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I'm in Medicaid in Utah. I'm taking 70mg in a hospital setting once per week for about 7 to 10 weeks combined with therapy.

Medicaid copay is only $20.


I'm living out of my car, door dashing and Uber in Southern Utah. Saving up to rent office space for my computer (I don't have a laptop)...

I lost my mom, marriage of 18 years, Grandma, and sanity a bit last year... but I'm doing great mentally now, just need financial to align, I'm trying to enroll in WGU for CS and then ai/ml masters and I want to double major with psychology...I want to work with therapy ai things as I've hacked my growth with ai to amazing results...

I'm going back to school to get higher paying jobs and be more sought after... and loans can float me rent for the duration of school...

I've got an RV I can live in (loaner from a friend) but nowhere to park it...I want to outfit it with solar panels but that's pricey.


That resilience you're building up is going to pay dividends.

Wishing you the best.


yeah, I think it will. I didn't know how strong I could be until I lost everything and built my life back up and even with my financial struggles it feels more fulfilling than it ever was before...


Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to just buy a laptop?


the person you're replying to is absolutely unhinged, sadly


You found this out by reading nearby comments? Or is there more lore from other HN threads?


you sound like a person I used to date who my therapist says is definitely a clinical narcissist... love bombing, devaluation, isolating from family members, transactional and conditional, and discard.

edit: I ask because I used to have the domain zvive and use that username... so a little personal for the user to use zvive2.


Solar panels are really not very expensive if you shop around. I got some 180 watt panels for $80 each recently.


$80 is a lot of money to a homeless person.


Yeah, it's probably two full days of collecting and recycling aluminum. (Not trying to belittle the homeless, I only mention this because it is how the homeless people in my old neighborhood would earn a little bit of cash. They don't deserve all the scorn they endure and I help them out every chance I get.)


> I've hacked my growth with ai to amazing results...

Would love to hear more about this if you’re willing to share


I'm posting my journey on IG: therapeutic.ai (username not a domain)...

I'm planning on adding a bunch of prompt examples and outcomes... my favorite thing is like I'll have tough feelings and I'll ask chatGPT to ferret out the trauma behind it and help me release the things... use RTT, DBT, and CBT to reprogram my brain, ask I've question then follow up questions based on answers...

this is with a custom gpt that has a bunch of self help bullet point PDFs as well as a bunch of journal entries and previous therapy chat threads (got too long)... major things I break out into their own document or PDF as a source for the gpr.


Best of luck mate. We're all rooting for you.


recently divorced I'm finding dating is so much harder these days...

I needed to grow up a lot, learn about situationships, attachment styles, co-regulation better emotional IQ, etc... things maybe I should've already known but not something taught....

I think schools should teach psychology classes that prepare people for being successful in relationships romantic, business, or platonic...


Same situation. So I'm going back to marketing (what I did in 2010 before dev). I'm deciding to start a digital agency with my target niche being drone operators.

I'm working on the best model like a productized service or revenue share agreement etc... my primary service is cold-emailing mixed with online presence and branding.

Cold-emailing doesn't really fly if your business doesn't at least seem legit and have a website etc ..

I thought about starting a drone company myself doing aerial surveys but figure I can get a lot of experience around the industry by servicing existing drone operators and maybe someday I'll start my own drone business as well.

email in profile if anyone has referrals I could really use them.

Also I can help with cold-emailing campaigns for other industries and niches, that's just my primary target.


you get wrong answers from either source. When ai builds in fact checking that's accurate to validate it's answers then it's game over and that wouldn't be too hard to implement and future versions will have a lot less hallucinations and faulty facts.

We're in the early stages here.


Why not create a pooled incentive if you keep 3s under x, you get 5 million that game either to split or just for the coach since they lead the plays and shit.

Money talks and the NBA is all about money. So just throw money at the problem.

I think maybe having a goal tending timer could work too... like 5 to 10 seconds after the ball enters the half court, goal tending is allowed on 3 pointers. So they'd have to take the shot quicker or do it around goal tending.


Make your local hospital -- be your primary hospital, this is ALSO you're insurer. They tell you what doctors to go to, etc...but they pay for things when you're traveling too...so its in other hospitals' best interest to have okay rates so they all pay about the same and not crazy.

The hospital benefits because: Nearly guaranteed and predictable MRR based on monthly premiums (income based maybe 4% or something)...a lot less billers all around, etc.


You've never met a Doctor who couldn't figure out how to work their email? Or use street smarts? You can have a PHD but be unable to reliably handle soft skills, or any number of things you might 'expect' someone to be able to do.

Just playing devils' advocate or nitpicking the language a bit...


An important distinction here is you’re comparing skill across very different tasks.

I’m not even going that far, I’m talking about performance on similar tasks. Something many people have noticed about modern AI is it can go from genius to baby-level performance seemingly at random.

Take self driving cars for example, a reasonably intelligent human of sound mind and body would never accidentally mistake a concrete pillar for a road. Yet that happens with self-driving cars, and seemingly here with ARC-AGI problems which all have a similar flavor.


A coworker of mine has a phd in physics. Showing the difference to him between little and big endian in a hex editor, showing file sizes of raw image files and how to compute it... I explained 3 times and maybe he understood part of it now.


Doctors[1] or say pilots are skilled professions and difficult to master and deserve respect yes , but they do not need high levels of intelligence to be good at. They require many other skills like taking decisions under pressure or good motor skills that are hard, but not necessarily intelligence.

Also not knowing something is hardly a criteria , skilled humans focus on their areas of interest above most other knowledge and can be unaware of other subjects.

Fields medal winners for example may not be aware of most pop culture things doesn’t make them not able to do so, just not interested

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[1] most doctors including surgeons and many respected specialists, some doctors however do need that skills but those are specialized few and generally do know how to use email


good nit pick.

A PHD learnt their field. If they learnt that field, reasoning through everything to understand their material, then - given enough time - they are capable of learning email and street smarts.

Which is why a reasoning LLM, should be able to do all of those things.

Its not learnt a subject, its learnt reasoning.


Putting your head in the sand is a noble way to tackle novel problems. Just look at the noble ostrich... lol


Don’t Look Up


I start it with neoliberalism which really picked up steam with Nixon. But even Clinton and Obama were neoliberals every president since Nixon was neoliberal just with different social issues (divide and conquer the plebes). Globalization and exponential consumerism.

before 1990 you buy a phone like corded even cordless and they still work today if you have a landline.

Now I need a new phone every 3 years. All electronics are made to be replaced not to last and that just makes business sense but not very good environmental sense.


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