Balgair

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Denver schools blocking ChatGPT over group chats, adult content(chalkbeat.org)
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I agree that their large scale rollout will be very beneficial on the whole. The US is absurdly overweight and obese. But these are powerful medications that affect very highly conserved areas of tetrapod biology. We discovered GLPs in the
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TLDR: Peasants could expect between 8-12 pregnancies, with 2 (!) surviving to adulthood. Christ, that is a lot of dead children for every woman. Your heart just breaks over and over.
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> And I don't have the policy recommendations to enact that. I'm just a dweb on the Internet. But that is my take.
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Lord isn't that true...
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Per the studies that I have seen over on Fertility Twitter, none of them seem to really make much of a difference. Right now they are on a meme where they want to turn large tracts of national parks into suburban developments because some s
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> Only if the mothers in aggregate truly believe that their children will have good lives, then will they have them.
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https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/declining-sperm-count-much-... Per the above, it seems that the change in spermcount worldwide seems to be flat.
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I like to hang out on fertility twitter. It's a strange place. Since the fertility problem is worldwide, you get a lot of ideologies mixing about. There's hardcore CCP folks, free market Mormons, radical Imams, universalist preach
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Phrenology is back
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My company makes HPLCs. Yes, they can 'prove' what is in something to the limits of the physics. However, the human in the loop is quite frail for most operators. In that, these very fancy and very expensive instruments are mostly
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Had a family member pass away and was part of their long term care team. The exact same thoughts came through my head too. The 'funny' thing is that for the first few days, you can do a lot, but with medical stuff, it's mostl
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Range goes into this. Epstein talks about Kind and Unkind learning environments. In Kind environments, the feedback is quick and ranking is easy to know. So the evidence says that the optimal strategy is drill ans kill. In Unkind learning
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Piggybacking here: also consider alternative forms of education. Montessori, Waldorf, home schooling, etc. Many are more expensive in time and money, but you may find fairly cheap alternatives. Worth a shot at least.
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--Even if "only" 10% of elite kids go on to become elite adults, 10% is orders of magnitude larger than the base percentage of adults who are elite athletes, musicians, etc. This doesn't sound "uncorrelated" to me s
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I'll double up here. For me, audiobooks are 'the same' as reading a book. Yes, I know they are not exactly the same, but the experience for me is pretty darn close enough. Now, I use audiobooks because I can then take the d
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https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/top-25-drugs-by-sales-20... Obesity drugs are in the top 25 for 2025, but don't make up the largest plurality. That goes to oncology drugs at ~1/3rd. Obesity drugs are at ~14%.
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> Dario and Anthropic's strategy has been to exaggerate the harmful capabilities of LLMs and systems driven by LLMs, positioning Anthropic themselves as the "safest" option. Take from this what you will. Yeah, I've be
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Thanks for the link! Last thing I see there is from September though. Do you have a more direct link to the zoom recordings?
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Initial thought about 1/5th of the way through: Wow, that's a lot of em-dashes! i wonder how much of this he actually wrote? Edit: Okay, section 3 has some interesting bits in it. It reminds me of all those gun start-ups in Texas
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Is that paper in print? I can't seem to find if it was peer reviewed. If the paper is true, then, yeesh! That's a pretty big miss on the part of Güllich et al. Reading through the very short paper there, it seems to not have gon
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I'd be interested to know what the controls were for those studies. Were the participants already addicted or was the 30mg+ dosing done on non-addicted people? It's a lot of studies to pour through. Also, that is a lot of metrics!
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True! Good point! But again, the test creator matters a lot here too. To make such an exam is quite the labor. Especially as many/most PIs have other better things to do. Their incentives are grant money, then papers, then in a distant
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I want to echo this. Your blue book is being graded by a stressed out and very underpaid grad student with many better things to do. They're looking for keywords to count up, that's it. The PI gave them the list of keywords, the r
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Still confused here?
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Early on the Japanese learned this. Gave him a golden samurai helmet. Very rare, very important. I heard that it was like a New Yorker gifting a Ruth home run bat. Trade deal got signed, everyone was happy. Then 'liberation' day h
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This wasn't? I just shared my prompt and said it worked okay-ish
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The generative side there is brilliant. Great tip. My SO taught for a while. I think it's that the kids that are doing well, like yours, with support at home, food, a bed, a safe place, those kids are going to be like strapping a rocke
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So, I fed the article into my LLM of choice and asked it to come up with a header to my prompts to help negate the issues on the article. Here's what it spat out: ROLE & STANCE You are an intelligent collaborator, editor, and criti
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I could only hope for a eulogy like that. I think the lack of friends (heightened by his Titanic wealth) contributed to his isolation. Like how we all kinda got out of practice talking with people during COVID isolation. That then kinda spi

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