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ulyssessword
17hr ago
Tatishe
I tried finding that name, and it had two hits worldwide (0.001% of "Steven", for reference). The second result in my search was the study author, and the third was a Spanish (or at least Spanish-language) musician. Maybe I have to brush up on my linguistics, but I still don't see any notable connection between that name and any region, let alone any political stance.
Your multi-sentence specific explanation wasn't enough to convince me, so I stand behind my criticism of their brief dismissal.
ulyssessword
17hr ago
I'm confused about how Canadian regions are divided.
Join the club. There are multiple different systems used interchangeably. Some of the regions include:
- the Maritimes: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI
- Atlantic Canada: the Maritimes plus Newfoundland and Labrador
- Quebec
- Ontario
- Central Canada: Quebec and Ontario
- Western Canada: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and sometimes BC
- the Prairie Provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and usually Alberta
- BC
- the North: Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut.
Which ridings are you counting? Central Newfoundland, Terra Nova, Avalon, Long Range, Labrador...what am I missing?
You're missing Cape Spear and St John's East.
ulyssessword
1d ago
What was the point, in your opinion?
I can't see anything other than bare-faced racism because the name doesn't mean anything to me.
ulyssessword
1d ago
The literal meaning is kind of useless. Is a truck with duallies "four wheel drive" just because its drivetrain is connected to four wheels?
ulyssessword
1d ago
Polls closed in Newfoundland two hours ago, and it's not looking good for the pollsters. CBC has called two seats for the Conservatives and they're leading in a third, while three have been called for the Liberals and they're leading in a fourth. The prediction was 7-0 Liberal (two "toss up", five "Lib. Likely").
The Maritimes are closer to the prediction, with the Conservatives leading/called in 8 ridings vs. the prediction of 7.
Then all that information is practically public. I don't think that's a very palatable solution.
ulyssessword
2d ago
The danger with that is that the line is blurry. If you're too strict, then Joe Random gets gifted ten million dollars just for filing a lawsuit against Google, because they have corporate-standard recordkeeping, auditing, and accounting which is helpful to lawyers.
ulyssessword
2d ago
are there any major flaws/unintended consequences I've overlooked?
Define "legal expenses".
The first thing I'd do if faced with those rules is outsource everything from the law office. Instead of the lawyers hiring a forensic accountant to review the accounts, the accounting department would hire them and provide the report to the lawyers for free. Instead of lawyers hiring a mock jury, the marketing department would hire a research panel. If you allow splitting hairs enough, then the compliance team does legal research and provides it for free to the litigation team.
Even without deliberate dodging, large corporations simply have a lot of those resources available from other departments, and the incremental cost to get the lawyers that information is near-zero.
If you want to improve their website, you could try something like what I did to fandom.com using an adblocker.
EDIT: could an LLM do that autonomously? I don't think the non-agent models could see what they were doing, and the agents aren't optimized for it, but surely it'll be done by the end of the year.
ulyssessword
4d ago
I don't see a moral difference between different levels of deception.
If you can buy X (a squished Big Mac) after being shown Y (a shiny, perfect Big Mac), then I don't really care if the intermediate step is X' (a squished Big Mac, which will be photoshopped) or Y' (a physically perfect, inedible big mac, which will be faithfully photographed).
I suspect that the image manipulation will become more accepted over time, as features like crowd deletion, de-blinking, and smart panoramas move from specialized desktop applications (eg. photoshop) to simple buttons in a camera.
ulyssessword
4d ago
Click the three dots on someone's comment and select "Block User". You won''t be notified of replies and their comments (but not the children of their comments) will be hidden from you.
As far as I can tell, that's practically identical to Twitter.
ulyssessword
4d ago
Wouldn't mind hearing about builds/ideas/tips for Cyberpunk 2077, btw. I went into CP2077 blind and it's pretty cool.
Knives, knives and more knives.
If you have three punknives, you can throw them all and the first one will return by the time you're ready to throw a fourth (at T5 with some perks, you can do it with two knives instead). They're silent, can be made nonlethal, don't need ammo, and can even attack in melee in a pinch.
ulyssessword
4d ago
all the beauty filters
You sure it isn't makeup?
For some reason we've decided that manipulating peoples' perceptions by changing the physical objects they're looking at is acceptable, while manipulating peoples' perceptions by changing the images directly isn't.
See also fast food commercials. They are (or at least were) genuine footage of actual objects...which were only superficially related to the food they sold.
ulyssessword
6d ago
0.6 mg made me quite sleepy after a short while. In the morning, I woke up from a deep sleep and (after a minute) felt well-rested.
5 mg made me almost collapse in exhaustion. I had vivid (though unremembered) dreams, and I was still tired as I got ready for the day. I was fine by the time I left for work, but it didn't feel like a normal good night.
ulyssessword
6d ago
I cut my 5 mg ones into (approximately) 1/8ths so it's at least close to the right dose.
Also, I tried 5 mg once, and it's a very different beast from 0.6ish mg. If I didn't already know it was the same drug, I wouldn't have been able to guess from the effects.
ulyssessword
7d ago
I also started 10 mg of melatonin at night, it does not do much but hey, this place did start from a psychiatrist's blog, so I had to mention it.
Try 0.3 mg instead: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
ulyssessword
8d ago
ulyssessword
8d ago
It would have been so much funnier on Good Friday.
ulyssessword
11d ago
Then stand by your convictions, admit what you're doing, and argue that it's good.
ulyssessword
15d ago
Show me the table entry for "brown adipose tissue heating" on a CO calculation and I'll believe it. Otherwise it's just part of the fudge factor.
Quantizing that component (and every other one) to individual variability is the weakness of CICO, as they can result in wildly different results based on unmeasured variables.
ulyssessword
15d ago
Did you calculate your base metabolic rate (or whatever the fudge factor is called in your system) so that it all worked out? If not, you got lucky that it happened to be both correct at the start and steady over time. If you have adjusted it, then that means your calculations are on target, and adjusting the inputs so that 3500 kcal = 1 lb resulted in a trendline at 3500 kcal per lb.
This study gives some people a 20% headstart on your dieting goals (admittedly they didn't measure "CI"), which is a pretty notable difference.
ulyssessword
15d ago
ulyssessword
15d ago
That's exactly what I'm talking about: It's a Calories In, Calories Out, Body Weight system and that third variable is essential.
Skimming through the paper, it appears that the difference between cold and hot is about 100 Calories per cold day, or about one pound per month. A pure CICO system couldn't explain why one person gains a few pounds every winter while an ostensibly-identical person (but fertilized in cold weather) doesn't.
ulyssessword
15d ago
A) CICO necessarily follows from the Second Law of Thermodynamics,
The naive version of CICO compares your meal plan to your gym time. The normal version compares all the food (including drinks!) you consume vs. all your planned or incidental physical activity. The true version compares the bioavailability of all the nutrients you consume vs. all of your metabolic activity, whether that's moving your muscles, thinking, growth, healing, generating heat, or anything else.
I have yet to see any diet plan that uses the true model of CICO. The closest I've seen is a single number for "base metabolism" that you back-calculate from your weight trends.
I think you're pushing a strawman, but I'm open to seeing a diet plan that uses the "true CICO" model I described. Anything less precise can't follow from raw thermodynamics.
When it comes to categories like race/sex/age/nationality, some level of presumptive conflict of interest is inevitable. Would a White researcher come off as unbiased in race research in your opinion?
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