I am sure people's thoughts on this reflect their current boss/leadership. I would have disagreed 2 years ago but got a new boss last year that seems to make huge business decisions based on a random number generator.
The problem is whatever advances we make they just quickly become viewed as a natural given by the historically ignorant. It wasn't that long ago that 30% of children died before age 1. Imagine having a baby and there…
Isn't it time to move on from Freudian language and stop using a word that has so many different meanings in the modern sense? If we translated things today for the first time we would never translate these ideas to the…
I think of Mortal Kombat at the arcade before there was any version to play at home. Nothing can ever compete with that. The finishing moves were like this occult knowledge that you would see certain kids have and think…
Oh yes. I love pancakes with just melted butter. A giant butter sponge. If anything else I put honey on them. Maple syrup is just a total ripoff price wise. My go to cheat meal really with sausage.
I still can't stand the smell of nutmeg 30 plus years after this failed experiment.
"But others say Loeb is tarnishing astronomy and undermining the search for extraterrestrial intelligence" I mean I think this is all nonsense but the idea someone doesn't have the correct credentials to produce…
Seems pretty obvious to me that we are going backwards. I always worried about this stage of my life as a non-software engineer that I would get lapped by the younger generation who had been immersed in technology since…
It seems to me the philosophical mistake is that banking and financial system regulations came about randomly. As if these are just unintended software bugs. As if there was no reason for the regulations. So all this…
Oh yea...we didn't think of that...oops. Surely, that problem will just scale with time, adoption and law suits. This is all such an unbelievable waste of intellectual resources to re-invent the wheel
Come on, both Mitchell and Young will be trying to get back on Spotify in less than 2 years if that. The irony to me is they are just too old to know about all the rap songs glorifying drinking lean during an opioid…
That is not happening for me. This is all easy to solve if you get up early and then never stay up late. I can't stay up late on Friday and Saturday, sleep in on Sunday and then expect to not have my sleep schedule…
What annoys me is that if you wanted to see as few people in the US get vaccinated as possible, the best way would be to constantly tell people to get vaccinated and make a big political issue out of it. The people I…
The most interesting thing I have heard from Sinclair is the studies on mice that eating once a day was what extended lifespan the most. Everything else was not that important diet wise. It sounds like to me the method…
It is so bizarre to believe we have epistemological certainty in what we currently know that anyone should be shut up about anything. It is literally the feature of our system that lays the golden eggs that there is no…
The music industry has exactly been this controversial and a battle ground over difficult free speech issues in my lifetime. Frank Zappa vs Tiper Gore for instance.
The problem is I think there is a bias created when we still call our hand held computers that can make telephone calls, "phones". There is just not that many situations that a VR headset is a better UI than a hand held…
The fitness apps are the most absurd thing. No one that is serious about fitness is working out for any length of time with a headset on. If you could go to a real virtual gym and lift virtual weights that was no…
IMO we are just in denial that the VR headset has really solved anything. It is not just what you can do in VR that you can't do in real life but what you can do in VR with missing most of your senses. I suspect in 50…
Spot on. I think a piano is the best example. No one sits down at the piano and can just rip the first time. Almost anyone though can learn to play piano if they practice enough. You don't have to be the best in the…
It really is what makes our society fascinating. We have a self conception as a highly rational and high tech society. When it comes to medicine we follow "the science". Then as a default setting we cut the tip of baby…
What data was it using again? The blood panel your doctor orders every one to two years? Medical diagnosis is a trivial problem for machine learning to beat humans. Humans are terrible at this. The problem is there is…
Machine learning could beat my doctor right now. "Using Random Forest Algorithm for Breast Cancer Diagnosis" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8644835 Most of what the doctor is doing is a type of modern shamanism…
What data is being collected on you? Once a year blood test if that even? I actually suspect it would be trivial to beat my doctor after 5 years of higher frequency full blood panel data collection. 10 full blood panel…
I am sure people's thoughts on this reflect their current boss/leadership. I would have disagreed 2 years ago but got a new boss last year that seems to make huge business decisions based on a random number generator.
The problem is whatever advances we make they just quickly become viewed as a natural given by the historically ignorant. It wasn't that long ago that 30% of children died before age 1. Imagine having a baby and there…
Isn't it time to move on from Freudian language and stop using a word that has so many different meanings in the modern sense? If we translated things today for the first time we would never translate these ideas to the…
I think of Mortal Kombat at the arcade before there was any version to play at home. Nothing can ever compete with that. The finishing moves were like this occult knowledge that you would see certain kids have and think…
Oh yes. I love pancakes with just melted butter. A giant butter sponge. If anything else I put honey on them. Maple syrup is just a total ripoff price wise. My go to cheat meal really with sausage.
I still can't stand the smell of nutmeg 30 plus years after this failed experiment.
"But others say Loeb is tarnishing astronomy and undermining the search for extraterrestrial intelligence" I mean I think this is all nonsense but the idea someone doesn't have the correct credentials to produce…
Seems pretty obvious to me that we are going backwards. I always worried about this stage of my life as a non-software engineer that I would get lapped by the younger generation who had been immersed in technology since…
It seems to me the philosophical mistake is that banking and financial system regulations came about randomly. As if these are just unintended software bugs. As if there was no reason for the regulations. So all this…
Oh yea...we didn't think of that...oops. Surely, that problem will just scale with time, adoption and law suits. This is all such an unbelievable waste of intellectual resources to re-invent the wheel
Come on, both Mitchell and Young will be trying to get back on Spotify in less than 2 years if that. The irony to me is they are just too old to know about all the rap songs glorifying drinking lean during an opioid…
That is not happening for me. This is all easy to solve if you get up early and then never stay up late. I can't stay up late on Friday and Saturday, sleep in on Sunday and then expect to not have my sleep schedule…
What annoys me is that if you wanted to see as few people in the US get vaccinated as possible, the best way would be to constantly tell people to get vaccinated and make a big political issue out of it. The people I…
The most interesting thing I have heard from Sinclair is the studies on mice that eating once a day was what extended lifespan the most. Everything else was not that important diet wise. It sounds like to me the method…
It is so bizarre to believe we have epistemological certainty in what we currently know that anyone should be shut up about anything. It is literally the feature of our system that lays the golden eggs that there is no…
The music industry has exactly been this controversial and a battle ground over difficult free speech issues in my lifetime. Frank Zappa vs Tiper Gore for instance.
The problem is I think there is a bias created when we still call our hand held computers that can make telephone calls, "phones". There is just not that many situations that a VR headset is a better UI than a hand held…
The fitness apps are the most absurd thing. No one that is serious about fitness is working out for any length of time with a headset on. If you could go to a real virtual gym and lift virtual weights that was no…
IMO we are just in denial that the VR headset has really solved anything. It is not just what you can do in VR that you can't do in real life but what you can do in VR with missing most of your senses. I suspect in 50…
Spot on. I think a piano is the best example. No one sits down at the piano and can just rip the first time. Almost anyone though can learn to play piano if they practice enough. You don't have to be the best in the…
It really is what makes our society fascinating. We have a self conception as a highly rational and high tech society. When it comes to medicine we follow "the science". Then as a default setting we cut the tip of baby…
What data was it using again? The blood panel your doctor orders every one to two years? Medical diagnosis is a trivial problem for machine learning to beat humans. Humans are terrible at this. The problem is there is…
Machine learning could beat my doctor right now. "Using Random Forest Algorithm for Breast Cancer Diagnosis" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8644835 Most of what the doctor is doing is a type of modern shamanism…
What data is being collected on you? Once a year blood test if that even? I actually suspect it would be trivial to beat my doctor after 5 years of higher frequency full blood panel data collection. 10 full blood panel…