MikkoFinell

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by MikkoFinell 8y ago
Just ordered one! "Smartphone" going in the bin.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Facebook--the most insidious and intrusive data harvester in history--at least lets its users ostensibly rename their profile and delete their account. Why does HN give less of a fuck about its users than Facebook does?
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
No they will actually refuse to delete your account as well. They did however present the option of renaming the account, but then it turned out that's not possible either.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
I disagree that Starcraft doesn't seem harder. The strategic depth is arguably comparable, but the difference is you need the dexterity of a master pianist to execute.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Thanks for sharing, I love stories like this.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Like I already told you, in order to fix your ignorance of how researchers use jargon, you can go through the literature. I'm sorry, but I'm not here to teach you these things, and it's not really my concern whether you'
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
No one in this thread, or in the article, has claimed that gray matter is randomly distributed. Regarding your comment about how incompetent I am, and how extremely strange this MRI analysis is: Measuring cortical thickness by MRI is a stan
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Within a given region, if there is more gray matter, and it is more clumped together, then the distance to nearest non-gray matter will be larger on average. This is what the authors call thickness.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Regarding your other comments about how the authors cherry picked their results and made up numbers in order to fabricate results, I can not take a stance.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Where in the article did you read anything suggesting that "They took the distance to the border (white matter) of all the points in a region."? I read the article, but didn't find anything like that.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
The authors explained quite carefully what they mean by thickness, as per the quote I provided. They are measuring the average distance between voxels in MRI scans. Since thickness is a measure of average distance in this case, it makes sen
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
As far as I know, thickness is a synonym for density. Quote from the article: To calculate thickness, for each gray matter voxel we computed the distance to the closest non-gray matter voxel. In 2D-space, for each voxel, we took the maximu
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Yeah I do believe it makes a difference, because brain atrophy is linked to a range of cognitive impairments, for example strongly correlated with Alzheimer's disease. But you're right on the last point though, about assuming thin
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
The study was regarding density, not size.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Anyone know a cheap DIY way to generate quantum-random numbers at home? For example, get a Geiger counter and wire it up to code that counts the milliseconds between clicks... something like that?
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
I upvoted your comment because it's so constructive, telling me I'm an idiot because I don't find reddit interesting.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
I had no idea there was "discussion subreddits" on reddit. I always thought it was a site for hoarding karma by posting memes and puns.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
> WW2 doesn't change Pinker's conclusions, by his own admission. His conclusion from the data is that wars between great powers become less frequent but more deadly. Please read the book you're critiquing.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
I don't understand what you mean by "all his arguments held back then" when a significant portion of the book explicitly shows and discusses data regarding the number of wars fought during 1800 and before, compared to 1900 an
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Thats wrong, which you'd know if you actually read it.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
I'm referring to all data, including political stability. You're less likely to find yourself in a war than ever before. The source of my claims is the book by Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
You're right about everything. But consider ISIS, what kind of communication should we perform that will make future groups like that stop beheading people and raping children? There are situations where violence unfortunately is the o
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
The world is currently the least dangerous it's ever been in history, and all data and all trends point that it will be even less dangerous in the future. Sorry but you're simply wrong.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Yeah you're right, and those people who got shot probably deserved it because they were probably racists or something.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
> ideas can sometimes be obfuscated by abstruse mathematical formalism They are trying to communicate with other researchers who actually care that the proofs are correct. Maybe you don't, if you're simply trying to reimplement
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Alternatively, grow up and stop playing games.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Yeah at that point I had to scroll up and check if the article was posted on April 1, but apparently it's not a joke.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Low socioeconomic status is a predictor for criminality, as well as a predictor for car type owned. Thus car type is correlated with criminality.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
They need call and text history to data mine so they can make money off of you by selling ads, and creating a psychological profile that will help make their products more intrusive.
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by MikkoFinell 9y ago
Better stay away from the evil Mozilla corporation, and instead use one of those other, more privacy-aware, browsers like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

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