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polio commented on Social Cooling (2017) socialcooling.com/... · Posted by u/laurex

ajross · 5 months ago

> The entire generation is less likely to express a non-consensus opinion than prior generations.

I think that's pretty arguable, and I'd want to see actual research. Certainly kids today are wildly more likely to embrace Stuff that Pisses Off their Elders than at any time since the 60's counterculture revolution. Think gender fluidity and pronoun choice, body modification, protest culture, rejection of career paths, embrace of the "neuro-atypical" as routine personality types... all that seems qualitatively but inarguably higher than when I was growing up 30-40 years ago.

polio · 5 months ago

This just happens to be the consensus opinion for their group. Kids have never cared about being accepted by people 20 years older than they are; kids have always cared about being accepted by their peers. Social cooling means that dissent from their peer group is harder.

polio commented on Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society pewresearch.org/short-rea... · Posted by u/aloukissas

bdangubic · 5 months ago

> has the possibility of making your rich

the core issue is that such possibility does not exist. if you are successful gambler to the point where you are on the path to riches you will be banned from all platforms faster than Jets are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs

polio · 5 months ago

In sports betting contexts, you're often just betting against other players, I believe. If they're anything like prediction markets, the exchange isn't going to care how successful you are, as long as you're betting.

polio commented on Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug derekthompson.org/p/the-s... · Posted by u/zdw

jb1991 · 7 months ago

Ask anyone in the army how all those years of running drills have affected them as they got older. It’s not so rosy. Lots of knee problems in that group. Above average practice of running throughout life also increases likelihood of requiring pacemakers later in life.

polio · 7 months ago

It's more that the military's goal isn't to produce adults that are indefinitely healthy, but rather a robust geopolitical deterrent that only requires its employees to be physical capable for about twenty years, after which their service life is over. Running is not the issue. Even a car designed for driving can be driven irresponsibly.

polio commented on In the past year my illustration business has dropped more half reverentgeek.com/ai-reall... · Posted by u/cebert

Waterluvian · 10 months ago

I think that transformation is difficult to appraise from within. In the future we’ll have a much more clear sense of how we feel about the invention of the automobile.

I think that the calm, more disciplined take of “the sky is always falling, it’s never falling. There’s other, probably better ways to be creative” is the one.

Today my eight year old sat at the PC for hours using Scratch to make what was essentially a Flash animation. He had PS5 access, Switch access, iPad access. Nope. Wanted to bash his head against loops and timers for hours.

The craving to be creative is insatiable. It’ll continue to take on new forms.

With apologies to the farriers of today.

polio · 10 months ago

Yes, but how much of a market will there be for this kind of creation?

polio commented on Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival hms.harvard.edu/news/resi... · Posted by u/Bostonian

ioblomov · a year ago

Am I missing something here? How could a hellish residency—with all the stress and sleep deprivation that implies—possibly improve patient outcome?

Apart from the bad real-time cognitive effects, long-term memory retention is dependent on regular, sustained sleep.

polio · a year ago

The idea is that the stress and sleep deprivation are not sources of permanent impairment (even though they are), but rather a filter that selects the strongest candidates.

polio commented on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport cbc.ca/news/canada/toront... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

einhard · a year ago

I stitched together a small audio clip from LiveATC with both the Ground and Tower frequencies mapped to the Left and Right audio channels. It starts around the time the aircraft was cleared to land, and then skips forward to the moment the controllers realized the aircraft crashed.

Here is a link to the .mp3 file (it's on Discord for now - I don't know if this is allowed, let me know if it isn't):

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/668315121772134401/13...

polio · a year ago

This is also available via VASAviation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiUC8h4pkcs

polio commented on rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++ rr-project.org/... · Posted by u/levzettelin

saagarjha · 2 years ago

…or you can just waste a few bytes? It's not a big deal.

polio · 2 years ago

You can, but that makes the type system worse. Also depending on how these few bytes are used, they can add up and drag down performance.

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polio commented on Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models? kadoa.com/blog/llama3-kil... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo

jsheard · 2 years ago

Perhaps for now, but I wouldn't count on there always being a Meta spending $$$ to train enormous models and then giving them away for free. What's the long-term game plan for open-source models when the corporate charity inevitably dries up?

polio · 2 years ago

The corporate charity will not dry up. AI makes it easier to generate content, and Meta's in the business of facilitating the sharing of that content. Content is surface area for ads. AI will also make the virtual realities of the "metaverse", as defined by Mark, easier to reify. It's also a giant marketing and recruiting strategy.

polio commented on Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects robmensching.com/blog/pos... · Posted by u/transpute

polio · 2 years ago

This is a non-sequitur.

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