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doo_daa | 5 months ago | on: Bach Cello Suites (2024)

I was going to share this but you beat me to it. I stumbled across this a few weeks ago. What an amazing resource.

doo_daa | 10 months ago | on: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

In between great architects and construction workers there are structural engineers who have to work out how to turn the pretty designs into actual, workable plans. Those are the guys who should get most of the credit.

doo_daa | 1 year ago | on: SpiderBasic

Retool.com is the closest thing I have found to the experience of building apps with Access

doo_daa | 1 year ago | on: Learning to Reason with LLMs

o1-preview gave me this...

Final Decrypted Message:

"Por ejemplo te agradeceré, y te doy ejemplo de que lo que lees es mi ejemplo"

English Translation:

"For example, I will thank you, and I give you an example of what you read is my example."

... initially it gave up and asked if I knew what type of cypher had been used. I said I thought it was a simple substitution.

doo_daa | 1 year ago | on: Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users

I've tried brave and Firefox on mobile (android) and I've tried Safari on MacOs. I still just prefer Chrome, it's just a bit better. So I use it with third-party cookies turned off, which is easily (and transparently) done using the settings menu. I can also turn off this "related websites" thing. So what exactly is the problem? All major browsers have allowed users to turn off 3P cookies for years.

doo_daa | 1 year ago | on: Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine

We are lucky enough to be able to run BigQuery with flat rate billing. It's incredibly powerful and it's a really good example of SaaS and Serverless done right. It just works.

doo_daa | 2 years ago | on: Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point

Ok... I'm travelling to SF (I live in the UK) for a few days for work this August. I was looking forward to it but now I'm mainly scared! Is it still good to visit but just not to live in? The last time I was there was 2007. I've got a couple of days to myself whilst I'm there. What should I do?

doo_daa | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Factual AI Q&A – Answers based on Huberman Lab transcripts

You are right and everyone makes mistakes and I'm sure much of the Huberman Lab content is great. I don't claim that acupuncture is invalid because it goes against my belief. I claim that it does not work because there are no credible studies that show that it does. The links you have provided are not to studies, they are to organisations that promote/sell acupuncture. [Edited to correct a typo]

doo_daa | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Factual AI Q&A – Answers based on Huberman Lab transcripts

This is an amazing piece of work and as others have said, the site and the UI are perfect.

On a side note, Huberman Labs bothers me. I was an avid listener to the early episodes. As I have ADHD, some of his explanations of the brain chemistry involved in attention and motivation were fascinating. But in one of the early-ish episodes he said some completely ridiculous about acupuncture (that it worked) that makes me think he has no real critical thinking skills.

I hope anyone out there listening to him and thinking about applying any of the approaches he talks about just takes the time to see whether any other sources say they have real-world effects.

To the credit of the author, this tool highlights the exact thing I'm talking about. Try searching for...

"How does acupuncture work?"

"Acupuncture involves taking needles and sometimes electricity and or heat as well and stimulating particular locations on the body. Through these maps of stimulation that have been developed over thousands of years, mostly in Asia, acupuncture can reduce inflammation in the body by stimulating the body in particular ways at particular sites on the body, liberating certain cells and molecules that enhance the function of the immune system and potentially can be used to combat different types of infection."

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