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New comment by wardedVibe in "FDA stands against using smartwatches to monitor blood glucose"

wardedVibe — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:40:33 +0000

I remember seeing some results from a group using OCT imaging[0] that was on-par with a CGM, just bulky and requiring multiple high-end GPUs to actually run. So it's in principle possible, if nowhere near practical currently

[0]: pretty sure it was this https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.1c00497

New comment by wardedVibe in "Time Series Forecasting vs Regression: An informal guide"

wardedVibe — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:01:08 +0000

I found it to be way too underspecific; more of cursory overview for a undergraduate seeing it for the first time in a business school than someone interested in digging into time series forecasting in depth. Don't have a better recommendation though, unfortunately.

New comment by wardedVibe in "FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising"

wardedVibe — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:15:25 +0000

unrelated, I bet you really like David Foster Wallace

New comment by wardedVibe in "Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them"

wardedVibe — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 23:35:37 +0000

Or just read Wikipedia, which I'm sure it will crib from poorly... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer

New comment by wardedVibe in "Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them"

wardedVibe — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 23:33:20 +0000

Thank god, I've had to cobble something like this together for my own notes a couple of times trying to parse papers and was never quite sure if I was missing something.

New comment by wardedVibe in "Hyperloop One to shut down"

wardedVibe — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:28:50 +0000

funny that one of the better f u t u r e ideas in this thread got heavily downvoted. This is probably one of the more efficient ways to automate package delivery, up to a small-ish size, and requiring a pretty high density. If NY wasn't a clusterfuck when it comes to getting projects built, they might actually have the density to justify the maintenance costs.

> Small electric vehicles

why not just use pneumatics? It's a proven technology used in sufficiently large facilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#Contemporary_us...

New comment by wardedVibe in "Six Degrees of Wikipedia"

wardedVibe — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 22:29:45 +0000

Interesting, the automated version of racing wikipedia pages:

https://wikispeedrun.org/

Though the path it gives from Manifestiny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny to Homo Sapiens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human seems to go through a hyperlink not found on the page? Might be buried in versioning or other languages though.

New comment by wardedVibe in "The housing shortage is larger than you think"

wardedVibe — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:26:43 +0000

Even fire safety is frequently done in an overly onerous and ineffective way, e.g. the double staircase requirement that doesn't apply in many other places because other, more space efficient solutions were found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM&t=648s

New comment by wardedVibe in "Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again"

wardedVibe — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:54:18 +0000

Because battery tech is evolving fast, and lithium could quickly become far less valuable...

New comment by wardedVibe in "The city of the future looks like a former military bunker in Taipei (2016)"

wardedVibe — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 07:45:18 +0000

it's... clearly not abandoned. Pretty sure you mean dilapidated.

New comment by wardedVibe in "Normal Operating Sounds"

wardedVibe — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:20:26 +0000

They mean a heat pump. You apply work to transfer heat, getting more inside than if you had just turned the energy into heat directly; the outside gets colder of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Principle_of_operati...

New comment by wardedVibe in "How Gödel's proof works (2020)"

wardedVibe — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 23:22:56 +0000

So the most physically grounded example I know of is the undecidability of some spectral gaps[0] (is there a discrete jump between the ground state and the excited states), which as far as I can tell doesn't rely on self-reference.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.04573.pdf

New comment by wardedVibe in "After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing"

wardedVibe — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:16:35 +0000

It was a fire drill for AGI, and one that was failed badly.

New comment by wardedVibe in "Despite just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community (2021)"

wardedVibe — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:58:20 +0000

free QA seems pretty valuable

New comment by wardedVibe in "I wish people would do historical arguments better"

wardedVibe — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:08:39 +0000

Interesting, sort of like a reverse chesterton's fence argument: just because a thing used to be used to do x, doesn't mean that's the only purpose it could possibly serve.

New comment by wardedVibe in "Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data"

wardedVibe — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:35:09 +0000

their privacy policies are not great iirc. ironicially.

New comment by wardedVibe in "Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message"

wardedVibe — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 23:28:57 +0000

Just wait ~5 years when they have to show more growth by adding newer tiers of subscription, and making the current one ad-lite.

New comment by wardedVibe in "Amazon used algorithm to test how much it could raise prices: FTC"

wardedVibe — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 03:02:33 +0000

at best it's requiring people who don't care about the shipping time to subsidize those who do.

New comment by wardedVibe in "The CDC Awards $260M Contract for Disease Surveillance"

wardedVibe — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:24:46 +0000

As someone involved, yes, wastewater is included, though its a trickier data source to work with than people make it out to be. health insurance claims are the newest source I'm most excited for, though they're hard to work with for privacy reasons.

The sibling speculating about google search trends is right. Though we also did facebook surveys for a while. A lot of effort is put into making sure nothing that's possibly identifiable is present, so characterizing this as about tracking people is... pretty dumb.

New comment by wardedVibe in "The Frustration Loop"

wardedVibe — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:04:01 +0000

Amazing, this is better than a shadow ban even.