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Would you mind posting the outcome of this? A person I love dearly is struggling with Long Covid/CFS. I’ve been doing something similar to what you describe, but I’m always looking…

I explicitly caveated my statement with "Using a PhD as a gateway into applied ML" for a reason. The vast majority of people going into applied ML are not pioneering new methods. T…

Using a PhD as a gateway into applied ML is so horrifically misguided I hardly know where to even begin debunking it. PhDs are one especially crappy way to prove you have the intel…

Accessibility is the sort of thing that has to be regulated into existence because the economic cost-benefit often cannot be justified. Similar to handicap parking, ramps, etc.

Really tiring of this clickbaity nonsense infecting science and math. This analogy is so tenuous you could snap it with a feather.

Hmm I think I wasn't clear enough with "Stoicism and tangential philosophies". I didn't mean to imply any one philosophy is necessarily a definitive prescription. Rather, they incl…

To be clear, the "efficiency with which a resource is used" in this case can be represented roughly by dollar per unit compute. As that value goes down, you would expect software "…

"In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is us…

It's almost like the problem is wanting to be special? Stoicism and tangential philosophies are more critically important than ever, in my opinion. I've also found a great deal of …

Do you worry that you're taking money at a valuation that's predicated on artificially and transiently elevated demand? It doesn't sound like you have a business compatible with th…

I suspect many developers would find software a lot less appealing if it were closer to a traditional engineering discipline (slow, unforgiving, dramatically reduced expressive pow…

What's considered aesthetically pleasing continually evolves over time. There are underlying trends in physical beauty that resemble what we see in fashion, art, music, etc. Humans…

This really goes a long way towards explaining the current state of macOS.

You're well behind the cutting edge of hair loss science [1]. It's quite clear from your comment that you haven't read anything about the most recent developments. If you want a go…

Hair loss is on the precipice of being effectively solved (infinite transplants via stem cells) and the price will likely go down over the next 5 to 10 years as the technology to p…

I can assure you that Musk has at no point intimated that Tesla is not a worthy investment and that he's not interested in profit maximization. He has only ever hinted at this peri…

If you're at a really early stage and still evaluating an idea, I would highly recommend Running Lean . Concrete, detailed step-by-step manual for figuring out if an idea is worth …

They don't have any significant monopolistic advantage and they're operating in a highly price-sensitive, competitive market. My personal theory is that Musk knows this and his rea…

There shouldn't be a debate at all since both sides are technically correct. Here's the definition from Google: > dec·i·mate /ˈdesəˌmāt/ verb 1. kill, destroy, or remove a large pe…

> Yet its strategy misfires and communication blunders have left its African developers in a lurch, underscoring how difficult blending capitalism and social good can be. Stung by …

It seems like it's about the optics in the present BLM-heavy climate. But you're absolutely right that the market sets rates. And did no one wonder why the hell Andela would exist …

It wasn't clear to me in reading this article whether or not this is actually cost competitive with existing hydrogen peroxide production methods. Or is it more about it being an e…

Pretty fantastic case study in the perils of complex systems. Is there any place where these types of post-mortems are collected? Could be a very valuable resource for systems engi…