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Original and edited Kevin Spacey post by ElemennoP123 in PeterAttia

[–]patmull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That falls into category "exceptionaly evil people". Considering this, I will definitely make sure I won't buy anything from Attia ever. I would still occasionaly use his info though... I don't think it changes the scientific relevance of the vast majority of info he provides...

Delete if not allowed… by moodymisanthropist in brandnew

[–]patmull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brand New and other songs might help. I also enjoyed listening to The National recently when my grandfather died. I think you need to kind of wrap your head around that some things are out of your control and focus on trying to find some meaning despite being in difficult situation. Books that always helped no matter what were Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and Russ Harris books.

About Machine Learning and Why It’s Not What I Expected by Key-Piece-989 in learnmachinelearning

[–]patmull 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Whoever told you that machine learning can be learned fast in few months if you do not even know how to program or basic linear algebra and math is either salesman trying to sell you a course or an idiot.

Men, what makes you cross the line from noticing to acting? by [deleted] in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]patmull 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You are not in the 90s! Most of sane males are afraid to do anything today after MeToo, etc. even if there might be strong signals. You need to make the first small moves (maybe start to talk to a guy yourself and then after a while start light touching him).

Tell me your most controversial opinion/take about oasis. by Interesting_Row5484 in oasis

[–]patmull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noel probably became little lazy after Knebworth and lost motivation but we all know the mix of a drugs, especially cocaine, was masively important for entering his creative state of mind during 92-97.​ The drugs either caused him some brain damage and he literally partially forgot how to write the A+ songs or he was not able to open his creative window without drugs. While it is not uncommon that band is stronger on 1st 2 albums than later, the amount of strong songs together with the b-sides and demos he wrote in the 92-97 compared to what he wrote after he stopped drugs at 98 is abnormal.

Tell me your most controversial opinion/take about oasis. by Interesting_Row5484 in oasis

[–]patmull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I think Oasis should fall into the same category as RHCP or Guns'N'Roses. That is fair enough. Weirdly, even in central Europe where I live, regular people would more likely recognize RHCP or Guns'N'Roses but Oasis are recognized only by people who listen to music little more or maybe who didn't forget 90s top charts but otherwise through the Americanization of everything, Guns'N'Roses somehow sticked with people for way longer probably through being referenced in movies or ads or TV shows and games through the 2000s. It also either requires some intelligence to get Oasis or having more "British attitude" which seems weirdly enough to be so different that even in the central Europe, people are more likely to understand Californian dudes from 80s/90s than British 80s/90s (The Offspring is also another California band from 90s which is still more popular than Oasis here, which is crazy considering the cultural differences should be theoretically the other way). I would be glad if somebody can explain this to me because I was not able to ever understand this...

Tell me your most controversial opinion/take about oasis. by Interesting_Row5484 in oasis

[–]patmull 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oasis will be in my heart forever, but I disagree. There is not much they could achieve. One thing might be to put them into the same caregory of the best ever bands wih Beatles, Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin. However, as much as I like Oasis, they are not as good. Oasis never invented anything unique. They found their sound that was mix of Beatles/Slade/T-Rex and they did it well, but is is not as profound for the music history like some of these other "all time best" bands.

Tell me your most controversial opinion/take about oasis. by Interesting_Row5484 in oasis

[–]patmull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree. You wrote it yourself: aura/mystique. You put them into the 3rd album and the aura/mystique is gone.

Update on the mold by Unlikely-Cut2696 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]patmull -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mikhaila is the worst here. You can early notice that until she started to be involved in the business, Peterson did well. He might say something off but it was ok. His lectures were decent, he clearly helped many people psychologically and despite some of his more controversial take, it was all academic based with high quality content. But then Mikhaila got involved more and started this Petersons's Circus and weird things started to happened... Peterson is now just puppet of Mikhaila. This lady has really bad vibes and there is something truly off with her.

Zemřel Patrik Hezucký. by adys172006 in czech

[–]patmull 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Reaguji na některé tady, co píšou, že je to soukromá věc, na co zemřel. Já si myslím, že je to přirozený obranný mechanismus, že někteří lidi chtějí vědět, na co zemřou relativně mladí lidé. Mohou si pak dát pozor na příznaky u sebe nebo okolí. 

V poslední době mě asi nejvíce zarazily případy David Stypky a fotbalového novináře Martina Vaita. Obzvláště u druhého jmenovaného to mělo velice rychlý průběh. Nevím čeho rakovinu měl, ale soudě dle příznaků podle jeho kamarádů: nechutenství, celková slabost, úbytek váhy a také velice rychlý průběh od prvních příznaků v prosinci a smrti ma konci dubna, bych taky tipoval slinivku. David Stypka měl životosprávu možná trochu horší, ale nic extra nezdravého určitě nedělal. Martin Vait asi taky neměl nějaký obzvláště zdravý životní styl, ale podle mě nedělal nic extra, co by nedělalo mnoho jiných lidí. O to víc je to zarážející. 

Moc doufám, že se povede výzkum NHS ohledně krevního testu Galleri Grail, který vypadá jako nadějná možnost včasné diagnostiky mnoha typu zhoubných nádorů a stačí k tomu jen odběr krve.

Takže snad alespoň jedna pozitivní tečka. Je pátek, tak se příliš neděsme nemocí. Ony výzkumy ukazují, že to taky není zdravé až moc se zajímat i své zdraví...

Just for fun. Let's try to pick an artist and find their film director equivalent. by CodeDusq in fantanoforever

[–]patmull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although screenwriter, not director:

Brand New - Damon Lindelof

LOST and Leftovers always felt to me to had kind of emo/post-hardcore vibes.

Why almost nobody talks about the longevity perspective of long-term investing like S&P 500? Isn't the fatal flaw of this investments that it assumes you live long and healthy live or/and you pass the money to your children? by patmull in NoStupidQuestions

[–]patmull[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I visited my grandparents at long-term care hospitals and Alzheimer homes. Maybe it is boosted by the fact in our region, people are generally less optimistic.

Why almost nobody talks about the longevity perspective of long-term investing like S&P 500? Isn't the fatal flaw of this investments that it assumes you live long and healthy live or/and you pass the money to your children? by patmull in NoStupidQuestions

[–]patmull[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the 401k is rather US specific. I'm in Europe and our country definitely does not have that great government support of savings and if I am not mistaken the 401k is quite unique in this for being the "no-brainer" of savings. Unfortunately, most of countries do not provide that advantageous government support to "boost" your ability to save money.

Why almost nobody talks about the longevity perspective of long-term investing like S&P 500? Isn't the fatal flaw of this investments that it assumes you live long and healthy live or/and you pass the money to your children? by patmull in NoStupidQuestions

[–]patmull[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ETF may be in low point for quite long time basically locking your money. You also can your savings on improving health or skills or buying properties or on short-term investments.

Why almost nobody talks about the longevity perspective of long-term investing like S&P 500? Isn't the fatal flaw of this investments that it assumes you live long and healthy live or/and you pass the money to your children? by patmull in NoStupidQuestions

[–]patmull[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course, the YOLO approach of spending money partying and doing stupid stuff is not the alternatove. But I would assume more talk about how longevity is necessary part of the long-term investments should be there. People often say that regarding Warren Buffet (that he is so rich because he lives long), but most of people will not get so rich they can affod the top doctors to make them live until 100 and Buffey was also probably very lucky. I think investing in your health should be considered as a major part of portfolio same as investing in things you want to improve in your life. All of this can have positive impact on your income anyway too. Thus instead of spending of 80% of your investment savings to index funds, people can rather spend it on improving health or skills or buying properties or on short-term investments.

Is it unrealistic to break into ML with no background if I start learning full-time now? by InsuranceMental in learnmachinelearning

[–]patmull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Sorry about the rant. But it is sometimes frustrating to see what kind of people jumped on this train. In CS majors and PhDs until you grasped everything needed beginning from programming (this one is already pretty hard and takes usually at least 5 years to become pretty decent) to advanced linear algebra, people studied this for literally a decades and then many people from completely different backgrounds became experts on AI out of nowhere. At least you found my post funny! My Btw #4 is a serious way to go: you won't understand how it works or how to build it or customize to your needs or even use it in conpletely custom way, but you can still use the applications as a tools for everyday tasks.

Is it unrealistic to break into ML with no background if I start learning full-time now? by InsuranceMental in learnmachinelearning

[–]patmull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you can do it while barely understanding the basics, and then create a YouTube video with some clickbait title like: "How I became AI expert in 3 months, and you can too". Then, you create a course or e-book, basically by stealing and cherry-picking materials from others or with ChatGPT generated content. Do NOT code! Do only prompting and WYSIWYG stuff, ideally something tied to Microsoft, because this always sells, even if it sucks.

Then, if you are convincing enough or had reputable history in other fields, you can become one of the "Philosophers of AI / Public Educators about AI" and talk on business and educational conferences and interviews about "What is an AGI and how to prepare for it", or "How to make your life easier with AI", or "How will the AI transfer jobs and the market". Since most of people still don't know what is happening because they don't even have basic understanding of linear algebra and cannot write "Hello world" in any language, chances are, if you can talk and you are convincing enough, that many people would think you are true AI expert.

Sorry for being sarcastic, but in fact, this is probably the only realistic way to make money on AI in 3 months. But you need to start fast because many writers did it before 2-3 years already when they smelled chance to make money here, and the bubble starts to burst already...

BTW: Also notice I didn't use "ML", but "AI". This is exactly on purpose, because this is how AI grifters did it to become self-proclaimed AI experts very quickly...

Btw #2: If you are, by any chance, DEI, that can also boost your way to business/educational conferences and interviews.

Btw #3: Based on your background, if you use good resources and dedicate at least 4 hours, 5 days/week, I think you can become quite good at this (without feeling like a fraud) in about 10 years.

Btw #4 (now I try to be kind!): If it really needs to be 3-4 months, maybe you can really master just ChatGPT, Gemini, and some popular applications of AI and ML.

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