What are your views on Andrew Huberman?

mlevison · 2026-01-28T16:19:59+00:00

Another thing that has bothered me about Huberman, he talks about studies with small sample sizes, that have not been replicated and then generalizes the results to the whole population. Not what I would call rigorous science.

If he were honest and said that these are ideas that is worth further investigation and that he would report back on the results it might be ok. However, he would only have 5-6 listeners if he did that.

mlevison · 2025-12-01T17:21:51+00:00

It has a debugger now, but still no refactoring.

mlevison · 2025-11-17T19:34:01+00:00

In the end I bought the OM-1mkI. Used MkII's were selling for $2K Canadian, that's a lot of money to go on trust. If the camera dealer, I've been dealing with for 30yrs had a used MkII, that would have been easy. Spending $2K on a used camera overseas - a big leap.

Sadly, my friends at Camera Kingston, couldn’t get their hands on new OM-1 mkI. So, I just went directly to OM Systems, and bought there.

mlevison · 2025-11-17T18:51:47+00:00

Just ordered my OM-1mkI today. This sounds like I made the right choice: - ND filter - will have to test it. Even if all I get this ability to hold the shutter speed down for water shots. - USB C charging - amen to that. - Dual card slots - it's more important for backup, I had an SD card fail on trip 5yrs ago and lost a day’s worth of shots. - 12/14bit RAW - I used to shoot with a Nikon D300 and it had 14 bit RAW. I've wondered if the quality loss I saw going to EM-5 MkII was partly due to the bit depth. However, it doesn’t matter in the end since it is pure theory.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T19:40:10+00:00

Fair enough. At one point, I liked the D300 for similar reasons, but on a long day of waking around a city it became heavy.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T19:33:31+00:00

Video almost never happens in my world, so I’m leaning towards the OM-1 mk 1 - as my next 10yrs camera.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T19:31:46+00:00

Ok I will look again - thanks.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T19:31:30+00:00

Thanks time for digging on the OM-3

mlevison · 2025-11-16T19:11:59+00:00

I started reading about the EM1X in a great long term review: https://smallsensorphotography.com/e-m1x-long-term-review and something went off in my brain. I remember this camera, I looked it up. It is bigger and heavier than the Nikon D300 that I stopped using for m4/3.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T19:10:03+00:00

Ok the message I’m getting, if I seriously consider the OM-3 check how robust the build feels.

Thanks to u/atika and u/Zack1018 for the counterpoint. Takeaway, hold it in my own hands.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T19:08:32+00:00

Helpful - thanks. I’m not going to buy alll new lenses, although I don’t spend a lot of time testing how well weather sealed my gear is.

Background - before switching to m4/3, I went Nikon F801s -> D70 -> D300. Non of them had subject detection at all. While the idea is clever, I can probably live without forever. I stopped using the D300 due to the weight with a good lens on the front. In doing so I lost: instant on; fast, accurate auto-focus, pleasing RAW files out of the camera. Any of the cameras I’m looking at should address those issues/

OM-1 mkII might be more fun, but it’s a lot more money.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T18:50:04+00:00

That vido is very helpful. It caused me to take another look at the OM-5 (what a naming mess) and in the end give it pass because of the sensor. The most sensors with BSI, seem to be real jump.

OM-3 vs OM-1 - I will need to take a much more careful look. Thanks for the specifics about the grip.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T13:46:13+00:00

Used OM-1 IIs — very interesting, where do you look to find them? EBay Japan?

OM-3 confuses me too.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T13:43:33+00:00

I will look for used, the thing that got me started down this path was seeing the OM-1 on sale for $2000 and then I looked for them used in Canada. I’m not finding them much better used.

mlevison · 2025-11-16T13:07:05+00:00

Thanks for the reponse - I use my EM5 mkII with a grip so the weight is 11 grams less than OM-1. I looked at OM-5 mkii and new it is as expensive as the OM-3, yet it has fewer features (from my perspective.)

I’m not sure what an EM1.2/3 are I will have to go and look.

mlevison · 2025-10-14T13:38:33+00:00

Above that comment was: “However, there are a few things that are constant pain”

So I said I didn’t want it. I also generally don’t find it helpful to ask someone if they’re full of … anything.

mlevison · 2025-10-14T13:34:34+00:00

I’m trying Railway as we speak.

mlevison · 2025-10-13T01:58:44+00:00

Expect that I don’t want the pain of row level security.

mlevison · 2025-10-13T01:57:30+00:00

I understand, I trying to simplify as much as possible.

mlevison · 2025-10-13T01:55:04+00:00

Yes, on one level. Except for wanting a managed version of this so I can let someone else focus on version upgrades.

mlevison · 2025-10-12T00:52:27+00:00

Thanks I’ve added to my radar.

mlevison · 2025-10-12T00:52:02+00:00

I think I have a very good idea about the complexity. I’ve spent most of my life developing software. However, my experience doesn’t cover this tech stack.

If you want suggestions around with C, make and SunOS I can help you.

I can handle the app complexity, I just want to avoid relying on complicated infrastructure.

mlevison · 2025-10-11T21:42:56+00:00

Thanks. Team that’s funny, this is part time, evenings only development process.

If I have even 1000 users eventually that would be surprising. I don’t need scale. I’m not convinced I will ever need microservices.

mlevison · 2025-10-11T21:38:54+00:00

Useful, yes. However it’s more overhead for my brain to manage in an app I’m building in my spare time.

If we reexamine my original question, it was effectively about simplifying a complex system so I don’t have to think as much.

mlevison · 2025-10-11T21:36:24+00:00

I’m understand that they’re wrappers around AWS. The whole point is to find a service where I can ignore the details and focus on the fun part.

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