deepvibrations

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Comment · 2 months ago
Indeed - background noise will tend to lead to a lot more false positives, but you should use it as a guide rather than inherently trusting results. Same goes for using BirdNET-go and other models, though these do allow you to be very strict with detections and reduce false positives more.
Comment · 2 months ago
You can adjust which detections are accepted based on confidence level, so it might be that the settings are very strict.
Comment · 2 months ago
Getting strange issues whereby routes appear and disappear as I zoom out?

I understand some routes should change as you zoom, but this seems much more random For example; I might see 5 routes zoomed in, but I zoom out one level and they all disappear completely?

Comment · 2 months ago
Just to note, eggs are not as ethical as you may assume... We have bred chickens so that they lay an unhealthy amount of eggs, which is likely a pretty stressful life experience. The original breed of bird (Red junglefowl) laid roughly a dozen eggs a year, where as modern layer hens will lay 300+. So it's not really "comes out anyway".

They often get medical conditions like Keel bone fractures and reproductive tract disease and they're also culled at around 18 months when output drops (tiny fraction of their lifespan). Oh and the male chicks don't lay, so roughly one per hen gets killed on day one.

I still think overall milk is probably worse, but plant-based is biggest win to reduce suffering overall!

Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah, actually a very cool idea. Hopefully somebody takes it and makes a greatly improved version, as execution is lacking here!
Comment · 3 months ago
No doubt Fable can outperform on many coding tasks, but the way you phrase it really exaggerates the gap and I'd suggest that for 95% of tasks, most devs simply don't need Fable level, and in fact, despite mostly using Claude, I have found codex is generally quicker at most tasks and can be even better than Fable with certain languages.
Comment · 3 months ago
This. And maybe anecdotal, but my experience of people who have used melatonin is that they sleep very deeply, but for a shorter amount of time. But likely they will wake up after around 6/7 hours sleep, rather than the recommended 8 hours of sleep. And once woken up, it's very hard to go back to sleep.
Comment · 3 months ago
So could it be Capitalism?

Linear growth is a failure; only infinite, exponential growth is acceptable.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
I agree - I think we really need to encourage reduction in the obvious negative habits and encourage people to take up more positive habits. eg.

- Use car less; walk, cycle, or use public transport more - Eat meat & air-freighted food less; eat local/seasonal produce more - Treat household items as disposable less; repair what breaks and buy for longevity more

I am sure there are plenty more, but how to incentivise these things is a hard problem. One exception being food, where you could easily shift agricultural subsidies away from intensive factory farming and towards local/seasonal food (details may be more complex, but it's do-able!)

Comment · 3 months ago
Not sure more meddling with nature is the best idea given our past history of it. There is a good chance you fix one problem and create 10 more!
Comment · 4 months ago
Indeed. It's a game of monopoly where one person owns all the property, and everyone else is just rolling the dice and, paying rent every turn.

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