dualmindblade

Divorce yourself from the self.

Yes, it is then and only then that one comes to realize what a toxic piece of shit they really are.

(sorry it's good advice actually, I can't help it)

Indeed, but if I could somehow revert to infant level neuroplasticity while retaining all my current knowledge it would be super useful

Agree. Some smaller also good ones:

Thomas Kern Really good at making some advanced/less mainstream topics accessible, careful to build up lots of necessary background and thoroughly explain details, so a bit like 3B1B except 0 fancy animations and slightly more rigorous. Covers a variety of topics but with a focus on automata and theory of computation.

Sheafification of G The opposite of Thomas Kern, designed for people with extreme ADHD. No slowing down, very little explanation, borderline silliness, you learn by osmosis. Half of the videos are him trying to incept category theory into your head. I still haven't learned category theory, but I'm old and my brain is starting to calcify, I did learn some stuff though and it's always entertaining.

I have been boycotting them since about 2021 since they tricked me and a bunch of vegetarians into eating their fries, which are fried in vegetable oil but contain "beef extract". I don't miss the fries but I do sometimes miss the hash browns. How else are you going to consume 1100 calories and like 3g salt in 20 seconds?

Oh my, you're really in for it, sorry

Well like, an SQL statement "insert into ... select ..." can be arbitrarily complex. Even "insert into ... values ..." could be difficult if it contains subqueries or preparation of the static values. How simple are we talking here?

Unironically want this. I always bring my vape with, tuck it into my running belt with my car key because the other two pockets are occupied. And then I never pull it out because of PTSD from that time I lost my car key on a run, which wasn't even vape related.

Alright, changing my "taller than the average man in Napoleonic times" talking point to this one which seems way more relevant

This is pure speculation but I'm 90% sure that the NVidia drop had nothing to do with Deepseek R1 and was actually insider trading on the "news" that Trump was considering a tariff on Taiwanese chips.

First, R1 was released on the 20th, 5 days before the stock dropped. It wasn't at all a secret, basically it was the talk of the town that whole week and their capabilities claims were shown to be solid very early on by many many people running independent benchmarks. But the market didn't react.

Second, the big AI companies want all the compute they can get, they aren't satisfied with training 10 or 100 or 1000 times more quickly, this is why they're talking about trillion dollar data centers with nuclear reactors. Also of note, R1 was trained on Nvidia TPUs with the same amount of vram as the H100s. You couldn't cheaply train such a model on any other brand of hardware, demand for Nvidia products isn't going anywhere.

Third, if anything it's the AI software companies that would take a big drop, they're the ones who are supposedly spooked and scrambling to replicate R1 internally. The major software only players took only a small hit but recovered quickly, that would be Microsoft and Meta. Google is also a hardware company, they're trying to move some of their chip fabs to TMSC but their TPUs are made by Samsung. They took a small hit and have not yet recovered. AMD is a hardware company, they have fabs all over including sourcing from TMSC, same story. Intel, a similar company, no change whatsoever, they don't use TMSC at all. Nvidia took the big one, and they get ALL of their chips from... TMSC. All the action happened about simultaneously in after hours weekend trading.

Fourth, when the tariff news dropped the market seemed to be unaffected almost as if it had already been priced in over weekend trading.

That reminds me, remember Sarah Silverman's Oscar worthy performance when they go back to the future past? She acts almost entirely with her lower lip, presumably as some kind of flex

Yes I do it currently, it's one of the only things that's helped my depression even a little. Unfortunately for me the effect is modest and only lasts a few days, but it's better than nothing. I don't terribly love the effects despite liking most other drugs, so chance of addiction for me is about 0.

I agree with other posters that 200+ mg every three days is excessive for most people, but I don't think it's dangerous. Dissociative addiction will mess you up though, it's just that you'd be doing far more than that as an addict.

I don't know anything about your alluded to substance use issues, it probably depends on your DOC whether I'd recommend risking it.

Argh one of my kids does the caps lock thing, they're an extremely fast typist though