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You might want to try the Wim Hof Method. I don't believe in everthing Wim Hof attributes to his method but when it comes to immune response, there is scientific evidence that it does indeed result in an increase of IL-10, which is anti inflammatory.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034215/


> Luckily the Soviet Union collapsed and the ISS was funded as a job program for Soviet rocket scientists (out of fear they could be poached to work on ICBMs for other nations).

It's the first time that I heard this theory. Do you have any sources to read up on it?


>Using LLMs for picking military targets is just absurd. In the future

I guess the future is now then: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how...

Excerpt:

>Aviv Kochavi, who served as the head of the IDF until January, has said the target division is “powered by AI capabilities” and includes hundreds of officers and soldiers.

>In an interview published before the war, he said it was “a machine that produces vast amounts of data more effectively than any human, and translates it into targets for attack”.

>According to Kochavi, “once this machine was activated” in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May 2021 it generated 100 targets a day. “To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year. Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”


nothing in this says they used an LLM


But it does say that some sort of text processing AI system is being used right now to decide who to kill, it is therefore quite hard to argue that LLMs specifically could never be used for it.

It is rather implausible to say that an LLM will never be used for this application, because in the current hype environment the only reason the LLM is not deployed to production is that someone actually tried to use it first.


I guess he must have hallucinated that it was about LLMs


I crosschecked with google Maps and I belive the Jindalee Operational Radar Network in Laverton is stationed there. Maybe that has something to with the interference. A 560kw transmitter is no joke.

I guess south-west Texas is most likely also military. E.g. the Naval Air Station Kingsville is not far away.


Huh I had no idea Australia had a big OTH radar network. TIL!


The difference is GPUs. A normal dual socket system serving a database or webserver use under medium load around 200-300W, One of these [1] equipped with 10xA100 can easily use in the ballpark of 3kW under load. So we are talking 10x the power usage.

[1]https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/5u/sys-521...


Thanks, this makes sense!



I read three books this year that really changed my life in the order that I read them.

1. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. S. Dweck helped me to rediscover my curiosity and my eagerness to evolve. I started working at the end of 2022 and I realized that during the last years of university I lost my own drive to learn. There was always something to learn for a course so i either did that or nothing. The book helped me to change that perspective.

2. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr Anna Lembke helped me to accept and work on my youtube and smartphone addiction. Since then I stopped watching Youtube for pleasure and only watch videos that are work related or that someone send to me. I learned to stand the pain of boredom and don't always jump on the next distraction.

3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport helped me to drastically reduce procrastination and increase my productivity and the quality of my work. All that without increasing my work hours. IMHO its a must read for every knowledge worker.


But so is Roundcube.

OT: please (re)read the HN Guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


You saying I'm flamebaiting? I doubt anyone is going to be offended by PHP being trash, especially anyone that has spent any serious time working with it.


Then I wouldn't use Roundcube either.


What?

You said "i'm happy running it on my ...vps."

And now "Then I wouldn't use Roundcube either." So you're not running roundcube then?

Also, love how you said you loved roundcube because it works on "lightweight el cheapo VPS", and then backtracked once you found out it uses PHP.


I think you think I'm someone else.


You're correct, I'll retract my statement.

Both start with coll/cooll, I've got to increase my zoom apparently.


Honestly it's a mistake I would make too.


Funnily enough, I know of two instances where companies got rid of their mainframe driven by the license cost for Gen[1] which was bought by Broadcom in 2020. I heard they were only issuing 5 year licenses now.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA_Gen


I think the best summary of the whole devise that I came across is this one from today

> „The OpenAI tussle is between the faction who think Skynet will kill them if they build it, and the faction who think Roko's Basilisk(‚s Monster)will torture them if they don't build it hard enough.“

Source: https://mastodon.social/@jef/111443214445962022


Except the people who worry about Roko's Basilisk are the same faction as those who believe paperclip maximizers will kill everyone. The "other side" isn't part of this semi-cult, and nor do they believe in zero-safety.


Some of us do wish for zero-safety.


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