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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's a nice list. Saving it for later reading.

But for the purposes of the discussion in this thread, I'm looking for sources that point towards ectopic fat being the main culprit of snoring to tie in with what looks like evidence towards low carb diets being a (not the) solution to getting rid of ectopic fat. If that's in the list you provided, I'd appreciate if you can point it out. It's not really reasonable to expect someone to dig through all of that.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How much of a concern is arsenic? A lot of Asian cultures have rice with every meal and they have some of the healthiest people on the planet.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

If you didn't soak your beans, you can still do them in a pressure cooker. It'll just take about an hour. It lets you make a somewhat last minute decision to have beans whenever you want.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Everyone has different nutritional needs. If you're doing chicken broccoli rice, it's probably because it's much easier to measure out an exact amount of macronutrients to fit your needs and fill up the rest on broccoli to make it as satiating as needed.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A whole chicken breast during a famine? That sounds luxurious. I was under the impression that animal protein was incredibly rare.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

Except he also says that it doesn't need to be solved and he has no intention of solving it. This was just the interviewer pressing him for a time estimate on something he doesn't care about.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago

Right? Struggling so much to be on time that overcompensating is the only coping mechanism that works.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

This is the third time now. I keep seeing you blame carbs as the main culprit for various health issues people have. It would be nice to see some primary sources to back it up.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If breathing pauses, esp. Followed by a fit, then it's disorder (apnea).

Only if it happens frequently enough. Apparently, having this happen a few times a night is normal for healthy people.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

Except this isn't how language works

Language serves to communicate. If most people who know nothing of the subject read your question and understand "X is true" from it, then that is what you're communicating. Of course, I have no way of actually providing evidence for this besides anecdotes since I don't have the means to actually run a study on it. But if you've had enough human interactions, you'll have seen a lot of these types of questions where people will genuinely try to answer them as if they're true, or point to such questions as evidence for something being true. You'll also often see this for personal attacks (e.g. "Why are you such a doofus?").

This is probably an area where LLMs can actually be useful since they hold a lot of information on something of an average of what most people think. Give it a sentence and ask how it might be interpreted by others.

People aren't robots

Yes, and? Humans are meat bags. It costs a lot of energy for meat bags to think, and humans tend to be very energy efficient. If you can get away with doing less thinking, then most people will. This is something I'm constantly being made aware of because my particular brand of autism doesn't allow me to take advantage of this efficiency, which is what makes it so debilitating.

If you have some familiarity with information theory, it might be more convincing to think about it through that lens and consider how certain interpretations / assumptions lead to higher efficiency.

you're continuously asserting my claim is false

If I did, I did not mean to. I don't interact with enough neurotypical people to say whether it's true or not. I think you can just replace "since" with "if" in my previous comment to correct for this.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

It is not the same thing. When you ask why X is true, you're not only asking the question. You're also making the claim that X is true. ~~Since~~ If the premise of the question is wrong, you're making everyone do extra work to figure out why your question isn't making sense to them and what question you actually need to have answered.

You can invite speculation without making false claims. You also haven't contributed anything other than anecdotes despite having made that claim.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

There's nothing about this image that can tell you with certainty that it's AI generated, but it's an art style that has been popular with AI generated images recently, probably due to the simplicity, which makes it harder for it to make mistakes. The trend means that a lot of junk has been showing up with this style and people have a negative association with it now.

 

Version 1.0.16

This just started yesterday. Every time I switch screens (e.g. opening/closing comments or viewing a different community), The screen changes, it swipes down to reveal the old screen, then switches back to the new screen. It's very disorienting. Anyone else or just me?

 

The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine,

Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen.

Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime,

Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time,

Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.

Here it is—"nine plus four?" and the answer is "three."

Three?

Oh me . . .

I guess it's not as perfect

As I thought it would be.

 

I don't know very well how the legislative process works, but to the best of my understanding, the last step involves a vote where we decide whether to pass a bill. A simple majority means it passes, otherwise it's rejected. This leads to an interesting (and possibly dangerous) dynamic where the government can be very different depending on whether or not the winning party has a majority. It means that when we have a majority, it can lead to what we call "tyranny of the majority". It also means that there's very little difference in how much influence a smaller party can have between having a single MP until the point where they can team up with another party to form a majority. It means that even if we get proportional voting for selecting MPs, we might still need to vote strategically in order to either ensure or prevent a majority government, or to encourage a specific coalition government.

Do we have any potential solutions for this? Or did I maybe misunderstand how things work and this isn't actually a problem?

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Open Sourcing π₀ (www.physicalintelligence.company)
 

https://bsky.app/profile/natolambert.bsky.social/post/3lh5jih226k2k

Anyone interested in learning about RLHF? This text isn't complete yet, but looks to be a pretty useful resource as is already.

 

Apparently we can register as a liberal to vote in the upcoming leadership race. What does it mean if I register? What do I gain (besides the aforementioned voting) and does it place any kind of restrictions on me (e.g. am I prevented from doing the same with a different party)?

 

An overview of RL published just a few days ago. 144 pages of goodies covering everything from basic RL theory to modern deep RL algorithms and various related niches.

This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based RL, policy-gradient methods, model-based methods, and various other topics (including a very brief discussion of RL+LLMs).

 

If there's insufficient space around it, then it'll never spawn anything. This can be useful if you want to keep a specific spawner around for capture later but don't want too spend resources on killing the constant stream of biters.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/homeautomation@lemmy.world
 

I'm looking to get some smart light switches/dimmers (zigbee or matter if that's relevant), and one of the requirements for me is that if the switches aren't connected to the network, they would behave like regular dumb switches/dimmers. No one ever advertises anything except the "ideal" behaviour when it's connected with a hub and their proprietary app and everything, so I haven't been able to find any information on this.

So my question: is this the default behaviour for most switches? Are there any that don't do this? What should I look out for given this requirement?


Edit: Thanks for the responses. Considering that no one has experienced switches that didn't behave this way nor heard of any, I'm proceeding with the assumption that any switch should be fine. I got myself some TP Link Kasa KS220 dimmers and it works pretty well. Installation was tough due to its size. Took me about an hour of wrangling the wires so that it would fit in the box. Dimming also isn't as smooth as I'd like, but it works. I haven't had a chance to set it up with Home Assistant yet since the OS keeps breaking every time I run an update and I haven't had time to fix it after the last one. Hopefully it integrates smoothly when I do get to it.

 

This is a video about Jorn Trommelen's recent paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/

The gist of it is that they compared 25g protein meals vs 100g protein meals, and while you do use less of it for muscle protein synthesis at that quantity, it's a very minor difference. So the old adage still holds: Protein quantity is much more important than timing.

While we're at it, I'd also like to share an older but very comprehensive overview of protein intake by the same author: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/athlete-protein-intake/

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