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ignore the prestige games, knuckle down and do the best work you can do- it’s more impressive if you succeed at a lower rank institution anyways, imo. And if you want that signalling power you can always plan to go for a postdoc.

Wishing you the best of luck, it can be a lonely path.

I use the OpenAI messages spec, and have the messages be an append only list, to make it easy to reason about.

Don’t bother compacting histories imo. worse case just summarise and spin up a new agent with the context.

good luck!

I was considering signing up today, based on this I won’t.

I have had a great experience with gemini-cli, which may interest you: it only requires a google account to setup and you get a decent chunk of gemini 2.5 pro usage for free!

looking forwards to seeing your agent’s critique of my paper!

Keen to hear if anybody else has had similar experiences of this phenomenon!

Words that I’ve found easier to accept the value of than to extoll. Trying is the first step to failing I guess;)

Pray tell, which dimension do we lose when we normalize, say a 2D vector?

Yes, I guess it’s curious that the information lost doesn’t seem very significant (this also matches my experience!)

Consider [1,0] and [x,x] Normalised we get [1,0] and [sqrt(.5),sqrt(.5)] — clearly something has changed because the first vector is now larger in dimension zero than the second, despite starting off as an arbitrary value, x, which could have been smaller than 1. As such we have lost information about x’s magnitude which we cannot recover from just the normalized vector.

Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service.[9] He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[12]

Returning 20,001 police officers to the street, a reference to the Conservative pledge of 20,000 more police officers.[13]

Nationalising model railways.[14]

Holding a referendum on holding a second referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union.[14]

Allowing any Czechs on the Irish border to remain.[14]

Nationalising Adele, the English singer.[15]

Abolishing the House of Lords.[15] He had previously pledged the same in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[16]

Giving free broadband to everyone.[15]

Stopping the sale of arms to repressive regimes.[15]

Making Piers Morgan zero emissions by 2030.[15]

Renaming London Bridge to "Phoebe Waller-Bridge".[15]

Introducing a minimum voting age of 16 and a maximum of 80.[15]

Sending £1 trillion a week to the NHS.[14]

Proroguing Jacob Rees-Mogg.[14]

Banishing Katie Hopkins to the Phantom Zone.[14]

Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a "more sensible position".[14]

(Disclaimer: I am an author of one of these papers)

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13735

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06552

I guess I would avoid updating my beliefs too strongly when a measurement I generally find quite useful (in this case gdp per capita) does not perfectly map onto a more nuanced view of the world! As you say, it's only a single data point.

In all other contexts would you also say gdp per capita is a metric not worth considering? If not then I humbly question the value of your statement.

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>Because human same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) is heritable and leads to fewer offspring, how SSB-associated alleles have persisted and whether they will remain in human populations are of interest. Using the UK Biobank, we address these questions separately for bisexual behavior (BSB) and exclusive SSB (eSSB) after confirming their genetic distinction. We discover that male BSB is genetically positively correlated with the number of offspring. This unexpected phenomenon is attributable to the horizontal pleiotropy of male risk-taking behavior–associated alleles because male risk-taking behavior is genetically positively correlated with both BSB and the number of offspring and because genetically controlling male risk-taking behavior abolishes the genetic correlation between male BSB and the number of offspring. By contrast, eSSB is genetically negatively correlated with the number of offspring. Our results suggest that male BSB–associated alleles are likely reproductively advantageous, which may explain their past persistence and predict their future maintenance, and that eSSB-associated alleles are likely reproductively advantageous, which may explain their past persistence and predict their future maintenance, and that eSSB-associated alleles are likely being selected against at present.

Giving myself the ability to take notes on how I'm feeling has helped me discover the negative patterns and reason about them with more clarity.

Ive made a ritual of it, I go to my local cafe and write. Maybe I write a few lines or several pages, I try not to be dogmatic about it. I think this lowers the activation energy: I don't expect to write anything revolutionary but rather to simply express my current state.

I guess you can think of it as a separation of logic and state! You're writing down your emotional state and then reflecting on it. Somehow when it's written down it's much easier to reason about, similar to how people give better advice to their friends than to themselves.

What's stopping you from handpicking a (willing) senior and having them shadow you / learn to do parts of the planning?

Ive done this to some success, moving from low single digits percentile to somewhere near the population mean.

I'm not sure that i agree. an LLM maximising the likelihood of its output could surely permute its input in such a way that it unscrambles the text?

Need to read a little deeper and will report back.

edit: interesting result, but the paper doesn't present a good reason that this would be "counter-intuitive" imo.