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magwa101··on Potatos are as effective as carbohydrate gels for prolonged cycling performance
I do ultras at MAF pace 180-age=heart rate. I've dong 50K and 13M mountain race, each about 6 hours, I'm slow. I ate nothing, I came in about a 1/2 lighter, that's about it.
magwa101··on Terror management theory
Love it, agree with it, can't face death, no fucking way. Motivates me to work out every day.
magwa101··on Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
Cutesie cartoons don't make it easier.
magwa101··on Reason Won't Save Us
Gawd, each decade we extend our "reason" beyond what we thought possible. We've always been at our limits. His weak example of batters is simplistic and silly. Batters study the hand position so that they can recognize the pitch type and make a probabalistic decision. Same goes for goalies who stop unseen pucks, position, probabilities, stick/ice/shooter all rolled up into "Only god saves more!".
magwa101··on Jonathan Haidt: “The Age of Outrage”
Many of those who are atheist/non religious follow the bible most closely because they are ignorant of it's forming of our societal mores.
magwa101··on Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?
The ruse is that Trump is making money on his hotels, that's small potatoes. This is how he's making big money. Don't be fooled, he's a wicked genius who is fleecing the world.
magwa101··on The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot
I honestly hate this "false baseline" story line that applies to almost all anti AI/automation comments. A person who is focused may be better than self driving vehicle but even that is debatable. However, given real life self driving are already much safer than real life human drivers. Think about pedestrians and bike rider safety too!!
magwa101··on Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon
Nuke is too dangerous and can't be deployed everywhere. Solar and wind is much lower cost to install and operate. Plus, low risk. The more distributed solutions will win.
magwa101··on Forget philanthropy. The super-rich should be paying proper taxes
FUCK YES.
magwa101··on Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?
"Superintelligent" AI is so far away that we are wasting our time thinking about it. In the meantime the economy is being completely turned over by very narrow AI which should be our major focus.
magwa101··on Dog Ownership and Survival
In related news, walking one or two times per day, for any duration, reduces cardiovascular disease.
magwa101··on It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?
YES. Ebikes in tunnels.
magwa101··on Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity
Sugar, now go away.
magwa101··on AI equal with human experts in medical diagnosis
Yes, human "experts", and when you go to your neighborhood hospital Dr, you are not getting (typically) an "expert" in the field, so, by AI performing as well as human "experts" it is provides vastly improved diagnosis for patients. So irritating about the human expertise false baseline of expertise. So defensive. Same with self driving cars, already it is clearly superior to the "average, distracted, unpredictable" driver which is the actual baseline to beat.
magwa101··on Stop Using Internet Explorer
stop using chrome, firefox, brave, just curl | awk.
magwa101··on Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day
Toyota is a hype machine right now. They're trying to mask how they are missing the EV opportunity which they squandered on hydrogen.
magwa101··on California bans private prisons
FINALLY
magwa101··on The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell
Data has to be modified and saved.
magwa101··on CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
"Mystery Lung Condition" aka cancer.
magwa101··on Did Setting a Timeline Doom the Fight Against Global Warming?
shaming people is a waste of time, this solution has to be economically viable.
magwa101··on Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising
Another thing to get in the way of working out.
magwa101··on Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
beyond hype
magwa101··on The Sinister Brutalism of Shipping Container Architecture
Watched a youtube video of a very capable builder creating a container "home" in Yucca Valley. Total joke.
magwa101··on Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?
Yes we do, it's called humans. This continual bashing of AI is so funny. We never measure the baseline of human activity which is chock full of stupidity, illogic and unreasonableness. Of course, AI is human directed, but it will likely be many times more predictable.
magwa101··on The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?
Too many carbs.
magwa101··on Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On
Pretty small numbers, looks meaningless, less than a percent, that will likely be replaced by other sources (EU etc.).
magwa101··on Netflix CEO may have missed the real reason why US subscriber numbers plunged
Netflix is so hard to use. They constantly recommend their latest releases when I have no interest at all. My behavior shows what I want to watch. I have a "My List" filled out. I've been on it for 20 years. Their motivations are obviously not aligned. Youtube recommendations are an example of a working system. Netflix is toast.
magwa101··on Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age
NYTimes style, 'nuff said
magwa101··on Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions
Yeah, what are their shares worth? They're taking on huge incumbents, be realistic, they must take risks or disappear.
magwa101··on MIT AI tool can predict breast cancer up to 5 years early
Cost of false positive is retest and observe, this seems like a very low cost. Also, stop consuming sugar.
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