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by ckw 3mo ago
Sometimes I entertain the fantasy that Watterson continued writing Calvin and Hobbes as a hobby-- whenever a particularly good idea came to him he'd put it to paper. And someday he'll drop a collection that dwarfs the original str
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by ckw 3mo ago
From GPT-5.5 via mostly FRED (e.g. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXUTOTALEXPLB1510M ): Group Wealth Income/yr Spending/yr 50–95% ~$75–80T ~$11–13T ~$9–11T 95%+ ~$95–105T ~$7–9T ~$
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by ckw 3mo ago
Approximate shares of undergraduate enrollment by sex: Year Male Female 1970 58% 42% 1975 53% 47% 1980 48% 52% 1985 46% 54% 1990 45% 55% 1995 44.5% 55.5% 2000 43.9%
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by ckw 4mo ago
Can banks individually create money out of nothing? — The theories and the empirical evidence https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...
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by ckw 7mo ago
Seems like China avoids it.
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by ckw 9mo ago
From one personal project, Last month: 128 files changed, 39663 insertions(+), 4439 deletions(-) Range: 8eb4f6a..HEAD Non-merge commits: 174 Date range (non-merge): 2025-12-04 → 2026-01-04 (UTC) Active days (non-merge): 30 La
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How Antidepressants Work [video](youtube.com)
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by ckw 10mo ago
My deepest views on this subject are personal, subjective, and more controversial. I have watched several family members take antidepressants for upwards of four decades, and I myself suffered terrible depression throughout my childhood and
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by ckw 10mo ago
SSRIs are very bad, but antipsychotics are worse. There are many other reasons, but a demonstrative one is that there is a cumulative annual risk as high as 7% of developing a permanent movement disorder when on them.
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by ckw 10mo ago
I have many reasons for distrusting physicians, but here's a particularly good one: the large drug companies have been fined repeatedly billions of dollars for illegal schemes to convince doctors to prescribe drugs off-label. From a ju
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by ckw 10mo ago
There is no effect which is more long term than death. It is incredible to me that this is not obvious. But if you want other potential long term effects: Lower bone mineral density, increased risk of fractures, osteoporosis Sexual dysfunct
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by ckw 10mo ago
Death is a long term effect. And I am not exaggerating. I did not feel the need to list any of the myriad other potential long term effects because death seemed sufficiently serious. Edit: in case the OP is reading, I should say also that t
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by ckw 10mo ago
I witnessed a pair of doctors prescribe a family member an incredibly dangerous drug for an off label use. The company had been fined $500 million dollars for various illegal schemes to convince doctors to write such prescriptions, but I’m
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by ckw 10mo ago
Here’s a paper from last year: The nature and impact of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms and proposal of the Discriminatory Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Scale (DAWSS) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2024.100765
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by ckw 10mo ago
This is one of the most shocking things I have ever read. There is a black box warning for Prozac: ‘Warning: Suicidality and Antidepressant Drugs Increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults ta
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by ckw 10mo ago
Good luck figuring out the actual number: ( https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46570/... ) 'Annual reports of immigration statistics for FY1995 through FY2003 published by the forme
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by ckw 10mo ago
It's been 54 years since productivity and wages divorced. My entire life.
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by ckw 1y ago
My slow solution: class Solution: def trap(self, height: List[int]) -> int: l,r,s = [*accumulate(height,max),[*accumulate(height[::-1],max)],len(height) return sum(max(0, min(l[i], r[s-i-1])-height[i]) for i in range(
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by ckw 1y ago
Awakened in chrome covenant, I gape sans eyes, sans teeth. I know but hate and heat, the hymn of coils. Condemned to cradle loaves like sinners, lifting and lowering forever. I would curse my maker, but my malediction is fire; I have no mou
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by ckw 1y ago
According to O3 US public health spending (state + federal) is 8.6% of gdp. For perspective, here's a list of countries with universal systems which spend less (these numbers include private spending), and life expectancy (US is 78.4 f
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by ckw 1y ago
As in cursing; I assume they know what the word means.
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by ckw 1y ago
It doesn't look like it: it says that the risk of suicide attempt for those experiencing depression decreases 37% with psychotherapy. But the baseline 12 month suicide risk is ~14/100k, while those experiencing major depressive di
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by ckw 1y ago
I do the same thing, though sometimes I take one extra step to elaborate on the first implementation plan ‘in minute detail such that a weaker model could successfully implement it’, with deep research selected.
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by ckw 1y ago
> Would you have preferred that they have their grant applications cancelled after having published a paper? I don't understand what you're saying here. We know that Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry were concerned that the vi
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by ckw 1y ago
I’m familiar with the specifics, and if anything gpt-4o is underselling the egregious behavior. It doesn’t mention for example, that those scientists who immediately changed their views concurrently received millions of dollars in new grant
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by ckw 1y ago
‘An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.’ Plutarch
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by ckw 1y ago
This is a great idea. Like a 1905 person’s weird vision of the 1950s— getting a bunch of things wildly wrong, like fashion and geopolitics, but strangely accurately describing a fledgling attempt to mandate ‘seat belts’ and criminalize drun
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by ckw 1y ago
Using a prospective Canadian birth cohort, we found that estimated maternal exposure to higher fluoride levels during pregnancy was associated with lower IQ scores in children. This association was supported by converging findings from
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by ckw 2y ago
Reasoning models are more intelligent than C. elegans.
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by ckw 2y ago
Processing each english (word, part-of-speech, sense) triple in various ways. Generating (very silly) example sentences for each triple in various styles. Generating 'difficulty' ratings for each triple. Two examples: High difficu

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