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by robg 4y ago
What kind(s) of expertise do you want to realize? You could pursue expertise in a trade, starting as an apprentice then working your way with experience into master status (software, plumbing, electrical, etc). The advanced degrees are rela
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by robg 4y ago
Part of the problem is the car industry operates in 10 year product horizons, given costs to amortization and legacy systems. I consulted at a 2012 LA autoshow workshop led by a major vendor of in-car systems and equipment (Faurecia). The d
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by robg 4y ago
This finding has been known for decades. There used to be heads up displays with info projected on the windshield. Seems futuristic and compelling. Until you investigate how long people look away from the road to focus on the display. The b
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Why did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell tunnels(nymag.com)
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The Mind After Midnight: Behavioral Dysregulation, and Psychopathology(frontiersin.org)
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Persistent Low Wages Linked to Faster Memory Decline in Later Life(publichealth.columbia.edu)
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by robg 4y ago
https://www.nowleap.com/the-patented-mediator-release-test/ Importantly, should be ordered by a nutritionist and requires a blood draw. It’s got some challenges but overall helped me when paired with a restricted diet.
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by robg 4y ago
Sugar and Candida was really eye opening - it’s the fungal overgrowth driving my addiction to sweet stuff.
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Did the food sensitivity test (MRT) and helped a bit but also learned how immune responses can become associated with foods we eat a lot. Overall gut health and inflammation is so obvious, the engine strains with bad fuel, but very difficul
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I’m a neuroscientist and have struggled with my (mental) health for 30 years. With the pandemic I realized how much foods affect how I feel every day. Going more than 6 months without eating out I became attuned to the differences of meals
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The Legal Battle for Golf’s Future as a Monopoly(wsj.com)
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Whereas movie theaters seem to be a dying industry, and doing what they can to survive, Disney and baseball could afford to charge less. But why would they when demand <> supply can be tightly controlled by increasingly higher prices?
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by robg 4y ago
The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunc
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Meryl Streep’s One Weird Trick(nytimes.com)
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Criminal and civil lawsuits are separable.
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It’s not necessarily illegal (criminal) it’s the potential damages for the civil offense (using her likeness without her consent causing untold losses to her).
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Why don’t these folks have to get a signed release to use footage of a model? I get that it’s a public place, seems like that still applies on the commercial interest. Couldn’t she seek damages for use of her image without her consent?
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by robg 4y ago
See also the glymphatic nervous system [1], great example where better scientific theories explain more data. The glymphatic nervous system explains why you can go longer without food or water than you can without sleep, the lack of suffici
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Who would have thought that consumers would accept a surveillance state by absorbing the upfront costs?
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For $15k a year, couldn’t someone just apprentice in a trade and get paid?
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by robg 4y ago
Difficult to disentangle the fact that the n-grams talking about these topics have become highly profitable as an industry unto itself. Not just click bait and doom scrolling of recent years but the books, TV shows, and especially medicatio
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Those Mythical Four-Hour Versions of Your Favourite Movies Are Probably Garbage(storyissues.com)
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Probability and statistics should have already replaced algebra and calculus in modern education. People are just really bad at understanding variance and the impacts on what we think we know.
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Solid read - the part I found most surprising is the color can’t have a function, and the pink of Pepto-Bismol has an effect. Wonder how they resolved that from placebo.
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Love how this trolling is HN appropriate.
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Timing of what audiences and where? If AI heckler as the above, is training to entertain other AIs or humans with diverse tastes?
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by robg 4y ago
What’s the training if every comedian has their own style, in words, intonation, and timing? Do we need to build personalized AI comedians? Or write new jokes for specific comedians trained on previous their routines?
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How elites misread public opinion(politico.com)
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Jerry and Marge Go Large by Gaming the Lottery (2018)(highline.huffingtonpost.com)
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by robg 4y ago
Cool in concept, but shows how important comedic timing is. Example where the semantics requires the pauses and drawn out expressions to really make it work. Might be where the jokes could be written by AI but perfected by humans, especial

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