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New comment by wakefulsales in "AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think"

wakefulsales — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:00:42 +0000

this is just stupid, anyone who's used ai to code knows this is wrong empirically

New comment by wakefulsales in "Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night"

wakefulsales — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:55:08 +0000

nebula genomics uses chinese labs - would be careful about your data

New comment by wakefulsales in "$8B Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial starts today"

wakefulsales — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:54:04 +0000

that's insane, 5-7mm?

New comment by wakefulsales in "The B Lane Swimmer (2009)"

wakefulsales — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 00:13:35 +0000

Do you have a source?

New comment by wakefulsales in "A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression"

wakefulsales — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 21:45:43 +0000

stronger than diminishing returns - negative returns

Depression Four reviews42 44 57 58 presented analyses by weekly session duration (68 component RCTs, >5016 participants, online supplemental eFigure 12). The median SMD for ≤150 min/week and >150 min/week was –0.58 (IQR=–0.77 to –0.30) and –0.29 (IQR=–0.40 to –0.07), respectively.

Anxiety One review58 provided analyses by weekly session duration (17 component RCTs, online supplemental eFigure 13). The median SMDs for <150 min/week and ≥150 min/week were –1.23 and –0.99, respectively.

New comment by wakefulsales in "How to Stop Ruminating"

wakefulsales — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 14:21:38 +0000

Studies are just the formalization of what people find helpful, and determining the proximate causes of such outcomes.

New comment by wakefulsales in "How to Stop Ruminating"

wakefulsales — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 15:54:33 +0000

did the book cite studies? or is it just a meme

New comment by wakefulsales in "The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012"

wakefulsales — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:59:05 +0000

i'm kind of in agreement - i think there's an extraordinarily strong nocebo effect and dearth of belief in agency after being diagnosed with something like that. At the same time, nearly all treatments are effectively worthless. so what's even the benefit? at the same time, I do believe mental health issues partially exist to signal to the tribe that something is wrong with that member and it's a call for help. so there should be some way to triage and provide support. but idk if our current transactional system that exists to pay pharma is good