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torusenthusiast

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torusenthusiast··on Time-restricted eating reshapes gene expression throughout the body
For posters who do time restricted eating, how do you deal with the panicked/dizzy feeling you often get when not eating for long periods. Does that eventually go away with IF, or do you just get used to it?
torusenthusiast··on Life Is Short (2016)
This one hits me hard, I'm in a very similar situation right now. After finally overcoming social anxiety to the point I could get out I was starting to finally build some connections, but now it pretty much seems hopeless.

By the time this is all over and society resumes I will be pretty far past the cutoff point for fixing my social life and still managing to be relatively "normal"

torusenthusiast··on I had Covid-19, and these are the things nobody tells you
This is utterly terrifying, I barely go out but to know someone following all the precautions could still get it freaks me out so much. Every allergy attack I've gotten throughout the summer has plunged me into fear I've got it, or every slight cough.

Honestly I was starting to think the dread of the virus was worse than the virus itself, but the more articles like this I see the more I realize it isn't.

Has anyone here had it? Especially as a younger person I read the advice saying things like "the risk is low" but I'm terrified of having to face this.

torusenthusiast··on Jobseekers face exploitation as online recruitment is riddled with fake news
One thing I've noticed in my more recent job searches before starting my company was that this kind of spam exists at all job search levels.

I'm really getting the feeling that online applications to jobs are rapidly becoming next to useless, it really feels like this market is ripe for disruption, and I've been thinking for a while about how this could be done.

torusenthusiast··on Does Having an Anime Profile Picture Make You a Better Programmer?
The answer is an unequivocal yes
torusenthusiast··on Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll
The more I learn about the Plague of Justinian the happier I am that our current plague is relatively "mild". I am also amazed how much of an impact these kinds of things can have on the world.

I wonder what the long term fallout of the current situation will be (will there be a large one?). Death tolls are nowhere near past plagues, but the lockdowns have had a large economic impact for some countries. It's an interesting thought experiment, what do people here think?

torusenthusiast··on How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
I'm curious, what can I, as a full-stack developer, do to prepare for things like GPT-X eventually making a lot of the work I do obsolete in the next 10-20 years?

Seeing all these demonstrations is starting to make me a little bit nervous and I feel it is time for a long term plan.

torusenthusiast··on Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
I was kind of hoping they would ask it some political questions. One of the very concerning things for me about these kinds of systems is their impact on political discourse, especially online.

If a system can be trained to advocate for a political viewpoint to the level of online debate without human interaction that could cause some interesting effects in online discourse.