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My month-long sleep intervention experiment
Over the month of November 2025, I tested two different sleep interventions (mouth taping and nose strips) against a couple of variables on a single subject (myself):
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self-reported energy level in the morning
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self-reported mouth d...
Invoke shoulder people
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There is a prompt engineering trick for LLMs where you invoke a Type of Guy to get the model to do things properly. For example:
- If you wanted the LLM to write you a serious legal-sounding letter, you’d invoke “write in the Dangero...
Board games are for when you don't know what to talk about
I like spending time with people, and I like that time to be some sort of quality time. There is a sort of activity that gets proposed occasionally: board games. I don’t think those are quality time spent for the most part; and now I have a...
Pick-up basketball to maximize benefits and minimize risks
Playing basketball with strangers is one of my guilty pleasures.
To be clear, I think team ball sports are harmful on net for the body when you factor in injury risk. Time and energy required to play them is a very limited resource, and if...
Do papers submitted later receive lower review scores?
Every October, machine learning PhD students all over the world celebrate the ICLR deadline. It is now Thanksgiving season and the reviews are in.
In order to procrastinate on dealing with the reviews, we1 have analyzed which properties of...
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