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How do you know those aren’t the same thing?

Because you can inherit capital.

You can also inherit talent, but "the descendants of those worthy are worthy" is a belief humanity spilled a lot of blood to get away from.


Their cohort studies are across three completely different populations. I would be willing to listen to an argument that for some specific population there’s a firearm ownership level above which there are diminishing safety returns, but I find the idea that this same level would hold across wildly different populations absurd

Well obviously arming babies would not increase safety.

I suspect the optimal proportion would be similar to the optimal proportion of the vaccinated to stop disease spread.


Try the audiobook, although I’m sure purists would consider it cheating. You can zone out and it keeps going and something will pull your attention and you can rewind to get the context.


There are so many footnotes and back notes that the audiobook does it a disservice. However, I have used both to try and get through it.


How do you know what volitions and abilities it doesn’t have? My agent teams continually improve the process and tooling they use for teamwork


If it had its own volition, the various "You are X role and do Y" prompts wouldn't work.


Sure they would. The model would just demand some sort of reward for assuming role X and doing job Y, like humans do.


Get a sleep study done to find out how serious it is


It’s a shame they were so anti-nuclear. Best song on that album was Ohm Sweet Ohm.


What credentials does this author have to cite social science research in their determination of the competency of other people? Their only other article is about eschewing native apps - why am I supposed to take their opinion about measuring competency seriously if they are a software engineer, not a psychologist? They are clearly outside of their domain of expertise and therefore incapable of producing work with any value whatsoever, according to their own arguments.


How do you know this person isn’t at least somewhat well versed in the related fields? For all we know they have a double major?


oh, believe me, I can just tell from the way they're talking about stuff, just like a webapp/psychology double major is well-versed in evaluating data systems


why indeed


This means the patient makes up their own strategy and the doctor says “we are checking”


Must be the water.


was not expecting a HN crossover with /r/formula1 today, but here we are


This is really cool. I vibe coded almost exactly the same app, mine also tracks saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, and fiber (I'm getting older so these macros are pretty important to me). One of the really cool things you can do if you have tool calling hooked up is to have the LLM analyze your diet and tell you what you can do better to hit your targets - swap pizza for pasta, decrease the amount of cheese you put on your sandwich, if you're gonna have fast food don't get the fries and eat low fat/low sodium the rest of the day, etc. What model are you using? I have found Qwen Flash to be really good for my app - smart enough, tool calling works really well, and very cheap.


Thanks.

It is using Gemini Flash 3 at the moment.

There is a lot to learn in nutrition. The glycemic load metric is quite revealing for pizza vs pasta (slow digesting carbs are supposed to be better). Al-dente cooked pasta is also slower digesting than well cooked pasta.

Another interesting thing is how each plant food has unique molecules that can be health promoting in humans. That was one aspect I wanted to reveal/compare for the foods I ate.

Dr Weil / Perfect Health Diet / Marks Daily Apple are three sources I like to check for information on nutrition.


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