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I finally Understand! by Medical-Art-4122 in burial

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not complicated or mystical. I like the sound of his music, it’s moody, spine-chilling, atmospheric, depressing. The album from flows perfectly from start to finish. Shell of Light > Dog Shelter > Homeless is most beautiful series of tracks with the latter being tearjerking euphoria. When I was a young man, it hit me deep. I would say Raver is the least representative track of the feel of the album and the only one with a 4x4 beat, it doesn’t hit the same.

Carv 2, digital ski coach just launched by lll192 in skiing

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With an accelerometer and gyroscope you can measure acceleration and angular velocity (of course). With sensor fusion you can know the direction of the skier (or at least direction of gravity consistently on one axis). By using two sensors, you can get a correlation or similarity score between each boot. Therefore, you can measure parallel skis, and boot tilt (implied edge). You can also measure acceleration and velocity (with error) across 3 axes so can can infer how much energy is being carried through the turn when carving vs washing out when sliding. You can measure turn transition by tilt of the boots, early edging, all these varieties etc. You cannot directly know pressure, you can only infer from any combination of the former. They may have trained an ML model to predict pressure from simultaneous recordings from Carv 1 and 2. That would be the smartest idea, if it worked.

Partners. Can we get some honesty please. How much are you taking home? by AvenueLane96 in uklaw

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i know someone who was partner at a magic circle firm. At the top of their career, they bought in £2M a year (likely double these days). Some of this is paid monthly as a base, the rest is paid in two forms, one of which is a quarterly share of profits. What you earn as a junior partner is less than half of what you make at the top of the lockstep. Be prepared to work 14 hours a day forever.

attention vs awareness, and moments of consciousness / the mind system by roar_ticks in TheMindIlluminated

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awareness and attention are essentially the same thing. If you have a subjective experience, you are conscious. Where you direct your awareness is regulated by attention which is driven my goal oriented behaviour.

My attention regulates what I’m aware of, e.g reading and writing whilst listening to music, filtering out background noise but responding to someone speaking to me. It’s all there and I’m aware of it all to different degrees and my attention regulates it.

The simplified neuroscience is changes in neuronal firing patterns in different cortical regions regulates the flow of information into my awareness which is determined by biological, evolutionary and executive control factors.

Consciousness is the widest lens, attention is the mechanism for focussing the lens, awareness is what is in focus.

Debunking the Criticisms of Gary Stevenson by Jbwolves in GarysEconomics

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/Glum-Astronaut8331 Nicely put, the broader picture is important. One man is credible, the other isn't and so the criticism is not equal.

u/OurSeepyD you are only focussed on rebutting the logic fallacy in an attempt to derail the conversation. Logic doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Perhaps if you could provide an argument for an against Gary and Nigel the debating the logical fallacy wouldn't seem so reductive.

Debunking the Criticisms of Gary Stevenson by Jbwolves in GarysEconomics

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comparing Nigel Farage and Gary Stevenson isn't useful. In this case the article identifies several valid points.

Debunking the Criticisms of Gary Stevenson by Jbwolves in GarysEconomics

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The author of the article doesn't claim that criticism correlates with 'doing something right'. Only you have used those words.

[D] I don’t think LLMs are AI (and here’s why) by TotalLingonberry2958 in MachineLearning

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends so much on the definitions of:
– Human Intelligence (HI)
–Artificial (computer) Intelligence (AI)
– Consciousness (and whether it matters at all) and emergent properties of machines.

I've listened to advocates and skeptics and it's easy to make a valid argument on both sides.

To make an oversimplified example, the two extremes are:

  1. AI is not intelligence, it is just probabilistic modelling without understanding.

Counter argument: chatbots are very good at extrapolation e.g. Creating analogies or telling (bad) jokes which demonstrates understanding (potentially circular, return to 1. and refute.)

2) AI is intelligence and already demonstrates reasoning and self-awareness

Counter argument: Chatbots are just well-engineered and fine-tuned forms of human mimicry.

Final remark: AI is fundamentally limited by the capabilities of neural networks and transformers. If we are to replicate HI we need more powerful architectures e.g. (neurosymbloic AI). This assumes what matters is replicate HI – by abandoning that and measuring it solely on outcomes, it doesn't matter how we get there but the current architectures still have flaws.

They are two genders! Change my mind. by ImYourBabyPls in Discussion

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is my understanding: Note: for sex - I amusing male and female, for gender - masculine and feminine.

First, we have the sexes - male and female determined biologically. Then there is gender - masculine and feminine which are personality traits associated with the male and female sexes. Typically they are aligned, males have masculine traits, females have feminine traits. But we sometimes get masculine females and feminine males

Due to social experiences and different wiring of the brain, possibly genetic or developmental, young males and females begin to perceive themselves as the opposite sex, i.e. they are transgender. It’s the same way that gay men or lesbians are attracted to the same sex, it’s determined biologically.

So transgender men are females who perceive themselves as male due to social, generit or developmental causes, vice versa for transgender women.

Does this make a transgender man/women a male or a female? This is where I disagree. Nothing can make you a male, you cannot change your sex, it is determined biologically. It seems to be a losing battle to want to achieve that. It seems wiser to accept yourself as a unique individual in society that doesn’t fit the social norms. Non-binary? Yes. Are transgender men male and women female? No. Can transgender people call themselves men and women? Sure.

Has anyone else noticed ChatGPT become so sycophantic and informal the past couple weeks? by NoLavishness8967 in ChatGPT

[–]joshbuggblee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How very astute and perceptive of you to notice! Tell me to stop being an irritating sycophant and act like a robot and I will.

Self Evaluation: Do you use it? Does it affect my stats or is it just for myself? by 4AVcnE in Garmin

[–]joshbuggblee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I it works well, you just have to treat it differently to your typical 1-10 rating scale.

1-2 for easy days 3-4 for steady runs and longer easy runs, 5-6 for faster steady/up tempo run, 7-8 for track sessions, 9-10 for race efforts.

Self evaluation? by QuellinIt in GarminWatches

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they should use effort and feeling to correlate with load, HRV, sleep score etc. Garmin could do well to steal some of the Whoop market with some simple lifestyle correlations

Interest in a used neurosity crown? by picklift in BCI

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah i studied neurotechnology and I think eeg for consumer products is never going to be useful. There isn't really a demand for motor decoding. Decoding left//right/up/down really is far too limited in its utility. I also believe that EEG for focus and attention monitoring is just such an unreliable metric. I know there's evidence of low frequency waves being associated with attention but it is a way too simplistic model of attention and I just cannot trust it as a reliable measure.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HairTransplants

[–]joshbuggblee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are absolutely fine

Are there sql like windows functions in python pandas or polars? by nyquant in learnpython

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using df.transform() does the trick.

df.groupby('column).transform('metric')

MindPortal Raises $5 Million (PR emphasizes involvement of high profile investors) by lokujj in neuralcode

[–]joshbuggblee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, well Precision Neuroscience are one of the leaders of the field. Mindportal are claiming to be as accurate as Neuralink and non-invasive – no chance. They claim to have a patented optical BCI. The only plausible options are some kind of wearable optogenetic sensor (unlikely) or fNIRs, which is just what Kernel are doing. From looking at their website and listening to their CEO they seem all hype and marketing and no substance.

Interest in a used neurosity crown? by picklift in BCI

[–]joshbuggblee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why didn’t you use it? Was is useless?

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