burning_hamster

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by burning_hamster 3y ago
This is correct. For obvious reasons, selection pressures on terminal physiological processes are non-existent (or at least very small). Also, the press release makes it sound as this "wave of death" is something these people disc
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by burning_hamster 3y ago
You may like my Netgraph library [1], which is a Python library that aims to complement networkx, igraph, and graph-tool with publication-quality visualisations. Netgraph implements numerous node layout algorithms and several edge routing r
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by burning_hamster 3y ago
Also, a "Next example" button would be great.
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by burning_hamster 3y ago
I made the same error. OP, maybe instead of only giving the option to see the solution, also give the option to just see a hint?
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by burning_hamster 3y ago
I thought I knew at least the basics of typing in python but I learnt 3 new things in the first 5 minutes. Kudos, great work.
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by burning_hamster 3y ago
There has been a long discussion in the neuroscience community how neuronal firing encodes information. The two extremes of the proposed solutions are temporal coding and rate coding, but there are intermediate positions such as held by the
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by burning_hamster 3y ago
> "The neurons do not fire action potentials, and do not express any voltage-gated sodium channels." This an old and incorrect belief that largely derives from the difficulty of putting electrodes into their teeny, tiny neurons
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by burning_hamster 3y ago
They are fighting for storage because funding agencies only pay for new research, not the preservation of old research funded by someone else.
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by burning_hamster 4y ago
> It doesn't bring additional strength to the table Strong disagree. With Finland, NATO's control of the Baltic sea is insurmountable. Together with Turkey's control on the Black Sea, this completely cripples any Russian m
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by burning_hamster 4y ago
I will do that. Thanks for you suggestions.
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Ask HN: Someone copied my code but it is complicated. What do I do?
4 points by burning_hamster 4y ago|4 comments
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by burning_hamster 4y ago
The problem with plans like this are typically the seals. It is difficult to be a good sealant and chemically stable w.r.t. a variety of solvents and environmental stressors (heat, cold) for extended periods of time. Most seals get brittle
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by burning_hamster 4y ago
Inb4 any learning algorithm released in the next 20 years is claimed to be just a special case that can be learnt via this meta learning framework. (For the record, I do believe the man has been done dirty a few times. Hate the meme, not th
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by burning_hamster 4y ago
> And, more than that, it was tangible proof that other people liked my idea - which is emotionally satisfying. Not only emotionally satisfying. People forget how valuable such validation is for getting further funding.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
From the HN guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Like I said, I can't find the study right now, and I originally saw the data anywhere between 5-10 years ago. They may also have been measuring some cytokine. Even without AD, memories really aren't reliable over that time span. T
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
I am not sure I buy into the author's calcineurin/mitochondria hypothesis. There is a much more direct causal link as auto-immunity has been implicated in AD progression for years, e.g. [1-11]. I can't find the paper right no
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Good idea. I just set that up. I did do some manual googling around but could not find anything.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Yeah, that was my initial thought, too. However, why was it only a short spike then? A dev branch that got merged into master by accident? Also, none of the projects that depend on my repo (as listed on github) have a lot of traction.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Yeah, I did. There wasn't much there. A few more people than usual but well within the margin of error. The majority being referred from Google.
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Ask HN: With open source software, how do I find out where my users come from?
5 points by burning_hamster 5y ago|8 comments
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
The fact that your username is germinalphrase makes this exchange so much better.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
"Curious discourse in the 21st century" by dang. Title writes itself.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
In a similar vein, swap out the grinder for a shredder/wood chipper-type model. You will no longer have to cut the apples open, and you can fill it by the bucket rather than one-by-one. Much higher throughput.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
> But more than anything I like seeing this because I think it is a great demonstration that we are not nearly as reasonable or rational as we like to think we are, and sometimes you get the best results by anti-flock/antipattern th
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
> 3) Joe is anti-establishment. I don't think this is a bad thing, I happen to be fairly anti-establishment. But anti-establishment beliefs do not have the kind of readily accessible counterexamples that establishment beliefs have.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Terminal lucidity is a fairly well documented but not very well understood phenomenon. Here are a few review papers I could dig up in a couple of minutes: 2019: https://juniperpublishers.com/pmcij/PMCIJ.MS.ID.555601.php
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Your cynicism is misplaced as terminal lucidity is, in fact, a well documented phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_lucidity
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Pretty sure the vast majority of people turn up to collect their price (outside of pandemics).
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
> I'm not sure what possessed me to do this. Because you are not only a gentleman but also a scholar, dang!

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