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This makes me think of a tool from semiotics called the Greimas square where you can have opposing concepts e.g. A and B (ugly & beautiful, for & against, legal & illegal). At the …

Something I think would be interesting for model APIs and consumer apps to exposed would be the probability of each individual token generated. I’m presuming that one class of junk…

This press release says it will be available “starting today” through developer program https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-it...

I saw an ENT for the first time earlier this year and was shocked that each visit (less than 5 mins) got billed at around $1500 per visit.

I had a problem with my carrier as well with porting my number over. Attempting to interact with their customer service was a painful loop where nothing was resolved. After a week …

I have to give a shoutout to New Zealand Marmite which is totally different to British Marmite (I think that NZ marmite has some sweetness as well). Somehow i grew up in a mixed ho…

I live in a smallish apartment building with 50 apartments and in the basement we have a little building community library where people put books/DVDs/Blu-ray disks that they’re do…

Maybe you’ve read this already (I still have it in my stack to read so can’t give any personal review) but ‘Determined’ by Robert Sapolsky sets the argument that we don’t have free…

Nathan for You S3.E6 also explored this idea as a hotel amenity for sexually active parents.

It’s a really interesting product that I’m not going to buy! Declarative interfaces that allow you to describe what you want and use agents to go out to different services and chai…

> NASA management was concerned about losing the 400,000 workers involved in Apollo after landing on the Moon in 1969 400,000!

It’s probably more due to coastal subsidence than rising sea levels. My favorite is when glaciers retreat there is a rebound effect from pressure which can cause other local land t…

I’ve been biking around nyc boroughs for over a decade now and I still follow directions from mapping apps! I’ve found Apple Watch to be okay (they give instructions on directions …

I flip-flop between optimism and pessimism on this and I’m in a pessimistic cycle at the moment. I can also imagine the machinery of capitalism maybe working (I like the idea of de…

That's fantastic! I was recently doing some research and learnt that with ART people who are HIV+ can actually expect to live a little longer than people who are HIV-. I think it's…

I guess I don't fully understand U.S. healthcare system (I'm an immigrant from a country with universal healthcare, and this is the first time in my life that I've had a medication…

> They can take pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep), a kind of drug that reduces their chance of contracting it by 99% or so. This comes as a daily pill, and is popular among gay men i…

Those smaller controlled burns help prevent organic matter from building up that can lead to more devastating uncontrolled fires. The national parks service has been incorporating …

Gematria is featured a lot in scott alexander’s Unsong (serialized fiction that was published in via blog) http://unsongbook.com/ Very quick summary is that Kabbalah is real, and c…

+100 > Because we don't don't have any memory of what it was like to be in these states. I want to add an anecdote from about 5 years ago when I fainted: there is a tiny moment as …

Biological neural nets have a benefit of being able to run massively parallel, I know basically nothing about silicon hardware, but I’m assuming that attempts to model hugely paral…

> the oppressed themselves don't understand it well enough to avoid oppressing others I can’t comment too much because i’ve had a copy sitting unread in my pile of books to read fo…

The author claims to be rational, but they don’t volunteer any alternative hypotheses to demonic possession that they’ve considered, eg speaking ‘unknown’ languages could be exposu…

Our company is mandating a 3-day in office starting soon. I’m a bit of an exception because I’m in a city that only has a couple hundred employees, but when I do return to the offi…

For Manhattan they’re giving cost of living for 1 adult as $53,342 which is way way off. They are allocating $2000/month for housing (avg 1 bed in Manhattan is around $4000) and $1…