andrewla

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by andrewla 1mo ago
The cube test is an interesting one, but, to pile on another stupid internet trend, that seems more like a "shape-rotator" vs. "word-cel" question. For very simple fold-ups I can do this, but for more complex decompositi
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by andrewla 1mo ago
Maybe you're right, but there are people on this thread claiming that they can actually see things in their field of vision, not "akin to seeing things" but see-see them. I can't do this and I don't think I have aph
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by andrewla 1mo ago
I actually agree with you about the "is my red the same as your red" -- I do not believe that aphantasia is real but simply that people are talking past each other and getting hung up on semantics. I see things with my eyes, exper
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by andrewla 1mo ago
In a sense I agree with you that this is the intent of the article. I find this kind of laughable because I do not consider myself to have aphantasia (I can visualize things just fine) but the afterimage test is not even vaguely representat
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by andrewla 1mo ago
So you would be "No, I cannot, and I don't think I have aphantasia" -- that's where I am too
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by andrewla 1mo ago
I created https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469365 to see how many people perceive things this way. It is quite possible that this is drawing a line, as you say, between hyperphantashia and regular phantasia, though I&
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by andrewla 1mo ago
I made a poll to see if anyone can (like D-Machine or jhedwards) actually see a superimposed image and not just "see" a superimposed image: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469365
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Poll: Are You Aphantastic
5 points by andrewla 1mo ago|10 comments
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by andrewla 1mo ago
No, I cannot, and I think I have aphantasia
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by andrewla 1mo ago
No, I cannot, and I don't think I have aphantasia
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by andrewla 1mo ago
Yes, I can, literally, not just imagine what it would look like
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by andrewla 1mo ago
I mean, I can look at a blank wall, and if you say "superimpose a red circle in the middle of the wall" I can very easily imagine that wall with a red circle on it. But I can't "see" it in the sense that you can see
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by andrewla 1mo ago
It would take a lot to convince me that aphantasia or phantasia actually exist. Let's talk very specifically about the afterimage test here. Can anyone confirm that they have this ability, which specifically is to superimpose imagined
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by andrewla 1mo ago
You also won't find Thomas making this argument for birthright citizenship because he didn't make that argument for birthright citizenship. The post you are replying to is incorrect, this was not his argument.
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by andrewla 1mo ago
"Paying taxes" cannot be an important part of this. At the time this amendment was passed, income taxes not only did not exist, but were also unconstitutional.
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by andrewla 1mo ago
I'm guessing that you did not actually read his dissent. Far from agreeing with the Trump administration; his view would effectively end birth tourism but preserve birthright citizenship (and maybe even stronger) for the children of no
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by andrewla 1mo ago
Obviously it doesn't scale, but buying from small sellers has the advantage that the risks are completely decoupled. You might get cyclosporin or whatever, but it's not going to be a million people being hit by the same thing.
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by andrewla 1mo ago
It's all client side -- someone (maybe me!) would spin up openkeychron from an old saved copy of the webpage and we'd be back in business in a day. Right now the keychron-hosted solution is fine -- no accounts or anything crazy --
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by andrewla 1mo ago
I don't expect to get any sort of explanation from Amazon of course. I do think they are probably doing something that is hurting them financially. Acquired goodwill is extremely hard to measure and shows up in things like long-term cu
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by andrewla 1mo ago
I have used this shop, but I do not agree that the experience is a good one. It is abysmal -- the standard for tiktok shop / aliexpress / temu is to offer you all sorts of "deals" that never actually apply. "Oh, you
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by andrewla 1mo ago
It's confusing to me that amazon is in the ads business at all though. They're a retail service, not an ad business and it seems that all the ad business does is burn goodwill. They do have goodwill to burn, but it cheapens the en
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by andrewla 1mo ago
This project is more deeply technical but one thing I find fun is to take a video from a moving train and create a video stereogram by having one eye lagging in time/distance behind the other eye, letting you create very long baseline
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by andrewla 1mo ago
In Python there are definitely times with large environments where you get combinatorial corners where things go exponential -- at scale processing user workloads and environments we've definitely hit sharp corners here. Switching to b
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by andrewla 1mo ago
Very true! What makes NP-hard problems difficult is almost always the combinatorial explosion related to specific problem configurations -- you can construct instances given an approximate heuristic or branch-and-bound solver that will caus
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by andrewla 2mo ago
In all fairness, *I'm* not trying to solve anything with technology. I'm arguing that it *can't* be solved with technology.
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by andrewla 2mo ago
No, this is like saying that we should hold the fax machine liable for one PD faxing an APB to another one, or the concept of radio waves responsible when a PD dispatcher announcement for a a BOLO.
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by andrewla 2mo ago
1. I for one do not want "Flock Safety" in the loop for this at all. Police departments can flag a license plate in the system; that's on them. Flock is just a tool for departments to communicate what would previously have be
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by andrewla 2mo ago
If a human had spotted the license plate that had been flagged with an All Points Bulletin or an Amber Alert the same outcome would have occurred. It's hard to see why Flock is even mentioned in this except for clickbait purposes. From
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by andrewla 2mo ago
This is the correct answer. The problem is that copyright law was created in a higher friction environment and it cannot adapt to the present. If I bought a book, made a xerox of the whole thing, and then sold the book to another party, I h
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by andrewla 2mo ago
Blockchain solves the double spend and ownership problems, but it does requires (a) that you be connected to the internet to establish or transfer ownership, and (b) that any consumer of encrypted data respect the blockchain state as well.

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