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This is a great project. Very cool

That doesn't make sense. LLMs will be used to write SQL, I'm sure (I do that) but replacing SQL?

Crumb was fascinating

Sure, I'll shoot you an email

I work as a journalist covering the lab space. Lab informatics and automation in particular.

A few factors off the top of my head (there are more):

- Proprietary communication protocols between equipment from different OEMs. It's possible to automate to a greater extent if every asset speaks the same language. They often don't. Instruments exist in the OEM's walled gardens.

- Robots do save money in the long run, but they are expensive upfront. This is a deterrent, especially labs on a small budget that just don't have the CapEx for robots. This is the case for many academic labs, in particular.

That said, there is progress being made toward automating wet labs to a greater extent. There are projects to standardize protocols so you can have communication between assets from different OEMs. One of my sources from the NIH also told me last week that there are advancements being made in mobile robots that can cart samples from instrument to instrument autonomously.

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You're fitting the wrong tool to the problem. That's user error.

I'm a magazine journalist who's usually working on multiple stories at once. I collect a lot of tabs.

So the other day I used Claude to make a browser extension that saves all in an active window to the specified "Writing Project" so I can easily open/close them all as needed.

Basically, a more streamlined bookmark system.

>No business would choose no-growth + reduced cost over growth + same cost.

If that were the case, why are so many companies bent on eliminating some employees and equipping the rest with AI to make up the difference? Wouldn't it be in their best interest to retain ALL those employees and equip them all with AI?

Going back to forums locked behind accounts would be a good first step.

Hey, I'm really interested in lab software administration as a career. I have some related experience. Can we chat?

No, but knowing that a book was written by a bot would hinder my enjoyment of it to the point that I'd drop it.

I guess I don't really understand why. I'm a writer. The joy in storytelling is telling a story. Why outsource that to a bot?

"Maybe this will finally get me on the cover of Poof..."

Also a journalist. I use em-dashes all the time

This is one of the more insightful comments in the thread.

The issue with solving real-world problems is that it distracts from publishing, which is all scientists are taught to care about.

Terse writing is a gift. I'm an editor and I wish my writers were more terse.

>makes $220k+ a year

>"i have no accomplishments"

give me a break

Do you have more specific critiques? I think HN's UX is great.

I think you're just used to more bloated "pretty" sites.

The "Deep" search features hallucinate like crazy, I've found.

This comment is almost certainly chatgpt.

Not really. If you've ever read fiction--like, at all--it's intuitive.

Do you mean fiction books?

Agree. This entire thread is weird. How do so many people in this thread have such obvious reading comprehension issues?

On a similar note--I've noticed that HN comments are often overwrought, like the commenter is trying to sound smarter than they actually are but just end up muddling what they're trying to say.

Perhaps these things are connected.

My wife and I have a shared Google Sheet where we enter every purchase (logging date, location, cost, and category) we made that day. Then we reconcile it with our monthly budget that night and make spending decisions from there.

So, what exactly should we be doing in regards to AI/LLMs? Investing in those companies? Working in the field?

That's a really interesting idea, but how do you make a business case for something like that? It'd be far too easy to just resort to whatever the organization's cultural norm is, especially for high-priority comms.

I couldn't see myself paying for something like that, anyway, but would be interested to hear your business case.

Strong agree. Once I understood Big 5, my understanding of myself opened up far more than MBTI ever helped with.

It is. I find Big 5/OCEAN to be both more scientifically validated and more intuitive to use, as all Big 5 traits exist on a spectrum. It's much easier to understand what it means when someone says they're in the 25th percentile for extraversion (that is, 75% of people are more extraverted than you), and tease out what implications that trait has, than for them to say, "I'm an INTJ" and you need to know not only those 4 traits, but the "cognitive functions" beneath them and how they interact with each other.