Yes? That's not really a secret. This is a 2014-level comment on the black box nature of deep learning. Everyone knows this.
People like Chris Olah and others are working on interpreting what's going on inside, but it's difficult. They are hiring very smart people and have made some progress.
A large part of the effectiveness in counting calories is that you pay more attention and make more conscious decisions and are less likely to "cheat" if you have to enter it in your food log.
It's indeed like astrology. Simply thinking about personality traits and thinking through your life and your desires and goals and current situation is already beneficial to take charge and navigate your life.
I'd take the opposite point of view: just thinking about life, desires, and goals is how people wind up paying $10 to Whole Foods for a slice of "healthy pizza" that is nutritionally identical to any other pizza but comes out of a cute stone oven and is displayed on a wooden platform next to green leafy plants. Vibes astrology is notoriously easy to exploit, both by your own sugar/salt/fat-seeking instincts and by unscrupulous commercial forces, let alone the two working together. The unique thing about calorie counting is that it cannot be exploited like vibes astrology. Not even with a 20% error margin, which is (probably not coincidentally) the caloric deficit targeted by standard dieting advice.
That's an interesting bit, where reducing friction too much can eliminate the side effect that is actually driving the desired results.
Do you want to count calories, or do you want to lose weight? Sounds like it's possible to hyper-optimize calorie counting to the point that it becomes counter-productive...
You can check the state of this law at any point in time and even highlight the differences.
I assumed it is so in every civil law country and the law is only unknowable in common law countries where basically every previous court decision is part of the law in some way and they contradict and it becomes a skill and game of twisting words and digging up obscure precedents.
This is exactly what I'm talking about, there have to be commercial companies selling "which law is still valid" as a service. It shouldn't be like that. You should grab "current law book" and everything should be in it.
Yes, at this point I can't read this kind of AI text recreationally. It is somewhat fine when I ask Claude Code to explain to me something about a codebase or to summarize and collate info and it comes out in this shape. But if you're a human and you have some human idea that you want to share, don't come to me with AI text. If you do, I don't believe that the ideas are well thought out and come from thorough human thinking and life experience. If I want to consult AI on its understanding of the law, I'll ask it myself.
If it's your ideas, at least share the bullet points of the prompt it was generated from.
It's very profitable in the short term, and later they can just move on elsewhere and do it to another company. It's not mismanagement at all, it's a solid strategy from the external point of view.
This is the flipside of MBA-brain. Treating people as replaceable equivalent cogs in a machine, thinking that the company itself, as an abstraction, is where value lies, when it lies just as much in the context and nurishing environment. You can't simply move a company from one place to another like a Lego brick and expect it to go on functioning as before, not as long as people have freedom to leave.
It's not inevitable that the founders have to sell to big tech. They wanted money more than the excellence of the craft. They got the money, the company got to grow and made way more profit than when it was small scale but excellent. The wheel keeps turning.
This Disney brain of the Americans is what the problem is. It's not good guys and evil guys. It's money. Money and power have mechanisms. Pinky promises, benevolence etc. don't mean anything in capitalist business. It doesn't mean it has to be all thrown out the window. It can provide a service for a price, you can take it. Without being invested emotionally, without brand loyalty. That's dummy stuff. Businesses are not charities, and even charities are often quite businesslike. Unlearn naivety, read literature, human culture has known about the effects and incentives around money and power, petty and grand, for a long time.
So what? People have to unlearn this kind of brand loyalty. Companies are not people and not your friends. They are in the business of making money. We need to be more aloof and simply use their tools when useful and not get emotionally attached. Most of the managers and likely the devs had a good deal. Good money, and if it collapses, people still have a good resume line and can move on. And we users can also move on. There are plenty of other service providers of code hosting and CI/CD.
I'm a bit lost about the problem. Is it really about crying about outages? I'm aware of enshittification issues in the broader tech field but the post and this comment don't really say what the problem is. If this is supposed to be some kind of signal and wakeup call, more info would help. For context I'm a lightweight Github user for over a decade, mostly putting up personal projects without much collab, and opening issues in other repos when I find bugs, just cloning and forking stuff (mainly in the machine learning community, but also in general Linux tools). For me it works okay enough, compared with the overall landscape of SaaS. I'm not a fan, don't feel any loyalty and my expectations for user abuse from big tech are admittedly pretty abysmal by now. I'm just not seeing what specifically happened with github to trigger this.
You mean being affected by the constant outages that make the product literally unusable? If you were doing any serious work with it you might understand.
Thanks, I thought there was some other kind of flareup recently. This seems like bog standard service provider stuff. When my Vodafone internet connection has a lot of outages, I switch to another ISP. Same here. No need to overdramatize it. Use GitLab or whatever else.
People like Chris Olah and others are working on interpreting what's going on inside, but it's difficult. They are hiring very smart people and have made some progress.
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