It sounds a fantastic claim, but I'll read up a bit on it so thanks.
Must admit though I've not had any drug - prescribed or illicit - that had a more immediate and powerful effect on my anxiety than a benzodiazepine (granted I've not tried heroin before!).
Thankfully they are incredibly hard to get prescribed where I live due too all the above associated dangers.
Lavender works but it takes a long time to build up to a therapeutic serum level.. like a couple weeks to a month. Once you're there it's lovely stuff. Look at Calm Aid.
It added mine as my old home town but I haven't been to that location for a while and it's 20 miles away from where I was when I posted.
Update: I am on mobile, used chrome and Firefox, normal and incognito mode. All show my old town location, Max mind says my IP is in a different town 70 miles away. Either some super odd coincidence and stale geoip lookup or some very advanced device fingerprinting tracking! Feels too odd to be a coincidence
Very odd! Appreciate you've been up front with lots of privacy on the site.
It feels like a really odd coincidence given the size of the town in question. I suspect the db-ip service has cached the IP somehow against other data for me, perhaps the ipv6 if you use that?
I did an odd interactive media course in college - not CS but lots of programming in various languages.
I loved Director and used it for many assignments. Made so many CD-ROMs, even 3d games using Shockwave and models we'd make in 3DS Max.
It was fun graduating and trying to get a job in 2003! Realising CD ROMs were becoming a thing of the past and having to immediately teach myself HTML and Flash.
On reflection it set the tone for the 20+ years of continuous learning and language swapping!
Interesting. I don’t have a counter to the coining a new term evidence in that article. Potentially that’s solid evidence of the first aspect.
But I do have a counter for the second point:
Context is not a part of the model. It’s an ephemeral blend of input and output fed back in as input.
Online learning is potentially a way for incorporating and evolving coined terms to happen. But since that’s not what any of the models are doing, something would have to change in how we do things before it could happen.
I don't see why this couldn't be possible. We use LLMs whose weights are frozen and are not updated at inference, most likely this is due to reasons of cost, stability and control.
Theoretically you could update the weights at inference time too though so the model evolved as it's used. Surely some people are trying this already.
I often have to teach basic OOP concepts to junior - mid level developers.
Many who've entered the career in the last decade or so seem to have missed what I 'd consider to be quite a fundamental grounding.
Not even advanced concepts from the gang of four book - though I have taught these too - but often just an un-awareness of OOP in general, even simple things like understanding encapsulation.
Frameworks and languages do evolve, but never being taught basic things like encapsulating state or exposing dependencies seems an issue. Very differnt from my own time as a junior when this stuff was constantly hammered home.
You're probably right. But they most likely know more about functional programming, logic programming (if they studied CS), and have some awareness of advanced concepts that generally weren't widely known when we were young.
I think it's just a shift in how development works: epicycles and all that. Luckily most OOP stuff they need to know can be taught quite quickly. And perhaps not knowing about GoF is a minor win for cyclomatic complexity in your codebase :-)
If you're a Typescript developer doing React you're probably not going to reach for classes, for example, as it's just not a common paradigm in most modern React/TS codebases.
This is most of what we have for the great philosophers - half "why is the world like this" and half "how do you live a good life", right? some original plato lectures would be interesting to have.
It is interesting to know! My assumption would be it's technical or scientific publications, maybe things like the Springer back catalog (assuming they've not already licensed these). Some of these are "rare" as in they are essentially published PHD theses with very little in the way of sales / print runs.
Of course I could be wrong and they are destroying 14th century monastic scrolls or out of print Mills & Boon editions.
Was told by the doctor it was a much safer alternative to most other treatments. Could be worth asking about.
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