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by Phemist 10y ago
Yes, the study mentioned in the 2nd paragraph is the "hongerwinter" study I mentioned int he previous comment.
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by Phemist 10y ago
I agree, there probably are specific foodstuffs in our diet now (such as dairy & meat) that cause growth above other foodstuffs, but these have become more affordable across the board due to "early-access" availability in the
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by Phemist 10y ago
The absolute growth in average height? For sure. But a lot of these changes in lifestyle happened in steplock with other European countries (sweden, norway, germany) so they don't necessarily explain why we had such massive growths rel
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by Phemist 10y ago
As a tall Dutch man who has been dragged into this conversation a lot, it is interesting to note that only 150 years ago, the Dutch were the shortest nationality in Europe. To me this means that nutrition has a massive effect on growth. In
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by Phemist 10y ago
That's fair, I'll have to clarify myself a bit further. I didn't think of the undersalted/oversalted thing as having two properties at the same time (basically means it is inconsistent, the dish might be both, but you ca
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by Phemist 10y ago
But the Liar's Paradox leads to the essence of Godel Incompleteness (Hofstadter starts off with that paradox in GEB as well, to build up a repertoire of modes of thought in the reader). I think the oversalted and undersalted paradox sh
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by Phemist 10y ago
If you want to go back to school, do it abroad!! German and Swedish Universities are basically free, and most if not all master's courses are taught in English. Cost of living is generally manageable (You can live like a king in Berlin
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by Phemist 10y ago
Amazing! This seems very similar to something I was taught about during my post-grad (and regret not pursuing, if only for this cool effect - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_illusion ). These were cortical map
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by Phemist 10y ago
I guess this only works for people with good credit rating, where the risk of defaulting is low? It seems to me this would be you getting back the 2% default fee on credit card transactions, that has been featured on HN before - https:&#x2
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by Phemist 10y ago
My company has an interesting monetization strategy for sure
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by Phemist 10y ago
'Cryptonomicon'. Of course..
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by Phemist 10y ago
I had just finished 'Necronomicon' at the time. I thought I'd do something pro-active and show up with a little thoughtful gift, related to the company's main focus.
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by Phemist 10y ago
For my last job interview, I encrypted the plaintext "DO IT" (as in, hire me!) with solitaire. I still remember sitting in the train on my way to the job interview, frantically shuffling cards to generate the ciphertext. My interv
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by Phemist 10y ago
Not usable for people named 'Mike'.
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by Phemist 10y ago
It seems like leisure in the sense that Thoreau was talking about would be a good fit. Leisure"s contemporary meaning is pretty much doing nothing productive. Thoreau viewed at as doing things for their own sake, which does not preclud
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by Phemist 10y ago
Thanks for the extra explanation. It seems I assumed too much about these Deep Q networks, due to some prior knowledge of the neuroscience related to RL. Although I do remember having seen a video about Montezuma's Revenge a week ago o
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by Phemist 10y ago
Not so much, a timer ticking up is only novel the first time round, and is unrelated to actions taken by the agent. Over multiple plays the agent will learn to ignore it. EDIT: It could be that the agent will just stand there the first few
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by Phemist 10y ago
I think novel game situations were counted into the reward function as well
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by Phemist 10y ago
Loved the book, motivated me to cut out a lot of distractions in my daily work life, as well as take control in adjusting websites more to my needs (Writing small, custom tamper monkey javascript snippets to edit views of, for example, Face
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by Phemist 10y ago
Interesting paper, thanks! I'll need to work through it more at a later time, because I got stuck at the Lesion studies argument. I'm sorry if this seems a bit ranty.. As for lesion studies, I wonder why there was no mention of si
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by Phemist 10y ago
I think the aim of this project is misguided. Next to the many excellent points that have been raised in response to this article, there's one that I think is a killer for its practicality, based on the article below (which was feature
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by Phemist 11y ago
Interesting! I wonder how it performs on this vase, which is obviously inscribed with dolphins: http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff4/3dd13_04/dolphin-vase...
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by Phemist 11y ago
I thought SMBC had a fun comic in response http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3931
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by Phemist 11y ago
I agree, the article is equally vague about caffeine. I only intended to link the two, not clear up vagueness :P.
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by Phemist 11y ago
I would say it falls into the "Don't abuse it" category
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by Phemist 11y ago
Only in bases that are itself prime ;)
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by Phemist 11y ago
So XKCD style correcthorsebatterystaple-esque passwords would fall in no time?
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by Phemist 11y ago
Imagine the types of debugging tools you'd need to be able to finish a game like the one suggested in the article. They would necessarily need to encode transformations such as those that happen when taking LSD, compared to baseline so
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by Phemist 11y ago
It's also available in a video game called - Jackbox Party Pack under the name Fibbage 2. It's absolutely hilarious to play with a party of 5 or 6
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by Phemist 11y ago
Thanks! This looks great, will definitely try it out. One question, what would be the recommended way to define complex data types? E.g. def stuff(arg1: int, arg2: dict): return 'Ok' where arg2 would be a dictiona

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