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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • My annual subscription is finally up next month and then I’m out with an over 1600 day streak. I am sick of the hard push for AI and for how hard they push Max even though I’m already a paid user.

    And all that aside, the Italian course just isn’t as developed as other languages. I didn’t realize what I was missing until I saw a friend who used the app for French.

    I’m trying out Babbel, which seems to have a bigger focus on actual human voices, and Mango, which I get through my local library.




























  • Good ol fashioned machine learning, not AI like today’s buzzword for LLMs

    Apple used AI to sort through the data from 100,000 people enrolled in a heart and movement study it originally launched in 2019 to see whether it could find features in the signal data from the watch’s main heart-related sensor that it could then match up with traditional blood pressure measurements, Desai said.

    After multiple layers of machine learning, Apple came up with an algorithm that it then validated with a specific study of 2,000 participants.


  • Just kinda skimmed through because I don’t have an hour right now, but marketing is definitely to blame, they managed to associate high protein content in snacks with “healthy”, so people skip over the rest of the nutrition info because hey it’s high in protein.

    Right at the start, the one gram per pound of protein is usually just a recommendation for people trying to build muscle and should also be done in tandem with muscle-building exercise.

    I think the obesity comes in with all the protein snacks. You could get 30g of protein from 100g of chicken breast OR you could drink a chocolate milkshake or eat a protein bar, it’s easy to guess what most people will pick. I spent a while looking for protein bars to help me hit my goals and it’s crazy how many of them are 300-400 calories each. Even for people who do exercise a lot and need the protein, that’s really high in calories.

    Like cliff builder bars, one bar is 280 calories, 20g protein, but also 30% of the DV of saturated fats and 32% of the DV of sugar. A bar has almost the same amount of sugar (17g) as protein, that’s ridiculous