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by amatic 5y ago
>How might we measure it? That is a good question. A desire is a term of the mind, and it is not easily connected to the brain and physiology. The only one I can think of is the conscious desire to breathe - iirc, it is directly correlat
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by amatic 5y ago
There is a series of four fantastic videos about a successor to Thompson's tidal analyzer - the Michaelson's Harmonic Analyzer; here is the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg
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by amatic 5y ago
To me, the greatest appeal of analog computing is in representing equations in mechanical, visual, directly modifiable, 'hands on' forms. Having different concrete representations or implementations of abstract concepts makes them
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by amatic 5y ago
Related SSC post: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence... The Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication
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by amatic 5y ago
Journals don't "do" anything, but the professors, PIs, postdocs, etc are evaluated for jobs or promotions based on the "quality" of their work approximated by the "quality" of the journals they were able t
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by amatic 5y ago
I would say the title should be "reciprocal" of a vector. Right? The inverse of a function (f^-1) has an unfortunate notation equality with the reciprocal (x^-1), or multiplicatory inverse. Or am I wrong?
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by amatic 5y ago
The whole point of statistics is dealing with those variable phenomena in psychology. Variability is the starting assumption. IMO, we need to find new methods of discovering non-variable and reproducibe phenomena. I like the theory that go
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by amatic 5y ago
Carbonara, though. Pasta, eggs, bacon, cheese and pepper. Pigs, cows and wheat came with the first farmers, some 6k years ago. Chicken around 2k years ago, but they could have used other eggs. Pepper much later, silk road trade. I imagine
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by amatic 5y ago
What are novel biologics?
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by amatic 5y ago
>Yet he also made contributions larger than anyone will ever do by filling up note-taking apps and tracking how much time they spent on their breakfast with a stopwatch. Maybe not the best example. Apparently, Newton took loads of notes,
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by amatic 5y ago
In Everything, try going to options -> folders, and add the google my drive folder. Seems to be working for me
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by amatic 5y ago
Apparently, there are some VS code extensions for Common Lisp, e.g. Alive: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rheller.... I will check it out.
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To combat climate change, we should build nuclear power plants(cnet.com)
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by amatic 5y ago
If it is safety regulation you're talking about, that is not exactly a plus for the local population. Sure, it is a non-renewable source of power, but it doesn't produce CO2 after it starts to operate. Ideally, it could be even us
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by amatic 5y ago
Is nuclear a better option then?
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by amatic 5y ago
What is happening now is, for example, USA/Canada building oil extraction platforms, possibly with fracking, in Botswana. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/new-oilf... Maybe the mo
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by amatic 5y ago
I was just looking for smaller scale iron spreading projects, and apparently this was already done, with mostly positive effects, wikipedia seems to have good info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization Ther
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by amatic 5y ago
Is there a brakedown of where does this money "spent on war" finaly go? Military personel salaries, rifles, tanks, airplanes, r&d?
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by amatic 5y ago
> Authors found X. Seems interesting. Here's how they're interpreting it. Here's my speculation. Agreed, that is mostly how it goes. On a similar note, null-hypothesis testing is not a true and tried scientific method. It
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by amatic 5y ago
> The equipment you get there is usually the result of a failed attempts by trained personal to fix things Are there statistics on how many things were successfully fixed vs how many ended up in the maintenance center? If not, that is a
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by amatic 5y ago
I'm learning to solve differential equations with analog computer techniques. I don't have access to an electronic or mechanical analog machine, only simulations, but I find simulations quite flexible and enjoyable. There are a lo
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by amatic 5y ago
> for scientific theories that actually have practical impacts, you don't have to just accept what scientists say on trust; you can look at their track record of correct predictions What do you think of economic theories or theories
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by amatic 5y ago
I've read the opposite from gwern - that nicotine is safe, and the carcinogens are mostly in the burning of tobacco products. He tested nicotine as a nootropic, apparently has significant effect.
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by amatic 5y ago
I quit smoking with Carr too, some half dozen times. It would last for a few months, then I would start again after a few beers. The latest trick, good for two years now, is using nicotine-free rolling herbs (edit: things they give as fille
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by amatic 5y ago
So... gay men are descendants of gay men who were raped by fertile women? Edit: of course not. I'm just pointing out the conclusion coming out of this: >Men who only sought sex with other men [...] have no descendants (unless a fert
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by amatic 5y ago
On the other hand, if you don't yet know a lot of NN math, like me, it is super surprising. Definitely a cool way to connect FFT and NNs.
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by amatic 5y ago
For some reason, viewing it on incognito mode simply gives the text without the gateway.
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by amatic 6y ago
It is written in go and compiled. Go is responsible for high parallelism. The fact it is compiled is an advantage over javascript-based bundlers because they are re-compiled every time you start building the source code (did I get that righ
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by amatic 6y ago
Amazing collection! I'm learning about backprop in neural networks and I'm reading how that kind of optimization may not be biologically 'implementable'. Are non-gradient based optimizers an alternative proposal for biol
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by amatic 6y ago
A 1979 article on ancient catapults, includes the description of the cube-root finding device: http://jaanmarss.planet.ee/juhendid/Kaugrelvad_Antiik-Kreeka...

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