iak8god

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by iak8god 1y ago
Per the very paper we are discussing, LLMs when asked to act as therapists reinforce stigmas about mental health, and "respond inappropriately" (e.g. encourage delusional thinking). This is not just lower quality than professional
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by iak8god 2y ago
> the idea is to give you an AI generalist that might ne able to alert you to things outside of your field that may be related to your work That might be a good goal. It doesn't seem to be the goal of this project.
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by iak8god 2y ago
The main concerns expressed in Robyn's note, as I read them, seem to be 1) generative AI has polluted the web with text that was not written by humans, and so it is no longer feasible to produce reliable word frequency data that reflec
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by iak8god 2y ago
ActBlue and WinRed are now used by Democrats and Republicans respectively for fundraising at just about every level, even pretty local races, and they're clearly selling access to their lists. I donated a small amount to a Democratic c
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by iak8god 3y ago
Prescribed burns are much more common in the southeastern US than in other areas: https://www.wabe.org/why-the-southeast-is-ahead-of-the-west-...
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by iak8god 3y ago
Word salad is "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases." Which part of the article seemed confusing/unintelligible/random to you?
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by iak8god 3y ago
I mean that the full article is paywalled for me at that link.
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by iak8god 3y ago
> Relevant comic: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 Yes, but in the ~15 years since this came out, University PR have closed the gap between their work and that of cable news :)
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by iak8god 3y ago
Most of this team looks like they're more interested in policy than pharmaceuticals. Baldwin Way's research focus may put him in more contact with pharma: https://psychology.osu.edu/people/way.37 His R01 is l
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by iak8god 3y ago
"Study 3" was September 2021 - May 2022: > Our data came from a larger project investigating college students’ lifestyle and well-being. In this project, one hundred and seventy-one college students (102 females; Mage = 19.24,
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by iak8god 3y ago
I slightly misinterpreted the following from the article: > We decided to assess social media use across four platforms for three reasons. First, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook were the most popular social media platforms amo
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by iak8god 3y ago
Here's what they say in the abstract: > Providing stronger evidence of the directionality of this effect, Study 3 (N = 171) showed that in college students CRP predicted increased social media use in the subsequent week even after c
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by iak8god 3y ago
Most people won't be able to access the paper via that link. I was able to get to it by going to Google Scholar and searching "Brain, Behavior and Immunity" david lee . The first result was a sciencedirect link that did allo
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by iak8god 3y ago
They had students use screen tracking software to log what apps they were using. The researchers ignored TikTok because it wasn't included in some pre-existing methodology they were following. Ignoring TikTok for any reason in 2021-20
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by iak8god 3y ago
This guy on TikTok plays guitar / sings songs backwards: https://www.tiktok.com/@joeljameslive/video/7226593976848026...
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by iak8god 3y ago
> I find press releases like this both not useful and overall bad for the scientific community. University media offices seem to think it's their job to misinterpret and exaggerate scientific findings in whatever way will draw the m
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by iak8god 3y ago
I'm in a much smaller city than NYC and /r/<mycity> is a very reliable place to find out what is going on around town, chat about the best place to go for <cuisine>, etc.
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by iak8god 3y ago
I'm boycotting reddit this week, and I will never use their app, but I just don't know where else to go for communities related to niche non-tech interests, and state & local stuff. I guess Facebook groups, but FB is practical
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by iak8god 3y ago
Very cool project. Do you run your clone device in any kind of enclosure?
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by iak8god 3y ago
> This is not the way an emotionally intelligent person approaches a conversation. Good thing you and the other apparently high EQ commenters in this thread are here to set the records straight and bully some guy over his personality tra
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by iak8god 3y ago
> you do need places that are large enough, mainstream enough, and trusted enough, for the masses I think you don't necessarily even need that if you have a better way to support discovery and interaction with content from other pl
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by iak8god 3y ago
This looks pretty close: https://www.thelightphone.com/
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by iak8god 4y ago
The ability to learn skills that one does not already know, sometimes through years or decades of training, is a key part of general intelligence as normally exhibited in humans.
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by iak8god 4y ago
> Activism on the part of individuals turning into collective action is the kind of thing that would produce actual change Great, I'm sure that's true. Concretely, what do you recommend individual Millenials should be doing?
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by iak8god 4y ago
You might be interested in reading some mathematical philosophy. Here's an excerpt from Bertrand Russell summarizing Gottlob Frege's answer to "What is a number" [1]: > A trio of men, for example, is an instance of t
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by iak8god 4y ago
The youtube video embedded in the page shows it working with a GBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOJtrFnawk&t=392s
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by iak8god 4y ago
The "don't move around people" are busy hanging out with their family and high school friends.
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by iak8god 4y ago
I think the uisge tour (formerly known as w2w but now without peat digging) is basically just distillers wares with a picnic first.
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by iak8god 4y ago
> They don't do water to whiskey anymore Ah, so I see. It has been a while. The stop to dig peat was fun, but it's still a really good tour without that.
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by iak8god 4y ago
The only way to know for sure is to go check it out :) And while you're there, take the Water to Whiskey tour: https://whiskystories.com/2017/02/18/laphroaig-water-to-whis...

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