achileas

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by achileas 8y ago
That early time for me is to focus on my body with exercise. A lot of time in this industry we forget about the body because our mind pays the bills. It's not sustainable.
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by achileas 8y ago
There are also companies designing "smart toilets" to understand the gut microbiome and changes in it for the user, e.g. https://www.ted.com/speakers/jun_wang
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by achileas 8y ago
And me in the late 90s/early 00s :D I printed it and carried it with me to school and read it over and over.
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by achileas 8y ago
Not really. Much of the research doesn't focus on the electrophysiology of single neurons, but rather how networks are impaired and what causes the impairment.
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by achileas 8y ago
Both. Because neuroscience is hilariously complex and a big "fuck you" to neuroscientists. Computation happens at many levels - among dendrites, among axons (some neurons have multiple axons as well!), axonal branches, within the
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by achileas 8y ago
That's oversimplified and usually how it's taught at the undergrad level. Neurons and especially the networks they form are more analogous to analog electronics, but both analogies end up failing at some point.
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by achileas 8y ago
Controlled experiments generally (especially in cases like these) still only show correlation.
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by achileas 8y ago
I live in that neighborhood, and as the article says it looked like it was mostly a ton of turnover. There's a lot of it on Newbury, which is a problem in its own right, and the places that remain are largely regional and national chai
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by achileas 8y ago
Timespan matters. If businesses repeatedly don't do well, yes you get your 'fun' upper middle class variety, but the people trying to get a foothold and start businesses will fail and, with the lack of a real safety net, like
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by achileas 8y ago
There's also a ton of cryopreservation in the trilogy, especially the third book.
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by achileas 8y ago
It's art and nice to display. People do the same with vinyl records, comics, etc., definitely looks cool to have for collectors and lovers of old tech.
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by achileas 8y ago
Anecdotally, when I experimented with these, that's basically how I felt - it was very reminiscent of my imagination when I was much younger. As I started studying neuroscience, especially in grad school (I specialized in attention and
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by achileas 8y ago
This isn't the only possible (and not even a likely) outcome of walkability, lack of need of cars, and localization. It's just exploiting the quirks of the SC engine to max out population with a lot of commentary slapped on to it.
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by achileas 8y ago
I don't read anything about OP's post as saying they think people should memorize or that this practice is okay, as evidenced by their final sentence that it's sad that you could do so and pass many technical interviews.
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by achileas 9y ago
A lot of times, I really fail to see the (negative) distinction between an unelected government bureaucracy controlling something like this and unelected corporate entity controlling something like this. Wars were started at the behest of l
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by achileas 9y ago
Trust, LLC, a subsidiary of Koch Industries and Union Carbide
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by achileas 9y ago
Yet the publishers get paid exorbitant fees for access to work they didn't pay for.
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by achileas 9y ago
The system as it is requires experts to review - peer review isn't "let any random person review" so I'm not sure leveraging the Internet in the traditional sense is the way to go. There are scientist social networks, bu
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by achileas 9y ago
It actually wasn't up until the fairness doctrine was rescinded in the 80s.
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by achileas 9y ago
So inflaming racial and ethnic tensions and causing violence is okay too? Because that's what has already happened and that's been a goal of agitprop forever. I understand the techno-utopist naivete of "it's all just inf
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by achileas 9y ago
Putting 'statistically' in front of a fully subjective statement doesn't make it magically objective (or true).
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by achileas 9y ago
I've been playing since Civ2 ~97-98, and I actually enjoyed Civ5 and 6. I kind of like having new constraints and styles to learn, but I know the change to hexes rubbed a lot of people raw, as well as no more stacks of doom! My only co
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by achileas 9y ago
I don't think an article about one thing not talking about another thing is really that strange.
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by achileas 9y ago
No, that is being contrarian for its own sake. OP specifically said that they don't bother to look at or understand the actual research - that's not what a skeptic does.
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by achileas 9y ago
Easily accounted for doesn't mean just proving absolute causality - you can account for the issue by either certain statistical tests giving evidence for causation, but more easily you write about associations, what gives you evidence
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by achileas 9y ago
Another issue is that you wouldn't have any sort of active responses that may induce or attenuate any effects of the radiation. An example from the auditory world is that for much of the history of auditory system research, it was thou
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by achileas 9y ago
I've always wondered if it was a defense mechanism of some people with certain attitudes about their own intelligence or achievement.
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by achileas 9y ago
You're not looking at the data at all, and making assumptions about the scientists who did the research without even bothering to read beyond a podcast headline.
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by achileas 9y ago
It would probably help if you read the research. That's the lowest hanging fruit, I guarantee you any published paper (in a real journal, as this one was) handles that in one way or another - e.g. there are ways to give evidence for ca
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by achileas 9y ago
Pretty much every time someone complains about the whole correlation != causation thing, it's a huge red flag that they didn't read the actual research or have no experience in academic research. It's easily accounted for and

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