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by j_bum 1y ago
I am a calm coffee (espresso) snob. I love the basic, and I love the fine. Believe it or not, expensive grinders (~$500 range) create an unbelievable difference. But they’re a luxury :) Lance Hedrick (popular coffee YouTuber) demonstrates t
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by j_bum 1y ago
Loved this story. Although, *spoiler*, my mind is still having a hard time understanding how the characters could exist before their simulation started. Did they just not realize that their reality was sped up before the moment where the si
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by j_bum 1y ago
What a beautiful example of image processing. Great post
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by j_bum 1y ago
I’m in the same exact boat with deadlifts helping my back pain from my desk job.
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by j_bum 1y ago
I prefer source mode when building Quarto files in RStudio. Thanks for listing this feature request... It's pretty shocking to me to see that so many people don't use inline plots! I am particularly fond of them for ensuring that
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by j_bum 1y ago
The only thing from keeping me from transitioning from RStudio to Positron is the lack of inline plots in Quarto files. Is there any plan or consideration for this to be implemented? It's a wildly important aspect of mine and many ot
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by j_bum 1y ago
R being so high makes no sense to me either. I think as of the last Stack Overflow developer survey, it only had ~4% market share… I say this as an R user who spams LLMs with R on a daily basis.
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by j_bum 1y ago
Honestly the picture guide was easier for me to follow
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by j_bum 1y ago
Fun (but not fun) story :)
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by j_bum 1y ago
Anecdotally, I got my MBP as a graduation present when I graduated high school and was heading off to college many years ago. So I got it in ~May, when my college program started in September.
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by j_bum 1y ago
Not a source, but the fact that we can treat AD in mice but not humans should demonstrate OPs point sufficiently.
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I’ve always wondered about this actually. My assumption is that they always “pick the best” result from these tests. Instead, ideally they’d run the benchmark tests many times, and share all of the results so we could make statistical dete
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by j_bum 1y ago
I’ll have to give this a try. I’ve always included “Be concise. Excessive verbosity is a distraction.” But it doesn’t work much …
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by j_bum 1y ago
Just FYI, when I open this on mobile iOS, a blank white page appears. Not sure if this is intended or not.
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by j_bum 1y ago
Glad you’re ok. Stories like this are good to rebase myself and remember how important it is to enjoy life now while I can. No matter how healthy I try to keep myself, luck can change things in an instant.
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by j_bum 1y ago
The Hemingway editor is great for word pruning [0]. [0] https://hemingwayapp.com/
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by j_bum 1y ago
I’m curious why you find it immoral?
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by j_bum 1y ago
This is a good counterpoint that I hadn’t considered, honestly. That even if a show is apolitical (or mostly apolitical like TAL), it will inherently have some political bias because the creators are inherently biased. This will create a
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by j_bum 1y ago
Just to push to have you expand your counterpoint, what other views of American life would you want to see that they haven’t covered?
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by j_bum 1y ago
Nothing inherently, but the problem is that it can be misleading. Let’s make an arbitrary example. Say a study is designed to measure the difference in lifespan between group A (water drinkers) and group B (coffee drinkers). Imagine there
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by j_bum 1y ago
Hi Dan, I wanted to share a few links to articles on pain and circadian rhythms that I wrote during my PhD. Would love to connect if you have any questions. [0] Circadian rhythms and pain: https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien
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by j_bum 1y ago
Eminem? Is that you?
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I think this is dangerous rhetoric. I’m glad that you had an experience where you found the corner of your internet to be boring. I do not think this is the common experience. And simply because you didn’t feel impacted by it, does not
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by j_bum 1y ago
This is incredible… congratulations on creating such an amazing piece.
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by j_bum 1y ago
Agreed. Maybe you’ve seen this, but Destin Sandlin’s recent video on this topic does a good job of demonstrating the institutional knowledge gap [0]. He also was a guest on the Search Engine podcast to discuss the same topic earlier this ye
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by j_bum 1y ago
Do you just add this to your “instructions” section? And what type of questions do you ask the model? Thanks for sharing
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by j_bum 1y ago
Why are we posting LLM responses to a question? I’m not engaging in HN for LLM content… I would be willing to bet almost no one on this site comes here to read LLM text. Is there some rule against this?
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by j_bum 1y ago
First, you’re cutting an in vitro study. Second, “permanent” is a serious claim that bears a large burden of proof. I think defining “permanent” would first be useful. The brain is extremely plastic. Beyond that, OP comment was referring to
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by j_bum 1y ago
I’m sorry to hear that. I know that there absolutely are people who shouldn’t take it based on their mindset and underplaying predispositions. There is certainly a point to be made about psychoactive (and other) drugs inducing episodes of p
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by j_bum 1y ago
You had me up until your last clause… If you understand that LSD doesn’t permanently alter the brain, why do you think PY “permanently” alters the brain? It does alter the brain (like LSD; see the plethora of research on PY altering neuro

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