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Wait another week and you'll be fine. Anyone who's ever done keto for any length of time knows that.

> But then you have to ask if the institutions doing the application verifications were criminally negligent.

That wasn't negligent. It was intentional.

Not by the institution, but by the officers acting against the interests of the institution.

A tiny example out of so many: it is against the interest of a secured lender to inflate appraised value or allow them to be inflated.

Yet, starting at 2004, appraisers across the country started reporting that they were being pressured to inflate appraisals and blacklisted when they refused.

This is clear indication of fraud against the institution and regulators. There is simply no honest reason to inflate appraisals.

You must be European. In the US, nutrition facts are per-serving and the amounts are rounded.

A single serving of Tic-Tac is less than 0.5g, and therefore it has 0g of everything.

Weird, I could swear that I haven't seen that message.

Thanks for the correction.

The only thing the link contains is a bunch of people claiming that his achievements were built on other people's.

Yet not even a single a achievement is mentioned by name, nor any specific detail is given.

It's evidence for nothing.

> Eye color and hair color have been studies pretty intensively and they definitely have models which are more complex than "if you have value Y at position 37 of gene X, you have blue eyes". The way it's normally stated is that we can explain 50% of the heritance of eye color using a limited set of SNPs.

That's all very nice, but can you predict eye color from a genetic test with reasonable confidence?

That a very simple question and the answer is apparently a resounding no.

It would probably a very good idea if you can keep to it.

Doing so with mild T2 diabetes could lead to complete remission (as long as the diet is kept).

In more advanced T2 diabetes it could lead to significant improvement, and reduction of required medication.

People with T1 diabetes simply don't produce enough insulin. External insulin is required.

Management of T1 diabetes is also way more complicated and mistakes are immediately life threatening.

Are you familiar with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's approach? It is a very low carb diet (he doesn't call it Keto as Ketosis is not the aim) combined with a lifetime of experience managing it.

See his book The Diabetes Solution, his Youtube channel, and the Type1Grit facebook group. There are a lot of type 1s running <5% HbA1C on his program.

He's definitely very contreversial, but I always found his reasoning extremley presvasive. Not to mention that he's a 90 year old with T1 from childhood, still practicing medicine and seeing patients (or at least he's been practicing up to a few months ago).

https://www.diabetes-book.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@DrRichardKBernstein/videos

https://www.facebook.com/Type1Grit/

There's also the great Gary Tabues and his books, especially Rethinking Diabets

https://garytaubes.com/rethinking-diabetes/

Weird that nobody bothered to do a simple google search.

"Bart, don't make fun of grad students. They just made a terrible life choice."

> Intel started using automated place and route techniques for the 386 processor, since it was much faster than manual layout and dramatically reduced the number of errors. Placement was done with a program called Timberwolf, developed by a Berkeley grad student. As one member of the 386 team said, "If management had known that we were using a tool by some grad student as a key part of the methodology, they would never have let us use it."

The grad student was Carl Sechen, advised by Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1052337

Some people do have six fingers.

Sounds like a classic case of Algorithm Aversion to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760962

Weird, I have never encountered a single case of aversion to Booth's multiplcation algorithm, quicksort, binary search, DFS, BFS, Miller–Rabin primality test, or Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm, .

Is there something special about the algorithms people are averse to? Maybe not actually working?

> (4) ignorance about why algorithms perform well;

Au contraire. It is the correct understanding, born out of deep expertise, that algorithms, outside very structured artificial environements, often do not work well at all.

Even provably correct algorithms fail if there is even the slightest mistmatch between the assumptions and reality, imprefect data, noisy sensors, or a myriad other problems. Not to mention that the implementations of these provably correct algorithms are often buggy.

When of algorithms are based on user input, users learn very quickly how to manipulate the algorithm to produce the results they actually want.

You can do far far worse than naive optimizing for profit. Optimizing for *REPORTED* profit.

People learn very quickly to manipulate the reporting, modeling, and accounting.

Just less than two decades ago we had the entire financial system lending massive amounts of money to the worst possible borrowers and REPORTING massive profits.

> GPS had no encryption or authentication; indeed, such security is only a recent addition to the L2 frequency.

This was a long time ago, but I distinctly remember the encrypted P(Y)-code and anti-spoofing being operative in the mid 1990s.

> GPS is very similar in that regard.

GPS originated as a military protocol and has some level of encryption and authentication, but this is not available to the general public.

Scratchpixel existed way before widespread generative AI. The content is great.

> 2. Crucial observation: -x == ~x + 1

To be annoyingly pedantic, this is not simply an observation, this is essentially the definition of 2's complement arithmetic.

But a lot of great advice.

I became a half decent home bike mechanic through reading it, and of course Park Tool videos.

Reddit is a magnificent source of useful knowledge.

r/AskHistorians r/bikewrench

To name just two. There is nothing even remotely comparable.

But you need to be able to detect sarcasm and irony.

> It's meaningfully affecting people today near the equator. Look at the April 2024 heatwave in South Asia.

Weather is not climate, as everyone is so careful to point out during cold waves.

The numbers seem to be inconsistent with other studies.

The following paper gives incidence of 0.2/100,000 for 15-19 year olds in recent years, while the post claims a rise from 0.3 in 1999 to 1.3 today.

https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac...

Sounds good, I'll add it to my ChatGPT prompt.

What's the difference between a prior and a bias?

How does one distinguish between the two?

That could be an effect of aggressive attempts to regain control rather than the cause, though.

Usually, a harbor pilot guides the vessel when entering and leaving the harbor.

The pilot is a former captain with a lot of local experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_pilot

[Edit: The association of Maryland Pilots even has the bridge on their homepage https://www.mdpilots.com/]

Did the pilot screw up? Was the pilot ignore? Did the captain take over? Was there a technical fault that disabled steering?

There could be a lot of possible reasons for this incident.

> Every user hates using microsoft products

Only because they've never had a chance to experience the competition.

Having worked in IBM and had to use the Lotus Office Suite I can tell you Microsoft won fair and square. And I'm not even talking about the detestable abomination that is Lotus Notes.

> I only ever heard creatives complain about Adobe and their UI/UX and how they don’t understand their customers.

There are tools no one uses, and there are tools people constantly complain about.

They may be brilliant, but if they're string theorists, they aren't scientists.

Or at least that's Woit's point.

> If/when it gets to the weight/comfort of normal glasses then sure.

I'm not so sure about that.

Even after 36 years of wearing glasses (current ones weight barely 20 gram), they still bother me, and I fiddle with them constantly.