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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 06:22:20 JST 
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@sun @piggo browser plugins:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bionic-reader/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smartreader/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aaread-read-webpages-fast/glncdcmjopmgniilckffbhcpkgambpko -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 06:19:55 JST
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@piggo @sun some like it, some don't. Some say that it helps them but this hasn't been proven. -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 06:12:15 JST
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pretty cool, although apparently it doesn't help regular people: https://blog.readwise.io/bionic-reading-results/
no idea if it helps people with dyslexia or w/e -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 02:27:25 JST
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@MK2boogaloo A lot of anti-Hat sentiment on the fedi. Sad! -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 00:50:19 JST
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@lain some quotes on academics bullying. Alt hype (Ryan Faulk) did a nice write up on this topic (pdf attached).
Sean Last did some related work: https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=-Ullu_yTzuY
quote from OP article:
>Ziani found Gino’s results implausible, and assumed that they had been heavily p-hacked. She told me, “This crowd is used to living in a world where you have enough degrees of freedom to do whatever you want and all that matters is that it works beautifully.” But an adviser strongly suggested that Ziani “build on” the paper, which had appeared in a top journal. When she expressed her doubts, the adviser snapped at her, “Don’t ever say that!” Members of Ziani’s dissertation committee couldn’t understand why this nobody of a student was being so truculent. In the end, two of them refused to sign off on her degree if she did not remove criticisms of Gino’s paper from her dissertation. One warned Ziani not to second-guess a professor of Gino’s stature in this way. In an e-mail, the adviser wrote, “Academic research is like a conversation at a cocktail party. You are storming in, shouting ‘You suck!’ ”
>Ziani complied, but her professional relationships had deteriorated, and she soon left the cocktail party for good. When she told me these stories, in a wood-panelled bar at a historic hotel in Boulder, Colorado, she covered her face to cry. Simmons told me that he could name countless people who had similar experiences. “Some people are hurt by this stuff and they don’t even know. They think they’re not good enough—‘It must be me’—so they leave the field,” he said. “That’s where I started to get angry. How many Zoés are there?” -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 07:06:49 JST
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@0 @mangeurdenuage @sun
>changes from moon to sun
>gets a tan
>people think he's black -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 07:02:03 JST
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@sun @mangeurdenuage perhaps you are secretly a member of the namibian himba tribe
https://gondwana-collection.com/blog/how-do-namibian-himbas-see-colour -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 06:56:44 JST
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@sun @mangeurdenuage :pepeGlasses: -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:43:09 JST
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@sun what's the system? vector database? -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 22:47:18 JST
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@sun speakers are better - headphones give you ear damage
>Hearing loss is on the rise in the United States and is expected to almost double by the year 2060.
https://www.ncoa.org/adviser/hearing-aids/hearing-loss-statistics/ -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 03:33:01 JST
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@sun manosphere people used to have some good stats on this. The stats generally are interesting. E.g. the divorce rates have been declining but so have the marriage rates (likely meaning that only people who are more confident in their ability to maintain a marriage are getting married).
various factors like number of sexual partners and intelligence/education can be used to predict divorce likelihood
>Many like to bring up the statistic that 50% of divorces end in divorce as evidence that humans (and in particular women as they initiate them in modern countries) are not meant to practice monogamy, however amongst first marriages only 35% of marriages end in divorce.[25][26][27]
>The reason why the divorce rate taken as a whole comes out at 50% is because a minority of r-strategists whom continuously divorce and remarry which means that the rate increases as a result.
https://incels.wiki/w/Marriage#Divorce -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 06:32:56 JST
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@sun
from 2015-17:
the truth about Mike Brown (or w/e topic)
Race and IQ
bloodsports "debates"
open holocaust denial
nowadays:
keyword targeted ai-generated slop
asmr funnels for onlyfans
low quality "how to" videos from the last 3 years (often made by non-Whites) when far better videos exist from 5-10 years (often made by Whites) -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 21:16:32 JST
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@sun I think it could be especially fun for fleshing out backstories. Especially as context windows expand.
e.g.
you could put a general history of the world in the context window, as well as the history of the specific area for the character, and the backstories of existing characters. Thus the NPC could have traits customized to the location and surrounding NPCs.
It could be done in an iterative approach such that basic attributes are made first (e.g. occupation: butcher) and then relationships could be made (rivalries (between 2 butchers), co-operation (butcher and farmer), etc).
You could even create quests based on these relationships (e.g. help butcher 1 or help butcher 2) -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 00:39:07 JST
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@sun as long as it works and it's comfy -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 00:38:29 JST
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@sun bro buys a new keyboard every few months but is still maining his mouse from 2011 -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 01:29:00 JST
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@sickburnbro @LouisConde @MechaSilvio I'm not actively avoiding niacin or vitamin A (the latter would require avoiding dairy...), but I'm also not trying to consume more of them.
His anti-niacin position isn't nearly as strong as the anti-vitamin A position, but if I was gluten intolerant I would consider trying to reduce my niacin intake and see if that makes a difference.
An issue in his thinking (and the thinking of many alt-health people) is that he thinks that "if it works for me then it works for everyone", but people have different genetics - he could have some gene which causes him to have a negative reaction to niacin or vitamin A.
E.g. imagine if an asian said that people should avoid alcohol because he has a bad reaction to it (asians commonly have the genetic condition called the alcohol flush reaction) -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 00:45:48 JST
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tldr:
>canadian man starts eating bread after not having eaten it for a while
>after a few months starts getting dandruff and dry skin
>guesses it's because canadian/american flour is "fortified" with niacin
>switches to imported german bread (no niacin)
>symptoms improve
>concludes that niacin is unnecessary (or at least over-consumed)
also
>there are some interesting links to people complaining about being gluten intolerant in the US but being able to eat gluten in europe (where they don't add niacin to wheat flour)
and
>there are some different types of niacin and some may be better than others
https://ggenereux.blog/2024/05/13/niacin-is-it-another-bogus-vitamin/
@LouisConde @MechaSilvio -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 00:45:46 JST
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@LouisConde @MechaSilvio I found out about the guy from /fit/. He's known for claiming that vitamin A isn't a vitamin.
He has some evidence to back it up. He also hasn't consumed vitamin A for almost a decade (he's been at so called "death imminent" levels of low vitamin A for years). His backstory is that he had very bad eczema and nothing worked, then he tried cutting vitamin A out of his diet and it cured him.
I don't agree with everything he has to say, but he is interesting. So many alt-health people promote the idea that you aren't getting enough of this vitamin or micro-nutrient (so they can shill their product). Few take the opposite stance that you are getting too much. -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 02:10:54 JST
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@gabriel matrix is a metadata collection scheme
https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/
xmpp or simplex chat are better
https://simplex.chat/ -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 01:39:43 JST
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@sun but only on urbit, gemini, and i2p
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