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We use this in my science education platform: we make students talk out loud about what they're thinking. Not a chatbot, but guided inquiry that's designed to make them actually mentally engage with what they're seeing

Yeah I get like 20 "a family office is looking at your company" emails a day.

Yeah except agents don't get their feelings hurt when you tell them it's not right and to do it all over again. And the iteration loop is light years faster.

I mean, isn't the LA coast going to be underwater in 50 years?

Hard agree. Once you drive on a highway with no billboards (e.g. outside Seattle on I-5) you realize how much mental space they take up when you go back.

I have a fond childhood memory of singing along to one of the songs with my little brother a lyric we made up "One.. more... hit and you're dead, one more hit and you're dead"

We don't pay teachers enough to entice people who are really good at science to teach at the K-12 level. There are some who do of course, but to make it a viable career choice for a talented person, we just need to pay better salaries (and vastly improve working conditions)

I think "don't care enough about tech" is a mischaracterization. Software engineers are EXPENSIVE and many companies just can't afford it. Personally I think AI unlocks a ton of opportunity, because things that were just not possible due to the high salaries (justified, of course) of software engineers are all of a sudden very possible. Maybe these small businesses will now be more likely to hire a fresh grad who can not only build them a website in a couple weeks but also a ton of other useful internal software.

Working on a web viewer for my "immersive science platform for education" https://10k.science

https://viewer.10k.science/

Yeah our doctor specifically recommended Bambas. Babies love them and they sell them at Trader Joe's.

The UK has it dialed in on this stuff - check out Tractor Ted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIo-RUdF6QU&t=10s

Agreed, it cost me at least $10,000 because I had to pay fancier accountants to do all the R&D calcs. Not to mention the interest lost, my time spent figuring it all out, etc.

The answer here is actually teach them to self-evaluate, e.g. What do you think about your drawing? Should we hang it up?

Got this from Steve Peters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Peters_(psychiatrist)

The same Unity jerk targeted my small educational software company and shook us down for $5000/year industry licenses because we have a grant. I had to let one of my devs go.

When I originally wrote the grant, we had budgeted for $80/month Pro licenses (what I was paying at the time). I've had a Pro license since 2011. It's alarming that they're in such a bad spot to try to draw blood from a stone in this way.

No not all talented scientists are independently wealthy or have the charisma to raise VC funding. What you're advocating for is the return of the era of the "gentleman scientist" where the only people allowed to do science are those lucky enough to be born into wealth (or some other privilege e.g. extreme good looks).

Once I looked at the comments for a disgusting AI-generated tiny house picture to see if anyone else knew it was AI-generated and then all it showed me were more disgusting AI-generated tiny house pictures no matter how many times I tried to block it.

Before I disabled it for my organization (couldn't stand the "help me write" prompt on gdocs), I kept asking Gemini stuff like, "Find the last 5 most important emails that I have not responded to", and it replies "I'm sorry I can't do that". Seems like it would be the most basic possible functionality for an AI email assistant.

Agreed 100%! Really like this

The field of biology was created by people who love to classify/name things. This has resulted in what we have now: A subject where the prerequisite to understanding is the ability to read long passages of text littered with jargon and visualize what that might represent. Even if everyone's reading skills were where they should be, the second part is not a super common skillset.

It's one of the reasons why I work in visualization for life sciences education: I think we're missing out on people who might otherwise make massive contributions to the field because they failed to memorize what the "endoplasmic reticulum" does. Much of biology you don't have to actually remember what things are called in order to understand the processes (at least at a basic level like what a middle schooler might be taught). Once you're exposed to the fascinating complexity of life at that level, for many people it can be interesting enough to build the motivation for the memorization/etc.

We are killing the golden goose

I've grudgingly come to admit that also people who don't have great vision love bright lighting. I can usually see perfectly well by starlight, but that's not the case for everyone.

Way too wordy, overly formal, and generic

Cool! My dad worked on Sega Channel at General Instrument but we never actually had access to it because ironically our home's cable provider was terrible and didn't offer it.

Dynamoid / 10k Science | MULTIPLE ROLES: Unity Engineer, Platform Engineer | Oakland, CA | Hybrid | FT | https://10k.science https://dynamoid.com

10k Science is an immersive science education platform where we work with leading scientists to visualize their research data (mostly 3D structural) and package it into VR experiences for K-12 & higher ed. Students are guided through the experiences (think 'magic school bus' but for high school and higher ed) with AI and their learning is summarized for educators on our web-based dashboard.

We're looking for a Unity Visualization Engineer (C#, experience with vfx/shaders) and Platform Engineer (AWS & serverless experience).

We are a small, growing team and value those with demonstrated ability, great communication skills, and an egoless approach. We are hiring critical positions with a high probability of growth.

Apply here: https://10k.science/careers

Have you ever bootstrapped a business? If no, maybe you wouldn't be so flippant here if you had. Loans are not easy to get as a small business, particularly ones with favorable interest rates.

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I dunno, when I had gestational diabetes, a little bit of ice cream was mostly fine - the protein and fat content kept my blood sugar from spiking. In contrast, white rice was much much worse. Maybe it's just all about the glycemic index, paired with the fact that ice cream is so satisfying so it might keep you from other carb-heavy snacks.

Well until they succeed in creating artificial wombs it's technically a much larger amount of information (e.g. the cellular composition of the womb, how many and what kinds of nutrients that flow through, etc). We are still scratching the surface of epigenetics too.

No.