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by biofox 10y ago
This is one of the simplest, and most useful, explanations for religious belief I've seen. Thank you! There's a tendency to write off creationists and theists as completely irrational and stupid, without giving any thought to thei
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by biofox 10y ago
I have found the Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography useful for directing self-study: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm Previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by biofox 10y ago
The sight of a few immigrants in an otherwise white British community is probably more shocking for the locals than it would be in a metropolitan area with a large immigrant population.
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by biofox 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. I had switched over to hn.premii.com for mobile browsing solely for the ability to collapse comments, and only recently discovered its addition here.
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by biofox 10y ago
Sounds like this might be interesting, but I have no idea why unconferences are growing in popularity. In my experience the only differences to conferences is that they are poorly organised and have fewer high calibre attendees. Am I missin
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by biofox 10y ago
Some of them are listed on the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA Notable ones that caught my attention: internet (ARPANET), satellite navigation (transit), time-sharing computing (multics), onion rou
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by biofox 10y ago
Not to mention interactive displays acting as fomites.
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by biofox 10y ago
The trade embargoes haven't help. If we'd been more active in engaging North Korea on friendly terms, maybe they would have developed along a similar route as China. It seems like we're trying to squeeze them till they collap
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by biofox 10y ago
I think it would. As things are at the moment, biologists spend most of their time doing repetitive manual labour. One of the most promising things I've seen is the Emerald Cloud Lab, but it's still a long way off from what's
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by biofox 10y ago
The problem isn't the number of neurons and their connections, but the complexity and diversity of them. There are hundreds of signalling molecules and receptors that haven't been characterised. Some molecules diffuse over long di
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by biofox 10y ago
To add to this, I find modern UI design hinders exploration and experimentation, which is typically how people learn to interact with new objects. When options are hidden behind strange gestures, off-screen menus, and obscure icons, how are
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by biofox 10y ago
I think a lot of the issues come from conflating positive and negative eugenics. Promoting and enabling people to have healthier progeny is in no way comparable to forcibly removing people from the gene pool through sterilisation or murder.
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by biofox 10y ago
I find these reports both exciting and deeply reassuring. As research in the west becomes more politicised and regulated (the biosciences especially), having serious Chinese investments in science, with aspirations to become world leaders,
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by biofox 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Research According to Wikipedia, they are also the world's largest industrial research organization.
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by biofox 10y ago
For those in the UK, there is the British Gut Project: http://britishgut.org/
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by biofox 11y ago
Searchable online version of the BBC Doomsday data: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday
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by biofox 11y ago
For the most part, cancer and heart disease are diseases of old age. Young people rarely die of them.
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by biofox 11y ago
I couldn't agree more about funding SENS related research. I think focusing on extended lifespan misses the point though (although it's a nice side benefit). The diseases of old age cause more suffering than everything else combin
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by biofox 11y ago
I think you overestimate the amount of brain matter required to maintain personality. It is possible to lose an entire brain hemisphere and retain complete functionality (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectom
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by biofox 11y ago
Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry from Friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc
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by biofox 11y ago
I agree with you to an extent -- it's all computation, after all -- but I don't think we're too far off from understanding the brain. We know a good deal about how the individual cells work at the molecular / electrophys
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by biofox 11y ago
Rust: a modern jeep? Bears some resemblance to the original, is safer to drive, but will never have the same iconic status.
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by biofox 11y ago
A dune buggy. Fast and lightweight, but you have to put it together yourself.
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If programming languages were vehicles(crashworks.org)
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by biofox 11y ago
Thank you! I also find this task difficult. Knowing I'm not the only one is reassuring.
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by biofox 13y ago
"Why can't I find a list of some of the largest and most robust systematic reviews and meta anlyses ever done?" The Cochrane Collaboration is the closest thing I know of: http://www.cochrane.org/ http:/
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by biofox 13y ago
There are at least two Nobel Laureates who have used LSD: Kary Mullis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis Francis Crick http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/science/11book.html?_r=
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by biofox 13y ago
This. And we've had the complete wiring diagram for its brain for over 20 years. There's a wide-spread assumption that knowing the brain's connectivity will be sufficient to emulate its function, but there's so much abou
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Music recorded entirely from original hardware: http://www.kohina.com/
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by biofox 13y ago
When I'm drifting off to sleep, I frequently hallucinate polyphonic songs. Real time composition. P=NP? :)

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