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A good way to think of UPF is that it's "pre-chewed" food, due to the highly refined nature of it. The food matrix (structure) is destroyed, which fundamentally changes how your body metabolises it, bearing in mind this is a system evolved over millions of years to break down a mixture of whole foods in stages.

It's not even about the macronutrients - it's completely mismatched to our physiology. The nutrients are quickly absorbed due to the lack of structure so you get big blood sugar spikes and dips, making it hard to manage appetite (invariably leading to over-eating).

UPF is generally low fibre, so the microbiome is starved. It often contains emulsifiers which have the effect of a detergent in the gut lining, further damaging the microbiome.

It shouldn't be called "food". It's industrially produced pseudo-food with increasingly convincing evidence that it's contributing significantly to heart disease, diabetes, mental health issues, etc.
Severance is much better than either of those.
>heavy metal removal. If you do nothing at all, natural bacteria and fungi in the environment will do the remediation - so maybe just mix in some substrate, turn the soil and let nature do the rest.

And where exactly will the bacteria send the heavy metal?
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The Famicom 3D system was shutter glasses; these were also used on the Sega Master System. On the NES, there wasn't a shutter glasses peripheral released, so dual perspective 3D games used anaglyph glasses (red/blue).

In my book, that's not really 'over your face like the occulus', but that's up to you. Shutter glasses have come and gone several times on computers; many supported by Descent from 1995 on several different types of glasses, and there was a revival of the concept around 2009 with Nvidia 3D Vision. Having used some of the 1995 stuff, gearVR, and a quest 3, shutter glasses are a big pain.

On the power glove, man is it trash. Theoretically maybe, and I think some determined moders have turned it into something useful, but period gamepay is atrocious. My brother bought one with his paper route money and I think it turned him off video games.
> Usenet newsgroup alt.home.repair

This dude is old school.
Marc Andreessen said that industries that stand to gain from AI may be shielded from it by existing licensing and regulations e.g. education, law, medical. This AI act adds a whole other layer of shielding.
I'm basing my thinking on a publication by Autonetics publication EM-1488 in Jan. 1958. Titled an "Introduction to Digital Airborne Computing Techniques." It's 79 pages self bound book published to bring people up to speed on what is going on.

Page 1 is a definition of a digital computer it progresses to number systems, storage devices, boolean algebra, logical design, code design.

That is the first half of the book up to page 38.

The remaining sections cover General purpose computing, Digital Differential Analyzer operations, Digital Differential Analyzer Programming, D.D.A. decision and servo integration, Incremental and Whole Value Solutions of Control Problems.

The book contains a schematic of subsystems and the one complete circuit in the book is of a flip-flop.

I think the systems were robust becuase the computing problem was so tightly bound to the hardware.
I drive along in my Jeep and now and again marvel at the bazillion pieces in it.

How many man hours went in to the design, drawings, renderings, steps to make ready for manufacturing, finding a contractor, casting it, coating it, polishing it, bagging it, tagging it, and shipping it to the assembly line for the lever I used to open the door.

Can you imagine being in the design meeting for that thing? 10 folks around a table, the buffet with scattered lunch trays on it, marking up white boards, feeling prototypes, discussing material costs and shipping and raw material availability. The feel of the curves, too big, too small, "needs to be upscale because of the market for the vehicle".

That's just one piece.

"Let me introduce the 'push-to-talk' button", rinse and repeat.

I appreciate that they're going to use the part for at least 5 years, that they're going to be making at least a million of these parts (making some decisions even more important, remember, every penny costs us $10,000!). And it's a touch item for the consumer, vs bracket under the car, that may receive a bit less scrutiny.

But there are 50-100,000 parts in that car. Not to mention the probably pushing million line of code in the dozen plus CPUs. My car has more computers than I do.

Then my mind swims, and I get a little dizzy, and think "I probably shouldn't be doing this at 80MPH", so I turn on baseball.
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Doesn't change the code and may even highlight why a decentralized IRC protocol is of great importance.
Really? I thought Foundation was an embarrassment
> There is no argument here regarding "a posteriori" either way. The only relevant fact is that pure LCDM can explain the curve, while pure MOND can't.

So you're not going to read the evidence I presented, got it.

> Although at this point I fathom it must be intentional. DM is necessary. End of story. You even said it yourself.

DM is necessary under the assumptions of LCDM and MOND. That is not the same thing as saying DM is necessary without qualification.
SEC Fines Two Firms for Bogus Artificial Intelligence Claims
It's sad the comments here bashing this haven't understood the regulation, or haven't even read it and are just slamming it because in their mind EU REGULATION=BAD, AI=GOOD INNOVATION.

EU AI regulation isn't there to stop AI innovation, it's only there to restrict where and when AI can be used on decisions that affect people. For example, you can't deny someone healthcare, a bank account, a rental, unemployment payments, or a job, just because "computer says NO"[1].

I don't understand how people can be against this kind of regulation, especially knowing how biased and discriminatory AI can be made to be while also being a convenient scapegoat for poor policies implemented by lazy people in charge: "you see your honor it wasn't our policies and implementation that were discriminatory and ruined lives, it was the AI's fault, not ours".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YGZPycMEU
> Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial

Surely they could have given the treatment to ticks rather than humans? :)
Nobody can deny that you subjectively perceived an obvious lipsync problem.

But you put a millisecond figure on it, which would have involved some objective measurement method and instrumentation. That figure has got to be wrong, due to some mistake.

Or else you have superhuman perception in this area. If you're talking to someone from across the room, and perceive an obvious lag in lip sync, I withdraw all my remarks.
That's how bads use GPT to code. The right way is to ask GPT to break the problem down into a bunch of small strongly typed helper functions with unit tests, then ask it to compose the solution from those helper functions, also with integration tests. If tests fail at any point you can just feed the failure output along with the test and helper function code back in and it will almost always get it right for reasonably non-trivial things by the second try. It can also be good to provide some example helper functions/tests to give it style guidelines.
Such an amazing show and kudos to Netflix!
For what it's worth, nobody's going to mind you linking your own blog when that isn't disguised, i.e. you said 'we're' and the domain matches your username, not like you said 'this company is doing amazing stuff I'm investing and so should you' without disclosing your involvement or something!
Having recently bought a metal lathe, and in general having a long time fascination with manufacturing, broaching is freaking mind blowing. Imparting form into metal by extremely strategic shaving off thousandths until you get to what you're looking for. It just doesn't seem like it should actually work at all, yet we wouldn't have things like allen bolts, splines, or keyways without them. Turns out all you need is the right geometry and super hard metal to make it work.

Rotary broaches are just so cool in that getting the right angle and wobble to the tooling is incredibly important, but it just seems like magic when it actually does it's thing. https://youtu.be/GWyHJVOxKK4?t=444 It's only when I saw what it was doing with the rotary motion stabilized that it started to make sense. https://youtu.be/4-3gPWl6wfU?t=95
For All Mankind is just about my favorite show ever. I couldn't tolerate its stress level if it weren't so darn good.
I think this paragraph from an earlier Wired article [1] sums it up pretty well:

"After suing OpenAI this month, alleging the company has become too closed, Elon Musk says he will release his “truth-seeking” answer to ChatGPT, the chatbot Grok, for anyone to download and use."

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-no-choice-open-chatbot...
I think eventually we're heading to website as data with clients remixing the data in a way you don't expect; i.e., the final output will be a mishmash of sources.
I mean no doomerism. If anything I have dogmaism. The feeling that people can't see the problem through the inertia of built environment.
https://archive.is/8uaXE
What is the real liability for a scenario like this? Is there any grace period when a new app or startup becomes far more successful far sooner than expected? I imagine A11Y isn't a massive concern when it's not certain an idea will even work; outside of California I can't imagine being legally skewered if, once you attain unexpected success, you devote A11Y resources to address this issue.
That is a very weird take to me. That big slam presumably is the spring breaking, a lot of energy released at once in a rather uncontrolled fashion. The same energy will be released if you make a mistake installing it or the spring is faulty for whatever reason while you are standing right next to it.

My take away is that it's to dangerous to do.
I don’t claim to have any particular prescience here, but doesn’t this assume that the scope of “software” remains static? The potential universe of programmatically implementable solutions is vast. Just so happens that many or most of those potential future verticals are not commercially viable in 2024.
Keep it up for 20 years and let us know how it's working out for you.
That is evidently false? The EU got Apple to switch to USB-C, Google to open up Android's web search, Facebook to stop processing EU customers' data in the US, etc. Whenever I'm in the US and sign up for a service, I immediately get hit with weekly spam mail and "newsletters". And the only consistent way to terminate my account easily and completely delete my PII is by using an EU VPN.
Everything about the article tracks, but why do I get the feeling that it's really just a veiled screed about this particular genre succeeding when we've become enlightened as a society, and should have learned by now that we aren't supposed to enjoy stories like this any more?
Or perhaps “chat” just isn’t the best use of LLMs. Autocomplete-based integrations, rather than chat, could be better. I know I love and get great utility from GitHub Copilot, but not really any online or offline LLM chatbot.

Also, from a UX perspective, I feel an autocomplete-based UI encourages me to make sure the thing “I’m saying” is actually what I mean to say - ie, to not implicitly trust LLM hallucinations.

LLM-based generative text everywhere, in every app, could be useful, very straightforwardly integrated at an OS level into all text controls, something MS is well-poised to do, and “Copilot” a very good brand for that. (And I would be shocked if Apple and Google aren’t working on the same.)
Having put fruit in a blender you are changing how it’ll get absorbed, because the blender did the breaking down versus your body. You probably changed how nature of the fiber in the fruit.
Here complex numbers are used for an eloquent gradient calculation - you can express all sorts of operations through just the 3 functions: `exp`, `log` and `add` defined over complex plane. Simplifies the code!

The added benefit is that all the variables become complex. As long as your loss is real-valued you should be able to backprop through your net and update the parameters.

PyTorch docs mention that complex variables may be used "in audio and other fields": https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/autograd.html#how-is-w...
Good luck getting your organization to support building two apps. And even if you succeed once, good luck getting your organization to ship features twice every single time they want to build something.

What will end up happening is you have your normal app which isn't accessible, and a second app with a fraction of your features that is likely often broken because it's hard to prioritize.
Theres some reasonably sensible stuff here. I am strongly in favor of stuff like banning ai-based profiling of people by law enforcement, prediction of criminal offences and social scoring systems.

Can you explain why you think this is comical?
Currently only Rust UDFs are supported (https://doc.arroyo.dev/sql/udfs) but one of the things that Arrow should enable is performant Python integration, as Arrow has a standardized in-memory format that's portable across languages. So it's possible to take in-memory data constructed Arroyo's Rust implementation and pass it to a Python interpreter without serialization or possibly copying.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746915
Completely reasonable. I'd probably edit your blog post a bit to indicate that.
S2 is very good.
Processed food isn't the same as ultra processed. This is specifically about the NOVA classification of foods.
I would suspect that "unintentional fall" also covers falling over (like, the kind of fall that would happen if you tripped over a garden hose), not just falling off something. The former is the most common cause of emergency visits among the older people I know.
I'm tentatively a fan of the high-risk portion of this legislation, but am disappointed that the EU seems to be taking a "training on copyright data is a copyright violation" stance. This basically kills open models. Only the biggest of companies will be able to strike licensing deals on the scale necessary to produce a model familiar with modern human culture. Any model trained only of public domain data will have surprising knowledge gaps, like a person who has never read a book or watched a movie, only read reviews.
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How cheaply can fiberglass rebar be made compared to steel, in thermodynamic terms? It is not a complete substitute in terms of the ease of use, but in durability, it does not rust and cause spalling.
gravatar is already quite creepy - it's not uncommon for random websites to show a gravatar icon, in public, for a user, without prompting, thus exposing your real identity without permission purely because you didn't use a throwaway email address.
Wow, that's absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing that history
It may also refer to this, going back 4000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomery#Sub-Saharan_Africa

More in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_metallurgy_in_Africa

They mention inhomogenous steel there though, it sounds like the Tanzanian one was more purely directed at making steel instead of iron.
> everything is now AI, even things that are very clearly not AI

Links to a 2019 article. It would probably be good to get some more recent numbers. I think even a ChatGPT wrapper “uses” AI although they did not develop it and have no moat.
I’ll also put tires (on rims) underneath in addition to jack stands/ramps.
No, no, no.

Why bother killing the tick after a tick bite has delivered Lyme's Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete? Even if it's effective at killing ticks, it won't stop Lyme transmission.

And for it to be effective at killing ticks, the human has to be completely steeped in this GABA channel blocker paralytic.

The eye drops offer no real safety guarantees because the dosages are no where near comparable. The human study of surface skin had no data on bites and a short observation period of 6 weeks (roughly the 11-day half-life x 5 half-lives to wash out the dose?).

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The reported cost for ophthalmic 10ml solution of 0.25% lotilaner/Xdemvy for mites is ~$2k.

Reported adverse effects in dogs of lotilaner from 2013-2018 were only ~250, compared to 4k-18K for other drugs (no data on prevalence/usage).

It works as a GABA channel inhibitor (neurologic paralytic), specific to mites and perhaps ticks. No effect found in mammalian cells at ~11K/daily dosage for the ophthalmic drops.

Human blepharitis study had ~400 people in treatment arm over 6 weeks, ~50% effective.

Half-life of 11 days. No reported reversal agent. So if it is toxic, you're out of luck.

The optical solution is a tiny amount in the eyes, so little systemic exposure risk.

The tick pill involves much more systemic exposure via blood, so the eye drop experience says almost nothing about risk to humans.

I imagine the exposure to the tick from a blood bite is 10-1000x what it is from walking on the skin, so it's not clear to me this would stop lyme's Borrelia burgdorferi from being transmitted with the initial bite.

So: no.
What in the actual, 6.2 GHz!? The power draw must be insane.
Twitter used to have a series of different coloured "Egg" avatars for new users.

But, yes, this might be useful in enumeration attacks - but so is something like WebFinger.

Good points to consider. Thanks!
There will always be more novel code to write that the the AI hasn't learned.
This is a great example of how bad nutrition data is, and why meta studies are to be treated with caution.

They took 45 studies, but 90% of them were either low or very low quality.

‘Overall, using the GRADE framework, 22 pooled analyses were rated as low quality, with 19 rated as very low quality and four rated as moderate quality.‘
If our dog wants to rest and a fleece or wool blanket happens to be in reach, it will pull it in position (and sometimes even fold it) in order to rest its snout on it. But admittedly it does not move the blanket substantially. I have yet to understand how it decides where to rest though. There is a lot of places and none seems to really dominate the other ones.
Apple TV gets criticized for "wokeness" (insert giant eye-roll here) all the time. Ted Lasso was a wonderful show that seemed to cause no end of annoyance to the people I know who use "woke" unironically.
There's no PR yet (and I won't link to the branch in case the contributor doesn't want it public yet) but it exists and is being run in production :)
(Supposedly it only monitors heart rate and breathing. Supposedly. So far.)

Benign Version - is only made available to employees with severe heart conditions, potentially life-threatening asthma or allergies, dire panic attacks, etc. Has an "auto-dial 911" software option.

Not-so-benign Next Version - also comes a full set of cerebral monitoring electrodes, to record employee brain activity.

Very Expensive Firmware Upgrade to Not-so-benign Next Version - "monitoring" electrodes are now read/write, to bring employee brain activity into compliance with new HR guidelines.
I was left with more hope than you, upon completing the article. Smaller cars, less cars in general, more bikes, public transportation, urbanization, smaller living spaces. All these things are quite in vogue these days.

At their list towards the end, I felt like I had heard of online communities in favor of all of them, for more reasons than just the climate impact that they have.
Granted, but they definitely do not change enough to warrant a new edition every year. This can and has been experimentally confirmed by countless students even before Library Genesis simply by showing up to class with an old edition of the textbook and still learning the material fine.
I don’t think lack of technical skill implies not valuing freedom. There isn’t really alternatives that are as easy to use and have their clients already on it. They are as much a captive audience as anyone else.
100TB benchmarks for GPU native data processing on 5TB of RAM
Great comparison. Would love to see http response streaming added to the mix. I think a lot of use cases involving finite streams sent from server to client can be handled by the server streaming JSONL in the response. I tend to prefer this over SSE for finite data streams.
Many such cases exist; I’ve been the champion before
The author's intentionally verbose/non-linear storytelling technique, for example the two paragraph detour that describes his ladder and the ladder company's bankruptcy, and the 19 paragraph deep dive on garage door repair business marketing, makes it very hard for my brain to absorb the core information I was looking for (the procedure to replace the springs).

I know I'm kind of missing the point/creative intent of this essay, and I appreciate the non-linear full-of-detours style in other genres. For example I'm a huge fan of Norm MacDonald whose long, impossible-to-follow stories would often drive unaware audiences and talkshow hosts crazy. But for technical things I personally find the style super annoying and feeling like the author is trying to flex on how much engineering, business, and trivia knowledge he has in many adjacent topics.

I actually get anxiety thinking about getting trapped at a bar or party interacting with somebody who talks like this :-)

Curious how other readers feel about this, especially those who have the exact opposite reaction!
Thank you for your vulnerability and wise advice here. And I’d be willing to guess that your nephews have a ton of fun with you. :)