DougWebb

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by DougWebb 4mo ago
The company is providing existing services to existing users for payment. The company is offering potential new services to current and potential users in the market and getting feedback on how valuable those new services might be.
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by DougWebb 11mo ago
> Just today, I spent an hour documenting a function that performs a set of complex scientific simulations. Defined the function input structure, the outputs, and put a bunch of references in the body to function calls it would use. So t
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by DougWebb 2y ago
If they have deeper pockets than the user, they're the ones who will get sued for abuse they enable.
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by DougWebb 2y ago
I've never been worried about LLMs. I've always been worried about how people will use LLMs and how they will interpret the output of LLMs. Especially people who don't understand what LLMs are doing.
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by DougWebb 2y ago
You should make the channels change the video they're playing on a schedule, and link to a tv guide listing that shows the schedule.
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by DougWebb 2y ago
I really like how there are only 12 channels, and you don't get to choose what's on. The only way to make it even more like tv from a few decades ago would be if half of the channels were static.
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by DougWebb 2y ago
T1 and T2 are completely different diseases. T2 should not be called diabetes. It should be called insulin resistance or chronic carbohydrate overdose. I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic/T2. I started wearing a cgm and watching how variou
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by DougWebb 2y ago
Your body doesn't prefer glucose over fat. Too much glucose is toxic, so your body will focus on reducing it first. Too little is also dangerous so your body will make some from protein if necessary. But only as much as it needs. Fat a
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by DougWebb 3y ago
Gmail was invite-only to join and get an @gmail.com account, but once you had it you could interact with any email account user, and they could interact with you. GMail isn't a walled garden. Facebook, Wave, G+, etc are. That's wh
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by DougWebb 3y ago
So, getting fatter as I get older is a good thing? /s
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by DougWebb 3y ago
Maybe, in climates that get cold, these chargers should be indoors? It's not like they need to worry about exhaust fumes.
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by DougWebb 3y ago
I'm hardly an expert, but I think "government debt" and "government investment" are accounted for the same way, but only the former is a problem. If the government sells bonds/T-bills (eg acquires debt) and use
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by DougWebb 3y ago
What kind of software maintenance work does not create new software? Are you only deleting lines of code from the existing software?
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by DougWebb 3y ago
The problem isn't that the drug results don't translate from mice to humans. The problem is that after testing the drug successfully in mice, they follow that with testing the marketing campaign with the mice. The mice never buy t
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by DougWebb 3y ago
If you can provide more info about this, I'd be very interested. What sort of breakdown are you getting? Function names and descriptions of their behavior? Or is it more like the auto-generated reference documentation that you get from
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by DougWebb 3y ago
You complain about arguments that don't define "intelligence" and what it means for AI to have that, and then you say: If we create something that can do critical reasoning, all the more power to us. It seems to me you&#x27
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by DougWebb 3y ago
Wow, you're right. The 14-day sensor didn't require one, but that's not available anymore.
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by DougWebb 3y ago
The Libre sensor can be purchased without a prescription, and used with a free smartphone app. This link is for the V3 sensor. I bought the older 14-day sensors from this mail order pharmacy while I was using them. Cheaper than my local pha
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by DougWebb 3y ago
Hearing loss is a physical problem. Tinnitus, often, is a signaling problem. The signal can represent a sound that the physical sensors can't produce anymore.
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by DougWebb 4y ago
Sure, but I think the transition through my stages is a sharp S-curve, and then going through your stages is a more gradual increase. And based on how many wealthy people behave, it seems like the happiness curve peaks at some point and the
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by DougWebb 4y ago
There's a transition through several states: not enough, barely enough, just enough, and more than enough. It's a sharp transition; there's a small difference in income needed to go through these stages, but a huge difference
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by DougWebb 4y ago
The connection would have to be truly ancient. We all ultimately came from the same population in Africa, and things like fire making and stone tool making are cultural ideas that date back even further than that time. So maybe other cultur
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by DougWebb 4y ago
I'm going off memory here, but I believe the link is that some moai have arms and hands still visible, with the hands holding the belly. This same detail is also visible on some other ancient statues, including some at Gobekli Tepe. It
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by DougWebb 4y ago
I had a 4K Dell monitor as my main, a lower res monitor on one side, and a 16:10 in portrait mode on the other side, all serving two computers. The computer that used DisplayPort for the 4K monitor had the issue you mention; when I swapped
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by DougWebb 4y ago
Fructose is not glucose (obviously) so sure, changing to a sweetener with more fructose and less glucose is going to reduce your blood glucose measurement. However, the fructose has to be processed by your liver, just like alcohol. And too
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by DougWebb 4y ago
A long time ago I worked for one of the big medical journal publishing firms. (No, the other one.) I was one of the lead software developers, nominally in charge of the web application that served all of our licensed content to medical prof
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by DougWebb 4y ago
By that logic, why not round to a whole day? A week? A month?
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by DougWebb 4y ago
In Star Trek they're always carrying around their PADDs while working, and when they've been shown to be really busy they'd have a bunch of PADDs laid out on the desk in front of them. You obviously need a bunch of Kindles.
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by DougWebb 4y ago
Yeah, it's not like NASA has ever had a problem ignoring their own procedures when it comes to the seals on these kinds of rockets...
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by DougWebb 4y ago
The easily accessible fossil fuels got to the surface somehow for us. Maybe given enough time and geologic changes more gets exposed. So the coal we started with used to be hidden, and wasn't touched by an earlier civilization.

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