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   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   Whatever they're doing is pretty accurate. I've never noticed any issues.
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   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   I don't know what all these posters are talking about, VR simulates your elbow + arm position 100% with normal IK. If you don't believe me just load up Echo VR and look at your arms. Valve probably just doesn't want them blo
3. 63.▲
   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   It's probably just that they would get in the way. IK works brilliantly in VR for arm simulation, see: Echo VR.
4. 64.▲
   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   Try Echo VR.
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   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   So true! The bias towards breastfeeding is out of control. It's nutrition / calories, not magic fairy dust. Research shows they will get slightly less of your antibodies, which if I understand correctly translates to one or two
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   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   Thank you! The comparison of kids being easier than dogs is so misleading I don't even know where to begin.
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   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   Good point; I should at least reply to him here so that he doesn't think I hate him, which of course I don't. But more to your point, it's the self-censorship you're describing that perpetuates the myth that having kids
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   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   I made this meme to express what the first year of parenting is like: https://youtu.be/-br6dC69vdk I can only say this so emphatically over the internet, but if you have not yet had kids, and you even remotely enjoy your
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   by duncancarroll 7y ago

   Wow! I was not expecting this at all. Exciting!
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    by duncancarroll 7y ago

    "the opportunity with artificial general intelligence is so incomprehensibly enormous that if OpenAI manages to crack this particular nut, it could “maybe capture the light cone of all future value in the universe" This feels a bi
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    by duncancarroll 7y ago

    I'm surprised the article doesn't reference the recent Bob Lazar documentary which deals with this alleged tech from a first-hand perspective (Bob was a whistleblower in a lab that worked on a kind of gravity drive, according to h
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    I appreciate your open-mindedness. The only point I would make in reply is that is is possible to know if it's real or a hallucination, it just hasn't been thoroughly tested. It is possible to design an experiment to test the ex
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    Thanks. It's just a sticky subject matter, intellectually, so people feel better dismissing all of it. "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable." -Goethe The irony for me is that I
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    That's partly why I suggested people try it for themselves, because while I agree my personal subjective experience doesn't qualify as evidence one way or another for it being real / not real, it's much harder to dismiss
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    This is a very unpopular idea, but I'll say it anyway because it's relevant: With a modest amount of meditation practice you can cause your awareness to exit your body. I say this from personal experience but it's also in t
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    You lost me at 2%
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    Meditation is another way to accomplish the same thing.
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    I like the concept, but if I may editorialize, I feel the phrasing needs work. "The smallest number you can't count to" is a negative statement, which makes it confusing right off the bat. What do you mean, a number I can&#x
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    Yes! I've wanted something like this since I was 12 and could never understand why it didn't exist. How else was I to learn circuitry at that age? Thanks!
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    Great article--couldn't agree more. Also don't forget Michael Faraday, a bookbinder's apprentice who managed to figure out much of electromagnetism, among other things.
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    by duncancarroll 8y ago

    I used to have a setup where StumbleUpon was permanently on my TV set, and the Stumble button itself I had hooked up to my remote control, so I could stumble my way through things on the couch. It was infinitely better than TV itself. I ag
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    Herd Behavior in the Sciences(amasci.com)

    1 points by duncancarroll 8y ago|0 comments
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    by duncancarroll 9y ago

    Maybe I don't understand exactly what I'm supposed to be listening for, or maybe my ears are bad, but I don't think I can hear the missing fundamental unless it's actually being played. I also don't quite follow how
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    Kin / Kik Token ICO registration is now open(kin.kik.com)

    3 points by duncancarroll 9y ago|0 comments
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    by duncancarroll 10y ago

    Ah-- interesting. Then it's certainly possible I have him all wrong. I'll take another look. Thanks!
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    by duncancarroll 10y ago

    I think my problem with Dennett boils down to the fact that he's a wet blanket =) His attitude would be fine if it really did seem like there was nothing more to be learned about consciousness. To me his perspective seems a lot like o
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    by duncancarroll 10y ago

    Why should I switch browsers? Don't tell me it's just to help out advertisers.
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    by duncancarroll 10y ago

    Very cool! Coincidentally, a group of us were just discussing this idea over lunch today. We also imagined that one could write a package manager which could link into 21.co and charge some minute amount of BTC / ETH to pull the late
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    by duncancarroll 10y ago

    Neat idea. The fulltext is paywalled but one thing I'm curious about is where exactly the "strength of connectivity" would be stored within the chromosome?
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    by duncancarroll 10y ago

    Pro tip: Meditation will do this on-demand.