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I don't know that much about math but I've read that one possibility is he had found a valid proof for n=4 and assumed that it generalized. Hopefully someone else who knows more ab…

There’s no particular reason it’s not OSS, but my main interest is collecting a lot of data on different athletes and publishing original research. Most weightlifting studies are s…

If this is something you are interested in, I did make a mobile friendly SPA similar to this: https://curvefit.app

> high reps are better for hypertrophy work Some nuance here: the latest research shows that proximity to failure is the main hypertrophy driver regardless of load and rep count; h…

I wrote this app as a SPA! It uses a curve formulation similar to Brzycki, except I added a “shape” parameter (an exponent gamma between 0 and 1) that slopes the 1rm downwards at t…

not everyone who can think and solve interesting problems can write prose well, but there's still a lot of complaining about AI-generated text.

Don't pay too much attention to the naysayers if they don't have constructive advice to offer (but do try to collect what signal you can from the noise). There are a lot of people …

it interleaves the end note in the text at the point where the endnote is referenced (by number), reads the endnote, and then sounds a bell to indicate that we've returned to the m…

if you're interested in completing it, check out the 30th anniversary audiobook, it just came out a few months ago, very accessible

I visited this and several other Gaudi buildings about 15 years ago in Barcelona, and many of them are truly breathtaking, or at least dramatically original and unique. I went to t…

It’s definitely got AI tells, and I understand the objection - it’s hard to tell the difference between slop (written without review or direction, meant to fill space or present a …

> In some ways, the concentration of power in a dictatorship might be better, if the dictator was well morally aligned with the people. This is pretty much the exact argument that …

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It’s time for people who understand how to use AI to stop trying to convince people who don’t. Let them churn their own butter, weave their own clothes, and type out their programs…

How do you know those aren’t the same thing?

Their cohort studies are across three completely different populations. I would be willing to listen to an argument that for some specific population there’s a firearm ownership le…

Try the audiobook, although I’m sure purists would consider it cheating. You can zone out and it keeps going and something will pull your attention and you can rewind to get the co…

How do you know what volitions and abilities it doesn’t have? My agent teams continually improve the process and tooling they use for teamwork

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

Get a sleep study done to find out how serious it is

Do you consider it humanitarian to further weaken a nation where the average gdp per capita is less than $3000 and who are in no way a threat to us? In what way do the immigrants a…

Are you implying that we should be trying to weaken Haiti?

What about the immigrant groups that don’t dramatically out-earn American-born citizens?

So what prevents the incompetent and lazy from immigrating?