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l5870uoo9y··on Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools
As I understand the UK nuclear deterrence is highly dependable on the US, unlike the french.
l5870uoo9y··on Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth: research
Try buying conventional fruit and an organic one and taste the different, e.g. grape fruit.
l5870uoo9y··on Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth: research
Monkeys at a UK were put off “human” bananas and developed diabetes[1]. Fruit is healthy desert not - like vegetables - main course.

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/15/world/europe/uk-zoo-monke...

l5870uoo9y··on Twice-Yearly HIV Shot Shows 100% Effectiveness in Women
Fair enough.
l5870uoo9y··on Twice-Yearly HIV Shot Shows 100% Effectiveness in Women
They are however effective in preventing transmission of many other STDs that PREP doesn't prevent (and that PREP perhaps indirectly contribute to increasing transmission of including antibiotic resistant STDs).
l5870uoo9y··on Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
> The problem here is that I don’t trust the author on being able to tell who is the “best artist”.

A prerequisite to be considered a great artist is that the artist master a "craft" to perfection be it painting, drawing, sculpting, or something complete different like Burial who created one of the most important electronic album using the basic audio-editing software Sound Forge.

l5870uoo9y··on Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids
Grapefruit can interfere with some medications but not all. If you fear it might interfere, I would suggest asking your doctor.
l5870uoo9y··on Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids
I have the same reservations, and not just about dietitians but also other scientific disciplines. Many dietitians are first and foremost businessmen selling various supplements. Whether the supplement is necessary, effective or even harmful is less important.

The dietitians I trust document their dietary advice week after week by curing various ailments and diseases through scientific treatments (and they never recommend specific products): https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/die-ernaehrungsdocs/r...

l5870uoo9y··on Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids
Believe there was a zoo that started feeding monkeys with "modern" bananas and had to revert back to the old traditional banana, because the monkeys were getting diabetes.
l5870uoo9y··on Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids
Yes, the industry sweetens everything and removes bitterness. Organic grapefruits however are significantly more bitter – especially to modern tastebuds – than regular ones sold in the supermarket. Getting used to high-quality organic fruits and vegetables can be quite a culinary journey.
l5870uoo9y··on Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids
I haven't tried any bitter drops as I only eat grapefruits. Got the advice from "leading" nutritionist in Germany – so it should be sound advice.
l5870uoo9y··on Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids
Bitters take away the sweet tooth, such as grapefruit (especially organic), bitter tea or natural bitter drops. Eat a grapefruit after dinner and you cravings should be severely limited.
l5870uoo9y··on Embeddings are underrated
Are there any visualization libraries that visualize embeddings in a vector space?
l5870uoo9y··on Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)
"Don’t base your conclusions solely on whether an association or effect was found to be “statistically significant” (i.e., the p-value passed some arbitrary threshold such as p < 0.05).

Don’t believe that an association or effect exists just because it was statistically significant.

Don’t believe that an association or effect is absent just because it was not statistically significant.

Don’t believe that your p-value gives the probability that chance alone produced the observed association or effect or the probability that your test hypothesis is true.

Don’t conclude anything about scientific or practical importance based on statistical significance (or lack thereof)."

Hopefully this can help address the replication crisis[0] in (social) science.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Edit: Formatting (sorry formatting is hopeless).

l5870uoo9y··on Throw more AI at your problems
Yes exactly. That way the user could "train" AI on a particular data source.
l5870uoo9y··on Throw more AI at your problems
RAG doesn’t necessarily give the best results. Essentially it is a technically elegant way to semantic context to the prompt (for many use cases it is over-engineered). I used to offer RAG SQL query generations on SQLAI.ai and while I might introduce it again, for most use cases it was overkill and even made working with the SQL generator unpredictable.

Instead I implemented low tech “RAG” or “data source rules”. It’s a list of general rules you can attach to a particular data source (ie database). Rules are included in the generations and work great. Examples are “Wrap tables and columns in quotes” or “Limit results to 100”. It’s simple and effective - I can execute the generate SQL again my DB for insights.

l5870uoo9y··on Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud
> personal ego (fame, honors, etc.)...

Even in underpaid positions competition is fierce and personal ambition sky high. Better fraud prevention systems is likely a better way.

l5870uoo9y··on Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
AI has a preference for dividing everything into sections, especially "Introduction" and "Conclusion" sections.
l5870uoo9y··on The Age of PageRank Is Over (2022)
Buying backlinks is still around and costly.
l5870uoo9y··on Practices of Reliable Software Design
I would add a ninth practice; throw errors. You find and fix them as opposed to errors that go silently unnoticed in the code base.
l5870uoo9y··on Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life"
I find lifetime bans draconian in general.
l5870uoo9y··on A Burrito Is a Monad
> You see, in addition to space burritos (if you've heard the rumors), monads are like onions. Allow me to demonstrate with a common situation.

Another mention of monads and burritos.

[0]: https://mostly-adequate.gitbook.io/mostly-adequate-guide/ch0...

l5870uoo9y··on Text2CAD: Generating sequential cad designs from text prompts
No, it is still in beta and I haven't actually launched it. Did you like it?
l5870uoo9y··on Text2CAD Generating Sequential CAD Designs from Text Prompts
That's something artificial intelligence is really good at: fitting data into a formalized format. I'm working on something similar[0], here the goal is not CAD design but charts. This is also something that has only become possible with later versions of AI, such as GPT-4.

[0]: https://www.datavisualizer.ai/

l5870uoo9y··on OpenAI is closing in on raising $6.5B. Largest VC raise in history
Apparently, investors do not see the loss of several leading engineers and the “missing” GPT-5 as a reason not to invest. Maybe they do have moat.
l5870uoo9y··on Steve Jobs Swore the 10-Minute Rule Made Him Smarter. He Was Right
> “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

― Søren Kierkegaard

l5870uoo9y··on Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models
> These models are enabled on day one for Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware and optimized for Arm processors.

Do they require GPU or can they be deployed on VPS with dedicated CPU?

l5870uoo9y··on Ask HN: Postgres Primer for Programmers Recommendations?
You can use an SQL explainer[0] to get summary, visualized results and detailed breakdown.

[0]: https://www.sqlai.ai/app/explain-sql

l5870uoo9y··on Why I still blog after 15 years
I share many of the author's reasons for having a small and non-committal blog. I also think that one of the overriding reasons I have a blog is that I spend a lot of my waking hours reading (it's how I access and understand the world). Therefore, it only feels natural to want to write a text and become part of this writing (and reading) club.
l5870uoo9y··on Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training
Have you tried how far you will get with a Hetzner VPS with dedicated CPU(s)?
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