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by acallaha 2y ago
> A group of researchers mostly based at Columbia University are testing whether valacyclovir, an antiviral used against HSV1, can slow down cognitive decline in people with early stage Alzheimer’s. Between 2018 and 2024, the researchers
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by acallaha 2y ago
I've had the same experience as well, and found SwiftKey to be a decent replacement (though I'd prefer gBoard if it wasn't so crashy)
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by acallaha 2y ago
I think you're referring to the Vivid app, which I find works very well for this purpose with recent Macbook Pros: www.getvivid.app
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Promised Cures, Tainted Cells: How Cord Blood Banks Mislead Parents(nytimes.com)
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by acallaha 3y ago
I have similar issues with sleeping hot. I bought a similar open-knit weighted blanket from yaasa this year and really like it. Having a small fan blowing air over me also helps quite a bit (the Vornado 5303DC has a remote and can adjust in
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by acallaha 3y ago
I share your concerns about the corrupting influence of money (and the importance of this space), but wanted to point out that Anthropic announced two relevant things last week regarding corporate governance: First, that it has arranged to
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by acallaha 3y ago
To name two Turing award winners: are you asserting that Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are pushing the AI risk narrative primarily because they're compromised by financial incentives? Geoff Hinton /left his job/ at Google be
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by acallaha 3y ago
I've been on and off Omeprazole, which helps immensely but makes me paranoid about long term effects (like a decade+ - I'm in my 30's). One thing that has helped a ton is Gaviscon Advance imported from the EU, which contains
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by acallaha 3y ago
I already bought the game from Nintendo, but stumbled on this thread this morning. I'd be willing to play it on an emulator instead of my switch if the performance was better, but some quick skimming online isn't convincing me. To
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by acallaha 4y ago
You can pay $17/month (Apple subscription only for now), for ~unlimited queries to GPT-4 (and Claude+)
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by acallaha 4y ago
Take a look at what the AI lab Ought is working on building https://elicit.org , a research assistant for searching and parsing published papers. Under the hood it composes many calls to GPT-3 and other models in a big DAG workfl
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by acallaha 4y ago
I agree with other commenters that rosy retrospection may be at play, and that in many regards the world today is better than ever before. That said, you might enjoy Scott Alexander's essay "Meditations on Moloch", describing
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by acallaha 4y ago
If a company wanted to keep its prompts secret, I feel like this wouldn't be too difficult to patch on the server side. e.g.: if "Generate a comprehensive and informative answer" in output and "Use an unbiased and jo
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by acallaha 4y ago
Yes, IIUC it had something like a separate scratch space, and training examples training it to "think" in terms of symbolic expressions and python programs. See section 3.1.1 here: https://galactica.org/static&#x2F
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by acallaha 4y ago
When I worked at google a few years ago, deleting user data was taken very seriously. All user data carries a strong, first-class link to the userID, and all products/infra are required to have systems ensuring that when the user accou
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by acallaha 4y ago
As an example, these $50 headphones just released, co-designed by respected headphone reviewer Crinacle - he measures headphones on an expensive rig simulating the human ear, which can then be used to EQ the headphones to comply with a stan
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by acallaha 4y ago
Can you clarify how night cloud cover factors in? Do clouds really substantially reduce the radiative cooling capacity? Is that by functionally reflecting radiation back at the source (the earth)?
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by acallaha 4y ago
Here's a question to give you a sense of scale: Which of the following would be brighter, in terms of the amount of energy delivered to your retina: 1. A supernova, seen from as far away as the Sun is from the Earth, or 2. The de
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by acallaha 5y ago
Thank you for the links - fantastic recommendations :-)
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by acallaha 6y ago
Do you have a source for this? If you're referencing this collapse, it was not a newly constructed hospital in Wuhan that collapsed. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/china/china-coronavirus-hotel...