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Holy reach
Lol. We are going to get richer. Climate change means becoming richer at a somewhat slower pace.
The confidence with which people say utterly asinine things...
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cambridge-jason-arday...
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cambridge-jason-arday...
I then, uh, turned both offers down because I thought the roles weren't interesting enough and didn't pay enough to make up for not being interesting (170k base). Now I am back in the process and, knock on wood, I am in the middle of final rounds with several companies and expect to have a much better offer by next week.
I have a background in ML and agentic systems, which did come up, but my resume isn't outstanding. No big tech or frontier lab internships, no published papers, no unicorn startup. I wouldn't say finding jobs has been easy, but it hasn't been remotely as difficult as this thread implies, and I believe the statistics back me up here. I suspect this is a "people who aren't struggling don't complain about it online" phenomenon.
Regardless, I wish everyone here best of luck in finding a job.
The people behind the website asked a voice agent to program it, and the STT parsed "agent" as "asian."
This is also true for many cisgender intersex women with XY chromosomes. Someone with androgen insensitivity can have XY chromosomes, yet be capable of giving birth. Drawing the line at having a Y chromosome makes no sense.
What are you alleging here anyways? That all the scientists quoted and photographed in the article discussing their part in making the vaccine are in on the game? That the Australian made the story up wholesale? Come on.
1. Collect and sequence patient's normal and tumor genomes 2. Predict immunogenic neoantigens from genome 3. Generate optimized mRNA sequence from neoantigens 4. Create vaccine from sequence
modulo some variations, which I wrote off the top of my head because I understand this technology.
Steps 1 and 4 are done by contracted labs. Steps 2 and 3 are doable through open-source computational tools and a little engineering. What does ChatGPT do here? ChatGPT explains the process, finds labs that will do 1 and 4 for pay, finds published algorithms and data for steps 2 and 3. It's barely more complicated than what ChatGPT would do to help a student with their homework.
Legal documents, on the other hand? Have you ever tried to get an LLM to do your taxes? It's not easy.
The principle behind personalized mRNA vaccines is simple enough, and it's perfectly plausible that someone with money and lab access can create an effective treatment not offered through conventional means. It would be plausible even for a human patient right now, with mRNA vaccines still hung up in clinical trials. For a dog? Of course.