Startup success comes from making a product that customers will pay for. Full stop. Intensity can be a way to find that, but no amount of intensity will change the fact that most startups make products that no one wants to pay for.
LLMs are a technology, not a product (or tool). In five years the underlying technology will look similar to what we have today, but the way we access it and the usage patterns and the interface (the product) will be completely different. If we are still interacting with LLMs through chat in five years I will be severely disappointed.
>If we are still interacting with LLMs through chat in five years I will be severely disappointed.
ideas? hard to envision otherwise. i mean the input will be natural language right? so type, speak, or neuralink it in... but it's going to receive the text you think of, right?
I got that same feeling, I used to own a book about it that was quite hefty and from one of the semi-reputable publishers of the time, a very boring brownish cover is all I remember(this was probably 25ish years ago and I probably removed it from my library when the technology was defunct), it was really cool what the web could have been with it...
Many if not most of these oddities about humans come down to either they don’t affect reproduction, or because humans are social animals. Menopause makes sense because a grandmother will have more successful descendants if she stops having babies and helps her daughters with the grandkids. I would guess the few other species that exhibit menopause are also social animals.
This is discussed at the bottom of the article:
"Menopause: Humans, killer whales, pilot whales, beluga whales, false killer whales, narwhals one group of chimps in Uganda.
No menopause: Everything else"
So, monkeys and apes (besides one species of chimps) don't get menopause, elephants don't get menopause, lions don't get menopause.
If your prediction is, social animal => menopause, it's wrong 99% of the time.
It seems it might be more a combination of whether it's a social animal and how much help / how much danger the offspring is actually in. There's not a whole lot that fucks with elephants, and not a lot that successfully fucks with the young ones. And female elephants universally live in groups and collectively all protect each other. Female lions tend to do the same, and also have very few things that fuck with them.
Conversely human offspring is especially weak and incapable and susceptible to harm, and experiences a lot of threat even within the same species.
Not sure where that are of whale and chimps fit into that - flukes can also happen I guess.
Most species make a baby (or babies), raise them to maturity before having another. Even a low chance of successfully raising another child is advantageous over no chance at all from turning off the baby maker. Humans, however, have children of a range of ages, making more before the first is finished. Having another inherently takes away from the ones that already exist. Having another that probably won't make it can be an evolutionary negative.
And humans have a much longer portion of their life spent on each offspring. This increases the chance of death before completion and thus makes more evolutionary pressure towards not putting effort into futile things.
Note that this works even if she is alone and doesn't help with the grandkids.
I don’t know how adult 22 is considered but yeah. A younger sibling got it when they were ~13.
When we noticed the signs and went into the ER a few of the (younger) doctors thought it was Type 2, while the attending knew it was just late onset Type 1.
You might want to check out the low vitamin a crowd. Some weirdos in there, but we all do very well. Seems to help with many autoimmune disorders (for me: allergies and nightly urination almost gone).
Jfc, no. I'll stick with my rheumatologist. Getting health advice from people online, much less X, is one of the core problems of modern society. People need to get a grip.
MODY is something else entirely (a genetic mutation driven disease with distinct pathophysiology from Type 1). What’s being discussed here is LADA (late autoimmune diabetes in adults).
LADA itself isn’t that rare but it is a small minority of all cases of diabetes in older adults.
Same. At first he was happy as he lost a load of weight, then it kept happening and he nearly died in the office. Just collapsed one day. Insulin is an amazing invention. My dog, a little pug, gets porcine insulin after prednisone saved her life but gave her type 1.
At present the screenshots would consist of a billing system :)
I already have a product BenkoPhone.com but the app is provided by a 3rd party and I just white label it so I have started building the replacement.
I built the account management and billing system first after implementing a proof of concept for the app then had to do a major platform change which stalled development of any other features for 3 months.
Hopefully I’ll be adding features again by the end of this month and I’ll put some screenshots in once it actually does something!
There are many cultures and parts of the world where dogs are considered dirty and dangerous and should not be anywhere near the home.
Now you and I know rather differently, but those places are still going through their own 'journey of discovery' when it comes to animal intelligence and social benefit.
The above said, I'd have not expected a Finnish researcher to be one making such a 'new' discovery as Finnish culture does include extensive animal husbandry and dog/horse culture.
Programming language innovation is measured in decades. I expect LLMs will make it easier to prototype new concepts, but adoption will still progress on a human timescale
The marketing pitch for these things was that they were supposed to induce "cambrian explosion of creations". That there was zero barrier to building anything anymore. This is surely true in programming languages especially, considering how fast LLMs took over software development? Surely this would mean we would get new ideas faster if that was the case? There is literally nothing stopping language designers from getting new concepts out there now even if nobody is using them in production yet.
> LLMs will make it easier to prototype new concepts,
We don’t need new ideas, we need languages that take the best ideas developed over the past decade of PL research and operationalize them in a language with modern tooling and build support.
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