I have always had a significant mood boost from taking probiotics - either from food or as supplements. Some forms of probiotics make me overly happy to the point that it is detrimental to my life. Recently I started taking these probiotics - seed.com - and find them reasonably balanced. You will see improved mood and sleep for a few days but then not much - not sure why it doesn't persist. I am still continuing with these because they seem to be helping with other digestive issues. I also notice way more mood improvement when eating Sauerkraut so try to eat a couple of tablespoons of it everyday. I have experimented enough with microbiome related stuff that I am fully convinced they play a major role in ones health (including mood and energy). That said, there is way more to it than simply the species of bacteria. Where those bacteria are located in the gut (small or large intestine or colon), what other species are there, your genetics, your diet, lifestyle, your psyche, etc., all play a part in their functioning. I wish there was a more "big-data" approach to figuring out things than researching one species at a time.
Brave is one of my favorite new software of 2020. I love how fast it loads web pages and removes ads. More importantly it’s a huge step forward in terms of fixing web. I am very excited about this Ipfs support. If they also integrate openbazaar with some decentralized currency , that would be incredible!
nit - can you please fix the icon? The color and icon undersell Brave by a huge margin.
They should have done this when there were far fewer cases. It was really surprising to hear that you don’t need any tests or quarantining when you travel from other countries. Better late than never, I guess.
Well, got to remember, when there were far fewer cases, tests were still in prototype phase, not widely available, and in some cases unreliable (I think a lot of the Japanese cruise passengers that got the WHO test tested negative, then later came down with it after being released).
Yeah, but we could have done more. There was a lot of supply chain issues the government just ignored. I remember in early 2020 when masks were unavailable a couple domestic mas manufacturers were saying they weren't comfortable producing more. They could scale up production, but they didn't want to deal with suddenly firing people when things went back to normal.
Didn't I just say testing wasn't reliable then, because it was very new? So it wasn't a long time ago. Reliable tests weren't available en masse until maybe summer, and even then not in all countries/areas.
India made tests mandatory to skip institutional quarantine on August 8th i.e. more than 5 months ago. That is sounds like a long time ago to me compared to when US has decided to make this a requirement.
I never had problems with exercise motivation so I don’t need someone to keep me accountable but I absolutely dread pushing myself and lifting more weight. Fitness apps with pretty graphs help a bit but what helps me the most is to have some goals like “squat X lbs by the end of year”. It seems to help so far!
Your suggestion about making exercise a habit is spot on. Just do it as a routine without even thinking and enjoy the rewards to do important things.
It seems like India is 9 times the size of Japan and 10 times the population. It's high but its not unmanageably high for a fertile piece of land with good weather for significant part of the year.
All your arguments about political system incapable of fixing problems quickly still stand though.
I have to hedge my tentative comments by pointing out that India is probably doing the best wildlife conservation job of any country in the world bar New Zealand. That they can faciltate such large populations of tigers and elephants in such a densely populated country speaks volumes in favour of them.
They can use this technology to generate a model to fit a particular user profile. Filter bubbles are going to get even better! Or maybe they can ask user to upload his photo and feed that as a prior to the model so it can generate visuals of that person wearing different dresses. That would be cool!
That would be neat. Imagine going to a site, adding some photos of yourself and seeing all the clothes as they would look on you based on your actual dimensions. You'd never have to wonder if something would look good on you. I imagine this would save a ton of shipping costs on returns.
The AI showed here is not even a step in that direction. If you want photo-realistic images of how a piece of clothing would look on your body you need:
- very accurate measurements of your body
- a very accurate representation of the materials used in that piece of clothing, including weight, tensile strength etc.
- a very accurate physics simulation matching the materials to your body measurements
The technology showcased here does nothing similar. It could perhaps generate pictures of what someone who looks sort of similar to your general body shape, as seen in your pictures, looks in clothes. It would be no better than what you currently have: look at the picture, and try to guess how well that fits your actual body.
Even worse, you would completely miss details like "the material is very stretchy, it looks good on the model's abs but it might look bad on my belly fat" because the AI would NOT be doing a simulation of how that clothing actually fits a human body - it's always producing an idealized simulation.
Edit: and to make this clear, I'm not saying that "the AI can't do that yet". I'm saying that the technique they are using can't achieve the goal you are talking about. There is nowhere near enough detail in pictures of clothing to get the kind of simulation you are looking for.
What makes you think that a computer that can generate music cannot also generate a background for the "creator" of that music? It can give you all the stories that touch our hearts even more so than we can imagine.
Why generate a fake story? Why not communicate the real and moving journey of how a single note in the training data travelled through hundreds of neurons and thousands of matrices, and eventually made it past the final activation function to become a feature in the output tensor.
Given two stories, both identical, where one story is real - the real story will always be more meaningful because it has actually happened within the constraints of our reality, granting it validity and us the ability to relate to it.
Now, consider two stories, both identical, where one story is "real" and the other story is from a simulated universe. Now I'd say that both stories are of possibly equivalent value, since both have happened.
Did you ever imagine if both ends of the spectrum are true? Maybe there is a talent shortage and maybe there are companies trying to get cheap labor from abroad. We are a reasonable sized company trying to recruit people with advanced skills. Finding talent that includes large number of H1B's is hard on its own. Forget finding talent that excludes 95% of the world (aka H1B's). Most of the candidates I get to interview are usually immigrants. Why? I don't know. We have zero motivation to hire immigrants specifically. We pay way higher than an average company and are more interested in talented candidates than saving money. It's just that immigrants are the ones with the skills that we need.
Also, the notion that H1b's are cheap is not always true. With the added costs of filing H1b visa and green card, the true costs are much higher, especially in a cutting edge industry.
