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by amatic 3y ago
I thought so too, but it makes more sense to me that "stop desiring things" is a koan, and not a literal instruction. A koan is like a little paradox, a word problem that a student needs to solve before being allowed to the next &
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by amatic 4y ago
E.T., Flight of the navigator, Ender's game,
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by amatic 4y ago
It's not the shell that produces random walks, it's the larva of a moth living inside the bean. The larva cannot see the environment, it can sense the temperature, so jumping in a random direction is a means (or a strategy) of the
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by amatic 4y ago
Jumping randomly(edit:in a random direction) when it is too hot is a strategy. And apparently good enough for survival of this species. The bacterium e. Coli uses a similar, or identical strategy of turning("tumbling") in a rand
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by amatic 4y ago
Another interpretation of the name "analog computers" is that they compute by analogy - by simulating the problem in a different medium. When analog computers were created, the there were no digital computers to make the distincti
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by amatic 4y ago
The problem is not N=17. If the effect (difference between skipping breakfast vs dinner) was large enough, it would be obvious and significant even in a small sample. The effect seems to be very small. I agree that what is missing is to mea
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by amatic 4y ago
I couldn't get jonesforth to compile correctly. Not sure why. I found a python and a javascript implementation, not sure if I like them. Any recommendations?
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by amatic 4y ago
Shouldn't the reverse happen? Marijuana trade was a big chunk of Mexican cartel money. Now when it is grown legally in most of US and Canada, the cartels are losing money. The illegality of drugs is keeping the drug gangs in power, bec
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by amatic 4y ago
>It would be nice to be able to basically write an equation and have it evaluate. Even a pretty complicated one… I heard mathpix is basically that, math via ocr to solution (haven't used it personally).
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by amatic 4y ago
> I fail to see the helpfulness of describing or defining something we do not understand in terms of something related we equally do not understand, That is a great way of putting it. I feel like most if not all the consciousness researc
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by amatic 4y ago
I thought he was Finnish, judging by the last name, but according to Wikipedia, "Pääbo was born in Stockholm and grew up with his mother, Estonian chemist Karin Pääbo." Also interesting, "His father was biochemist Sune Bergst
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by amatic 4y ago
Congrats Svante Pääbo! I saw his lecture in person a year or two ago, it's really fascinating how the new genetic analysis tools revolutionized the study of human evolution and migration.
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by amatic 4y ago
For me, the fact it comes from the backreaction blog was enough background information. She is always going on about particle physics.
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by amatic 4y ago
Arm and hand control via visual and proprioceptive feedback. I've been testing one of the theories in that area for my PhD.
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by amatic 4y ago
Classic. I've been using similar methods for measurements of transmission delays in the research on different human-controlled variables (though, I've found difference equations more intuitive and easier to represent in code than
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by amatic 4y ago
Sounds great! Any literature recommendations for an approach like that? Online course?
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by amatic 4y ago
If they can see a significant effect is a small number of participants, that is good - it means they didn't need to search for the effect of UV light, it was obvious. The reason to have a big sample is usually to control for side-effec
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by amatic 4y ago
No, they also have human participants: > To further explore the difference between the response of men and women to solar exposure, we asked volunteers (n = 5 men and n = 5 women; age 18–55 years) to expose, for about 25 min, to the sun
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by amatic 4y ago
> Plato(?) Yep, in Plato's Phaedrus. https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3439 Plato wrote the story, attributing it to Socrates. The story is about the egyptian inventor Theuth who showed his inventio
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by amatic 4y ago
I used to think loosing weight was easy, and maybe it was when I was a skinny 20-something. Now at 35+ I'm skipping meals, reducing sweets and alcohol, and doing light exercise every day and it is still hard to just maintain the curren
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by amatic 4y ago
In some cases it might be bs, and I think there could be a test for that. The idea is from Feynman, of all people, who once discovered that his colleague counts in "visual" numbers while he counted in "auditory", or mayb
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by amatic 5y ago
Computational archeology sounds great, what do you do? Is there more demand?
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by amatic 5y ago
That hope that is true. All of this plastic might just be inert and not cause any damage. Who knows how long have people been having microplastics in their bloodstream. Decades? It is just that no one tested for it.
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by amatic 5y ago
> Or until someone can reverse engineer a mouse brain. If we can get to low-end mammal performance, there's hope. Yep. C. elegans worm, and the drosophila larva and fly are good intermediary goals, too.
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by amatic 5y ago
"Dan Davis History" youtube channel, very well written. The bronze age, indoeuropean expansion, horse domestication, chariot warriors, mythology.. https://youtube.com/c/DanDavisAuthorChannel I also like stefa
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by amatic 5y ago
For the full experience you might also need some touch feedback. Maybe vibration gloves or some sort of pressure actuator to mimic touch.
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by amatic 5y ago
> housewives feeling guilty Or maybe the cake mix with dried egg powder didn't taste as good.
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by amatic 5y ago
The multiplicative inverse, or reciprocal, or the inverse of a number, is a function acting on a number, 1/x, or x^-1.
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by amatic 5y ago
>science in principle shouldn't treat them any differently than results about "regular" subjects. That's the whole problem, as I understand it. If we are going to treat ESP research the same as research in other field
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Jeff Dean: AI isn't as smart as you think – but it could be – Ted(youtube.com)
1 points by amatic 5y ago|1 comments

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