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Question to op - Do QR based systems in other SEA countries like promptpay in Thailand also work on similar logic?

Also, great website and layout, very respectful of the reader. Clean and with zero distractions.

My experience with the LLM bot is that they are really keen to appease the user and often over confident about their responses. They are prioritizing user engagement over factual nature of the response, it's as if their reward function includes the time spent on the bot. This leads to the bot swaying too much in either direction when it comes to debatable information. They essentially learn what the user prefers and so tend to reinforce those ideas. In some sense, they are like social media influencers who are too confident in their opinion because they are trying to get you to like them. I see us going further into the echo chambers where on the same topic, the bots will give different information to an users based on what the bot thinks about the user preference.

What would be a good way to backup the passwords stored in Bitwarden? I am worried that someday suddenly bitwarden could stop working and I will lose access to all the stored passwords? Should I have a physical copy of all the passwords stored in a vault at home?

Ya, I am a runner myself but I have heard this from some other friends. They all can play sports involving a lot of running but cannot seem to enjoy running for it's own sake. It might be personality thing, I am introverted so tend like running more because it doesn't need people or coordination. Plus it is highly accessible wherever I go.

I guess I am a likely target audience for such a tool since I work in marketing & we consume such research, so I read through the website and there is a lot of text about "AI" & how this revolutionizes market research ,etc. But I still have no idea about how it actually works. I will not be able to explain to someone why should they invest in this tool. At some level, it sounded like a wrapper on existing LLMs and I am also not clear on what exactly does it automate. It would help to have a detailed example of what exactly this tool does and why I should use this instead of directly using Claude or ChatGPT.

I can relate to this. I am also partially color blind and when bouldering without glasses, I so often mess up the foot holds. My partner often thinks I am cheating until I tell her that I couldn't make out the color.

I am on a 10 year old Kindle and looking to replace it but most of my ebooks are from Amazon. Would it be seamless to transfer my books to Kobo via Calibre or some other software or it will be pain in the butt?

Tangential - what is the a good book to catchup on the latest state of cosmological research?

Looks like the brief for this article was - "find an angle to blame everything on amazon"

This is one of the things that makes me full of wonder and awe! When we humans put our heads to something we can kick ass. Unfortunately, off late our heads have been into kicking each other instead of building something.

where does this fit in? I am reading Intro to statistical learning, so wondering if this should come after it or I can directly jump to this when I reach the unsupervised ML techniques.

Using meetup to find a local running group has been an interesting experience. I am not buddies with them but it is nice to get out of the work bubble.

Don't sell the book, sell your story. People buy stories & how those make them feel as a person, they do not just buy the product.

I have marketed books in the past and they are generally very difficult to sell because discovery is challenging. Cookbook category is especially very competitive and AI tools have made everything worse. So your best bet is to promote your story on social media and try to generate word of mouth. You could try spending some money on Amazon on keywords which are extremely tightly related to your cook book stuff and check if it generates any value, try with a small amount.

What a nice comment!! This has been a big failing of my mental model. I always believed if I was smart enough I should understand things without effort. Still trying to unlearn this....

I am learning Python with Replit's 100 days of code. Not sure how useful it will be, but so far it has been good.

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Really cool, I could pair it with some ocean or river noise from mynoise & it will be a nice things to have on a separate screen while working.

Thanks everyone for the responses. Really appreciate the community for explaining!

I get the idea of superconductivity at room temperature in theory. But I don't have enough knowledge to understand in real terms, how will the world change if this is true?

Would you mind sharing, what level of programming & mathematical background do I need? I know basic python (read python for data analysis) & currently half way through elements of statistical learning. What else do I need to learn?

I totally agree with you. For this reason, I don't follow mainstream outlets about climate change. The most balanced source I have found so far is this substack by Hannah Ritchie. Here is one of those balanced article - https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/15c-warming-tempor...

Yeah, just saying suffering is bad without any context is not helpful. Apart from being unavoidable, certain kinds of suffering produces happiness for people down the road. For example, running & training for a marathon was suffering but the reward and experience of doing it was life changing, taught me so much about myself.

How do you feel about this situation?

What has been your personal experience living in Myanmar all this while?

How do you see this situation playing out?

I wonder how does this feel in practice? what does it feel like to be without striving? to surrender? I understand this intellectually but I struggle to understand this in practical terms. What does it mean to have no desire?

Aren't the countries banning TikTok becoming more like China by doing this? Plus Trump comments about US gov needs to get money from this sale sounds like plain bribe.

I have not seen a convincing proof that TikTok is more of a national security threat versus FB or Twitter. What am I missing? I am also more suspicious because along with TikTok, Wechat was banned while other investments in US by Tencent where not touched supposedly because it would impact American companies. Wechat is definitely insignificant to be a security threat.

You are right in your analysis. Jio is using a different accounting approach to show that they are profitable. One - Their depreciation model is non-standard vs. what is used by other telecom companies & Two - They are booking the sales of subsidized devices under their retail subsidy - Reliance retail. If there is someone who understand this better, I would like to get more insight.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/teleco...

Thanks. I am actually fine with a specific point of view as long as it is spelled out. I understand that people have different value systems leading to different outlooks on topics and in most things there is no one right answer, what I dislike are the ones which are sly.

Slightly off topic - I have not heard of this website, what is the general sense in the community about the quality of the content here? It looked interesting but I am always skeptical of trying new places because a lot of times they are just fronts for certain ideologies and tend to spin the content to suit them. And there is only so much time one has to critically evaluate everything and sift through the nonsense, this is the main reason I have stopped following news.

Disclaimer: I assume by impact you mean "case fatality rate" (CFR)

This is my hypothesis of lower impact. Both India & Germany have low CFR and we find that in Germany 49% of cases are under the age of 50, while in India 70% of cases are under the age of 50 years. On the contrary, in Italy 70% of Covid infected individuals are above the age of 50, with 39% above the age of 70 and Spain has 69% of cases above the age of 50 with 37% above the age of 70. US case data by age is grouped somewhat differently by CDC but my guess is that close to 40% of infections are in the age-group below 50 years and about 20% are above the age of 70 years, this might partially explain the relatively lower CFR because CFR for ages under 50 is ~0.4% if you are in the age-group of 40-49 & lower below. Median age of the population for these countries are India - 28, Italy - 46, Spain - 44, Germany - 48 & US - 38. Germany seems to have either done something differently here.

This can only partially explain the differences but would be an important factor when looking at overall fatalities.

This is really interesting. Are there any good tutorials for someone starting out? I would be interested in playing around with it.