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That’s not conventional wisdom. “Obesity changes the brain, with ‘no sign of reversibility,’ expert says”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/health/obesity-changes-brain-wellness/index.html
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#Twitter is better off in the migration to the #Fediverse than #Reddit is. Reddit network effects mostly come one subreddit at a time, while Twitter network effects come from the entire Twitter user base. I think.
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 Reddit became the new Usenet, surviving by attrition. Reddit is about moderated group discussion on a given topic. Compiled FAQS The twitter paradigm is much more random in nature, microblogged thought. A dad joke might follow a news headline, a pet photo, a history fact, all from the same mind. A bouillabaisse of chaos  So these two eminent #AI researchers think that -- I'm paraphrasing, based on my understanding of what they are saying -- if you parrot the statistics enough, but parrot on ever-higher levels of abstraction ("higher-level features"), that teh parroting behavior not only is indistinguishable from understanding, but is actually understanding. Worth listening to, particularly the second part. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7073688821803978752/ @J12t yes I 100% agree with that. Which is easier? Learning to parrot every x + y = z math equation, or learning the meaning of +? Just by auto regression, you can develop higher order understandings. This is obvious when you use GPT. Ironically GPT is not great at math, it’s not a good domain for them IMO, but it’s just an example of how autoregressive algorithms can learn meaning. When open-source development works, then your customer/user is an active collaborator in helping to debug and solve issues. In non-open-source development, they are usually some kind of antagonist. And vice versa. Also, if “virtue” comes from Latin virtus, which comes from vir (the man), and your dog doesn’t behave, then the property he’s lacking would be “canue”, no? If you blow up a dam, and the reservoir isn’t very deep, all of a sudden there is land where you didn’t think anybody could cross. Which is apparently happening. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-11-2023 “Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment”. And as usual, who has the story? @mmasnick So Twitter is off the deep end. Reddit is trying real hard, it seems, perhaps a different deep end but still. What an opportunity for the #Fediverse? How can we actively migrate users at scale? What do we need to do that?   @J12t I don't know if I'm out of the loop but I don't know what's up with Reddit. I see so many people saying things like this and I honestly don't know why. Can anyone explain me what the issue Reddit has is? So Parallels Desktop took away my preferred screen resolution in the latest update. There's no 3840x2160 in their virtual graphics card, and the dynamic resolution detection has gone away. Workaround: downgrade, re-upgrade but not update the Parallels Tools to run inside the VM. Now they nag you, of course, but better than having terrible resolution. "These 10 Billionaires Went All-In Trying to Get Donald Trump Reelected". In total 63 billionaires. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/meet-donald-trumps-top-10-billionaire-enablers/  Let’s say you’d have some classified documents around that you need to store somewhere. Where would you put them? The stage of a public ballroom, obviously. No, the “hiding in plain sight” defense does not apply here. @J12t actually google had the machines to scan and digitize them in short time. I'm so spoilt. Tried to get some technical work done on the road yesterday, with a "mere" 16" laptop screen, and mostly failed. I've been so used to my 32" monitor, which, checking the calculator, has 4x the display area. How did I ever get any code written on my first (8bit) computer with best-in-class resolution of 320x200 pixels? Using an analog TV as monitor? And now Apple promises an "unlimited canvas" in their #VisionPro marketing. Oohhhhh .... "Global greenhouse gas emissions at all-time high, study finds" Humanity, you (we!) are so stupid. "There is no border in the field of vision — your field of view through Vision Pro exactly matches what you see through your eyes without it." Many people have wondered about that aspect of #VisionPro, and @daringfireball answers. Rest of the post also very interesting. https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos @J12t @daringfireball Very well-written. The excitement bias is a bitch to work through, so I get. Otherwise, very fair take. Someone really needs to ask the #Verge exactly why the "tonyg" @ Mastodon dot Social clearly identifiable in the screen shot has denied that the posts shown are from him Which would be forgery, I would believe Where did the Verge get the original webp image? #Zuckerberg and #Meta? https://mastodon.sdf.org/@tonyg@mastodon.social/110511333147270453 @J12t @jdp23 this is where the centralization helps them. They have power and money to sway the public. It’s a genius move on their part. As I’ve thought about it more and more, their AT integration is *probably* a move to become the largest federation instantly and then have outsized control over the network. This is going to be a mess. Whenever I sit outside in an unusual place in California in the summer, sunshine and all, even having lived in #California for 28 years now, it still feels a vacation. Also remarkable that #apple apparently changed the name of the device and the OS at the last minute. The developer videos still call it #xros -- a somewhat more natural name than #VisionOs which is blander and could stand for all sorts of things. Apparently the thought "let's not put it into an existing category" won out. And the focus on "vision" for #VisionPro is also non-obvious if it's an #AR device. What's a mere $12b in customer funds moved to the CEO's personal company? The brazenness is pretty astounding. What were these guys thinking would happen? |
@J12t What causesweigh gain is the problem