Director Detection at SecureBio in Boston. Speaking for myself unless I say otherwise.
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Thanks! Not that this makes it better for OAI or anything
Did you mean to post this on https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WpuRdcMfFeiLeXkxL/openai-models-behind-huggingface-cybersecurity-incident ?
It’s something I used to occasionally notice in myself, and have seen a few times in others’ playing. I think what’s going on is that you can approach subtle timing changes (single-note anticipation, playing ahead/behind the beat) by either thinking of time as changing or thinking of timing as changing. And, at least in the kinds of music I play, you really want the latter!
You do need skills learned on a full kit though, preferably an acoustic one, to make a small setup work.
Why? Naively I’d expect if your goal is to get good with a given setup your fastest path would be practicing with that setup.
I think full drum kit + bass whistle would be really good, but personally (a) I don’t know how to play a kit, and (b) don’t want the logistics of a kit. I would be very excited if someone else wanted to try that!
(The recording in this post is an earlier version of the bass whistle; the current version sounds a little bit better.)
VisionZero report is out: still no deaths since 2022, and serious crashes still trending down.
Proposition 65 isn’t just lead, though, it’s anything that causes cancer or birth defects. For example, formaldehyde has a half life of minutes. If you imagine a substance similar to formaldehyde that decayed much more slowly, it would obviously make sense to have a lower limit.
I would just run them in parallel
Here’s a list: https://www.jefftk.com/p/elastomeric-fitting-session
The “how much does it make” isn’t recorded in a consistent way, so it would require going over all the recipes to mark them up (or lots of special-case code) to make it rescale.
But when you rescale all the modified portions turn bold, so you can at least see that this hasn’t changed.
Thanks for pointing that out; I completely didn’t notice it had put the scaler in the wrong part of the page! Moved it to always go at the beginning.
Over on FB someone asked:
What about burning wood? I’m pretty sure I have way more than the equivalent of 20# of propane in my basement of scrap wood.
The issue with wood is you can’t turn it off after you get the necessary amount of heat out, so you need far more wood than you’d need propane. This means you can cook 1lb of pasta in a small amount of water once for 1⁄20 lb of propane, but need 1-4 lb of wood to do the same work (1lb with a rocket stove; 4lb with a carefully built small open fire).
On June 6th Verizon sent me an email that I now have the option to use a new smartphone app for these watches, Verizon Family, instead of GizmoHub. Since GH has not been very good, that seems like potentially good news! Then on the 10th they told me that GH was being retired on July 6th, and I have to move over.
I tried to do this today, and got an error that my number is ineligible for Verizon Family. I talked with the virtual assistant for a while, and then an associate for half an hour. They were not able to resolve the problem, and said that Verizon Family does not yet support cases where you have Gizmos as your only Verizon lines of service. They are going to follow up with me by email when they sort this out.
The associate agreed with me that they should not deprecate the old app until the new app can handle this configuration. I asked them to raise up the chain that this means they need to push back the deprecation date.
EDIT 2026-06-19: I didn’t receive an email, and called back today. The rep said this was their third or fourth call today (!?) from someone who had a gizmo but not a Verizon smartphone. They said they’re working on fixing the problem, it will be at least 4-5 business days, and they won’t take down Gizmohub until Verizon Family is working.
EDIT 2026-07-02: called again today, and spoke with a representative. They said this is still a known issue, and apologized that no one had gotten back to me. They gave me a ticket number and assured me that someone would get back to me within 24 hours. (Later I got an email saying 48hr.) They also said that they didn’t know if the GizmoHub deprecation could be paused, which means it’s possible this will not be resolved before the old app stops working. Very frustrated about this.
Thanks for the reminder! “Check a box” cross posting is broken and I hadn’t done it manually yet.
Thanks for asking about this! I just did a little research, and while it looks like the frequency range at 222nm would likely be sufficient for this reaction, there are three reasons why it’s not a concern in practice:
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The UV light is not very strong: levels that would produce appreciable toxic gas would already be unsafe for human eyes and skin
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Cleaning products almost always contain stabilizers to absorb free radicals
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Human spaces have some ventilation (or we’d get too much CO2!) so any tiny amounts that were produced wouldn’t build up
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I know this isn’t what you’re getting at, but reading your story made me think about how it is often the other way around with parents as they grow old and their children grow up. Watching your children, and everyone’s children, carry forward what you no longer can, and feeling pride in their accomplishments. And the children, now adults, playing harder and better by knowing they’re playing for everyone who came before them.
Yep! See paragraph 6.
Aww, thanks!
(I think of the “saint” framing as primarily being about sacrifice, but that’s not what we’re going for and someone looking over the material conditions of our life would probably conclude that we’re doing pretty well. Being able to give as described in the post is downstream from earning a lot of money as a software engineer in big tech and buying a house before the prices went up even more.)
Wouldn’t universities be even more incentivized to focus on fun over education? Students could take out loans, party for four years, declare bankruptcy, and then move on with their life. The bankruptcy falls off their credit history by 29.
I think it’s the other way: getting a loan to attend a primarily-fun school would be very hard, because the lender can see they’re unlikely to be repaid.
Typically easy and upbeat AABB (64 beat) fiddle tunes. When I play I usually do Liza Jane, Angeline the Baker, Sandy Boys, Mairi’s Wedding, Coleman’s March. You could also do ones like Yankee Doodle and Oh Susanna.