You mean I can't take the Nobel Peace Prize by force? Can't be true, I'm the most peaceful guy the world has ever seen.
Readit Newsmateo1 commented on A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred nobelpeaceprize.org/press... · Posted by u/tech234a
mateo1 commented on Breakthrough bioplastic decomposes in 2 months thecooldown.com/green-tec... · Posted by u/westurner
Ok, why would you want plastic to decompose in 2 months? What about shelf life? Will I need to worry about my packaging decomposing?
mateo1 commented on UK Government destroys £1.4B of PPE from one Covid deal bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/mellosouls
I don't get why they'd destroy the PPE if it exists and it's up to standard? Even governments can resell these products?
What exactly is this "MagNex" product and why is it worth an (long and mostly irrelevant to the point) article?
mateo1 commented on The Scarlett Johansson Incident Makes OpenAI Look Desperate nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/jbegley
VW and other German car makers thought they can charge twice the price for an EV compared to equivalent EV (while also massively hiking up ICE prices in last years).
Now they're running screaming to EU to protect them against Chinese BYD and Tesla which made better, cheaper cars.
That's a funny way to read the article. What it really says is that VW saw a big market in China, which is now dominated by local companies, so they're not gonna overproduce cars by building another factory. Also the free money river known as subsidies is drying out in the EU so people won't be buying that many EVs. And tesla/byd might be cheaper, but I wouldn't call them any better. That's a personal opinion of course.
mateo1 commented on Ask HN: Most successful example using LLMs in daily work/life? · Posted by u/sabrina_ramonov
I'm not a programmer, and when I write a program it's imperative that it's structured right and works predictably, because I have to answer for the numbers it produces. So LLMs have basically no use for me on that front.
I don't trust any LLM to summarize articles for me as it will be biased (one way or another) and it will miss the nuance of the language/tone of the article, if not outright make mistakes. That's another one off the table.
Although I don't use them much for this, I've found 2 things they're good at: -Coming up with "ideas" I wouldn't come up with -Summarizing hundreds (or thousands) of documents from a non-standard format (ie human readable reports, legal documents) that regular expressions wouldn't work with, and putting them into something like a table. But still, that's only when I care about searching or discovering info/patterns, not when I need a fully accurate "parser".
I'm really surprised on how useless LLMs turned out to be for my daily life to be honest. So far at least.
> Cognitive Reflection (CR) refers to the individual ability or disposition to stop the first impulsive response that our mind offers and to activate the reflective mechanisms that allow us to find an answer, make a decision, or carry out a specific behavior in a more thoughtful way.
Basically the idea that you think before you act. Makes sense that this would enhance all other skills. Is this junk science? I’d rather see actual test plus data with control variables. Meta analysis seems to have the conclusion already in the introduction. We think this matters here’s a bunch of evidence we found, therefore it matters.
Doing a meta-analysis on something easily quantifiable is sketchy enough, doing a meta-analysis on something as vague and hard to measure as "cognitive intelligence" is.. well, it's sociology's territory. Not to say it isn't of value, many discoveries were made on a lot less methodologically strict grounds and this kind of "conversation" does create the stimulus for further, more specific research, but you ought to read this more like a an investigative journalistic piece with a lot of opinion rather than hard science.
The phrase "the dose makes the poison" did not just occur in someone's head for no reason.
What dose of PFOA/PFAS is harmful instead of harmless?
What dose of any substance is harmful instead of harmless? Is this a philosophical question or a practical one? If it's a practical one, we don't know, because if there are any effects they're too weak to infer with certainty. Unlike for example those of benzene in your sunscreen or acne products, or flame retardants in your furniture.