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redtaperat commented on How large should your sample size be? vickiboykis.com/2015/08/0... · Posted by u/sebg

potamic · 3 months ago

How does this relate to things like nation-wide elections? For a 100 million population, a 99% confidence at 0.1 interval needs a sample size of only a million. Does this mean it's not really important that every one must vote? Even an abysmal voter turnout is ultimately representative of the entire population?

redtaperat · 3 months ago

For 100 million people and a confidence interval of 99% you only need 3000-4000 samples, depending on your moe.

redtaperat commented on Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep nature.com/articles/s4200... · Posted by u/gnabgib

0xTJ · 3 months ago

That's the time that the subjects stopped consuming caffeine as part of their usual diet, not the time that the pill (either 200 mg caffeine or a placebo) was administered. The subjects were required to maintain their usual caffeine intake (to prevent withdrawal), but had to stop by noon to prevent that caffeine from interfering with the experiment.

redtaperat · 3 months ago

Thanks for clarifying.

redtaperat commented on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic wave3.social... · Posted by u/nswizzle31

redtaperat · 3 months ago

“Solve the straight male loneliness epidemic.”

FTFY. Gay men have many more community options. Not sure why, but we just do togetherness inherently.

Glad to see this though. It can only be solved by the people in the epidemic but it only takes the effort of a handful of organizers in the community/town/city to jumpstart events and hit critical mass. I’ve organized things on meetup and it takes persistence. Good luck!

redtaperat commented on Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep nature.com/articles/s4200... · Posted by u/gnabgib

jnwatson · 3 months ago

I'm stunned that the paper doesn't mention this.

I think the paper is simply "caffeine before bedtime is bad for sleep".

redtaperat · 3 months ago

All caffeine consumption stopped at noon. It’s literally in the paper.

redtaperat commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

lodovic · 3 months ago

We have MCP servers to solve that (and Context7)

redtaperat · 3 months ago

I see those as carefully applied bandaids. But maybe that’s how we need to use AI for now. I mean we’re burning a lot of tokens to undo mistakes in the weights. That can’t be the right solution because it doesn’t scale. IMO.

redtaperat commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

disqard · 3 months ago

I'll quote one of the wisest people in tech I know of, Kentaro Toyama:

"Technology acts as an amplifier of human intentions"

...so, if someone is just doing a sloppy job, AI-assisted vibe coding will enable them to do it faster.

redtaperat · 3 months ago

From bill cosby’s “Himself” live standup recording from the early 1980s: “Cocaine intensifies your personality … but what if you’re an asshole?”

redtaperat commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

protocolture · 3 months ago

Recent example.

Trying to get some third party hardware working with raspi

The hardware provider provides 2 separate code bases with separate documentation but only supports the latest one.

I literally had to force feed the newer code base into ChatGPT, and then feed in working example code to get it going, else it constantly reference the wrong methods.

If I just kept going Code / output / repeat it would maybe have stumbled on the answer but it was way off.

redtaperat · 3 months ago

This is one of several shortcomings I’ve encountered in all major LLMs. The llm has consumed multiple versions of SDKs from the same manufacturer and cannot tell them apart. Mixing up apis, methods, macros, etc. Worse is that for more esoteric code with fewer samples, or more wrong than right answers in the corpus means always getting broken code. I had this issue working on some NXP embedded code.

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