If you're a hobbyist runner, this equation very quickly gets flipped on its head. It's very difficult to make up the calorie deficit from a 20 mile long run every week. Throw two big races a year into the mix, and maintaining weight and muscle mass is the challenge. When I trained for ultramarathons, I sometimes ran two mountain long runs back to back. That put me 5000 calories in the hole every single weekend. I used to eat an entire large pizza by myself (2000 calories) and still be hungry 30 minutes later. There is an upper limit to how fast you can digest food, and that quickly becomes the limiting factor. I was not a professional. I ran as a hobby, rarely exceeding 50 miles a week. There are thousands of others who run at this level.
If you’re a hobbyist runner who finds it challenging to eat an extra 5000 calories in a weekend, you’re in the socio-physiological upper 0.1%. It’s great for you, but not a very relevant anecdote to the majority of people seeking help with weight management.
It's interesting, though, even if it doesn't apply to you. It's something to think about, and something I do think about with some regularity -- how I'm going to schedule all the additional eating I'm going to have to do if I start a real exercise regimen at my height and weight.
That's not strictly speaking true, since most (all?) high level languages have undefined behaviors, and their behavior varies between compilers/architectures in unexpected ways. We did lose a level of fidelity. It's still smaller than the loss of fidelity from LLMs but it is there.
That's a bit pedantic: lots of python programs will work the same way in major OSs. If they don't, someone will likely try to debug the specific error and fix it. But LLMs frequently hallucinate in non deterministic ways.
Also, it seems like there's little chance for knowledge transfer. If I work with dictionaries in python all the timrle, eventually I'm better prepared to go under the hood and understand their implementation. If I'm prompting a LLM, what's the bridge from prompt engineering to software engineering? Not such direct connection, surely!
> If I'm prompting a LLM, what's the bridge from prompt engineering to software engineering?
A sibling also made this point, but I don't follow. You can still read the code.
If you don't know the syntax, you can ask the LLM to explain it to you. LLMs are great for knowledge transfer, if you're actually trying to learn something - and they are strongest in domains where you have an oracle to test your understanding, like code.
Undefined behavior does not violate correctness. Undefined behavior is just wiggle room for compiler engineers to not have to worry so much about certain edge cases.
"Correctness" must always be considered with respect to something else. If we take e.g. the C specification, then yes, there are plenty of compilers that are in almost all ways people will encounter correct according to that spec, UB and all. Yes, there are bugs but they are bugs and they can be fixed. The LLVM project has a very neat tool called Alive2 [1] that can verify optimization passes for correctness.
I think there's a very big gap between the kind of reliability we can expect from a deterministic, verified compiler and the approximating behavior of a probabilistic LLM.
However, the undefined behaviours are specified and known about (or at least some people know about them). With LLMs, there's no way to know ahead of time that a particular prompt will lead to hallucinations.
I never understood why it's so complicated. On Linux, you can make a liveusb as easily as `cat liveusb.iso > /dev/sdX`. I imagine there is a powershell equivalent. There is a risk of writing to the wrong drive, so some kind of utility is needed. But the actual write is trivial. Why not make a win32 executable with the iso embedded so users only need to download one thing and then run it to write the USB media?
IIRC Rufus can actually download the necessary ISOs so it isn't THAT complicated.
On the other hand, if someone finds that part too complicated to follow perhaps they may not be able to install Linux - or Windows for that matter - by themselves and come across other issues down the line. Ultimately replacing your OS with another one does require some minimum level of technical knowledge that you either need to have or be fine with learning during the process.
Windows PowerShell does not have a direct, native equivalent to this specific operation.
You have to use some combination of Clear-Disk,New-Partition,Format-Volume,Mount-DiskImage, and xcopy to do that
This is unfortunately very common for OHRMs. Once your heartbeat approaches your running cadence (~180 bpm), physical movement becomes confused with the color change of your blood that an OHRM relies on. Tightening your wrist strap can help, but if you want accurate heart rate data for workouts, a chest strap is the way to go. Garmin makes a very good and very inexpensive one.
yep 4 people in san francisco. I mean I've lived in the city since the 90's. and eventually you get to know people who value decency over rent. Also, tiny room.
I routinely see hardware failures in a fleet about an order of magnitude larger than the article. It's often enough that we have to plan for and recognize it, but not often enough that we have fully automated handling every edge case.
>Honest question here, is pair programming still a thing?
It's still by far the most effective tool for certain tasks. Inherit an extremely complex codebase with 50 levels of abstraction? You could spend a week tinkering with it, or you could step through the code with the guy who wrote it for 30 minutes. But it's not something you'd want to do every day, or even frequently.
I had the same experience at around 10,000 ft in the cascades. Once you're above the thickest part of the atmosphere, a whole new dimension opens up in the sky. Everywhere you look, in the space between the stars, there are more stars, infinitely receding to the edge of the universe. The sky starts to look more like a fractal than a few points of light scattered around.
I have never been at that altitude but I had a similar experience in the Sahara a few years ago. My experience was enhanced with a little bit of Moroccan hashish. I laid on a dune and gazed at the sky and the heavens were blazing with light. I felt like I was falling into the stars. It was unforgettable. A clear sky at night is the farthest thing from dark!
This is a problem for anyone who is not actively vigilant about the information they consume. A family member (who I would not describe as "terminally online") came to me today in a panic talking about how some major event had just occurred and how social order was beginning to collapse. I quickly glanced at the headlines on a few major news outlets and realized that they just saw some incendiary content designed to elicit that reaction. I calmed them down and walked them through a process they could use to evaluate information like that in the future, and they were a little embarrassed.
The concern isn't necessarily for you. It's for the large swaths of people who are less equipped to filter through noise like this.
Really excited about the sway spin. I've been using sway since early in the project's history, and love to see it become more stable and widely adopted.
