Dr_Birdbrain

I have heard of people who say creatine helps them sleep. Creatine is technically not a stimulant, but in most people it causes a state of mental activation that would make it hard to sleep. I suspect you and the people who sleep better on creatine may have something in common.

I would be curious to hear what “better learning methods” the author used. He calls them out but doesn’t describe them.

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I have to disagree :)

It’s true that Marionberry is one of the most delicious as well as aggressively thorny, but there are many excellent thornless cultivars pioneered by the University of Arkansas, including Triple Crown and Prime Ark, as well as the series named after Native tribes, Apache, Navajo, Arapaho, which are among the sweetest.

I think the main thing that is exciting about this is that it can hopefully be extended to other cancers. Currently, detecting lung cancer involves imaging with radiation that can itself trigger cancer, but imagine a world in which you can get screened for all cancers from a blood test.

I agree with your last point—the Solar Council should have provided conditional aid. The most basic assistance could have removed the justification for cannibalism.

Interesting. In what way is the structure more rigid than university?

I think it means it’s an endowed chair, where the endowment is provided by Panasonic.

It’s common for corporations or wealthy individuals to donate large amounts of money to fund prestigious academics.

I’m annoyed they don’t include pictures of the iron fillings.

I wonder if the cleanliness will be maintained over time? Presumably this requires humans to physically clean periodically, and it seems like this would suffer when the company starts to squeeze costs to improve margins.

Problem is, people vote for them :(

How could a code completion tool be made safe?

One natural response seems to be “it should write bug-free code”. This is the domain of formal verification, and it is known to be undecidable in general. So in this formulation safe AI is mathematically impossible.

Should it instead refuse to complete code that can be used to harm humans? So, it should read the codebase to determine if this is a military application? Pretty sure mainstream discourse is not ruling out military applications.

But Anthropic produces very capable models?

No, lol—Ilya liked ditching the “open” part, he was an early advocate for closed-source. He left OpenAI because he was concerned about safety, felt Sam was moving too fast.

You might be underestimating vim ;)

Key point is that vim macros are interactive. You don’t just write a script that runs autonomously, you say “ok, for the next transformation do this macro. Oh wait, except for that, in the next 500 lines do this other thing.” You write the macro, then the next macro, adjust on the fly.

Employees definitely tolerate this. As said above, this already happens in industry, and also for many years Amazon used to cap salaries at some hilariously low number—I think like 180k. That may not seem low until you try to buy a house in the Bay Area and lenders laugh in your face.

People would either be part of a two-income household or wait for their stock to vest, but for many years they tolerated it fine.

Oh, they don’t need an internet connection! Just a terminal, vim, and gcc.

GCC because C is small, you can just give them paper docs.

What are glass bead games?

Love this! Like when we accidentally discovered the axolotl can turn into a salamander if you stress it enough.

I am confused why this appears on NIH.gov

Wow those are big

Can you help me understand what is the point of this project? :)

Great resources for further reading, thanks. Win3.12 sounds like… a windows version? Lol

I don’t understand. What is needed? I tried Google.com as well, i don’t understand what I need to do

I’m still confused, why can’t they return to the real Darling 58? Are they saying even the real 58 is not that good, and if they are going to rewind that far back they might as well start from scratch?

I would say 100%, simply because there is no other reasonable source of video data

I seem to remember that due to political infighting and ass-covering, they never really tried it. There were competing proposals that they hybridized in broken ways, and nobody in power wanted to commit to have their name on something that might fail or become unpopular.

I recommend the excellent novelization of the period “Red Plenty”. My understanding is that it stays fairly true to the history.

I seem to remember that a big concern in feudalism was whether your underling lords would actually show up when you needed them. This kind of “bring me 12 pasties” thing is as you say most likely a token that he will show up in court and bring the pasties.

Are the Elon Gates made of sugar, I. E. Zucker? Elon Zucker Gates to reach the stars?

This is extremely interesting to read.

I did learn my multiplication tables correctly, but I was always horrible at mental arithmetic—my elementary school periodically had formal exams for mental arithmetic, and I consistently failed them. It was the only type of task where I ever consistently scored less than 90%,

I am also terrible at directions, my parents used to be worried about what would happen to me when I lived on my own—thankfully, Google maps became a thing and nobody notices I am bad at directions anymore.

Like you, my learning difficulties are strictly compartmentalized to these two specific domains. I hold a PhD in engineering, and I even have a minor in math, lol.