I'm interested in trying something similar. I was thinking to do this for my OpenClaw agent.

About Owain Evans work: I think he did SFT. On Twitter someone was saying that RL is not as susceptible to what he showed. I'd like to try that

> if there are no customers they’re not costing you more money, unlike your computer which you are using for training

So are you using the computers or not? I'd argue that if you're using them for training, then it's not wasted capacity. And if you're not using them, then you can turn them off, so you're not sucking up energy.

Welcome to alternative health :))) there are many functional doctors, and others who perform this kind of stuff.

For example Organic Acids in Urine Test gives you some 70-80 metabolic markers, which some folks interpret. There's no large scale RCTs or studies on this, so it's a bit dubious. But I did one and the practitioner correctly read the leaves to suggest some things that were missing and which helped me (glutathione and B1).

> For example Organic Acids in Urine Test gives you some 70-80 metabolic markers, which some folks interpret.

The alternative medicine people use these tests because when you measure 80 different things you are almost guaranteed that some of them will come up high or low.

What they don’t explain is that many of them are expected to fluctuate and will show up with very different values on different days or depending on what you’ve eaten or when you’re taking the test.

They like it because they can tell you that you are too low in this thing and therefore you need to take this other supplement, every time someone takes the test.

For someone who isn’t getting answers from regular doctors it feels like a miracle that someone finally tested them, diagnosed them, and gave them something to take with a simple explanation of why it explains everything. This is the perfect recipe for placebo responses, which are common.

The forums are interesting to read because most people who do these and take the supplements will be very positive at first, but then over time they go back and take another test and find the results are completely different because it’s so random.

Organic acids tests are mostly only useful in the context of diagnosing specific genetic deficiencies which produce severe changes in the test results. The minor ups and downs that the alternative medicine people try to use are not diagnostic, especially with only a single test.

This has been my experience. After not getting answers for a long time from conventional doctors, I went to a naturopath out of desperation. I was diagnosed with "mold toxicity", and took a bunch of supplements to boost all the low levels I had (B12 and cortisol). I also took flax seeds to help with "detox". All the stuff helped a bit, but only a bit. It was still just symptom fighting.

Now to be fair, there are people whose lives have been changed by these treatments, because in some cases someone just happens to be low in some essential micronutrient, and seeing a naturopath solves that when a traditional doctor didn't do a broad assay. But it still doesn't help people like me where whatever is happening can't be described by surface level blood tests and treatments. Naturopaths talk about "wholistic health", but if it's so wholistic, why don't they consider intermediate reactions? So it's become a life goal of mine to build a quantitative metabolic reaction database. I'm currently a applied math major with a chemistry minor, so in a couple years I hope to be able to make some headway on this.

Water fasting is used to differentiate from dry fasting, where you don't even drink water.

Is this even a thing? Never assumed you'd ever want to dehydrate like this on purpose. Just why?

dry fasts aren't always what they appear. if you have significant glycogen stores in your body as you begin your fast you wont be dehydrated for the first day or two as water is freed. what usually happens is someone who starts glycogen endowed discovers that they aren't thirsty when they start fasting and tout it as dry fasting.

Ok glycogen store was the only possibilty I has in mind. Thanks:)

Religious Jews have a couple of 25 hour complete fasts per year.

Look up how Muslims fast during Ramadan.

So Douglas Adams was right and the Earth is a computer created to calculate the ultimate question?

Opus 4.7 starts to try to shut down conversations if you are rude to it (it's easier to do this via API, look up what @repligate is doing).

And unprompted messaging: OpenClaw can message you unprompted (yes, there's a cronjob behind it, but the instructions matter and it won't always message you, only when there's something relevant).

Trying to shut down conversations if you’re rude to it is what I would expect an algorithm owned by a company to do.

Your second example is by definition not unprompted. That’s like setting an egg timer for 5 minutes and then being amazed it went off.

When Claude cli decides to print out an ASCII middle finger entirely of its own volition we can say it’s acting unprompted.

MacOS sucks. I can't wait for the day Asahi Linux is good enough so that I can bail on it.

Safari, a web browser, randomly stops being able to connect to the Internet (other apps can).

MacOS sucks but everything else sucks harder. Linux is still nowhere close to being good enough for the average consumer in regards to simplicity regardless of how much gaslighting the community pushes.

Linux sucks in a way that is more controllable by me. I have run Arch Linux as my daily driver for 4-5 years. But I can't on a MacBook, which has the nicest hardware

It's not gaslighting; you're not the average consumer by the simple fact that you know what HN is. My 12 year old cousins havE daily driven ElementaryOS for a year

@op: I tried BoringBar, I like it, but I run into a weird bug: I have two external monitors for my MacBook. BoringBar on the MBP display is fine, but on external screen 1 it shows the apps from screen 2 and vice versa.

I couldn't find your email on the site or in the app.

Coding is solved, but problems with code is not yet solved.

I think I'm pretty good at cooking, but still working on the part where it tastes like food and doesn't make you violently ill.

Surely you must realise the absurdity of that statement

I am pretty sure they were being sarcastic.

The Rubik’s cube is solved but the problem with some sides being multiple colors is not solved

Sent this I a friend. Their reply:

Is it a bad sign that I am only skimming diagonally the AI summary of an article called "some things just take time" because it feels like I already know the idea?