The wellness wild west is back on its bullshit with unapproved weight loss drugs https://thever.ge/2B8n #Optimizer #Science #Column #Health
The wellness wild west is back on its bullshit with unapproved weight loss drugs

On social media, it’s easy to find gray market sellers of retatrutide, the so-called GLP-3 drug. The only problem is it’s still undergoing FDA approval.

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I quit all my AI fitness plans, and I feel free https://thever.ge/EwQA #Optimizer #Wearable #Fitness #Gadgets #Column #Tech #AI
I quit all my AI fitness plans, and I feel free

This week’s Optimizer dives into fitness AI coaching and plans, and how sometimes the best thing you can do is ignore them.

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Маленькие, но мощные оптимизации: как pgpro_planner спасает запросы из мира 1С

Что общего у запросов из 1С, конструкции IN (VALUES ...) и безобидного выражения x + 0? Все они способны превратить выполнение запроса из миллисекундного дела в многоминутное ожидание, потому что стандартный планировщик PostgreSQL на них «спотыкается». Разбираем, как расширение pgpro_planner переписывает неудобные куски дерева запросов в дружелюбный вид еще до того, как оптимизатор успеет выбрать неудачный план, и почему некоторые из этих решений уже попали в ванильный PostgreSQL 18.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/postgrespro/articles/974652/

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Маленькие, но мощные оптимизации: как pgpro_planner спасает запросы из мира 1С

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Алёна Рыбакина, уже четыре года я разработчик компании Postgres Professional и контрибьютор в ванильный PostgreSQL. В статье расскажу о расширении pgpro_planner, которое...

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Welcome to the wellness surveillance state

This week on Optimizer, we talk about how wellness tech is becoming increasingly invasive — tracking blood, urine, sweat and hormones — for dubious returns.

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You can't fool the optimiser — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Pattern recognition can see through obfuscated code to find the right instruction

When "code" meant "C" I would still check the output of my 'prompts' (commonly called 'source code' at the time)

Using the -O3 optimizer would often break code. These days it's better, but I would still say you need to check the output of that prompt against a couple different compilers

#AI #code #compiler #gcc #optimizer

The dark side of optimizing your metabolism https://thever.ge/bq3n #Optimizer #Wearable #Gadgets #Science #Column #Health
The dark side of optimizing your metabolism

This week’s Optimizer tackles using continuous glucose monitors to ‘optimize’ your metabolism — and why it’s not all its cracked up to be.

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AI nutrition tracking stinks

Food logging apps claim that you can take a photo and let AI take care of the rest. Instead, it mostly means trading one annoyance for another.

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Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display https://thever.ge/FLBX #Optimizer #Wearable #Gadgets #Column
Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display

This week’s Optimizer discusses how smart glasses like the Meta Ray-Ban Display may be more useful for specific, temporary uses than an all-day device.

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Lost in AI translation

In this issue of Optimizer, senior reviewer Victoria Song relates how AI translation gadgets sometimes can’t beat extroverted inlaws, pantomiming, and Googling.

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