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"weight is not really a great measure" followed by saying you measure yourself by looking in the mirror, on an article about weight control is a pretty confusing way to communicate…

You're changing the subject now. The article wasn't about measuring health in general, it was about weight control. And the line of discussion that we're on is a good measure of we…

You're right, it isn't complicated. The beauty of a true good measure (ie, a scale or other measuring device) is that you can track actual discrete progress over a very short time …

It sounds like you want someone to agree with you that your memory plus your subjective view of yourself is a "good measure" of progress, despite the existence of scales and measur…

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Does anyone know the history of noncompetes? It seems like a case of Tacit Collusion[1]. But if there is no competitive advantage to the noncompete, how did it catch on? 1. https:/…

Because "a good measure" does not change based on how you feel.

Yes, it's called evolution. Software evolves as well as scales. Scaling is architected growth, evolution is unarchitected growth. (Sometimes scaling results in unarchitected growth…

Honestly I think that you are trolling me , but I am trying to assume good faith. In your first reply to me, you said "[an explanation is that] systemic racism in education in the …

It's not crazy to assume that people with less resources and support will do worse. The logic is sound and its in fact the standard explanation (along with discrimination) as to wh…

If they knew that blacks have less resources and are therefore on average worse applicants as a result, then they knew that a bad application statistically meant a black applicant.…

>>The study adds to a growing body of knowledge about what anonymizing funding applications can—and can’t—do. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), for example, experimented wit…

So just like a non-self-organizing department then?

And people are flabbergasted at the healthy skepticism towards pharmaceutical companies, when they literally treat people like expendable cattle at every chance they get.

You think a little hypocrisy will get in the way of political posturing? It never does.

I've begun to notice that I have to spend a lot more effort when I want to write concise and unambiguous text. It is especially noticeable when I'm asking ChatGPT questions. I stro…

You fire people until you can afford the people who are left. It's far from insurmountable. Instead, they chose to fire everyone all at once.

"insurmountable challenges." That rules out funding and community engagement, since both of those can be improved. The problem must have been systemic...

Were there any warning signs of this decision? I quick look at their blog[1] doesn't raise any red flags. Who knew about this? I'm sure the community would have kept them going if …

Wait until your Neuralink can show what you're visualizing.

I suspect we'll discover/invent an IR (intermediate representation) that behaves like RAG in that it primes the LLM to produce a specific bit of knowledge/facts, but the IR is a lo…

I'm not dismissing anyone, nor am I a "DARE kid", nor am I projecting my own "meaningless life." I'm simply sharing my own unprocessed genuine reaction to this kind of content, and…

I feel very deeply that my life is full of meaning, so it can't be projection. Not interested in trying to suppress my feelings with drugs either.

I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into …

What is it called when two nations launch retaliatory attacks in self defense?