mirshafie
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- Comment on Anon is 23 2 hours ago:
I absolutely did not eat at my desk. In fact I had way more sweets in the first role, the culture was different at the lab. I know about thermodynamics, but I don’t think it’s that simple. Moving around helps a ton with stress and digestion which affects your metabolism and insulin resistance. It’s not about moving to “burn off” fat, it’s about moving to not synthesize the fat around your organs in the first place.
- Comment on The only one country 15 hours ago:
Yeah, it’s more interesting that countries like Iran and Vietnam have very cheap or free basic medical services. Sure you might not get all of the resources that they can provide you in Sweden, but the principle is the same.
- Comment on Anon is 23 15 hours ago:
Nah, I got the meaning of your post. Standing at the desk, even with a treadmill, is not the same as natural movement. Taking breaks from a physically passive activity is not tge same as being constantly physically active.
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day ago:
It’s not even close. When I went from 50:50 lab/office to 10:90 lab/office I gained like 12 kg and outgrew all of my pants in a year. Granted a bit of that was stress with my asshole bosses but I believe that just working on my feet a couple of hours versus being sedentary made a massive difference.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 days ago:
It’s okay, we can terminate this interaction here.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 days ago:
Yes, but only technically so because those distances and angles change outside of the portal.
Ah, so you’re saying Portals are not flat paintings, they’re flat TV screens which project a representation of the universe behind them like based on where the observer is. Upon impact with an object they then store the objects momentum relative to the TV screen, teleport the object to another point in the universe, and then transfer the momentum to the teleported object. Got it!
One minor inconsistency is that in the Portal universe, objects transition smoothly through portals and can stop halfway through. But that’s okay since we’re just making shit up anyway.
This is why an object that is moved through a portal has momentum, but an object that a portal is moved over does not, the two scenarios are not the same when you have a frame of reference that includes the space on the other side of the portal.
Circular argument. You’re using your preferred conclusion as evidence for your flawed reasoning.
They are the same if you ignore that space in your frame of reference, but then any conclusion you come to about things outside that frame of reference are invalid.
Velocity is a relative property between two objects. There’s no “I’m moving toward the portal, therefore I have momentum” versus “The portal is coming toward me, therefore I have no momentum”.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 days ago:
This exactly. Consider an object that isn’t a point mass (like the cube) going through. As the first atoms go through, and thry just stopped relative to the portal boundary, that would suggest the next layer of atoms need to exert force on the first layer to push through. But portals in the game Portal do not have any resistance to objects passing through them.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 days ago:
This would suggest that portals in the game Portal are flat paintings, but it’s not. As you move around or toward the portal, your distance and angle to the objects on the other side of the portal move in your frame of reference. Therefore you have velocity relative to those objects. Not to the portal itself, not to the universe behind the portal as a point mass, but to the spatially separated objects on the other side of thr portal individually.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 days ago:
It’s not about whether portals have mass or not. It’s about the box’s velocity relative to the space on the other side of the portal. In the game, as you move toward a portal, you also move toward the objects on the other side of the portal. Therefore you have velocity relative to those objects, and that’s the momentum that is conserved as you pass through.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 days ago:
B.
Momentum/velocity is not an intrinsic property of an object, it is a relative property between two objects in a frame of reference.
Behind the yellow portal is the part of the universe where the blue portal is. The yellow portal, and therefore the space where the blue portal is, has momentum relative to the cube.
Put yourself in the frame of reference of the cube. You see the yellow portal come toward you. Imagine there are objects on the other side of that portal. You see those objects rush toward you through the portal. Why would the objects just stop dead when you came through the portal? (If they did just stop, it would be as though you hit a wall, and you wouldn’t actually go through the portal at all.)
- Comment on Pervert cancer 4 days ago:
“Dogs get cancer at 10x the rate of you and me, because dogs lick their balls and eat their turds. I did a decade of yoga to teach myself to lick my own balls, and then I got pervert butt cancer. NO DOG IN HOUSE!”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I see this argument often on Lemmy and I honestly have some trouble empathizing with it. Why should we demand that LLMs would be perfect, when nothing in life is perfect?
Books and scientific reports can, and often have, falsehoods printed in them. All sensors have error margins. A human expert can be convinced that they’re right and still be wrong.
What I’m trying to say is we shouldn’t trust anything blindly. I absolutely agree that it’s frustrating to see so many people trust LLMs blindly, but used as a tool among others I think they’re most likely going to be very effective in a wide variety of fields.
LLMs are out there solving math problems, helping with biology research and fixing latent bugs in widely used open source software. Yes of course LLMs make mistakes, but you can verify their work.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Because there are problems out there that you’re not going to feasibly solve on your own.
Think of it this way: do you ever look up anything on the internet? If yes - why did you do that, when you could just find out the information yourself by working from first principles? Likely not only because it’s orders of magnitude faster, but because doing it yourself would probably result in significantly lower quality thank just looking it up on Wikipedia.
LLMs are like search engines on steroids. They really can help you explore problems that have already been described in the literature, so to speak.
But of course that changes how our brains need to be wired. And it’s not necessarily bad. When I was growing up, the adults were really worried that the use of search engines would degrade the ability of children to look things up in the library. And they’re right - I would indeed have a more difficult time going to the library, finding the right shelf, finding the right book, looking through the index, and scanning the pages for the information I was looking for - because that’s a skill that I haven’t practiced because I could just do a web search for the better part of my life. Doing a web search is a different skill.
That’s not to say that this is all fine and just a technological development like any other. I think we do need to be careful about how we use LLMs and when, especially in order to think through problems ourselves. I think that we were already over-reliant on the Internet before LLMs came on the scene, and it will likely get worse now. But the reason that they’re dangerous is because they are in fact really useful tools too.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Almost every signal response, and certainly in chemistry, is an S curve. A small span of that curve may be approximately linear, and you absolutely can not approximate it by just the mid point.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
My pharma professors liked to say that if Aspirin was discovered today, it would never pass the bar for human trials, because after all these years the mechanism of action isn’t properly understood.
That’s the best argument for alternative medicines that I’ve heard, and it’s also something to consider when we think about how insanely high the bar is for compounds that are approved as medicines.
- Comment on Need to lose 15lbs in less than a week? I got you. 1 week ago:
Yeah but just eating less processed foods, more vegetables and never drink your calories will get you a very long way even if you eat the same number of calories.
Also walk instead of drive.
- Comment on Sounds beautiful 2 weeks ago:
It’s a hand-crank speaker with a button!
- Comment on Not a single one 2 weeks ago:
The article is paywalled, but just from the first snippet I don’t see how it’s relevant. If you’re replacing oil or coal based power generation with wind, then that’s awesome. But my assertion is that you do actually need to supplement that with something that can be tuned on the fly to keep a stable frequency in the grid. So far the experimental designs to do so with massive “batteries” have not looked very promising to me.
A rule of thumb is that you need a minimum of 20% of your grid to be tunable. That’s a hard minimum.
- Comment on Not a single one 2 weeks ago:
Great. Fucking build it then. Go ahead and build your non-hydro non-nuclear baseload, and I’ll shut the fuck up. Until then, I’ll call you out every time you say that nuclear and hydro is too expensive.
- Comment on Not a single one 2 weeks ago:
You’re deflecting because you don’t have a real argument to come up with. It’s true that global warming is having a negative impact on nuclear power in France, Switzerland and other places, but it doesn’t change the fact that you need some way to keep a stable voltage and frequency over your grid.
- Comment on Not a single one 2 weeks ago:
No, you couldn’t. You need base load. Countries like Denmark and Germany freeload on the base load of France, Sweden and Finland. And the moronic EU laws that currently enable this will eventually change to charge them for that.
- Comment on Heh heh 2 weeks ago:
Also use paper towels to wipe grease an oil.
For anything water-based, using a cellulose rag is almost always better (as in cheaper and better for the environment). For grease and oil, it is worth it to mop it up with paper and throw it in the trash.
- Comment on Valid point 2 weeks ago:
It goes well with my Faraday hat.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 weeks ago:
you’re the real mvp
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Remember, George Bush Jr was so hated that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush Jr.
- Comment on They're F*ing trying again 3 weeks ago:
How is your comment relevant to Chat Control?
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
I just wrap the Faraday bag around the card reader and let NFC do its thing. The cashiers hate me, but sometimes the cute ones get confused and let me draw them in their underwear.
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 3 weeks ago:
He’s now a big cringe retard, as proven by his telling of the story.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 3 weeks ago:
I’m not endorsing SD, I fucking hate then. I’m just saying that there’s a world of difference between the far right in many European countries, compared to the far right in the USA.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 3 weeks ago:
The suck, I’m just saying the Overton window in much of Europe isn’t really comparable to the discourse in the USA. It would be instant suicide for them to even appear as though they want to limit free health care, abortion or gay rights.
They got rid of a really competent (not praise from me, just an assessment) top politician over her resistance against the right to free abortions. That’s where Sweden’s far right is.