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bbstats··on My 16-month theanine self-experiment
Android app?
bbstats··on The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)
Just because something isn't a logical paradox doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to be called a paradox...it can also just mean "apparently self-contradictory"
bbstats··on Video encoding requires using your eyes
Speaking of using your eyes - zooming in on small parts of single frames is not an accurate representation of watching something!
bbstats··on The number line freaks me out (2016)
Yes, there are different kinds of numbers.
bbstats··on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
how would you remove stock footage? B-roll has voice over it, it's kind of a necessity.
bbstats··on How about trailing commas in SQL?
BigQuery supports trailing commas :)
bbstats··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
Yes, they are bad long term. But do they prevent acid short term? Yes.
bbstats··on Effects of cold-water immersion on health and wellbeing: A systematic review
Actually socioeconomic status was controlled for. What was not controlled for was pre-existing conditions that might make people have 0 drinks like previous alcoholism, medical conditions where you can't drink, etc.
bbstats··on Please don't force dark mode
...what is wrong with this person's eyes
bbstats··on Ask HN: Seeking device to normalize audio output for consistent volume levels
Many modern TVs and sound bars do this, and many of those sound bars are cheaper than a MiniDSP box
bbstats··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
So proton pump inhibitors don't work? Nah
bbstats··on Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
getting a weird error, it says "no text channels" ?
bbstats··on Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
looks amazing - finally, DL that beats a tuned catboost?
bbstats··on Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
who is asking for this?
bbstats··on Zoo experiment finds 1 in 5 animals test positive for Covid
What an incredibly misleading headline
bbstats··on Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre
Walmart honeycrisp in October was the best apple I've ever had
bbstats··on Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone
So what if it's an emergency
bbstats··on The cochlear implant question
This certainly is a viewpoint
bbstats··on Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation
doesnt google translate do this?
bbstats··on Detecting when LLMs are uncertain
Reminds me of hackernews commenters that don't read the article and only read the headline
bbstats··on Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python
Anyone find the optimizer prompt(s)?
bbstats··on Show HN: What happens if you make a crossword out of Reddit r/gaming
First once I loaded, 1 across was labeled 2
bbstats··on Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
I think all the things that dance brings to the table over the mean "exercise" are clear first-principles wins (using your whole body, listening and dancing in rhythm, listening to music, letting yourself go / being silly)
bbstats··on Anatomy of an internet argument
You are never going to win the war.
bbstats··on We're only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helene's flooding
"mountain towns and roads flood when it rains a lot"

Hurricanes never hit Western NC

bbstats··on Reading texts on paper versus computer screen: Effects on reading comprehension [pdf]
N=72
bbstats··on Machine Learning Model Homotopy
The grammar in this makes it pretty hard to follow
bbstats··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
Finally, a Claude competitor!
bbstats··on Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life
the error bars are like 5-10x the size of that 'defeat'
bbstats··on The Threat to OpenAI
What is OpenAI? Some sort of Claude competitor?
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