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Comment · 2 months ago
Couldn’t even be bothered to disguise LLM generated content.

Painful to read.

Comment · 5 months ago
Given there are cases of sudden onset autism being resolved with antifungals, it’s at least not implausible that fecal transplants could be effective too.
Comment · 5 months ago
There’s some research on sudden onset autism being treated with antifungals; so at least sometimes a sudden change may be the result of something very specific in the gut.
Comment · 9 months ago
“More social pressure to stop at the top of the hour.”

False.

This doesn’t work.

Source: a company doing this. Meetings just continue on to the 5 after mark.

Comment · 1 year ago
Brown sugar should be packed; flour must not be — you’ll get substantially more mass per volume than the recipes assume.
Comment · 1 year ago
I appreciate that the article correctly points out the core design flaw here of LLMs is the non-distinction between content and commands in prompts.

It’s unclear to me if it’s possible to significantly rethink the models to split those, but it seems that that is a minimal requirement to address the issue holistically.

Comment · 1 year ago
VLAN with an id of 0 isn't possible on the new interface last I checked. Which, granted is a weird thing to do, but...
Comment · 1 year ago
The obsession has at least one interesting question attached: ownership of real property. At the limit, at least, that becomes a genuinely interesting question.
Comment · 1 year ago
That assumes that China’s population doesn’t collapse, which mathematically seems quite likely (and it’s already declining).
Comment · 1 year ago
> What problem, other than judicial review, does it solve for the executive branch?

It’s fairly obvious on its face the concern of the EO is not judicial review but about agencies that nominally are past of the branch the President heads determining interpretations of law contrary to what the head of the executive desires.

And, it does genuinely seem weird to have an executive branch where the head of that branch doesn’t actually control things.

The negative reaction is entirely because of the current executive head, but no one would bat an eye if this were Barack Obama reigning in some executive agency interpreting, say, immigration law in opposition to DACA.

Comment · 1 year ago
For example you might do surgery on people who wouldn’t benefit.
Comment · 1 year ago
The problem is that the two theories can have competing indications as to how to prepare. Specifically: should we do gain of function research, or is that foolish — depends on how you read what happened in 2020.
Comment · 1 year ago
I believe sucrose and fructose are processed differently — specifically fructose is processed by the liver so can have the same issues as alcohol there.
Comment · 1 year ago
At minimum it changes the urgency for individuals with existing cookware.

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