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by castle-bravo 9y ago
There might be something to that. IIRC, intestinal flora synthesize serotonin [0]. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393509/
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Unfortunately our (speaking as a Canadian) system doesn't seem to be truly liberal or democratic. Every five years or so, we elect a parliamentary elite selected for us by the Toronto business community. The the parliament does its bes
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I agree. It irks me to see apologia for dictatorship.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
A more humble suggestion for saving the Earth: re-plant the trees that went into packaging Amazon's deliveries.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I suggest you take a look at Project Euler [0]. It's a bunch of math puzzles that usually require programming to solve. In order to solve most problems in a reasonable amount of time, you'll need to use results from number theory
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Thanks for taking time to write such a long response. I've bookmarked your website.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Would planting trees do the trick?
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I think there are two main kinds of criticism here; the first comes from people who think a lot of published work is misleading at best and fraudulent at worst (see replicability crisis); the second comes from people who think there's
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I've been spending too much time on HN; when I read 'Enchidrion', my first thought was that was a new cryptocoin.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I don't have kids and I don't know anybody who has kids on ADHD medication, so I'm ignorant about this, but I have a hard time believing that people put their kids on stimulants without knowing what these drugs are and what t
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
That's what the scissors and glue are for.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
This is a hypothetical question unrelated to China's activities in Xinjiang: If I take an ethnic group off their land, put them in camps, force them to perform hard labour and prevent them from raising children, but do not murder any o
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
What's the difference between a re-education camp and a concentration camp? Under what circumstances could Chinese treatment of Uighurs be considered genocide? Is there a red line of moral outrage that if crossed, would result in a boy
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Well shit. I guess teaching languages designed by academicians aren't for you. Same goes for blog posts written by random amateurs on the internet. A whole three tutorials, too! You should ask for a refund.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Do you think this could be used by rental agencies and car sharing services without having to be managed by Porsche? What about privacy; would it be possible to identify the current occupant of a particular car from inspecting a public ledg
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Well, after a few tutorials you should have noticed that it's a high-level language with clean syntax and a compiler that produces relatively fast binaries. That's a start. What else were you expecting?
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
"Google's self-fitting curves turn bootcamp graduates into spreadsheet users"
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Is it really fair to blame the Swiss for the behaviour of your politicians? I'm not convinced.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I am not qualified to speak authoritatively on this matter, but here's how I see it: Psychopaths are mutant parasites. They lack certain abilities that enable them to integrate well into human groups and would not survive well in the p
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Right? For me it was like: MOLY SHEET! I don't /know/ anything . What do you do with that dropped on your head? You can't rule anything out on the basis that other people would find it hard to swallow. If you've
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Parent post may be referring to the infamous Pirate Bay, from which you can obtain links to torrents of textbooks. Another source is Library Genesis, which is a russion site hosting many technical books - the URL changes sometimes, but a qu
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
My phone is currently throttled to 8kB/s. The only thing I can read is Hackernews; this is a well-built site.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Read Tombstone by Yang Jisheng.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I wonder if they could also extract elements from seawater to assemble munitions. I used to think military spending was wasteful, but the technology is just too fascinating; I get a thrill just from thinking about it.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Maybe it knows you're always late for meetings and appointments and is giving you a subtle hint that you need to up your game and get a watch. ;) That, or their model has found a correlation between liking chairs, plants, and watches b
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Here's my pitch: LibreOffice can do everything MS Office can do and it'll save you 2.3M$ up front.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
In Canada right now there is a lot of buzz around cannabis startups. I think there's definitely a synergy there that could be exploited by the diesel industry: cannabis diesel additives that offset the harmful health effects of diesel
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
What happened to the 4th amendment?
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Can you elaborate a bit? The connection between error correction codes and spiking neural networks isn't obvious to me.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
From what little I've gathered about the subject, I think so. Spiking neural networks would be orders of magnitude more energy efficient than deep neural networks for image and audio processing. The main hurdle lies in designing networ

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