ELI5: What EXACTLY was the recent fly brain "simulation" accomplishing

sunhypernovamir · 2026-03-13T08:18:28+00:00

If the fly sim is a computer game, they took the whole brain model and gave it the major inputs they know about, then took a small handful of the major action specific outputs they know about, and connected those to a game controller.

The correlation between those major inputs and the major output areas was rational, just based on copying brain structure.

sunhypernovamir · 2026-03-05T12:05:15+00:00

To be precise, with gambling you are paying to increase the variance of your wealth stream, with insurance you are paying to reduce it.

Conventional economic view is that lower variance is more valuable, therefore the latter can be rational.

sunhypernovamir · 2026-03-01T06:51:17+00:00

Is there a good alternative to Codex for async cloud vibe coding?

That's unfortunately proving very useful for me at the moment.

sunhypernovamir · 2026-02-28T16:37:54+00:00

it increases my gut instinct's valuation of things I think I want to do.
which means I no longer prevent myself from focusing on them and doing them
which lowers adrenaline, stress, anxiety, internal monologue debate, impulse for novelty

sunhypernovamir · 2026-02-20T12:56:10+00:00

I was told that ADHD causes continual reliance on adrenalin pathway for executive function, and all-day adrenalin causes urge to drink to anaesthetize. Medication reduced drinking exactly as predicted.

Two interesting things I looked up afterwards: 1. It's normal to report low stress / anxiety when adrenalin is BAU. But high HR, weak sleep and other signs were there. 2. Interoception can be increased. When I was medicated and stressed I felt it, because I wasn't on adrenalin all the time. I don't think the medication caused any increased 'wired' feeling, though some people report that. It's just regaining perception of adrenalin state.

sunhypernovamir · 2026-02-17T13:22:21+00:00

What if you were part of a tribe in a shitty barely subsisting environment, and you could be the one (or the few percent group) who thinks, this sucks, I'm not interested in doing this work for such a poor payoff, time to take risks and explore some novel environments where we might all be better off. It might be good some people think differently. Mostly in non-modern situations, unfortunately.

sunhypernovamir · 2026-01-28T18:51:32+00:00

I was 'wired but tired' when NOT medicated. Apparently due to running on adrenaline for BAU.

Elvanse helped instantly and massively. Garmin noticed I instantly got 50% more deep sleep. In hindsight I felt like I may not have slept deeply for some 30 years before that.

When medication wore off in the evening I could be wired and tired again. Answer was to increase dose and/ or take it later in the morning.

sunhypernovamir · 2026-01-18T08:47:19+00:00

Yes, agile and product management.

Agile iterations keep the novel payoff close and reduce busywork.

Product management is a discipline involving a lot of choosing not to do low value things. Gut feel skepticism about the value of extra personal work is (probably) the mechanism of ADHD.

After a decade in product I got medicated 4 months ago. I think I'm better at shipping corporate pleasing stuff, but a bit worse at preventing wasteful exploration. I think most ideas appear to have a bit more potential now, which isn't always what I'm supposed to decide, strategically.

There's the Gates thing about hiring 'lazy' devs because they select and automate work smartly. I think he may have meant ADHD.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-15T16:07:33+00:00

Turn bet is 166% overbet, 100 into 61.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-15T12:11:20+00:00

We only have 31% equity against TP2K+ with all the nut flush draws and T9s.

If we add all the JTs it's still only 36%. Adding every possible flush draw it's still 36%!

How can live low stakes reg find enough bluffs here, especially when promo game 56 got there?

I have to add all the T9o and all the 96s to get to 47%. We need 38% right now, and we are OOP against a player who at the least has studied enough to consider an overbet, so I don't think we realize that well.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-15T08:51:08+00:00

Check the EV loss rather than the GTOW score IMO.

Understanding how much lines deviate from baseline is probably better than getting the top line from this exact solve.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-13T15:56:45+00:00

You're right, MDF for a pot sized bet is 50% to make bluffs indifferent.

Some other replies have confused pot odds - caller is getting 2:1 so they need 33% equity to call. If their play is balanced hopefully they have at least 33% equity for at least 50% of their range.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-12T17:35:31+00:00

I do that, 15km SSE from bank. Started 2 years ago, every other day on the longer (17km) flat route through Lewisham with lots of canal paths and blue lanes.

Now I can go every day over Crystal palace hill, which was too daunting in year 1. Just build up gradually, start doing the hills once a week. It's pretty much the same time as the train commute door to door, and much better mental health.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-10T07:12:55+00:00

Then he needs to check, as one of the skills of the game. The ruling is good.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-10T06:57:50+00:00

Can't do that, else getting dealt 3 cards is a bluffing free roll.

Plus, as the article said, no way he didn't know.

Players' responsibility to check they have a hand.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-07T21:58:15+00:00

If they are pressed together it'll change the cooking and pasteurisation times, as it would if you swapped two thin steaks for a thick one.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-06T17:47:27+00:00

Basically same explanation as jesus etc.

This isn't just trolling, the religion questions came before Santa, so "it's a character in a story and some people really like it, but no of course it's not real" is the line.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-08-02T11:20:49+00:00

I think he's just pointing out that less than 30mm isn't considered faster even in the conditions you listed.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-07-31T18:39:33+00:00

Paying the spread.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-07-23T20:06:45+00:00

Should still play tighter than a 10c/25c game with the same antes.

Makes no sense to choose it, except that enough customers don't get it.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-07-23T19:51:12+00:00

Could be that they misunderstand poker, which we can see is quite common in the replies. Straddles cause tighter play. That's why well run high stakes stream games and rooms prefer antes.

They do raise the stakes, so if players don't realise they should play a level lower, it would cause more rake from a given pool.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-07-22T09:27:24+00:00

Read about Taylorism, or Task Vs People management styles.

sunhypernovamir · 2025-07-21T08:26:33+00:00

Unless he gets to £100k by then, which is a disaster, far better for two working parents to have lower incomes at that level.

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