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angstrom commented on Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows   phys.org/news/2024-07-abo... · Posted by u/speckx
popol12 · a year ago
angstrom · a year ago
My three-year-old daughter plays this with cat. It's a cross-species thing that is possibly part of mammalian brain development in origin.

The cat is less than one year old. Our 17 year old cat does not engage in this at all and hisses at the kitten for even trying to start a game of tag. This makes me wonder if that origin is more related to predator/prey.

angstrom commented on More than 75,000 Kaiser workers go on strike in clash with over wages   latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
riku_iki · 2 years ago
> revenue; $68 billion. Net income; $925 million

sounds like profit margin is very small and they can go underwater any moment.

angstrom · 2 years ago
Now do United Health
angstrom commented on Microsoft lays off one of its responsible AI teams   platformer.news/p/microso... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
jrochkind1 · 2 years ago
More than being created to create jobs, I suspect things like ethics teams are mainly created for PR purposes, to make the company look good -- and in fact, the "product" they are expected to produce are defenses against the company looking bad, keep the actual product teams from doing things that make the company look bad. (Whether they are given the tools to succeed at this is another question, but it's not like people not given the tools to succeed at large organizations is unusual!)

If an AI product makes Microsoft look really bad publicly due to something understood by the public as an ethical concern, the ethics team will be back.

angstrom · 2 years ago
If it wasn’t for appearances only it would be under HR or perhaps HR would report into DEI role.
angstrom commented on DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request   github.com/open-telemetry... · Posted by u/raybb
benatkin · 3 years ago
They want to keep their agent secret.

Secret Agent Man...

angstrom · 3 years ago
They've given you a pull number and taken 'way your name
angstrom commented on ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon   algolia.com/blog/ai/why-c... · Posted by u/freediver
qwertox · 3 years ago
Sometimes I just want to know something, not search for something. Up until now I've used Google for both, but lately I've just asked ChatGPT on things I want to know about, as if it were a conversation partner. It still lacks knowledge and one must distrust the information, but this is the beginning of something very big, like a new age.

I enjoy the ability to be able to ask questions without having the other party feeling either attacked due to their lack of knowledge or my corrections, but just be able to focus on the topic, even if it starts getting weird like it telling me about "clockwork energy" as if it were a thing which existed, without being able to name me scientists which have dealt with the analysis of this topic (it started with my question "could time a form of energy?" after we were talking about the different energy forms which exist. It had the idea that in thermodynamics there exists the concept of "clockwork energy" which isn't mainstream, but wasn't able to offer me additional information about it). It's fun, 100%.

angstrom · 3 years ago
It's doing what the voice assistants were supposed to: solve problems by assisting you with more context in a conversational manner.

Text to speech queries solve the problem of my hands being broken. ChatGPT solves the problem of my brain being contextually broken and I need more context, not higher relevant search results at the bottom of the screen after the ads that I then slog through to wind up changing my query and searching again like some sadistic freemium ad driven Sisyphean task that flies in the face of innovation to help me reach a contextual nugget.

angstrom commented on Goodbye, data science   ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/... · Posted by u/sonabinu
EdwardDiego · 3 years ago
Unless you're exposed to a carcinogenic chemical...
angstrom · 3 years ago
Nah, not even. I have a mutation called CDH1 that happens to be pathogenic and predisposes me to a greater than 40% chance of stomach cancer. It's a dominant gene which means it has a 50% chance I've passed it onto my daughter as well.

That cancer is what's known as a Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer gene (HDGC). It just so happens that the E-cadherin control that suppresses those cancer cells is not processed properly. The diffuse part is what makes it particularly tricky. It's on the surface of the stomach epithelial cells and progresses from there. The only solution is a total gastrectomy (prophylactic if you do it early). No carcinogen necessary. It's found in populations all over the world and pathogenic lines don't even have to be related. The mutation can occur independently in the germline and is passed on. As long as you reproduce before it kills you nature really doesn't care.

Fun side fact. It also predisposes carriers to 70% chance of breast cancer. As a result many of those diagnosed are women who then find out they need to also have their stomachs removed.

angstrom commented on Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator   4m3ric4.com... · Posted by u/0x389
angstrom · 3 years ago
Have an endorsement!

"I've done 3 cross-country road trips and this captures everything I remember about Kansas excluding the IHOP in Wichita where we met an overworked waitress nearly running the entire place."

angstrom commented on Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator   4m3ric4.com... · Posted by u/0x389
hcrean · 3 years ago
I was expecting more video.
angstrom · 3 years ago
If this pulled snapshots from Google street view for the car view it would be complete.
angstrom commented on First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/respinal
public_defender · 3 years ago
This is true until you try to actually raise your kids. "Men with kids" may poll high with bosses, but the third or fourth time you need reasonable accommodations for a school pickup, you're suddenly not the type of go-getter this company values.

I would go so far as to argue that there is a single cohort "at the top of the power structure" comprised of men with no kids and men who have kids but do not actively parent. Men who have significant childcare commitments are in a lower cohort.

angstrom · 3 years ago
I recall an Amazon director 10 years ago commenting during a mixer about how having kids was a limiting factor for career progression. It wasn’t possible to be serious about your career and be a parent.
angstrom commented on First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/respinal
SamoyedFurFluff · 3 years ago
Honestly at 3 & 4 children will do the wildest stuff and I wouldn’t be surprised a parent has a head on a swivel for stupid kid nonsense at that point, by 4 you have a bachelors degree in “my child will handle/eat animal shit for no reason”. Children at that age are not capable of rational thinking, emotional regulation, and have no real sense of danger or stakes.
angstrom · 3 years ago
I climbed 40ft up the outside of a silo without a ladder. Kids do the dumbest shit.

u/angstrom

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