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by a-priori 16y ago
It is semantics, and all comes down to what's a 'force' and what isn't in theoretical physics. I was arguing from the second definition. The first definition is tautological: First, you define a curved space, accounting for gravitational fo
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by a-priori 16y ago
This is true, but it doesn't invalidate the description of gravity as being an attractive force between masses. The warping of spacetime is just an explanation of what's happening to create that force.
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by a-priori 16y ago
You can "disprove" the Pythagorean equation the same way, by taking the limit of the Manhattan distance between two points as the grid size approaches zero. It approaches d_x + d_y, not sqrt(d_x^2 + d_y^2).
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by a-priori 16y ago
It bugs me when I read these Rejection Therapy stories and I see them using it as an excuse to be a jerk, like lying to a taxi driver and asking for a free fare. In one of the other stories, they said that it's about making a human connecti
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by a-priori 16y ago
According to Wikipedia[1], citing [2], the human brain has 'as many as' a quadrillion (10e15) synapses. I presume this includes the entire central nervous system (including the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and subcortical structures). [1]
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by a-priori 16y ago
There's no mention in this post about controlling for extraversion. A narcissist is an extravert, almost by definition, and because of that the NPI test they linked to contains many questions that really address extraversion (e.g. 1, 6, 7,
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by a-priori 16y ago
All the more reason why I hope that history remembers multithreaded programming as an experiment gone horribly wrong.
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by a-priori 16y ago
It's the assignment part; it says where the result should go. In this case, back to the "COBOL" variable. But, it's optional if you're assigning back to the source: ADD 1 TO COBOL means the same thing as ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL. But, yo
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by a-priori 16y ago
In Minecraft, zombies drop feathers, and feathers are used for making arrows. Normally, you have to go out and kill zombies or chickens manually to get them. What this guy did was make a trap where zombies spawn and fall into flowing water.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Yes, I did an internship for the BBP last year. This is not based in any way on their work. That code has problems simulating multiple neurons for some reason (possibly thread safety in GSL?). But, it can simulate one neuron at 20x realtime
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by a-priori 16y ago
I pulled the equations from Parameter estimation in hindmarsh-rose neurons (Steur, 2006), equation 4.1. The Hindmarsh-Rose, Hodgkin–Huxley, and other mathematical models are phenomenological models. They are meant to reproduce the observa
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by a-priori 16y ago
Last spring I wrote an implementation of the Hindmarsh-Rose model in C++ with ZeroMQ and GSL, which you may find interesting: https://github.com/michaelmelanson/neuron-playground The guy you linked to is using a simpler two-variable model
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by a-priori 16y ago
Yes, and how do you know that we experience the same 'feeling'? That's what the philosophers are talking about.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Advantage of Git: if your central repository fails, you can recover from any developer's repository.
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by a-priori 16y ago
In addition to what jat850 said, there's also the fear of jeopardizing their positions. Right now the senators receive a significant salary ($132,300/a) for not much work. The Senate has notoriously low attendance. If they do something to p
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by a-priori 16y ago
Dr. Marilyn Daniels at Penn State University has found that hearing students in pre-kindergarten classes who receive instruction in both English and ASL score significantly higher on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test than hearing student
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by a-priori 16y ago
Baby Sign Language can jumpstart learning and communication. Is there any evidence that this actually has any benefit?
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by a-priori 16y ago
It might be safer if the fear could be 'erased' without erasing the memory itself. See my other comment. That is what's going on.
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by a-priori 16y ago
Not quite. What this does is reduce the strength of the fear response associated with the memory. So, after administering this to a person, they would still remember the traumatic event, but they would tell you that it wasn't so bad after a
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by a-priori 16y ago
So just always use the after-tax prices, and make that a multiple of $0.05. Show that price on the display boards, on the receipts, etc. I know they do this in Switzerland, for example. In Canada (and the US?) that's what happens with gas
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by a-priori 16y ago
Yes, if you do this and it gives you a date in the past, then it's time to re-think your business model.
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by a-priori 16y ago
There may also be concerns about insulating the flight electrical system from the cabin electrical system. What if there's a surge or huge load in the cabin? You need to be sure that that sort of thing can't affect the engine operation. The
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by a-priori 16y ago
Segments of The Communist Manifesto were required reading for one first-year philosophy course I took.
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by a-priori 16y ago
And, put a minimum on it. They pay you $10 per box (for example) up front, and when it sells you pay back the difference. You don't want to get burned by people giving you junk that won't sell for anything.
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by a-priori 16y ago
At least you know they're not faking the video...
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by a-priori 16y ago
How else do you expect to select volunteers ? Usually, they're undergraduate students who are compensated with credit towards courses. I participated in a few experiments myself as an undergrad. I presume that they administered a questionn
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by a-priori 16y ago
2. Snooze emails - http://www.followup.cc/ [ed] not a bad idea, but not in love with forwarding my personal/work emails to a 3rd party My first thought reading this is that it Gmail should have a similar feature that says "Remind me at
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by a-priori 16y ago
For me, the words "Inbox Zero" have come to mean "Learn to love Gmail's Archive button".
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by a-priori 16y ago
Mostly, I think this discussion is an exercise in premature optimization. If you don't have significant income, you're also not going to pay large sums in taxes, so it doesn't matter. If you do have significant revenue, you can afford to hi
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by a-priori 16y ago
While I agree these are all concerns, I am skeptical that this is a modern phenomenon. Were people a generation or two ago really less emotional, or less prone to black-and-white thinking?

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