Richard Sprague

AI-Assisted Workflows for Personal Science I’ve been trying the (free) version of Gemini CLI to see how it can handle my rough dietary notes. What I did: ▶ Click for an overview of my process Result Gemini gave me this (which seems pretty ac...

More results with informal food tracking, this time with Gemini CLI and Obsidian: forum.quantifiedself.com/t/ai-assiste...

Personal Science Week - 250508 Better food tracking with the new "Everything App"

I stopped using dedicated food tracking apps and switched to the "Everthing App" instead. www.personalscience.com/p/personal-s...

I tested only 12/16 on a test of how well I detect "misinformation". Does that make me a gullible fool? open.substack.com/pub/personal...

If you can make it to downtown Seattle this weekend (Sun Apr 27), please join me: lu.ma/zqv9e6rh

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Exclusive | The 5 most unique products we saw at LA’s biohacker expo, from a muscle-spasm bodysuit to an eye-opening aging test Hundreds of biohackers lived it up at last week’s Biohackers World expo by testing cutting-edge technology and sampling supplements designed to turn back the clock.

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What happens if you don’t fill out that ethnicity form? Why do you have to fill out an ethnicity form to get a job in the US? What happens if you refuse?

The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1973 requires employers: "If you choose not to self-identify, your gender and ethnicity will be recorded by a representative based on visual observation." Do they use those skin color wheels from Apartheid South Africa? dynomight.net/2021/01/15/e...

First good, balanced review I've seen of Upgrade Labs. As always, technology moves faster than science: cool gadgets appear faster than real hardcore science can prove they work.

Fellow vaccine believers! Prove you believe in science by getting *all* the shots possible. What do you have to lose?

Personal Science Week - 230123 More DEXA A fat and body composition update, plus longevity calculations

Almost 3 months later, I retested my body composition with a DEXA scan from BodySpec. Good news: I gained more muscle. Bad news: I gained even more fat. Guess I'll double-down on my diet. Personal Science Week: open.substack.com/pub/personal...

I'm talking from COVID. Prove me wrong: name a single "famous person" who died unexpectedly. It's the worst pandemic of our lifetime, millions dead. Should be an easy question, so why should it be so hard to give examples?

PSA to everyone concerned about misinformation and inappropriate content online. Trust me with your news feed and I absolutely guarantee you'll never see non-factual or inappropriate content ever again.

How often have you personally benefited from automated fact-checking? Are you concerned that now *you* won’t be able to trust what you read?

Cooking is one of the most personal of sciences. A few tips at Personal Science Week: www.personalscience.com/p/personal-s...

I'm here for you! If you're concerned about being exposed to misinformation, I volunteer to fact-check everything for you. Most of my friends only want fact-checking for *other* people, because they feel confident they can discern for themselves. But I'm here if you need me!

Can’t believe it took me this long in life to discover the moka pot.

I can’t think of a single famous person (celebrity, elected official, top CEO, etc) who died unexpectedly*. Can you?

*ie under 55, no other serious health conditions, “basically normal”

Personal Science Week - 241226 Best self-tracking videos and more links

Best self-tracking videos, plus more links at www.personalscience.com/p/personal-s...

We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.

"We find that (1) most AI use isn't deceptive, (2) deceptive content produced using AI is cheap to replicate without AI, and (3) focusing on the demand for misinformation rather than supply is a more effective way to diagnose problems and identify interventions." www.aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-...

InvestAI etc. - 12/10/2024 AI for investors, explained in simple terms. An open thread updated weekly.

Why don't women use ChatGPT? and what happens when inevitably they do ... plus more AI commentary relevant to investors: thewednesdayletter.substack.com/p/investai-e...

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The Chained Reader How the logic of machines makes us less human

"According to researchers at Columbia University and the French National Institute, more than 6 in 10 people who share news URLs on Twitter don’t actually bother reading them" www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

My experience with several "Biological Age" tests, plus results of a head-to-head comparison. What can they tell you? open.substack.com/pub/personal...

Introducing the Distributed Training Interactive Simulator We introduce and walk you through an interactive tool that simulates distributed training runs of large language models under ideal conditions.

GPT-4 could have been trained in 2012 at a cost of $5B and 3 months. State-of-the-art chips, like the kind the US restricts, offer a large cost advantage, but not an insurmountable tech advantage. epoch.ai/blog/introdu...

Comedy shows have laugh tracks, so why can't Bluesky make "reply-bots" as conversation-starters. Loosen up the readers a little to encourage them to join the thread.

Assisted Dying Bill The Problem of Predicting End of Life

"How long have I got?" ‘Doctors' predictions for terminally ill cancer patients were inaccurate—they were correct to within a week in only 25% of cases and out by more than four weeks in a similar number.’ from BMJ study trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/assisted-d...

InvestAI etc. - 12/3/2024 AI for investors, explained in simple terms. An open thread updated weekly.

Too much obsession with AGI makes AI industry leaders ignore the more important issues of how to help humans right now. thewednesdayletter.substack.com/p/investai-e...

More people (not just sysadmins) should use Docker for everyday life. E.g. make a future-proof copy of your PhD source files. I dockerized my magnum opus with its mess of Zotero, R code, and data and now I never worry about moving to a new machine. It just works. hub.docker.com/r/personalsc...

If masking works as well as you say, this is the biggest public health innovation since antibiotics. Think of the decades of needless colds and flu we suffered until its discovery in 2020!

Personal Science Week - 241128 Microbiome Cleanse Restarting the microbiome

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