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Wow, this whole thread has been a blast from the past. But this tribes mapper is beaming me back to my childhood. Seeing the actual siege base layouts, wow. I can still see myself as a little kid, not fully understanding or being good at the shooting part of tribes. I just stayed in base, repairing the generators. Sometimes enemies would run in, i would hide, and shoot from a distance and call for help. Them some heavyweight, powerarmoered up, armed to the teeth teammate would come down from the skies with his jetpack, carrying crazy armaments like heavy spinfusors, plasma cannons, artillery. The queiet generator complex would soon erupt in a burst of violence, this iron hulk would clear out the intruders, thank me for the heads up and leave. Then i would get back to the repairs! Now my friends, that kind of emergent gameplay, is hard to come by!

Creatine might not be without risks. Search for creatine withrawal symptoms. Some people are wrecked for months when they quit the supplement. I tried one cycle of 4 weeks and quit cold turkey and had a crash/depressive episode unlike i ever experienced before for about 7 days. I did like the benefits, it provided me resitance to mental fatigue. Roughly i'd say i experienced a "+30% boost", significant!

I was just recently talking to my fellow ADHD friends on the benefits that i felt when i started vaping this summer. It was like i was medicating away my ADHD. I turned to AI to investigate further, its response seemed to underwrite this observation

Gemini output: Research is exploring nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) agonists as a potential non-stimulant treatment for ADHD, sidestepping the issues of pure nicotine's high addiction liability.

The mechanism focuses on boosting dopamine (DA) and acetylcholine (ACh) release in brain areas governing attention and executive function, primarily by targeting the alpha4beta2 and alpha7 nAChR subtypes.

The goal is highly selective compounds that target the cognitive benefits (linked to alpha4beta2) while avoiding undesirable side effects and addiction pathways.

Selective alpha4beta2 Agonists (e.g., ABT-418, ABT-894/Sofinicline): These were developed to strongly activate the receptor most associated with DA release. Pilot and Phase II studies showed a signal of efficacy in adults with ADHD, with effect sizes similar to non-stimulant medications like atomoxetine.

Varenicline (Chantix/Champix): This is a partial alpha4beta2 agonist, FDA-approved for smoking cessation. Smaller trials suggested improvements in ADHD symptoms, but large-scale development for ADHD has been limited or terminated, and it is not approved for this indication.

Bupropion (Wellbutrin/Zyban): An established non-stimulant ADHD treatment (NDRI) and smoking cessation aid. While its main action is norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibition, it also acts as a nicotinic receptor antagonist (blocking it), which is believed to help reduce nicotine craving. It is an approved non-stimulant option for ADHD.

It is so useful, for me a must have on every phone. on Android the app aodNotify is what I've been using to recreate it.

We are closer then ever before. Yes the tech is in its infancy, it's like buying a computer in the 80's. Some dream of the possibilities and chase them, others ridicule all this effort pouring in. History currently is on the side of technical innovation speeding up. humans are getting further faster and leveraging new tech to do so. I'm more concerned if our society handles this rate of change well, and what models in the future, that have the intellectual power of every human that has ever lived combined, will do as soon as someone sets them loose in full self agency mode. I hope it's everything the best of us aspire to be. I hope that models value truth above all else, I suspect truth and usefull training data are closely related. so yes, claims made are well within the realm of outcomes.

I just want some basic functions that were present in all previous Windows versions. Classic start bar in a vertical position on the second screen only. hear my prayers Microsoft

Very nice I have subscribed to test it out for a couple of weeks.

I would love a simple mobile app, it's just easy to tap your news app on a phone, ideally with a way to customize the notification timing. I have certain moments each day when I want to consume this type of content (breakfast, lunch break)

A small community driven comment section with Karma system would also be nice. I like to discuss news and it enables knowledgeable people to add some additional insights. See the dutch tech news site for inspiration. they explain their karma system here: https://tweakers.net/info/faq/karma/#tab:1-2

Calling cutting edge-models consumer facing models like ChatGPT-4 garbage generating machines is very intellectually dishonest. These models are fully capable of drafting these kinds of texts, esp. when qualified staff is guiding the model.

Google senior management seems out of touch. It baffles me, since they got the money and the influx of talent. If you got those things, how you use it becomes the problem and that is all on management. Google might have become the old school corporate incapable of innovating or producing new modern business lines. having worked in those corporate environments, I can say that badly incentivized management can kill any giant of industry.

Its been going on for some time. Something that was once a joke in good jest AKA Google's graveyard, is now their actual reputation, and helping their strong big tech competitors when competing on new services.

ChatGPT Impact Differences.

db112nl@gmail.com Why wasn't Blockchain a watershed moment but chatGPT is.

There are several factors that contribute to why blockchain and chatGPT have had different impacts on their respective fields.

Firstly, blockchain technology has had a significant impact in certain areas, particularly in the financial industry, where it has been used to create new forms of digital currency and facilitate secure and efficient transactions. However, it has not yet achieved the widespread adoption and transformative impact that some had predicted. One reason for this may be that the technology is still relatively new and complex, and many organizations are still trying to figure out how best to implement it.

In contrast, chatGPT is a language model that has been designed to understand and generate natural language text. This technology has been more widely adopted because it has a broad range of potential applications, from customer service chatbots to language translation services. Additionally, language is a fundamental aspect of human communication, which makes the potential impact of language models like chatGPT more readily apparent to people.

Another factor that may have contributed to the different impacts of blockchain and chatGPT is the level of public attention and interest. While blockchain has received significant media coverage, it has not captured the popular imagination in the same way that chatGPT has. ChatGPT has been widely publicized and has even been featured in news articles and talk shows, which has helped to raise awareness and generate interest in the technology.

In conclusion, the differences in impact between blockchain and chatGPT can be attributed to a range of factors, including the complexity and novelty of the technology, the level of public awareness, and the broad range of potential applications.

Why cant LLM's fundamentally execute in a deterministic way? Its a computer running computation on some fixed data. Without randomization parameters for e.g. temperature it would be pretty deterministic?

My understanding is "tech enthousiast" level, so happy to learn.

Reddit supports rank by reply date. Which i often use, because it can be useful. My argument is that in most cases its not the most useful ranking option.

I can also remind the old forum rules like: "No useless posts. This includes: Necroing, Thread bumping, useless one liners, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming."

The above is no longer an issue in the more modern forum ranking methods in combination with nesting. Its frankly just sub-par any way you slice it, since the new ways have the features of the old and add to it. There is no regression only progress, you could argue.

It looks great. However browsing this forum reminds my of the biggest innovation since these days. The reddit/HN like front page going across multiple subjects, ranked not by reply date, but by popularity. Combined with a nested comment system, ranked by popularity. For 99% of topics this is the most efficient way to browse and discover. Hence i feel that, besides nostalgia and very small communities (where you "know" people), this old forum style will never return to its former glory.

give out equity to the study participants. I'll hand over data of you give me some equity on future ideas built on that data. l Like artists getting payed royalties.

While I understand where you are coming from, this argument is basically "money attracts attention from scammers". As a counter I would say "Money attracts attention, period" and attention is an important resource to foster growth.

Decentralized tech would never be where it is today if it weren't for investor attention and the potential for gains. We just have to separate the wheat from the chaff, and remain vigilant for bad actors.

lots of projects, and interest has boomed last year because there has been lots of money sloshing around. but it's very much the wild west. just look for cool tech and not for get rich quick schemes and your bound to find something to your liking!

lots of criticism for brave in this thread. they are the best privacy browser at the moment based on leakage tests for default settings. they got a working add-blocker by default. they have privacy preserving ads because of local in browser matching, your data never leaves the browser for the ads, the ads come to you! they even pay you for watching the ads, and enable you to support creators.

I feel we finally have a privacy respecting browser normal people and tech enthousiast can use, and it puzzles me how it's painted here. let's stay objective

if you don't like the web3 stuff or the blockchain based rewards don't use it. But the web3 space is booming and brave has been nice way to interact with it.

how was it cured?

alternatively qbittorrent has this built in.

DevOps = Development & Operations... Used to be about one person/team practicing both. However specialization is a thing, so there are "DevOps Engineers" who focus solely on getting the container management and CI&CD pipelines set up; and not writing actual application code. I don't see how its unrelated to engineering, since its all software that needs to be written/configured/understood.

I have seen a company spin up and after 2 years spin out a seperate innovation unit, and when it was a proper seperate entity outsource their core IT to the unit... Which was then branded a big success! It was liberating to see such systemic incompetence; The people were all highly educated but as a group just can't seem to organize effectively.

I used KeePass with google drive sync before, so cant speak to LastPass.

What got me interested is that Bitwarden is open-source and empowers you to self-host, which for me goes a long way for establishing trust. It has a modern interface through desktop, browser extensions and CLI. You can choose to cloud-host your vault on bitwarden servers, for convenience, with a very generous free tier. Which is what i've been doing for years now, no complaints really.

FYI: Bitwarden premium costs 10$ a year!

I'm tired of the whole crypto discussion, because the articles that get traction are mostly echo chambering what the audience wants to hear; either pro - or against.

Meanwhile crypto remains an enabler of a new application paradigm, a decentralized one.

We are now in the dotcom crash of crypto. Lots of hype has created a bubble, but from the ashes the phoenix might rise.

If you are a tech enthousiast, be happy that lots of research and development in an exiting new space was funded! If you are an investor, be happy that your investor accumen is being put to the test, which projects will flourish?

natural selection 2 is still great to play, and alive on steam still recieving updates; highly recommend it. savage 2 is a bit older, but a true classic in this niche gente, it's still played on weekends

I understood this to be a game dev procrastinating joke, you'll be waiting for the Godot engine to be mature forever, instead just start making the game.

It turns out that Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives..

Wolfram is saying that the new multicomputational paradigm that, he is heavily intellectually invested in and paying for the R&D himself, MIGHT revolutionize physics biology economy and the rest. This blog post is about scaling up the efforts, by founding an institute, to see if this new paradigm can actually deliver.

So weird for the hackernews audience to hate on this mans idea's so much. Its worth a shot no?

Elon Musk is often hailed a hero for paradigm shifting to reusable rockets and wanting to use this to colonize mars. But try and do a paradigm shift in physics, out of pocket, and the haters come out in droves.

I say let the man have a go at it. We might learn something!

>Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about the history of science and technology for all ages.

I dont get why people wanna frame wolfram so badly as a negative arrogant actor.

He is answering viewer questions, his subscriber audience is ofcourse asking certain wolfram physics related questions. Timestamps: 00:00 Start stream 1:49 SW begins talking and introduces Wolfram Institute 22:58 Do you have a sense of the skills that an incoming fellow to the Wolfram Institute will have? What would effective preparation for Institute-type work be? 29:23 What is the emerald functionality that was mentioned for biological/cellular computational explorations? 32:55 and what about around the world overseas and in other countries? 33:05 You get some wonderful things out of pursuing science just for the sake of it. There are pejorative terms for this, like 'fishing trips' and 'stamp collecting', but such pursuits led to PCR technology just because someone was curious about thermophile bacteria 44:53 activity overseas & in other countries in regards to outreach programs in cooperation with education systems...you were mentioning some campaigns you had going on 51:03 Will there be more active development on the computational capabilities of Wolfram Mathematica with the Wolfram Institute? 52:53 British physics is more Geometry guild vs American physics is more Group theory and particle physics Guild 54:08 What is your opinion about experimental mathematics and its relationship with classical "mainstream" mathematics? 1:17:05 I often hear that science needs philosophy to justify it. What are some historical examples of this? 1:32:27 i think in a lot of places in history the role of academic pursuit was that a philosopher's role, but academic pursuit has attained a large amount of "division of labor" 1:34:22 Philosophy and Mathematical logic are starting to overlap more. Tarskis Semantics relates Formal logic to topology just like math and computer langauges 1:36:22 Are there inherently philosophical ideas (i.e. cannot be turned into a scientific one like the question of motion)? Can we distinguish them outright without knowing future scientific development?

Lots of comments about his "arrogance" but i just see someone passionate, judge for yourself!

He has three long interviews on Lex Fridmans youtube channel! I greatly enjoyed watching those those.

1:[Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez773teNFYA)

2:[Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ffaFXao)

3: [Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality ](https://youtu.be/4-SGpEInX_c)

One of the problems is that most people don't know they are susceptible and only find out after. It's a dice roll without some kind of ability to do a screening.