SamBam

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by SamBam 3y ago
Those are the older ones. The new ones like the "Fuzzy Logic" line are more akin to a PID controller trying to make the temperature/time graph match a specific curve, where the temperature changes at different points in the c
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm trying to think of when I'd want to pay for this. If I have to put a link to an image somewhere to be able to refer to it anonymously on someone like Reddit or HN (that is, I want someone to see an image, but I don't want
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by SamBam 3y ago
The cause and effect is most likely that upper-middle class and upper class white WASP families overwhelmingly tend to prefer those simple boy names.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm not sure how much evidence there is that the actual text of the Mahabharata is anywhere near that old. Wikipedia says > The bulk of the Mahābhārata was probably compiled between the 3rd century BCE and the 3rd century CE, with t
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by SamBam 3y ago
Maybe it's intentional, and made by people who are not embarrassed to know where babies come from.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Most of the over the counter ones I see online are 65 mg iron, which is nearly twice the iron in a whole half kilo of chicken liver. The medical sites say a safe value is no more than 45 mg per day. There are also low iron pills (or "g
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by SamBam 3y ago
That was partly my question. Looking online, iron is definitely something that you don't want to have too much of. My question is, basically, is having a non-anemic iron deficiency something that can be easily remedied by having low-do
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by SamBam 3y ago
It's the flip side that is quite possible to be false. You can certainly eat more calories than your body requires and yet not gain weight. Your gut could absorb less, so you excrete otherwise-digestible carbs. You could have a paras
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by SamBam 3y ago
Have you tried mouth taping instead? Seems to work better for some people than chin straps, but I don't really know.
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by SamBam 3y ago
People love to think of the body as a simple energy-in->energy-out equation, but it's definitely more complex than that, as the body can change what it's deciding to hold on to and what it's deciding to burn or expel. I am
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by SamBam 3y ago
I have occasional restless leg (once every two weeks or so) and low energy. How would one know if one has iron deficiency despite blood work being normal? Is it just a case of popping iron pills and seeing if you feel better?
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by SamBam 3y ago
I get what you're saying, but this sounds a lot like "Person who voted for Face-Eating Leopards Party only wants leopard to eat other people's faces."
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by SamBam 3y ago
Me too, but the party is likely the only thing we'll get, with the weather. Ah well, there's always the next one in... 2045.
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by SamBam 3y ago
How bad do you want to see it? LA to Dallas by car is about 20 hours. You could do that in two or three days...
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by SamBam 3y ago
I have to admit I don't quite understand this. Does it just replace words on a word-by-word basis? But the ordering of words in English is different from the ordering of words in other languages. How is this not going to teach you terr
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by SamBam 3y ago
Another (weird) advantage of a landline: you didn't always know who was going to answer, sometimes you were just calling "the house," and it allowed for more serendipitous conversation. The main example is probably just calli
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'd say it's certainly in the spirit of a quine. I feel like Hofstadter would love this if he isn't already aware of it.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Except that even in dead space when you zoom in you find the borders of all cells, and each of those borders is just as alive as any other live cell. I kept feel like, if I zoomed in to either an always-on cell or an always-off cell I would
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm saying the distinction between "resisting" and "pushing" isn't real. When a rocket is accelerating and you are pressed against the back and being driven forward, is the rocket "pushing" you or &qu
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by SamBam 3y ago
Has anyone tried installing this? It says "PDFs on all sites will have a new look in Chrome." This makes me nervous. I'm often looking at PDFs that are embedded in a page (either grad school software for commenting on PDFs, o
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yeah, I had no idea it was so far away. That makes the ~60% chance of clouds in the Northeast in April that much sadder...
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by SamBam 3y ago
My understanding is that the equivalence principle only applies to a specific, local region of space time, and this region could be arbitrarily small. Tidal forces are only measurable across something with size, by measuring a difference be
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by SamBam 3y ago
If you're just standing in an elevator, how can you tell the difference between the floor of the elevator "resisting" your weight due to gravity, vs. being out in space with silent rockets propelling the elevator at 9.8 m&#x2
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by SamBam 3y ago
Sorry, the plugins are generally open source, that's what I was referring to.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Good NYT article as well https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/science/archaeology-brita... https://archive.is/R2nA5 A tidbit I found interesting: > Interest in Must Farm was first arous
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm reading Stanisław Lem's Fiasco at the moment (recommended to me from here) which is a sci-fi set sometime in the far future, probably at least 2500. I'm enjoying it, but characters are constantly saying things like &q
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by SamBam 3y ago
Fairly easily transferrable to something else. I assume that many of the plugins that power users use involve added non-standard stuff to the files. Like if you're adding a bunch of metadata to be consumed by the Dataview plugin, all t
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by SamBam 3y ago
The Infinite Craft game was sending queries up to ChatGPT to make the new items, if I recall correctly. This one is happening so quickly it must be happening locally. Is that right? Is it using a local Javascript LLM?
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by SamBam 3y ago
It asked me to "Click all objects I might need on a hot summer day." Along with some pictures of refreshing drinks, it included several pictures of dogs in sunglasses. I would definitely need a cool dog in sunglasses on a hot summ
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by SamBam 3y ago
Honestly, most real human chat-center/help-desk folk are probably juggling ten conversations and really aren't allowed to follow links to strange websites.

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