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As an owner of a rare "MS-like disease" aka MOGAD I cant wait. The point of this treatment is that if you know which protein is the trigger you can stop it. It's probably not a cure, but an even better alternative to the current treatments that all cause at least some side effects or are not entirely effective.

I should note that I know of active phase 2 trials by other campanies for type 1 diabetes.

Often, yes. Far too often. But there is a scientifically sound way to measure some things, and there is very good science that cognitive ability plus unstructured are the most predicitiv (and least bias) way to select employees that we have available right now. Ideally you would also include objective knowledge tests.

We're headed by a professor of organisational psychology and stick strickly to scientifically well supported methods and stick to the ONET and APA guidelines. But we're one of the few since it's not the easiest way of doing business. But we refuse to peddle sudo science.

Question for the community: we're building a "talent pool" on top of our mass psychometric testing SaaS (hrpotentials.com). Our key thing is testing cognitive ability(ie ability to learn and problem solve) with computer generated tests, remotely.

Anyway: would you join such a talent pool (and submit yourself to free testing that takes an hour)?

We know it works in less in-demand fields as a way for employers to more objecitevly rate candidates. But the question is, if we can turn it into a tool for employment-seekers to get better opportunities.

Thanks!

Question: for someone that wants to play around with self-hosted text generation but has a crap laptop – are there any hosting providers (like a VPS) where I can run open source models?

I used to have a lot of fun reading Twitter while watching eurovision.

It's way worse now. It may be less content. Or it's showing me less relevant content. Or it may be due to eurovision apperatly dropping hashtags from onscrean promotion.

But the end result is, it's worse.

You will lose sooner or later. They have an unlimited amount of money, time, and patience.

The only solution is to proactively pass regulation of the same issue, but in a way that's acceptable to [insert group] and that is in direct opposition to the currently proposed changes. This moves the Overton window, making the now “radical” change politically much more expensive.

That's a Kbuntu problem. Isn't it abandoned for the most part? Tried mint, was better, but not good enough.

I left it for the same reason. Moved to Manjaro KDE and... Way, way better.

Add a second signal when using color. The most elegant solution is a change in shape, but you can use a label.

It does not have to be perfect like a green checkmark and a red X. You can use your own, but consistent shapes (filled circle vs a ring) and add a on hover label. We can adapt, as long as it's even possible.

Sure, but zooming out a bit - by caving in, you make this part of "the plan". For banks and their customers.

But if companies knew that no such bailout is incoming, they would act differently.

I knew there was an upside to having a 21 year old car!

Damn, you're right. Lost track after the EU elections, didn't know this happened. Well, my point still stands – damn fantastic MEP.

For everyone cringing at these new rules - just imagine what they would have been without Julia Reda (singular Pirate MEP at the time) who fought this law with everything that she had. We mustn't forget the many NGOs, and the fact that the Greens supported her in the fight. But Reda was something special.

Anyone else feel dread over this? I gave up on AoC knowing this would happen. And I don't even care about the competitive part.

All the AI news lately has made me ever more uneasy, like for the first time in my life I actually feel like the future of being mad entirely obsolete by AI may actually happen in my lifetime.

I've started avoiding AI news.

Just a question as the answer will be interesting, troll or not:

If you decided that "gays" have no human rights... Can the USA decide that Qataries don't have them either? And then "liberate" the oil from the nonhuman bipedal beings "wasting" it?

This is a hypothetical, naturally.

Thanks, will check it out!

So, I'm in a weird position and have a question: We're looking for a small investment, technically seed round to bootstrap marketing and sales efforts, product is at v1.0. But we have 50k€ of revenue (enough for ~2 average employees here) and 3 large corporate customers. It's a self founded (pivot from a traditional model) almost entirely automated SaaS for psychometric testing in hiring/development/reorganization with strickly scientifically valid tools.

The offers (from local VCs) were getting are around 100k eur for 10%. Looking at the threads here... Seem like a shit deal. Or am I wrong?

Came here to recommend the Bobiverse (first book of 4 so far: We are legion (We are Bob)) as it's simply fantastic read or listen.

Prednisone, that's Medrol right? Wrong kind of steroid. This is an imunosupresor that destroys skeletal muscles, bone strength, etc.

Payed ~1.2k EUR if I remember correctly — the bigger model with some upgrades.

Took about a month (I asked for a Slovenian keyboard, which they added for free). Came preinstalled with my linux of choice, no compatibility issues yet.

It's smaller than expected for the screen size. Lighter as well. Have had no heating or other issues. Battery lasts for 6plus hours with web development including docker containers and a modern php/js toolchain.

I'm not a very finicky buyer, but I got everything I wanted for much less than all of my web dev friends. I game over geforce now, so I got everything covered.

I'm out of warranty and am still happy with it. Would recommend and buy again.

I own a slimbook and have been quite satisfied with it - it's got everything I wanted and needed for normal price.

I hope you take this as constructive criticism, as it's not intended to offend:

Your post reads extremely arrogantly. It's a "I am very smart" type of communication style.

None of the points you bring up are specific to autistic individuals. I'm allistic (as you put it) and, realistically, not that intelligent, but I experience the first two of your points on a regular basis. But I've learned to modify my handling of these types of situations so that, most of the time, I get a positive/productive response.

Now I obviously can't know how you communicate outside your blog posts. But it may be prudent to think about it – if you come across as arrogant or a "know it all", then the "you don't acknowledge when you're wrong" is just a nicer way of saying it.

And when people get a “vibe” of arrogance/know-it-all-ness from a person, they will be much less willing to accept, well, anything. And for good reason. This especially applies to corrections, "let's play 20 questions" and long-winded explanations of context (especially if you explain something they already know, even partially).

Responsibility should be placed where it can actually change something.

Yes, when dealing with things in our own lives it's usually best to go with "at your own feet", not mater who the actors are, since the only person whose actions you can change are your own.

But as far as climate goes, we, the individuals (who happen to not be rich at the moment) have no power to change anything. So taking personal responsibility will change nothing.

Well, actually, people taking personal responsibility for the climate have possibly made it worse by redirecting the attention to themselves.

It's the same here. "Saved" in this context, for me, means "saved from immediate" collapse.

At lest in my country, it was an issue of manpower - other departments were stopped or slowed down because employees were moved to covid departments.

You did save the NHS. Barely. What you're missing is that without the lockdown it would be much, MUCH worse. They stopped treating other conditions BECAUSE of Covid.

I was in the hospital (not UK, my own country) for a very dangerous, non-covid, pneumonia in December 2020 during the height of cases. I needed intensive care, but it took 4 days for them to find me a bed and a ventilator.

Why? Because the hospital was full of covid patients. There just wasn't any room for me.

Covid may kill granny, as it almost killed me. Just not the covid in our systems but the covid in the systems of other people. If I died of my PCP pneumonia I would have been a victim of covid, even tho covid never entered my system.

The fallacy here is, that “The Democrats” need to “wake up” at all. The establishment is doing GREAT!

The point of politics in a democratic system is to get as much power as possible, with as little investment and as little of the accrued power wasted on “the people” while holding it to assure a reelection.

They've managed to design a system where most of "the peoples" time, effort, and focus is spent on issues that both have no effect on the rich and powerful, and who's messaging was designed in such a way as to prevent any real movement from a stalemate (while expending massive amounts of energy of "the people" fighting each other).

So, the problem isn't with X political class. It's with "the people" who still believe in the fairy tale of democracy.

Does not mean that democracy isn't a great system with a great opportunity (i.e. realistic chance for "the people" to increase their quality of life). It just means that to exploit that opportunity, we're going to have to start understanding and playing the system correctly.

When it comes to nuclear, no story is better than the story of the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant in Austria.

It was built, finished, ready to start providing 692 MW of power.

But was prevented with a referendum on 5 November 1978 by a narrow majority of 50.47% against.

So they didn't start it.

They instead replace it with Dürnrohr Power Station, a termal power station burning coal and gas.

The push for ideological purity that prevented them from accepting a less-than-perfect choice, lead to getting stuck with the worst-possible choice when reality came knocking. It's a cautionary tale for all ideologically “passionate” people, of which we have far too many in today's society.

For a startup like ours (great product, traction, everything, but we lack the funds to really get out there, sales wise) we would LOVE to let a reseller use a white label version in markets that we're not present yet (aka. including the US).

If anyone is interested in reselling a psychometrics for HR processes SaaS (with scientifically valid, open source, computer generated assessments, remote monitoring and O*NET sourced profiles) – let me know.

I would second this – looks interesting, but the copy is a bit clunky and unclear.