stalfie

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by stalfie 9mo ago
It is probably more than half the story. Health span is strongly correlated to life span, although not completely. The median "health span gap" is about 10 years, and has widened by roughly one year over the past 20 years. However
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by stalfie 11mo ago
To me the "web of trust" element frankly seems like the only viable solution. And in fact, its almost here already: https://playsafeid.com/ I predict that hacker news in particular will dislike using facial recogn
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by stalfie 11mo ago
You know, security is a nebulous concept until it suddenly isn't. I live in a country neighboring Russia. Russian infiltration, sabotage, and perhaps large scale political assassination by means of autonomous drones (like the ukrainian
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by stalfie 11mo ago
AFAIK this is actually a separate mechanism, which is part of the visual cortex and not the retina. Essentially recognizing even a single object requires the complete attention of pretty much your entire brain in the moment of recognition.
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by stalfie 11mo ago
I would argue that your argument is simplistic and does not account for observed geographical variations. Japan does not have an obesity epidemic. The US has an extreme obesity epidemic. There does not seem to be any good genetical explanat
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by stalfie 11mo ago
I think one major lesson of the history of the internet is that very few people actually care about privacy in a holistic, structural way. People do not want their nudes, browsing history and STD results to be seen by their boss, but that d
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by stalfie 11mo ago
The neural network in the retina actually pre-processes visual information into something akin to "tokens". Basic shapes that are probably somewhat evolutionarily preserved. I wonder if we could somehow mimic those for tokenizatio
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by stalfie 11mo ago
The subtle "wiggle" animation that the second hand makes after moving doesn't fire when it hits 12. Literally unwatchable.
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by stalfie 1y ago
I think OP might be referring to circumcision. And just as a small aside, not really related to OPs points, I'd just like to point out that nature pretty consistently tampers with everyones kids DNA, which quite regularly leads to abso
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by stalfie 1y ago
Im working on a PhD concerning LLMs and somatic medicine, as an MD, and I must admit that my perspective is the complete opposite. Medical care, at the end of the day, has nothing to do with having a license or not. Its about making the cor
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by stalfie 1y ago
To be fair, being knowledgeable about the pre-test probability of a patient having a certain disease vs the sensitivity/specificity of a test IS part of the ideal practice of medicine, although how important it is in practice varies so