The readme shows how to run it assuming you can run a python program on the device, so I expect it works with laptops and PCs but there's a note at the end of the page saying that the iOS app has fallen behind the python version so it's not clear to me how to get this running on your iphone or other such devices.
Also, possibly a hot take, but many have been on caffeine since early teens, I am convinced the average person’s anxiety is 30 or 40% higher when on several caffeinated beverages a day
If it really was about “safety” then why wouldn’t Ilya have made some statement about opening the details of their model at least to some independent researchers under some tight controls. This is what makes it look like a simple power grab, the board has said absolutely nothing about what actions they would take to move toward a safer model of development.
Great idea and demo but tough to see many municipalities refitting their street lighting to keep astronomers happy. Might be easier to persuade them to just turn streetlights off completely for a few hours a night, at least then there’s some cost saving.
Maybe in the future when we all have smart glasses with night vision mode and self driving cars we’ll look back at citywide streetlights as a quaint and inefficient solution
I think for many people “Bug” can imply something that crawled in from outside and messed up the system, “defect” implies that there was an avoidable deficiency in the specification or the implementation. The engineering mindset might prefer “defect” since it implies that we can fix the process and improve the quality of future products, whereas “bug” implies these things are just a fact of life and you can’t expect to eliminate them
curious what exactly you're referring to by market regime detection / classification, anything I've seen on this (several models from bulge sellside) has been backward looking and fairly useless.
It’s a bit hard not to be cynical when he himself describes how he developed his channel by optimising and a/b testing everything “like a psychopath” including the amount of views per dollar given away - he says himself that 100k seems to be the inflection point, you don’t get so many more views by going from 100k to 500k or 1m. Not once did he ever appear to have thought about the impact on the lives of the people receiving this random lump sum, which plenty of research on lottery winners shows is often very disruptive and negative on their overall long term wellbeing. As for his “donating” for blindness surgery etc, there are plenty of actual charities staffed by volunteers working hard day after day, he could easily donate quietly to any of those and he chooses not to.
I’d buy a Pavlok for sure if I could easily configure it to buzz me when I exceed a certain number of phone pickups or just phone screen time in a given period. I see some people have made this work with shortcuts and zapier but I’d want it to work out of the box
If you’re actually busy then everything you say yes to necessarily means saying no to something else. If I start a hobby project to learn about and play with technology X, and I end up yak-shaving technology Y, I’m wasting my time and not achieving my goal.
Nitpick but statements like
“this is why we have resorted to clothing ever since we left our origins in Africa (where it was hot enough to survive without additional layers of clothing).”
really make me question the basic intelligence of the author.
I also work at a HF and have worked in various finance domain roles for 20 years and I strongly agree with this. Focus on clearing your short term debt (if any), keeping your investment costs low, pick safe options.
After this, in my opinion the most impactful thing you can do to long term wealth prospects is live well within your means, and ask for raises, really really make sure you are at or close to the top end of your market rate salary at all times. Never defer gratification when it comes to professional compensation, no matter what the supposed upside might be.
Also speculates that taking antiviral treatments, even short courses, might delay or prevent the virus progressing from peripheral to central nervous system.
Genuine question, if Amazon is knowingly selling this product to minors and they are aware if its intended use, how is this being “blown out of proportion”?
All the staff you interact with have been to the same handful of British public schools (ie private fee schools) so you never have to talk to someone who is ignorant of precisely your standing in the British class system and they will all speak with comforting RP, follow the cricket, and drop an occasional Latin phrase into the conversation. Banking service is basically as shite as all the rest. [source: I ran a company that for very strange reasons ended up having to use them for business banking services]
They also sacrificed humans to their gods. The tenure of a bad habit is not an argument in favour of the habit. I recall ancient romans used lead to enhance the taste of wine, if that practice had persisted nobody today would advocate for it give what we now know (and they suspected) about the effects of lead.
And while we know that ancient civilisations drank alcohol, we don’t know how widespread or frequent it was, was it just an elite? Was it a very occasional ceremony (as some indigenous tribes still do, using psychoactive substances as part of group rituals once or twice per year)?
Yes, people “doing” the stage-Irish accent in response to an Irish person speaking in a relatively neutral accent is incredibly common, I just don’t get how people don’t realise what they’re doing- and I know for fact that many times it’s meant in a friendly, almost affectionate way, which boggles my mind even more, and then of course there are times when it’s intended to irk and offend but the person doing it hides behind the “banter” and thinks they won’t get called out for it.
Maybe, but maybe rapport based on “I don’t know you but I’ve heard your kind are a harmless lot who are always up for a drinking party after work”, is useful in a very limited set of circumstances, such as meeting a new team of peers, maybe. I’d still argue not, since the point of rapport building is to get to know the person in front of you, not how well they fit your preconception / stereotype.
In a large majority of situations in my experience, like being a senior manager of a new team, the CEO of a company meeting clients or negotiating with vendors and partners, it’s utterly irrelevant at best.
Also, the fact that Ireland has a major, major alcohol problem is no justification for the stereotype; so do many northern hemisphere countries. London had its Gin Crisis of the 18th century, with huge death toll and virtual breakdown of society, and the UK still has astronomical alcohol consumption, but they don’t get labelled the same way as the Irish
Yeah, maybe don’t. I’m Irish and I’m sick to death of the stereotype of Irish as jolly drunkards. I recently went to see “The Glass Menagerie” play and the biggest (maybe only) laugh of the night was when the mother expressed surprise that an individual was “Irish on both sides but not an alcoholic”. Ha fucking ha. If I could go to the theatre and not have my nationality be the butt of lazy racist jokes that would be great, thanks.
And this isn’t harmless. I’ve worked in tech all my life, mostly outside of Ireland, and the “jolly drunkard” is certainly not a helpful stereotype when you’re trying to be taken seriously and progress in your career, I’ve experienced the unpleasant labelling myself (despite I’m teetotal) and frequently seen it applied to other Irish people.
Keep them off non-essential medication for as long as possible, side effects of one medication often result in further medication and then you’re in the western geriatric medication spiral.
Do everything possible to avoid falls; remove rugs and any floor obstacles, door lips, etc from their living space. Avoid where possible any medication that causes dizziness or fainting. Metformin can cause low blood sugar and fainting if they miss a meal or have a low carb meal, or are generally unwell (eg fighting a cold virus or covid), and so should be avoided unless they have diabetes that cannot be managed through diet.
If they’re prescribed statins, make sure it’s on the basis of cardiac calcification tests and not just a blood test (latter has little to no correlation with cardiac risk)
Dehydration is a huge problem for older people in general, keep them hydrated any way possible. Dehydration leads to general poor health, digestion, dizziness and falls.
It’s a bit disappointing that an article purporting to educate us about something we should know but may be unaware of, is completely wrong about the example of how an airplane climbs - you don’t climb by pitching up, you have to increase power.
Agreed; I would add that the monarchy also does much more damage by creating and perpetuating the British class system. I’m not sure it would collapse without them, but it would certainly seem less legitimised. When you step back for a moment and think what the phrase “lower class” applied to people actually means and implies, it’s hard not to be disgusted, horrified and frightened. The “lower class” only exists for the “upper class”, and fascists.
I agree that disruption is the other major threat, which they also pour billions into via acquisitions and VC activities. My guess though is that the possibility of govt action is what really scares them, and most of the tech elite. You can tell when Google realised this by noting that they went from spending almost nothing on lobbying to spending quite a lot (coinciding roughly with their transition from “don’t be evil” to “c’mon, man, be real “)
It’s not that long ago that Microsoft was facing the very real possibility of antitrust, so it’s very much something leaders of tech companies have a duty (to shareholders) to defend against.
I’d suggest they care less about new products diversifying income and more about new products making them look diversified and less like a monopoly. That is the logic behind changing their name to “Alphabet”, distract from their utter dominance in search. Their only real fear and existential threat is from the govt doing an antitrust on them and forcing a breakup, hence it’s worth a few billion every year to keep that wolf from the door.
Everyone faces this pain. There is no single good source for all the data any nontrivial app needs. The main vendors are predatory and will change the goalposts to charge you as much as you can bear and more as you grow. In my experience this is a huge obstacle and probably a major reason there is limited innovation in anything like derived market data analytics. It’s not just you, it’s everyone.
Research in finance; job is open ended mandate to find ways to optimise systems, decision processes and alpha signals. Using R mainly, dropping into c++ for some performance stuff. Occasional use of machine learning.
As you mature and gain experience it’s normal and healthy to have less “raw certainty” - but most of that is misplaced anyway and we’re just ignoring the uncertainties inherent in the world, and getting over excited by our own untested ideas.
As I’ve aged I’ve found that it’s easier to focus on the questions that really matter, whether it’s “will this actually make money” or “will I actually enjoy working with these people at this company (regardless of how fashionable or prestigious it might be).
You’ll often read that successful people decide what they want and focus on it obsessively. It’s easy to overlook that phrase “decide what you want”. You really have to consciously decide that you want something and make it your goal. Motivation is emotional, and it will come and go over time, you can’t rely on it for the long haul, no matter how passionately you feel about something in the moment. You have to explore and figure out the rational reasons you want X or Y or Z, write them all down, and then decide which one you’re going to go for, and when you’re wavering, or getting distracted by other things that seem interesting and cool, reread the rationale for your decision, don’t rely on emotions.
I used Linux as my daily for 10 years and every time there was a major update either sound or networking or both broke. I love Linux, I still use it regularly, but my experience was that basic stuff kept getting broken. I was using very standard Thinkpad laptops throughout.