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pacerwpg commented on I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected   lifehacker.com/health/ai-... · Posted by u/gnabgib
vjulian · 3 months ago
Also, do you mind dropping the sarcasm and explaining why you believe MyFitnessPal might be superior to ChatGPT in the usage I’m suggesting?
pacerwpg · 3 months ago
You're offloading understanding what you're eating to a sentence generating algorithm. You might as well just eat Soylent if you're going to use an LLM for nutrition tracking.
pacerwpg commented on I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected   lifehacker.com/health/ai-... · Posted by u/gnabgib
vjulian · 3 months ago
I use ChatGPT (4o model) to track my daily macros, specifically calories, protein, fat, and carbs. I have a prompt containing my macro targets and a list of the foods I typically eat or have at home. Throughout the day, I report my meals, for example five large eggs, two slices of sprouted wheat toast, and a cup of spinach with a pat of butter. It calculates the macros for each meal and keeps a running macros total so I can see how I’m tracking. It’s so easy—I don’t even type, I use (the overall excellent) ChatGPT’s TTS function in the iOS app.

If I eat something unexpected, I have it recalculate what I need for the rest of the day. If I were planning on 8 ounces of chicken for dinner but had an unplanned snack, it might tell me that 6 ounces will suffice now, and I now have room for more fat, so I could add some cheese. I find it quite accurate in this.

Where it loses accuracy is over time. Even when focused on just a single day, the cumulative totals can be wrong when the context window gets too large. I catch this by mentally adding up the numbers it spits out. If the numbers seem off, I open a new chat. Also, it’s not reliable for looking back over multiple days or trying to track long-term patterns.

When I take a photo of a meal (like when eating out), it performs very well. I ask it to list the contents of the plate, then I correct any assumptions. Once corrected, the resulting macros are usually within 5% accuracy. I also tell it the quality of the ingredients and restaurant overall, which can help a bit.

pacerwpg · 3 months ago
Cool, it can replace myfitnesspal features from 10 years ago, but do them worse.

Revolutionary.

pacerwpg commented on How the US economy went from booming to a recession scare in only 20 days   cnn.com/2025/03/11/busine... · Posted by u/speckx
pacerwpg · 6 months ago
100% correct.

The executive branch removing even the concept of stability and predictability from the US markets has nothing to do with it. It's that darn press and the Democrats!

Want to have a good idea of the costs of your business inputs? Sorry, not possible. You have to guess if it's going to be roughly the same or 50% more in a week. You have to sit and wait for what one man decides. That's a great environment for running a business.

pacerwpg commented on COPD is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States   copdfoundation.org/About-... · Posted by u/geox
airhangerf15 · 7 months ago
The CDC isn't a primary source. Dr. Toby Rogers started to do a lot of deep dives into CDC data looking at the primary sources and found that he CDC reports themselves are often misleading or wrong. He did an amazing interview on this topic:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unsafe-at-any-speed-dr...

mirror: https://old.bitchute.com/video/QQfIo75KHII/

mirror: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Sr3OsGqwfnWMfE7bGT30I

pacerwpg · 7 months ago
An unbelievably bad faith take. The original story uses CDC as their source of information. If you're willing to accept that and blame it on the jab, then you have to accept that stats showing no significant change using the same data source.
pacerwpg commented on COPD is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States   copdfoundation.org/About-... · Posted by u/geox
airhangerf15 · 7 months ago
Seems like a result of jab injury.
pacerwpg · 7 months ago
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7149a3.htm#:~:text=...

It was the sixth leading cause in 2020 before anybody was vaccinated. It was unbelievably easy to check this. It makes me wonder why you didn't bother.

pacerwpg commented on Google Maps to Rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US Users   reuters.com/world/us/goog... · Posted by u/andsoitis
esbranson · 7 months ago
I'm sure your TV told you it was a thing of the past, hence your anger. Stupidity is often taken advantage of. Imagine that.

It's called the "spoils system" and it's still very much alive and very common among leftists in the US, eg New York State and City.

Truth will tamp down the anger, mostly because you'd be angry all the time and get exhausted. I recommend books, personally. "Tales from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York State" for example discusses your topic. You will have to really, really put in work in to be angry at [checks notes] Trump or anyone anywhere near associated with the GOP.

pacerwpg · 7 months ago
Stupidity was certainly taken advantage of in November.
pacerwpg commented on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion   nytimes.com/2024/12/10/bu... · Posted by u/jbegley
lettergram · 9 months ago
> Jones didn't turn up for court and had contempt for the court by ignoring direct orders they probably punished him by making the sum very high.

Just fyi he did, the court kept claiming he had to produce documents / analytics he said he didn’t have. There’s no evidence the documents ever existed, but judge disagreed, so they issued a default judgement (ie no trial).

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055864452/alex-jones-found-l...

They then had a jury trial to determine damages were in the billions (lol)

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/07/nx-s1-4996347/alex-jones-liqu...

And lost in all this is what jones actually did… which in my judgement is not even liable and we wouldn’t even know because a trial was never held —

https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/here-exactly-what-al...

Which, sure I think is nuts. But I don’t see anything in there besides his opinion and trying to support his bat shit crazy opinion. So what, he thinks it was a fake event. As far as I can tell from this (and perhaps I’m missing something), he didn’t do anything to anyone. If we start penalizing calling people a liar, we’re going to end up in a much worse place where all we have are liars

pacerwpg · 9 months ago
Just FYI, the plaintiffs lawyers (not necessarily the court) was requesting financial documents that FSS LLC are required by law to have. They had two years to comply and did not.

Also FYI 'a trial was never held' is a common talking point used by Alex Jones on his program. He and his lawyers are responsible for there not being a trial. Their conduct guaranteed that there was no trial. It's a farce for him to complain about something that he is responsible for.

pacerwpg commented on Bots on X worse than ever: analysis of 1M tweets during first primary debate   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/ggm
guilhas · 2 years ago
Tens of millions in US do believe Trump won, and that the election was rigged, so 1200 accounts saying that doesn't look that extraordinary

Off-topic: I keep clicking on the X logo trying to close the pop-ups. This X rebrand doesn't feel like an improvement

pacerwpg · 2 years ago
> “We look at patterns of accounts that are discussing the debate topics, and during the interview as well, that are posting the same or similar content or the same links repeatedly within five seconds of each other,” he says.

> If two accounts did this five times, the researchers took this as a sign that they were automated accounts.

It sounds like they were pretty specific in how they identified the bot accounts.

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