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The Importance of Cognitive Endurance(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by asplake 3y ago|0 comments
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One of Evolution’s Biggest Moments Was Re-Created in a Year(theatlantic.com)
7 points by asplake 3y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 3y ago
…in computer systems. And I wasn’t arguing for full decentralisation either
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by asplake 3y ago
As long ago as the 70s and perhaps earlier, the cybernetics community – people like Ashby, Conant, Beer – might have argued its non-viability (I choose that word deliberately) on information-theoretic grounds. The centre has neither the com
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by asplake 3y ago
> That probably means this vulnerability exists in some other wallet implementations which is concerning…
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by asplake 3y ago
About the yellow flame, another explanation would be sodium from the salt. My daughter’s saline nebuliser does that to our cooker, even from the next room.
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by asplake 3y ago
Also oldish. In our household we refer to coins as “parking tokens”, but even that usage is becoming obsolete (notwithstanding that parking machine UX is too often a horror show)
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by asplake 3y ago
> a method to reduce estimation error of the leading eigenvector Might this have application to principal component analysis or other ML techniques?
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by asplake 3y ago
I didn’t see anything in your post describing either feelings or homeostasis. That’s its core thesis
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by asplake 3y ago
> In sum, we propose that consciousness is the result of the continued presence of homeostatic feelings.
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by asplake 4y ago
Also mentioned today in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35633201 My comment on that comment: note that LinkedIn disadvantages content with links. A workaround is to put the links into comments, but you ha
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by asplake 4y ago
Upvoted, but note that LinkedIn disadvantages content with links. A workaround is to put the links into comments, but you have little control over their prominence.
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by asplake 4y ago
> But last May, three physicists proved that the 1969 verdict was only half the story. It wasn’t just that the presupposed symmetry wasn’t there — it was that higher symmetries were. And when those symmetries were incorporated into the t
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by asplake 4y ago
Imagine a spherical cow, then make it really, really tiny
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by asplake 4y ago
Point 11 surprised me. Not the “go” thing but the “where” syntax – I wish more languages had it!
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by asplake 4y ago
I have one and am very pleased with it. Before that a Rav4 hybrid, one of best cars I have ever owned. I found Toyota’s past resistance to EVs embarrassing. This is a very welcome step.
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by asplake 4y ago
Purchased the audiobook, thanks!
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by asplake 4y ago
Meanwhile from the sci-fi department, got to mention the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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by asplake 4y ago
A better manager understands that everyone’s experience is different, and the role you play in others’ stories isn’t entirely your choice. Just getting to the bottom of that takes effort in itself.
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Chrome will support the WebGPU API by default–here’s why that’s important(arstechnica.com)
8 points by asplake 4y ago|1 comments
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by asplake 4y ago
Some IT and some operations. When UBS and Swissbank merged, the international businesses’ systems were “integrated” for the most part by trading positions across. UBS systems were mostly switched off in favour of their corresponding Swissba
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by asplake 4y ago
Ah yes, organisational benchmarking. Is that the one where you tell your investment bank client that it’s not doing enough in mortgage-backed securities, just before the credit crisis hits? Not that I’m bitter or anything (honestly), but f
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by asplake 4y ago
Or: Why app stores are a thing
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by asplake 4y ago
How much of that do you think is due to laziness specifically and not GC?
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by asplake 4y ago
Wow: “Meanwhile they were heating up, mainly from the radioactive element Aluminum-26. The amount of energy this element released during the first 2 to 3 million years of solar system history amounts to more than all of the heat released by
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by asplake 4y ago
Better link: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/23/accenture-to-cut-19000-job...
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BBC advises staff to delete TikTok from their work phones(bbc.co.uk)
40 points by asplake 4y ago|10 comments
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by asplake 4y ago
By whom? Sustained how?
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by asplake 4y ago
I majored in maths, did as much computing as I could (even getting special dispensation along the way to drop statistics), and passed on the philosophy and business options. It worked out well enough (I got a 1st), but still, nearly 40 year
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by asplake 4y ago
Just give us the option to pay. Some might call it an insurance premium. (And yes my satire detector is triggered, though one can never be sure)

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