aradox66

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by aradox66 8mo ago
Research suggests that aerobic fitness largely compensates for the negative health effects of being overweight. https://www.physiologicallyspeaking.com/p/physiology-friday-... e.g. being aerobically trained and overwei
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by aradox66 11mo ago
How could that make sense? The emergent capabilities of the models are obviously critical to the evolution of that whole system.
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by aradox66 11mo ago
I thought private equity was all about liquidating nearly bankrupt businesses
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by aradox66 11mo ago
Don't "real" consequences apply for setting weights? There's an actual monetary cost to train these models, and they have to actually perform to keep getting trained. Sure it's VC spend right now and not like, biolo
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by aradox66 11mo ago
It's not an assumption, it's an extremely developed international field of tactical and strategic study that leads to these conclusions
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by aradox66 1y ago
I love location sharing with friends. "Find my Jerry", "Find my Anna" we call it in our friend group. It simplifies logistics, gives us a narrow but fun little window into each others' worlds. "Is __ on the top
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by aradox66 1y ago
You want to always use mineral zinc and to learn for your own body and the sun conditions of your environment whether and how often you need to reapply. You're not going to be doing that math based on SPF anyways.
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by aradox66 1y ago
It's a common failure mode and most other OTCs won't kill you if you occasionally accidentally take an extra dose or two. Agreed that it's safe at the correct dose but the hazards are severe and dosing incorrectly is inevitab
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by aradox66 1y ago
Arguably there are some evolutionary advantages to the presence of elders in social species with cultural transmission but your point stands
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by aradox66 1y ago
Seidenberg's work is really interesting but he's definitely not arguing that sweat lodges are a part of historical Jewish practice. He's doing a compare/contrast.
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by aradox66 1y ago
caught in the wild, the moving goalposts of the Turing test
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by aradox66 1y ago
Hahaha I love that idea. An LLM enters the Obsidian vault and responds to a prompt by following an arcane and elaborate sequence of calculations. Does it really understand?
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by aradox66 1y ago
I'm also not an expert here, but looking through the figures [1], that one HR result for Asperger's in a figure 4 is...surprising to see, given the headlines. This is far from strong evidence of an effect, but you're absolute
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by aradox66 1y ago
Nope! Rabbi Akiva, who, as the story goes, was an illiterate shepherd until he started studying in his 40s, and went on to become one of the most renowned scholars of his era. This is why some Jewish tradition teaches that for mystical stud
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by aradox66 1y ago
I think this mostly has been debunked in the last 15 years, except in the unscientific health influencer space https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39017376/
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by aradox66 1y ago
Also, at temperature 0 LLMs can behave deterministically! Indeterminism isn't necessarily quite the right word for the kind of abstraction LLMs provide
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by aradox66 1y ago
Determinism isn't always ideal. Determinism may trade off with things like accuracy, performance, etc. There are situations where the tradeoff is well worth it.
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by aradox66 1y ago
I imagine there are some boundary constraints - mobile video can only be so compelling. I would guess we're already pretty close to that threshold.
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by aradox66 1y ago
It's a different chemical cocktail, but more importantly consenting to it makes a bit of a difference in terms of how it registers morally.
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by aradox66 1y ago
There is no shortage of cranks generating novel cosmological theories, but this writer doesn't seem to be one of them. He's interested in predictive power! I think it's fascinating and enjoy this theory a lot, but the epistem
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by aradox66 1y ago
SQL lol
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by aradox66 1y ago
Can't recommend dbt highly enough to get over the SQL boilerplate problem. After using dbt for a few years it's unimaginable to work without it.
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by aradox66 1y ago
Ah, yes, the ol "it was just one tab, but it's very strong/pure."
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by aradox66 1y ago
Indeed this kind of utilitarian suffering quantization leads to some weird, some would say "repugnant" conclusions
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by aradox66 1y ago
And the non-primates! Also living lives full of suffering and joy.
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by aradox66 1y ago
This sent deepseek into a real tizzy. It ended with The "car" is actually a person named Carol or Carl (likely the father), who is a surgeon. The ER doctor is saying, "I can't operate on Carol/Carl, he's my sur
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by aradox66 1y ago
That's not right, the great filter comes after the development of intelligence
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by aradox66 1y ago
I felt similar reading that book. She seems very clear that she wants to develop paradigmatic physics, and wants Assembly Theory to be paradigmatic, but there's not a lot of meat on the bone.
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by aradox66 1y ago
If it seems interesting to you or you're experimenting with keyboard-driven tiling WMs, though, I would highly recommend this particular fling.
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by aradox66 1y ago
I had a fun fling with EXWM, but having your window manager sharing its single-thread with emacs just doesn't really make any sense.

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