Tycho

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by Tycho 8y ago
My personal theory was that dreaming allows humans to rest while staying somewhat alert to the environment (because outside phenomena tend to manifest inside dreams). The phased aspect of REM sleep allow groups of humans to sleep at night w
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by Tycho 8y ago
Anyone who thinks Bezos bought the The Washington Post because of its cashflow potential or just for fun is foolishly naive.
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by Tycho 8y ago
Good list. A few other good concepts to know: + minority rule + signalling theory + hypergamy + purity spirals + sexual selection + iceberg principle + principal component + emperor has no clothes (shared vs common knowle
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by Tycho 9y ago
As I a small kid, I remember my grandmother gave me her ZX Spectrum, and my father helped set it up with a tape recorder so we I could make copies of games, and one of his friends gave me a book of programs you could write, and my neighbour
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by Tycho 9y ago
I think it’s good to have all these different approaches at your disposal. I like having the powerful features of an IDE like PyCharm (including the debugger) but sometimes hop over to Jupyter to try stuff out in a different space.
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by Tycho 9y ago
Straightforward, easily verified observations have a habit of rising to the top. Longwinded tirades about MK Ultra are easy to skip.
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by Tycho 9y ago
Negligible price to pay.
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by Tycho 9y ago
And sometimes a simple, straight-forward comment is all it takes to stop the propaganda effort dead in its tracks (hence why many such articles have the comment section mysteriously disabled, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by Tycho 9y ago
^ this is why we should never trust news/current-affairs site that disables its comments section
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by Tycho 9y ago
nobody who cares
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by Tycho 9y ago
What’s funny about this whole thing is that nobody really cares that their own data may have been accessed by CA, they are just angry that other people, meaning gullible Trump supporters, may have been affected.
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by Tycho 9y ago
Maybe some keywords relating to causality/attribution. For instance the word "because", used to express constraints. "Usury is forbidden due to Sharia law." Or the modern idiom, "No universal health care, becau
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by Tycho 9y ago
I would guess a very large number of pensioners who own their homes.
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by Tycho 9y ago
We could have had at least five more years of classic Beatles albums if they hadn’t split up in 1970, just based of what songs they went on to write. And probably longer owing to the creative atmosphere and competitiveness within the group
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by Tycho 9y ago
This piece aged fairly well. Confession: despite being a rabid Beatles fan for 20 years, I only really listened to John Lennon’s first solo album this week. I think I dismissed it partly because it has a silly name (Plastic Ono Band). It is
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The M4-Competition – Forecast. Compete. Excel(m4.unic.ac.cy)
2 points by Tycho 9y ago|0 comments
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by Tycho 9y ago
Yeah, the opposite conclusion would have been much more surprising.
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by Tycho 9y ago
What sort of appeals - are those prepared by lawyers?
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by Tycho 9y ago
How does fzf actually work? What string matching techniques are behind it?
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by Tycho 9y ago
I think there is already a lot of regulation in insurance and banking industries which stops them acting on statistical signals (relating to sub-populations) which would save them a vast amount of money.
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by Tycho 9y ago
Soon to come: visual paternity/maternity tests. Visual pregnancy tests. Lie detector smart phone apps. Bar conversation isolation and transcription. Blackmailers will have a field day.
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by Tycho 9y ago
We need people to take risks with their personal wealth. When the risk pays off, there is generally a benefit for the rest of society. When the venture fails, the rest of society is generally unaffected. When no-one takes risks, progress st
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Ask HN: Business books for non-managers?
8 points by Tycho 9y ago|2 comments
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by Tycho 9y ago
Is there clear evidence that Uber is less safe for drivers and passengers than competing services? They've been operating for a while with millions of users, so I expect any shortcomings would be evident in the statistics by now.
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by Tycho 9y ago
If AGI is possible, then whoever invents it will surely recognize both the power and the danger. Since there's no reason to believe that current academic/corporate/government/military AI research is even barking up the r
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by Tycho 9y ago
Tesla and Uber need constant hype to keep investors believing. Even Google needs to diversify away from its desktop ads business, or show it has significant room to grow. For a while last year I was taken in by the hype and thought self dri
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by Tycho 9y ago
Is this result beyond dispute? No chance it's just a problem with the measurements/methodology?
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by Tycho 9y ago
> She wasn't spreading bullshit. That example - a black roman soldier in roman Britain - actually happened. It was featured along with a caption describing it is a 'typical' family, making it ripe for mockery. A responsibl
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by Tycho 9y ago
Not Scott Hansen Tycho, although I'll need to check out his music now that you mention it. Theory can be very dry and confusing and frankly off-putting, but the above I think is something anyone can absorb and then start using. If you
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by Tycho 9y ago
Here's something I wish I'd realized when I first started playing. If you know the right set of chords you can play them in basically any order and they'll sound nice. If you take scale like C major, there's a chord that

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