It took a year to get the insurance to approve mine. Then all they did was send a wearable pulse oximeter to my house for one night. The really crazy thing was the oximeter could only be used once and then thrown away, I think entirely just to boost the device manufacurer’s revenue. So it’s totally an outrageous racket, but it happened to help in my case.
Only time will tell. It has been about 10 monthe so far.
Also, I think it’s probably more the oxygen deprivation that is relevant in my case. Sleep apnea refers to just stopping breathing while sleeping, which may or may not result in a significant decrease in blood oxygen saturation. In my case, it was causing a big drop in blood oxygen saturation and I suspect this was the case for decades. Once that was corrected, I found it much easier to be “productive” in the narrow sense that normies use that word.
I’m not suggesting that the CPAP cured me, just that I’ve found it to be a more effective treatment than medications, in my case.
If your theory of the disease is such that it has a singular cause, then I suppose this may be true and we could conclude that I was misdiagnosed. But if you view it as a set of symptoms that may have multiple causes, then we could conclude that I had a different form of ADHD than the one you describe. Regardless, I had the lived experience of someone with ADHD for a very long time. I’ll also note that ADHD was not a diagnosis that existed yet when I was a child.
Every time I hear someone talking up prompt engineering, I feel like I should say something. But I don’t.
Thank you for your cooperation.
I like that someone in a position of authority is talking about this.
Something I did wrong for many years, decades even, was to focus exclusively on trying to improve the areas where I struggle compared to normies. I always felt bad because I found it so hard to do simple things that were easy for most people.
Gradually, I realized there are things I can do that the normies can’t. So instead of constantly trying to redeem myself by improving the things I suck at, I focus on those things I’m really good at.
For example, if I do a job that is all delivery, where I’m just executing rote tasks that someone else has defined, I’ll struggle. If I do a job that is strategic and/or creative and involves very little rote delivery, I’ll excel.
The problem was that school is mostly rote delivery according to a fixed schedule, and early-career jobs tend to be the same. I really struggled during those times of my life. But once I got to the point where I could get more creative/strategic work, the way my brain works finally became an asset rather than a liability.
Avoiding situations that allow others to define me on their terms.
And I don’t mean to denigrate data science. It is important and powerful. And real machine intelligence may one day emerge from it (or data science may one day point the way). But data science just isn’t AI.
This is because the AI of today is a shit sandwich that we’re being told is peanut butter and jelly.
For those who like to party: All the current “AI” technologies use statistics to approximate semantics. They can’t just be semantic, because we don’t know how meaning works or what gives rise to it. So the public is put off because they have an intuitive sense of the ruse.
As long as the mechanics of meaning remain a mystery, “AI” will be parlor tricks.
I’m going to need to see your passport to prove you’re not American. Otherwise fines may be assessed.
I would be interested in learning what people find objectionable about my comments, if anyone would care to share.
Yes the developer sees it, and also the data brokers they sell all their user data to see it, aggregate it, and corollate it. Not to mention whatever Microsoft does with it.
My main point is that “observability” tools like Clarity are screen grabbing whole Web sessions and have been for some time.
This has already been happening on the Web for quite some time. For example Microsoft Clarity records everything you do on those dodgy Web sites you visit. And they assign a universal identifier to you that can be correlated with the IDs Google and your device have already created and broadcast to profile you.
And you think “oh but I use x, y, and z to prevent tracking”. Guess what: They make your browser do nonsense tasks in the background to benchmark your hardware and then assign a UUID to you based on that.
The only thing that can help this situation is privacy legislation with real teeth.
What is it like to live in a place with privacy legislation? Here we must sell our healthcare data for food, and sell our food for healthcare.
Yes, and we’re in denial about it.