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by gavinray 4mo ago
Unfortunately, anti-androgens have myriad effects beyond basic T suppression. There are two primary drivers behind why anti-androgens would cause loss of libido beyond effect on T: 1) AA's cause androgen receptor blockade systemically.
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by gavinray 4mo ago
E2 as a libido regulator is a cross-species conserved effect. The landmark study in humans for this is the Finkelstein 2013 paper [0] -- they gave humans Testosterone with and without AI to block aromatization to E2. In the AI group, sexual
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by gavinray 4mo ago
This is anecdata, but as someone who has used exogenous testosterone for the past 10 years, I feel significantly better with low T + high E2 than high T + low E2. I've had E2 levels as high as the low end of female ovulatory range (see
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by gavinray 4mo ago
Estrogen (specifically Estradiol, E2) is one of the most important systemic hormones in both men and women I've spent a significant amount of my free time for the last 15 years studying androgen physiology and self-experimentation. Her
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by gavinray 4mo ago
Hard to find more protein per dollar than $2/lb of canned chicken with an equal or even similar Protein Digestibility-Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS).
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by gavinray 4mo ago
A dog
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by gavinray 4mo ago
"Humans are valuable" For what, and to whom? This is a very anthropo-centric and hubristic view, in my opinion. I dont think a human life inherently has any more value than anything else that possesses phenomenal consciousness Thi
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by gavinray 4mo ago
> It's a speciality, just like being a payments engineer who integrates with systems like Stripe is a speciality. At $PREV_JOB, we had physical Point-of-Sales systems as well as a mobile app, and provided multi-merchant mark
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by gavinray 4mo ago
You don't call someone who integrates the Twilio API a "Twilio Engineer", or Mailchimp a "Mailchimp engineer" Integrating third-party libraries to build an application is a significant chunk of the work in any SaaS
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by gavinray 4mo ago
See also: https://www.graalvm.org/webassembly/docs/
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by gavinray 4mo ago
I wrote an entire blogpost about this ridiculous phenomenon: https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/absurdity-of-ai-engineer-t...
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by gavinray 5mo ago
I have some experience with Seastar. Seastar and Silk are both event-driven, thread-per-core platforms with synchronization and scheduling facilities built-in. Seastar is meant to be an integrated platform so it includes I/O and networ
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by gavinray 5mo ago
This is such a sad story most of the way through, but it's amazing you were able to eventually get to the bottom. I also got diagnosed with OSA (AHI 32) after crashing my car falling asleep at the wheel in stop-and-go traffic. It tooks
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by gavinray 5mo ago
> in addition to disaggregated storage s3 is authoritative storage for older data Suppose a person retrives cold data from another Object Storage protocol rather than S3. This is no longer a "Lakebase", so we have to co
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by gavinray 5mo ago
Avoiding industry-standard names and trying to introduce your own convention comes off as hubristic and grift-ey to me. "Basic literacy" -> "Prompt Engineering" "P2P networking" -> "Web3" "
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by gavinray 5mo ago
So, the general architecture described here is solid, and I support it, but I take issue with the "Lakebase" naming thing. Disaggregated storage and disaggregated compute have been an open trend in DBMS development for the last ha
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by gavinray 5mo ago
This one, Trick or Treat Beat? https://old.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/yi02h2/who_remem...
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by gavinray 5mo ago
There were a Dragon Ball Z turn-based game and a Powerpuff Girls basketball game that used to be on CN that I had a blast playing very young. Sadly, these two seem to be missing
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The Race to Become the Context Layer for Agents(gavinray97.github.io)
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by gavinray 5mo ago
What makes you so sure any of us have an idea of what it means to be conscious? Human cognition also provides the experiencer the illusion of free will. Ask any person on the street if they have free will. Now ask any person on the street i
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by gavinray 5mo ago
I'd urge anyone mocking him to define "consciousness". It might sound silly that he feels his chat bot possesses it, but it feels no less silly to me than saying "Man believes chatbot possesses a Woozle." It may, or
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by gavinray 5mo ago
I want to point out an implemented feature that people SHOULD be adopting but that I doubt will be picked up: P2590R2, Explicit lifetime management (PR106658) This is for "std::start_lifetime_as<T>". If you have not h
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by gavinray 6mo ago
> Letting the LLM write half baked tools is the recipe for burning more tokens. It sure is, if the tools are half-baked and your user scale is N=1 rather than N=100 or N=1,000 > What's the criteria for marking an LLM
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by gavinray 6mo ago
It's really cool to see that other people run into the same issues and arrive at the same conclusions/solution. At $DAYJOB, we have an LLM-based tool and this issue of "how do we avoid burning tokens solving the same problems
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by gavinray 6mo ago
Yes
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by gavinray 6mo ago
Crackpot "Universal Theory of Everything" physics rooted in numerology: https://meta-r0ze.github.io/Informational-Energetics/Informa...
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by gavinray 6mo ago
Do you all want to know a fun fact about adult-content startups: Why do you think Onlyfans is the reigning platform for what it does. Not because it's technically superior, or has the best advertising, or any other logical reason you m
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by gavinray 6mo ago
Unironically, very niche subreddits.
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by gavinray 6mo ago
I had mentioned the same thing on Twitter and the author replied, FYI: https://x.com/GavinRayDev/status/2047024420200522129
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by gavinray 6mo ago
My grandfather told me that for Christmas one year as a child, he got a fresh orange.

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