Richard She

Asst Prof at NTU Singapore
Former Postdoc of the Month at the Whitehead Institute.

[Richard She @Richard_She]

I'm excited to share that I will be starting my lab at NTU Singapore.

It is bittersweet to be moving halfway around the world. On one hand, I'm excited for a new adventure. I have spent my entire adult life chasing this dream, and it's finally happening. On the other hand, I still love America and believe in all of the good that it stands for. My parents moved here to give me the gift of the American Dream and I never thought I would experience what it's like to be an immigrant to a new country myself. I can only say that life has a way of offering blessings in disguise, and I’m grateful for this opportunity in every way.

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@mbateman @eigenrobot It's strange because the nerds are winning, just absolutely irreversibly winning everywhere else.

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@arjunrajlab This is an inflammatory accusation. Also anti-inflammatory.

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@ReubenR80027912 And somehow the AI companies are full of smart people who have the dumbest political instincts...like if you are landing on $3T at IPO, surely you need to do better than hire well known lobbyists from both sides? Like do you know how many U.S. states make parts for the F-35??

[Richard She @Richard_She]

Harvard has put all of its chips on 2028 D, knowing full well the stakes of resistance to a hostile R administration and recrimination from the Dems if they dare to bend the knee.

Based on what we've seen in Europe, neither side has escalated quite far enough for the powers that be to stop playing both sides and go all in on the permanent destruction gambit

[Richard She @Richard_She]

Beautiful writing. As an American, it's interesting to see how the media environment is different in the UK. First, it seems much more likely for a local story to balloon into a national story compared to the US. More monoculture. Second, it's seems that elite tastemakers still matter, and there's a more aristocratic bent to media even post social media decline. Perhaps a chance at unity and repair then.

[Prof. Michael Lin @MichaelLinLab]

Excited to announce a powerful new one-two punch for voltage imaging from our lab and collaborators! In two new preprints, we introduce ASAP6c for high-throughput population spike-recording, and ASAP7yfor deep, subthreshold 2P imaging.
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[Richard She @Richard_She]

@zeta_globin Claude always reads the methods section

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@benthompson No greater frustration than seeing that the plane is parked right there, and them telling you "the door's been closed, we can't do anything about it"

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@PradyuPrasad thymos: public passion, pride, danger, rivalry, defiance, the sense that people might risk it all for beauty, honor, politics, art, or God.

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@johnarnold What do you think of the analogy that Moneyball and analytics came for baseball first. Because someday it will come for all of our favorite sports, no matter how messy with human interaction. It's just a matter of how long it takes

[Richard She @Richard_She]

One of the interesting parallels to Moore's law that people often cite is the cost of sequencing a human genome, which actually stalled from 2015-2025 because a single company (Illumina) had a full monopoly over the technology. There were clear and obvious ways to make it cheaper, but that would have hurt their stock price as demand was inherently limited. It wasn't until the parents expired and new startups entered that the price has fallen again.

All of which is to say that knowledge diffusion is crazy, it's crazy that we live in an era where magic iPhone technology diffuses worldwide instantly, that we let other countries have it, and that we don't live in the age of Imperialism where some countries develop an insane tech lead over others. I fear that it might happen again -- and that when the AIs get nationalized and cut off from the rest of the world, you'll have lots of countries left behind

[Richard She @Richard_She]

@shinboson I'm new to the area, but have plenty of opinions for my wife's ears only.

The difference between Singapore and HK is that only one of those places had enough soul to see 2M people (25% of the population) marching on the streets, fighting for something worth saving.

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@DeanxRiley @RogueWPA I just moved to Singapore, which is one of the most test centric cultures in the world, and our dept just got rid of GRE this year because the deans are 4-6 years behind the academic fads in the US. Grim.

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@esrtweet Isn't the usual game plan with this stuff that it's a setup for something worse? Just wait, they won't blow their best material this early

[Richard She @Richard_She]

It's a good joke, but isn't it a common media strategy nowadays to drip out the first bit of oppo research, he defends it, and then drop the next bomb in a week?

It's crazy that there were Platner scandal rumors on here 5 days ago, so much alpha on this site, I gotta start betting more

https://t.co/E2RlKsx4gd

[Richard She @Richard_She]

@lexaprotools Good take. Analytics ruins another sport

[Richard She @Richard_She]

Funny American living abroad situation: I have a new HSBC credit card, but my checking account is with another bank (DBS). Credit card bill is due. Log in to app: "no eligible accounts to transfer money from." Stuck.

Chat with customer support. Apparently everyone in Singapore "knows" that payments here work on a "Push" vs. a "Pull" system. In the US, you just setup Autopay and the credit card pulls your money from wherever you bank. In Singapore, you go to where your money lives and push it onto your credit card to settle the bill. 2-3 business days, don't forget to do it on time 🤣

@patio11

[Richard She @Richard_She]

@patio11 They made a whole popular Broadway musical about how banks are good and essential to the survival of the nation!

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@TheStalwart $400 (HKD) per ticket? What is this the NBA Finals of trivia nights?

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@anish_koka What do you think about the logic of lifetime area under the curve of LDL is what you want to aim for to mimic PCSK9 hets and their reduced risk profile? So start statins early at normal 100mg/dL range with the aim of lowering to 70 long term