Steve McCann

@thepatwalls Have you also considered dietary changes? Soluble fiber could help pull a lot of things down - things like psyllium husk, flax, chia, oats... Even vegetables like okra, eggplant can help soak up the excess cholesterol.

For those asking: LDL-P = 1503 nmol/L (High) LDL-C = 156 mg/dL (High) ApoB = 102 mg/dL (High) Lipoprotein(a) = 95.2 nmol/L (High) Everything else is normal. I am very healthy, play tennis most days and eat pretty good. Doc said I could get the numbers down with lifestyle but it would most be marginal. Look, I'm more anti-pill and anti-medical-industrial complex than most. But I also saw my dad inches from death at 58 he wasn't on statin. And his mom died from heart disease in her 50s. And Ben Bader in his 20s (extreme case). Statins are one of the most researched and effective medicines in the world. Ofc there are side effects. But I wanna live long!

I am officially old. Going on a statin at 35. Got all my labs done and I'm genetically fucked, I have a very high chance of having a heart attack prematurely at some point in my life. For anyone that has parents, grandparents, or relatives with heart disease, go get tested!

@ZONEofTECH I had my Oura ring Gen 3 stop charging after ~3 years and eventually the battery swelled after leaving it on the charger for a while. Fortunately, it wasn't on my finger at the time. Samsung appears to have much more frequent issues though.

Update #2 Finally got home after way over 50h of flying/travelling 😅 Samsung reached out to me: - refunded me for my overnight hotel - booked me a car to get me home this morning - collected the ring from me, for further investigation My finger is also doing well, aside from some small marks that I'm sure will heal in a few days. Some extra things to mention: - the battery of my ring has been acting very weird for many months (stopped lasting for more than 1-1.5 days and at one point, didn't even power on after being charged for a full day, until I charged it for 2 days) - when this swelling incident happened, it wasn't even charged - many other users have been experiencing similar battery life issues - reddit.com/r/samsung/comm… reddit.com/r/GalaxyRing/c… - one user also reported battery swelling, a few months ago reddit.com/r/GalaxyRing/c… Personally, I think there's something going on with the battery inside many (if not most) Galaxy Rings. According to these posts on Reddit, Samsung has been offering free replacements but even these ended up having the same issue, later on. Samsung told me they'll inform me of the investigation findings, so will keep you guys posted! Hopefully they diagnose the issue and permanently replace all the affected units.

@conne_psd @ZONEofTECH I've heard from a firefighter that it can't be cut with bolt cutters, but crushed. I haven't seen it been done before though.

@ZONEofTECH I wonder if airport employees and ring users are trained on how to cut this ring at all. You could've been on the flight if someone just cut the thing as mentioned on ther website, I guess you're not the first one with such issue, unfortunetely.

Update: - I was denied boarding due to this (been travelling for ~47h straight so this is really nice 🙃). Need to pay for a hotel for the night now and get back home tomorrow👌 - was sent to the hospital, as an emergency - ring got removed You can see the battery all swollen. Won’t be wearing a smart ring ever again. @SamsungUK @SamsungMobile @SamsungMobileUS

@ZONEofTECH @SamsungUK @SamsungMobileUS I've heard from a firefighter that titanium can be crushed to crack it, rather than cutting it. It's very difficult to cut with bolt cutters, but stepping on it may be a way to get it off. Using lubrication and other methods is the ideal first approach, however.

Ahhh…this is…not good. My Samsung Galaxy Ring’s battery started swelling. While it’s on my finger 😬. And while I’m about to board a flight 😬 Now I cannot take it off and this thing hurts. Any quick suggestions @SamsungUK @SamsungMobileUS?

Sometimes the routing from your ISP is slow and maybe overwhelmed. On some Thai islands with fiber I had laggy internet, but was much smoother once I'm VPN back to mainland. The VPN can reduce some of the load on your ISP routers? If you want to geek out, you could try a `traceroute github.com` with and without VPN

Weird thing: When I > git add . && git commit -m "x" && git push Sometimes it's kinda laggy and slow But then when I connect to my VPN, and do it again it's instant I'm on Starlink It shows 330mbps speedtest etc, so that's not it

Very insightful analogy! I think most people feel happier in a place that's more walkable and easier to get around. Plus not having the financial burden and stress of needing to own a vehicle and drive everywhere. Sometimes these places are so desirable it drives up the rental price too. But if human-centered design is more standardized, it won't be such a luxury.

@levelsio @FT Heat pumps are also more efficient for heating too.. so the investment doesn't need to be for "just a few hot days per year" The same mechanical system could heat and cool ?

💨 Great article in @FT today urging Europe to stop restricting the installation and use of air conditioning If Europe continues its current course and keeps regulating against air conditioning, then heat-related deaths will soon reach over 500,000 per year Installing AC in Europe would reduce that guaranteed death toll by over 90% @vonderleyen will you choose life or death?

@ryanzanardi @levelsio It's all the same technology essentially - using a heat pump. Some heat pumps can also work in reverse and be used for heating inside in cooler weather. Heat pumps can have different efficiencies though. AKA the SEER or BTU per hour per watt.

@levelsio Is it just because the euro ac is different (heat pump or whatever)? I guess we just never really paid as much attention in the US, but I wonder if the type of ac is that much more energy inefficient. We don’t have in-room units in the US. It’s just pumped throughout via ducts

I had no idea air conditioning would become the issue dividing Europe's left and right

@AlexanderGlista Isn't there a good quantitative way to show prioritizing transit and other modes will move more people in the same road space?

Toronto City Councillors responding to a handful of NIMBY businesses who essentially believe the below #topoli

@nutrition_facts Does reducing inflammation reduce muscle gain at all?

Delayed-onset muscle soreness is the discomfort that starts the day after a particularly grueling workout. It is thought to be due to inflammation caused by muscle cell damage, little micro-tears in the muscle. Might anti-inflammatory phytonutrients help? bit.ly/2kNUDFa

You can use the unifi app on your phone to "adopt" the APs and setup the wifi network. After the APs are configured, wifi will work and don't need to always be connected to a controller. These APs are configured initially with the controller/app, however. Something with the controller built-in is nice, as it can give you alerts and may auto-optimize wifi bands from time to time, as well as monitor signal strength over time, etc. Once they're setup, it's rock-solid gear and the web-based controller interface is pretty straightforward too.

@ryanedick Nice yes I don't want another computer

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@gregorrobertson Is there any focus on reducing car-dependant sprawl for new developments? I would much prefer walkable communities that favors other modes of transport. @OhUrbanity @notjustbikes

I’m focused on what the federal government can and should do to increase the supply and drive down the overall cost of housing.

The question I answered was about reducing the price of a family’s current home, which for most Canadians, is their most valuable asset. The question wasn’t “should homes be more affordable?” Of course they should. Vancouver led the country on co-ops, rental-only zoning,

@OfficialLoganK @kazzkiq @GeminiApp Is there a big focus on improving the Gemini features and UX? It's behind chatgpt in several areas.

@kazzkiq AI studio is a developer platform for those using the Gemini API, the @GeminiApp is an everyday assistant

ai.studio 👀

It may just be like other crimes where people are masked. Not common, but if it does happen, there may be witnesses or video with more info and identifiable characteristics to catch them. I doubt most of the people who opportunistically mess with these cars have masks, or will make the effort to hide their identity.

@OOpFuture @niccruzpatane But what if the perpetrators are masked?🤔

One thing I am not looking forward to seeing people mess with Tesla Robotaxis like this. Just because someone isn’t in the car they feel like it’s okay to touch it.

Yeah, they can't scale their offering as quickly as Tesla. How does Gary think the competitors autonomous vehicle hardware will be available in so many markets? If pure vision autonomy is solved, then having the critical mass of cars that can be strategically positioned around areas so wait times are reduced will be a great experience. Definitely will drive adoption and the minor inconvenience to onboard to the Tesla app.

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@IterIntellectus Founder mode? Sergey is back and letting the teams cook,? They have lots of resources and talent. In SF it seems a lot of the frontier breakthroughs don't stay secret for very long. They share a lot in the AI community.

this is crazy how did google get so much better?

@levelsio Yes, especially once there's some traction it's an important aspect for a viable business. Platforms like @PalantirTech AIP can give you enterprise features out of the box. But maybe not as fun / fluid like sketching up a prototype/ MVP in any coding language.

Great opportunity for a product: Security testing for vibe coded apps

@elonmusk @karpathy It's so cool to observe the frontier evolution of artificial intelligence architectures

@karpathy Noted

We're missing (at least one) major paradigm for LLM learning. Not sure what to call it, possibly it has a name - system prompt learning? Pretraining is for knowledge. Finetuning (SL/RL) is for habitual behavior. Both of these involve a change in parameters but a lot of human learning feels more like a change in system prompt. You encounter a problem, figure something out, then "remember" something in fairly explicit terms for the next time. E.g. "It seems when I encounter this and that kind of a problem, I should try this and that kind of an approach/solution". It feels more like taking notes for yourself, i.e. something like the "Memory" feature but not to store per-user random facts, but general/global problem solving knowledge and strategies. LLMs are quite literally like the guy in Memento, except we haven't given them their scratchpad yet. Note that this paradigm is also significantly more powerful and data efficient because a knowledge-guided "review" stage is a significantly higher dimensional feedback channel than a reward scaler. I was prompted to jot down this shower of thoughts after reading through Claude's system prompt, which currently seems to be around 17,000 words, specifying not just basic behavior style/preferences (e.g. refuse various requests related to song lyrics) but also a large amount of general problem solving strategies, e.g.: "If Claude is asked to count words, letters, and characters, it thinks step by step before answering the person. It explicitly counts the words, letters, or characters by assigning a number to each. It only answers the person once it has performed this explicit counting step." This is to help Claude solve 'r' in strawberry etc. Imo this is not the kind of problem solving knowledge that should be baked into weights via Reinforcement Learning, or least not immediately/exclusively. And it certainly shouldn't come from human engineers writing system prompts by hand. It should come from System Prompt learning, which resembles RL in the setup, with the exception of the learning algorithm (edits vs gradient descent). A large section of the LLM system prompt could be written via system prompt learning, it would look a bit like the LLM writing a book for itself on how to solve problems. If this works it would be a new/powerful learning paradigm. With a lot of details left to figure out (how do the edits work? can/should you learn the edit system? how do you gradually move knowledge from the explicit system text to habitual weights, as humans seem to do? etc.).

Do you think it would it store these reflections and mental models in a human language? JSON? Or would it be another matrix? It would be ideal for humans to be able to inspect and observe the structures it puts in place. Be able to view the dictionary/ mind map of LLMs. More akin to communicating with an intelligent person that can communicate their intuition about what are the aspects that bring them to certain conclusions, or the process they will follow for certain problems.

@CyberNeil @BeardedTesla May need to get a @LightshipRV ... Although those are more like $100k

Sorry, @BeardedTesla! 😡 I just got this email as well. Without a range extender it almost makes long distance towing too painful to do with a Cybertruck. I was only getting about 100-120 miles with my rig. After I heard they removed the option from the CT configurator, I was optimistic that they had solved the 4680 power density issue and they were just going to charge us $16K for the new high density pack. Do you think that Tesla will do something to try and ease our pain and disappointment besides just refunding our $500?

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