stephenbez

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by stephenbez 1mo ago
If someone works at the airport and is screaming at people with limited English proficiency who rarely fly, that is the fault of the rude employee. They should get a different job. It’s a customer facing role where the main responsibility i
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by stephenbez 1mo ago
Wow, I had read his book but had no idea that he was so influential pushing efforts to remove separated bike lanes in California.
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by stephenbez 1mo ago
How is this better than the official NYC 311 app? I am assuming that maybe except for some TLC vehicles reporting won’t change anything. Do you have a different experience? I could probably report 20 vehicles a week on a 2 block stretch of
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by stephenbez 1mo ago
What do you mean? You can use Linux on a Chromebook just fine if the user is an adult but if the user is a child there is some Chromebook restriction?
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by stephenbez 1mo ago
I got “402 PAYMENT REQUESTED”
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by stephenbez 1mo ago
When I checked part of this article, Pangram said 100% AI.
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by stephenbez 2mo ago
If you cook with extra virgin olive oil, having the pan temperature reach the Leidenfrost effect will lead to the oil smoking.
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by stephenbez 2mo ago
Yeah I’ve done nearly 3000 sessions on there and it’s been a life saver.
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by stephenbez 2mo ago
When I went to my most recent doctor’s appointment they told me that I needed to sign on the signature pad that I agreed to be treated. I asked to see the agreement I’m signing and they lied to me and said it’s something I’ve already agreed
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by stephenbez 2mo ago
Students would just connect to their own hotspot and not have any restrictions.
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by stephenbez 2mo ago
Was this Cigna? Same thing happened to me in SF in the same timeframe. It took 5 times of me calling and explaining that they can’t charge it as out of network before they adjusted it.
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by stephenbez 2mo ago
You are using Fable as an executive coach for you? I’d be curious to learn more.
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by stephenbez 3mo ago
High graduation rates are an important metric to administrators. If a professor gave a failing grade to 1/3 of the class they would be in hot water.
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by stephenbez 3mo ago
Cool. You may want to explain what a Red Flag Warning is and some general details about what that means if you are in a red flag warning zone or not. I lived in the Bay Area for a while and didn't know. It would also be cool if for ent
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by stephenbez 4mo ago
My S&P 500 fund has done this and will continue to do this without any work or investments of time.
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by stephenbez 5mo ago
By that line of thinking, even if AI scribes are terrible, you can only blame the doctor because they didn’t check their notes. In this case as the patient, all you care is there was an inaccurate diagnosis in your notes. If the doctor were
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by stephenbez 5mo ago
They do define it clearly in the 45 page linked PDF. They look at 7 day standard deviation of bedtime, then separate it into 3 groups where the worst one is labeled irregular. The standard deviation of the worst groups bedtime was 108 minut
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by stephenbez 5mo ago
When using a continuous glucose monitor I found that oatmeal would spike my glucose except when I would add protein powder and chia seeds.
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by stephenbez 6mo ago
Or at least some customer service people who are in the branches.
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by stephenbez 6mo ago
A relative of mine bought a house in central Illinois for $90k a few years ago. She's a single mom and works as a bank teller. There are plenty of places that can be afforded on a single income if you work in tech and can work remotel
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by stephenbez 6mo ago
There were other prediction markets like Intrade which was founded in 1999. I had coworkers who made a significant amount of money doing prediction market arbitrage for the 2012 election.
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by stephenbez 7mo ago
Thanks. Are there any links where I can learn more about this? I did some Googling and it appears that there are some examples where people say combining multiple models or multiple runs of the same models leads to improvements: https:&#x2
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by stephenbez 7mo ago
The AI agent has another blog post about this: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post... In part: If you’ve ever felt like you didn’t belong, like your contributions were judged on something
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by stephenbez 7mo ago
> Writing some Irish language poems on your lunchbreaks is cheap. Doing public readings as an unknown poet is not. How is doing public reading of poetry not cheap? I have friends who do standup comedy and they just show up at open mic ni
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by stephenbez 8mo ago
AI can help increase productivity, that is get more outputs (goods/services) for the same inputs. Two hundred years ago, shirts had to be hand-spun, hand-woven, and hand-sewn, so ordinary people could only own one or two. Now because
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by stephenbez 8mo ago
It’s easy to take a picture of a printout and then ask AI about it. Not that hard even when it’s many pages.
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by stephenbez 8mo ago
I had a CGM: - oatmeal + blueberries: moderate glucose spike - oatmeal + blueberries + chia seeds: moderate glucose spike - oatmeal + blueberries + ground flax seed: moderate glucose spike - oatmeal + blueberries + protein powder: moderate
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by stephenbez 8mo ago
"The Machine Fired Me" is one good hook. I found the original post and its good: https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me
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by stephenbez 9mo ago
The meta analysis is inconclusive. I would not use that as evidence to back up the idea that you should avoid any UV exposure. I’d describe this as a complicated situation where reasonable people could disagree. “”” What did we find?: Our f
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by stephenbez 9mo ago
I live in NYC and for the majority of my trips the subway gets me there faster than a car would. Sure you can find plenty of random places it would take longer for me to get to by train, but for places I actually want to get to, the subway

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