janekm

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by janekm 4y ago
The advice from my biology teacher in the 80s is still just as valid today (eat more fruits and vegetables and whole grains, eat less processed foods and sugar and saturated fats). See the recommendations from the AHA for example: https:&#
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by janekm 4y ago
Your proposed diet matches very closely to official dietary guidelines, such as the ones from the AHA: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001031 (1) adjust energy intake and expenditure to achie
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Fascinating. It appears they also use punch cards for their catalog photos: https://silverviscount.co.uk/image/cache/catalog/viscount-im...
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Is that true? I have never seen this done for any image compression comparisons that I have seen (i.e. only data that is specific to the image that is being compressed is included, not standard tables that are always used by the algorithm l
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that's the point of the article... it's hard to write a regex that works on arbitrary emails from recruiters, but GPT is quite good at extracting information from arbitrary emails.
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by janekm 4y ago
Well... I have deeply explored a scientific field (in computer science, not math) the way you are talking about. By reading other's research papers, implementing what they proposed, trying to improve upon it, coming up with novel solut
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and... where's the problem? That's exactly the kind of group problem-solving that is actually required in the real world.
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by janekm 4y ago
Or we could accept that in this day and age, expecting kids to recite factoids broadcast to them by a "teacher" doesn't make any kind of sense any more, with google in everyone's pocket. And testing in the typical style
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The rumours are that it was too good at generating nudity for their comfort, and in particular that some users may have combined that with younger subjects.
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The “hot new thing” is NeRF, neural radiance fields, which can take into account the way light interacts with the object (and hence you can correlate data from pictures taken at different angles)
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Well… midjourney used stable diffusion (with an additional guidance model I believe, not just prompt engineering) for their beta model which they already closed down again… it’s back to their old far inferior model.
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I think it will be more like pair programming. Already kind of feels like you’re pair programming with an intern with copilot.
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Knowing whether or not it’s giving you a sensible response is one of the things that are hard for gpt-3, unfortunately. It has no concept of failing.
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There are scenarios where a multi-party ledger can be useful in business... Think about a logistics chain where everybody needs to know that a record wasn't modified in retrospect. But then you only need a mini-blockchain along the li
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For sure. Hopefully the digital currencies will price themselves out of that market (and perhaps put pressure to put the less energy burning protocol variants into production). To really give the right incentives to businesses probably requ
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There's a lot cheaper ways to burn energy than bitcoin miners though... and arguably ones more beneficial to society. Water desalination for example. Bauxite smelting. Hydrogen production.
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by janekm 4y ago
> Would Nike be happy if Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo suddenly appeared in Adidas shoes? Well... it is happening the other way round, with runners wearing Nikes and painting over them to try and not annoy their other brand sponsors: htt
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by janekm 4y ago
But shouldn't that concern go the other way? If the Chinese government is dictating content policies of TikTok, that should obviously be a concern, but I have not seen this alleged. Granted collecting say interest data based on viewing
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by janekm 4y ago
I actually think it's naive. Sure if military personnel or state department use TikTok that can create security risks, but the same is true with any other social media network. The additional data that TikTok tries to gather from the m
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Personally I feel this is as much a failing of of mobile OSs as anything else. As long as we have an environment where ad networks think it's desirable to collect this kind of information it's going to get collected, whether by Ti
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In defence of 'security' screws, they are commonly used in applications where it is a regulatory requirement to make it impossible to open an enclosure with common tools, such as power bricks which have exposed mains wiring inside
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The point (in theory) is that in efficient markets you can choose between different companies offering a product/service and that competition drives down prices / costs. The healthcare market in the US is very much not a competiti
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by janekm 4y ago
Just be aware that that's a whole lot of conjecture with little solid evidence behind it. Saying "these brain injuries historically resolved but don't any more" sounds much more like a change in diagnostics to me. The ev
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They definitely got that product placement for free, and the license to the movie clips for their advertisement. Wait...
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by janekm 4y ago
Indeed, I do make an effort to write if(ptr!=NULL) (partially because it more explicitly encapsulates the intent, much like writing ptr=NULL when "clearing" the ptr) but changing the developer expectations around this sounds like
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by janekm 4y ago
I don’t think it’s quite as simple as “take people/algorithms at their word”. “Sentience”/“Consciousness” are at least in part social constructs, in that the words we use, both between humans but also in our internal dialogue, are
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by janekm 4y ago
You might find "the Ordinary" brand from Deciem appealing (or Niod for more exotic ingredients), simple products with ingredient concentration specified.
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Ah, that’s fair, I thought you were arguing that the health benefits seen from weight loss can be attributed to healthier diets alone.
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This made me wonder whether potatoes are really this expensive in Australia? In the UK buying 2000 calories worth of potatoes from a major supermarket would cost the equivalent of AUD2.12 not AUD9.90 ... Though by comparison rice gets you 2
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by janekm 4y ago
Sorry but this is not compatible with the clinical evidence base: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/guidelines/ob_gdlns.pdf See page xxi, chapter A. Weight loss is recommended for lowering blood pressure,

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