Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects

Post by rtkwe » Fri, Mar 07, 2025, 3:45 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #104

thom wrote: post #7

Delighted to discover this kind of breakthrough is based on a gnarly regular expression: https://github.com/Svensson-Lab/pro-hormone-predictor/blob/m...

Please, if you write regexes like these, comment them... A great way to do it is to split them up by concatenating them across a bunch of lines, and put a brief explanation at the end of each non-obvious part (to the right, on the same line). Plus that also lets you indent within nested parentheses, making it that much more understandable. I'm baffled when I come across a file like this where the code itself is heavi…

Post by crazygringo » Fri, Mar 07, 2025, 3:46 PM UTC

ch4s3 wrote: post #126

crazygringo wrote: post #116

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It's nearly always a side effect of weight loss, and it's a good thing. It's confusing how people act like it's bad. If you're obese, your legs are enormously strong with crazy amounts of muscle. Have you ever seen someone obese do leg presses at the gym? They can handle tons of weight. When you lose weight, you don't need all that extra muscle . If you're carrying around 180 lbs instead of 300 lbs on your frame, all…

I think the downside is that you don't just lose muscle in your legs and core, but rather you lose muscle mass all over. Yes, this is the expected result of calorie restriction but the issue is that when people lose a lot of weight without taking action to build and maintain muscle the amount of muscle loss they experience can cause other problems. Someone relying on a GLP-1 drug is often someone who isn't very activ…

Post by jcl » Fri, Mar 07, 2025, 3:49 PM UTC

trehalose wrote: post #105

dleeftink wrote: post #75

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You'll love this one then! [0]: https://cardoni.net/parsing-proper-nouns-with-regex/

That regex detects things like "eeieiieeeiA __ 1 2 3__" as a proper noun. I'm confused by the decision to accept any number of leading [ei] and any number of trailing (?:\s+[_\d]+).

Post by ch4s3 » Fri, Mar 07, 2025, 3:50 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #133

ch4s3 wrote: post #126

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I think the downside is that you don't just lose muscle in your legs and core, but rather you lose muscle mass all over. Yes, this is the expected result of calorie restriction but the issue is that when people lose a lot of weight without taking action to build and maintain muscle the amount of muscle loss they experience can cause other problems. Someone relying on a GLP-1 drug is often someone who isn't very activ…

> but rather you lose muscle mass all over. Well, you lose weight all over. You lose fat in your arms and your shoulders don't need to be quite as strong. You lose weight on your face and your neck muscles don't need to be quite as strong. You lose more in your legs, but you're supposed to lose muscle mass all over. > Someone relying on a GLP-1 drug is often someone who isn't very active at all. Sure, but that's a co…

Post by gs17 » Fri, Mar 07, 2025, 3:51 PM UTC

andershaig wrote: post #88

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #73

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Yes, it might be misinformation, but it's convenient misinformation, is that the idea? And yes, it's true that a source like wikipedia could be too, but that has to withstand scrutiny to remain on the site, no such checks or balances in AI.

It's clearly labeled as the output of Sonnet 3.7, not truth. We all need to apply our own critical analysis of anything we read, whether it's claimed to be from an LLM or from Wikipedia. The possibility of inaccuracy isn't a reason to withhold comment.