Right turns are really dangerous for pedestrians. A lot of localities started banning right-on-red because cars look left only.
Cars don't look at all.
Readit Newskarma_fountain commented on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
karma_fountain commented on How to avoid P hacking nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/benocodes
If you "dredge" any data set (even the one you can 100% trust) over and over with random hypotheses until p-value is <0.05, you will eventually (actually, pretty quickly) support some false hypothesis. That's why "data dredging" is also p-hacking.
Yes, as I understand it there is bias inherent in any dataset due to the fact it is a sample. Data dredging is just looking for that bias. You could do that, but then you'd have to confirm with a new experiment.
karma_fountain commented on Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU ollama.com/library/gemma3... · Posted by u/brylie
I have tried a lot of local models. I have 656GB of them on my computer so I have experience with a diverse array of LLMs. Gemma has been nothing to write home about and has been disappointing every single time I have used it.
Models that are worth writing home about are;
EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct - It was excellent at taking podcast transcriptions and generating show notes and summaries.
Rocinante-12B-v2i - Fun for stories and D&D
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct - Good for simple coding tasks
OpenThinker-7B - Good and fast reasoning
The Deepseek destills - Able to handle more complex task while still being fast
DeepHermes-3-Llama-3-8B - A really good vLLM
Medical-Llama3-v2 - Very interesting but be careful
Plus more but not Gemma.
Ah, OpenThinker-7B. A diverse variety of LLM from the OpenThoughts team. Light and airy, suitable for everyday usage and not too heavy on the CPU. A new world LLM for the discerning user.
karma_fountain commented on What excessive screen time does to the adult brain longevity.stanford.edu/li... · Posted by u/rzk
IIRC, most of the evidence regarding screens before bed being detrimental were focused on the "blue light" thing, so a warmer light is probably better.
(I think the science behind blue light being bad for us is still up for debate, but it's hard for me to ignore the amount of anecdata I've heard, including my own experience using flux and the like)
Blue light has been shown to affect alertness in the evening in 13 young men here https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysio...
Would be interested in studies refuting this.
karma_fountain commented on What excessive screen time does to the adult brain longevity.stanford.edu/li... · Posted by u/rzk
Yeah and it’s not hard to come up with a hypothesis with reverse causation: people struggling with mental health tend to (on average) live more solitary lives with more screen time.
Also people watching five hours of TV a day maybe aren't doing too much exercise.
karma_fountain commented on We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines github.com/team-watchdog/... · Posted by u/icaruswept
I thought it was a pretty cool project, thought it was self-funded. But I agree I have no idea why I should finance this with my European taxpayer money.
The EU is the world's main source of and main destination for foreign direct investment (FDI). Inward and outward FDI play a fundamental role for generating sustainable economic growth, business opportunities, employment, technological development and innovation.
karma_fountain commented on A deep dive into how linkers work (2008) lwn.net/Articles/276782/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
This is one of my most favourite article series and had so many eye openers for me. I also think there is no other resource, neither internet nor elsewhere, that has all this information in one place. I really wished Ian made a book out of it.
The book Linkers and Loaders by John R. Levine is pretty good.
karma_fountain commented on Spot the Drowning Child (2015) spotthedrowningchild.com/... · Posted by u/EndXA
Swimming seems to be at least partly a cultural thing. In the Philippines, I'm regularly surprised by the number of people who say they can't swim. A handful of videos is a small sample, but it seems to be a similar situation here where 5 out of the first 6 videos I watched were black kids. Being a lifeguard in a high risk area would be too stressful for me. I'm stressed just watching these videos. Big respect to watchful heroes saving the day for these kids.
I'm assuming your in the US when you talk about the black kids. How much do you think US segregation on racial lines in the 20th century has an impact on this?
Wow - Howard's character is arguably more important to the story than Phoenix's. Was he that big of a draw back then to be able to demand so much more pay? Well - he had probably been in "Gladiator" just prior, so I guess he was a hot commodity. It looks like William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson all got paid pretty well. The movie made money despite not finding favor with critics.
> Ebert named the film the tenth worst film of 2004 and subsequently put it on his "Most Hated" list.
I dunno, I enjoyed it. I'm a simple man.
This was Bryce Dallas Howard's first film so it was her big break, before that she had only done theater. Hopefully she got a percentage of the profit and some extra money for promoting the film.
Edit: Also worth noting that her father is Ron Howard so she probably didn't need the money.
karma_fountain commented on Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022) reproof.app/blog/notes-ap... · Posted by u/pps
> We think we write to remember
I do exactly that.
The act of writing helps me solidify that information in my brain - I have to process it to commit it to words. Paper works better than a text file, but a text file has the advantage of being faster and searchable. Once I've taken notes, I rarely go back and look at them. (Conversely, if I don't take notes, I'll wish I had)
I definitely do not take notes to abandon the information. Information I don't see the value in, I browse the web while listening. Some of that still sticks with me anyways.
Writing as a means to internalize information and make ideas your own is good.