't here for the Keto diet epistemology wars in 2015 and it shows
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
By "controlled study" they don't mean that this is an RCT or anything like that. They mean that it's an observational study where they controlled for a few variables they didn't pre-register and the association between self-reported caffeine intake and longevity held up.
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@realsaadasad @zennonuc Is it intractable to get the conservatives in OC on board? It feels to me like upzoning around transit would have minimal impact in the wealthy coastal areas, and de-regulating zoning would (ostensibly) be a con value
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@interwound @zennonuc LA is more suburban than SF with less middle class transit usage. Also, the YIMBY movement is stronger and older in the Bay; some local electeds are even unabashedly YIMBY.
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Fascinating to see the stark rural/urban and north/south divide on #SB79, the biggest housing bill of the year.
Let’s dive into the details, and see how your State Senator voted. 👇

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@zennonuc Is there a sense that the bay area strategy can be copy-pasted onto LA? I could imagine the recent successes could negatively polarize groups in LA, making it harder
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@interwound IMO groups in the Bay have done a better job at organizing and being an electoral force. LA tried a left-approach to get prog orgs into housing (which i would prefer), versus the Bay aligned themselves with mods. and sadly it’s clear the latter is a more effective coalition
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