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zxienin commented on The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs   simonwillison.net/2024/Oc... · Posted by u/thunderbong
simonw · a year ago
A better link is https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-... - this is just my brief notes on the longer article by Drew.
zxienin · a year ago
Was exactly the first thought I had seeing post on HN. Glad to see the first comment from simon directly pointing it out
zxienin commented on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor   fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
zxienin · 2 years ago
I use Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 and it has been deeply insightful about my progress with T2D. An increase in fasting glucose over 2-3 days tells me I need course correction (more movement, choice of food). I also noticed consistent correlation between bad sleep days and raised glucose levels over the day. Made me internalize how important sleep is.

I believe, next major uptick will come from CGM in wearables like Apple/Samsung watches [1][2]. I hope, even non diabetic folks use it to improve their health.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/14/apple-watch-blood-gluco... [2] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/23/samsung-racing-to-beat-...

zxienin commented on Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader   pressprogress.ca/facebook... · Posted by u/toomanyrichies
JumpCrisscross · 2 years ago
> suppression of separatists

If true, this was a stupid move. They’ve martyred a separatist while bringing him and his cause international sympathy and attention. The assassins have carried out an action resembling an attack on a founding member of NATO and close ally of America’s. In North America. This is a line even the Soviets and Chinese respected. Not out of fear, but rational self interest.

If true, New Delhi’s best move is to find the perpetrators and make an example out of them. (My guess is a security element went rogue and the diplomats were too incompetent to keep it quiet.)

zxienin · 2 years ago
> The assassins have carried out an action resembling an attack on a founding member of NATO and close ally of America’s. In North America.

Even assuming it is sanctioned killing, how would that be an attack on Canada?

zxienin commented on Langchain Is Pointless   old.reddit.com/r/LangChai... · Posted by u/behnamoh
zxienin · 2 years ago
My read on lot of justifiable criticism of langchain is, that it is rooted in trying not to lose out the lead it established since Nov 2022. Pace of updates in LLM space have been staggering.

Langchain hasn’t invested enough in quality of lib. A good lib needs good deliberation to build right abstractions that add value, then “get out of the way“.

zxienin commented on AI Canon   a16z.com/2023/05/25/ai-ca... · Posted by u/nihit-desai
zxienin · 3 years ago
Looking at the content list, all I need now is Brain - AI interface that “uploads“ all of it to my brain neural net.

</cheeky>

zxienin commented on GitHub Copilot-X (Using GPT-4)   github.com/features/previ... · Posted by u/air7
zxienin · 3 years ago
Strangely, no traction on this HN post in last 3 days.

None of Github posts explain, if GPT-4 is now being used instead of Codex for code generation cases. AFAIK, GPT-4 is not fine tunable, and GPT-4 is more general trained than for code. So I wonder how did they achieve a GPT-4 switch. Or maybe GPT-4 is only used for other use cases.

Can anyone share under the hood facts?

zxienin commented on Ask HN: How did you rebuild yourself after having hit rock bottom?    · Posted by u/Schroedingers2c
zxienin · 3 years ago
Surround yourself with positivity and gratitude.

A neighbour might need help with groceries or meds. Look around, see how you can help others. Don't expect anything back. Know that you made super tiny winy dent in the world. It's powerful energy. If early waking up is your thing, go out and look at dawn sun.

Simple things.

See anything negative? Toxic gossipers? switch off, skip. Period.

You are making choice to see and accentuate the positive around you. This is hard time for you - and it is finite.

Sounds like you have good thing going (your PhD). It's supposed to be hard. Get positive energy, buckle up and just run that course with support system in the research group.

zxienin commented on LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model   ai.facebook.com/blog/larg... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
zxienin · 3 years ago
Will it get 1M users using it by next week?

“Our 65B model is better performant than ChatGPT‘s 175B” is missing the point openai made in Nov'22.

That aside, this looks nice incremental research progress.

zxienin commented on How Your Metabolism slows down when you try to lose weight   nbcnews.com/health/health... · Posted by u/paulpauper
goostavos · 3 years ago
There is only calories in and calories out. Did you go a week without losing any weight? You consumed too many calories. Whether you chalk that up to "muh metabolism" or some kind of magical universe defying intervention, the end result is that you consumed to many calories to lose weight. Dial things back by 500 and see what the scale says next week.

No amount of mocking "the first law of thermodynamics, man" makes it not true. For everyone complaining about the complexity of losing weight, the gym bros just keep weighing out their chicken and broccoli to great result.

zxienin · 3 years ago
Not all calories are equal. Calories from carb rich food are metabolized different than calories from “healthy“ fat rich food. Metabolism of former also raises insulin + glucose in blood stream, which influences obesity more than later.
zxienin commented on How Your Metabolism slows down when you try to lose weight   nbcnews.com/health/health... · Posted by u/paulpauper
zxienin · 3 years ago
This [1] presentation by Robert Lustig is dense packed with quality insights.

Surrounding daily life with sugar, carbs is the root.

[1] https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM

u/zxienin

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