This listing is for a FT position. But if your colleagues over there might also occasionally work with freelancers on an ad hoc basis, on various research editing tasks or projects, I'd be glad to be listed among those in their contact list. I have a background spanning IT, marketing (including copywriting), and personal investing, as well as nascent interests in the crypto/Web3 space. Feel free to share this inquiry with any colleague you know over on that side of Messari. Thanks!
Hi Arbor, I have a couple questions if you don't mind - do you adjust pay based on country, and can people work their own hours or does everyone have to work within a certain window? Thanks!
I'm looking at finding an internship/entry-level position in the crypto-/software engineering space. Don't know if Messari is looking at hiring or on-boarding anyone in those kinds of positions right now, I'm not in a rush and could spend some time increasing my skillset to make myself more attractive. Would love to hear your thoughts if you see this post!
Otherwise, I'll try again in the next classifieds thread!
I would like to ask for advice from anyone who's made a transition from consulting (specifically life science consulting) to the pharmaceutical / biotech industry. Please email me at (ROT13) gbz.uraarffrl@tznvy.pbz if you have time to connect for me to pick your brain a bit. And thank you!
As someone who's interested to transition from biotech to life science consulting, do you mind sharing a little bit about your reasons for jumping ship?
I’ll start by talking about all the things I really like about life science consulting because I don’t think this is a bad place to start a career (or continue one) at all.
1) I really enjoy the people I work with, it reminds me of graduate school in that there are a bunch of very smart folk crammed together under high pressure and no small amount of alcohol, it can make for a marvelous alchemy
2) I really enjoy the work I do, it’s interesting, varied, and feels like I can make a difference both in economic terms and patient’s lives e.g.:
a) Worked on an asset screen for maybe half a year for a top 5 global pharma company, a few months after rolling off I open the WSG and see that they bought out our #1 pick for many many billions of dollars
b) Worked for a 3D printer manufacturer that wanted to explore the bioprinting space, I learned a ton from our industrials practice and again heard they wound up acquiring a company we’d highlighted
c) Worked for the last year helping a vaccine manufacturer which uh…yeah
3) I really enjoy the money, it’s many many times what I made in grad school and indeed I suspect at this point, or pretty soon anyway, I’ll have earned as much in consulting as I did in my entire non-consulting working life.
So yeah there’s a lot to recommend to it, and I do recommend exploring the possibility to anyone who’s at all curious
But of course, there’s a few factors that are kind of blowing me the other direction:
1) It’s a hell of a lot of hours most weeks, which is a product of both the amount of work to do in a short time and of hiring a lot of insecure overachievers, my family is expanding and so this feels like it’s not going to be sustainable forever. The longer I’ve worked here the better I’ve gotten at working efficiently and protecting my time, but sometimes it’s just going to be a lot. Also I know there’s a lot of family men and women in our firm who can make it work, so it’s certainly possible, but I don’t think it’s easy.
2) I want to see something through to the finish line. I think this is a side effect of that varied work I mentioned above as a positive. After a couple weeks or months we’re off to a new thing, and over time that’s started to bug me. I feel like even on the longest projects I’m only skimming the surface and offering advice to our clients. Someday I’d rather be the one actually responsible for making decisions
3) As much as I enjoy my coworkers, COVID has suuuuuuuuuuuucked in terms of building and maintaining group camaraderie and any kind of firm culture. I expect it will bounce back as cases wane and offices reopen but still, it’s been rough. Naturally working from home has a lot of positives, the expanding family for instance, wherever I wind up I think I’ll place a very high value on at least having the option for some type of hybrid office / WFH
If you’d like to know more about plusses and minuses feel free to email me, I can also pass your resume on to our experienced hire recruiters if you feel ready to give it a go
I'm making a native voice-conversion application that uses machine learning to convert a user's voice in real time with low latency. I'm a bit overwhelmed with managing too many areas of it at once and am open to having a highly-technical co-founder or first employee (or if you're a VC and want to fund us!) with a passion for the area and some great machine learning skills (preferably with a focus on audio engineering and real-time performance). If this sounds extremely exciting to you and you'd be an amazing fit, reach out to me at hi@koe.ai! Thanks
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to build, but it sounds similar to YourTTS, something that just got highlighted on a popular machine learning youtube channel. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVKiMh2vEWQ&t=580s. Even if it's not exactly what you're going for, maybe you can reach out to the people behind YourTTs to see if they can help you out.
I recently did my PhD on a semiconductor device that enables battery-free sensing. I am having trouble negotiating with the university as my team lacks a strong business background. If you do have some, and would be potentially interested in being a co-founder, please message me at dmehta@freedynamics.tech
Probably a weird place for this, but I'm giving it a shot. Finishing up my second year of medical school, have been lurking on here for about a year now. I'm at a rural MD program and want to go into psychiatry. I've tried dozens of avenues to get involved with semi-interesting research with no luck. Publishing one fluff COVID vaccine reaction paper but that is it. If you have anything that I could help with remotely, please let me know and I'd love to talk with you. I'll work for free. Psychiatry tangential stuff would be best, but I'm really open to anything interesting.
Hey, I have lots of collaborators who work on research with me as volunteers as there's no money in clinical methods research. I work in evidence synthesis methodology. Check out my work here
I might have some ideas or opportunities! Former academic psychotherapy researcher, now in industry but still publishing. Feel free to set up a meeting: Calendly.com/Sam-Bernecker
We make software that helps power grid operators manage the transition to a zero-carbon grid. It's interesting work, helps fight climate change, and builds more resilient and efficient critical infrastructure. The team is dedicated, skilled, focused, and remote-friendly.
We are especially looking for a couple of distinctive skillsets:
2. Frontend engineering all-rounder: the ideal candidate here would be an experienced tech lead capable of doing both "traditional" web-based frontend development and mobile app development, plus enough backend server coding to help unlock frontend capabilities.
I know both of these types of people exist, but neither is super easy to find, thus this widening of the net. If you're interested, email me at nweininger (at) camus (dot) energy or just apply on our website.
We're building a platform to help SOC analysts, malware researches, and other security professionals detect and prevent intrusion. YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SECURITY TO APPLY. Our work consists mostly of normal software engineering, but we do have a modern code base and tech stack. (People I know at other workplaces have expressed envy over it!) We're fully remote, we have a great team, and we're building a really cool product. If you want to ask me questions about it, feel free to email me at vmnnx.jrvff@tznvy.pbz (rot13)
Hey everyone! I'm looking for a software engineer in the greater Boston area with 2 or more years of experience. Here's my pitch!
I manage Amazon Alexa’s data lake team. We develop the systems that store all of the data used by other Alexa teams to train their machine learning models. Our systems handle a staggering throughput, and we try to do it all really cost effectively. There's a vast array of systems we own that tackle issues such as upholding Alexa's customer privacy promises, ensuring data is accessible in a secure but scalable way to Alexa's ML modelling systems and data annotators, etc. We optimize for many different use cases, and each of our systems have to scale to be used by hundreds of customers each with thousands of transactions per second.
We’re currently trying to find new team members that can come in and not only take ownership of our systems and projects, but also help newer, less experienced engineers to find their footing.
Please let me know if you're at all interested, I'd love to talk with you about anything related to the job! You can reach me at (ROT13) whfgva.nznmba.qngnynxr@tznvy.pbz
Come join me in developing GitHub Copilot (http://copilot.github.com), the AI programming assistant everyone's talking about! The job posting (https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/3645017) may sound pretty specific, but honestly if you've got a great head on your shoulders, are easy to communicate with, and have written good server software, I'd love to hear from you :D
The team is fully remote and distributed all over the world. We are a small team but punch above our weight thanks to strong collaborations with Microsoft, Open AI, etc., and a lot of experience using the product ourselves every day. Come build the new (safe & aligned) AI overlords with us!
I don’t know if I have the qualifications, but is it cool if I still connect with you on LinkedIn/somewhere else? Could use more software friends and would love to hear more about your work :)
Cool! I really like Copilot but I would like it to have better integration with intellisense in vs code. At the least to decide if function signatures match the recommendations.
Hi everyone! I'm thinking of changing jobs soon, and want to transition into something more experimental/researchy/startupy. SSC feels like one of the best places to find employers/cofounders with similar interests, so I'm posting here, feel free to reach out, whether you want to pay me money in exchange for code, or just to chat!
My main interests are in the intersection of ML and formal systems:
- AI that does (formalized) math
- program synthesis (why write programs when you can write programs that write programs?)
- AI that finds vulnerabilities in programs
etc. Aside from that, I'm also interested in startups that try to apply technology to industries in a transformative way: biotech, manufacturing, blockchain etc. My main requirement for a position is that I work on problems to which I don't already know the solution 🙂
I currently live in Boston but I'm possibly open to relocating. Professionally, I've spent a few years at a FAANG as a software engineer, focusing on 1) statistical pipelines and 2) database internals.
I'm applying (and heavily modifying) the DreamCoder neurally-guided program synthesis system from MIT to the Abstraction and Reasoning Challenge from @fchollet. It's basically about making a system capable of recognizing combinations of complex abstract patterns from very few examples and generating a program that would perform the required transformation.
Although, it's not an employment opportunity, since I'm currently living off my savings myself. But if you (or anybody else here) is interested in discussing and/or collaborating, I would be happy to do so!
I might be interested in discussion and collaboration. I'm working on Bayesian program synthesis (where probabilistic programs are synthesized using MCMC), but I want to apply a neural guide/proposal, as in DreamCoder. I also find DreamCoder itself and the ARC challenge very inspiring, so would love to hear about your approach and maybe contribute. Let me know :)
Formalised maths and security vulnerabilities have one thing in common: the interesting signal is sparse, meaning you have a rather unpleasant search space to traverse. Program synthesis looks promising, but program synthesis as we do it currently is slow (unlike the GeMM we use in training and inference of NNs). The open problem in my opinion is speeding up program synthesis by at least 4 orders of magnitude, ideally more.
There is a problem that we don't already know the solution for.
i'm an animator/illustrator open for gigs-- i drew all the character frames for this short film + animated nearly all the scenes (other artists designed the characters + drew the backgrounds):
I am hiring a lab assistant near Portland, OR, for work on brain preservation research at Nectome (see https://nectome.com/the-case-for-glutaraldehyde-structural-encoding-and-preservation-of-long-term-memories/). I can teach most of the specific skills; I'm mainly looking for general competence in performing lab work. If you can read scientific papers, implement protocols, are interested in brain preservation, and able to physically work in our lab in Vancouver, WA, then this might be a good job for you. College degree not required. $70,000 / yr salary plus stock. If you're interested please email me at (ROT13) e@arpgbzr.pbz.
I'm looking for ML researchers who are willing to help with informational interviews and career advice for a neuroscience/ML postdoc.
My areas of expertise are unsupervised learning and explainability / interpretability, with publications in ML conferences and neuroscience and cell biology journals. I'm considering my options both in academia and in the industry, and COVID made it difficult for me to develop a professional network in the US where I do my research, so maybe this avenue will work better!
Please contact me via (ROT13) zvpunry.qbeba@tznvy.pbz.
Could you possibly try again? That part is maintained by a vendor (Lever) so if something is persistently wrong with it, we'll want to raise it with them.
Looking for Computer Science related internship (SWE, research, etc).
Hi! I'm a rising senior at a college in the Denver area studying Computer Science and Philosophy. I'm currently in the search process for a Summer internship. This seems like a good place to ask for open positions, because I'm sure I'm not the only undergraduate Comp Sci ACX reader. If you know of any interesting openings, please reply with the best way to apply and where to find more info.
Hi! If you're interested in summer internships, we're hiring for Google Summer of Code at Turing.jl. Turing.jl is an open-source package in Julia for Bayesian statistical computing. You can find more info at https://turing.ml . If you're interested, you can contact me on Slack here:
F / 32 / prefer-mono / Boston / rip.my.inbox at gmail
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Woman seeking human for romance etc! Serious relationship preferred, but also open to friendship.
Strong preferences:
- I’m open to all genders, but people capable of siring kids are preferred (ie cis men or pre-transition trans women — I’m a cis woman).
- My age (32), +/-5 years.
- I like people who are very honest and very kind. Smart is cool or whatever, but compassion, integrity, and grace are a lot more important to me.
Dealbreakers:
- Must want to have children (I have none, but would like them in the next few years)
- Must be okay with living in New England long-term (I’m currently in Boston)
Bonus points if you’re:
- An effective altruist
- An atheist
- Mostly or entirely sober (I’m an occasional social drinker, but that’s it)
- Interested in group houses / communal living
- Monogamous (I’m kinda sorta open to poly with people who do it extremely carefully, but I mostly prefer not to add that complexity to my life)
- Someone who likes other people + likes being alive
More about me: I’m a tall software engineer who lives in a group house with my childhood best friend. I like reading, cooking, hanging out with my siblings and niblings, solving riddles and word games, learning to juggle, starting and not finishing knitting projects, and (some) board games.
If you want to introduce yourself, you can email me at rip.my.inbox at gmail. No need to send anything too long — I’d prefer to meet up in person rather than go through a ton of back-and-forth online.
(If you want ideas, you could introduce yourself with any of the following:
Hi, I'm James (M, 29, Austin TX / California Bay Area)
Currently the cofounder of Manifold Markets (https://manifold.markets) which won an ACX grant last month! Previously cofounder of https://throne.live, and a Google engineer out of college.
Seems we're compatible, and I'm in Austin, but I'm a straight male, so I feel like I shouldn't enter my phone number with no additional context. I do enjoy board games, though, and fun fact: my brother is currently Manifold's top creator.
I had trouble with the drink question. I don't care about furthering "justice", but seemed like it might make the party more enjoyable for most people. 🙂
Hi I'm Carole, f/52/straight/Squamish, BC, Canada.I'm an avid rock climber and backcountry skier. Looking for a fit straight male into similar types of adventures for romance and life long relationship. I'm a research methodolist working remotely.
tl;dr: long-term, looking for marriage & kid(s) w/compatible personality. I'm a mostly but not exclusively indoor person, enjoy good food, ballroom dance, helping people actualize their potential, and the company of friends.
Instead of a dating profile, here is a webpage with links to my coolest stories. I promise they aren't boring! One of them was linkposted by Scott Alexander and another one was curated by Less Wrong.
Male, 27, looking for a woman, goal is ~marriage (with or without the actual contract). I want kids, ideally starting in the next 3-5 years but I know that might have to be flexible. I live a bit south of the SF bay area, open to the south bay, but the northern half of Monterey Bay would be perfect. Historically mostly mono but I'm a fan of poly in a "one primary partner, various additional partners" sort of structure.
I love the outdoors, especially biking (especially mountain and gravel). I really enjoy camping and backpacking. Trying to get into climbing again but we'll see if an old injury derails it again. Novice hobbyist woodworker. Fan of professional sports (football in general, and the Cubs). Finishing up a hard science PhD, trying to figure out what comes next - vague probabilities for various careers: 20% professor at undergrad-only school, 20% teach high school, 10% research career, 20% generic programming job, 30% something else. The deeper I've gotten into my PhD, the more I've realized I don't have it in me to live for my career, which is why I put it second in this paragraph, and why I'm honestly not that worried about how uncertain it is.
I'm generally about as nerdy and analytic as you'd expect from someone who hangs out around these parts, and I'd like a partner who enjoys the sort of conversations that ACX posts and thinking inspire (I was introduced to SSC by an ex who I'm still friendly with). Vaguely typical grey tribe beliefs (leaning a bit traditional left). Secular Jew.
Happy to share more! email me at cubecumbered@gmail.com or DM me on twitter @cubecumbered
Edit, a few other details inspired by Freya downthread:
- I live in a group house now that will probably split up pretty soon, and I love it. I don't know quite what the model of having kids in a group house looks like, but I'd love to always live in one if there's a good way to do it, or some sort of shared housing complex if not.
- In recent years I've become a lot more comfortable with... myself... basically beating lifelong anxiety and just being able to be basically happy most of the time, and I love it. I've also come to realize I'm an extrovert (me from 10 years ago would laugh at that accusation) and I like just generally being around people, specific activity (board games? casual sports? going biking? deep heartfelt conversation?) or not. I'd love to be with someone who can help amplify and vibe with both of those.
Hi Peter! Unrelated to this thread, but as I saw that you're in Cape Town and your profile pic is of climbing, I was wondering if you'd be up for a meet up sometime in the middle of Feb? My husband, John, and I are huge ACX fans, avid climbers and we're headed to South Africa on the 5th so we'd be in your neck of the woods and would love to meet a local!
Check out this new post on my blog, Good Optics (as seen in the ACX blogroll!): https://goodoptics.wordpress.com/2022/01/28/original-appropriation-and-divine-command/ it is about how John Locke's argument for property rights depends on theological assumptions, and how it is hard to make deontological libertarianism work without those assumptions.
Without the theological argument, it is just a consequentialist argument. And while consequentialism no doubt rules out the grab world idea, it doesn't get you all the way to libertarianism without a ton of other work. Grant that the basis of property rights is consequences, and you end up arguing about the effect of the minimum wage in Indonesia, in July 1987, when it was raining, blah blah blah.
I think I most strongly object to the idea that natural rights and consequentialism should be the same. If God planned things out, you can see why that would be true. Otherwise, why would they be the same? It seems very suspiciously convenient.
I think a possible candidate explanation for why they should be the same is some argument involving decision theory. But I, personally, am yet to here that argument.
> Grant that the basis of property rights is consequences, and you end up arguing about the effect of the minimum wage in Indonesia, in July 1987, when it was raining, blah blah blah.
Nope, you don't have to do this if you also account for computational infeasibility of actually having knowledge here.
If we _did_ know this kind of thing with perfect accuracy, the world would be be a very different place. But it's impossible to know the state of the future, with any reasonable accuracy, without doing some computation. And computation requires private property:
Not sure if this is a response to me but if so: by appropriating something at T2 that was unowned at T1, I diminish your liberty. This is because you now cannot use or appropriate that thing which you previously had the right to use or appropriate.
This isn't a blog, but I think it's closer than that then to a product / service! I work on a comic where each strip is based on a popular fantasy or science fiction novel. Literally no one reads it, but we keep making them sporadically because they make us laugh. Last time I posted this link on here a few people enjoyed it, so here we go: https://involuntarybookclub.thecomicseries.com/
At the bottom is a drop down menu where they're organized by book. Most of them won't make a ton of sense unless you've read the book in question.
(1) What's with the rise. I tend to agree with Marten et al. that the rise is definitely real, and it is associated the Weber's theory of the "cage of rationality" that appears in his Protestant Ethic book.
(2) What's with the fall. Here I think the evidence is more mixed. Marten et al. marshall a lot of evidence that there is a crash that begins in 1980, and accelerates in the social media age (2010+). I agree that there is a crash, but I think we disagree about the causes, and the extent to which it happens everywhere and at the same time.
(3) What kind of work is this anyway? Can we do psychology with large-scale archives? Or is this just more social-science/Foucalt/discourse analysis, etc? (This is the largest part of my response.)
I have a podcast covering optical and biomedical research, with about a 90/10 coverage respectively. If you've ever wanted to learn more about what goes into optical physics research we cover the details! (I know optics/photonics sounds niche but I assure you everything around you centers around it, from vision to fiber optics, semiconductor production, medical imaging, defense, etc etc. We have a joke "optics is everywhere")
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Thanks, Arbor!
Was intrigued by this job at Messari, not in dev work but rather in the content space:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2862571839/
This listing is for a FT position. But if your colleagues over there might also occasionally work with freelancers on an ad hoc basis, on various research editing tasks or projects, I'd be glad to be listed among those in their contact list. I have a background spanning IT, marketing (including copywriting), and personal investing, as well as nascent interests in the crypto/Web3 space. Feel free to share this inquiry with any colleague you know over on that side of Messari. Thanks!
Thanks, Arbor - I'll apply and mention that interest! (And will be glad to ping you when I've done that.)
Hi Arbor! I assume this is only for US citizens right? Otherwise I would be really interested (based in EU myself).
Nice. I will send you my CV.
Hi Arbor, I have a couple questions if you don't mind - do you adjust pay based on country, and can people work their own hours or does everyone have to work within a certain window? Thanks!
Hey, Arbor,
I'm looking at finding an internship/entry-level position in the crypto-/software engineering space. Don't know if Messari is looking at hiring or on-boarding anyone in those kinds of positions right now, I'm not in a rush and could spend some time increasing my skillset to make myself more attractive. Would love to hear your thoughts if you see this post!
Otherwise, I'll try again in the next classifieds thread!
Thanks! I accidently submitted my application without mentioning this post. Seems like a fascinating opportunity and would love to hear more.
I would like to ask for advice from anyone who's made a transition from consulting (specifically life science consulting) to the pharmaceutical / biotech industry. Please email me at (ROT13) gbz.uraarffrl@tznvy.pbz if you have time to connect for me to pick your brain a bit. And thank you!
As someone who's interested to transition from biotech to life science consulting, do you mind sharing a little bit about your reasons for jumping ship?
Grass is always greener eh?
I’ll start by talking about all the things I really like about life science consulting because I don’t think this is a bad place to start a career (or continue one) at all.
1) I really enjoy the people I work with, it reminds me of graduate school in that there are a bunch of very smart folk crammed together under high pressure and no small amount of alcohol, it can make for a marvelous alchemy
2) I really enjoy the work I do, it’s interesting, varied, and feels like I can make a difference both in economic terms and patient’s lives e.g.:
a) Worked on an asset screen for maybe half a year for a top 5 global pharma company, a few months after rolling off I open the WSG and see that they bought out our #1 pick for many many billions of dollars
b) Worked for a 3D printer manufacturer that wanted to explore the bioprinting space, I learned a ton from our industrials practice and again heard they wound up acquiring a company we’d highlighted
c) Worked for the last year helping a vaccine manufacturer which uh…yeah
3) I really enjoy the money, it’s many many times what I made in grad school and indeed I suspect at this point, or pretty soon anyway, I’ll have earned as much in consulting as I did in my entire non-consulting working life.
So yeah there’s a lot to recommend to it, and I do recommend exploring the possibility to anyone who’s at all curious
But of course, there’s a few factors that are kind of blowing me the other direction:
1) It’s a hell of a lot of hours most weeks, which is a product of both the amount of work to do in a short time and of hiring a lot of insecure overachievers, my family is expanding and so this feels like it’s not going to be sustainable forever. The longer I’ve worked here the better I’ve gotten at working efficiently and protecting my time, but sometimes it’s just going to be a lot. Also I know there’s a lot of family men and women in our firm who can make it work, so it’s certainly possible, but I don’t think it’s easy.
2) I want to see something through to the finish line. I think this is a side effect of that varied work I mentioned above as a positive. After a couple weeks or months we’re off to a new thing, and over time that’s started to bug me. I feel like even on the longest projects I’m only skimming the surface and offering advice to our clients. Someday I’d rather be the one actually responsible for making decisions
3) As much as I enjoy my coworkers, COVID has suuuuuuuuuuuucked in terms of building and maintaining group camaraderie and any kind of firm culture. I expect it will bounce back as cases wane and offices reopen but still, it’s been rough. Naturally working from home has a lot of positives, the expanding family for instance, wherever I wind up I think I’ll place a very high value on at least having the option for some type of hybrid office / WFH
If you’d like to know more about plusses and minuses feel free to email me, I can also pass your resume on to our experienced hire recruiters if you feel ready to give it a go
I'm making a native voice-conversion application that uses machine learning to convert a user's voice in real time with low latency. I'm a bit overwhelmed with managing too many areas of it at once and am open to having a highly-technical co-founder or first employee (or if you're a VC and want to fund us!) with a passion for the area and some great machine learning skills (preferably with a focus on audio engineering and real-time performance). If this sounds extremely exciting to you and you'd be an amazing fit, reach out to me at hi@koe.ai! Thanks
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to build, but it sounds similar to YourTTS, something that just got highlighted on a popular machine learning youtube channel. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVKiMh2vEWQ&t=580s. Even if it's not exactly what you're going for, maybe you can reach out to the people behind YourTTs to see if they can help you out.
I recently did my PhD on a semiconductor device that enables battery-free sensing. I am having trouble negotiating with the university as my team lacks a strong business background. If you do have some, and would be potentially interested in being a co-founder, please message me at dmehta@freedynamics.tech
Like RFID sensors where the power comes from the scanner?
The power for reading out the data comes from the scanner. The power for sensing comes from a small pre-charged capacitor on the chip itself.
Probably a weird place for this, but I'm giving it a shot. Finishing up my second year of medical school, have been lurking on here for about a year now. I'm at a rural MD program and want to go into psychiatry. I've tried dozens of avenues to get involved with semi-interesting research with no luck. Publishing one fluff COVID vaccine reaction paper but that is it. If you have anything that I could help with remotely, please let me know and I'd love to talk with you. I'll work for free. Psychiatry tangential stuff would be best, but I'm really open to anything interesting.
Hey, I have lots of collaborators who work on research with me as volunteers as there's no money in clinical methods research. I work in evidence synthesis methodology. Check out my work here
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Lunny+c
We are going to be starting another study in a few months you could join. Email me if you're interested at Carole dot Lunny at ubc dot ca
I might have some ideas or opportunities! Former academic psychotherapy researcher, now in industry but still publishing. Feel free to set up a meeting: Calendly.com/Sam-Bernecker
Come work with me at Camus Energy! camus.energy/careers
We make software that helps power grid operators manage the transition to a zero-carbon grid. It's interesting work, helps fight climate change, and builds more resilient and efficient critical infrastructure. The team is dedicated, skilled, focused, and remote-friendly.
We are especially looking for a couple of distinctive skillsets:
1. Power systems optimization. If you have professional experience with optimal power flow for three-phase distribution circuits, you might well be a fit for this job. Details at https://www.camus.energy/careers/job-openings?gh_jid=4305064004
2. Frontend engineering all-rounder: the ideal candidate here would be an experienced tech lead capable of doing both "traditional" web-based frontend development and mobile app development, plus enough backend server coding to help unlock frontend capabilities.
I know both of these types of people exist, but neither is super easy to find, thus this widening of the net. If you're interested, email me at nweininger (at) camus (dot) energy or just apply on our website.
Camus Energy: Does it really matter?
We must choose to believe that it does!
(and our biweekly social Zoom is called the "Imagine Sisyphus Happy Hour." Yes, really.)
Stairwell - Software Engineers & Sales mostly, but send us a resume if you think what you do would be valuable to a mid-stage startup.
https://boards.greenhouse.io/stairwell
We're building a platform to help SOC analysts, malware researches, and other security professionals detect and prevent intrusion. YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SECURITY TO APPLY. Our work consists mostly of normal software engineering, but we do have a modern code base and tech stack. (People I know at other workplaces have expressed envy over it!) We're fully remote, we have a great team, and we're building a really cool product. If you want to ask me questions about it, feel free to email me at vmnnx.jrvff@tznvy.pbz (rot13)
Hey everyone! I'm looking for a software engineer in the greater Boston area with 2 or more years of experience. Here's my pitch!
I manage Amazon Alexa’s data lake team. We develop the systems that store all of the data used by other Alexa teams to train their machine learning models. Our systems handle a staggering throughput, and we try to do it all really cost effectively. There's a vast array of systems we own that tackle issues such as upholding Alexa's customer privacy promises, ensuring data is accessible in a secure but scalable way to Alexa's ML modelling systems and data annotators, etc. We optimize for many different use cases, and each of our systems have to scale to be used by hundreds of customers each with thousands of transactions per second.
We’re currently trying to find new team members that can come in and not only take ownership of our systems and projects, but also help newer, less experienced engineers to find their footing.
Please let me know if you're at all interested, I'd love to talk with you about anything related to the job! You can reach me at (ROT13) whfgva.nznmba.qngnynxr@tznvy.pbz
Come join me in developing GitHub Copilot (http://copilot.github.com), the AI programming assistant everyone's talking about! The job posting (https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/3645017) may sound pretty specific, but honestly if you've got a great head on your shoulders, are easy to communicate with, and have written good server software, I'd love to hear from you :D
The team is fully remote and distributed all over the world. We are a small team but punch above our weight thanks to strong collaborations with Microsoft, Open AI, etc., and a lot of experience using the product ourselves every day. Come build the new (safe & aligned) AI overlords with us!
I don’t know if I have the qualifications, but is it cool if I still connect with you on LinkedIn/somewhere else? Could use more software friends and would love to hear more about your work :)
Edit: open invitation to anyone else as well. Email aaron@aaronsimpson.org
Cool! I really like Copilot but I would like it to have better integration with intellisense in vs code. At the least to decide if function signatures match the recommendations.
I am fascinated by this and have been forever. I applied.
My biotech start-up is hiring a Chief of Staff, you can check it out here:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/weatherwaxbio/jobs/4284835004 :)
I presume relocation is required for the job?
"Looking for job" post:
Hi everyone! I'm thinking of changing jobs soon, and want to transition into something more experimental/researchy/startupy. SSC feels like one of the best places to find employers/cofounders with similar interests, so I'm posting here, feel free to reach out, whether you want to pay me money in exchange for code, or just to chat!
My main interests are in the intersection of ML and formal systems:
- AI that does (formalized) math
- program synthesis (why write programs when you can write programs that write programs?)
- AI that finds vulnerabilities in programs
etc. Aside from that, I'm also interested in startups that try to apply technology to industries in a transformative way: biotech, manufacturing, blockchain etc. My main requirement for a position is that I work on problems to which I don't already know the solution 🙂
I currently live in Boston but I'm possibly open to relocating. Professionally, I've spent a few years at a FAANG as a software engineer, focusing on 1) statistical pipelines and 2) database internals.
Email: <my username> at fastmail dot com
OpenAI has (had?) some folks working on AI for theorem proving. Christian Szegedy's team at Google works on this, too.
Hey, I'm working on a program synthesis project.
I'm applying (and heavily modifying) the DreamCoder neurally-guided program synthesis system from MIT to the Abstraction and Reasoning Challenge from @fchollet. It's basically about making a system capable of recognizing combinations of complex abstract patterns from very few examples and generating a program that would perform the required transformation.
Although, it's not an employment opportunity, since I'm currently living off my savings myself. But if you (or anybody else here) is interested in discussing and/or collaborating, I would be happy to do so!
Hi Andrey,
I might be interested in discussion and collaboration. I'm working on Bayesian program synthesis (where probabilistic programs are synthesized using MCMC), but I want to apply a neural guide/proposal, as in DreamCoder. I also find DreamCoder itself and the ARC challenge very inspiring, so would love to hear about your approach and maybe contribute. Let me know :)
Cool! You can drop me a line to NameLastname at gmail dot com
Formalised maths and security vulnerabilities have one thing in common: the interesting signal is sparse, meaning you have a rather unpleasant search space to traverse. Program synthesis looks promising, but program synthesis as we do it currently is slow (unlike the GeMM we use in training and inference of NNs). The open problem in my opinion is speeding up program synthesis by at least 4 orders of magnitude, ideally more.
There is a problem that we don't already know the solution for.
i'm an animator/illustrator open for gigs-- i drew all the character frames for this short film + animated nearly all the scenes (other artists designed the characters + drew the backgrounds):
https://youtu.be/VjsvBFznJfo
contact: @goblinodds on twitter is most reliable (but if you want an email address lmk)
I am hiring a lab assistant near Portland, OR, for work on brain preservation research at Nectome (see https://nectome.com/the-case-for-glutaraldehyde-structural-encoding-and-preservation-of-long-term-memories/). I can teach most of the specific skills; I'm mainly looking for general competence in performing lab work. If you can read scientific papers, implement protocols, are interested in brain preservation, and able to physically work in our lab in Vancouver, WA, then this might be a good job for you. College degree not required. $70,000 / yr salary plus stock. If you're interested please email me at (ROT13) e@arpgbzr.pbz.
I'm looking for ML researchers who are willing to help with informational interviews and career advice for a neuroscience/ML postdoc.
My areas of expertise are unsupervised learning and explainability / interpretability, with publications in ML conferences and neuroscience and cell biology journals. I'm considering my options both in academia and in the industry, and COVID made it difficult for me to develop a professional network in the US where I do my research, so maybe this avenue will work better!
Please contact me via (ROT13) zvpunry.qbeba@tznvy.pbz.
Thank you!
We want to make substack better. Come help! https://substack.com/jobs
Yes please! Join the many lovely ACX readers among our ranks
When I click that link on Chrome (Win 10) I see "Join our growing team
Failed to load postings. Something went wrong"
That's why they need the help 😁
Could you possibly try again? That part is maintained by a vendor (Lever) so if something is persistently wrong with it, we'll want to raise it with them.
Ah, that would explain it, I checked my script blocker to make sure Substack was allowed, but the issue arises because it's blocking Lever calls.
Looking for Computer Science related internship (SWE, research, etc).
Hi! I'm a rising senior at a college in the Denver area studying Computer Science and Philosophy. I'm currently in the search process for a Summer internship. This seems like a good place to ask for open positions, because I'm sure I'm not the only undergraduate Comp Sci ACX reader. If you know of any interesting openings, please reply with the best way to apply and where to find more info.
Thanks for your time!
https://jobs.lever.co/substackinc/9ee9153d-0a4c-4709-a3c1-d7069f12b135 just saying
Thanks, I don't know how I missed this. Definitely adding it to my list and will apply soon!
Hi! If you're interested in summer internships, we're hiring for Google Summer of Code at Turing.jl. Turing.jl is an open-source package in Julia for Bayesian statistical computing. You can find more info at https://turing.ml . If you're interested, you can contact me on Slack here:
https://julialang.slack.com/archives/CCYDC34A0
Hello -- Interested in this but having trouble accessing the Slack channel. Let me know if I can contact via email!
Highly recommend Palantir, we just moved the HQ to Denver and have a great crew here! Email me at pete.wilz@gmail.com if you wanna chat.
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I have a dating profile! Copying Scott's basic info format, I'm Jalex (m* / 25 / poly** / NYC***)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x1_6G5ZjmqbKMYYEMe9efMjnHyspD3DPrVTJ7ZsQZJM/edit?usp=sharing
* Some flavor of genderqueer but seem to be in the target demographic of typical straight women.
** I'm currently single and open to a monogamous relationship.
*** I'm 20% likely to move to Berkeley in March for a job.
I love your hair and you look great to me. But I'm not a match in gender and many other dimensions. Still, wishing you hotness and happiness.
I'm interested in you, but not match your gender.
M/40/Poly*/Worldwide
*Interested in co-parenting
I think the custom is to link to a "dating profile" with contact info + more context bout who you're looking for and who might be looking for you
Thank you! https://freedomfighter.shop/blogs/news/transhuman-governance
So you run this business? Where do I send an email if I want to go on a date you?
I do, links to all my socials are on the bottom, but I think I need to add an email. I appreciate your help
May as well throw this in here https://drethelin.com/romance/
Not *exactly* a classified ad, but here is a Facebook group meant for advertising / matchmaking and discussion of dating.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/898553654177315/
Gruffydd (m / 20 / straight / [London/Lancaster])
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dzz5aWLyhEaOv6N1MsZwTyt0zGOuzgapxQW79LT4-BM/edit?usp=sharing
Not even just for dating, I don't know anyone in the rationalism/ACX/EA sphere really so feel free to message me for whatever reason
F / 32 / prefer-mono / Boston / rip.my.inbox at gmail
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Woman seeking human for romance etc! Serious relationship preferred, but also open to friendship.
Strong preferences:
- I’m open to all genders, but people capable of siring kids are preferred (ie cis men or pre-transition trans women — I’m a cis woman).
- My age (32), +/-5 years.
- I like people who are very honest and very kind. Smart is cool or whatever, but compassion, integrity, and grace are a lot more important to me.
Dealbreakers:
- Must want to have children (I have none, but would like them in the next few years)
- Must be okay with living in New England long-term (I’m currently in Boston)
Bonus points if you’re:
- An effective altruist
- An atheist
- Mostly or entirely sober (I’m an occasional social drinker, but that’s it)
- Interested in group houses / communal living
- Monogamous (I’m kinda sorta open to poly with people who do it extremely carefully, but I mostly prefer not to add that complexity to my life)
- Someone who likes other people + likes being alive
More about me: I’m a tall software engineer who lives in a group house with my childhood best friend. I like reading, cooking, hanging out with my siblings and niblings, solving riddles and word games, learning to juggle, starting and not finishing knitting projects, and (some) board games.
If you want to introduce yourself, you can email me at rip.my.inbox at gmail. No need to send anything too long — I’d prefer to meet up in person rather than go through a ton of back-and-forth online.
(If you want ideas, you could introduce yourself with any of the following:
- a link to your blog / Reddit profile
- a book recommendation
- a link to your favorite Wikipedia article
- a link to a dating profile
- a project you’ve done or code you’ve written
- a controversial opinion you have
- an unappealing fact about yourself
- a good riddle
- a bad riddle
- any of the above, but ciphered)
Thanks for reading all this!
M/39/South Jersey/Poly4poly
Dating profile: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w2jH3CRis1b8G8yuBEZnXLIc-wWCbpc_jr-rYOvcHvU/edit?usp=drivesdk
Not exactly a dating profile, but here's me: https://arman.do
M/33/mono. I live in SF but am not super tied to it long-term, am straight, and am looking for someone who also wants to have kids :)
Hi, I'm James (M, 29, Austin TX / California Bay Area)
Currently the cofounder of Manifold Markets (https://manifold.markets) which won an ACX grant last month! Previously cofounder of https://throne.live, and a Google engineer out of college.
I love trying to understand the world, playing board games, hiking, and you can try my compatibility quiz here (https://jamesgrugett.com). Email me at grugett.james@gmail.com.
Seems we're compatible, and I'm in Austin, but I'm a straight male, so I feel like I shouldn't enter my phone number with no additional context. I do enjoy board games, though, and fun fact: my brother is currently Manifold's top creator.
I had trouble with the drink question. I don't care about furthering "justice", but seemed like it might make the party more enjoyable for most people. 🙂
Cool! What part of Austin are you in? Shoot me an email: grugett.james@gmail.com
Hi I'm Carole, f/52/straight/Squamish, BC, Canada.I'm an avid rock climber and backcountry skier. Looking for a fit straight male into similar types of adventures for romance and life long relationship. I'm a research methodolist working remotely.
Email me at Carole dot Lunny at Gmail dot come
M / 29 / Los Angeles / Straight / Monogamous
tl;dr: long-term, looking for marriage & kid(s) w/compatible personality. I'm a mostly but not exclusively indoor person, enjoy good food, ballroom dance, helping people actualize their potential, and the company of friends.
Extended profile: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KQdDKB8QY-0X2kqIy2oKjhssX_3nYFOM9qgjovzrA80/edit?usp=sharing
M / 29 / Seattle
Instead of a dating profile, here is a webpage with links to my coolest stories. I promise they aren't boring! One of them was linkposted by Scott Alexander and another one was curated by Less Wrong.
https://www.lsusr.com/dating.html
I'm single, childless and STI-free. I'm looking for meet woman nerds for low-pressure coffee. If we get along we can go salsa dancing.
Hello, yes, here is my profile: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Drew-Schorno-Dating-Profile--Ba2cJccvnF_dnBccQ95VX8vpAg-amNKJuShTKeuFNackmmCE
Gay man seeking similar :)
I live in Vancouver BC currently but I have a dual US/Canada citizenship and I'm not very tied to this location
ha hey thanks! I'm sorry I did not see this until now lmao
M / 28 / currently poly but also comfortable with monogamy / Vanlife (typically Austin TX but delightfully portable) / Julian.w.wise (at) gmail.com
Best way to learn about me is probably to peruse my blog. https://julianwise.com/category/all-posts/general-gabbing/
Male, 27, looking for a woman, goal is ~marriage (with or without the actual contract). I want kids, ideally starting in the next 3-5 years but I know that might have to be flexible. I live a bit south of the SF bay area, open to the south bay, but the northern half of Monterey Bay would be perfect. Historically mostly mono but I'm a fan of poly in a "one primary partner, various additional partners" sort of structure.
I love the outdoors, especially biking (especially mountain and gravel). I really enjoy camping and backpacking. Trying to get into climbing again but we'll see if an old injury derails it again. Novice hobbyist woodworker. Fan of professional sports (football in general, and the Cubs). Finishing up a hard science PhD, trying to figure out what comes next - vague probabilities for various careers: 20% professor at undergrad-only school, 20% teach high school, 10% research career, 20% generic programming job, 30% something else. The deeper I've gotten into my PhD, the more I've realized I don't have it in me to live for my career, which is why I put it second in this paragraph, and why I'm honestly not that worried about how uncertain it is.
I'm generally about as nerdy and analytic as you'd expect from someone who hangs out around these parts, and I'd like a partner who enjoys the sort of conversations that ACX posts and thinking inspire (I was introduced to SSC by an ex who I'm still friendly with). Vaguely typical grey tribe beliefs (leaning a bit traditional left). Secular Jew.
Happy to share more! email me at cubecumbered@gmail.com or DM me on twitter @cubecumbered
Edit, a few other details inspired by Freya downthread:
- I live in a group house now that will probably split up pretty soon, and I love it. I don't know quite what the model of having kids in a group house looks like, but I'd love to always live in one if there's a good way to do it, or some sort of shared housing complex if not.
- In recent years I've become a lot more comfortable with... myself... basically beating lifelong anxiety and just being able to be basically happy most of the time, and I love it. I've also come to realize I'm an extrovert (me from 10 years ago would laugh at that accusation) and I like just generally being around people, specific activity (board games? casual sports? going biking? deep heartfelt conversation?) or not. I'd love to be with someone who can help amplify and vibe with both of those.
Are you rationalist /adjacent and live in Cape Town? Let's chat!
Hi Peter! Unrelated to this thread, but as I saw that you're in Cape Town and your profile pic is of climbing, I was wondering if you'd be up for a meet up sometime in the middle of Feb? My husband, John, and I are huge ACX fans, avid climbers and we're headed to South Africa on the 5th so we'd be in your neck of the woods and would love to meet a local!
Oh cool! Shoot me an email: p.sr.courtney (at) g m a I l dot c o m
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Check out this new post on my blog, Good Optics (as seen in the ACX blogroll!): https://goodoptics.wordpress.com/2022/01/28/original-appropriation-and-divine-command/ it is about how John Locke's argument for property rights depends on theological assumptions, and how it is hard to make deontological libertarianism work without those assumptions.
Without the theological argument, it is just a consequentialist argument. And while consequentialism no doubt rules out the grab world idea, it doesn't get you all the way to libertarianism without a ton of other work. Grant that the basis of property rights is consequences, and you end up arguing about the effect of the minimum wage in Indonesia, in July 1987, when it was raining, blah blah blah.
I think I most strongly object to the idea that natural rights and consequentialism should be the same. If God planned things out, you can see why that would be true. Otherwise, why would they be the same? It seems very suspiciously convenient.
I think a possible candidate explanation for why they should be the same is some argument involving decision theory. But I, personally, am yet to here that argument.
I think Roderick Long's essay "Why Does Justice Have Good Consequences" has a lot to say on this very topic: https://praxeology.net/whyjust.htm
> Grant that the basis of property rights is consequences, and you end up arguing about the effect of the minimum wage in Indonesia, in July 1987, when it was raining, blah blah blah.
Nope, you don't have to do this if you also account for computational infeasibility of actually having knowledge here.
If we _did_ know this kind of thing with perfect accuracy, the world would be be a very different place. But it's impossible to know the state of the future, with any reasonable accuracy, without doing some computation. And computation requires private property:
https://apxhard.com/2020/08/20/private-property-and-social-hierarchies-as-concurrency-control-mechanisms/
Why would I not be entitled to everything, if you are (= you can grab whatever's not claimed) ?
Not sure if this is a response to me but if so: by appropriating something at T2 that was unowned at T1, I diminish your liberty. This is because you now cannot use or appropriate that thing which you previously had the right to use or appropriate.
I just read this. I like it, though I don't have much background knowledge on libertarianism.
This isn't a blog, but I think it's closer than that then to a product / service! I work on a comic where each strip is based on a popular fantasy or science fiction novel. Literally no one reads it, but we keep making them sporadically because they make us laugh. Last time I posted this link on here a few people enjoyed it, so here we go: https://involuntarybookclub.thecomicseries.com/
At the bottom is a drop down menu where they're organized by book. Most of them won't make a ton of sense unless you've read the book in question.
Very enjoyable especially the one for Terra Ignota.
Thank you! That one took more time than every one of the rest put together both to write and draw. One of my favorite pieces : )
I haven't read enough books to get all of these, but the ones I did get were funny!
I've only read one of these books, but the comic was wryly funny.
Which one!
Same — Fifth Season. I enjoyed the corresponding comic quite a bit!
Wonderful read! I'll be coming back to it often.
Laughed hard at the one about Outer Wilds. Very concise.
Piranesi made me laugh out loud. Well done.
I wrote a short story about a library with an unusual method of organization and the secrets it contains: https://markmywords.substack.com/p/short-fiction-the-library-of-eristat
(content warning: suicide) I also wrote a story about quantum suicide: https://markmywords.substack.com/p/short-fiction-quantum-roulette
Heard some positive feedback on past work here before, would love to hear any thoughts!
Really enjoyed the quantum roulette story!
Is PNAS a blog? We have a new piece out in there, on the rise (and possible fall) of rationality in the West. https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/deciphering-large-scale-patterns-written-record is a quick guide to the debate.
There are two articles. Marten, Ingrid, Els, and Johan's is at https://www.pnas.org/content/118/51/e2107848118
Then there is a commentary from me at https://www.pnas.org/content/119/4/e2121300119 / https://sites.santafe.edu/~simon/DeDeo_PNAS_Cognition.pdf (Open Access PDF)
The big questions in play are:
(1) What's with the rise. I tend to agree with Marten et al. that the rise is definitely real, and it is associated the Weber's theory of the "cage of rationality" that appears in his Protestant Ethic book.
(2) What's with the fall. Here I think the evidence is more mixed. Marten et al. marshall a lot of evidence that there is a crash that begins in 1980, and accelerates in the social media age (2010+). I agree that there is a crash, but I think we disagree about the causes, and the extent to which it happens everywhere and at the same time.
(3) What kind of work is this anyway? Can we do psychology with large-scale archives? Or is this just more social-science/Foucalt/discourse analysis, etc? (This is the largest part of my response.)
Happy to chat further about what's in play.
I have a podcast covering optical and biomedical research, with about a 90/10 coverage respectively. If you've ever wanted to learn more about what goes into optical physics research we cover the details! (I know optics/photonics sounds niche but I assure you everything around you centers around it, from vision to fiber optics, semiconductor production, medical imaging, defense, etc etc. We have a joke "optics is everywhere")
Of particular interest , I interviewed a medical doctor using ketamine for pain management in sickle cell anemia patients, who typically require high dose opiate treatment for pain management: https://anchor.fm/the-spotlight-report/episodes/Dr--Cooper-Sood-on-using-Ketamine-for-Pain-Management-in-Sickle-Cell-Anemia-Patients-eaijf1
Anarchist Propaganda https://freedomfighter.shop/blogs/news/transhuman-governance
Thoughts on the systems and societal aspects of the project of eliminating greenhouse emissions from the economy:
https://climateer.substack.com/
If you like machine learning and/or cute anime girls, you'd probably love this post: https://nearcyan.com/this-anime-does-not-exist/