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by anon291 1y ago
I'm not sure about that particular claim, but in general, skin color and phenotype are not perfectly correlated with ancestry. The immediate objection is the obvious one... "What do you mean? Why do Chinese people look Chinese, or
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by anon291 1y ago
Also population bottlenecks. Only a handful of populations left Africa, whereas many remained back.
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by anon291 1y ago
It's harder now because now you live in America and are used to seeing all these people as Americans, and then as members of whatever racial consciousness we have in America. Back in those respective countries, they can tell everyone
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by anon291 1y ago
A peeled potato is similarly bad for you if eaten in the same density as rice in Asian cuisines. The typical Asian dish is served with the equivalent of 3-4 potatoes of rice.
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by anon291 1y ago
Yes this is because they walk. It really has nothing to do with food if you're at the activity level of the typical American (which is zero, to be clear).
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by anon291 1y ago
You can get energy from fat. No human on hacker news except for elite athletes are running multiple miles per day continuously in the way our ancestors may have. And honestly, you still don't really need sugar for that as your body ada
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by anon291 1y ago
I first understood this when I noticed that by avoiding white rice for lunch, I was more energetic in the afternoon. Unfortunately, in Indian culture, it's very common to eat rice at every meal and the corresponding sugar drop is a hug
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by anon291 1y ago
I eat a handful of grains a day. Sometimes I make an exception for oatmeal. Anymore, is too much for me. I don't eat added sugar regularly. > I don’t eat meat so it’s tricky to meet my Calorie needs by cutting out rice and increasin
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by anon291 1y ago
Meh. I agree keto is too much ,but a standard 'low carb' diet is closer to how we should be eating instead of the carb heavy diet that is typical. You don't need THAT many carbs to feel energetic. But yeah some is nice
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by anon291 1y ago
This 'truth' is not always true. For binary questions, teaching to measure makes sense
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by anon291 1y ago
'Teaching to the test' has not caused the drop in literacy. Rather, it's teaching reading using bizarre methods, like whole word recognition instead of phonics. This has nothing to do with 'teaching to the test', si
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by anon291 1y ago
This nuance becomes reasonable in high school / college. For elementary schoolers, it's actually a great binary. Can you do two-digit addition or not is a pretty straightforwards question? Same with... can you identify grammar err
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by anon291 1y ago
'anon' accounts. I assure you I'm a real person. That, or I've managed to construct the most niche persona I can imagine lol. In reality, I live in bluer-than-blue oregon with a literacy rate of 89%, which is lower than
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by anon291 1y ago
Honestly, being flat speaks to a great deal of the success of Texas, since nationally, scores are decreasing: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38
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by anon291 1y ago
Because they're both very Catholic. My Catholic parish was filled with this exact mixing. Easter Vigil Mass would be said in three languages -- English, Spanish, Vietnamese, complete with Mexican-Vietnamese Catholic hymn mashups (singi
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by anon291 1y ago
I grew up in SoCal (Westminster in particular), which is highly vietnamese, and in the context of SoCal, which is VERY Mexican. So, honestly, this aesthetic is very familiar to me. Most of my school friends(mexican and vietnamese) growing u
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by anon291 1y ago
The government controls the migration system independent of Harvard. The prestige networks people perceive as existing are actually just plot devices for Hollywood. Obvious answer is obvious.
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by anon291 1y ago
Yeah, so this is an operational transform where the transform operation is just identity.
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by anon291 1y ago
The single-word for the concept of 'brotherly love' in english is 'camaraderie' in traditional usage or 'bromance' in colloquial American english.
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by anon291 1y ago
I have very good drill bits. Old growth wood is like nothing you've ever seen before. I'd rather have a house made of it than anything else. Stuff is as hard as a rock. Harder I'd bet. My drill has no issue driving through
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by anon291 1y ago
I've lost many a titanium drill bit to old growth wood in my 1921 home. Insanely difficult and hard stuff. It's crazy that we consider it the same material.
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by anon291 1y ago
I mean... WINE does the same on windows, but microsoft refuses to release their API docs for all internal APIs. They release WSL by relying on Linux's open-ness, while refusing the same for themselves.
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by anon291 1y ago
Umbrella insurance is very cheap, and if you have any money at all, you should have it.
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by anon291 1y ago
This is because normal execution and async functions form distinct closed Cartesian categories in which the normal execution category is directly embeddable in the async one. All functions have color (i.e. particular categories in which the
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by anon291 1y ago
I have natural persistence of fetal hemoglobin which counteracts my inherited thalassemia trait. No problems really..never knew I had it until I was told I had thalassemia trait as part of genetic testing. My hemoglobin panel shows fetal he
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by anon291 1y ago
Everything about this makes sense. I've long-called for similar efforts in America. It's painful to watch my local transit agency (Portland) expend so much money on figuring out transit routes. Endless committees, focus groups, et
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by anon291 1y ago
Transformers are very close to some types of feed forward networks. The difference is that transformers can be trained in parallel without the need for auto-regression (which is slow, for training, but kind of nice for streaming , low-laten
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by anon291 1y ago
If you can tie in a loss function for a neural network into the quantum excitement state of a quantum system, then presumably, letting the system settle at the energy minimum would be equivalent to a training step, but perhaps much faster.
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by anon291 1y ago
There is more fundamental ML research today than at any other point in history, including in non-transformer architectures. That is my point. It doesn't seem that way because 90%+ of 'ML research' has nothing to do with funda
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by anon291 1y ago
It's true, but you can't deny the importance of the architecture. It's pretty clear that using simple perceptrons would not have led us down the same path.

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