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by alecst 5y ago
> Nicholas - We had this family doctor came around and we knew pretty well actually what they were. I mean, we looked in the book the very next morning when Alastair started feeling ill and Charlotte was already ill. It was so clear from
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by alecst 5y ago
I have to wonder if this is true. Suppose you find a mushroom that obviously bruises blue and generally matches the phenotype of whatever local psilocybe grows in your area. What's your risk? I looked into galerina poisonings, being
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by alecst 5y ago
I heard John Baez call this "CO2 fertilization". And it's been talked about for a while. Hard to predict the effect, but the consensus seems to range from "could help, sorta" to "not really important". ht
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by alecst 5y ago
> Historically, some of the earliest reports of the refeeding syndrome occurred in starved patients in wartime such as Japanese prisoners and victims of the Leningrad or Netherlands famines. In general, those individuals with marasmus or
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by alecst 5y ago
Cool, if it’s that clear cut I’m sure you can find a few cases to make your point. It is rare that eating after fasting causes critical illness. Just check online. People do this stuff all the time.
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by alecst 5y ago
Hey man, sorry to call you out. I want you to find where you heard that, and maybe post it here so that we can review. I have fasted many times for that length, and I happen to already be thin. Never even got close to refeeding syndrome. I&
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by alecst 5y ago
I like how you added "and the point stands" to your own comment.
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by alecst 5y ago
Man, chill the harsh, it's just a game...
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by alecst 5y ago
Love this. But I ran into some issues trying to get it to work with Ajax requests, and didn’t find a great alternative.
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by alecst 5y ago
I graduated college in 2012, grad school the following 6 years.
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by alecst 5y ago
I don’t want to sound like a know it all, but I managed to save a lot of money living in a big city in a grad student stipend, which is about $25k. It can be done. I spent very little biking, cooking from home, buying used, having roommates
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by alecst 5y ago
For my entire childhood my mom’s email name was alphagal. You know, because she’s a gal from Alpharetta. Or at least that’s what I thought.
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by alecst 5y ago
Came here to post the same question. Great work by the way!
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And just yesterday I realized that SQLite didn't come with the REGEXP extension by default. How cool.
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I don't know anything about Hewitt or his stance, but I don't feel like this adds a whole lot to the conversation. I mean I can tell that you're sure that he's wrong, but why should the strength of your belief convince m
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by alecst 5y ago
There’s some evidence that humans have a Universal Grammar and learn through deletion. And humans can not learn any old language — only a restricted class — meanwhile there’s no reason to think that an ML model would have that problem. I’d
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by alecst 5y ago
If we can train a computer to classify sentences as grammatical or not please let me know where. You’ll save the linguistics department a lot of money as they’ll no longer have to contact native speakers for this research.
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by alecst 5y ago
Maybe you’re talking about a different kind of symbolic knowledge than the OP. To give an example humans can instantly tell whether an arbitrary sentence is grammatical or not which is a deep kind of symbolic reasoning that computers absolu
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Hey, I’d love this, absolutely! I’m a total beginner trying to do things the Right Way and not be a total clown. I’m getting paid to build a django app on a low budget (they know I’m a beginner). I’m making slow and steady progress by readi
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by alecst 5y ago
Is it possible to ban cryptocurrency traffic in general? How would that even work?
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by alecst 5y ago
That's how I feel too. During the peak of the US and European lockdowns, back in April of last year, daily emissions fell by like only 10-20%.[1] Tells quite a story about how much our personal actions matter. [1] You can just google i
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by alecst 5y ago
You can selectively breed viruses for infectivity, lethality. Sam Harris had a podcast about it recently, Engineering the Apocalypse. Maybe that’s what the OP meant? Your response seems so harsh comparison in comparison by the way. I studie
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by alecst 5y ago
Here's a link from Brain Warner (the author) talking about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrTqQw0_3c&t=1775s Hope it helps, it's a good question.
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by alecst 5y ago
I love this idea! Layman's take: they oversell the economic/environmental benefits of this, but you have to market your work somehow. I love the idea though and really don't care about that anyway. It just makes my imaginatio
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> I don’t consider the slaughter of animals for food to be particularly more violent than the wholesale shredding of plant fibers at harvest You probably think of "violence" differently than most people then.
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by alecst 5y ago
Maybe you can say more about what you disagree with, then, rather than writing off the comment as a bad argument. I don't think it was that bad or emotional, personally.
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by alecst 6y ago
I'll take you up on that. What's your thoughts on how many GME investors are retail vs. institutional? Any idea on what the breakdown is like?
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Two Minute Papers: OpenAI Outperforms Some Humans in Article Summarization(youtube.com)
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Show HN: I wrote a program in Zig to solve my friend's riddle(git.sr.ht)
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by alecst 6y ago
A better mental state is its own reward, isn't it?

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