>That got me paying attention to how hunger effects food enjoyment.
I cured my lifelong pickiness thanks to an excessively long diet. The pickiness had tempered itself somewhat over the years, but my food choices were still quite limited compared to your average person.
On that diet, I lost about 50 pounds over 8 months and got to the leanest I've ever been, probably under 15% bodyfat. I knew better than to diet that long and the negative effects of diet fatigue, but dammit, I was determined and had to keep going!
The last few months I was constantly ravenous, tired, having trouble sleeping and absolutely obsessed with food. A few weeks later was Xmas dinner with the family, and when I arrived, I was shocked to discover that EVERYTHING on the table looked absolutely delicious to me. Foods I wouldn't have even imagined trying before. My pickiness was so severe, even attempting a bite would have previously caused a vomit response. I ate everything on that table that year and enjoyed nearly all of it. My family was stunned! It was like a dam broke, and now I am willing to try just about anything. It's been a great increase to my quality of life.
As an aside, I always hated hearing "What would you do if you were starving?" growing up. My contention was that if I were truly starving, any pickiness would disappear quite quickly. I mean people have resorted to cannibalism during times of famine! This experience completely validated my theory.
Is this really problem solving? I thought this stuff was done by basically just memorizing patterns. Not saying it's easy, but seems like more a combination of memorization + muscle memory.
IMO, FOV is the biggest immersion killer in VR today, and doesn't get nearly enough attention. It's not so bad when you're relatively new to it as the illusion is convincing enough that you don't notice, but once the magic wears off a bit, it's hard to escape that binocular effect. I wish one of the bigger players would tackle that. I'm not willing to take a chance on Pimax.
Microsoft has a patent on a super cheap and easy way to improve FOV, but they cancelled Windows Mixed Reality so this solution will just sit in a vault forever.
TLDR, put LEDs all around the lens. They extend the scene even though they have zero resolution, you perceive the environment as extending to the full angular width you can see.
I can't take RMS seriously any more after he supported Covid vaccine mandates. A closed source printer driver is evil, but forcing people to get a proprietary novel medical treatment from a giant corporation that stands to profit immensely from it is A-OK? His conception of freedom only extends to what HE wishes to be able to do, and whenever there's a conflict with that, he wins. Typical behavior from an extremist.
"Meanwhile, I think that the proposed vaccine mandates for federal workers, military personnel, medical personnel and the work force of some businesses will help. They are a small fraction of the population, but in the delusional states they will help break through the anti-vax pressure."
"Addressing those who call [vaccine mandates] attacks on personal freedom, one doctor said that "people also have a right to be able to go to work and not get infected and not get sick and not die."
Hear, hear. We all have a duty to get vaccinated, except for the small fraction that medically can't do it."
Yes. He also regularly shares news articles from five eyes propaganda outlets like the Guardian attacking Russia, Iran, and the Chinese on social media. It's weird to see him fall for and amplify that garbage
this post is giving "the 1800s called, they want their smallpox victims back" energy. the entire scientific community agreed covid vaccines are safe, but I suppose you did your own research
I dont mean minimum wage. I mean skilled trades and highly educated. Who is going to build the homes we are build 1/2 to 2/4 what we did prior to 2010. Who is going to work the R&D roles when the Canadians are all working
Wage suppression can be dealt with by making the wages for visa workers higher than some formula that takes local and national averages into account
There's no labor shortage there either. Go look at the Canada trades/jobs subreddits. Go look at the experiences of new grads who can't find an entry level job that pays a decent wage. Go look at how many kids want to enter the trades but can't get anyone to take them on as an apprentice. Software developers, engineers, etc. Even people with experience are out of work for months. Skilled laborers are sitting around with nothing to do because nobody is building houses.
Why do you think any Canadian grad who is able moves to the States? If we truly had such a dire labor shortage, surely they'd be able to work here and be paid well for it?
LLMs are inherently deterministic. The way everyone deploys LLMs leads to non-deterministic results, but there's nothing† stopping providers from offering deterministic evaluation if they choose.
All the sources of randomness are under the control of the provider, even if today's deployment structures mean providers introduce extra randomness due to the concurrent nature of the evaluation. Serialise the computation, feed it from a pRNG, and you have a fully deterministic result. But providers don't want to offer a deterministic result, and especially not one as fragile, expensive, and inefficient as a full serialisation would be.
†: For variants of "nothing" that include cost and deployment challenges.
This is technically true, but when people talk about randomness, its not only about same input-> different output, like temperature>0 and the things you said.
Its also about very similar inputs -> different outputs. Even with everything you said, yes, same input would result consistently into same output, but sliightly different input and you might get completely different/semantic answer.
There's deterministic enough, and then there's computer science non-deterministic. If I ask for a Todo app, I'm going to get a Todo app, even if the buttons get moved around and the background color of it is brown instead of purple if I ask today vs 6 months ago. If the AI completes the phrase "the capital of France is..." with anything other than Paris, something has gone more wrong than usual.
No, it's in the increasingly growing tent cities in my town, and among the junkies that have taken over downtown Ottawa. Glad to hear you're doing well, though.
Housing is a municipal jurisdiction, healthcare is a provincial jurisdiction and immigration (direct, temporary, students, refugees) is a federal jurisdiction (except Quebec has its own immigration jurisdiction).
Bringing in millions of people in a short time without coordination with other jurisdictions to manage housing demands, healthcare demands and needed infrastructure upgrades was grossly incompetent.
Not quite on the epic scale of incompetence as Chairman Mao and eliminating the Sparrow (in terms of consequences) but equally as idiotic in terms of narrow minded thinking.
I was arguing that bringing in massive amounts of people in such a short time that the other levels of government have no time to plan to deal with the logistics of it.
--to be clear, my anger is at the politicians not the immigrants.
And as another comment pointed out: yes bringing in lots of people puts upward pressure on rents and downward pressure on wages which will lead to an increase in homelessness and can lead to an increase in drug use as a result (of homelessness). And then a vicious circle of drug use contributing to unemployment and homelessness.
Did you knee-jerk it because I mentioned immigration? I BLAME the politicians NOT the immigrants. Look up how many MPs are landlords. They were blinded by their own self interest.
More people leads to more competition in the job market and housing space. There's no universe in which they are not linked. It's a natural consequence of near 20% population growth in a decade
Where I live, I see massive amounts of homeless people that i did not see before COVID; despite the skyrocketing prices of real-estate before COVID. The high cost of housing was already a problem before these Wizards decided to flood the country with immigrants. They just looked at the problem of declining birthrates/population and said oh we need to import massive amounts of people in a short time to solve that problem. Narrow minded thinking. Just like Chairman Mao with the Sparrows. Look it up if you are not familiar with it. He saw the sparrows as a problem so decided to kill all the sparrows. By killing the sparrows he ended up creating a famine that killed around 40 Million people through starvation!
These clowns did something similar. They looked at the birth rates and decided to bring in massive amounts of people in, in a short time, without considering the problems that that would bring. So yeah, Chairman Mao "in the same breath".
Canada has one of the highest mortgage debt to GDP ratios in the world. That's high private debt. High private debt is what created the Great Depression in the 1930s. Bringing in massive amounts of immigrants fueled this taking on of high amounts of mortgage debt enormously via landlordism. So yeah again, Chairman Mao "in the same breath". Should mortgage defaults explode, its taxpayers who backstop CMHC. That could mean Jean Chrétien/Paul Martin style savage cuts to government services to cover those losses: i.e. austerity.
Ever since those 90s cuts to services we've had lots of people sleeping rough in the street who used to be cared for in mental hospitals. Now they roam the streets and stab people.
I cured my lifelong pickiness thanks to an excessively long diet. The pickiness had tempered itself somewhat over the years, but my food choices were still quite limited compared to your average person.
On that diet, I lost about 50 pounds over 8 months and got to the leanest I've ever been, probably under 15% bodyfat. I knew better than to diet that long and the negative effects of diet fatigue, but dammit, I was determined and had to keep going!
The last few months I was constantly ravenous, tired, having trouble sleeping and absolutely obsessed with food. A few weeks later was Xmas dinner with the family, and when I arrived, I was shocked to discover that EVERYTHING on the table looked absolutely delicious to me. Foods I wouldn't have even imagined trying before. My pickiness was so severe, even attempting a bite would have previously caused a vomit response. I ate everything on that table that year and enjoyed nearly all of it. My family was stunned! It was like a dam broke, and now I am willing to try just about anything. It's been a great increase to my quality of life.
As an aside, I always hated hearing "What would you do if you were starving?" growing up. My contention was that if I were truly starving, any pickiness would disappear quite quickly. I mean people have resorted to cannibalism during times of famine! This experience completely validated my theory.