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kleene_op··on Biogen-Sage Therapeutics postpartum depression pill priced at $15900
You get depressed just having to pay for the pill that is supposedly meant to cure depression.
kleene_op··on Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy)
It really isn't. That's like saying bisection is overly complicated.
kleene_op··on Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic
Those who can't do.. pay.
kleene_op··on Viagra could slash risk of Alzheimer's disease by 60%
>that take these drugs around the clock.

I see what you did there.

kleene_op··on The black market in GitHub stars
It probably is both, to be honest.
kleene_op··on EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
"No Uber drivers to exploit", is what I meant to say.
kleene_op··on EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
Rich people benefit from all the poor people benefiting from public services. No Uber drivers without public roads.
kleene_op··on Cooler screens
Delightful read, thank you!

What a Kafkaesque world we found ourselves stepping into.

kleene_op··on Does Market Timing Work?
That sure counts as market timing.

Pulling out such a strategy would make you insanely rich.

kleene_op··on Trains on another level
Nice try, but a friend of mine told me this game is digital crack.

I'm not gonna get hooked on this until I'm retired.

kleene_op··on YAML: Probably not so great after all
There's a huge difference in desirability for white space significance depending on whether or not it is used for code or data storage. Because the best practice is to decompose your code in functions and classes, space significance isn't so much a problem in Python. YAML on the other hand, is a visually atrocious way to store tree-like/multi-layered data.
kleene_op··on The Forgotten Generation: Generation X Approaches Retirement
That's their problem if they chose that kind of boring.
kleene_op··on “Is Fish Meat?” One Justice’s Answer Shows Why the Supreme Court Is So Broken
That's ridiculous. Chicken are not mammals and yet everyone except trolls will say that chicken flesh is meat.
kleene_op··on Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI
I think manually editing your last sentence would be cheating in the context of a speaking app. Entirely erasing the last sentence of the user (as well as the AI's reply, if any) and having him repeat the sentence he had in mind would be better because it would force him to speak more clearly.

(Also an undo button would be easier to implement than a whole system to edit previous sentences, right?)

kleene_op··on Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI
Very cool!

I could see this tool to be very useful in my Japanese studies. I only have two problems with it:

- AI feedback can sometimes be pretty overwhelming. Maybe you could implement a level selector (beginner, intermediate and expert?) so that the AI would switch to using shorter/simpler or longer/harder sentences accordingly?

- The speech to text works fine most of the time, but sometimes it gets a few words wrong. Could there be a way to correct the last sentence input?

kleene_op··on Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism
Considering the trouble everyone seem to have making the material and considering how few of the stuff they managed to produce, it's understandable that they're hesitant about breaking their sample into smaller bits.

If I were them, I would keep producing more samples before deciding to break some of them to get full levitation confirmation.

kleene_op··on Never waste a midlife crisis
> 33 is way too early for a midlife crisis, surely?

I don't think he knows about second midlife crisis, Pippin.

kleene_op··on Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed
IANAP, but as a mathematician it seems extremely inelegant that there would be a start to the time dimension of the space-time object we live in, when we don't even know if the spatial dimensions are finite themselves.

It is my understanding that the density of the universe billions of years ago was radically different from the one we now observe, and since density is intrinsically tied to our perception of space and time, wouldn't it make more sense that time actually stretches infinitely the further back we go, thus nullifying the concept of a beginning?

I guess I'm having a hard time with the idea that space-time could be discontinuous.

kleene_op··on Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads
"Find hot lonely monitor lizards in your area today!"
kleene_op··on In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea
The style of this article is quite something. At first I thought it was AI generated.
kleene_op··on Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)
> multiplied by the amount of people with mechanical keyboards

With negative weights for keyboards with cherry mx blue.

kleene_op··on Call for Germany to scrap English lessons in primary schools
It's a real shame for the 10 to 30% of german children who will have to waste their time attending classes for a language they already know when they could get a headstart practicing english.
kleene_op··on Deep-brain stimulation during sleep strengthens memory: study
That was my sentiment as well.

They should have controlled for it with a control group taking the two tests in reverse. Or maybe just increase the delay before repeating the second test.

kleene_op··on Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
This is the normal workflow for drug dealers too.

The first fix is free.

The second one will cost you money.

The third one will be laced with fillers and have degraded quality.

kleene_op··on Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990)
I guess I'll be using male gay porn actor's names to label my servers.

Or is that considered toxic too because there won't be any womens names?

kleene_op··on Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games
I'm interested in this as well.

I would like to know if the part of the LLM that stores the experience of interacting with the player is separate from the base model, and if so how heavy that specific part is?

Are we talking Mb or Gb?

kleene_op··on Wearing an eye mask during sleep improves episodic learning and alertness
Are people who have been given the information that they're using a placebo trully convinced of that or do they just have a mental barrier preventing them from further acknowledging it and just resign to respond: "yeah, I know it's just a placebo"
kleene_op··on A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other
Waiting for the day "prove you are not human" captchas are introduced.
kleene_op··on Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study
I trust they are too smart to fall into such an obvious pitfall.
kleene_op··on Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
That's what Jason Bourne would say.
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