I recently interviewed a dentist. You may find the text insightful. Note that this is not necessarily representative of the experience of all dentists. My reasons for doing so are listed on the “about” page of the linked website.
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It is paywalled, if the NYT detects from your browser cookie that you have already consumed all of your free articles for the month.
But some ad blockers, like Brave's "Shields" feature, manage to block NYT's tracking so that every article appears as if it is the first article you read this month.
Brave is such a great browser, it’s one of the few software products that makes me feel really happy when I use it
realsimplesynd commented on For Teen Girls, Instagram Is a Cesspool nytimes.com/2021/10/08/op... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
> “ Instagram’s algorithm might suggest more extreme dieting accounts with names such as “Eternally starved,” “I have to be thin” and “I want to be perfect.” “
I know people who cut themselves because of Instagram and not feeling adequate enough. I think there’s a similar version of this with competency for males. The feeling that you will never be good at what you do or that you need to do something to get there just hasn’t been exploited yet.
realsimplesynd commented on Ask HN: How to market a cross country team? · Posted by u/realsimplesynd
You should read the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”
Checking out the Wikipedia page, it seems quite useful, but more observational (like, liked people do x, and that seems a contributor to their likability not a product). I don’t know how to translate that into a poster, though.
realsimplesynd commented on Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal blog.ui.com/2021/08/19/wi... · Posted by u/libaznezba
I don’t know anything about this company (which people seem to not like), but SLAM for WiFi is looks pretty cool (and even somewhat useful).
realsimplesynd commented on UK scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds bbc.com/news/health-58438... · Posted by u/bryan0
COVID “jabs” seems demeaning to one of the fastest scientific kicks in history. We’ll remember the vaccine research the same as the moon landing.
What I find obnoxious, and typical of MIT, is how credit is allocated.
"Copyright © 2009--2015 H. Miller"
Only hmm (H. Miller) didn't do the work. The "About" page, fortunately, lists the authors, but doesn't really credit who did what.
Nothing personal about hmm, but a lot personal about the MIT culture of credit theft. MIT didn't have this culture 25 years ago. If this was © MIT, it'd be okay. But it's the PI on the project, who often doesn't do much of anything, who gets to pick-and-choose what goes to whom, and more often than not, allocate anything of value back to themselves.
> the MIT culture of credit theft
This makes me think about who we revere as scientists and who we compare ourselves to.
A lot of success in life is out of our control. Conditions produce outliers, not diligence and hard work (Outlier X probably did work hard, but the conditions were so for their nervous system to act as such).
If you have a good understanding of how to hack YouTube (or other social sites) that seems plausible. Some list video channels appear to have crossed that mark (I bet a well trained GAN or GPT-3 could easily reproduce content of that quality—it’s not about talent of any sort). Though actually doing that could be considered unethical, as it would be contributing to the wire heading of children (who else watches list videos?) to an algorithm obsessed with watch time optimization.