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by derbOac 2y ago
I think the weight regain is within the first year or something, so presumably if you follow them for longer the percent weight regained goes up.
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by derbOac 2y ago
This is a good point. I've noticed one thing that LLMs seem to have trouble with is going "off task". There are often very structured evaluation scenarios, with a structured set of items and possible responses (even if define
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Ownership and Memory in Mojo(modular.com)
2 points by derbOac 2y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
I guess the question I have is whether anyone tracks these trends empirically?
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by derbOac 2y ago
Also known as "word salad" in the psychiatric literature, to draw a parallel.
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by derbOac 2y ago
I agree with you but it's maybe worth pointing out it's even worse than your example. It's as if not only was there a cap on the number of waiters, there were strict regulations about how you got your food, and that there cou
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Plate tectonics: Implications for finding ET civilizations(nature.com)
1 points by derbOac 2y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
I thought this was sort of an interesting read. However: (1) It made me wonder if there was an actually scientific way of tracking these things over the years. I imagine there's something buried in social surveys? It wouldn't be t
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by derbOac 2y ago
I have family who lived in Arizona for awhile, and I visited them. I was always confused why everything in Arizona wasn't covered in solar panels, because it seemed like ideal solar energy scenario. Of course, with these kinds of thing
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What Was the "Paradigm Shift"?(newrepublic.com)
2 points by derbOac 2y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
As an American, I'm always angry and sort of ashamed when I hear about this sort of thing. I feel like we should be making it easier for people to produce and visit, not more difficult.
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by derbOac 2y ago
I had similar thoughts based on a podcast I listened to once about voice actors hired for film spin off merchandise and whatnot. It's very common to look for voices that approximate a fictional character's voice, that was original
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think this is basically it. A lot of discussions of inequality in the US eventually end up as discussions of nominal equalness, like the problem is about making sure everyone gets paid the same amount. What the real problem is probably is
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by derbOac 2y ago
I kind of wish the scale would go out further into history; I'm not sure if something like that exists (maybe for someplace like England or China?). I also would like to see it replicated for different areas of the world, as well as ho
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by derbOac 2y ago
> Universities are a bit of a self-perpetuating reputation scheme, and the UK has been punching well above its weight in that department. Someone like Peter Thiel would maybe argue that the difference in risk taking in the UK and the US
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by derbOac 2y ago
I use both but camel case assumes capitalization doesn't have meaning other than as a sort of break indicator, which isn't always the case.
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by derbOac 2y ago
It seems appropriate to take a skeptical stance about his death and inquire whether he was intentionally killed. However at this early stage everything seems like an accident? Helicopters are notorious for crashing, the area is clearly very
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think there should be more competition, and one source of competition should be public health care and maybe publicly subsidized medical supply corporations or nonprofits. I don't know that nationalizing existing private companies is
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The Great Debate Over Whether 1+2+3+4..+ ∞ = -1/12(smithsonianmag.com)
5 points by derbOac 2y ago|2 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
The tricky part though is everyone will be part of that group unless they die young. So reneging on the social contract with the old means reneging on the social contract with essentially everyone . "Them" being destructive in
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by derbOac 2y ago
> there has to be a cutoff on what care will be funded and what will not based on the views of society and the potential costs vs benefits (including probability of success). It goes even further than that though, when you start to allo
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by derbOac 2y ago
I've used R since it was in beta, as well as many other languages: python, perl, C/C++, Fortran, lisp, Julia, ... others I'm forgetting. I think you're right about fads and the appeal of a new sexy language. No dispute o
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by derbOac 2y ago
Reading through the comments here I feel like I live in a parallel universe. I have Ego products and don't see any problems with them whatsoever. I've used and have gas and corded equipment, and by far prefer Ego. I haven't n
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by derbOac 2y ago
There's also leaves that can't be raked because they're too small.
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by derbOac 2y ago
The latter.
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by derbOac 2y ago
The article being discussed: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...
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by derbOac 2y ago
You are probably right in general. However, copyright extends so long now though that it's not uncommon for things to be out of print or no longer distributed, so your only option is "pirating" if you want a copy at all. Ther
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by derbOac 2y ago
I'm not sure what to make of the difference in number of comments on the two posts. That piece is an excellent counterpoint.
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think the rationale isn't "do they have more than enough?" it's "is this amount of wealth commensurate with any value provided?" I imagine this would be a controversial subject anywhere, let alone HN, but I t
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by derbOac 2y ago
I'm always so torn about reading translations, especially of poetry. I do read them and value them but I always wonder what was lost in doing so. I have a bit of a sense of this having learned a couple of languages enough to be aware o

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