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Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:37PM (#48469721)
I am a PhD student in Computational Biology, essentially just doing statistics on some biological data. By now some of the things I am working on have found its way to Claude's memory so literally any chat with Fable gets immediately flagged.
Hi Peter,

Current Bio PhD student here. I would like to know more about ~ minimum requirements and costs for applying for an EB2 NIW. Bio papers take a long time to come out, so I would like to know whether I can still apply during the PhD while some of the papers are still in peer review or whether I would have to wait for a postdoc.

Thanks for doing this!

would order this immediately if it had a function row
Hi Peter, PhD student here with some publications thinking about staying in academia. What do you think are the chances for a green card during the PhD i.e. EB1b or EB2NIW?
Re:Advice for Prospective PhD Students on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:44PM (#37822268)
> For neuroscience, where there is relatively little competition

Insane take. Neuroscience is highly competitive. As someone in both fields, I would say it is only a little bit less competitive than AI/ML.

I largely agree with the rest of your advice, but I would argue that having multiple extremely positive reference letters from different research experiences are worth more than some middle author publication.

Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @12:18PM (#37498716)
I get that the mini didn't sell well. But a refresh every few years would be nice.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:46AM (#36774387)
On firefox you can also use sidebery. If I recall correctly it worked decently well. Currently I'm using Arc which performs well enough for my use cases, although being locked into chromium kinda sucks.
Re:Proton Drive Windows App on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:22PM (#36698175)
The first thing I do on a fresh Windows install is unlink OneDrive. Always so annoying.
Re:PhD Simulator on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:58AM (#36601336)
Current 4th year in Biology. Generally, 1 paper is expected, but it is not strictly necessary to graduate. Highly doubt that the PI will let you go without finishing your project though.