Have used pi hole for over 5 years and very happy with it. Most times I use it via phone to manage kids devices to block/unblock access etc and this also works quite well . Thank you very much
Readit Newseellpp commented on Pi-hole v6 pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/... · Posted by u/tkuraku
Every time I see one of these topics, I go ask chat GPT a question to which I know the answer on a topic where I would like to be able to get useful answers to similar questions that I do not know the answer to.
This time it was, "Did Paul Edwin Zimmer write a fourth Dark Border novel?" (Real answer: Yes, Ingulf the Mad. You can find the answer on his Wikipedia page.[1])
ChatGPT's[2] answer: "Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer wrote a fourth novel in the Dark Border series titled "The Dark Border." This book was published after the original trilogy, which included "The Dark Border," "The Gilded Age," and "The Silver Sphere." If you're interested in the themes or plot, let me know!" (Note: these are not the titles of the 2nd and 3rd novels in the series. Also, it gave me the same name for the putative 1st and 4th books.)
Pure hallucination.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Edwin_Zimmer 2. https://chatgpt.com/
This is the answer I get : Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer wrote a fourth novel in his Dark Border series titled Ingulf the Mad, published in 1989. This book focuses on the character Ingulf Mac Fingold, detailing his adventures and the origins of his mystical sword
(With source as wikipedia)
eellpp commented on What happens in the brain to cause depression? quantamagazine.org/what-h... · Posted by u/EA-3167
I don’t think you’re wrong but I also don’t think it’s hard to believe that different people have different depressions and for a lot of people it is a medical issue.
When docs are prescribing to patients, they are mentally traversing through a decision tree to prescribe the best that fits the conditions. If the problem still persists, they may ask_questions/test more to find more branches to traverse.
For individuals, it's like being a node, where you cannot see anything above. It feels that what works for you, should work for all.
eellpp commented on What happens in the brain to cause depression? quantamagazine.org/what-h... · Posted by u/EA-3167
I think ketamine is niche, and it will remain so. It's one of many tools. MDMA also assists in restoring brain plasticity[0].
For me, by far the most interesting development in mental health is Chris Palmer's work, which asserts that most mental illness is primarily a metabolic issue. If you think that can't be possible, read his 2022 book[1]. Here's a podcast[2].
[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02871-w [1] https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Energy-Revolutionary-Understand... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-sQogfh3Q
Will read through this. But have a quick question: Would it not be reasonable to guess that people having mental issues will have metabolic issues developed as later side effects. The reason is that mental issues puts a person in confused/lost state along with all the anxiety/feelings that it induces. This will causes them to neglect taking care of their body needs. Then that should trigger metabolic changes.
eellpp commented on Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant bbc.co.uk/news/science-en... · Posted by u/neversaydie
Many years ago I stopped by a zoo in France, with my 7mo son.
I was pushing him in the stroller while he was napping, and at the orangutan exhibit, one came up to the window and gestured towards the stroller.
I turned the stroller to face the window, and removed the hood.
The orangutan blew my son a kiss, waved then went back to the otherside of its enclosure.
Made me rethink what I knew about animal intelligence.
After reading this, the choice of word "exhibit" hurts
As a long time vim user. Thank you and RIP, Bram Moolenaar.
eellpp commented on Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/whatok
I'm not going to argue with you. I'm just pointing out that many of us have relatively easy white-collar jobs that pale in comparison to the hard, manual labor that our grandparents did. Expecting a warehouse job to coddle you is ridiculous. You're working in a warehouse - you know you're going to be standing on your feet, walking about 10 miles a day, your entire shift (outside of breaks). If you can't handle that, don't take the job. Nobody is forcing you to.
> Nobody is forcing you to.
The economic/social situation of people force them into these jobs. Just ignoring this and accepting it as reality is ridiculous. This can be said of any of such social behaviours. In some cultures, the violence on women is countered by the logic that they were wearing certain kind of dress and nobody is forcing them to do this etc ..
There are certain values in society that we should try to fight for. They may seem idealistic in current perspective, but nevertheless we should strive for them to make progress inch by inch. Brushing them off under the pretext of "nobody forced them" is not right.
> but we are still decades (or more) away from full level-5 autonomy
Decades? Are you really sure? This assumption seems quite uninformed to me. The Grand Challenge was 12 years ago, from then we evolved from Level 1 to Level 3. Back then there was no data, computing power wasn't available as today, chips (&sensors) can be designed an built within a few months or even less these days for far less money. Machine Learning and Computer Vision made many advances in these 12 years (talent in these fields is now easier to acquire as more people can learn about it these days). We are at a completely different point these days. Level 5 is not the matter of decades, 5 years, 10 max. But not decades.
It max 5 years or even less, if the problem is in engineering the solution. But if the problem is in underlying maths in building Level 5, then surely its decades
Presumably...
Statistics 110: Probability - Joe Blitzstein, Harvard University http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube
Thanks. Yes, that's the link. Joe is one of those teachers, who try to simplify the concepts while preserving the elegance of what is described. Kind of like minimalistic simplicity in teaching. While teaching, every time he would emphasise the intuition behind them. He avoids the complex formula's/algebra, calling them ugly ... and often presents one line proofs to them !!. After getting through the first few of lectures, you seem to get the underlying trend in his approach. That all the complexity is just hand waving over the the simplicity of underlying concepts. (Sometimes i think if the maths is complex to explain a phenomenon then we are not using the correct theory to explain it. But i am not a mathematician .... )