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Longforms from papers like the Economist actually really interest me, and I look forward to opening them even when my life is pretty happy already. But you need to find non-extreme papers that match your interests and keep reading time under control.

> The mental effect of 'its different from mainstream, thus better and look at me how clever I am for finding it out 5 minutes before most of group'.

It's not because of lag time, and it's not because it's different from mainstream, it's due to growing frustration with older media that I slowly developed before I even knew about Twitter and my experience following interesting people on there. It's gotten worse since Musk, some have moved to bsky or mastodon, but it's still the best source for me.

I understand your point of view but I don't find your assumption very charitable, there are real reasons for this that have been touched on.

Some are pretty verifiable accounts from actual academics, CTOs, journalists, that's the ones I'm interested in. You can get multiple sources on one website with fewer filters, that's what makes it a good source

They're fine where they are useful, I guess, but my undergrad put way too much emphasis on them when they're not intuitive, don't help (me) much with comprehension, and aren't useful in that many cases compared to the other techniques.

Other media is frustrating because it's always heavily filtered, has an agenda, and always talks like a PR release. It's like they're trying to keep some image of a respectable paper and so have to write in that stupid title - subtitle that repeats the title - first paragraph that repeats the subtitle - 30 paragraphs in complete disorder, half of which are a waste of time format

Edit: someone on Twitter obviously also has an agenda, but it's not hidden behind a supposedly impartial image (NYT, etc.), it's just some guy with known credentials posting opinions

Don't machine learning books kind of fill that gap? e.g. Bishop uses probabilistic reasoning, Elements of Statistical Learning seems to be heavy on frequentist stats (haven't read it though), etc.

I like that he leaves determinants to a later chapter and doesn't _start_ with them, I never understood why they were useful or made sense. His view, represented on the cover, is great for learning

Big schools' curricula? Look at some top school's math undergrad courses and graph them

I've taken a position in CRWD and I'm retail, but take that as the opposite of investment advice. Worked well in the past, though.

It’s only market manipulation if you have the intention of making the stock go down, right? If answering the OP is illegal, then no employee of any listed company can ever say something bad about it, which sounds too restrictive?

Did a company ever get sentenced for a bug? Maybe in aviation or medical tech?

Sounds like this is hugely emotionally taxing, do you just get used to it after a while, or is it a constant weight?

This is why I'm impressed by anyone who works in a hospital, especially the more urgent/intensive care

yea I don't need an attack on a weak system, I mean the authorized legal normal way of unlocking BL from Windows when you have the right credentials. Windows might not be able to unlock BitLocker with just your password.

I don't know how common it is to disable TPM-stored keys in companies, but on personal licenses, you need group policy to even allow that.

Although this is moot if Windows recovery mode is accepted as the right system by the TPM. But aren't permissions/privileges a bit neutered in that mode?

Don’t you need more options if the key is in a TPM, or there is a password but it’s only part of the key?

Can you even get the secret from the TPM in recovery mode?

Did the person survive?

Billions in losses means a somewhat worse life for a huge number of people and potentially much worse healthcare problems down the line, the NHS was affected

"The battery is messed up after 2 years" is a complaint I've seen and it was pretty damaging to my buying intentions. Just one data point

> heart attack risk

Not sure, but don't ECGs find cases of severe plaques or narrowed arteries? Or most cases of heart disease.

> aneurism risk

An angiography should find most cases, from some quick research. "The CTA sensitivity, specificity and accuracy was 80%, 43% and 73%, respectively. The CTA sensitivity for aneurysms < 3 mm and 3 mm – 5 mm in size was 30% and 81.5%, respectively (p = 0.024)." [1]

Agree on the rest though.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10244944/

I wonder if he does CT/MRI/angiograms to find any vascular abnormalities. Seems to be a big cause of sudden death, but they don't talk about it. One CT for a 70-year-old head of state doesn't sound like too much?

Apparently [1], Biden at least has "controlled" cholesterol, a normal EKG, some asymptomatic and controlled fibrillation. The number of experts who consult the guy every year is actually impressive.

The usual 70-year-old is probably a risky bet, but surely 10 specialists plus a team of generalists would make a more predictive yearly checkup. I think he's going to lose through normal politics and not by way of a heart attack.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Health...

They're both supposed to be in good health though, we have Biden's public yearly checkup report. I don't think many old people get scans and full-body checkups every year and then die of something catastrophic with no warning?

Doesn't bipolar often get better by itself after 50? That happened to family members and they certainly weren't trying to improve their lifestyle.

Also, Windows Store apps seem to have an identity and limited permissions, so you can probably have some kind of smartphone OS-like isolation.

Maybe the learning and inference can happen in a VM and the apps can only have access to a query API. (Take the equivalents if it's not all ML.)

Researchers on Twitter are saying that it’s just a plaintext SQLite.

Doesn’t Windows already have a data store that’s encrypted with a key that doesn’t exist in RAM unless you’re logged on? And some kind of isolation of sensitive processes in a VM?

Malware can probably read most of the user’s data in RAM, but if OS components keep getting more isolated from each other, maybe that can be secure enough.

> But all those generations until my brother died defending the belief that they were fine and everyone else was the problem.

That's also what I observed but it's almost tautological, isn't it? If they were able/willing to realize it, they'd feel the need to change it, unless we're talking about severe psychopaths.

> I think change is possible for anyone, but they have to want it (and the more change that's needed, the bigger the desire has to be). And I've realized there isn't anything I can do to make my dad want to change.

I think it's possible most times, and that no one should try. The victim is usually better-placed to do it and they don't deserve to waste part of their life for someone who causes them problems on purpose.

It may be a job for the mental health system, or for school in the long run, but that's a long shot. Or maybe we should focus on giving victims an escape. I'm not sure there's a good solution if we want to give all parents freedom.

Sounds like a good reason to generalize dev containers. At least both dev and deployment environment will be somewhat isolated. And the worst you can do from the dev container is commit bad code, which can be seen in code review.

Is that an Expanse reference or does the word mean something else in biology?

How much did Blackwater do? Did they actually fight or just guard?