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@johnsonmxe feels related

This is one reason I think longevity research needs a science of latches — huge parts of our nervous system’s innate dynamic range get latched when we’re young, never to reopen. And a surprising amount of age-related “loss of neuroplasticity” may simply be gradual accumulation of latches Some latches are doing important things, but carefully reopening e.g. the least useful 0.1% every week could lead to e.g. a reversion to the radical learning rates of youth, the youthful feeling of magical possibility, & in general having a ‘resonant’ and ‘fresh-feeling’ nervous system Anecdotally, this sort of reversion can happen from breakthroughs on the meditative path (which I expect to be latch-opening events!) I think of this as longevity research’s “skin folds problem” — after someone loses a lot of weight, they sometimes need to get surgery to make their skin taut again — it doesn’t happen on its own. Likewise, even if a future science of longevity can roll back someone’s biochemical age, their total amount of latches will more closely track their experiential age. A full rollback of phenomenological age will require a proper science of latches

@norabelrose see from 7:50 youtu.be/2BLo2SdmjLI?si…

@norabelrose the latter

If deep learning can predict weather better than an explicit physics simulation, does that mean that deep learning is more "fundamental" than physics? Or that nothing is fundamental?

@samwhoo which model is this?

I've been slowly working voice to text more into my workflow to reduce the strain on my hands. If you've not tried voice to text for a little while, I'd recommend giving it a go in 2024. The Whisper models are incredibly good. I use superwhisper.com on Mac. Sorry the text is a bit small at the end.

@shaoruu @cursor_ai - not having to @ every file that could be relevant - knowing if context has been exceeded for a given composer session (ie if certain files/snippets are being dropped)

what do you want the most in @cursor_ai composer? making sure i don't miss out on great ideas in this next release

@apples_jimmy it does

About to watch this for the first time, hope it lives up to expectations

@dwarkesh_sp oh thought it might have been a metahuman unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman

Huge props to my editors Conor & Aaron for animating this character so compellingly They (& Conor especially) have worked tirelessly & ingeniously to produce what it takes entire video game studios to make Btw, before I hired them, Conor was a farmer in Argentina, & Ishan (my amazing shorts editor) was a maths student in Sri Lanka A privilege to work with these 3!

@m_ashcroft @Karaminder @adhdjesse i basically got stuck thinking I had to do low priority stuff first to free up mental space to work on high priority stuff but that led to overwhelm by low priority tasks (they don’t stop) and guilt for not doing high prio reversing that did the trick for me

@m_ashcroft @Karaminder @adhdjesse but the usual time management heuristics are actually pretty effective. for me its - scheduling my day by the hour (very generously) the previous night - next action = highest priority (whenever I remember) i also made a customised todo list on obsidian which helped

@k3baah @Karaminder @adhdjesse how have things been since diagnosis? did it help?

@m_ashcroft @Karaminder @adhdjesse yeah I got assessed for this exact reason and got diagnosed at the start of the year

@Karaminder @adhdjesse okay this YouTube Short (because of course I watch YouTube Shorts) perfectly describes what it’s like in my brain guess it’s finally time to get an ADHD assessment (watch me not do it) youtube.com/shorts/Hu_dj8a…

1) I get antsy, unmotivated and distractible when things are too calm 2) I get calm, motivated and focussed when things are chaotic 2 is a helpful strategy that has served me well… but 1 just seems really dumb because i end up turning ‘1 situations’ into ‘2 situations’

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@_abhisivasailam Planning to write up more on this?

I understand if people are skeptical, but I really have replaced the overwhelming majority of last-mile data analysts. And it was *easy*. What isn't at all easy: replacing all the telemetry, pipeline glue work, data modeling, etc., that makes last-mile analytics possible...

@generativist @DavidSHolz @TurnerNovak @michael_nielsen they are very good

@DavidSHolz @TurnerNovak i finally bought both of (1) on @michael_nielsen's public rec from a long time ago. i am excited. (assuming i get to read them soon)

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@luke_b_91 lmfao

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