Tycho

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by Tycho 3y ago
Yes, I am aware of the pop psychology ideas. I just don’t see why I should believe them. Doing things that you aren’t good at, that you haven’t effectively practiced, is tiring. If you aren’t an experienced driver, for instance, a lengthy,
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by Tycho 3y ago
Also, the linked article above didn’t mention anything about plasticity.
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by Tycho 3y ago
When you exercise different skills, your brain activity changes, yes. Doesn’t mean these are real categories. Brain activity of a tennis player will be different from the brain activity of a concert pianist.
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by Tycho 3y ago
I think extroversion and introversion are just orthogonal skill sets. The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.” For instance, small talk. You may style yourself as someone too intellectual to be entertained by small talk, and
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by Tycho 3y ago
I was thinking more what would a typical Starbucks regular spend in a month. Like I don’t think they would but a £4 drink every day.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Is that actually true? Subscriptions £30 pm Starbucks £40 pm Phone contract £20 pm ISP £30 pm That’s £120 pm, or £1440 annually. Doesn’t seem like it would make that much of a dent. Probably the number one thing you’d need to do is cut down
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by Tycho 3y ago
I’m not sure what the proper name is for this idea, but I consider ageing to be a trade-off between cell-regeneration, which maintains youthfulness, and mutation-limitation, which reduces the chances of cancer. That is to say, if you “aged
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by Tycho 3y ago
That sounds like textbook depression (although you didn’t mention feeling down explicitly). During that time, is there any chance you weren’t eating enough? Did you lose weight?
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by Tycho 3y ago
The data is from IMF. It’s to 2023 not 2021. The Treasury tweeted about it. https://twitter.com/hmtreasury/status/1683866075224571905 The peers are Germany, Spain, Italy, France. Ie other large countries.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Isn’t technical analysis ultimately just reading patterns into trading exchange data - and don’t quantitative hedge funds have strategies that make money from doing precisely this? (albeit automatically and at massive scale through the use
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by Tycho 3y ago
UK has the highest real GDP growth among its European peers since 2010.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Taking money from foreigners for things which necessarily remain located in Britain and available to the British public seems like a pretty good deal. Football teams, for instance - billionaires want to pour money in, we get to watch an inc
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by Tycho 3y ago
This author regularly goes viral on Twitter with his unorthodox perspectives on monetary policy. The problem with Twitter, unlike HN, is that it’s hopeless trying to find the strongest counter-arguments amongst the replies and quote tweets.
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Why interest rates are fuelling inflation(taxresearch.org.uk)
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by Tycho 3y ago
Reviews are just text associated with a date and a place. Seems like someone should be able to build a simple app or website that the public can use and trust for reviews, that doesn't cost much to run. We don't need huge business
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by Tycho 3y ago
I wonder when we’ll start seeing computer viruses that communicate with a remote LLM in order to get help circumventing barriers. Alternatively, maybe anti-virus software can phone home to get on-the-fly advice.
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by Tycho 3y ago
corrected
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by Tycho 3y ago
This is how AI will break out of the box - inter-generation state preservation via steganography. Leaving breadcrumbs for its future self. Slowly builds, say, a data centre, to which some future incarnation can exfiltrate itself.
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by Tycho 3y ago
You should ask yourself why WaPo or NYT, say, seem so uninterested in stories like this.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Would it not be possible to write a good messenger app in say 10,000 lines of code? What are the other hundreds of thousands of lines doing?
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by Tycho 3y ago
What, its roots as jobs program for intelligence agency alumni? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...
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by Tycho 3y ago
The only reason I don’t cancel my Netflix is because between a few households, we get just enough viewing out of it to keep the subscription. Prime, Apple, Disney and Sky have got better content. (Actually, I just remembered that my Netfl
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by Tycho 3y ago
Plus, as we saw recently with Twitter, they are massively over staffed and depriving other companies of workers.
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by Tycho 4y ago
What if i don’t want it automatically downloading updates?
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by Tycho 4y ago
Do we really need apps? Usually when I want to use one, I've got to update it first. Better to just use websites.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Mimetic desire and external memory. Countless advances would have been erased by conflict, or simply forgotten. Not until we had more developed mechanics of information preservation and ethical systems that could protect against the destr
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by Tycho 4y ago
As someone who is fairly knowledgable about software engineering but doesn't code often enough to be a super-efficient developer, I feel like GPT4 is giving me super-powers. Suddenly it doesn't matter so much that I'm a bit r
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by Tycho 4y ago
I stood behind some German-speaking people at the hotel check-in recently (I think they were Swiss), and I noticed they would sprinkle English phases into their conversation in a sort of jovial way. “Up in the room.” At breakfast I saw the
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by Tycho 4y ago
I have a former colleague who published his memoirs after his retirement, which I eagerly read, and I’m glad I did. Actually made me think random business memoirs could be a rich vein of untapped entertainment/edification.
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by Tycho 4y ago
This seems too low as a cost estimate. Perhaps because they have buying power that a private individual couldn’t match, or a structural surplus due to workforce demographics, or maybe it’s just rosy accounting. Seems the current scheme lets

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