Alex3917

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by Alex3917 13d ago
> nobody is claiming prediction markets are a type of journalism. James Surowiecki wrote an entire book essentially saying otherwise.
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by Alex3917 18d ago
For converting emails into archival formats, the two open source tools I'd look into are ePadd and Mailbagit. If at least some subset of these emails are things you'd like to explore making searchable/viewable by the general
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by Alex3917 20d ago
Yes, that was a political decision based on the fact that people with Asperger’s weren’t able to access sufficient social support. But from a medical perspective, the two have basically nothing to do with each other; Asperger’s is primarily
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by Alex3917 20d ago
I mean you can literally upload your genetic methylation variants and bloodwork into Gemini and have it one shot a custom treatment plan for you, how much more personalized do you want? Obviously if you want hand holding from the medical sy
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by Alex3917 20d ago
My point is that autism is already treated by the medical system as many disorders and not as a single thing. The reason they all share a common label is for political reasons, where it makes sense to group them together. But the actual med
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by Alex3917 20d ago
> what leads us to treat ASD as an actual single disorder, as opposed to a billion different individual neurological profiles? We already do treat it as the latter. The medical definition of autism is basically just any neurodevelopmenta
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by Alex3917 21d ago
North American waters also. The waters off the coast of Cape Cod are being decimated by Chinese-funded vessels, based on what I've heard from local fishermen there at least.
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by Alex3917 23d ago
It's going to be replicated because we already know the mechanism of action. That said, many/most people would probably be better off solving the problem more upstream via whatever B-complex vitamins they need based on their blood
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by Alex3917 23d ago
> the reality is that engineers are pumping out code faster than the humans can understand and (honestly) review it The word "engineering" means doing things using a repeatable process to get predictable results. If you can get
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by Alex3917 26d ago
> I've lately been wondering if schizophrenia causes this connection-seeing, or if connections cause indicators of schizophrenia/psychosis. IANAD, but my reading of the literature is that the genes for schizophrenia cause conne
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by Alex3917 1mo ago
I think the parent comment was a reference to the famous “Economists must learn to subtract” commercial that AdBusters ran.
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by Alex3917 1mo ago
> checking any text for watermarks requires sending the entire text to Anthropic Couldn’t it be checked in the TEE using confidential computing to keep Anthropic’s algorithm secret?
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by Alex3917 2mo ago
Really? I still have my 9.95 PayPal email receipt from buying the game in 2010, but I don’t have a single email sent to that email address about any sort of migration.
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by Alex3917 2mo ago
Email me and I can connect you with some. There is a FB group for folks growing them in the NYC area, plus a list of all the parks where they are planted.
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by Alex3917 3mo ago
> Homeopathy was invented after the discovery of germ theory [1][2]. So not really. Germ Theory was only finally accepted (after initially being rejected) due to the advent of evidence-based medicine, which homeopathy popularized.
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Sam Altman May Control Our Future–Can He Be Trusted?(reddit.com)
3 points by Alex3917 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Alex3917 6mo ago
There is a huge amount of overlap between the genes associated with schizophrenia and the genes associated with autism. This is part of what makes it tricky to diagnose yourself, because anyone who has the genes for schizophrenia is also go
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by Alex3917 6mo ago
Not to be confused with Google’s existing product called Wiz.
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by Alex3917 6mo ago
Having worked at both greenfield startups and unicorns, I've found that virtually every problem I've encountered at the unicorn startups was caused by folks being incompetent at the greenfield level. Maybe when you get to the scal
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by Alex3917 7mo ago
For both Amazon and Nvidia, their marginal costs are probably much lower than their fixed costs.
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by Alex3917 9mo ago
> Did they buy some code for Gmail from an older company? They bought both Deja and Neotonic.
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by Alex3917 9mo ago
I mean the I would really only include the code for things like: - Fetching email messages - Parsing email headers - Mime parsing - Converting the text of email bodies into UTF-8 - Threading messages - Eliding reply text Given that the offi
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by Alex3917 9mo ago
This is a pretty good talk on the history of email: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q
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by Alex3917 9mo ago
He wasn't sitting there writing binary code and implementing all 7 layers of the OSI stack by hand, he was was gluing together pre-existing components. And the pre-existing components he had access to include two major email startups a
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by Alex3917 9mo ago
> You guys cloned a whole suite of products in a short period of time that cost millions of dollars. At the risk of stating the obvious, the functionality isn't actually cloned, only the UI. The actual code powering Gmail probably d
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by Alex3917 9mo ago
> Prompt engineering is like a shittier verson of writing a VBA app inside Excel or Access. Sure, if you could use VBA to read a patient's current complaint, vitals, and medical history, look up all the relevant research on Google S
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Gmail emoji reactions will be enabled by default starting Feb(prettyfwd.com)
2 points by Alex3917 9mo ago|0 comments
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Angular v21(blog.angular.dev)
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by Alex3917 11mo ago
This is the key issue. There is zero doubt whatsoever that flossing is essential, and the fact that the empirical evidence is equivocal shows the limitations of science to prove even the most obvious things.
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New State-of-the-Art, Open Weight Model for Nine Polygenic Risk Scores(mynucleus.com)
2 points by Alex3917 11mo ago|0 comments

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