olalonde

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   by olalonde 5mo ago

   Sure. Having billionaires allocate their own capital driven by profit motive and market feedback results in more efficient allocation than having some random bureaucrats do it. That's what it's really about. For example, Elon Musk
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   by olalonde 5mo ago

   Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409735
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   by olalonde 5mo ago

   It feels like the pace of improvement for foundational models is already slowing down. The trajectory feels much more linear than a few years ago when we had massive, qualitative jumps like GPT-2 to GPT-3.
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   ZEC drops 30% after Anthropic AI finds Zcash counterfeit vulnerability(tradingview.com)

   20 points by olalonde 5mo ago|1 comments
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   by olalonde 5mo ago

   Breaking: Googlers use self-deprecating humor as a pressure release valve. More shocking revelations at 11.
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   by olalonde 5mo ago

   Yes, finasteride can cause a very slight estrogen increase (~15%) but nothing like bodybuilders who inject anabolic steroids for example (3x-5x+ increase). It's similar to the estrogen bump from gaining 10-15 pounds of fat. In any case
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   by olalonde 5mo ago

   It's possible, but finasteride doesn't cause weight gain or muscle loss. In fact, it slightly increases free testosterone due to less of it being converted to DHT. He probably just got older and became less active.
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   by olalonde 5mo ago

   Germany's official English name is Germany[0]. [0] https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/745bbc2a-fc50-4b94-bb9...
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   by olalonde 5mo ago

   It's governed through the United Nations[0]. [0] https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/country
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Hair Center Of Turkey
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Unless you happen to be one of the lucky few who look better bald, balding makes you less conventionally attractive (there are actual studies about this). Whether that matters depends on how much weight you place on being conventionally att
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Thanks. They take hair follicles from the back of your head, the "safe donor area" that is genetically immune to balding, and move them to the thinning areas. The total amount of hair on your head remains exactly the same, it&#x27
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    No medications or follow ups required. The transplanted hair follicles are harvested from a region of the scalp (the donor area) that is genetically immune to hair loss, meaning they are permanent. However, you will continue to lose the non
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Should've clarified: the dog is 100% natural and procedure-free. Life is unfair :)
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Haha, true. Another advantage of doing it in Istanbul is that you don't look like a weirdo walking around with your headband and scarred scalp.
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    There are no pills to take afterwards, except perhaps painkillers. Some people who are balding chose to take finasteride but it's unrelated to the procedure itself.
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Thanks! It's really hard to tell. Most people are surprised when I tell them (unless they knew me before the procedure).
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Thanks, I guess I could still shave :) But it's definitely not a common opinion.
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Holding up pretty well. Here's a picture from yesterday: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olalonde/olalonde.github.c... . The transplant was in 2021.
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    I did it a few years ago when I was living in Istanbul. One evening, a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about the procedure. I ended up booking it almost on a whim, mostly just to prove him wrong. I did the transplant the next day. In t
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Intrinsic motivation. I find developing software inherently enjoyable, and being able to build things faster with less friction simply makes me happy.
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    You do not care about these things in general or it's the idea that an LLM is involved that makes you not value them?
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    I linked to an example in the comment. In that particular case, I'd say probably 10-20x faster. I do embedded, backend, web and mobile app development.
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    > You’re going to have to define productivity as it applies to software engineering. I meant it in a colloquial way. I just get more done, faster. > And now you’re missing any kind of traceability for the information Modern LLM assist
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    > How are you measuring this? I attempt a programming task with and without LLM assistance. The attempt with LLM assistance is pretty much always completed faster and cleaner. Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    I can give some recent examples. - Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. - Using it daily for Chinese-English translation. Significantly better than pre-LLM translation software. Also, great at teaching grammar, nu
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    And people are right most of the time. For every actual bubble, there are easily a dozen "bubbles" that aren't in fact bubbles.
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    Comments like these make me feel like we're living in different worlds. I use LLMs multiple times a day and they've significantly improved my quality of life. They are also steadily becoming more useful over time (e.g. now solving
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    by olalonde 5mo ago

    I'm in China and often get blocked by Netflix or Prime Video for using a VPN... Torrents are often the only thing that works.
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    Daily pill daraxonrasib doubles survival time for pancreatic cancer patients(bbc.com)

    6 points by olalonde 5mo ago|0 comments