This just in: brain sleeve found filled with microplastics preventing washed amyloid fluid from draining.

Seriously though, this seems like a significant discovery!

This is pretty much the only way that I use AI. It can brainstorm 50 ideas faster than I can and format them in a way that I can actually get started on projects rather than planning out each step.

AI is pretty strong at what I have been calling “permanent facts”. Using any song as an example, it will always have the same key, tempo, scales, etc. As such, when asking for details about a song, listing out the key, scales, tempo, and asking it to show unconventional scales that will play over it. Another example of a permanent fact would be the death date of someone, as that isn’t really going to be changing.

On the other hand, temporary facts are where hallucination and other inaccuracies come in. There’s no way for LLM’s to get new information, so it doesn’t know about career changes, current ages or net worth. You can utilize permanent facts to get accurate information about temporary facts, but that’s not nearly as useful. I think one of the major issues people have with LLM’s (model creation aside) is that our society really values temporary facts, and so when it gets it wrong people like to point at that as a fault. Which it certainly is, but to me it’s kind of like pointing at Photoshop and laughing that it can’t even be used to write a book - like, OK but that’s not really it’s purpose?

I think another example of LLM’s definitely being useful was all of those privacy nightmare Excel/Sheets plugins. Privacy aside, that’s basically the ideal use-case for LLM’s as you are pointing out Permanent Facts (the data in cells A-Z) and having it sort them in some fashion. I’ve seen a lot of LLM hallucinations for sure, but I’ve also seen a lot of consistency when actually using it as intended. I’ve yet to have it be “wrong” when I was testing my music information template or when sorting out data in excel.

Much outside of that though, no. It’s only useful as getting mass amounts of theory in a short session, not so much for being reliable in that information. That might sound like a bad tool, but as mentioned it has plenty of use-cases, people are just using it as a tool very, very poorly. (It can also be used maliciously more easily than most other tools, which definitely prohibits its status as a “good” tool.)

Typical lack of direction

This is true for stone and fossils, would this also be the case for crystal? I’m under the impression that their chain is pretty much set in stone (pun not intended), to the point where longevity would mostly be risked by cracking damage. Similar to how we see the striations of lightning strikes.

Could also definitely be survivorship though!

I really do wonder why it’s taking so long for stone-striation storage to be a thing. We have proof that data will surpass 150m years through fossils, so why the heck did we think that flash storage was a good idea!

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8.2% isn’t nothing but I also wonder if it’s worth anything to Google. That would bring Firefox from ~3.3% to 11.5% of the browser market share if everyone switched to non-chromium browsers.

I just wonder if that’s enough for anything. It’s better than nothing of course, and for those users that switch there’s almost nothing but benefits, It’s more just that I have doubts about the willingness of the general public caring enough, and if 10% of people will have an effect for Firefox or against Google

37 million Chrome users have downloaded Ublock Origin (if that isn’t including duplicate downloads/multiple accounts on one user).

5.3 billion people use the internet. 307 million in the U.S. as of 2022… what is that, 10% of Americans using Chrome using adblock? Less?

Lmao it just starts showing AI results but using the flag stops showing the qualifier that it is AI results.

The extreme support that Intel has gotten from our government to move chip production stateside agrees with this

I’ll wait for Gabe Newell’s version, since it seems pretty clear to me that’s where Musk got the idea.

What do you think about WhoIs data for websites?

(I don’t disagree, I’m just curious)

There are a lot of non-Apple options for a very similar experience. I have a Fiio X1 Gen 2 that I like. They’re not widely available new anymore but they are still about the same price as when I got it.

Remember when Mollusk sold the flamethrower? It’s all I can think about

Its also great for readmes. I have a template that I follow for that and only work on one section at a time.

Templates in sections are somewhere where it shines. I set up a template for giving information about a song – tempo, scales used and applicable overlapping ones, and other misc stuff. It’s really nice for just wanting to get going, it’s yet to be inaccurate. It’s quite nice, having a fast database that’s mostly accurate. I do scrutinize it, but honestly even if it were to be wrong one day, it’s just music and the scale being “wrong” can only be so wrong anyhow.

Yeah it’s just a distraction like playing music/water sounds or getting tickled. Honestly, I’ve put an electric massager to my neck/head and the hum relieves the tinnitus pitch a bit. It seems like this is the tongue-version of that, but since it isn’t as loud they’re pairing it with some sound relief.

A neat idea, I’m glad that it helps people who can afford it. Hopefully it can be priced more reasonably in the future. In the meantime I will have to keep my headphones handy! lol

I believe I’m talking about the Sony CRE-C10 Over the Counter Hearing Aids. I heard about them from an article right before they hit the market They’re like $1,200 I think, but they’re effectively just Bluetooth hearing aids. They don’t have any particular qualities that make them good for tinnitus, just as I mentioned before it’s about just hearing something that isn’t silence so that you’re able to focus on something that isn’t the tinnitus you’re hearing. It should be noted, Sony themselves explicitly say they do not help with tinnitus, which is likely as true as me saying regular headphones don’t “help treat” tinnitus. However, I am pretty much crippled without headphones if I have a really bad flare up.

I use almost the inverse of these, the Sony LinkBuds (and S series). These are Bluetooth earbuds that have a gap in the ear canal so you can hear the world around you. The LinkBuds S are closer to a standard pair of earbuds with the noise cancelling or pass-through sound options, which is over-all nicer due to being able to inherently block out sounds from the bus. Anyway all this to say, I only mentioned them because they’re pretty similar to how I use my headphones.

I can’t speak on how the CRE-C10’s are or how effective they might be for my style of tinnitus, I’m merely making assumptions!

Not for $4,000 though. Also, after reading a bit more it’s just a pretty standard device that makes you think about something else. So for the meantime me setting up my headphones on a low-medium volume with something to listen to is far cheaper and provides the same long-lasting results (i.e. none confirmed). Nothing against the Lenire of course, I was mostly hoping treatment leaned on the side of fix!

In terms of effectiveness, I’m sure it does a great job. My tinnitus is definitely able to be noticed then gets worse, which is why having close sound right up in there helps a lot for me. (Speakers don’t quite “drown out” the tone the way in-ear or over-ear headphones do). The article also has it spot on about the wide range of causes and reliefs. I often use sounds of water to help alleviate a flareup.

Anyway, nice read. A little too bad it’s not something long term, and that it’s so expensive for what sounds like the prank shock-gum for your tongue and a pair of headphones

Between this and the tech Sony was working on for hearing aids I may have some reprieve.

The new toggle can be found in T-Mobile’s “Privacy Center Dashboard”. You can click here to go straight to it, or follow the steps below.

Login to your account either on the web or in the app as a full permissions user (typically the account holder’s main line).

On desktop/the web, click “Edit profile settings” at the top. On the app, tap “MORE” at the bottom of the app and then “Profile settings”.

Scroll halfway down the list and choose “Privacy and notifications”.

Find “Privacy dashboard” and open that.

On this page, you’ll have all the privacy opt-out options. Take the time to opt out of all of them, if you haven’t already and want to. Otherwise, scroll down and find the new “Profiling and automated decisions” section, as shown below this list, and disable it.

If you have more than one line, go back to the top, and choose “Manage a different line >”. You’ll need to toggle this for each line on your account.