dream_weasel

Gorsh, you bet I do!

Misread:

The legendary Dan Osmond who died not long after his rope snapped.

Nicely put. And on an ozma post to boot.

I feel like “the moistness” ought to be a shitty B-movie world-ending blight.

“Grandpa was killed by the moistness; he shouldn’t have even been in that valley without his power dryers”

No I want more information. I don’t want the current consensus of “healthy” between the authors, which may use arbitrary benchmarks, to prune down options that still satisfy a goal of sustainability.

The research team’s calculations take into account a number of environmental factors such as CO2 emissions, the consumption of water and land use, as well as the health impact of a particular diet. In total, they have examined more than 100,000 variations of 11 types of diets and calculated their respective environmental and health effects.

One of these things is not like the others and it looks like it is used to prune the set of variations. Is unhealthy like I get scurvy and die? Or is it that it may correlate with high cholesterol? Or is it that you are at risk of foodborne illness for eating under cooked meat/eggs/seafood? “Healthy” could encompass any of those and that’s nuts for data management.

I want this paper without the “healthy” part. Tell us the limits of sustainability, then let people choose their own adventure, even if it isn’t a good one by whatever arbitrary standard is set by the researchers for what health means to them.

Ow, my brains.

This is a suit in the same way that the thing the actor who plays big bird wears is a suit.

Well yeah, he was the president.

I’m just gonna quote my wife here when I talk about outlandish work stuff:

“Wow.” - dream_weasel’s wife

“show me your non-provisional rating and then we can talk”. Yeah I agree. But then this is the internet and everyone is an expert at being an expert lol

Are we sure he’s not going to do over a particular franchise of Penn station east Coast subs?

ITT: I don’t play chess. I don’t like chess. Friend play chess, he dumb, I am smart. I agree. You hear of Rubik’s cube?

Your skill at chess is indeed very good at predicting one thing: your chess rating. I have been playing every day for almost 2 years and I take lessons, but I started as an adult after finishing my PhD in actual rocket science and supervising a research lab in that area for 10 years. Consequently, I will never be as good as the 10 year olds playing with coaching since they were 6. I have met exactly one good player through my connections to that lab in 17 years. So here are some perspectives on chess if you played in high school or you “learned how to play in 30 mins and think it’s boring”:

1. It’s a game with layers. The first layer is knowing how the pieces move, the second layer is memorizing openings, and the third layer is some basic knowledge of tactics (I.e., forks, skewers, pins, removing the defense, etc etc) and THEN you learn the game. Most people never learn the game unless you went out of your way to do so.

2. For reason 1, “good at chess” is a hugely subjective statement. You knew a few people who can beat all your friends? Cool. I was that guy and it took me MONTHS to get to what the chess world calls “intermediate”: 1200-1400 ELO. Your friend is probably rated 700 to 750. You have probably never met more than a handful of good chess players in your life unless you were in a university club or better.

3. You do not have to be typically smart to be good at chess, but it doesn’t hurt. Top GMs are sometimes impressively smart or impressively… Uh… susceptible to misinformation cough Kramnik cough. But what they CAN do is master the shit out of board positions, visualization, and prediction.

Case in point, Hikaru Nakamura, arguably world #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WsEQuoOz-c&t=490

Or you can watch him play blindfolded chess against actual good players, or speedrun 1 minute games winning hundreds in a row while talking about his pineapple shirt. He’s alternatingly pretty entertaining and kind of annoying to listen to.

If you are that kind of smart, the visualization and memory kind, yeah you’re probably going to also be a good chess player. Otherwise, there’s not a lot of traceability that I’ve seen research on.

All that said, this thread is absolutely annoying to see the whole world show up and talk out of their asses about it.

/end rant

Edit:

More Hikaru craziness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhDYSNbPs_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXDol9GqK64

Vocab word of the day.

Yes and that’s how it should be. It shouldn’t even be conscious. I signal into and out of parking spaces, I signal every lane change, hell I signal for sharp corners sometimes.

It seems to me if you are choosing to signal or not, then the use of turn signals isn’t that heavily ingrained. Before I turn the wheel I’m instinctively touching the signal lever.

Keep up the good work!

It’s a great day to be alive in my ass

That’s not a good story… Ask if they have a mallet!

Hugging face open-r1 and up? It’s an open source deepseek I think.

This is a life at stake. Don’t tell this guy to be a pushover to spare a feeling. It’s way WAY worse to fuck a whole life thinking you’ve got a career that your parents know something about when you DONT.

This is a shitty, entitled take. Some people are good at some things. Some are good at others. Don’t gaslight your kid to think he’s an astronaut and let the world teach a lesson. That makes you a SHIT parent.

You know who makes 6 figures? A fucking lot of people. Cool, good on you, you’re not a unicorn.

So you can go park and abandon it in front of the gas pumps in some tiny trump town in the middle of Indiana or something?