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I wish that I knew what I know now, When my sutures were younger.
This doesn't sound like anything that's not accepted by mainstream medicine to me. If they'd started bringing pseudoscientific ideas in then sure, but breathing exercises are a well-known way to regulate your nervous system aren't they?
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/07/toll-shrinking-jaw...
I realised I was affected by this in 2023 and have been researching it and trying to spread the word about it since.
What does the input side of the neutral network look like? Is it enough bits to represent N tokens where N is the context size? How does it handle inputs that are shorter than the context size?
I think embedding is one of the more interesting concepts behind LLMs but most pages treat it as a side note. How does embedding treat tokens that can have vastly different meanings in different contexts - if the word "bank" were a single token, for example, how does embedding account for the fact that it can mean river bank or money bank? Do the elements of the vector point in both directions? And how exactly does embedding interact with the training and inference processes - does inference generate updated embeddings at any point or are they fixed at training time?
(Training vs inference time is another thing explanations are usually frustrating vague on)
(Button over on the right in address bar, at least in recent versions of Brave (chromium).)
The idea was to give consumers real-world data to inform their decisions around avoiding/minimising microplastics. Some sources are orders of magnitude worse than others, so this potentially allowed people to eliminate a large portion of their exposure by just avoiding the products with the largest amounts.
This was a project that someone wanted to happen and was willing to pay for, but for whatever reason wasn't being done by the usual institutions (universities, governments).
The idea of this post is to give people who have money a way to find out about other projects that fit this shape, so they can fund them.
Purpose: raise awareness of the jaw epidemic.
Background: changes related to agriculture and industrialisation are causing our jaws to grow smaller and more backwards and downwards. This is behind much of the prevalence of malocclusion (crooked teeth), sleep-disordered breathing (inc. sleep apnea), and jaw joint problems we see. It's being ignored because a) historical separation of dentistry and medicine -- neither GPs nor dentists are trained to recognise it, and b) it challenges the business model of orthodontics (common procedures such as extractions and retraction can cause or make issues worse; if orthodontics accepts the jaw epidemic idea as stated then almost all practitioners will have to retrain significantly).
Funding needed: Living expenses for one person + server costs, ~£700 per month.
Possibilities for further funding: improving website, running ad campaigns for awareness.
Modern environments and lifestyles have changed our jaw development dramatically, contributing to the high prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing (snoring through to obstructive sleep apnea), chronic tension, jaw joint problems, and orthodontic need.
From https://www.patreon.com/dashboard/widgets (must be logged in as a creator).
Edit - a couple of other things possibly helped around the same time, so I'm not sure if I ever isolated the effect of breathing. But it definitely felt like it was a significant part of it.
Someone at the personal finance stackexchange[1] mentioned that with a CPA you "still owe the money" if the transaction fails, which kind of makes sense. Maybe the "transaction for full available balance" was just the easiest way of conveying the notion that "a merchant is entitled to take an amount that's greater than or equal to your full balance".
Still, misrepresenting the merchant's actions with basically a made up transaction seems like a sure way to create confusion where we really need clarity and accuracy.
[1]: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/168001/continuous-...
Also: if the amount requested had been my exact balance, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't have succeeded. I have successfully paid them twice before from this account.
Also supports saving a result into a variable for later reference, and x "as proportion of" y, which is just an alias for division.
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Wrote my own code editor with multi-language syntax highlighting, including the complete text editing component (doesn't use contenteditable, textarea, etc): https://github.com/gushogg-blake/edita.
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I do miss the "wrap" command when using other editors, but it could be implemented reasonably easily without a parse tree. I found that a lot of the structural edits correspond to indentation levels anyway, but the parse tree definitely helps.
According to Snopes[0] he claims he was urging Christians specifically (who don't usually vote in high numbers) to vote "just this time", then they wouldn't have to vote anymore for four more years, or something (which they wouldn't anyway...)
He was definitely addressing Christians (he repeats it several times) but at the end of the video he says "[...] we'll have it fixed so good you're not gonna have to vote", which does sound a bit suspect to me, even in context and taking into account the fact that he's often loose with his choice of words and phrasing.