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Does anyone know how up to date is the training data?

joantorreson Ask HN: How to properly manage a product roadmap?

That's interesting but seems odd. Could you elaborate on why this approach works better for your team?

joantorreson The death toll for Covid-19 in Nembro, Italy

Epidemic Modeling 101: Or why your CoVID19 exponential fits are wrong

“Over the past few weeks, a terrible affliction has been spreading across the world. Otherwise healthy and productive members of society have been infected with this devastating illness that causes them to fire up Excel, Python or R and start extrapolating the latest numbers of confirmed CoVID19 cases in their town, state, country or even the world!”

https://medium.com/data-for-science/epidemic-modeling-101-or...

joantorreson Not everyone has an internal monologue

My brain functions exactly like yours.

I wonder if learning multiple languages as a kid has any influence on the way we think (I was raised bilingual and now I can speak 4 languages quite fluently), but also if the way we think determines what we are good at and the path we choose to live. I'm an engineer and I always enjoyed doing math and science, whereas I'm not that pasionate about art and humanities. I know some people can be really great at both, but most of us will only shine on one of these fields.

Does this resonate with you too?

joantorreson Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

Sorry, understood.

joantorreson Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

The real cancer on society are religions. Not only they are totally useless, but they have been obstructing critical thinking and the progress of sciencific development for thousands of years.

joantorreson Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

With intermitent fasting 16/8 and weight lifting 3x a week, you can get fit and look amazing in a just a couple if months. Just try it, it works!

joantorreson To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

Technically you are correct, in the sense that they do not crawl the web like Google or Bing do. But from a user perspective, they do provide a very useful service of aggregation, discovery and comparison of structured data that is way more effective than using Google search queries, if you know the type of information you are looking for.

joantorreson To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

Why do you say there is no business model in a search niche? StackOverflow and pleny of listing sites (Tripadvisor, Yelp, Zillow, Capterra to name a few) have been successfully built in this exact premise and the user experience of searching for restaurants, real state or software on these sites is usually much better than searching directly on Google due to the availability of custom filters and the amount of domain-specific metadata that the global search engines cannot read. While it's true that most of these sites heavily rely on SEO to drive inbound traffic from the big G, there is no doubt that they are perfectly viable businesses.