adamredwoods

Even if Claude would be able to find a few potential molecules to improve the disease, it still takes millions to bring it to fruition, and there is still a big chance of poor results through real world trials.

I'm interested in seeing how the scorpion anti venom plays out.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-scorpion-toxin-bin...

I have a rare disease with no cure. Id love to see how Claude can help with us, but I'm cautious what it can really advance. Murine models still take time, and clinical trials are slow. I would think most biotech companies lose money at these stages.

>> If Claude is to significantly increase the rate of new cures, we need to work with many more biotechnology firms and integrate Claude more deeply into their development processes

Sounds invasive.

Be a life-long learner.

Being nice helps those with cancer to have a nicer day.

I love a good ghost story, but yes, when analyzed rationally and logically, ghosts don't exist.

I appreciate your wholesome message, but I feel a bit is overlooked.

Horses and engines are in a tangible, corporeal domain. I almost feel like pivoting could be easier with that: the tools are still the hands. Also, pivoting might be easier especially when no one is in that space of repairing cars in a small village at the time. Low competition. I also think time allowed to pivot is much higher: automobiles were expensive and time to adoption is higher, I wonder how long it took to be able to make a living?

Data, numbers, programming, this is in a ephemeral domain. Competition is high, there are a lot of developers. Time to adoption is extremely fast. In the automobile era, someone may have had five to ten years to pivot. Now? Maybe a year?

Is it about making things? Maybe, but pivoting and making a career of it is not a straight path, and sometimes people get lucky in choosing the path.

Interesting historical read:

https://historycollection.com/10-industries-either-killed-cr...

>> Many blacksmiths added the mechanical skills needed to service and repair automobiles, particularly in smaller towns and rural areas. In short order, some of the more commonly replaced automobile parts, such as tires, were being stocked by blacksmith’s, others which were necessary to a vehicle’s repair were ordered by telegraph or telephone for delivery to the blacksmith’s shop. Blacksmiths and service stations soon had competition from the automobile parts store, another new specialty which blossomed along the popularity of traveling by car.

Interviewers and hiring managers make that decision. I'd say the better paying jobs require a degree or training.

It's possible to make low 6 figures, but a lot of pay is dependent upon length of time teaching and/or which district to get into. Good districts rarely have openings.

I'd say (not a teacher myself, but related to several) teaching is a lot more difficult than people give it credit for.

Odd assumption that everyone has grandparents alive.

Not from the pharma workers I hear from in the US. But this is all anecdotal.

Hello fellow PSCer! Amazing to hear even partial liver transplants work.

Is this loosely in regards to the US Cloud Act? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AUpASjLV0E

Don't forget: https://www.libreoffice.org/

When Harley was One.

I'm a hobby programmer from the 80s. If I want to make a table from wood, I'm not going to start by shopping at IKEA.

It aligns with my general thoughts about mastering a craft.

>> Typing the code was never the interesting part.

Code is fascinating! An abstract language to compile to program a CPU. So many ways to do this!

Now we're using natural language, which at times is extremely verbose. "[{}]" versus "array of objects", for example.

The key is you're doing it yourself, so it takes your time away from something else. And if something doesn't quite work out, who's the backup?

For small shops and startups, this probably doesn't matter. For mission critical sites, who's more dependable? AI is a tool, that's all it is.

I don't like the use of "nerd" here. There are millions of good nerds, but only a few bad billionaires.

I don't understand how US Republicans talk about fiscal conservation, yet allow rampant profligacy. They must have a different agenda than the one they speak of.

It's a profound thing to lose someone that intertwined in your life. I should know.

Abdication syndrome.

Fireworks affects others: fire danger, noise, lack of post-celebration cleanup. I've seen trash and unlit fireworks left in school yards that had kids coming in for summer school.

If people were more respectful with fireworks, this wouldn't be a polarizing opinion. Yet, here we are.

Not entirely sure, but this fire aligns with July 4, and has one death:

https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/wildfire/update-numerous-stru...

I am deficient, too, and take supplements (rare liver disease).

I wonder if taking mushrooms soaked in the sun improves absorption compared to supplements?

Great point. Scanning healthy people is one thing, people who truly need help (like myself) is another!

The monetary advantages gained by AI are not going to the lower class, but rather a small group of wealthy people. Meanwhile data centers cause disruption in energy prices, water, and real estate for the lower class.

Thus, economic inequality leads to backslide of democracy:

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/economic-inequality-leads-de...

Lithium, too! In mice. https://otd.harvard.edu/news/could-lithium-explain-and-treat...

Only as a reminder and a data point, homelessness rises every year, too. It's at record highs. (Caveat: homelessness data is difficult to calculate.)

https://endhomelessness.org/state-of-homelessness/

So we are possibly having more record highs in wealth, and more record lows.

To understand why the two are one and the same, is first to understand that the US is a plutocracy.

I'm exhausted by all this tapping! Who knew cutting firewood was such hard work!

/s

Bold claim to say "no signs" based on non-contextual numbers. I think I recall somewhere that most jobs added were in healthcare.

>> The May jobs report reinforced this with nonfarm payrolls jumping by 172,000, confirming that there are no signs of workers being replaced by ChatGPT.