JimtheCoder

I am not sure how others here will feel about this, but if you cannot take a business to $5000 per month in almost any market, then it might be more of a "you" problem (I don't have the right skills, I don't know how to sell, etc) than a "I chose the wrong business" problem...

Maybe the reason why business #5 or #6 is more successful is not that they changed businesses, but that they finally developed the skills necessary to make it work through their failures. If they went back to business #1, they could probably make it work this time.

Takeaway? Chose one thing and develop the skills (sales, etc) instead of jumping to the next thing.

If we are talking about $500K per month, then that is a different story...

I can handle the downvotes...

"That night, you deadlift your body weight. You sneak a photo of yourself in the mirror and email it to yourself with the subject heading “You Are A Warrior”."

I can see why she left him...

I thought hats were about covering up the fact that you are going bald...

"Mainly because the last paragraph in GP comment focused on the dearth of direct clinical applications."

I am not sure why everyone is convinced that they will not be very useful in therapies...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6357081/

"We certainly need to give ownership of the company to the other part, but we want to keep the decision-making of the product mostly to ourselves but with the flexibility to align with the requirements of the clients that they're bringing."

Yea, this rarely, if ever, happens long term.

"but to say that it's impossible that hormonal imbalance or other biological causes are not possible is just plain stupid."

But, things like hormonal imbalances and biological causes would effect the "calories out" portion of the formula, no?

I think he is referring to publicly traded markets, like stock exchanges.

The less liquidity, the more inefficiency there is...the environment being an extreme example...

With regards to #2...

Maybe I am not smart enough for this, but can someone define "General Intelligence" for me?

"Practically speaking, the best way to become smarter is to learn a lot of stuff and cultivate a lot of skills. Since knowledge and skills are more specific than general intelligence, that may be less than we desire, but it still matters a lot."

Would "learning a lot of stuff and cultivating a lot of skills" not boost your general intelligence?

But is it just knowledge or is it the human connection that makes a difference?

Students have access to all the information they need on Calculus through Google and other resources, for instance, but actually sitting down with a living, breathing human being and having them help you through your troubles...to me, that cannot be replaced with an AI.

If access to knowledge was all we needed to acquire and maintain intelligence in a specific area, we would all be a lot smarter...

So you're saying there's a chance...

I will help control the pet population. I will have my pets spayed or neutered...

Are they not using MRI primarily?

If they are paying for it out of pocket, I assume they would have the option for the raw data. Maybe a small-ish processing fee, because...American healthcare.

ChatGPT, you are a mediocre substack author. Write me an article with the title...

"Generative AI was overhyped, but it also isn't a nothing-burger"

Include some graphs. Include a poem. Sh*t talk Elon a little as well...

Save a click...

"The 11 factors are age, education, a history of diabetes, a history of depression, a history of stroke, parental history of dementia, levels of deprivation, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, living alone and being male."

"but it turns out at the end of the day I could still wipe my butt."

As long as the important things are taken care of...

I can't remember the last time there was something actually worth listening to on "live audio".

At the same time, not knowing in advance what the content will be is sort of a killer for me...on-demand has a bit of social proof through reviews and comments, whereas live audio is sort of a crap shoot.

"We have warehouses full of extra stock etc, and carefully-managed supply chains, and emergency services."

Did the Covid pandemic not exist to you?

"You cannot fill plates and then take them home."

If you're a fast runner you can...

So...did they not think of this before they started building the factories, or did they just think the employees with the required skills would magically appear?

Do you feel the same way about all-you-can-eat buffets?

"He has been a paid consultant for pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly, McNeil, Janssen-Orth, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Shire, Takeda pharmaceuticals, and Theravance"

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

Am I the only one who thinks lettuce is just...overrated?

Greek salad, Israeli Salad, Olivier Salad - all of the lettuce-less salads are far superior.

If I wanted to eat something that tastes like nothing and has no real nutritional value...I will eat nothing.

While I agree that is the common sentiment, I have read numerous studies that are starting to question this...

"There is evidence to support the use of DBS in less advanced PD and that it may be appropriate for earlier stages of the disease than for which it is currently used. The improving short and long-term safety profile of DBS makes early application a realistic possibility. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4065356/

Maybe making some modifications to a "pedestrian scramble" intersection and using those should be reconsidered.

I remember using these in downtown Toronto - they were fun and seemed to work pretty well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble

"I look forward to hooking all my at-home cameras up to a voice recognition, image recognition, and LLM detection suite and just speak aloud and have the AI-suite "do stuff". It sounds really, really fun to me."

Alternatively, this sounds like the starting plot to a crossover sci-fi/horror movie...

Yes! Public transit is mentioned, so this is now a certified HN thread.

But seriously, whenever I go for a walk, people with dogs are the only ones I see stopping and interacting with each other.

It seems like the dogs have the right idea, and they take their humans with them...

Deep brain stimulation is becoming quite popular as well...

We can't be #1 at anything. I would assume a depression support forum would be worse.

"if I got a diagnosis I would be less likely to embark on learning to play the piano"

Perhaps counterintuitively, doing something like learning to play the piano could potentially slow the progression of fine motor skill impairment. Same with things like Tai Chi, dancing, exercise in general...