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by bbor 2y ago
For clarity: I'm a pandoc diehard (especially because it's written by a philosopher!) but it intentionally doesn't approach this level of functionality, AFAIK.
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by bbor 2y ago
I still have lots of questions, but I think that's on me haha. Thanks so much for taking the time for this, and for pushing forward the human race in such a groundbreaking manner. Hope y'all are doing well in these dark times.
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, I love this -- all the more so because it's implemented in Javascript! The purists are spinning in their beds/graves, but it clearly made the visualization and audio followup steps easier, at the very least. The visuals are k
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by bbor 2y ago
Why have two terms for the same thing? Well, the alternative is "focuses on empirical work" -- every defined term is inherently redundant, I'd say. Mathematical and philosophical work simply aren't the same a
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by bbor 2y ago
Hmm, I see, I think understand a bit better now -- thanks. Is it fair to say that their claims about spatial resolution being >>> existing EEG options are jumping the gun? If I understand correctly, you need to be targeting individ
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by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating — I thought ultrasound was already regularly in use for reading oxygenation levels, I had no idea it was new!! I’ve gotta try this. I don’t love the modulation side, but the measurement side is incredible. Invasive tech is unnec
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by bbor 2y ago
Very true and well put, but IMHO that's not a productive definition of "scientist". You're definitely on the side of common usage, but this is one of the many hills I'd die on; all scientists necessarily employ intu
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by bbor 2y ago
I love the joke, but tbf React and Next.js have shown some serious sticking power so far, and show no sign of slowing. Also, JavaScript is so 2022, TypeScript is mandatory now IMO!
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by bbor 2y ago
Well I’d encourage you to follow your dreams/preferences and adjust your spending accordingly, especially now that the recent mini-shock reminded us that absurd salaries can’t always be the norm, but; IEEE puts out an incredible report
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by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating! Reminds me of the new generation of AR headsets (eg Orion) that are making the impossible possible simply by adding an ANN(-derived) layer above some their of device controllers. I wonder how many problems will fundamentally ch
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by bbor 2y ago
Lol whenever you can so casually say that a great scientist is wrong, that might be a good heuristic to know you misunderstood the question. It's a philosophical paradox stemming from our conception of species, not an empirical questio
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by bbor 2y ago
The title is XKCD-style Nerd Sniping ;) The body of the article is about how a unicellular species formed multicellular-/animal-like groups via 'polar' division. I don't really understand what the difference between a co
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah, asylum isn’t great. But Fascism is serious stuff. I recommend reading the stories of the great scientists who left the third reich as it was ramping up—who faced discrimination, loneliness, poverty, and severe career setbacks-and comp
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by bbor 2y ago
The devil doesn't exist, and real life is complicated. Have fun telling the living Palestinians "whelp, a lot of you already died, so we're gonna let the rest of you die/be deported to a country you've never been to
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by bbor 2y ago
For context: there are 4,453,908 Muslim Americans and 1,698,570 Arab Americans as of the 2010 census. The DSA, by far the largest leftist organization, has about 80,000 members. Even if all three of those groups don't overlap at all, i
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by bbor 2y ago
Well the start isn’t great, just from a scientific perspective: Before we get into the politics of this argument, let's first go back in time, way back before agriculture, and think about a small band of humans that includes you an
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by bbor 2y ago
Why…? In all of Europe?
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by bbor 2y ago
Yes but many European countries process asylum applications. For software engineers, you may be able to just migrate legally using a work visa anyway — even the notoriously picky New Zealand has a special program just for us, though it’s li
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by bbor 2y ago
They nominated one of the most progressive senators to ever serve, promised huge changes to Medicaid and home buying assistance, protecting abortion access, and legalized marijuana. Oh, and “believes in democracy”. That’s a lot, lot more th
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by bbor 2y ago
Ok I love the thesis in the title but the framing’s kinda silly — comes off as dramatic libertarian stuff more than a sober analysis. This doesn’t help: But even after this decision, the executive bears little resemblance to James’s sys
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by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! It should probably be highlighted tho that there were absolutely waves of relative interest (~1790-1840 and ~1890-1910, at least), and it was outlawed almost everywhere by the mid 1800s, which obviously mean
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by bbor 2y ago
Or really day trading in its entirety, IMHO. Imagine I had a casino game that all the best experts insist you have slim-to-no chance of beating the odds on, and that countless hordes of people just like you have lost their life savings on.
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by bbor 2y ago
Sure you can, especially if you’re rich! You just can’t reliably know when you can reliably win money ;) Epistemology strikes yet again
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by bbor 2y ago
I get where you’re coming from (so ridiculous…) but I would put too much stock into the various kinds of republics. They’re just labeling ostensible governmental systems, not trying to characterize relative levels of freedom. And y’all ki
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by bbor 2y ago
Hmm that's a good point, but IMO the distinction isn't sharp enough to make a big deal over. The core idea of SoM as I see it is that human cognition is often quite decentralized, and that any illusion of a unified self is constru
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah XKCD reminds us that something that "everyone knows" is taught to 10,000/day and we should have empathy, but I definitely think this is one of those situations. If you're curious how this could happen, there's
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by bbor 2y ago
The map is current cables, for reference :) https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ AFAICT this post isn't "false" as much as "speculation". Given the news that a cable will be spanning the Atlantic oc
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, you are maybe the first person I’ve seen cite Minsky on HN, which is surprising since he’s arguably the most influential AI researcher of all time, maybe short of Turing or Pearl. To add on to the endorsement: the cover of the book is
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Pydantic's other open source projects(pydantic.dev)
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by bbor 2y ago
Yes, good sense for progress! This has been a central design component of most serious AI work since the ~90s, most notably popularized by Marvin Minsky’s The Society of Mind . Highly, highly recommend for anyone with an interest in the mi

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