belkarx

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Reconstructing Language from Non-Invasive Brain Recordings(twitter.com)
1 points by belkarx 4y ago|0 comments
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What Is Consciousness?(lesswrong.com)
1 points by belkarx 4y ago|0 comments
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by belkarx 4y ago
Transcranial direct current stimulation has been around for around 20 years, and it directly employs the concept he is experimenting with. Being able to more granularly map electrical activity to actions will greatly improve it as a non-inv
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by belkarx 4y ago
Key points that stuck out to me (the Youtube description does not do it justice - would highly recommend actually watching it): - Intelligence is the way something solves a problem, and is multi-dimensional, and things that we usually
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by belkarx 4y ago
This has nothing to do with focus - it's explaining cost-benefit analysis.
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Untapped Potential at 13-18(lesswrong.com)
2 points by belkarx 4y ago|1 comments
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by belkarx 4y ago
The book is amazing: http://www.dspguide.com/ (link for the lazy)
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Ask HN: Who Here Uses Lesswrong?
3 points by belkarx 4y ago|1 comments
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by belkarx 4y ago
I can see high-school me writing something like this, to be honest. If I had a bone to pick, I would go over the top to make a point
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by belkarx 4y ago
For anyone that missed the disclaimer at the top: This is satire and not a genuine letter from the past by some disgruntled college student (to be honest, I wasn't sure until I saw the notice)
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Our Daughter Isn't a Selfish Brat, Your Son Just Hasn't Read Atlas Shrugged (2010)(mcsweeneys.net)
59 points by belkarx 4y ago|58 comments
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by belkarx 4y ago
The disease casually mentioned ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica ) in the article is worth looking into as well - a ?virus? that causes coma, that appeared, wreaked havoc (affected ~1M people and ki
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by belkarx 4y ago
What are the disadvantages to this method in comparison to traditional CT/MRI scans? The only negative mentioned was the sheer amount of data produced (they didn't say anything about processing that data into an image which I as
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by belkarx 4y ago
With big-tech algorithms working against that, weakening their minds so they just accept the easy, clean route of what is put in front of them /s ... good luck :-)
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by belkarx 4y ago
To summarize this and bypass the clickbait title: Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a child prodigy with a PhD in mathematics and a MD (worked in radiology) decided the 3 or so jobs/fellowships he was juggling weren't enough and decided to sta
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by belkarx 4y ago
What speed do you use the first time around?
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by belkarx 4y ago
Another idea: decent, effective decks of cards exist for other platforms like Quizlet - just figure out how to convert them (there are apparently some extensions that do this as of now)
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by belkarx 4y ago
Noted, thanks, I'll check them out!
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by belkarx 4y ago
I was using Heroku, but thinking back it may have been just a factor of inexperience (I don't do web much, not had I used Heroku before and the UX is not great there). I can't actually remember which go framework I used, but I ass
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by belkarx 4y ago
I did it around 2 years ago: the web solutions were not very mature and it was poorly supported (but that's my subjective experience)
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by belkarx 4y ago
Can you support that? I'm sure it depends on the doses, and this makes me wonder how the risks compare as well
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by belkarx 4y ago
Better answer to the title question: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-o... Some researchers got together and devised questions that get to the vulnerable parts of a person'
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by belkarx 4y ago
Exactly. It's so much more prevalent when reading the transcript - you can see how many words are wasted and how much longer it takes to convey something in that form as opposed to an article, however it has the advantage of not enga
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by belkarx 4y ago
The process for making webapps in Rust seems extremely clean compared to other languages (or maybe I'm not exposed enough but I remember making things with Golang and even just JS was torture with common hosting solutions). Props to
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by belkarx 4y ago
Using an Upright MRI [0] (created to help claustrophobic patients and is relatively open) might help. [0] http://www.uprightmrideerfield.com/5-reasons-to-choose-uprig...
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by belkarx 4y ago
> These studies have revealed that psychedelics cause brain regions whose activity is normally robustly coupled to become less coordinated. And many regions that are usually only loosely connected start to communicate with each other mor
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by belkarx 4y ago
Excerpt from the wikipedia page that summarizes the relevant experiments: Published studies The first formal studies using memory implantation were published in the early 1990s, the most famous being "The Formation of False Memories&qu
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by belkarx 4y ago
You're incorrect on point 2. In many communities, schizoid/schizo does refer in a derogatory/shorthand manner to schizophrenia and many more people are familiar with schizophrenia than schizoid disorder, so that is more likel
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by belkarx 4y ago
Another source for simple to digest, useful fundamentals: https://file.tavsys.net/control/controls-engineering-in-frc.... This was originally created as a guide for high schoolers for robotics but goes into relative
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by belkarx 4y ago
I edited this for readability while maintaining as much of the style as possible. If doing that was offensive or not socially correct I can remove it. *** I am Michael Cao. I am from Viet Nam. I suffered from polio and became disabled when

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