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by puttycat 3y ago
I started taking vitamin D supplements (D3 pills) after getting a blood test with below norm vitamin D level. Saw an immediate improvement in concentration, mood and energy throughout the day. (this is merely anecdotal, of course) I don&#x2
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by puttycat 3y ago
Many people around the world bike at this age. It's true that most of them are not in the USA.
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AI and the American Smile(medium.com)
2 points by puttycat 3y ago|0 comments
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by puttycat 3y ago
Mostly distraction minimizers: [1],[2]. Everything else (TODOs, notes, etc.) becomes much easier without social media/news/etc. in the background. [1] SelfControl -- website blocker for Mac, cannot be bypassed. https:/&#x2F
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by puttycat 3y ago
My thoughts exactly. That would require a lot of HTML parsing, plus the risk that any website might watermark the page.
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Ask HN: How does archive.today bypass paywalls?
39 points by puttycat 3y ago|14 comments
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by puttycat 3y ago
For me, it's focus.
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Follow That Page – change detection and notification service(followthatpage.com)
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by puttycat 3y ago
This is worrying. Daily Sea Surface Temperature tracker: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
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NSO Pegasus has iOS 15-16 zero-click exploits(citizenlab.ca)
5 points by puttycat 3y ago|3 comments
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EnglishScript – embed natural language in your JavaScript code(uriv.medium.com)
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by puttycat 4y ago
Rule of thumb: reductionist arguments don't hold for technologies from the Internet onwards. For example, the Internet is nothing like TV, so arguments like "we grew up on TV and ended up ok" don't hold. Same holds in my
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by puttycat 4y ago
Completely off topic: Notion is not a good way to share text. The fact that Reader mode doesn't work on this page is a good indicator that a lot of CSS bloat is going on.
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by puttycat 4y ago
So, making it easier to directly harvest unsuspecting GPUs for mining?
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Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative(sciencedirect.com)
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by puttycat 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by puttycat 4y ago
"Microsoft researchers claim <Microsoft product> is ..."
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by puttycat 4y ago
(haven't read the paper) Doesn't it boil down to a halting-problem kind of argument? Assume you have a model that can detect AI-generated text. Then you can build a model that emulates the detection model, finds the nearest non-de
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by puttycat 4y ago
> Seems like the critique is specifically about how current LLMs operate and not about them in principle. Yes, this is written explicitly in the paper.
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Large language models are poor theories of human linguistic cognition(ling.auf.net)
31 points by puttycat 4y ago|12 comments
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by puttycat 4y ago
Science article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add9330
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First ever connectome of an insect brain complete(cam.ac.uk)
5 points by puttycat 4y ago|2 comments
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by puttycat 4y ago
Enshitification all over again.[1] [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
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Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect (2014)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by puttycat 4y ago
Recent work on NNs where applying Kolmogorov complexity optimization leads to a network that solves binary addition with a carry-over counter and 100% provable accuracy: (see Results section) https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.
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by puttycat 4y ago
Recent HN discussion on how bad the current iPhone keyboard is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256168
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Apple Mail in Ventura turns URLs to smart previews automatically, no override(discussions.apple.com)
3 points by puttycat 4y ago|0 comments
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by puttycat 4y ago
Thank you so much for this comment. And to OP for posting this question. Reading both your posts I felt as if someone had read my mind. I really appreciate the time you took to ask and share you experience.
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by puttycat 4y ago
1. I am lucky to be in a point in life when I am (still) not anyone's emergency contact. 2. Even if I were, I assume the average person doesn't get many emergency calls per year. The odds of someone needing me during the 5-6 hours
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Tell HN: It has come to this – I bought a timed lock box to lock my phone in(amazon.com)
4 points by puttycat 4y ago|5 comments

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