I feel inspired and would like to donate my standard for Agent Personas to the community. A persona can be defined by a markdown file with the following frontmatter:
Luckily you get the "extremely confident, even when wrong" attribute for free.
Readit NewsInitialLastName commented on Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem claude.com/blog/organizat... · Posted by u/adocomplete
This was great for the 10 mins it took to get through the whole playlist, then really jarring when it repeated.
I grew up in India (70,80,90) before coming to the US in 2000. I’m not a vaccine sceptic. But this sort of thing makes me cringe.
I’ve had chicken pox, mumps and measles growing up. Everyone I grew up with had those. No one is experiencing dementia or any sort of neurodegeneration. There was a chicken pox epidemic in my engineering university dorm. I didn’t catch it since I had it earlier as a kid. Either way none of the people who had it are having issues.
I think take the vax to prevent the disease. The neurodegenerative side effects are just advertisement for the vaccine.
If you were born in 1970, you (and presumably the people you grew up with) are ~55. The sample set in this particular study are 71-88 years old (plus 7 years after), so 16+ years older than you (years that also coincide with increased prevalence of noticeable dementia and neurodegeneration).
InitialLastName commented on The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car openwheelworld.net/en/ind... · Posted by u/1659447091
Not really.
> Z-mode means the front and rear wings are closed which generates more downforce for the corners. In X-mode, the drivers can open the flaps which will reduce drag and increase speed.
Driver-controlled aero has the potential to be way more interesting than the strictly-limited current DRS implementation.
The most interesting DRS era was in 2011-2012 when drivers could operate it (almost) anywhere they wanted in practice and qualifying. There was an element of risk in how early you could open it exiting a corner, and we saw real mistakes from drivers pushing that limit.
More driver controls leads to more opportunities for talented drivers to make a difference, which leads to a better sports product.
InitialLastName commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb
Compare the observation that in superhero comics, wealthy villains can be self-made, while wealthy heroes invariably get that way through inheritance.
The only acceptable leader is someone who was born so rich that he leads as a hobby.
Alternately: Self-made wealth is so frequently derived from evil that those who are born rich and come good owe penance for the sins of their forebears.
A belt pack can fit a battery literally ~1000x as large as a hearing aid battery.
Is there a little computer doing DAW work inside the earpiece?
> Is there a little computer doing DAW work inside the earpiece?
Yes, and likely always running all filters at high fidelity rather than power-saving whenever there isn't something to amplify.
I spent a long time on a Bach project that didn't really sell well, but I was very impressed with the final result.
A system for buying arrangements of the Well-Tempered Clavier for any combination of instruments:
welltemperedconsort.com
If you don't want it, I'll take that name for my stoic-forward dating service.
InitialLastName commented on Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System amoses.dev/blog/wifi-loca... · Posted by u/nicosalm
You're in a large building you're unfamiliar with. Particularly one with an unusual layout, like a mall or hospital.
For a variety of reasons I've set a personal best for time in large hospitals in the last year. They can be very difficult to navigate in the best of times, much less in the less-than-ideal mental state that often accompanies time in a hospital.
InitialLastName commented on Short Little Difficult Books countercraft.substack.com... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
Moby-Dick really is a great book. If you want a dolphin-sized taste of Melville, try Billy Budd.
For a salmon-sized taste, Bartleby the Scrivener. Great annotated version here: https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/10/herma...
InitialLastName commented on An official atlas of North Korea cartographerstale.com/p/a... · Posted by u/speckx
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it disputed, with heavy border tensions and all? I'm not claiming India doesn't control it, and as a Swede I don't know much. But that's about the one thing I thought I knew about Kashmir.
Yes, heavily disputed, to the point that there are widespread campaigns on the internet to normalize the various sovereignty claims under the guise of day-to-day conversation about those locales (e.g. conspicuously referring to them as being "in India" or "in Pakistan" or "in China"). For example, see the Google maps reviews for any landmarks in the area.