mlorp / is on Nostr

less smart than everyone I meet

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2025-06-01 16:22:41

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I really would prefer a vegetable one, oat works great with coffee....but haven't found a type/brand that really works for tea.

2025-06-01 16:19:42

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Try black with a generous slice of ginger, milk and sugar.

2025-05-16 03:54:56

The Cochrane Collaboration was an incredible effort that produced gold standard systematic reviews for many clinical interventions. It was ultimately detonated from within, the story has been told in a number of places that are easy to find.
The Cochrane Collaboration really did deserve the highest recognition in science. In principle, AI can replicate and automate the entire effort with a mere prompt like "write me a systematic review on every single clinical intervention"...but we don't have that. No one is saying we will.
Even if we did have it, then why would people even bother reading systematic reviews? You would just be relying on AI for policies and/or decisions.
Makes me think about what is the right way AI should be used to help people make clinical decisions that have a good basis in reason and evidence?

2025-04-23 05:29:19

Squarespace blew up email for a bunch of people who were using a hosted domain as an alias for gmail.
They seriously could care less and there are a lot of not very technical people out there who, all the sudden, can't send email from their small business.
https://forum.squarespace.com/topic/329935-emails-bouncing-due-to-dmarc-policy
No story on it either. If anyone has any good advice (short of Google Workspace), I'd love to hear it (helping a friend out).

2025-04-02 05:14:00

What are people doing in nostr-verse to filter spam? Is there a standard bolt-on people use for their relays?

2025-03-12 18:15:33

I thought Varoufakis was compelling. He also thinks that there seems to be a rather obvious problem with the idea that bitcoin is some sort of apolitical money. He claims that the trump tariffs and crypto reserves are part of a program to increase US manufacturing by increasing the cost of imported goods and providing a sink to lower the value of USD without increasing the value of another currency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CdbCsetpw

2025-03-10 00:51:37

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix

2025-03-08 08:46:58

testing my own stupid relay

2025-03-06 20:29:40

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Same here. Thanks for helping me feel I am not crazy.

2025-03-06 04:46:10

christ there are a lot of options for nostr relays....hard to pick one

2025-03-04 22:09:36

Does anyone have any guidance on how to implement a feed? PubNostr has a personal relay that I am doing testing with...but it would be really nice to pull from the relay to provide user specific feeds the how replies to your comments, users you follow etc.
It's hard for me to understand if algorelay just works?
https://github.com/bitvora/algo-relay

2025-03-01 23:57:05

I guess I'll try chorus to run the relay for pubnostr

2025-02-28 21:51:16

@nprofile…29qp in case it is of interest, working on trying to use nostr to make a (better) pubpeer (a site used for commenting on scientific papers).
Ended up using zapthreads and seems to be working. Will be building for the next bit.

2025-02-26 22:31:47

I'm trying to see if I can make a stupid nostr based PubPeer. PubPeer is a website used to discuss scientific papers, and it sucks, but it's been used to figure out a lot of science scandals.
https://pubnostr.com/
I know next to no modern web development, I more or less asked Claude to make me a PubPeer clone and it gave me PubNostr. In principle, I should just be able slap on nocomment below the detail pages for papers and .... that should be it? The default relays in nocomment don't work it seems, I presume I'll run my own relay eventually.
I still don't have a good feel for nostr-verse, so hard to guess what the path forward looks like. PubNostr should have more "social network" features than PubPeer, it would make it a lot more fun and useful. You need sensible comment moderation workflows, I presume I can do that running my own relay. I have no idea if it makes more sense to make PuNostr with nocomment or maybe it should be some sort of skin over ditto (I have no idea if that is even remotely possible). Should I use ZapThreads? Is there any sensible path to having support for contemporary expected features like markdown/ image attachments etc.?
If you are interested in sharing your thoughts on the best way to do this, would love to hear them.