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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Fwiw, since it seems like a number of people on here have Kaiser, my experience asking my Kaiser pcp for these as a mid-30s otherwise healthy person: -lp(a) and apob were covered -ldl is computed on the standard panel, not an actual measure
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Consider that it’s possible for other viewpoints to be valid for many people. I don’t think folks are “blasting” the GP because they’re all blind careerists; I think it’s because it discounts alternative points of view rather flippantly. I’
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I took my 6 and 8 year old to SFMOMA and they loved it, to the point that they’ve asked to go (and have gone) to several more “boring” art museums since. We had a talk about ground rules (quiet voices, hands to self, no running, no exceptio
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I complain, but I would absolutely buy a tree sized one of these
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I preordered one of these and it was pretty disappointing. It arrived half-dead, and the glow was imperceptible even in total darkness. That could be on the shipping, but for 50 bucks I was expecting something pretty dazzling.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I don’t think this is a critique of llms so much as a general observation that actual deep learning is difficult. I’ve read plenty of books (thanks, Dickens) where I looked at every word on every page but can recall very little of what they
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
What about people who use the machines to augment their learning process? I find that being able to ask questions, particularly “dumb” questions that I don’t want to bother someone else with and niche questions that might not be answered we
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
My doctor is usually pretty good at responding to messages too, but there’s still a difference between a high-certainty/high-latency reply and a medium-certainty/low-latency reply. With the llm I can ask quick follow ups or provid
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I’m not sure what your point is here? The question was why Meta has an interest in developing an independent AI offering. I’m replying with one possible answer to that question, and your contention is … that the answer is wrong because othe
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Yes, exactly this. I am an anxious, detail-focused person. I could call or message for every health-related question that comes to mind, but that would not be a good use of anyone’s time. My doctor is great, but she does not care about the
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I don’t disagree that you should use your doctor as your primary source for medical decision making, but I also think this is kind of an unrealistic take. I should also say that I’m not an AI hype bro. I think we’re a long ways off from tru
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Having briefly interacted with AWS Q out of curiosity, I can see why they haven’t pushed much out publicly. Aside from giving someone a chuckle when they decided to call its suggestions “Q Tips”, it’s functionally useless.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Sure, I know that their revenue is still mind boggling. But I also think it’s pretty clear that FB blue or whatever is no longer front of mind in the zeitgeist. Things are fine now but they’re trying to figure out how to keep that going.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
My sense is that they know that legacy FB is no longer a growth product, the regulatory environment has been hostile to their previous strategy of buying products in new markets (instagram, whatsapp), and they know they need to come up with
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
That initial “oh shit” feeling must have been so much worse than for us regular boring engineers. Google’s not gonna save you on that one.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Thanks, I like this a lot
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I do this, but with a second monitor and second machine, and then we use git to synchronize our work
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Any advice on getting started with meditation? Particularly for someone with a busy mind.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes, but Zuckerberg saying “nah that’s not true” hardly seems like definitive proof of anything.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Have you ever met a senior? For most people, the world shrinks as they age: it’s harder to learn new routines, figure out how to do things, etc. just popping them out of a place where they have family, services, and routines into an entirel
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I have definitely noticed this too. I also use the built in swipe to type feature, and it may as well be a coin flip as to whether it gets the word right. I get that swiping is vague, but even a little bit of frequency prediction would tell
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I am all for “curt, targeted answers”, but they need to be _correct_, which is my issue with gpt-5
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
This is where I’m at, too. The o3 limits were more restrictive than the 5-thinking limits are now, but I regularly used o4-mini-high for complex-but-not-brain-breaking questions and was quite happy with the result. Now I have to choose betw
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Sorry, yes, plus, not pro.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
This is how I feel about the 100 msg/wk limit on o3 for the ChatGPT plus plan. There’s no way to see how much I’ve used, and it’s an important enough resource that my lizard brain wants to hoard it. The result is that I way underutiliz
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
While I don’t doubt that OPD is ignoring plateless cars, that thread has outdated info. CA now does require temp plates, most places seem to be pretty good about enforcing the rule, and seeing a plateless car now seems (to me) to be a prett
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
This was treated as pretty much a fact when I took a class on psychological disorders in the US circa 2007, too.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
This plus easier search of poorly/not-at-all documented APIs is like 80% of my usage too. Besides that, a lot of “here’s my design for xyz system, am I a stupid idiot for using this architecture?”.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I dunno, I’m not a fan of paying for wrappers but I get a lot from 1Blocker and I’m happy to pay for it. As far as I know it’s just one dude who builds the app, and he spends a lot of time keeping it working in the face of YouTube tactics,

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