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New comment by stoorafa in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

stoorafa — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:57:55 +0000

Can’t claim to know for sure, but I’d assume some kind of measurement limitations: the resolution and upper/lower limits of pulse ox are probably calibrated to some medical need, not to detect changes beyond what’s medically necessary

New comment by stoorafa in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

stoorafa — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:18:53 +0000

LLMs are great at decompression [1]

[1] https://jabde.com/2026/02/02/utilizing-llms-as-a-data-decomp...

New comment by stoorafa in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

stoorafa — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:11:52 +0000

Ah, yes, part one of the ole

That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not the IDF's fault. And if it was, they didn't mean it. And if they did, Gaza deserved it.

New comment by stoorafa in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

stoorafa — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:42:44 +0000

Seems like you’re asking “what’s the point of investigating crimes against humanity?”

And if that’s a question you have to ask, then clearly something is very wrong.

New comment by stoorafa in "Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo"

stoorafa — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:25:16 +0000

Definitely a unicorn success story. I’d be curious about Balatro in a similar vein—-labor of love turns wildly successful

New comment by stoorafa in "Building AI products in the probabilistic era"

stoorafa — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:24:18 +0000

Their job, in this case, is probably more of a signal than a clear indicator

Plenty of front-running companies have hired plenty of…not-solid or excessively imaginative data scientists

From what the other comments say, this one seems to lack a grounding in science itself, which frankly is par for the course depending on their background

New comment by stoorafa in "Positron, a New Data Science IDE"

stoorafa — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:58:17 +0000

I understand the strategy isn’t to find a niche in the sense of a specific set of users, but to broaden and cover more niches

The niches exist (overlapping niches aside), but agree with the skepticism since I also wonder whether the switching cost is worthwhile for many users

New comment by stoorafa in "Positron, a New Data Science IDE"

stoorafa — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:56:14 +0000

Not completely—as far as ecosystems there are RStudio addins, but I wouldn’t bet addins are extensively used

New comment by stoorafa in "Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)"

stoorafa — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:30:07 +0000

Computation isn’t likely prohibitive when using the bedrock of predictive models, linear regression, especially w some optimization. Could also vary observation time so you only need a prediction once every ten minutes or whatever

The real issue is the cost of false positive detection of cheating is negligible since the vast majority of positives are probably true positives—it’s the cost of doing anti-cheat business (minimal)

But yes cheats would be modified to just below thresholds of detection

New comment by stoorafa in "Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model"

stoorafa — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:46:26 +0000

Could you share a reference for those wanting to learn more?

New comment by stoorafa in "I learned Haskell in just 15 years"

stoorafa — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 05:29:49 +0000

Had a lot of fun reading this. I’d love to see some of the author’s code to get a sense what the journey produced, if that’s even possible

New comment by stoorafa in "Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers"

stoorafa — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 02:01:09 +0000

I’m not sure why you’re confused.

An occupying force holding its own elections in an occupied place is indeed illegal (your reference was about Israeli people holding elections in the Golan heights).

Comparing an _occupied_ people’s attempt to hold elections in the occupied place (Palestinian people in Palestine) to two separate non-occupied states (USA and Canada) is nonsense.

Hope that helps.

New comment by stoorafa in "Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia"

stoorafa — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 07:13:24 +0000

That second study didn’t use as robust of methods as the first, and they each used observational data that benefit from advanced methods (propensity score analysis).

With an RCT, the evidence is substantially increased.

I’d conclude sildenafil reduces risk of age-associated cognitive decline

New comment by stoorafa in "Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers"

stoorafa — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:37:21 +0000

> Given that designation as a separate state, complaining that they can't vote in Israeli elections is like complaining that Canadians can't vote in US elections.

I don’t remember the US ever occupying Canada.

Not like that at all, and this is a clearly biased take even considering this line on its own.

New comment by stoorafa in "Gamers Nexus: Asus Scammed Us [video]"

stoorafa — Sun, 12 May 2024 01:46:32 +0000

I’m also big on Asrock and I don’t understand how it’s not a more popular manufacturer

New comment by stoorafa in "Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative"

stoorafa — Fri, 10 May 2024 09:42:45 +0000

Really cool project. When I got to the sign in page, the email address I would have given my (edit: Google account) info seemed fishy, like it was a random string of letters. Any way to make it seem more…inviting?

New comment by stoorafa in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

stoorafa — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:38:48 +0000

It’s also “unfashionable” because the criteria for who qualifies as Hamas varies depending on how you ask.

See jhallenworld’s comment elsewhere in this post: > “Hamas terrorist” criteria: a male or fighting age…

Of course there will be males of fighting age among civilians, many of them _are_ civilians

New comment by stoorafa in "Fisker's Ocean SUV investigated for doors that won't open"

stoorafa — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:03:15 +0000

Their cars recently significantly dropped in price, and it seems clear why [1]. Also got a bad review from MKBHD on YouTube, which can’t help[2]

[1] https://slickdeals.net/f/17387397-2023-fisker-ocean-trim-pri... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWXRk3yaSw

New comment by stoorafa in "I scraped all of OpenAI's Community Forum"

stoorafa — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:19:46 +0000

Yeah it’s probably worth renting a server if there’s any doubt about whether it’s wholly appropriate to do something

New comment by stoorafa in "I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros"

stoorafa — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:51:24 +0000

MLC Chat supports Mistral 0.2 (7B, q3f16_1, it seems)