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Louie Helm Louie Helm is a Machine Learning Engineer

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Improving Centralized AI Resources

August 3 - Louie Helm

Even though general purpose AI is years away, you can still knowably contribute to speeding up AI development right now — even if you’re not a programmer. That’s because most AI projects rely on…

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54 Ways to Increase Your Happiness Set Point

June 16 - Louie Helm

Excellent roundup of ways to increase your happiness. Written by a friend of mine in San Francisco. Some of the top ones are probably things you’ve heard of: Exercise Keep a Gratitude Journal Spend…

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Rat Park

June 15 - Louie Helm

Have you heard of the Rat Park experiments? Studies on rats addicted to morphine show that they’ll keep triggering morphine levers until they die…unless they’re not in cruel, unnatural cages where they’re severely distressed. Morphine-addicted…

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Africa’s Surprisingly Good Decade

June 14 - Louie Helm

Africa has had surprisingly good economic growth, improved health, and improved governance in the 21st century. It’s a bit under-reported though so I mention this in case you also didn’t know that most things…

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Are Beef Products More Humane Than Chicken?

June 13 - Louie Helm

My friend Julia is concerned with animal welfare. She seems to have been the first in the world to come up with this obvious-in-hindsight metric for evaluating animal calorie sources: how many food calories…

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TL;DR Wikipedia

June 12 - Louie Helm

Immediate tumblr binge recommended.

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How To Get Bitcoin

June 8 - Louie Helm

This tutorial is meant for beginners who just want to get a stake in the future of cryptocurrency. 1. Get a bitcoin wallet     There are many choices out there, but I still like Coinbase for…

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Useful Science

June 5 - Louie Helm

Research findings explained in 5 seconds or less.

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MIRIx: Independent Friendly AI Workshops

June 4 - Louie Helm

MIRI is seeking to fund Friendly AI researchers around the world. Apply now for funding to carry out your own Friendly AI research workshop.

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New Method Increases The Power Of Genome-Wide Association Studies

June 3 - Louie Helm

Despite the proliferation of GWAS, the associations found so far have largely failed to account for the known effects of genes on complex disease. Standard approaches also struggle to find combinations of multiple genes that…

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The 5 Biggest Risks To Human Existence

June 2 - Louie Helm

Anders Sandberg recently published his “Top 5” list of existential risks that humanity should be working to reduce: Nuclear War Bioengineered pandemic Superintelligence Nanotechnology Unknown unknowns Notable exclusions include climate change and asteroid impacts….

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Researchers Out Of Ideas; Trying Old Drugs On Everything

May 31 - Louie Helm

Hopefully we’ve already found all the drugs we’ll ever need. Because given the impossible costs of funding FDA trials for new drugs, researchers are now mostly just pouring effort into finding new uses for…

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32 Ways To Get More Sleep

May 28 - Louie Helm

Sleep hacking isn’t all one thing. So I recommend a kitchen-sink approach to anyone struggling to get as much sleep as they would like. I’ve pointed out before that magnesium and darkness tend to help me. Greatist…

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Open Source Legal Documents

May 21 - Louie Helm

A slick, modern web service offering free, open source legal documents that are ready to customize and sign. Recommended for all my friends building startups, hiring people, or just doing normal things like subletting…

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3D Snapshot Of Google Search Volume

May 20 - Louie Helm

Sweet visualization of what a day’s worth of Google searches from around the world looks like.

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Berkeley Dates For Every Day Of The Week

May 12 - Louie Helm

In my experience, the best dates are ones that are unique, involve shared physical journeys, have a few different parts, and have drinks involved along the way. Here’s some good options for those in…

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Futurology Becomes Default Subreddit

May 10 - Louie Helm

One of my favorite subreddits is now becoming part of the main homepage. Expect /r/Futurology to start causing a broader set of people to start caring about the far-future.

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