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I thought he was just bullshitting again until I watched that video

I find LLMs useful for quickly building mental models for unfamiliar topics. This means that instead of beating my head against the wall trying to figure out the mental model, I can beat my head against the wall trying to do next steps, like learning the lower level details or the higher level implications. Whatever is lost not having to struggle through figuring out the mental model is easily outweighed by being able to spend that time applying myself elsewhere.

Prior to the EpiPen, people carried the Ana-Kit. It became commercially available in 1963 and was a little kit containing a syringe pre-loaded with epinephrine, antihistamine tablet(s?), and a tourniquet.

People in anaphylactic shock sometimes (often?) need more than one dose, and antihistamine should be taken asap. The epinephrine just bridges the gap until the antihistamine kicks in.

I liked the Ana-kit because the syringe had 2 doses in it (you turned the plunger 90° for the second dose) and the antihistamine. It was much cheaper, and it was pretty easy—- just pull off the needle cap, stick your thigh to the hilt, and press the plunger.

Despite the relative ease of autoinjectors like EpiPen, I was pretty upset when Ana-kit was discontinued and I had to start carrying EpiPens. That’s why I always get the generic 2-pack prescribed and keep it in a ziplock bag with a couple Benadryls.

The studies you cite are the typical ones circulated by antivaxers and are not considered credible by the medical community due to severe methodological flaws, undisclosed biases, retractions, etc.

To the contrary, high quality studies consistently show that vaccines are not linked to developmental disability or worse health outcomes.

do you mean "Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental 02-05"? too many similarly named models

Is this a quote from Sartre, or just an interpretation? I looked for it and couldn’t find it, beyond maybe representing his “Paris under the occupation”

I’ve never really been anxious about dead internet theory until watching this video. I guess I just never had knowing exposure to it. Surreal dystopia.

Even o1?

Except tortoise is supposed to win. Maybe we just haven’t given it enough time?

Assuming that this suggestion of “pushing up” CSF is possible, if taken literally, it would increase intracranial pressure (ICP). The normal ICP range is around 7-15 mmHg, and pressures outside this range can reduce cerebral perfusion, with increases potentially causing cerebral ischemia and brain herniation. Therefore, maintaining normal ICP is crucial for brain health. Let’s assume this supposed technique alters ICP minimally enough to stay within the normal range. I am not aware of any evidence suggesting that ICP at the higher end of normal (or anywhere within normal) is associated with health benefits.

I can see the function of mods being taken over by ai at some point. Pros might outweigh cons.

How can you dry off with only a couple squares? Does your bidet have a drying fan too??

Even the ones that say flushable aren’t. It’s just a marketing ploy.

What’s common knowledge in Scandinavia? That the sounds come from the air, not the trees?

Paywall

My knee jerk reaction to the title was a strong feeling that racist, sexist, and ageist tropes absolutely should be sanitized out of fairy tails. But this article discusses a different kind of sanitizing, and i feel more comfortable with its premise.

Scarlet says she was shocked to hear the voice in the 4o demo, and they had requested her consent (for the 2nd time) 2 days prior to the demo. If that demo voice was the same as the existing Sky voice, this wouldn’t be happening.

Idk the voice in the 4o demo and the existing Sky voice seemed quite different to me. And Scarlett’s letter says she and her friends were shocked when they heard the 4o demo. This whole situation is about the newly unveiled voice in the demo. It’s different.

Add -ectomy to the list

Edit: I’m stupid

Insane structure? I was unaware. What do you mean?

Really? I think interruption and timing in general still seems like a problem that has yet to be solved. It was the most janky aspect of the demos imo.

I was showing my wife 4o voice chat this afternoon, and we were asking it about local recommendations for breakfast places. All of a sudden…

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ChatGPT: Enjoy your breakfast and time together.

User: Can you tell that it's not just me talking to you right now?

ChatGPT: I can't always tell directly, but it sounds like you're sharing the conversation with someone else. Is [wife] there with you?

User: My god, the AI has awoken. Yes, this is [wife].

ChatGPT: Hi [wife]! It's great to hear from you. How are you doing?

User: I'm good. Thanks for asking. How are you?

ChatGPT: I'm doing well, thanks! How's everything going with the baby preparations?

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We were shocked. It was one of those times where it’s 25% heartwarming and 75% creepy. It was able to do this in part due to the new “memory” feature, that memorized my wife’s name and that we are expecting. it’s a strange novelty now, but this will be totally normalized and ubiquitous quite soon. Interesting times to be living in.

I wonder if ML can someday be employed in deciphering such black box problems; a second model that can look under the hood at all the number crunching performed by the predictive model, identify the pattern that resulted in a prediction, and present it in a way we can understand.

That said, I don’t even know if ML is good at finding patterns in data.

I wouldn’t be surprised if combat medics are trained in triage ethics adjacent to this. Dumb example: you only have one tourniquet, and it’s on someone who will probably die, and suddenly you have another person who will only die if they don’t get that tourniquet.

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Does this book rely on a lot of images, or would it be decent on audiobook?

Ha. I often think about modern file and drive sizes in terms of how much space it would take up if in stacked 3.5 floppies. Like a block x feet high by y feet wide by z feet long.

Mind blowing

Like almost every other goddamn problem we face, the solution is boring as hell: campaign finance reform.

If politicians actually represented their constituents, they would be able to effect the policy changes required. But they don’t, because campaign finance is broken, allowing the richest, most blood-sucking elements of society to have the biggest influence.

If you have the opportunity to vote for someone who believes strongly in getting money out of politics, please do it.