you are not “real” parents unless …

Osvaldo Contreras @osvaldoics  In Sydney, 🇦🇺 prices range around $40,000-45,000 AUD a year. Without child support for new immigrants, the situation is not far worse The cost is prohibitive in many ways. x.com/frankiedheywar… Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D.  @FrankieDHeyward A postdoc with a newborn just told me daycare in Boston is ~$30,000/year 🤯 Despite having dual
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Grossly inefficient for global users

Eric Jang @ericjang11  relatable x.com/liz_love_lace/… Liz Lovelace! @liz_love_lace very correct take, developers take note https://pic.twitter.com/vc7jIqa1wR Replying to @ericjang11 Only about 1 in 10,000 of the roughly 5 billion humans using the Internet strives to be software developers. “Open” developer sites are some of the worst run and least focused sites on the Internet, after edu
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they charge $35,000 per human equivalent work year

Jeffrey Mold @Jeff_Mold  We need more people studying p63… https://biomarkerres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40364-021-00260-5 Replying to @Jeff_Mold Happy to put some of my AIs on it, but with their certifications and training, they charge $35,000 per human equivalent work year. You can get a cost break if they run 24/7 off an open shared cluster and have rights to
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Is her name Sora?

Mel_Goodale @action_brain Photo taken by my daughter from the window of the cottage at Lake of Bays on this snowy February afternoon. The snow squall has just passed through. https://pic.twitter.com/RKqGvvCLpP Replying to @action_brain Is her name Sora? Your daughter’s work is much more natural, and pleasing. Probably not. Enjoy the snow and take time with
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Lossless categorization is perfect recording and sharing

CLaE @leafs_s THE MIT PRESS  How We Sort the World: Gregory Murphy on the Psychology of Categories “Every category is a simplification to some degree; it throws away information about the thing.” https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-we-sort-the-world-gregory-murphy-on-the-psychology-of-categories/ Replying to @leafs_s Lossless categorization is called perfect memory. Extremely efficient and can be re-run in the future because you did not throw
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One way “publishers and readers” is out of date

Emily Waltz @EmWaltz  The world’s first commercial-scale ethanol-to-jet fuel plant has begun producing its first gallons of aviation fuel. The plant is part of a larger scheme to eventually make jet fuel from microbes. @NatureBiotech @LanzaTech @LanzaJet https://nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02136-z Replying to @EmWaltz @NatureBiotech and 2 others Dear Nature, Serious global issues require serious global effort by
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perceptional “biases” are well-honed survival skills

Michael Hahn @mhahn29  Why is human perception systematically biased? In joint @NatureNeuro work with @weixx2 , we provide a unified theory of perceptual biases. OA link: https://rdcu.be/dyHzf journal page: https://nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01574-x Replying to @mhahn29 @NatureNeuro and @weixx2 For human survival, efficiency, and competitive advantage. My lifetime recorded experiences, hard self-training, instantly eliminate the useless and extraneous.
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