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I am still undecided on this - was off it due to all the version changes and prompts breaking with fixes (mainly fixing exploits…), but ultimately some kind of language crafting will be inevitably useful.

Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining

Doesn’t cover getting past review, but another reminder to be paranoid careful about adding browser extensions.

Adapting to solitude, and downsides of getting stuck there

strange times ahead

listen to philosophers and calm down, apparently

learn to deal with normal-sized data first

Recommended by Fred Again on Tape Notes (TN:105)

SIFI: Specialisation is for insects.
OSTA / ULTA: We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability.
DIBTP: Done is better than perfect.

A good response to falling out of love with coding. There are times it feels like passion, times it feels like drudgery and work.
There’s a balance somewhere there.

If capital is not invested in providing a good service via a profitable business, it will never sustain things that are societally useful.

hopefully this doesn’t imply that things need to be profitable to be societally useful

I had initially hoped this elimated choices by being a single set of things for local-first dev.

Being 20 something in a big city is both agony and bliss. Everyone is lonely,
everyone is obsessed, everyone is hungry. A collective era of being lost,
hopeful, and distracted.
Being overwhelmed with options, feeling unsure about choices.
Feeling like everything matters and nothing matters at all.

this is the kind of needlessly elaborate but awesome backup I can get into

Some of these experiences sound terrifying.

Much of this seemed less serious than the wild food waste stats, but these are very concerning:

Every year in Australia approximately 130,000 tonnes of plastic leaks into the marine environment.
Our use of plastic is increasing and across the world will double by 2040.
By 2050, it is estimated that plastic in the oceans will outweigh fish.

If food waste was a country it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Economic cost of it seems comparatively low on an international scale (still billions), but emissions and water cost is pure waste.

Good things to emulate in there.

Be willing to be bad at things, ask lots of questions (even if they seem obvious), trying hard at things (can mean failing lots).

that “traditional” marriages are not particularly traditional for any serious time scale

• Host something regularly
• Short term stays (couple of weeks)
• Help friends get leases
• Make friends nearby

When choice is unlimited, taste is everything.

very highly recommended by a lot of internet strangers

I look out for people who have been isolating more than usual, those who are withdrawn when usually outgoing. I have learned that a simple “hello” can go a long way. This helps me from falling into despair myself.

too many sexless smooth superhero movies

yes

not particularly

The results demonstrate a statistically significant depletion of CGM volume in 24 COVID-19 infected patients.

These seems to underplay the fact that it was reduced in all of them.

This is what blogs are about. Specifics of adding binary coded decimals on x86.

These are like something out of a game

Fantastic alternatives to media queries for more reliable and responsive layouts.

Generate 3d objects from a prompt.

Super-soaker and NERF gun inventor now working on some kind of solid-state power.

why netflix scenes all look empty, quiet, and lifeless

good concept. what are mine?

Generating music from rich, descriptive captions. I look forward to Google actually making some of these available some day.