BrtByte

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by BrtByte 13d ago
Restoration can sometimes imply there is one true historical state we're supposed to recreate, which is probably the wrong mental model. In this case it seems more like restoring a missing process than restoring a particular landscape.
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by BrtByte 13d ago
Funny how much of "ecological restoration" sometimes turns out to be undoing a change we made decades ago and then letting the original ecosystem resume doing the maintenance for us
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by BrtByte 13d ago
At the very least they give us real-world experiments for what works, and honestly I will take the occasional bit of ecological good news over another article explaining how doomed everything is
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by BrtByte 15d ago
The problem is that different unemployment statistics measure different things, and the headline number often gets interpreted as "everyone who wants a job but doesn't have one"
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by BrtByte 15d ago
We seem to have gotten very good at building marketplaces for standardized things and surprisingly bad at matching people when competence is hard to measure in advance
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by BrtByte 22d ago
Yes, it's minimally invasive rather than noninvasive
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by BrtByte 22d ago
A device like this only really changes outcomes if people can actually afford to wear one continuously, not just during periods when they're already at higher risk
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by BrtByte 22d ago
CGMs and pumps are already common; what's new here is continuous ketone monitoring alongside glucose
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by BrtByte 22d ago
Sorry about your friend. This kind of news hits very differently when you know someone who might have benefited from it. Hopefully continuous ketone monitoring becomes as ordinary and accessible as CGMs are becoming.
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by BrtByte 28d ago
I miss when "using the web" meant enhancing a document rather than replacing it with 4MB of JS and a dashboard
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by BrtByte 28d ago
The hard part isn't converting dates, it's remembering which calendar is socially relevant in which context
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by BrtByte 28d ago
This is exactly the kind of optimization rabbit hole I enjoy
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by BrtByte 1mo ago
Which makes me wonder how geographically uneven this "shortage" actually is
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by BrtByte 1mo ago
Yeah, the enforcement problem seems almost absurd compared to the scale of the ocean
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by BrtByte 1mo ago
That's the scary part. By the time the data is unambiguous enough for everyone to agree the stock has collapsed, you're already dealing with the collapse rather than preventing it
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by BrtByte 1mo ago
I can imagine fishermen noticing the change long before it showed up as an empty shelf at a supermarket
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by BrtByte 1mo ago
We have apparently reached the stage of the attention economy where even sardines can experience a demand shock because someone branded eating only one food for three days as a "diet"
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by BrtByte 1mo ago
I'm not sure this is uniquely a China problem
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by BrtByte 1mo ago
You think you're choosing between 20 different products, but underneath they may all be the same device talking to the same insecure backend. At that point "just research before you buy" isn't really useful advice
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by BrtByte 2mo ago
I would not count on the market alone. Like customers do not always choose the technically best or cheapest option
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by BrtByte 2mo ago
Yeah, I suspect the $200K check would be the cheapest line item in the whole thing
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by BrtByte 2mo ago
I would just add a reproducibility requirement and avoid keeping the exact same benchmarks for too long
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by BrtByte 2mo ago
The library analogy works (for me), but the uncomfortable part is that most "open" models are closer to receiving a compiled binary than receiving the library
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by BrtByte 2mo ago
Funny how the idea only seems to become practical once you have a literal warehouse problem worth of old RAM
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by BrtByte 2mo ago
The funny part is that a 1000x increase in RAM somehow doesn't make a modern computer feel 1000x more luxurious
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by BrtByte 2mo ago
The impressive part is not really reusing old RAM, its making the economics work despite the extra chip, software support and operational complexity
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by BrtByte 3mo ago
I think this is the right distinction
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by BrtByte 3mo ago
A med student can absolutely contribute useful work, especially with good supervision. The issue is more that inexperienced authors plus publication pressure plus easy tooling is a bad combination
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by BrtByte 3mo ago
Feels like the minimum standard should be sharing the exact query/design choices and being very explicit about what biases the analysis can and cannot address
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by BrtByte 3mo ago
That is excellent playground wisdom

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