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Ask HN: How do effective CEOs manage time?

Posted by amts on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:31PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is it normal that a CEO of a biotech company doesn't have a calendar filled with scheduled tasks for at least a week upfront, doesn't use reminder apps and needs a human assistant for this?How do effective CEOs manage time?

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Re:Elon Musk says X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use... on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:19PM (#37574968)
If I am visiting Twitter once in 3 months, I will still need to pay 1$ per month? if true, then even if I'd like to use Twitter more often, I will quit. What an idiot.
Re:Ask HN: What do you think about a CEO providing human name to his b... on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:53AM (#37571792)
The reason for asking this question was that maybe it's possible to deduce something about such CEO. As he is not even using a calendar or mobile app to schedule his tasks upfront of at least a week, they want an assistant to remind him of everything. It seems for me that if they want someone to totally manage his time, it by default may not be 100% effective if the person didn't make a conscious action to put something on a calendar.
Re:Ask HN: What do you think about a CEO providing human name to his b... on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:47AM (#37566765)
A company with this name is a pharmaceutical company, it seems so unprofessional to me
Re:Ask HN: What do you think about a CEO providing human name to his b... on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:45AM (#37566750)
Yes the first name only

Ask HN: What do you think about a CEO providing human name to his business?

Posted by amts on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:10AM
from the ask-hn dept.

As I may get a CEO assistant job at a company dealing with lab equipment and reagents more aligned with my main science interests [1], I googled that company and found that its CEO seems to have a few other similar pharmaceutical companies. But one of them is named with a female human name.I think that business entities are a bit more abstract to bear the labels used for human bodies and it...

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Re:Ask HN: Should I choose a job aligned with my main or auxiliary int... on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:34PM (#37561632)
Main actually offers 3/4 full time in the beginning and a hybrid model, so I may be this long commuting only ~3 days a week. Just hate to choose between apparently equally acceptable offers.

Ask HN: Should I choose a job aligned with my main or auxiliary interests?

Posted by amts on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've had a not bad offer recently for a CEO assistant job aligned with my auxiliary interests and skills (medical/IT translation), where I may have an opportunity to also develop a bit one of my main interests (computer programming). Its advantage is short commute time, 80% familiar work routine. I may be building a website on Wordpress (LAMP) for them, but Wordpress is not my main interest, as...

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Ask HN: Can I use SEO with online/AI tools instead of WordPress plugins?

Posted by amts on Sunday September 17, 2023 @10:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

In the follow-up to my previous post [1], if I may need to create some SEO optimized texts for a website of a small translation agency, can I do it semi-manually using e.g.[2], other similar online tools coupled with ChatGPT/Bing prompt engineering instead of installing Wordpress SEO plugins?If I'd be using Wordpress, I'd like to try to use as few plugins as possible, but in its general...

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Re:Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask? on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:42AM (#37544981)
I may be hired as the bureau coordinator/SEO's assistant and on my CV I mentioned that I am just learning all this stuff from multiple online and offline resources. Formally I have completed 3 introductory courses on Python on Coursera and 2 certification courses on FreeCodeCamp in Python for Data Analysis and Scientific Computation (actually wrote and understood code), and watched (without practice) dozens of them on Django/Flask to get familiar which I would re-watch with more attention and practice by now. Because anyway I will need Python/C++ programming for my biophysics projects.

By "keywords" I mean just the names of the tools/frameworks/concepts.

I posted a few links about WP being hacked below. It may be that's all I've seen on HN.

Re:Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask? on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:26AM (#37544836)
I just searched on HN for the most recent 2-3 years and found this:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31584788 Researcher goes public with WordPress CSP bypass hack

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32561198 Hacked WordPress – over 17,000 spam links injected post compromise

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5702570 Tell HN: Bots are Constantly trying to hack your Wordpress Sites

There are more dating 5 and more years ago, but I didn't link them here. It seems I saw at least twice as more similar news for WP in recent years, but maybe these links were in HN server cache or something and with no comments so are not shown in search.

Re:Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask? on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:14PM (#37537762)
Do you include ChatGPT in the calculation of the slope?
Re:Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask? on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:09PM (#37537707)
Or here's a follow-up question: can Django/Flask provide the same functionality/user experience as Wordpress?
Re:Wireless electrical–molecular quantum signalling for cancer cell ap... on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:06PM (#37537672)
You can connect a ~3-10V battery to yourself, which may increase an electrostatic field and deflect the incoming signal.
Re:Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask? on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:01PM (#37537612)
It may be a typical informational website for a small agency with up to 3-4 tabs, presenting their services, a blog, some contact form. It may not need much animation or interactivity in the beginning. But optimization for mobile may be useful. I've watched a dozen of tutorials on Django/Flask on Pluralsight/FreeCodeCamp building some simple registration sites, even a basic e-shop. For my former Wordpress site I have several plugins, including SEO optimization. But you mean to not install even the Wordpress recommended plugins?

Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?

Posted by amts on Saturday September 16, 2023 @02:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I may get to work for a small translation agency to build a website for them plus a bit of marketing stuff, and maybe a remote desktop and a platform for invoicing for their personnel. I am self-teaching myself web-design and the related stuff (Python mainly for everything, but HTML/CSS, C++, SQL and databases also) and a few years ago I also administered a Wordpress site for a while, so am a...

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Re:Wireless electrical–molecular quantum signalling for cancer cell ap... on Saturday September 16, 2023 @02:08PM (#37537127)
It is recursively ingrained into the current spacetime data structure itself [1]. So no wonder.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCSSgxV9qNw Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?

Re:The computational power of the human brain on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:05PM (#37472886)
What a piece of circumstantial derailing bullshit. Regarding attention McGilchrist basically reiterates what the pioneers of quantum mechanics already established ~a century ago for the methodology of QM.

In a podcast with a regenerative biologist where he participated I happened to hear him endorsing 'clinical evidence' as being the highest quality evidence, sort of: "well, you can't say 'neurons do not exist until we measure them' (per Donald Hoffman), as I see brain-damaged patients every day losing specific functions blah-blah-blah". Yet, the main hallmarks of the progress of modern medicine were antibiotics and surgery and psychiatry isn't even close to them, being mentally incapable to invent any type of effective machine, so he shouldn't use 'we'.

Brain-damaged patients, their doctors as well as the majority of brain-mind experts generally do not contribute to the progress of human civilization, yet continuiing making claims that sound as if they do.

Re:Ask HN: A platform for biohacker decentralized at-home trials – a g... on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:12PM (#37411399)
This was mentioned for the proof of principle only. But nothing spectacular will happen, it may be necesssary to adjust statistical analysis to account for the variable number of parameters and to make appropriate comparisons if necessary.

Ask HN: A platform for biohacker decentralized at-home trials – a good idea?

Posted by amts on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:52AM
from the ask-hn dept.

As I have been listening to a number of podcasts in the longevity/anti-aging field and several prominent researchers (someone in the range of Matt Kaerbelin, Nir Barzilai, David Sinclair etc) mentioned that 1000s of people are already taking prescription drugs like rapamycin and metformin off-label, for anti-aging purposes. I thought that thus many potential data are wasted for this research,...

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Re:‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay Review on Sunday September 03, 2023 @03:36PM (#37373616)
Cocaine is anesthetic in one context and stimulant in another. Meth can be sedative in specific contexts (according to dr. Andrew Weil). The classification above may be partially useful, but obviously not effective.
Re:‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay Review on Sunday September 03, 2023 @03:31PM (#37373558)
Datura being anticholinergic degrades the effect of acetylcholine, which is one of the components of (regular) attention. So no wonder it seems scary. But would you have the same experience after, for example, 10 days of continuous mindfulness/focusing meditation? Or after 30 days?
Re:‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay Review on Sunday September 03, 2023 @02:17PM (#37372771)
Though toxicity seems the main difference, comment above is talking about experience and not molecular mechanisms of action.

In a similar vein, if someone would ask a distinguished professor of neuroscience to provide a full description of the exact brain molecular state that "generates" an exact salvia experience (including any communicative content), s/he would fail.

Re:‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay Review on Sunday September 03, 2023 @02:05PM (#37372638)
>>Datura is a deliriant.

Such definition includes very little context. You should try more functional, mindful set&setting based approaches.

Re:A generative AI extension for JupyterLab on Sunday September 03, 2023 @01:11PM (#37372059)
I updated conda with this: $ conda update -n base -c defaults conda

Or to minimize the number of packages updated during conda update use

    $ conda install conda=23.7.3
Or conda update -all

But I thought using the openai API key for jupyter_ai will be free as with ChatGPT 3.5.

Re:Ask HN: What interesting scientific phenomena is still little under... on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:05AM (#36920976)
Electricity/Magnetism isn't understood well enough by modern human monkeys yet. The default representation of electrons as particles gets so ridiculous in AC context. Like, suppose you'd like to transfer N buckets of energy in the form of apples to a monkey zoo. You'd just straight move them from their departure point to their destination point in the zoo. Now if electrons are supposedly just tiny particles of the same type and you'd like to transfer some energy from point A to point B via an AC transmission line, why would you need to toss them to and fro between these points at 50/60Hz frequency in order to deliver to point B instead of just straight passing from A to B? This is ridiculous.

And here's another one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron

Re:Age Reversal Breakthrough: Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuve... on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:31AM (#36919176)
The main risk I heard about is tissues with rapid cell turnover, but some startups are working on it.

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