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@faklornamoa @Babygravy9 @gammatime is the study saying the cardiac muscle loss is beyond what you would expect with solely reducing calores?

We knew Ozempic use was linked to severe muscle loss, but now it looks like the "wonder drug" also causes heart muscle to shrink, which is seriously, seriously bad.

@yegordb @LuyandaDhlamini @AaronErickson @deedydas If your work is open source wouldn't engineers just use it to measure themselves and make sure they meet the bar? (without actually being more productive). you're creating cat-and-mouse incentives just like the antivirus industry.

@LuyandaDhlamini @AaronErickson @deedydas Our next paper is on using LLMs to measure developer productivity. Should be out in a few weeks!

I’m at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity. We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies. Inspired by @deedydas, our research shows: ~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers)

@Muinchille useless without radical zoning reform imo. nothing will get built if it's not profitable. zoning and permits should be at a federal or at least state level and quick to process. basically do whatever made density like Tokyo's possible.

So. What's the answer? The answer is long-term fixed rent tenancies. Fixed in real terms, adjusted for consumer inflation, OK, but no "market value" rent increases. That's mass Ponzi scheme madness. People need to know where they will be living, landlords need a fair rent. Add...

Years ago, in the 1990s, me and my boss were looking at a client's rental accounts. He asked was I sure about the mortgage repayments. I said I had checked them with the bank. "They can't be less than the rent," he said, "That never happens. Not on a 90% mortgage." Seems like...

@ceaubin I heard there's an AI for that

i'm not calling the AI police on anyone, you all must chill

POV you're about to grade a paper that definitely wasn't written by AI

@nick_nalt tell me you don't wash your hands without telling me you don't wash your hands...

i just found a tiny plant growing out of my hand what the actual fuck do i do

@deepfates @krishnanrohit you asked for "changed" not "improved" so this is on you 🤣

@krishnanrohit No

Okay weird health Twitter. what's the biggest single intervention you've tried that changed your quality of life? Vitamin, food stuff, herbals, weird exercises, anything. I'm ready to try some shit

@lanarkboy @kitwilsonwriter @ddhitchens I mean, chatgpt can do that in seconds. No big deal. /s

@kitwilsonwriter @ddhitchens 😶

Very dispiriting to read biographies like: In 1957, while studying piano with Leonard Bernstein at 15 years old, he decided to sit in on philosophy classes at NYU, and after submitting a short paper on Kant, was made Professor of English Literature, a position he held for fifty y

@AlanNeveu @esthercrawford I bet what will happen is the long-term care center will replace workers with robots and pocket the difference. all while continuing to increase prices. especially if they were bought out by private equity.

@esthercrawford I know it sounds dystopian, but we seriously need to consider how Optimus robots can change this.

My mom is nearly 80 and has started worrying about how long she has left on her own. I looked up assisted living places near me and it’s even more expensive than I’d imagined. The one closest to my house is $9k/mo (for a studio) and that’s the independent living option. 😮

@RuxandraTeslo maybe because I get so many spam calls that I very rarely pick up for unrecognized numbers

Ok stupid question but why is polling so hard? Like why isn't it more accurate? Is it all basically just about the difficulty of getting representative samples?

@KevinNaughtonJr just one more package bro, one more and we're done bro

software engineers pulling dependencies into their projects x.com/i/status/18513…

@CaseyJScalf @nic_carter umm billions could die from heat above wet bulb temp, especially in SE Asia. so by your math everyone will die.

almost every smart person I talk to in tech is in favor of aerosolized sulfates to increase the earth's albedo in order to deal with climate change. people are absolutely fed up with the lefty approach of using climate as a pretextual cudgel to install socialism.

@burkov When these "AI" companies implode it will make Theranos look like a badly managed lemonade stand.

Why I’m not excited about recent "advancements" in LLMs. I'm excited about learning new things. For example, when I first saw ChatGPT, I was genuinely excited: no model had ever spoken to a user in such a way before—not the faked responses of the chatbots of that time, but actual conversation that appeared to listen and understand. Then, I was excited by the expansion of context size. A 512-token limit was too short, and self-attention's quadratic complexity made it seem impossible to dream of contexts longer than a couple thousand tokens. But then, boom—8k, 16k, 32k, 128k, 180k, 1M. Wow! Then the leap from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 felt like watching a machine become as smart as an average human. Incredible. Then, visual models: the model could now see the world, describe it, and even act upon it! And that’s it so far. Everything else big tech and visionary entrepreneurs are selling us are just tweaks of all of the above. - Function calling: you could finetune any LLM to do that. - Canvas/Artefacts: so, you added some hidden tags to the output that you then render differently. - Agents: just an LLM you pretend is an actor. - Swarm: I will not comment this. - LLM with advanced reasoning: instead of expecting the user to ask the LLM to write a discussion, you finetuned it to write it inside special tags, which you then hide at the UI level. - LLM that uses a computer: you took a visual LLM and finetuned it to output x-y coordinates to click. When you understand how an LLM works (no different from any regular neural network, just bigger), how poor it is in original ideas, how unimaginative its technological stack is compared to any serious software system, and how flexible it is in terms of finetuning—given the right data—sorry, but I'm not impressed. Show me something you invented, something the reader of my 100-page book wouldn’t come up with after 5 minutes of thinking. Show me that, and I’ll say it's huge, insane, and ground-breaking. Until then, you’re just wasting my, and everyone’s, time, emotions, and money.

@ZyMazza there was a scifi book where people get uploaded over a span of several years, with a process involving nanobots or something slowly replacing neurons individually until the whole brain is a crystal holding your consciousness. it feels different even if the effect is the same.

No one has ever transferred data from one medium to another. Did you know that? They can only copy the data into a new location and delete from the original location. You’ll see why this is relevant when they start offering brain uploads.

@kristatee @Remzsx Years later the kids will resent the parents for not calling the police imo

@Remzsx I hope this is for attention. How could you leave your kids with a known abuser? Involve police now. Anything less is condoning the abuse your children went through.

@GaryWinslett My city has a big oil refinery and other heavy industry right at the outskirts. They produce around 60% of the pollution and use way more water than all the residential usage combined. So when we are told "conserve water!" or are encouraged to drive less etc it feels incomplete

I don’t think that makes cooperation between abundance liberals like myself and progressive activists impossible. But I do think we should be ready for them to be a lot less jazzed about the possibility of sacrifice-free, growth-oriented solutions than we are. 7/7

A story that illuminates why abundance liberals are going to struggle with some progressive activists: In March, I gave a talk on climate tech at a senior center - they loved it! In Q&A, a woman asked “how do we get people to do their part + dry their clothes on the line?” 1/7

@amktparticipant @unusual_whales their products should be so cheap that it would be irresponsible not to use them, instead they want luxury item prices.

@unusual_whales the cause is they're running out of money because not enough people are buying their products

Beyond Meat, $BYND to cut ~20% of workforce, and terminated its chief product officer without cause.

@Helios_Movement ok so they are not medicine *wink wink*

*Standard disclaimer that nothing in this thread should be used as a substitute for medical advice* Over the last years in the health space, the power of plants has been severely downplayed due to factors such as the recognition of the importance of animal foods but also the realization that tons of plants have a variety of built-in protection mechanisms that can harm humans (unless they are prepared right). I am obviously not saying that plants are miracle cures or that you need them in order to thrive. If you don't know how to prepare and use them right for example, some of them can even be contraceptives. But that being said, there are certain plants which are very safe for most people and can be great supplemental tools.

The power of herbs is severely downplayed to this day in most health spaces but this is a huge mistake. So here's a thread on some powerful herbs that you should be aware of no matter if you struggle with hair loss, gut issues, low libido, anxiety, depression or insomnia🧵

@TheGrandBlooms the unholy trinity of procrastination is perfectionism, fear of failure, and fear of success.

Perfectionism is one of them - what we make is never a perfect reflection of what we imagined it could be, and this hurts more when we really, really care about our work

Something I have been increasingly aware of lately is how comparatively easy it feels to bring projects to around 90% finished, and then how emotionally demanding it can be to complete them I think this happens for a few reasons

@MarcusFitzsimon @LurkLethoceris The smart move is to get disability and long term care insurance now while it's cheap, before insurers catch on.

@LurkLethoceris I'm sick of it my niece will have had different covid variants at least 12 times by the time she leaves education no one is thinking ahead it's just so FRUSTRATING no one reads the bloody research!

the FIRST thing I did in 2020 once it was named was look up its "parent" every day I log in, I get angry every day there's ANOTHER research article that simply RECONFIRMS what I knew in 2020 ALL SARS-COV-1 survivors suffered osteoporosis & necrosis of the femoral head

@Helenreflects yet another sequel in an overdone franchise