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My dentist has one of the most state of the art facilities I've ever seen. On my first visit they told me I needed 2 fillings and a cleaning and sent me on my way.

> This has happened to me before when i went away to college my childhood dentist said I had cavities that I needed to fill. When i got to college and went to the dentist there, they couldn't find a problem.

The college dentist could also just be wrong.
While in LA, we shopped around for dentists. Several of the smaller places took advantage of the fact we had good insurance and insisted they had found several cavities (11 in once case). Having never / rarely had cavities, we were skeptical and tried other places.

Since moving back to MN, where lack of insurance is less common, we do not have this problem.

The only remaining scam is xrays.
> Getters return values. This returns a pointer. So it's an accessor. With unchecked semantics.

This isn't exactly a pointer: Rust distinguishes between read-only and mutable ("exclusive") references.

This returns a read-only reference, so it's very much like a getter: you cannot use it to modify the thing it points to.

It's just that it does it without a copy, which matters for performance in some cases.
Lot of countries do this to varying degrees already. India, Brazil, in some industries the US...
Not sure that is the case. The base science and recommended practices seems pretty much as a solid as any other speciality (imperfect as they all are). It really is the case that cavities are bad. We understand what causes them, how they grow, risk factors and how to treat them.

But ... the business model and incentives are different. A general practice MD, doesn't get a cut of revenue when they write a prescription. The incentives are closer to a plastic surgeons. And you can see similar lapses of ethics in that field.
Why Entitlement Wins
Boeing dismantles diversity department, Bloomberg News reports
You don't even need an external camera, you could probably intercept the DP signal.
This is both simultaneously surprising (given how long they’ve been in the perfect space to acquire) and unsurprising (given that they’re a perfect fit)

Really looking forward to what comes out of this.
I'd get a professional teeth cleaning every 3 months if my insurance covered it
This was 100% my experience in Los Angeles, and nowhere else.
like, events vs documents, ~2007:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/nickmalik/ki...
p-value doesn't measure interestingness directly of course, but I think people generally find nonsignificant results uninteresting because they think the result is not difficult to explain by the definitionally-uninteresting "null hypothesis".

My point was basically that the reputation / carrer / etc of the experimenter should be mostly independent of the study results. Otherwise you get bad incentives. Obviously we have limited ability to do this in practice, but at least we could fix the way journals decide what to publish.
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In many countries and jurisdictions, that’s exactly what they owe you.
For some benchmarks the Snapdragon is on par with the M3. But the weirdo tests I found online did not say which device they compared, since the M3 is available in fan-less machines, which limits its potential.
Rich kid memes and the online culture of the 1 percent
> Combining two broken systems - compromised search engines and unreliable LLMs - seems unlikely to yield that vision

Counterpoint: with a chain-of-thought process running atop search, you can potentially avoid much of the meta-search / epistemic hygiene work currently required. If your “search” verb actually reads the top-100 results, runs analyses for a suite of cognitive biases such as partisanship, and gives you error bars / warnings on claims that are uncertain, the quality could be dramatically improved.

There are already custom retrieval/evaluation systems doing this, it’s only a matter of a year or two before it’s commoditized.

The concern is around OpenAI monetization, do they eventually start offering paid ads? This could be fine if the unpaid results are great, a big part of why the web is perceived to be declining is link-spam that Google doesn’t count as an ad.

My prediction would be that there is a more subtle monetization channel; companies that can afford to RAG their products well and share those indexes with AI search providers will get better results. RAG APIs will be the new SEO.
> They do take gaming seriously

They do take gambling seriously.
It is my understanding that a 5x5x5 is actually more similar to a 3x3x3 than a 4x4x4 is.
I generally prefer written tutorials over video tutorials, but cubing related stuff is an exception. Videos are easier to digest.

Here's a good beginner tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBHocHmPzgIjnAbNLHDyc...
To me it sounds like it could (and likely would) backfire, by replacing judgment with numbers. Who is giving the confidence score? What confidence score does each confidence score receive? Why are those scores more valid than the expert in that very narrow domain? If that expert is the one giving the scores, are they not just gatekeeping? Et cetera. I don't want to see researchers rewriting their papers because their cumulative source score is 68.17, and it should be 72.5 or higher.
Apple should not have sold devices with 8GB or less back in 2018. Them doing it in 2024 is a sign that they think their users are idiots.
I'm unsurprised, disappointed, excited, and surprised at the same time. It's clear that the React paradigm works really well to model user interfaces, and as such it's no surprise that it can be used to build anything from desktop software to apps to websites to command line apps.

Amazing work!
This is my fear of the dentist. Not of the procedures themselves--I'm fine with that. It's not even the cost of those procedures. It's replacing perfectly good natural teeth with man-made facsimiles when it doesn't need to be done. Fillings, implants, etc. will all need continual maintenance and replacement eventually when my natural teeth (if they're perfectly healthy) will likely be fine as-is.
We started understanding of why it works so well like 30 years after its first implementation (in the 1950's)? The paper you mention is written in the 2000s while the Simplex dominated the field from at least the 70's.

Meanwhile the GP would have discarded the simplex algorithm due to its worst case performance.
Does Mouse Utopia Exist? (2021)
Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner (2019)
Every boring problem found in eBPF (2022)
Is there a case where a private equity organization has been proven not to be shady? Would love some examples.

"Warren Buffett: Private Equity Firms Are Typically Very Dishonest" - https://youtu.be/r3_41Whvr1I
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Atleast a professional cleaning has an immediate positive impact, even if it is superficial. If I could afford it I would do them monthly.

But I also have felt like I was being taken advantage of by dentists who had bills to pay. I also am pretty sure one caused pain on purpose because I had missed an appointment and rescheduled. With 15 years more life experience, if that were to happen again I would just leave.
>Why should one work hard if there is a high chance of some global sweep soon, where they might randomly pick me without any reasoning.

This seems like taking huge logical leaps. If a friend expressed mine expressed it I would recommend them talking to a therapist about their self sabotaging thinking and perhaps depression.

If there is a layoff and I am at risk, I would rather have hard work to show. If Im not laid off, I would rather have hard work to capitalize on the aftermath. If I am laid off, I would rather have good reputation with my network .
My understanding is it's a bug that the case changes don't round trip correctly, in part due to questionable Unicode design that made the upper and lower case operations language dependent.

This stack overflow has more details - but apparently Turkish i and I are not their own Unicode code points which is why this ends up gnarly.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48067545/why-does-unicod...
For Optometrists and Dentists, there doesn't seem to be enough money in the labor part of the business to make a small business out of it. These practices make money by selling you stuff. This puts pressure on what should be medical treatments and turns them into a sales opportunity.
Thanks for the feedback. While I can't edit the existing video, I might make a new, hopefully better one.

Map, filter, and reduce are not necessarily javascript functions. They are general concepts which can be found (or implemented) in various languages.

The point of reduce is to run the given function with the given data, repeatedly "reducing" the data. In the video, the function is "mix", which takes two arguments and mixes them together. The data is 3 bowls of fruit.

Reduce takes the function, then takes first two arguments, and passes them to the function. The function returns one piece of data (the mixed stuff), and now reduce passes that one piece together with the remaining third argument to another call of "mix". So in the end we have essentially mixed 3 elements together, even though "mix" accepts only 2 arguments. This is the reduction — a repeated application of some function on arbitrary amount of data.

So:

reduce([A, B, C], mix_fn)

is essentially converted into:

mix(mix(A, B), C)

Hope that helps. Btw, in Python, there is functools.reduce() for this.
I played around a bit lately with finding ways to dramatically multithread code in golang, mostly for fun. What I found was that there was a threshold where the overhead of spinning up all the threads at the start and synchroninzing them at the end overwhelmed the time savings from actually performing the work in multiple threads.

It wouldn't surprise me if PDF renderer and background blur were fast enough tasks that spinning up 96 threads to split rendering across all those cores was a waste of time compared to how fast the actual task was to complete. It was akin to trying to hammer in 50 nails by getting 50 people and handing out 50 hammers and assigning each person one nail, then telling them "okay, start!", then inspecting everyone's work afterwards; at some point, it's faster just to break it into two or three tasks.
One imagines the same reasons you would learn Unix and DSA even if your job is writing GET handlers and wrestling Python venvs. Gives you some base system-level context even if rarely immediately useful.
In other words the only way we know of how significant complexity arises in the universe is (ultimately) through evolution.
Automatic vs. manual doesn't seem relevant? A driver's license is an ID, so if they have that for automatic registration, then they still have an ID.

I think your point is that people can just lie about citizenship and get away with it when registering to vote, regardless of when/how it is done? Is that it?
Didn't John die in infancy? How can this gravestone say John died at 73?
Well, whoever gets to have an election first, right? But then there's that thing about clones, why not both!
Just in case anybody is interested in a bit more of a casual format, I had NotebookLM create a podcast from the paper.

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/0bef03c4-3ed5-4b13-90...
No they haven't. For years the best you could get was "meh" to terrible GPUs at high price points. Like $2000+ was where getting a discrete GPU began. The M series stuff finally allows the entry level to have decent GPUs but they have less storage out of the box than a $300 Xbox Series S. Apple's priorities just don't align well with gamers. They prioritize resolution over refresh rate and response time, make mice unusable for basically any FPS made in the past 20 years and way overcharge for storage and RAM.
I fail to see how this “your dentist is taking advantage of you” narrative is any different than the anti vaccine FUD.

To reap the benefits of our society of specialists, we have to trust the specialists in our lives…
Not really. Tiny Glade is a recent ray-traced title that has no goal of photorealism whatsoever, and it looks gorgeous with RT lighting and shadows: https://youtu.be/QAUSBxxgIbQ

You can scale these same principles to even less photorealistic games like the Borderlands series or a Grand Theft Auto game. Ray tracing is less about photorealism (although it is a potent side effect) and more about creating dynamic lighting conditions for an interactive scene. By simulating the behavior of light, you get realistic lighting - photoreal or not a lot of games rely on SSR and shadowmaps that can be replaced with realtime RT.
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> It doesn't cost that much to have a nice office

To a dentist with a new hammer in hand (brand-new state-of-the-art medical equipment with monthly payments coming due), every tooth looks like a nail.
Usually when I see advances, it's less about future proofing and more about obsoletion of old hardware. A more exaggerated case of this was in the 90s, people would upgrade to a 200 MHz p1 thinking they were future proofing but in a couple years you had 500Mhz P2s.
> you’ve both just wasted 10-15 minutes arguing about a line on the graph of a metaphor

So goddamned many times. And multiply your 2-10 minute sidebar by the number of people in the room. You just spent over $200 on a wobble in a line.

Plus you’ve usually lost the plot by that point.
While fighting games are extremely technical in nature, they're also strategic.

I can only speak to smash really, but in smash your tech is not the most important factor. Your adjustments, reads, and mixups are. If you cover roll get up every time, you will lose. You need to, very quickly, understand your opponent's play style and capitalize on it. In addition, you need to be aware of when YOU are being exploited and strategically drop in mixups.

Many, maybe most, of the best players can't parry with high accuracy. But they don't need to either. They're the best because they're mind readers.
Not just the US. As a kid growing up in Russia, I was very aware of Alexander's prominence (known to us as Alexander the Macedonian).
I had a toothache, and I went to my dentis, but they could not find anything during the exam or x-ray; they did not have access to a 3D x-ray/scan, so they referred me to an endodontist who did. However, when I got to the endodontist's office, they only wanted to perform a scan while doing a root canal; I told them I didn't want a root canal and I only wanted a 3D scan. I was told I had to do a root canal, which I refused, and so they declined to perform a scan. A few hours later, my tooth pain subsided. That was over two years ago.
I blame it on the PC crowd being unconsciously salty the most prestigious CPU is not available to them. You heard the same stuff when talking about Android performance versus iPhone.

There is a lot to criticize about Apple's silicon design, but they are leading the CPU market in terms of mindshare and attention. All the other chipmakers all feel like they're just trying to follow Apple's lead. It's wild.
Dental insurance generally pays out fixed amounts for most things. So a dentist with higher operating costs has to "make up" for the difference somewhere. Either by volume or by recommending more procedures.

> It doesn't cost that much to have a nice office

Dental equipment is very expensive. Desirable central office space and furnishings are expensive. Those significantly increase the fixed cost of running a dental practice. Not sure how it "doesn't cost much"
Learned a new swear word from this article: "trumpery".
> Bit of an unrealistic comment

For other sites agreed, but a bank that can’t coexist with an adblocker you really have to ask yourself wtf said bank is doing.

Everything on that site should come from ad free reputable domains.

Also wouldn’t hurt if said bank tested their site with common browser configurations like ublock
Or you could read their published security guide at https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...

For the May 2024 version the section on iCloud Keychain is on page 158.
I have had almost the exact same experience.
In graduate school we had to answer this on a test question and it took all of 5 minutes...should have published it, I guess
I’m saying people suck, particularly when you’re trying to give them what they see as bad news.
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It's too bad you can't see the post without an account. I'm curious about what the author considers the worst song of all time and why.
this is where you write a one star review warning people of this
Too many dentists scam you AND make you feel like you are a gross and bad human.
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Because of the reasons outlined in the article? Did you read it?
seems like it
Jack Dorsey hits Tidal with another mass layoff
I am not aware of social circles nowadays where words like "fuck" and "shit" are worse than racial slurs. Even when racial slurs are accepted they are still usually considered stronger words than "fuck".
It doesn't diminish - but I do find it interesting how it influences. Realism became less important, less interesting, though still valued to a lesser degree, with the ubiquity of photography. Where will human creativity move towards when certain task become trivially machine replicable? Where will human ingenuity _enabled_ by new technology make new art possible?