MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 3y ago
I still maintain there's a strong connection to dihydrogen monoxide consumpti8on that no one is talking about. Well, no one but me that is. And I suppose you, and maybe other people I haven't met, if any of you are talking about
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
> Surely a recursive recipe is just a recipe that invokes a recipe. No, a recursive recipe is one that (directly or indirectly) invokes _itself_. That's the whole point of recursion (literally, come back (=re) turning (=cur)). And
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
Physical labor. Or exercise. If you push yourself to the point where you're physically tired, you'll sleep like a rock. If it doesn't, you're either not pushing hard enough or you ought to see a doctor.
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
I see what you did there. :)
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
That blog feels like it's from a small universe -- a narrow ribbon of text, surrounded by great voids. It would be fine, I suppose, even praiseworthy, if we were still reading on paper, as it would provide ample space for any marvelou
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
I assume you mean because it conflates modern day scholasticism, science, empiricism, and making shit up under one broad heading of "knowledge creation"?
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
Things become cliched through repetition. The _first_ occurrence by definition _isn't_ cliched, since it's the thing all the others were repeating.
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
> If garlic is so obviously effective as the other commenter claims then there should be plenty of supporting evidence, it's not that hard or expensive to test for it, yet, this meta-analysis could only find a single good quality st
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
For the chat systems I've found acting like Columbo (from 1970's TV detective) works wonders: you want to be polite but persistent, open but not gullible. Don't fight it, but don't just let it drive. For the non-chat int
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
The title is very misleading. What they actually show is that a certain set of cognative biases (_not_ the same as "bad choices") that are pretty much universal can't explain differences in outcome because...well, they'
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by MarkusQ 3y ago
It might make more sense if we consider a physical analog: it's already generally the case that the police don't need to get a warrant to enter private property in a hostage situation, or when there's an active shooter, etc.
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by MarkusQ 4y ago
The timeout seems too short to allow much thought or time for typing. Even chatGPT often takes longer than you are giving us.
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by MarkusQ 4y ago
Plants do a great job pulling out CO₂ -- that's why CO₂ levels fall in the northern hemisphere's spring and early summer (see https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/ ). Unfortunately, insects and fungi are jus
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by MarkusQ 4y ago
It's the prevailing theory because there's so much evidence for it. We have good models for how it works, they are predictive, we find deposits at various stages in the process, we find fossils of the expected sort throughout coa
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by MarkusQ 4y ago
> Hyundai sold as many EVs last year as Tesla did in their first decade. Are you even paying attention? I see what you did there: comparing Hyundai's current numbers to Tesla's numbers from ten years ago (when they were a start
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by MarkusQ 5y ago
As that paper's abstract says, "Cells in A1 of rewired animals differed from cells in normal V1: they exhibited larger receptive field sizes and poorer visual responsivity, and responded with longer latencies to electrical stimula
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by MarkusQ 5y ago
The cortex is never "empty". The blank slate model is an outdated speculation with no empirical support, akin to "you only use 10% of your brain" or "you can tell things about people's personality by feeling t
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by MarkusQ 5y ago
Actually, despite the title, the claim in the paper is that real-only-QM could be falsified, not that it has been. As far as I can tell, no one has actually done the experiment to check. Logically, it's just as possible that complex-
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by MarkusQ 5y ago
> I suspect that a weak version of Sapir-Whorf is in play. It is difficult to describe the equation in prose. The limitations of natural language handicap us in our efforts to defend against the pathology it exemplifies. I love the fact
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by MarkusQ 5y ago
I think you got that backwards; the long axis of an O'Neill cylinder is the principle axis, and the only one that would be stable. The second (unstable) and third (stable) would both be unsafe because the issue with contents shifting
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by MarkusQ 5y ago
> there is nothing inherently different between x = 2 and x = 10^30-40 Fermat begs to differ. :)
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by MarkusQ 5y ago
And it's in the April issue...
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by MarkusQ 6y ago
I doubt that was intended as a threat (though I can see how you might read it that way). Instead, I believe I was an attempt to point out to you that an accusation of bias can go both ways, and that your view of what was typical/norma
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by MarkusQ 6y ago
> One space after sentences. Two spaces is heresy! I was loving it up til this point.
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by MarkusQ 6y ago
> I tell people that if they would be considered brave for being without a shirt at the beach, then they are an at risk population. Yet it affects males more than females. Hmmm. When you say "people" do you mean "male pe
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by MarkusQ 6y ago
Actually, I was asking <i>you</i> to explain, or at least give your source. I subsequently found what I believe you are working from here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.pag
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by MarkusQ 6y ago
From the article: > Specificity samples were derived from de-identified excess serum specimens sent to our clinical virology laboratory in 2018 and 2019. So...not five years ago, and it is even possible that a significant number were fro
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by MarkusQ 6y ago
> people say that because .25% of the population in NYC are dead from covid Source? I can only get a rate that high by taking the highest death count I can find (which involves extrapolations to attribute deaths to Covid-19) for New Yor
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by MarkusQ 6y ago
> ...and repeat, until the model is as tiny as you want. Cool! So if I repeat long enough I can get any network down to a single neuron (as long as I really want to)? That is awesome!
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by MarkusQ 7y ago
> Is there any reason to believe we get can it through 60-80% of our society within 12 months? Exponential growth. Suppose the doubling time is 10 days (it's probably less) and there is one person loose who has it (there are probab

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