Gentle reminder that the /kitchenconfidential reddit is a fun place to occasionally visit.

As someone who's worked in plenty of kitchens, I can thoroughly recommend the book. Totally nails kitchen culture.

There's this one chapter where he just rolls through a day at work, it's so good. A phenomenal writer, much missed.

Thank you both, had no idea about existence of lunacy (the app).

"Incretins" is the keyword here.

Indeed! Thank you!

That's not how it works.

There is not enough evidence to say this is true.

It could absolutely be a factor in the effectiveness.

Placebo is a highly effective drug.

I say this as an extreme evangelist of GLP-1s. Behavior modification and habit building appears to me to be a large part of it. Friends on it who have used to as a performance enhancing drug to change habits have generally stuck with newly developed habits even coming off the drug. Friends who used it as a magic weight loss drug largely returned to previous weights and poor health, even some maxing out the doses over time.

Obligatory post - https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

If you're a talent manager in AI space and looking for an engineer (EU) to relocate to Hokkaido, kindly contact me.

Engineers were modeled after him?

Life imitates art...

And may be even more adapted to sorts of RL finetuning?

They say this technique isn't compatible yet with RL because you can't adjust the logits. So no GRPO I guess, which is going to be the biggest issue. An LLM with no RL applied isn't going to be that useful.

I am unable to parse announcements such as for this Valve product. Could I use this as a thing through which to spawn multiple monitors and code / read papers?

Definitely. There will be apps that will allow this (Virtual Desktop Classic is on steam already), and I foresee some neat things coming from its more open environment.

On the other hand, it will be highly subjective. I have found that the sharpening algorithms they have put into apps like Virtual Desktop to be sufficient for me to read text with, but it will probably bother some people. The Quest 3 and Valve’s will have very similar resolutions.

And although it looks like this Valve product will actually be quite light, the weight could be another factor in its use over many hours.

For some people, XR glasses with OLED screens might provide a better experience as well if you are looking solely for monitor or tv support. I kind of like going to an entirely new environment to work in for a while, so I appreciate the VR aspect, but if you are looking only for screen support, XR glasses may be the better choice (there are quite a few models, though, and I unfortunately don’t know the market well enough to make suggestions on that).