80C is about the lowest you would want to use but can definitely get you a good cup of coffee. It will come out a bit lighter but using a finer grind might offset that.
> a previous commitment from the National Institutes of Health to support a clinical trial of the novel therapy in HIV-infected children being withdrawn
When seeking funding as a scientist, do they have to only ask their own government or is it possible to get a different country to foot the bill?
One of the ways this electron leak happens (from the chatGPT) is that fuel (NADH) exceeds energy demand (ATP). So a good way to push off the mental need for sleep is to get your body tired. So the processes aren’t quite perpendicular.
ChatGPT is telling me that caffeine is an indirect UCP (uncoupled protein) activator, which I think is amazing. The one thing that we all use to keep ourselves awake can also make us need less sleep.
Coming from a place of curiosity not knowledge with this. Is it not true that strength roughly matches testosterone levels and that is bimodal in the population? Could what we call women’s sports today not be defined on that axis instead?
Burnout is: exhaustion, inefficacy and depersonalization. The crash happens when inefficacy kicks because that’s very market-dependent and not really something anyone can control. The easiest of those to control is exhaustion but it’s also nigh-impossible to measure. So I think our best bet is to keep a close eye on depersonalization and shift gears immediately if that ever happens.
“More than meets the eye, Transformers!” But seriously, current LLMs obviously pass the Turing Test. No one twenty years ago would have not assumed this was AGI/Skynet. I think it’s an apt name that describes what it does pretty well, if not how it does that. Like calling “Internal Combustion Engine” a “Horseless carriage”, it’ll fall out of favour eventually.
AI is very effective at the boilerplate-heavy tasks that I hate and very ineffective at the architecture and debugging tasks that I love. We work well together.
I believe this but there is another side of it where it doesn’t feel as tiring. I have more energy left after a longer AI session than a shorter traditional one. That’s worth a lot.
There is an interesting other layer here where the posting of an opinion is triggered by the way the content is presented. “The medium is the message.” The opinion posted didn’t itself exist before the content was consumed, making it all self-fulfilling and a positive feedback loop.
The interesting thing about HN in that context is it doesn’t fine-tune its algorithm per-user, it presents a consistent view to all users. Content should be much less positive-feedback-loop because of that.
And so OP might not be hypocritical if that consistent-view is the change we need to better our society.
As a male, I’ve spent about 30 min, 5 days a week doing weights for years. I will never get anything close to a bodybuilder physique. No one should be worried about randomly bulking up overnight.
That last 20% of “missing nuance” is really important if someone is in that state! For the rest of us, the value of an AI therapist roughly matches journaling.
Sometimes, the process of gathering our thoughts enough to article them into a prompt is where the benefit is. AI as the rubber duck has a lot of value. Understanding that this is what’s needed vs. something deeper, is beyond the scope of what AI can handle.
I do wonder if this isn’t an improvement on watching TV though. Is AI time better than watching a show? The comment on a lack of friction is true in both cases but the active experience has to be an improvement on the passive one?
The country code made it feel a lot closer, a bit more personal. I haven’t used it in years but it was a nice thing to see sometimes. Like the fun animations they sometimes do but more real. We’re in a different age now
As much as vibe coding is obviously ridiculous, using it as a crutch purposefully in this way is amazing. I heard someone call it a tool for energy management once and I feel that
I don’t think this is the wrong take but I like the idea of moving dependence towards something that could be run locally vs. a search engine which can not.
Knowing what question to ask is always the hardest part of research. Getting there take a bit of creativity and it’s hard to compare one creative process with another. It can be very beneficial to swap between them when you get stuck though. Knowing that there is this Google alternative that produces similar results in similar times is a boon.
Our brains are built to learn and never stop doing it. It’s always “what” are we learning, not “if” we are. The use of AI is absolutely teaching something.
The terrifying thing about Meta (and their large, connected world) is that, if you look at someone the wrong way and get reported, you lose access to all your games. Even single-player ones! It’s too dangerous to open, let alone engage with.
Getting permission to install hardware is a lot harder than not getting permission to install hardware. It isn’t the hardware that doesn’t scale, it’s the people.
Just to be a bit more clear, this was more a Chesterton Fence comment than a condemnation. Everything has trade-offs and I hope our next solution to this problem is better, not worse.
DEI did feel a lot like paying off debt by getting a new credit card. Equal competition doesn’t mean equal footing though. We will eventually need something to replace it and I hope that doesn’t go worse.