And there is everything in between.

Blank Check The Flophouse 99% Invisible Cautionary Tales The Rewatchables

I maintain The Flophouse is the funniest podcast around.

In the first half of the year War and Peace, which obviously was excellent, although I liked Middlemarch more.

In the second half of the year David Copperfield which was very excellent. Just beautifully written. I still think I probably like Middlemarch more... but it might now require a re-read to know for sure.

This year is going to be Tom's Crossing to start as I just got that for Christmas.

If you haven't check newly made Roles as well. We quashed the compromised users pretty quickly (including my own, the origin we figured out), but got a little lucky because I just started cruising the Roles and killing anything less than a month old or with admin access.

To play devil's advocate a bit. In our case we are pretty sure my key actually did get compromised although we aren't precisely sure how (probably a combination of me being dumb and my org being dumb and some guy putting two and two together). But we did trace the initial users being created to nearly a month prior to the actual SES request. It is entirely possible whomever did your thing had you compromised for a bit, and then once AWS went down they decided that was the perfect time to attack, when you might not notice just-another-AWS-thing happening.

The interesting part is neither group really finished the problem sets faster than the other. Individual problems my group could, if we knew or guessed the right path immediately, be faster. But over the span of a 10 question p-set it would mostly come out in the wash and both groups would finish in roughly the same amount of time.

I often think back on that when reflecting on how I still work that way years later.

Bonus when I go I can still get that browsing the aisle experience like in an old video store (but in this case I am lucky, my local library has a large DVD / Blu-ray collection to browse)

With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little family of languages all named after classic authors. Tolstoy, Dickens, Melville etc. Plus my dog Tolstoy was the best dog ever so bonus for everyone as well.

I do like them though. Gives both shade and (some) rain cover.

I think the above poster gets a little distracted by suggesting the models are creative which itself is disputed. Perhaps a better term, like above, would be to just use "model". They are models after all. We don't make up a new portmanteau for submarines. They float, or drive, or submarine around.

So maybe an LLM doesn't "write" a poem, but instead "models a poem" which maybe indeed take away a little of the sketchy magic and fake humanness they tend to be imbued with.

Much like advice for writer's block being often "just write!". The same goes for reading. Start with something easy breezy and eventually it'll all start flowing again IMO.

I don't agree with her on everything, but Emily Oster's chapter on SIDS (in the second book I think, Cribsheet) I think does a good job outlining the data on it. And my brother just had a kid who also would absolutely not sleep on his back. Once he could roll he just sleeps on his tummy (but once they can roll SIDS is not really an issue)

IMO the post is merely stating: "man, everyone should be doing this!" Without realizing that (1) everyone is doing this, and (2) it doesn't seem like it because many (most?) fields in biology don't work in the top down approach being suggested. Determining mechanism and function is vital in biology because in a lot of cases there just isn't the data to perform a fuzzy outcome driven analysis.