To even get close to that you need to be the sort of person who changes fields every 5 years or so. I think this temperament is relatively fixed, perhaps because it's a feature of some kinds of neurodivergence. If ND and innate ability are both fixed, what you need to reach greatness is a bag of tricks like the author has so you optimise the many parts of personality and behaviour that are not fixed.

What I think is sad about modern times is, it's increasingly difficult and impractical to make a career change into a regulated profession. You can switch to CS, painting, or poker any old time. But if you're not a doctor by the time you're 40, forget about it. I bump into many people who are interested in medicine and would be great at it, but the switching cost is insurmountable. A shame because there's so much greatness to unlock at the intersection of CS, medical research, and clinical practice.

From Cialdini: "Once we have made a choice or taken a stand, we will encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently with that commitment. Those pressures will cause us to respond in ways that justify our earlier decision."

From what I've seen of Shimmer, the rapid-fire negativity in this discussion is not warranted. I have run a mental health startup. Criticism is constant and highly energised, and it really wears you down after a while. I expect they're also copping it from established practitioners, their industry bodies, and various regulators.

I currently use Shimmer, I have used BetterHelp and TalkSpace. These last two are... not in the "assume good faith" category. Perhaps they could show up to HN for some "robust discussion".

The thing I would like from Shimmer is a policy and mechanism where if you stop accessing the app and showing up to coaching, they stop billing you. Of course this would be startup poison, businesses are built on subscription revenue from non-users. But only billing for care you provide is the strongest show of ethics and consumer-centering I can imagine. Especially when your client base is ADHDers! Shimmer, if you currently do this, put it on the front page in bold.

Feature/guidance request: how to actually call functions, how to loop on responses to resolve multiple function calls. I've managed to mock a response to get_current_weather using this contraption: https://pasteboard.co/aO9BmHG5qsFt.png . But it's messy and I can't see a way to actually evaluate function calls. And if I involve the Chat Turn node, the message sequences seem to get tangled with each other. Probably I'm holding it wrong!

Similar "we would appreciate citations" statement for (BSD-licensed) pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/about/citing.html

8000+ pubs citing pandas: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9876954816936339312

They've aimed to make a framework that starts concise and simple, has useful defaults, then lets you adjust or replace specific parts of the overall "answer questions based on a vectorized document collection" workflow as needed.

This works well overall, but some bits have kept me scratching my head for hours. Partly due to huge holes in the documentation when it comes to specifics ("plenty of examples but little documentation" another commenter wrote and I agree). Partly due to the frenetic release schedule, this project is highly active even by frothy LLM craze standards and interfaces change rapidly.

Overall recommend, LlamaIndex has helped me make good progress on my project

It seems to be doing something, and can't possibly be worse than my previous flossing regime which was: "twice a year the day before a dentist visit".

I wasn't willing to shell out for the name-brand water flosser, other options do the same job at the same water pressure for 1/4 the cost.

It took about a month to move up through the power settings. Start on the lowest and click it up when that starts to feel a bit tame.

I've now been using this thing for 6 months, it's just about time to find out whether I get my bi-annual nagging about the importance of flossing. My personal opinion: Cochrane's probably right, flossing is most likely bunk, but I'm pleased to have found a way to do it that I can stand

And if anyone thinks BTC/ETH transactions are slow and expensive (me!), around here the gas fee on real estate transactions is ~5% with a 6-month processing time...

I find this line of thinking abhorrent. If it will reduce suicides by 15%, in-person schooling should be stopped outright until someone fixes what's wrong with it.

Get started on Twitter: 1. go to twitter.com 2. enter your name and phone number

Get started on Pleroma: https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/installation/debian_base...

Get started on Mastodon: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install/ [page 1 of 12]

For the full effect, do the install with an iPhone.

I was about to install self-hosted Mastodon but the machine load and amount of admin chores seemed too high. I've installed self-hosted Pleroma instead. Pleroma has 2% the DAU count of Mastodon, I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing out on the main experience, but I also don't want the main experience to be "server administration".

A car has good stability in turns: it wants to go straight, if there's a bump or you jerk the wheel a bit it still goes straight. If you apply a control input and get a turn, it will let you maintain the turn but it also wants to unwind and go straight. This is stability but not aerodynamic stability.

The reason one might want a less-stable aircraft is that stability is the opposite of manoeuverability. Super-stable aircraft like training gliders really resist turning and can feel too much like hard work.

As another commenter mentioned the wings don't contribute much to stability. The two big fins at the back (the stabilizers) are the main source.

(disclaimer: I fly fixed-wing acft and gliders, barely, and am no physicist.)

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