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Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
Who on earth is going to use all these AI-for-science tools if no one is funding the scientists?
Just talked with a well-respected computational neuroscientist friend. The situation in academia outside CS is sad. Everyone is fighting over a shrinking pool of grants.
And it's happening exactly when there's more money in AI than ever. There are so many companies that say they are going to solve diseases. Any researcher at {your favorite frontier lab} can raise millions for a foundation model of biology or the brain, while the people who actually study biology and the brain can't fund their labs.
Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
I get frustrated with the lack of ecological planning in the abundance agenda stuff. If society is going to build a lot of houses (we should!) we should plan for them to last a long time, and if we plan for them to last a long time, we need to think about climate migration.
Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
I can’t help but think about how hurtful and (tone deaf?) it is to label gen z as the generation that “doesn’t want to work” when many of us graduated college in the pandemic, have yet to experience job security, yet are very eager for full time, salaried roles
Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
My weirdest piece of writing advice is: write your first draft in google docs, and then edit *on your phone*.
It sounds deranged, but I’d say >50% of my useful editing happens on my phone:
-it’s hard to add things, but relatively easy to delete (good!)
-the mobile layout is so horizontally constricted that you’re forced to read long sentences in broken up chunks, which helps you refactor into active voice; more direct sentence construction.
-when editing in random 2 minute segments (in line; in the bathroom; wherever) you don’t have time to “fall in love with your own writing”, so to speak; you’re more objective and savage
-this one’s abstract, but composing on the phone medium is more conducive to brevity because that’s what we’re used to writing there (texts, tweets, not docs)
Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
Just saying…
And this is why we insist that we keep each other safe.
Whether from violent, weapon-wielding mobs or from COVID.
Because our institutions won’t.
Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
Burnout isn’t just from overwork, it can be from lack of agency to affect outcomes. I think people often blame the former when the problem is the latter
Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
Government-funded R&D is the main engine of economic development.
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Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
Can't quite believe I'm writing this: Today, 150 African workers behind ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook voted to unionize at a landmark meeting in Nairobi.
These AI workers are invisible, underpaid, and the backbone of the tech in all our pockets:
time.com/6275995/chatgpt-fac…
Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
Why has the time it takes to complete a PhD somehow increased from 4 to 6+ years over the past 30 years? Also, why do MD/PhD students somehow get their “PhD” done in 3-4 years when non dual degree students are doing 5-6 years of research in the same fields? – at Acton, MA
Throwback to #fallfoliage after the recent epic atmospheric river
ALT Dog with tree that has bright red leaves in the autumn
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Nikhil Deshmukh retweeted
Two autonomous collectives at UCSB & UC Davis have just simultaneously liberated two dining commons: De La Guerra @ UCSB & Latitude at Davis. Both are serving free meals to all until 3pm."Why it is that in the best public university system in the US, so many students are hungry?"
