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Readit NewsExactly! That's so baffling and infuriating. They're living in an alternate reality at this point.
I was just looking at Raphael Enthoven's X account earlier and it makes me crazy.
I completely disagree with the premise of the article that draws are most boring and the wider the score difference the more interesting the game is.
Frequently draws are very exciting, they can make compelling viewing. In a game that is completely dominated by one team, there can be very little of interest.
An alternative metric would be the degree of uncertainty/jeopardy in the game. So a game that ends 1-1 has a high degree of jeopardy because at any moment a team can score and take point from the other team.
The number of goals scored in a game would be a better metric in my opinion.
It also stands for Standard American Diet. So there you go.
It also stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder which is winter depression.
Interesting premise but did this article _feel_ off to anyone else? Maybe it was me , but did it seem a bit redundant while also not saying a whole lot?
Exactly. It looks like it was written by a very bad LLM. It keeps repeating the title over and over again.
FranklinMaillot commented on Visualizing 13M Bluesky users joelgustafson.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/joelg
Retweet was original using the text "RT". Hashtags were also invented by Twitter users.
Wasn't the @ also invented by users?
I remember it was fascinating to watch this network self organize and create conventions of its own, that are now used everywhere.
FranklinMaillot commented on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000) · Posted by u/systemkwiat
Under 100€: a password manager.
Every time I need to sign in to an account I haven't used in a long time, I appreciate how much it makes my life easier.
No need to remember which email address I used to sign up, which of my passwords I used, what special character I added... It makes 2FA a breeze. It works seamlessly across my computers, browsers, phones...
I also use it to store API keys, my social security number, passport number, IBAN, copies of documents I need to keep handy..
The added security is just the icing on the cake.
FranklinMaillot commented on The Simple Guide to Building and Breaking Habits alexy.tech/posts/the-simp... · Posted by u/alexander2002
A distinction that is rarely mentioned when talking about habit forming is the one between building a new habit, like exercising every day, and breaking a bad habit, like quitting junk food. The latter is much harder in my experience but the article hardly acknowledges it.
The former implies building up the willpower to exercise and once it's done, you don't have to think about it for the rest of the day. Quitting a bad habit, on the other hand, is a constant struggle to resist the urge a thousand times per day. When grocery shopping, when out for dinner, when bombarded with ads for ultra processed food... The slightest patch of hardship in your day can make you trip up.
I find the identity-focused strategy can help. Other strategies that somewhat work for me:
- I condition myself to associate the bad habit with the worst things I can think of. Anytime the temptation to eat junk food creeps up, I picture the fat building up in my arteries, I convince myself that the processed food industry is evil, etc.
- I remind myself that the road to success will not be straightforward and I should focus on the general trend instead of the day to day success and failures. Having some kind of habit tracker can help with that.
AI explained. It's a youtube channel that gives a nice in-depth overview of the latest papers in the field of LLMs.
https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official
They also have a free newsletter and more behind a Patreon subscription.
https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/p/the-3rd-era-of-ai-langua...
Same price, but dramatically better results, way more reliable, and 10x faster. The only downside is when it does fail, it seems to fail much harder. Where gpt-5-mini would disregard the formatting in the prompt 70% of the time, mistral-medium follows it 99% of the time, but the other 1% of the time inserts random characters (for whatever reason, normally backticks... which then causes it's own formatting issues).
Still, very happy with Mistral so far!