What that arngren.net is missing is the cheesy Johnson Smith ads for X-ray specs! and Sea Monkeys! Johnson Smith was like the cheap claw machine of magazine ads. You knew that all you were going to get was crap, but it was fun crap. Maybe it helped that it took like 2 months to come and you were imagining how great it would be the whole time.
I'm by no means an expert but I've seen some of what's being used to train AI, and I have to wonder if the hallucinations aren't coming from collisions of errors that got introduced while training. For example, if you don't have accurate text descriptions of the photos you want to ingest, you use BLIP or something similar to describe the photos, knowing that BLIP was also automatically trained with a certain percentage of inaccurate descriptions. So you're using a flawed AI image description model to give flawed descriptions of the photos you're ingesting, which then introduces even more errors into the photo models. The flawed photo models generate flawed pictures with flawed descriptions, which are then ingested into the next round of models.
At what point do all of the accumulated errors in training make it so that all models are doing is hallucinating based on all of the flawed training data? Do we need to hire a bunch of humans to accurately classify the first couple of levels of what the models are ingesting or something similar, and would anyone actually pay for that to happen?
Nicotine has antidepressive effects through increasing bioavailability of serotonin. It also shines as an antipsychotic. I’m failing to find the study right off but something like 80-90% of schizophrenics are smokers.
Buspar works in smoking cessation therapy as it helps balance the drop in serotonin when quitting smoking.
There's a lack of nosological classification of meaningful sub-types of depression and their specific dysfunctions. It's currently scatter-gun, medieval treatments without bothering to measure or understand the systems affected.
100% agreed. The current system of "Sorry you feel suicidal / horribly depressed. Here are some meds that are statistically unlikely to help you but you won't know whether they help or not until ~60 days after you start taking them. What if these don't work? We'll shovel you a slightly different permutation of the same meds in hopes that what didn't work the last time will work this time. By the way, it will be another 60 days before you know whether the new meds are working or not" is terribly broken.
Is it any wonder that depressed and schizophrenic people smoke?
Edit: er, sorry, you were probably talking about Buspar, not nicotine in regards to dopamine. Buspar does increase seratonin and dopamine, both of which are tickled to varying degrees by nicotine.
McPhee is truly a national treasure. If you're interested, that article was one of several published in his book Uncommon Carriers which includes a train and river barge voyage. Looking for a Ship is also great as it follows a merchant marine through various stages of that job.
The Curve of Binding Energy is a fascinating study of Theodore Taylor, the engineer behind the smallest nuke warhead in the world, and his concerns that terrorists may be able to build warheads themselves.
Pretty much any McPhee book or article is fascinating. His book Oranges is all about farming oranges, processing orange juice so it can sit in refrigerated vats for months (and how it is reconstituted through "flavor packs" that give it back the OJ flavors after long storage) and all kind of other orange stories. No matter what rabbit hole McPhee jumps down, his research and writing are nothing short of engrossing.
I just finished Looking for a Ship a few weeks ago. I have read Oranges as well, and Annals of the Former World, and some of his shorter pieces in a Best Of collection. I am hit and miss on his writing, but when it hits, it hits hard for me.
I'm not a chemist so this may be a dumb question, but is it possible that polymorphs are coming into play here, and the less official labs are better at contaminating the sample with the correct polymorph?
I've argued before that the "useless majors and departments" are useful for general studies, and general studies are good for everyone. Filler prereqs are a part of all of the college concept of creating a well rounded individual. In addition, the dorm life of college is a great half way step towards living by yourself. You generally hang out with people who in many cases will become your life's best friends.
I used to feel that way strongly. All of this made sense when most people could go to a state school and earn their way through with little or no loans. Today being a well rounded student with some great friends and a bit of independent living at a state school is likely to still saddle you with a 6 figure loan.
So even though I really thing the above is the right way for people to pursue an education / career after high school, it simply makes little sense for a lot of students. To the end I'd really like to see more institutions like WGU that allow you to get through school a lot more cheaply by doing everything remotely and measuring outcomes rather than measuring grades and the number of classes you took. And somehow we need to convince employers that colleges like WGU are the best alternative for a lot of really talented potential employees.
> Filler prereqs are a part of all of the college concept of creating a well rounded individual. In addition, the dorm life of college is a great half way step towards living by yourself. You generally hang out with people who in many cases will become your life's best friends.
Let the student/purchaser of the education decide this. Not middle aged university bureaucrats trying to optimize the tuition profits. Give students the time back to volunteer or spend time locally working at hobbies/clubs. Not everyone is interested in Humanities, Arts, Diversity and Multiculturalism. They likely received 100s of hours of that in k-12. Time to be an adult.
I feel like you might have missed my last paragraph.
TL;DR: Traditional college maybe made sense before college debt became an albatross around college grad's necks. Time to find more reasonable alternatives for those that don't want that albatross.
After reading this article, it kind of feels like CF is a modern version of Howard Johnson's. Big menu, lots of dessert, more of the food is cooked in house, safe place for picky eaters. It may suffer the same fate as Hojo too in that preparing for that many different entrees and making that much food in house ensures a high cost of waste, which is in part what I suspect did HoJo in over time.
I recommended the Why Doctors Hate Their Computers to my GP doc. The next time I saw her and asked her about it, she was PISSED. She said she spends about as much time working on EMR info as she does seeing patients, and it really irritated her to know how many docs just don't pay any attention to what's in the EMR.
