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    Causes of Death

    Byscientist

    If you’re a billionaire, then you’ve got a lot of wealth and access to our resources. However, what you do not have is access to additional years of your life.There has been a wonderful Substack post about how billionaires die. It turns out that most of the death is due to aging and unspecified reasons,…

  • AI job search

    Byscientist

    With AI enabling many activities in the job hunt process, it is expected that many job applicants and executive at hiring companies use AI based tools for the process. The “automated” process used to be enabled by keywords which was the way that the candidates were selected from a large pool but with the availability…

  • Risk and Uncertainity

    Byscientist

    There’s a difference between risk and uncertainty. Let’s think about biology. If we compare humans, each of us has two eyes, two hands, and two legs, and we’re mostly similar genetically. Therefore, when we develop a medication, there’s a certain risk in what effects and side-effects it will have. This is a risk. It’s quantifiable;…

  • AI in subjective domains

    Byscientist

    I am exploring how AI can scale expert feedback in subjective domains with a hobby project. After visiting art museums around the world, I kept coming back to a familiar challenge: how do you consistently evaluate something inherently subjective? After having created medical devices in pain, the idea was worth exploring. It’s a question that…

  • Scott M Peck

    Byscientist

    An author of a book that was very popular called Road less traveled. He had a turbulent life himself but wrote very well about several good concepts: The opening line “Life is Difficult” makes one accept the difficulty and pain inherent and avoidance not being the central purpose. One area that makes it possible is…

  • Tools for critique of art – open source

    Byscientist

    Good publication to review material: CognArtive: Large Language Models for Automating Art Analysis and Decoding Aesthetic Elements at https://arxiv.org/html/2502.04353v1 And the wonderful visualization to analyze the data over the years that was derived from WikiArt. https://cognartive.github.io Autocritic: an open-source system that uses classic art theory to evaluate images and steer generative systems. It distills historical…

  • LoRa in AI image generators

    Byscientist

    This stands for Low Rank adaptation. In AI terms, this is a small add-on to the model that makes it do specific things. It is usually used in the context of stable diffusion. A large model takes very long to train with significant resources. However, sometimes, you need specific details – for example you could…