Alex3917

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by Alex3917 1y ago
> And from an employee perspective, it’s almost always the right decision to place very little value ($0) on the stock option component of your offer. The vast majority of cases stock options end up worthless. This isn't actually tr
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> Does the world-class acoustics lab earn so much money, it can upkeep the industrial facility its housed in? Obviously not, but there isn't much else the space can be used for. Power plants are extremely polluted because the PCBs f
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by Alex3917 2y ago
This is what Adbusters has been supposed to be advocating for for decades. Except for that instead of just focusing on getting ads banned, they switched focus and started complaining about George W. Bush instead. And that is why we still ha
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Angular: The Documentary [Official Trailer] [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Alex3917 2y ago|0 comments
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by Alex3917 2y ago
The problems with the Prius are basically: - Terrible in snow and ice - No way to defrost your windshield, unless you're already driving - Poor rear window visibility If not for those things it would be great, but unfortunat
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> Giving them an LLM to help with syntax errors, at this stage of the tech, is deeply unhelpful to their development. I mean if the alternative is quitting entirely because they can't see that they've mixed tabs with spaces, th
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> code-aware editors have been a thing since the 90s These will do things like highlight places where you're trying to call a method that isn't defined on the object, but they don't understand the intent of what you'r
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> The big difference with LLM AIs is they never graduate to an experienced staffer, they are always the idiot savant that is really dang smart but also clueless and needs to be observed. Basically this. They already have vastly better-th
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by Alex3917 2y ago
There aren't any papers that I know of on metformin and PSP, but there are lots of papers on rotenone/acetogenins and PSP.
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> the leap from "mitochondrial complex I inhibition is associated with PSP" to "metformin causes PSP" is unwarranted The mechanism of action is relatively straightforward: the inhibition is caused by a building up oxi
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> metformin blocks a specific part of the cell's energy-making machinery called mitochondrial complex Keep in mind that any mitochondrial complex I inhibitor that is sufficiently strong is going to cause PSP if you take it for long
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by Alex3917 2y ago
If you're in Athens, the Herakleidon museum has not only an exhibit about this, but about all sorts of other advanced Greek technology: coin-operated vending machines, drink-serving robots, water-powered telegraphs, etc. While this spe
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by Alex3917 2y ago
SnapDragon is a vastly improved version of Honeycrisp anyway. The only real issue with it is that only growers within New York State are allowed to grow it, so it's not nearly as available.
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> Engagement will always be better on new platforms The primary effect is that communities with fewer users have stronger common bonds, the age of the platform isn't super relevant. That said, the engagement on Twitter has been terr
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> the problem I have seen is no one in education is willing to ACTUALLY let kids learn at their own level. OK but we've known this since, when, the 60s? Look at all the academic research on the adoption (or lack thereof) of programm
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> Code examples generated by LLMs CANNOT work without supervision and review of an experienced engineer. While the code generated by AI is generally garbage, I would note that it often has better-than-human debugging ability. If you copy
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> Why would anyone eat fugu or collect wild mushrooms? I can't speak to fugu, but collecting wild mushrooms is statistically one of the safest hobbies in existence.
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> I'm, personally not a fan of the current generation or implementation of AI and do not want to use it. Why not? It gives vastly better than human performance across a wide range of problems. Just this morning I asked Chat GPT to f
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by Alex3917 2y ago
I'm surprised the webpage and FAQ doesn't answer the single most obvious question: does this support player housing?
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by Alex3917 2y ago
I hope the creator does another run of the original Sora Pot, I would buy that in a heart beat.
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by Alex3917 2y ago
Fireship is very different, but also highly worth a subscription.
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by Alex3917 2y ago
Reminds me of this old Yahoo commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxsftGNpFaI
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The Battle to Define Mental Illness (2010)(wired.com)
78 points by Alex3917 2y ago|93 comments
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by Alex3917 2y ago
> I've read about KGS but I've never figured out how to engage with it. Just download CGoban, here is the website: https://www.gokgs.com/ Most of us started who are still active on the server have been playing
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> When you read Go strategy resources, you see a lot of things divided into what best practices were before AlphaGo and what they are now. It's a whole big thing. Yes and no. The biggest takeaway from AI is that learning all the jos
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> I wish the AGA was more supportive of it rather than KGS. Out of curiosity, why do you like OGS more? I find the UX of KGS to be way more intuitive.
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> The article says that the water is returned to the lake at about the same temperature that it leaves...though I'm unclear how that's possible. The most plausible explanation is that the article is wrong, and that the author m
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by Alex3917 3y ago
Great article, makes me want to finally read the author’s Techgnosis book which has been on my shelf forever.
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by Alex3917 3y ago
No, but you don’t need to use the built-in serializers. Just swap them out for Marshmallow.
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by Alex3917 3y ago
The commercial button mushrooms are still carcinogenic when eaten raw. The reason you see them at salad bars is because in practice there is no way to sue the salad bar if you get cancer 20 years later or whatever. But it's still not a

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