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by caseyy 2y ago
Missed it, but should have been included for 1998. A very good example.
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by caseyy 2y ago
Yes, it's not perfect. About iTunes: I did not know that! Thank you. About iterative/innovative: I considered hardware and software that became household names or general knowledge to be significant innovations. It is not rigorous
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by caseyy 2y ago
> Apple has never been big on living at the cutting edge of technology There was such a time. Same as with Google. Interestingly, around 2015-2016 both companies significantly shifted to iterative products from big innovations. It's
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by caseyy 2y ago
Exactly right, they do not have a concept of true and false as unsupervised learning simply makes them good at predicting the next token. But I think there is an over-confidence bias in the training data sample. On top of that, instruction
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by caseyy 2y ago
It takes a lot of cognitive work to doubt and analyze everything. It's not really feasible, is it?
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by caseyy 2y ago
People are far overconfident online for what they know. The definitive and confident tone most online commenters speak in should probably only be spoken by experts in their own fields. I sometimes wonder if that is why LLMs can so confident
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by caseyy 2y ago
Yes, they do individually chose to use social media. But fewer do. And those who do, use social media less. It is a cultural difference with very little government guidance. And it makes a difference in how profitable this business model is
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by caseyy 2y ago
I was not taking about specifically Tai Chi. But I remember from public health classes in medschool that it is known for increasing flexibility and mobility, as well as improving balance and reducing falls in elderly. I also remember someth
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by caseyy 2y ago
Yes, exactly right. Because they don’t work that well in this interventionist mode when they are prescribed to already treated patients. The study you shared talks about primary and secondary prevention in a clinical setting. So this is for
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by caseyy 2y ago
This idea is the natural conclusion of interventionist medicine culture where preventative measures and working the root causes are both disliked. It has been shown, for example, that statins prevent much of the heart disease that kills mid
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by caseyy 2y ago
Yes it is more tractable. But cultures that have norms for what’s acceptable and not exist all over the world. For example, the culture of data privacy exists in some European countries more than in the US. Laws like GDPR are a result of th
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by caseyy 2y ago
> If only there were some means by which the people could all get together and decide on rules that benefitted them. That's not been very effective in tech recently, has it? People have control over whether they enable the surveilla
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by caseyy 2y ago
And why not? Consumers are all but asking them to take it. You can't reward bad behavior with money and expect it to end.
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by caseyy 2y ago
> If people are not willing to make trade-offs or sacrifices, this also means they don't care enough for companies to listen. "If you won't make sacrifices, you don't care enough". Nope. Some people care deeply a
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by caseyy 2y ago
I feel like it would take years and much debate for most governments to step in to be honest. Just think of the stock market if the largest window manufacturer has an unprofitable quarter!
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by caseyy 2y ago
Everyone is trying to manipulate everything. It’s the age of grift. Go on any social media website and you’ll be used as means to an end in many ways: ads will be shown to you for ad revenue, you will be tracked so your data can be sold, th
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by caseyy 2y ago
I actually went a bit off-topic here. Sorry. The kid doesn't need to properly learn anatomy, just to have quality access to the materials.
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by caseyy 2y ago
It could be a dream for them, but I think it would be an exception. Anatomy… I don’t know if you can properly learn anatomy online. Med schools have anatomy institutes with prosecutoriums ran by specialized faculty. Students learn with real
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by caseyy 2y ago
I guess it's the expectation that friends will be genuine with you. But in the post-social media culture... it is an unrealistic one.
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by caseyy 2y ago
A lot of people realize they have been missing this in their middle-age crises and then they go off to the Himalayas, the Oceania, the Amazon, and so on. Our brain gets mothballed by routine and the years fly by without us doing what matter
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by caseyy 2y ago
This is somewhat concerning to me, a software engineer in the games industry. It's true that the schooling system has failed in many parts of the world to the point that it might harm kids in many ways, even stunting them academically.
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by caseyy 2y ago
Some are not, but others open up. There is still personal choice.
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by caseyy 2y ago
Don’t forget “Oops!” — the element of surprise. The developer doesn’t know what went wrong and things definitely don’t go wrong all the time at Microsoft! This is as surprising to the developer as it is to you! It’s also pleasantly humane,
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by caseyy 2y ago
> how do you explain to a non-technical user that their data has been deleted on the server, but that their client still has a cached copy that they might want to try to salvage somehow? “The message has been deleted, but your app still
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by caseyy 2y ago
All those things seem to work and most don't even trick you in any way, you get the results immediately. Blackout curtains, exercise, less screen time — all very effective strategies. A sleep schedule is another one. It may be less eff
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by caseyy 2y ago
It's not miscalculated. The calculation is exactly right. It's really about how you choose to spend that time. The time split you did isn't set in stone, you can change most of that. Don't cook for an hour, move cleaning
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by caseyy 2y ago
I like that they let you subscribe with Apple Pay, but I wish I could just pay $0.50 for the one article. I would pay. It’d be much less friction than either finding a proxy to read it for free, or subscribing properly and the dealing with
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by caseyy 2y ago
I use LinkedIn and I spend about 10 minutes a week on it. All I do is build my network of recruiter acquaintances for when I’ll be looking for work. LinkedIn can be very valuable if you use it as a tool, with a professional purpose. There i
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by caseyy 2y ago
The content is interesting. It’s not as negative, cynical and aggressive as on much of social media. But people have still ruined it because they push self-promotion and promotion of their companies way too hard. Unless I am too picky, whic
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by caseyy 2y ago
> If you want to simplify it to that level, then it's really not even a conversation worth having Hehe, you are not wrong.

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