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by vrc 28d ago
Counterpoint: you can't replace Reels/TikTok or smoking time with exercise and you _have_ to displace something meaningful to do dedicated exercise. Phone activity time is almost irreducible because it's not dedicated or de-f
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by vrc 1mo ago
Somehow I keep hearing the rumblings of crypto maximalists trying to merge tokens. I actually wouldn’t mind since I signed up directly with some providers I’ve stopped using and have small amounts of credits strewn across the web.
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by vrc 1mo ago
It wins on two fronts if this is true. Provides the cheap alternative for the West, and maximizes returns against their homegrown audience.
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by vrc 1mo ago
I’ve used both Belsomra (suvorexant) and Quviviq (daridorexant) and compared to the litany of other sleeping aids, Quviviq in particular is great for me in terms of not being groggy, not knocking me out standing up in case I somehow don’t s
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by vrc 3mo ago
What are your thoughts on the detector --> VLM pipelines, and if there's ever a world where a small LM or LM augmented detector can be efficient enough to play a role as router. I ask because I recognize you from your handle and am
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by vrc 3mo ago
Paddle-VL and GLM-OCR do this by using PP-DocLayoutv3 as their "detector/slicer" and then just batch the OCR on the clips to do pretty darn well at a tiny size. A lower-tech version is to use a good detector and XY-cut or jus
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by vrc 4mo ago
It's widely hypothesized that dogs anthropomorphized themselves, so to speak, accentuating their expressive eyes and eyebrows over generations to be more human-like in how they communicate. And very few humans today view their dogs as
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by vrc 4mo ago
Does it prompt logging? For example, when I was trying to monitor my BG after diagnosis, I tried to log my meals to correlate later, but 1) would forget and 2) wouldn’t have the energy to time align the stats. So a tool that even saw change
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by vrc 5mo ago
Does Wallet allow apps to interact with the meta-data of cards, and/or update them in any way? This could be interesting for insurance cards, in particular. Upload & verify status periodically with a prompt to update, for example.
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by vrc 5mo ago
Of the examples you listed, politicians are the only ones you directly fund and supposedly work for you. Your lawyers and doctors aren’t your employees, and they also don’t work on your property (though lawyers might handle your documents).
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by vrc 5mo ago
Depends on if you believe it will ever become cheaper. Either hardware, inspiring more efficient smaller models, or energy itself. The techno optimist believes that that is the inevitable and investable future. But on what horizon and will
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by vrc 9mo ago
I did the opposite. Tesseract to get bboxes, words, and chars and then mistral on the clips with some reasonable reflow to preserve geometry. Paddle wasn’t working on my local machine (until I found RapidOCR). Surya was also very good but b
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by vrc 11mo ago
I’m a PM and I’ve been able to do a lot of very interesting near production ready bits of coding recently with an LLM. I say near production ready because I specifically only build functional data processing stuff that I intentionally build
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by vrc 11mo ago
Well technically AWS has never failed in wartime.
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by vrc 11mo ago
Goblet? Or is this something new? Deep goblets are great for opening the ankles and hips/SI area in ways that have helped my back. Some combination of improving mobility in other reasons prevents my back from overcompensating I guess
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by vrc 1y ago
Yes. For very high risk patients, payers do want this. I’ve even heard of some paying pharmacies $100/fill if done on time for select people. The problem is, prediabetic and folks who may have crossed 7.0 A1C once, and just overweight
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by vrc 1y ago
I was going to disagree but then realized I now shell out at least $100 when two families and their kids show up for 3-4 pizzas with toppings and chips and dip and some juices. And god forbid I try and provide fresh fruit and beverages on t
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by vrc 1y ago
Wait til you get a load of Tamil/Malayalam transliterations’ use of “zh”. It was proposed by some German linguist to represent a really retroflex “r” and now makes outsiders pronounce kozhikode as “cozy-code” instead a closer “korikode
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by vrc 1y ago
Counterpoints: the detractors of this purported loop would likely neither fund the vast amounts of research they’d demand be done nor believe the results if they conflicted with their anecdata. I have yet to see a good faith argument agains
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by vrc 1y ago
4:3 only makes sense to you because you know which is length and width a priori. I for example, always have to recheck that. So if it was written as 1.33 or 4/3 it makes the same difference to me, and is similar in that way to dB
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by vrc 1y ago
Satya had been at the company for quite a while himself. Perhaps not as long as others, but he was a well known veteran within the company
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by vrc 2y ago
Locu. Acquired by GoDaddy. Morphed into a Yext competitor called GetFound.
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by vrc 2y ago
It started as Jomax Technologies, I believe.
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by vrc 2y ago
Historically in the US, Indian and Arab people were classified as “Caucasian”. In fact, it was marked on my relatives first speeding ticket in 1972.
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by vrc 2y ago
There are more brown people than Indians… Usually these initiatives push for underrepresented brown people, ie Hispanic/Latino Americans. Most diversity programs actively harm Indians as over represented, as they fall under the broad “
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by vrc 2y ago
This is the #1 reason for ad blocking in Eastern Europe and Asia (eg dolphin browser). It’s also why the current “solutions” big tech is providing viz. privacy and non-annoying ads doesn’t move the needle there.
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by vrc 2y ago
Also, they program stuff like high rep clean and jerks and snatches along with high intensity cardio and gymnastic movements. Never a great idea to train high power, highly technical movements with fatiguing exercises and time pressure, let
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by vrc 2y ago
I believe it’s because a doctor doesn’t prescribe cigarettes to you. So the only liability is your own. It’s a weak line of reasoning to _allow_ cigarettes, but I’m not convinced it’s so bad to _disallow_ novel therapeutic uses that are und
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by vrc 2y ago
Yes but then you’d have to carry that for domestic travel.
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by vrc 2y ago
States like MA legally only accept MA IDs and federal govt IDs for age verification. That’s why a lot of bars and packies will turn people away or ask for additional proof like CC’s. You’re more likely to be held liable for misconduct if th

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