You essentially describe the motivation for Stiftung Warentest [0]. They’re massively successful in Germany, and I rely on their tests for many consumer goods I buy. Access isn’t free though, typically costs around 5EUR per test. Coincidentally, they recently tested sunscreen [1].
Perhaps it's just mistitled. "How to Work" might be more apt instead of "Working Smarter, Not Harder". After all, the second half of that title is also incorrect- you are in fact working harder since you are no longer doing leisure activities during work time.
It does feel a bit odd. A better title might be "Work Faster, Not Longer".
Probably also ties into the fact that this person's job seems very deliverable based. Maybe content creation? That is just a completely different set of requirements than most people's "keep butt in seat for 40 hours" jobs.
Oh I agree, it is the smart thing to do. But to me it is not working smarter - if you check facebook at work you don't work more hours, you just spend more time at work
sqlite is also part of Python‘s standard library. No need to add dependencies, things just work. If you don’t plan to run heavy analytical workloads in your research, sqlite is probably just fine.
Did he also loose trust in OpenAI back when DALL-E exclusively generated images of white males when you prompted it with "CEO"? And images of women when prompted with "nurse"?[0] Or is this just the old google-bashing?
Not sure if it's Google-bashing, or if this particular issue with Gemini hit the "anti-woke" nerve of some people, but I agree that this reaction is way overblown. Some AI models err on the side of reinforcing clichés, Google tried to avoid that and overdid it with some bizarre results - so what?
"I only go ballistic about things that make me slightly uncomfortable - but I never cared when people raised concern about actually harmful things that concerned other people"
He likely did not and would not. A quick search using America as an example says that prompting CEO and getting a white male would make it 94.1% correct, if the number of 5.9% of CEOs are black is to believed. And of the approx. 3 million nurses 86.0% are woman, which makes those prompts very accurate.
The same cant be said when a prompt including the word white with male or family returns anything but 95% of the time.
Always a red flag if "potential benefits" cover a broad spectrum of unrelated symptoms: depression, cancer prevention, cognitive ability, heart health, diabetes, digestive health, even wound healing. A dodgy article at best.
"Always a red flag if "potential benefits" cover a broad spectrum of unrelated symptoms:"
Generally agree. One thing to note here is that this isn't a single chemical that we're talking about. It's certainly plausible that there are several different potential benefits in a food containing hundreds of chemicals. It still needs more research in this case.
now that it is 2022, what's the new flavor that would be prescient? I don't ask to actually know, but to reiterate the problem of nothing being solid in this world.
NextJS is still looking pretty good if you're in React land. There's new competition, like Remix, Astro, etc... but I don't see any of them putting NextJS to bed. I'm starting a new application, and I'm still choosing NextJS.
(Now what you couple with NextJS for data access is an interesting question - this is where there's a lot of innovation. Personally, I'm going with tRPC. I would look at Edge DB, but in this application I'll need a recursive CTE and Edge can't do it.)
Edit: I do think Astro might replace NextJS for purely-static sites, or ones where the "islands of interactivity" pattern is compelling.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest
[1] https://www.test.de/Test-Sonnencreme-und-Sonnenspray-fuer-Er...