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by hilux 2y ago
Wow. That is an impressively long sequence of "activities."
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by hilux 2y ago
In my experience, AI-assisted coding requires a lot of human involvement. Claude is certainly much faster than I am, but without my human-programmer hand at the helm, there would not be a working product. So I'm always surprised to hea
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by hilux 2y ago
Anyone who has ever been on a visa knew that Elon worked illegally on a student visa. It's not exactly up for debate. I don't know why this story is suddenly making waves among Democrats, except as a sign of their desperation. I d
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by hilux 2y ago
To pay World Bank consultants, of course!
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by hilux 2y ago
Maybe it's time for an update to the excellent Lords of Poverty (1994).
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by hilux 2y ago
> ... how the definition of ADHD is completely arbitrarily defined, as the diagnosis isn't based on any genetic marker. Did you know that 90% of cases of ALS aren't "based on any genetic marker"? Does that mean ALS is
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by hilux 2y ago
You were probably working at a fairly advanced tech company. As were the people you were teaching. If by "ML concepts" you mean "how to implement ML" - do you really think that people who got to a job that required learn
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by hilux 2y ago
Can someone with a IQ of 100 (whatever that means) understand and implement stochastic gradient descent? Maybe - but very possibly not.
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by hilux 2y ago
I'm not sure whether you have a question for me. I'll just make the observation that what people "say" is important to them is often not reflected in how they actually vote. E.g. you can find countless stories of red-sta
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by hilux 2y ago
Wow. That is an extremely cool idea - new to me. Do you have enough KPIs that you can be sure that these targets also serve as useful metrics for the org as a whole? Do you randomize the assignment every quarter? As I talk through this ...
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by hilux 2y ago
Scenario 2 has already arrived - it's just not fully rolled out.
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by hilux 2y ago
The guy in the picture is obviously obese. Losing weight through diet and exercise will do much more for his longevity and quality of life than any pill.
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by hilux 2y ago
> If we can no longer assume that people who have spent their careers studying things and developing nuanced opinions are closer to right than wrong What are you talking about? You really express yourself in a convoluted way - it doesn&#
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by hilux 2y ago
"The doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, began the study in 2015 as part of a broader, multimillion-dollar federal project on transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited 95 children from across the country and gave them puberty blockers
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by hilux 2y ago
What China has done to lift the living standards of over one billion people is unprecedented. (S Korea's progress was even greater, but on a much smaller scale.) Everyone can see this. Only (some) white Americans don't want to ack
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by hilux 2y ago
China is 92% Han Chinese.
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by hilux 2y ago
In the 21st century, China's per capita GDP has grown about 2.5x as much as that of democratic India, which is also the only other country of comparable population.
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by hilux 2y ago
You must be fun at parties.
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by hilux 2y ago
Hello, fellow Patron! Even though nowadays I hardly have time to play, I'm still happy to support such a delightfully honorable and usable(!) open-source project.
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by hilux 2y ago
Do you know the saying "comparison is the thief of joy"? It was intended to apply to oneself, but seems just as true when appreciating the genius of others. No need to diminish von Neumann, etc., AND doing so just diminishes your
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by hilux 2y ago
What better system do you propose to identify and nurture the one-in-a-million genius (the productive genius, not the crazy genius) while also serving tens of thousands of smart strivers, as well as the vast majority of the rest? I don&#x27
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by hilux 2y ago
> ... in a massive influx of personal anecdotes ... Not sure if you're in the US. Here, ALL non-technical topics, e.g. nutrition, healthcare, immigration are just a few of the big ones, devolve into a discussion of anecdotes and &q
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by hilux 2y ago
Your ex is still out there. Maybe she feels similarly about you. I wish you luck!
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by hilux 2y ago
> However the minimum bar for me to activate it is "compared to me". I see where you're coming from. That's totally fair. As a highly-informed (about health) consumer, I feel the same way about most nutrition advice.
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by hilux 2y ago
> ... systems that don’t fail in production. I'll say it again: "compared to what?"
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Child-parent estrangement surprisingly common in America(economist.com)
4 points by hilux 2y ago|1 comments
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by hilux 2y ago
One of the study authors is Dr. Satchin Panda, from the Salk Institute. (He appears to be a real working scientist, unlike most health influencers.) I learned a lot from his book The Circadian Code .
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by hilux 2y ago
I'm an immigrant - not a fan of the fat orange rapist. And I think he has a 90% chance of winning.
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Time-restricted eating – a non-drug approach for managing metabolic syndrome(acpjournals.org)
19 points by hilux 2y ago|18 comments
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Considering HN is mostly technologists, the extent of Tesla-hate in here surprises me. My best guess is that it is sublimated Elon-hate. (Not a fan of my former neighbor myself, but let's separate the man from his creations.) People se

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