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by c3534l 11y ago
Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia IIRC.
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by c3534l 11y ago
Yup. There's even a strange thing where as we get older, our perception of low tones changes so that music that sounds out of tune for an 18 year old sounds great to an 80 year old.
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by c3534l 11y ago
I'm curious as to what the placebo they used was. It'd have to be something that could be mistaken for cocaine in low doses, otherwise it's not worth much as a placebo in this trial.
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by c3534l 11y ago
I actually found it a little odd that Beethoven was mentioned, since it he was a big fan of equal temperment. His 5th symphony was largely written to explore the idea. In well tempered tunings, you have to play around a central "root n
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by c3534l 11y ago
Most practitioners already tailor their treatment to what has been found to be beneficial to drug use and even the drug specifically. Heroin users can die if they go from heavy usage to no usage and prescriptions are needed. A user who drin
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by c3534l 11y ago
I feel like this is arguing semantics. Drug addiction is a problem that you can seek help for and should. There are physical components to it and psychological components. The author doesn't seem to be describing anything fundamentally
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by c3534l 11y ago
If it's a short sale, then Nassim already has the money and is actually the one at risk of not being able to pay if the price skyrockets. There is a bottom to how low a stock can go, but no theoretical upper limit. Although realistical
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by c3534l 11y ago
tldr; latest fad diet is bullshit
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by c3534l 11y ago
That doesn't answer whether or not "Amersterdam plot" was an existing idiom. I've never heard of it personally.
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by c3534l 11y ago
An example of the A* search algorithm in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8
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by c3534l 11y ago
“We don’t comment on matters of national security” Wow, they really think that's what they're doing, don't they? Nothing above and beyond here, right? BTW, I was actually surveyed by AT&T on the phone when the news that t
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by c3534l 11y ago
I can't think of anyone I'd rather hear from on death. This man spent his life trying to understand and communicate what it was to exist as a human being, what it was to be conscious, how we see and interpret the world. He wrote s
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by c3534l 11y ago
Even in 1906 when Upton Sinclair's expose on the meat industry, The Jungle, leading to a storm of national controversy, heaps of legislation, and the founding of the FDA - at no point do I recall in that book Sinclair mentioning anyone
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by c3534l 11y ago
I know that in accounting there are some very clear rules about being hired by a company you were previously meant to help oversee. According to [this]( http://pcaobus.org/Standards/EI/Documents/ISB3.pdf ) (I d
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by c3534l 11y ago
I think the real reason is that no matter what crazy machine learning idea you want to implement, you basically just import the data and pass it to a function. Bam. You just trained a convolutional neural net. Calculate the hamming distance
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by c3534l 11y ago
> I teach from a scientific perspective—everything from Freud’s interpretation of dreams Freud's ideas about dreams weren't exactly scientific.