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by ckemere 4y ago
Historically, war has been something where a truly large number of people and a large fraction of world economy could be "united". It's hard to imagine a disaster that would require the same level of both world GDP focus AND
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My takeaway from the article was that rather than spending lots of cognitive effort/ capital on language, we should invest in improving access for the disabledn and marginalized, actually stand up for the poor, etc. For people like me
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Semi-contrarian position here - I've never liked Dahl, and I was always annoyed by how he was pushed on me by the literary types in early school (the same ones that wanted me to read The Great Gatsby and The Stranger eventually). But I
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Can someone explain what "flagged" means? Is it a reflection of link content or discussion?
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by ckemere 4y ago
Please let this be real!
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10,000 respondents out of 160,000 students without other filtering information is hardly useful data?
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It's really unfortunate that the comment chain attached to the queer aspects of your comment, because it seems that the communal living/ off-grid aspects are more interesting. I think that the article is lamenting the idea that th
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by ckemere 4y ago
Has anyone else had trouble with Google takeout? I tried to download my GMail history and it just failed with no extra info. (I made a post about this that didn't get any traction... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by ckemere 4y ago
Seems like a microscope with a motorized stage could do this pretty easily?
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Ask HN: Has anyone else had trouble with Google Takeout
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Small business prospers removing confederate statues(washingtonpost.com)
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Plus one to this. The reason we make students read and write is to teach them what good communication is. ChatGPT currently produces (and likely will continue to produce for a while) mediocre prose. How do I know that? Because I've rea
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by ckemere 4y ago
You could imagine filing firmware updates with the FDA to be released if the company ever stops providing support?
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Maybe a related big difference is that McMaster Carr actually know what they sell?
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Does anyone remember Small Parts? They had an awesome catalog somewhat akin to McMaster. When Amazon bought them out, for a year or two, Amazon search maintained the really detailed category stuff and was approaching McMaster utility for th
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Unmentioned is the helpful explanation text in some categories, for example if you search for "compressed air fittings", you get a small box labeled "How to Identify and Measure Fittings" at the top of the page that can
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by ckemere 4y ago
My annoyance is with the articles presentation. It leads to the kind of analogies that you're making. I think the most clarifying thought I've had is that people (and the article) are imagining that Neuralink is doing a clinical t
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by ckemere 4y ago
TLDR - not sure why I'm getting fired up about this. Thanks for your interest, here's a long form answer. To be clear - I think referring to the sum of Neuralink's in vivo work as "trials" is a misnomer. They are do
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by ckemere 4y ago
*Developing* a brain machine interface technology requires many animals because the key unknowns have to do with acquiring, processing, and manipulating brain signals (so no in vitro model). Once the technology is working, and a particular
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by ckemere 4y ago
> So one day it may be used for a cardiac procedure, the next day some kind of skin drug Our IACUC will not allow this. The general policy from the Guide to Animal Care (NIH document which governs PHS funded research in the US) is in fac
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by ckemere 4y ago
I don't understand this comment. Does an artificial heart need an onboard GPU to do the required real time signal processing? Does a arthroscopic robot localize the head of the device with < 10 um accuracy? I realize I'm coming
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by ckemere 4y ago
The purpose of my comment was to point out that no one, AFAIK, has actually attempted to outgas the meat or evaluate whether buprenorphine survives cooking. And it is wasteful, in the sense that if they don't need to do cardiac perfu
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I'd argue that the brain and the heart are at least 2 orders of complexity apart. Granted many neurologists try to treat the brain as if they were similar, and current brain implants essentially function as pacemakers, but I think most
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by ckemere 4y ago
Synchron is not nearly in the "same space". Comparing their active stents to Neuralink's implants is like comparing a current Timex G-Shock to the new Apple dive watch. (Which is to say both are cool, but one requires evoluti
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by ckemere 4y ago
Just to be clear - this hot take is completely wrong. The Animal Welfare Act has rules that proscribe that certain kinds of complaints around animal research in mammals other than rats and mice have to be investigated by the USDA. Animal ri
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The first artificial hearts were implanted in the 1960's. I think the point I'm trying to make is that Neuralink is doing a huge amount basic science / R&D in addition to trying to get a product into FDA. In their final F
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One of the example applications proposes to stimulate patterns of neurons in visual cortex to produce vision. To even get to the point where you can train a monkey to detect phosphenes, Neuralink had to (a) develop a way of producing flexib
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by ckemere 4y ago
I'm confused - nothing at Neuralink is off the shelf. How would you go from an empty room to an animal implanted functionally with lots of data?
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Important context - announcements of USDA investigations are public records. PETA et al monitor the website and create press releases which, e.g., Reuters can pick up. *Outcomes* of investigations are often covered much less.
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by ckemere 4y ago
Not sure why you were down voted. This is a valid question. The challenge is that anesthesia gas and analgesia drugs may contaminate the meat, and most research orgs are understandably terrified of further liability given the already inte

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