ImaCake

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by ImaCake 6y ago
Whenever this topic comes up, there are always a lot of comments to the effect of "facebook isn't the problem, you are". Maybe it is best to think of facebook like sugary food. Many people have no trouble having one piece of
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is incredibly callous and ignorant. Anyone who isn't a sociopath is subject to their emotions being manipulated by the content they view. Puppies make them happy. Dead people make them sad. Same with basically anything in between
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe the humidity ruins Brisbane summer for you? I think Perth would be a good alternative, the variance is closer to Sydney, but the heat is dry, and so is a lot more comfortable.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I wonder if there is some connection between variance in temperature extremes and average warming? I feel it could either be due to the same underlying cause or because larger variance will mean the average warming will appear larger. I sus
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Sydney routinely beats Singapore for daily maximum temperature during summer. This is because the variation in daily maximum temperature is much much higher in sub-tropical regions than near the Equator. So Sydney's average maximum tem
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The town is Verhoyansk for those who don't want to click a forbes article. I feel this is clickbait (at least the title). Continental climates fluctuate a lot. One day breaking a record could simple be a statistical outlier. A poke aro
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by ImaCake 6y ago
It doesn't seem like an overreaction when he states that he fears for his life and the welfare of his patients. He seems to say that when faced with being doxxed, his choice is to keep the blog and threaten things he cares deeply about
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I'd argue that micro controllers and educational/programmable robots fit into this category as well. They allow the kind of play and learning that makes them both engaging and valuable for education.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I will always preference wired over wireless, but I am currently unable to run an ethernet to my desktop (my partner is not keen on having a tripwire run straight across the house). So I did the same ping test that OP did and noted a few sp
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>The only reason for a well paid developer to prefer linux over windows for a desktop OS is that you don't need any of the extra stuff (a decent desktop experience, hardware support and a commercial end user software eco system) or
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Submission statement: I am interested in what the HN crowd thinks of this. I know some of you come from an academic background like I do. Maybe some of you are familiar with stories of PhD students getting burned for trying to defy their su
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Former grad student has paper retracted after mentor objects(retractionwatch.com)
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is enjoyable reading. It is always interesting to see different ways of visualising things to extract new meaning from them. The dominant colour graphs remind me of kymographs from single molecule biophysics which track the movement of
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I have helped run one-off workshops for children to use EV3 mindstorms robots. Having also run similar workshops with other robots, the EV3's seem to generate the best response from the children. One simply needs to make a maze out of
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by ImaCake 6y ago
If you want something cheap you can check out the Edison robots [0] or the micro:bit plus accessories [1]. I have played with both, and they are quite easy to use and make things with. The micro:bit is probably the better option since it is
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by ImaCake 6y ago
You can, theoretically, attach any lego block you want to a lego mindstorms robot since they have the usual connectors you would see on lego blocks or bionics. While the mindstorms block coding is different to scratch or makecode, I find it
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>On the business side, there is an widespread unwillingness to acknowledge that technical people may be better placed to make decisions than businesspeople. Maybe acknwledging this would mean losing their jobs. Buisness people have mortg
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I find searching google/ddg to be a good place sometimes. Wikipedia has a list of mathematical symbols I sometimes consult (also includes latex code!) [0]. You could also try Khan Academy videos, which are often helpful. 0. https:&#x2
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe part of the problem is the author is engaging with people on Twitter. Twitter appears to me, an outsider, as a messy hateful place where people throw one-liners of hate at each for reasons that are very difficult for outsiders to unde
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by ImaCake 6y ago
You might enjoy Charles Stross (early 2000s) take on the same concept which he has published under a CC license here: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/t...
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I like the insight in this comment, but I worry that you subscribe to the idea that there is any kind of sanity in buisness decisions in a large org. As a researcher pleb mucking around in the undergrowth of a university organisation, many
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I love the neuron simulator linked under McCulloch and Pitts [0]. Very fun to play around with and build your own networks. Reminds me of Conway's Game of Life and Minecraft redstone. 0. https://github.com/prathyvsh&#x2
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by ImaCake 6y ago
No, I agree that there is horrible oppression in Hong Kong. It is terrible, and China should be punished for that warcrime. I disagree about the biological warcrimes bit. I think China did enough to try and halt the spread, even if they d
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>It is seriously not hyperbole that the CCP should face Crimes Against Humanity for biological warfare. It sure sounds like hyperbole. Hong Kong has had a bit over 1100 cases so far, which is frankly trivial.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
We also know that China is willing and able to lock down whole swathes of the country to prevent viral spread. If it appeared earlier on the scale of what happened in Wuhan, and local politicians didn't fuck up, the Party would have lo
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Can you provide some evidence to back up your claim here? The TMRCA calculations would have ample information to provide a statistically accurate date without a single Chinese genome at this point. Those early Chinese genomes merely act as
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is fascinating to me. The more I see about America's protest history, the more it seems like the last 20 years have been abnormally calm and your normal state of affairs is more like the mood in 2020. A quote I liked from your l
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>These numbers all reflect infections that likely began before this week of protest. If I were a machiavellian populist facist president of the USA I would ignore this reality and immediately start blaming the protests for increased case
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The relevant section from the actual report is arguably clearer than the WaPo article: | However, there was also a large number of workers who were classified as employed but | | absent from work. As was the case in March and April, househ
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Sometimes they are. But there are definitely companies that analyse the shit out of every piece of data they can get their hands on. I think part of the problem is that getting things "right" is just really really hard.

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