Psyllium husk is a non-fermenting (no gas or bloating) soluble dietary fiber that improves both constipation and diarrhea (such as with IBS), normalizes blood sugar, reduces LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, and can help with weight loss. Each type of dietary fiber has different effects, and a “high fiber” diet in general won’t necessarily provide the same benefits, especially for conditions like Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

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I wrote a while ago about how it was easy to get Claude or Gemini to control their CoT, but other research found that models only follow CoT formatting instructions ~2% of the time. The prompts other people were trying didn’t match what I’d expect to work (just be extremely detailed and repetitive), so hubris led me to try to find some prompts that would control CoT in GPT-OSS-20B.

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This is probably obvious to a lot of people, but I thought it still might be useful since I didn’t think of it myself for years. Since sometime in college, I’ve been the kind of person who wakes up groggily at 10 am and then drags myself out of bed. I’ve always been a late sleeper so I didn’t think much about it, but when I stopped taking allergy pills, I fairly quickly became someone who woke up around 8:30 am without much effort (still not early but not crazy-late).

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I’ve been reading about BitMessage, an anonymous, encrypted peer-to-peer email protocol. Unfortunately, there are some major problems:

• BitMessage addresses are 36-character hashes, which isn’t very user friendly.
• Since the address is the hash of your public key, there’s no way to change your keys without creating a new address …

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The main difference between the two formats is that in ZIP, compression is built-in and happens independently for every file in the archive, but for tar, compression is an extra step that compresses the entire archive. This means ZIP has better random access while tar+compression will generally provide better compression.

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