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2D canvases have a whole dimension spare, so why not make it semantically rich?(twitter.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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How Old Are These Keys? Five Eras of Human Progress(breckyunits.com)
14 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
> no one has figured out a use for quantum computers. It is my understanding that a use is very straightforward: quickly solving problems in the Big(O) Factorial Class (n!). I could be misunderstanding QC though.
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by breck 3y ago
I paid $10 for BoxySVG a couple of years ago on Mac and it's been a solid little tool. https://boxy-svg.com/
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by breck 3y ago
Physical activity, and social activity, and interacting with the world (guitar) are all critical too. But have you "tried a hobby(s) building things in the real world"? Movement is great, but in addition to that I'm specifica
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by breck 3y ago
Have you tried a hobby(s) building things in the real world (ie cooking, pottery, camping, auto work, carpentry, et cetera)?
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by breck 3y ago
> For me excess Omega-6’s appear to result directly and repeatedly Have you looked into what the biomechanisms might be? What is Omega-6? What happens to Omega-6 once it goes down your esophagus? Where in the body does it go? Does it cro
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by breck 3y ago
> I have been on a ketogenic diet for the last 20 years, long before it became fashionable. Wow! Have you written anything about your experience? Would love to read it.
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New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry(lister-institute.org.uk)
21 points by breck 3y ago|19 comments
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“Dynamicland’s new website will be here in May 2024”(dynamicland.org)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
> I think that the 45 years of life leading up to my first publication were a big part of what made me able to write something worth publishing. "Before you can write the book, you have to be the book."
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Dr. B's Chemistry Guides(breslyn.org)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
I never knew that. Thanks. A good example of disastrous 2nd order effects.
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by breck 3y ago
Yes, I think this is the more likely explanation, rather than the sinister story provided (afaik). I also use ChatGPT more than Google now. LLMs are the future. Making your search engine worse to squeeze profits now is not as big a deal as
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Big O's Kitchen(breckyunits.com)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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Milan Art Installation(twitter.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
Their website (2021 version): https://web.archive.org/web/20210311020240/https://datakalab...
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Show HN: Source Code for CSVs(scroll.pub)
6 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
> Complex things requires easy to use systems that reflect that complexity...how do we build these methods of communication and understanding? We've had the wetware for understanding complex systems for thousands of years. We added
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Intel's Newest $350M Machine [video](youtube.com)
3 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
Pardon the cliffhanger style. I have begun crafting an explanation, but not sure when it will be ready. But when you recognize that thinking predates symbolic language, and start thinking about what thinking needs, you get closer to the ans
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by breck 3y ago
> Does writing riddles help anyone? Pardon the cliffhanger style. I have begun crafting an explanation, but not sure when it will be ready. But when you recognize that thinking predates symbolic language, and start thinking about what th
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by breck 3y ago
The language before language.
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by breck 3y ago
> _The_ (one) root reason? Ok, I’ll bite. A "secret" hiding in plain sight.
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by breck 3y ago
There certainly is intervention. I'm undecided about whether that intervention is the primary contributor to the high pay.
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by breck 3y ago
Awesome, look forward to reading it!
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by breck 3y ago
I think before 2022 it was still an open question whether it was a good approach. Now it's clear that knowledge graphs are far inferior to deep neural nets, but even still few people can explain the _root_ reason why. I don't thin
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by breck 3y ago
I tried to make something along these lines ( https://truebase.treenotation.org/ ). My approach, Cyc's, and others are fundamentally flawed for the same reason. There's a low level reason why deep nets work and symb
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by breck 3y ago
Diamond is 300x harder than gold. So it goes with ideas. The question isn't whether diamonds exist, it is whether laws artificially restrict the supply of diamonds? If, in your example, these $0.001 savings opportunities were quickly m
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by breck 3y ago
Yes there is no government intervention in who can be a programmer, but that's not what the issue might be. Might it be the stuff that programmers work with, the inputs and outputs of the craft, that are covered by laws that create an

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