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This seems unnecessarily negative towards the trend of self-optimization. Self help media has been around for a long time, and this is just a new evolution of it targeted to a specific audience.

I have only watched a handful of episodes of the Huberman podcast, but I really appreciated that they have an actionable science-based takeway to help with the area you want to focus on.

Andrew Ng would be inclined to agree.

"There are definitely large tech companies that would rather not have to try to compete with open source, so they're creating fear of AI leading to human extinction," he told the news outlet. "It's been a weapon for lobbyists to argue for legislation that would be very damaging to the open-source community."

https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-ng-google-brain-big-t...

That's messed up. I have generally preferred Samsung products,too.

10-15 years ago, when I had a lot more free time, I used to put CyanogenMod on my phones and play around with that.

Are there any good open source mobile OS around these days?

The system of likes/dislikes, upvotes/downvotes, etc are a feedback mechanism specifically designed to leverage the fact that we are predisposed by evolution to worry about that exact thing.

So while I accept it to the extent that I still post here, I feel like 'don't worry about it' completely misses the point of 'it'. It exists specifically for you to worry about.

This very issue is why I haven't had a social media account in years. Even something as benign as posting here on HN entails editing to avoid downvotes.

While we all make necessary and unavoidable judgements, the explicit nature of being judged and acting as a judge on social media lends itself to being inauthentic and narcissistic.

Hans-Georg Moeller has an excellent YouTube channel called Carefree Wandering. There several very good episodes on authenticity and social media.

I have seen several podcasts with Michael Levin now and it is really brilliant work he and his team are doing.

For what it's worth he also comes across as a really nice guy.

I can't believe I didn't know Julia Child was a spy. That is very cool.

I have trouble imagining any of the vapid narcissists of today's stardom being able to pull something like that off.

Who would be the most likely candidate?

Thank you! This is a tough crowd, got a lot of down votes on this one

I don't really. It was just a silly joke based on the notion that kombucha is supposed to help your gut microbiome but many people think it tastes gross.

So do I still have to drink kombucha?

Thank you!

This is a very interesting topic, but I'm having trouble understanding this paper.

Would someone be kind enough to offer a summary for dummies?

Not at all. The EFF does a lot of good work along those lines also. https://www.eff.org/issues/cell-tracking

Thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for.

Can anyone recommend a good article comparing environmental lifecycle costs of EV vs combustion engine that include lithium and cobalt mining?

Thanks for sharing this!

There are several resources I wasn't familiar with, but the brutalist report stood out at a quick glance. I have a soft spot for austere web pages and that one is just right.

I'm gonna make one of these for credit card numbers.

Whether or not the statistical methods used in psychology can be finessed to show a majority are statistically significant, the foundational paradigms are so weak it doesn't even matter.

"If you deleted a whole bunch of papers from across the literature, though, that would really make a difference, and we’d have to rebuild big parts of the field from the ground up. Right?

No, not really. We did delete those papers, and nothing much happened. In 2015, a big team of researchers tried to redo 100 psychology studies, and about 60% failed to replicate.

This finding made big waves and headlines, and it's already been cited nearly 8,000 times.

But the next time someone brings it up, ask them to name as many of the 100 studies as they can. My bet is they top out at zero. I'm basically at zero myself, and I've written about that study at length. (I asked a few of my colleagues in case I'm just uniquely stupid, and their answers were: 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, and 3.)" https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psych...

I hope you are right and I'm being ungenerous in my interpretation.

If so I apologize.

Edit: Misunderstanding that was cleared up. Thank you!

Many of the "authoritative" sources the algorithm is drawing from have published incorrect information as recently as yesterday.

Wonderful! My wife and I just showed this movie to our kids last month, and they loved it.

I'd always assumed "Your mother was a hamster and your father stank of elderberries" was just a meaningless bit of Monty Python absurdity.

When my wife explained to the kids that meant your mom is a slut and your dad is a drunk I was flabbergasted. I had never reevaluated that iconic insult from my initial ignorant teenage assumptions.

The book Inventing Temperature by Hasok Chang is a wonderful account of how hard it has been to grapple with temperature scientifically.

My favorite anecdote is the scientist who carried arround and shook a bottle for two weeks to distill the water for experiments in finding when water boiled. When the water exploded after heating he found that not only did he not know when water boiled, but now he wasn't even sure what boiling was.

The term "hallucinating" in this context is just another way we anthropomorphize machines. It is mostly harmless but I see the author's point that it can be misleading when trying to address specific issues.

On the (rare) occasion I find it useful to avoid this very normal tendency I ask myself if it would make sense to apply the same framing to the output of an AI image generator.

These programs are an enormous waste of money. I took a geographic profiling course during undergrad expecting an interesting application of GIS and statistics.

It turned out to be a lot of handwaving to come to the obvious conclusion that most crimes are more likely to occur in some areas than others, along with the offender's residence.

It was taught by a former FBI agent, and his academic acumen was very...disillusioning.

Another update for the Jolly Roger's Cookbook

An attosecond is to a second what a second is to the age of the universe.