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cultofmetatron commented on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia   pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4... · Posted by u/brandonb
Faelon · 2 days ago
I think it's easy to take algal-based omega-3 supplements. They've gotten pretty good in the last couple years with gummies with a high dose and no algae test. And no fish killed!
cultofmetatron · 2 days ago
are they artificially converting the ALA to DHA? we treat omega3 like they are all one bucket but theres a big difference.
cultofmetatron commented on Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo   si.edu/newsdesk/releases/... · Posted by u/gmays
assaddayinh · 3 days ago
The conquest for utopian perfection is the enemy of all good things. In the wild she would be poached, hunted and ground dow into medieval medicine, while contained to ever more little islands of wild.

Please god free us from those who want to burn the bakery, because they think tomorrow it will rain manna from the heavens. No curse us greater then a rampant idealist, unwilling to sense reality.

PS: Why not have pragmatic solutions where there are elephant days where the herd to roam in a park?

cultofmetatron · 3 days ago
zoos and aquariums serve a very vital purpose. most people only care about these animals because they can go SEE them alive. documentaries help but nothing beats getting a captive people into a room to see a wild animal and then bamboozling them with propaganda about how important it is to preserve these animals. Its the reason we have funding to keep these creatures alive in the wild at all.

if all zoos and aquariums were shut down, public concern about the environment would slowly drift to nothing within 2 generations.

cultofmetatron commented on The Book of PF, 4th edition   nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
iberator · 9 days ago
Those are some new and very very shallow books. There better one's from 90" and 80".
cultofmetatron · 9 days ago
much like swimming, it helps to start in the shallow end before you tread into deeper waters.
cultofmetatron commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP
dheera · 13 days ago
> there are enough american job seekers in CS

To be blunt: Not enough qualified ones. Look at the names of all the top AI papers of the past 3 years, not too many are American.

When you get bullied in American public schools for being a "nerd" and liking science and math, your country doesn't exactly produce a lot of state-of-the-art STEM professionals. You get a small handful of exceptional people who overcame the adversity but that's it.

The top 0.1% are perhaps mostly American-educated. The top 10% on the other hand are mostly not American. And you need the top 10% to code for the top 0.1%.

cultofmetatron · 13 days ago
> When you get bullied in American public schools for being a "nerd" and liking science and math, your country doesn't exactly produce a lot of state-of-the-art STEM professionals.

Its worse than that. when I lived in america, I found that being a software engineer was a dealbreaker when it came to dating most women. Imagine my surprise going to other countries and finding that my chosen profession made me high value proposition to most women.

cultofmetatron commented on Television is 100 years old today   diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/qassiov
jedberg · 15 days ago
This is interesting. John Logie Baird did in fact demonstrate something that looked like TV, but the technology was a dead end.

Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a competing technology a few years later, but every TV today is based on his technology.

So, who actually invented Television?

cultofmetatron · 15 days ago
> but every TV today is based on his technology.

Philo Farnsworth invented the cathode ray tube. unless you're writing this from the year 2009 or before, I'm going to have to push back on the idea that tv's TODAY are based on his technology. They most certainly are not.

cultofmetatron commented on Your app subscription is now my weekend project   rselbach.com/your-sub-is-... · Posted by u/robteix
cultofmetatron · 18 days ago
some of these apps are ridiculous. I downloaded an app to track the number of days I spend in each country. Its somewhat important for me since Im hoping countries all the time. I deleted it because while I'd hapiily pay 5-10 bucks one time, the app wanted $4/month which just seeems ridculous
cultofmetatron commented on Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree   yahoo.com/news/articles/g... · Posted by u/01-_-
cultofmetatron · 21 days ago
CTO of a startup. built the entire cloud backend and added features as a sole backend dev for the first 3 years. Before that I worked for several years in SF as a developer working all the way from a self taught junior to senior engineer to now a CTO with 4 engineers working with me towards out series A.

Some of the best engineers I know don't even have a college degree.

with that in mind, It fills me with general revulsion at the idea that "overlooking credentialism as long as they can do the job to a high standard" is "concerning." I want new engineers to have access to the same Ladder I had access to when I was up and comming.

cultofmetatron commented on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/echelon_musk
mikeweiss · a month ago
That only works if they aren't U.S citizens... Which if they're working for the gov means they are. This administration is creative they will find other more 'legal' ways for retribution so the punishment sticks.
cultofmetatron · a month ago
> That only works if they aren't U.S citizens

Ice has already summarily executed two US citizens. one literally on camera and broadcasted to the world.

cultofmetatron commented on Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?    · Posted by u/us321
Nextgrid · a month ago
Starlink and/or BGAN/satellite phones.
cultofmetatron · a month ago
starlink was explictly blocked there. they are jamming gps which is needed for it
cultofmetatron commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp   old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
don-code · a month ago
A few months ago I spoke with the frontman of a local Boston band from the 1980s, who recently re-released a single with the help of AI. The source material was a compact cassette tape from a demo, found in a drawer. He used AI to isolate what would've been individual tracks from the recording, then cleaned them up individually, without AI's help.

Does that constitute "wholly or in substantial part"? Would the track have existed were it not for having that easy route into re-mastering?

I understand what Bandcamp's trying to do here, and I generally am in support of removing what we'd recognize as "fully AI-generated music", but there are legitimate creative uses of AI that might come to wholly or substantially encompass the output. It's difficult to draw any lines line on a creative work, by just by nature of the work being creative.

(For those interested - check out O Positive's "With You" on the WERS Live at 75 album!)

cultofmetatron · a month ago
thats sounds more like unsupervised learning via one of the bread and butter clustering algorithms. I guess that is technically AI but its a far cry from the transformers tech thats actually got everyone's underwear in knots.

u/cultofmetatron

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