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by tbalsam 4y ago
How is this a detriment for both of you? It's a lovely redeeming quality of both games, by far. Having the same voice actor for everyone is absolutely freaking hilarious, too, to boot. I mean, how can you not love this lol: https:&#x2
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by tbalsam 4y ago
This one also had me rolling, haha. Thank you, too. <3 :))))
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by tbalsam 4y ago
I'm dying laughing right now, this is phenomenal comedy gold. Thank you.
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Bad form, poor taste. Preferably not anywhere, but not on Hacker News, please. Thank you.
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Good point, I do appreciate this comment. Thanks for adding this. It is is interesting in how it very much appears that he will be correct, but instead in a different way maybe than most of us would reasonably have guessed at the time.
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by tbalsam 4y ago
I can understand that. I think that might be somewhat of a quick generalization. There are tendencies of people in the field to sometimes jump to rapid conclusions, but that is not researchers at all or in this case, me. I tend to be incred
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by tbalsam 4y ago
If it helps, this likely is coming. I think we have a tendency to mentally move the goalposts when it comes to this kind of thing as a self-defense mechanism. Years ago this would have been a similar level of impossibility. Since all a code
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Perhaps. Indeed it is true that my career is not threatened (as I would not want to work an organization that would fall for such a thing as this), but the thin plexiglass wall that it puts up is certainly real. People have their expectatio
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by tbalsam 4y ago
I've felt very frustrated by it too because it adds this very parsimoniously-constructed veneer of skill, and then makes it hard to filter out the signal after that. I am a machine learning engineer. I'd like to consider myself a
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Backpacker territory has a certain kind of trust. Being that close to nature long enough does things to a person. It's outside of something easily described with any human words.
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Also, congrats :confetti: on your fifteenth anniversary of joining hackernews. I first only started browsing around 2011-2012, the fact you are still active is amazing. Best of luck to you and yours in your future. :)
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by tbalsam 4y ago
That is true. I am a very good applied researcher, particularly in the area of machine learning/"AI". It's similar to a "glass cannon" build for certain video game characters. I'm uniquely talented in that
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Yes. I am autistic, for example, and situations that are unpredictable are (guesstimate) about 5-10x more stressful for me than for the average person. Most of my "unavoidable" "weak points" are centered around those thi
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by tbalsam 4y ago
I would politely disagree, I think there's a fine road between both of what you are saying here. Oftentimes people do project outward their hate because they hate it in themselves -- we are creatures with much logical momentum unfortun
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by tbalsam 4y ago
There's a couple of massive intuition leaps here (around tokens and the ease of which predicting one modality extends to another), but if you're interested in diving into the field at the place where they're asking questions
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by tbalsam 4y ago
In a sense, I thought it was more human-in-the-loop rather than an explicit RL objective (i.e. potentially somewhat limited reward surface, even if there's a reward model trained from it)
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by tbalsam 4y ago
This is an interesting statement to me, especially as the original paper from Hinton notes that it converges more slowly than traditional algorithms. I like the new shiny shiny too, but I've been in this field too long to chase all the
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Ketamine is often used as what's called a psychotomimetic to mimic the effects of schizophrenia in drug models of the disorder, so while technically maybe, the answer is "probably not". You generally don't want to add th
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Just pointing to my previous comment in the chain, specifically: I don't think one could reasonably simplify the content of this paper in a way that you'd find interesting for what you're looking for.
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by tbalsam 4y ago
I wouldn't really honestly recommend it like that, there are too many asterisks to say 'PSA ket should probably not be taken orally ' Oral has the least bioavailability, but unless one is taking dangerous doses what I've
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by tbalsam 4y ago
There is some promise with NAC and the bladder nightmare that can happen, but yes agreed, those bladder problems can be heinous, and accepting a mildly reduced efficacy in the short term for the trade of being able to maintain this longer t
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by tbalsam 4y ago
That's because depression is (as best as I believe) a low dimensional projection of a high dimensional issue. It's like saying "we aren't learning more about fever from acetaminophen" (or ibuprofen, for example). Of
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by tbalsam 4y ago
The tolerance runaway with Ketamine is legendary, and how people get addicted. At some point, people have to give up "that first dose" effect and take what Ketamine does offer in the long term. That's why doctors tend to lock
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Five nights a week is quite a lot, she may have some strong tolerance as well. It's a semi-low to moderate dose for pain patients I believe IIRC just a higher dosing rate compared to the median rates that I commonly see.
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by tbalsam 4y ago
It's more of a purely mechanistic paper I believe, analogous to something like "transfer case wear patterns over 200k miles of normal passenger traffic shows shearing force of XYZ according to this nonlinear graph (which might imp
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Doctor prescribed Ketamine is legal, whereas marijuana/hemp and psilocybin do not enjoy the same legal status. Though hopefully strong at-home 5HT2A agonists will see more at-home encouragement and legalization along with good spiritua
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by tbalsam 4y ago
Don't forget your dose conversion curves across species, girl. ;PPPP Also! You may find this Twitter very interesting as well.... ;P https://mobile.twitter.com/justsaysinrats?lang=en (And good point on the K-hole, in c
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by tbalsam 4y ago
K-holing can be a horrid idea on a home-dose of Ketamine due to the death spiral of tolerance that ensues. That's what causes the feedback loop of psychological addiction that brings some of the opioid addiction-like horror to the tabl
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by tbalsam 4y ago
It is an amazing tool that I think is going to help power the next generation of antidepressant treatments. Hopefully the more "traditional" racemic Ketamine does not get covered up as much by more expensive and less effective (bu
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by tbalsam 4y ago
The phrase "There are alternative options such as non-animal fats and hydrocarbon waxes, but these might increase the cost of production, reduce efficiency, affect recyclability and finally negatively affect the environment."....

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