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Robb Wolf
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Robb Wolf
@robbwolf
Dad, husband. 2x New York Times/WSJ best selling author. Biochemist.BJJ Black Belt. Freedom To Transact. Co-Founder LMNT
Bozeman, MT เข้าร่วม Şubat 2009
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Great work @BretWeinstein !!
New Paper CONFIRMS Bret Weinstein's Prediction About Aging | DarkHorse 316 youtu.be/k3VR_GkpwRY?si…
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The war on gifted and talented programs.
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@TolozaHenr56566 @Puppieslover And this shows you really do not understand dogs.
At all
Although it varies just how much of a job any given breed or individual dog needs, they absolutely need a job, stimulation and challenge.
So do people, but I digress, this will likely be a waste of effort on my part.
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@Puppieslover Thats the worst . Forcing your dog to train all Day everyday is horrible . I want my dogs to enjoy their dog lives not to get a job
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Episode 192: Ken and Dawn weigh in on ChatGPT, ketamine, urolithin-A, rapamycin, and more in wide-ranging AMA ihmc.us/stemtalk/episo…
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@Msakholicius @rackstm_ @NoAlphaLimits @grok Who leans into the more accurate AI is going to win.
I’m sticking with grok.
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Nobody is telling you how FUCKED every military on Earth just became.
Everyone is watching the war. The missiles flying. The explosions.
Nobody is talking about the fact that Israel just made missiles OBSOLETE.
The Iron Beam. A 100-kilowatt laser. Deployed in LIVE COMBAT for the first time in human history. Not a test. Not a prototype. Real war. Real Iranian missiles. Destroyed in mid-air.
By a beam of light.
→ Cost per Iron Dome interceptor: $50,000
→ Cost per Iron Beam shot: $2
→ That is not a typo. Two. Dollars.
Iran spent $20,000 building a drone. Israel deleted it with $2 of electricity.
Iran fires 100 drones in a swarm attack. Cost to Iran: $2,000,000. Cost to Israel: $200.
💀 Here's what nobody is explaining to you:
This doesn't just change THIS war. This changes ALL war. Forever.
→ Every missile Iran has ever built is now worthless scrap metal
→ Russia's entire missile stockpile? Obsolete overnight.
→ China's "carrier killer" ballistic missiles? The ones they spent $50,000,000,000 developing? Junk.
→ North Korea's only leverage — its missile program? Gone.
→ The Iron Beam never runs out of ammo. It runs on ELECTRICITY.
→ It fires at the speed of light. Nothing can dodge it.
→ It's silent. No explosion. The missile just vanishes.
→ Every country that invested in missiles just watched decades of military spending become worthless in real time.
The US spent $200,000,000,000 on missile defense over 40 years.
Israel just replaced it with a laser that costs less than a coffee per shot.
This is not an upgrade. This is the end of an era. The age of missiles just died on live television and nobody is talking about it.
Bookmark this. You're watching the biggest shift in military history since the atomic bomb.
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Currently figuring out how to pop up as a seamount offshore.
Washington’s probably drafting a 20% carbon tax for my ash hole as we speak.
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@RobertFreundLaw Ah, so you do not practice any type of analysis when doing that. Thank you for clarifying, very helpful.
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I am reporting a case that was filed. I do that every day on this page with cases that involve issues that my clients care about.
Some of those cases end in verdicts for plaintiffs, some for defendants, some get settled, some get dismissed, some are outright frivolous.
I didn’t say electrolytes can’t hydrate anyone. I described the allegations in this lawsuit.
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@RobertFreundLaw So Rob, should it be found that electrolytes do in fact have the ability to remedy dehydration, what is YOUR professional/ moral liability exposure here given that you emphatically state something to the contrary?
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This, right here, is the canary in the coal mine for higher education. For my upper-level in-person teaching, I've switched to in-class, no-device, open notes essay exams. Online humanities courses at any significant scale are dead, and publicly available LLMs are the reason. Our fundamental skills -- reading, writing, reasoning, remembering -- are decaying at an alarming rate. We are losing a generation, and when that generation is grown, there will be virtually no one left to teach basic skills to the next.
I love the good things that generative AI can do. Some of them are absolutely amazing. I use these tools to create projects that I think will be groundbreaking. But we are facing an extinction event for higher education.
And with the best will in the world, my colleagues don't have a plan. They mill around, acknowledging that, yes, there are problems, and opining that perhaps we should move to in-class exercises that incorporate AI and ask students to think about the outputs. There is no coherent university-wide policy. There is no movement to recover the lost tools of learning.
I mention memory palaces, but most of my colleagues have never heard of them. Those who have think that I'm trying to be clever, recommending going backward in order to go forward. How quaint! It does not occur to them that training young people in such skills might become a lynchpin of civilizational survival.
Intensive reading, effortful study, deep learning -- a few individuals will always gravitate toward these things. But at scale, all of this is dying. We are drowning ourselves face-down in the shallows.
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Dr. Sally Sharif@Sally_Sharif1
I just gave a closed-book, pen-and-paper midterm exam in my 300-level course at UBC with 100 students. All exams were graded by an experienced graduate-level TA according to a rubric. *** The average was 64/100.*** My class averages at UBC are usually 80-85. Context: • This was the first midterm, covering ONLY 4 weeks of material. • Students had a list of possible questions in advance: no surprise questions. • Questions included (a) 3 concept definitions, (b) 3 paragraph-long questions, and (c) a 1.5-page essay. • I have taught this class multiple times. Nothing in my teaching style changed this semester. • We read entire paragraphs of text in class, so students don't have to do something on their own that wasn't covered during the lecture. • Students take a 10-question multiple-choice quiz at the end of every class (30% of the final grade). • Attendance is 95-99% every class. Attention during lectures and participation in pair-work activities are very high → anticipating the end-of-class quiz. *** But unfortunately, I suspect many students are not reading the material on the syllabus. They are asking LLMs to summarize it instead.*** After the midterm, students reported: • They thought they knew concept definitions but couldn't produce them on paper. • They thought they understood the arguments but struggled to connect them or identify points of agreement and disagreement. My view: It might be “cool” or “innovative” to teach students to summarize readings with ChatGPT or write essays with Claude. But we may be doing them a disservice: reducing their ability to retain material, think creatively, and reason from what they know. If you only read what AI has summarized for you, you don’t truly "know" the material. Moving forward: We have a second midterm coming up. I don't know how to convey to students that the best way to do better on the exam is to rely on and improve their own reading skills.
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@NMTimMcGrew My current theory of LLM usage is that those on the leading edge of the bell curve will use it to amplify their talents, while the vast mainstream and those of limited abilities will use it to replace what talents they have ... thus rendering themselves replaceable.
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@CollinRugg Sounds like a fantastic teacher. So, of course they will can him.
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NEW: California math teacher is under investigation for making test questions about the financial cost of dating overweight girls.
Here is an alleged 9th-grade Algebra 1 test question:
"The amount of money you spend on a date varies inversely to how much they weigh. A typical girl that weighs 120 lbs will cost you $55.
1. Derive the variation equation.
2. How much would you expect to pay for a date with Ashley, who is 220 lbs.?
3. If you can only afford $5, how much would your date weigh and what is his/her name?"
The San Francisco high school teacher, Tom Chan, is reportedly on leave as the school district is "actively investigating" the allegations.
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Amigo, that is such an arrogant framework to take. "I DID'NT FALL FOR THE TRUMP STUFF!!!"
K, good for you. You win it all, smartest guy in the room.
I'll keep fucking up trying to fundamentally change our food and healthcare systems. I mean, no joke change. To do that I have to play in this game to some degree.
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This could be massive for agriculture. It will not work for every situation, but it could cut the need for a host of herbicides dramatically.
The herbicide topic has been fascinating to watch. Trump has categorized things like RoundUp as critical to national security...and frankly, they are. The whole current system is largely propped up by their use, and although there are alternatives, one cannot just pivot the whole food system on a dime.
On the other side, RFKJR has a long history of pushing back against RoundUp use, has litigated against the company for damages done to a large number of people.
What's been wacky is seeing people unable to figure out which angle on this they need to be against! Trump? RFKJR? Both?!?! The men sit in diametrically opposed positions, yet the lobotomization process of hating anything and everything about either of them has left a lot of folks incapable of doing something pretty important to addressing complex topics: Thinking.
Not that anyone cares, but here are some of my broad thoughts on all of this:
-RoundUp and a host of other synthetic herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers are essential to the PRESENT iteration of the food system, at least in the US.
-There are absolutely workarounds and alternatives (like the on mentioned here about weed killing robots) but it will take time to roll those out.
-There is absolutely a large cost to the environment and human life with the use of these herbicides and pesticidess.
-NO INDUSTRY should every be granted immunity from injury or impact. If that mechanism is in place there is no signal to mitigate downside risk. Again, this should apply to ALL INDUSTRIES.
-There is a cost benefit discussion to be had with just about everything, this does not negate the previous point.
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🚨🚜 AI Is Now Farming… Lasers Are Killing 600,000 Weeds Per Hour🚨 Post This is not sci-fi. This is modern agriculture. What you are looking at is the Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder, one of the most advanced AI farming machines operating in the world today. It is mounted behind a standard @JohnDeere tractor and runs entirely off the tractor’s diesel engine through the PTO shaft. Here is what is actually happening. The machine uses high-resolution cameras and NVIDIA-powered AI processors to scan the field in real time. The system analyzes every plant it sees. Crop or weed. In milliseconds the AI identifies the difference with sub-millimeter accuracy. Once the weed is identified… A laser fires. The laser instantly destroys the weed at the cellular level without disturbing the soil or harming nearby crops. No herbicides. No chemicals. No tilling. Just pure precision. And the scale is staggering. Up to 10,000 weeds per minute That is roughly 600,000 weeds per hour while the tractor simply drives across the field. The NVIDIA GPUs are the “brain.” They run the AI computer vision model that identifies plants in real time. The tractor’s engine powers a generator on the implement which supplies electricity to the lasers, cameras, cooling systems, and computing hardware. This is why farmers are excited. Less chemical spraying. Lower environmental impact. Higher precision farming. And dramatically reduced labor. AI is not just changing software or social media. It is transforming the physical world. Even the weeds don’t stand a chance anymore. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove
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IDK wtf you are talking about, but I think I understand the delta: I build things, change things. I push the boundaries as much as possible but at the end of the day, there are some set lines I largely have to color within. I'm also a dad and a husband.
Said another way: I largely understand the shit sandwich of which I dine. I don't relish it, but it's the next meal in line to give me the options to try and develop something better.
Even more simply: cleanest dirty shirt.
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@robbwolf “Did you not notice the dems….” No I don’t entertain the two party illusionary framework. Glad you know I have no skin in the game though. Or maybe I just don’t post about it on social media. It’s the continually hope you folks put into politicians that is completely puzzling.
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@KamikaziKoala Gotcha. Well, you short this stuff, I'll go long, and we will see where we land in a few years.
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@robbwolf No one is excited about this when herbicides are safe, effective & orders of magnitude cheaper. It's a solution for a problem which doesn't exist.
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@camjenglish .Well, why does it have to be either/or? Leaded gasoline (and paint) caused a lot of problems, while also offering great utility. We found options that kept the utility and mitigated the downsides. Is that a problem wanting to improve things and mitigate downsides?
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@robbwolf Would you define "large cost to the environment and human life"? Does the cost outweigh the benefit in your view?
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.Are you really suggesting that platform you see here is the end of the road as to development, customization and miniaturization? How much has your coms changed from the Nextell you likely once used to what you use today?
Steve, you have confused "make believe" for what many of us do which is "make it a reality..." I appreciate you are a long standing farmer/rancher. I love you folks. But y'all are also shockingly slow to adopt anything new.
Just to circle back and address the point you made above: You cannot imaging a self driving model that does not need to be hauled by a tractor, that can in fact fit between rows of corn?
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@robbwolf I used to read comic books when I was a kid.. You're living in the land of make believe..
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