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Ben Johnson's avatar

Not so sure anything is working for Elon lately, but i guess it did in the past

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Nick Vasquez, MD's avatar

No, ketamine won't juice you up like prednisone... believe me, I give it out a lot for procedural sedation.

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Nate Solon's avatar

This is the same thing my wife said 😂

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Keith's avatar

Gukesh defeated Ding Liren - not Nepo - to become the world champion. Fix that - then I can read the rest of your article - lol

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Nate Solon's avatar

lol whoops

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Matias's avatar

Great post. Any clue as to what's your new opening Rep.?

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Nate Solon's avatar

If only there were a sub level with secret early access 😉

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Chris Wainscott's avatar

One thing is certain. I have clearly missed that it's possible to embed YouTube clips directly into Substack, rather than just linking to them as I have been.

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Nate Solon's avatar

Last week I put a Loom link into a post, rather than simply embedding the video. Massive blunder.

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Chris Kisicki's avatar

Nate, your experience with steroids reminds me exactly what my wife went through when was on them. Periods of insane productivity. It took a lot of starts and stops before she could completely wean off the prednisone. Best wishes on your health journey.

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Nate Solon's avatar

Thank you, Chris. It's a very strange feeling for sure!

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dboing dboing's avatar

"" Speaking of people who are interested in these sorts of things, Demis Hassabis is a former chess prodigy. """

I did not know this, or forgot. I did know about the well posed type of AI. Strangely I think the word AI has that pushed into mere ML, while for me that RL with non-alchemical premises, is more intelligible and intelligent creation than what is now called AI.

Also it is about learning by exploration, hypothesis** building, and testing, , not by imitation. I find that more akin to the scientific pursuit (which is perpetual learning).

** One could say that optimizing experience and exploring further on that basis might be making hypotheses and then testing that through more experience, although currently with single trajectory learning it is not science but expertise that is being pursued. In passing, they also did the many trajectories work, but it has not been noticed in chess culture... (sigh!).

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dboing dboing's avatar

Good luck with the medication. And the sleep. I find sleep a precious ressource.

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Nate Solon's avatar

You and me both, brother.

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dboing dboing's avatar

"My kids have great motors. I never did, until now."

It is their "job".

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