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It's a pretty big concern if you had to spend a billion on training, but 6 months later the open source community is able to replicate your training for That'd be a 10,000 fold dep…

What was one of the benefits of C++ that was discussed? It seems like everything mentioned also comes with a terrible faustian bargain. For instance, C++ build systems are as plent…

The part where they said they didn't need inclusivity in computer science made me wanna cry because I didn't realize it was april fools and there are so many people who make that a…

No, bad. Bad. Do not propagandize for the office, even if you miss it. squirts u with windex BAD CAT!

Okay, wow so HR 1.8 literally does mean that fasters are nearly twice as likely to die over a given period as non-faster. But the death rate for fasters and nonfasters can still be…

The article mentions feeding periods of I caution you that you are using a nonstandard definition of fasting that does not include all the currently recognized forms of intermitten…

Having a meal period There are many intermittent fasting protocols including multi-day fasts which have been shown to prolong life in mice. But daily fasting is included in those p…

None of us are reading it right yet. We're not interpreting the "Hazard Ratios" - whatever those are. Until someone comes along and explains it (or uses chatGPT/bing to explain it)…

Can someone interpret the Hazard Ratios for me? What is a HR of 1.3 or 1.8 actually saying?

This was inspired by [1] and [2], two other bing short stories. First I asked bing to recall Vonnegut's 8 rules [3]. Then I asked bing to write a story about two rival AIs trying t…