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by eindiran 7y ago
Very cool illusion. If I unfocus my eyes and look at only one of the buses, I can see that it is moving at a constant rate across the stripes. But the moment I try to look at both, the illusion takes over. I can sort of get half the illusio
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by eindiran 7y ago
> That is to say, Canada, which is 0.5% of the planet’s population, plans to use up nearly a third of the planet’s remaining carbon budget. I don't really see what Canada's population size relative to the world population has t
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by eindiran 7y ago
Source? Because this suggests the opposite: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajpregu.0009... "The literature presented in this review strongly suggests that nicotine alters the homeostasis
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by eindiran 7y ago
I see that on the page for "Bose-Einstein condensate", in the section "Derivation". I don't see it in the "Derivation" section on the "Bose-Einstein statistics" page, which is where I was hoping
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by eindiran 7y ago
At the beginning of the article, it mentions the phrase "the 5th state of matter", which I've heard before; personally, I find it quite misleading. Even if you exclude all of the intermediary states and all of the non-classic
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by eindiran 7y ago
Of course form is very important. If your deadlifts are "extremely dangerous" and can potentially cause "life threatening injuries", then yes, take a good hard look at your form and work on improving it, staying away fro
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by eindiran 7y ago
The deadlift is one of the most well-rounded, important lifts out there. I don't understand what you mean by "regular people"; are you saying that only eg powerlifters should do deadlifts and that casual lifters should avoid
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by eindiran 7y ago
For some reason, I can't access Pruitt's papers anymore. That link just redirects me to the main UCSB site. But here are some of his papers in Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ryyIEucAAAAJ&
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by eindiran 7y ago
Don't make "did you read the article" style comments. It's rude and against the HN guidelines. Even if you think someone has such a bad take on an article that it stretches your credulity to believe that they actually re
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by eindiran 7y ago
There's this incredibly inconvenient thing in Anglo-American jurisprudence called "burden of proof". In criminal cases, until you show that the defendant is guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt", you have to act like t
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by eindiran 7y ago
The author of this tool is Chris Barker -- back in 2015, I took his course on "Continuations and Natural Language" at the LSA. He's working on a lot of really cool stuff, so its fun to see him pop up here. The class was a sum
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by eindiran 7y ago
I definitely have an inner monologue but my vocal cords don't move when I'm thinking or reading (this is called subvocalization [0]). There is a significant population of people that don't do it much/at all and you can b
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by eindiran 7y ago
Given how long the name was, I was guessing that Māori would have a highly synthetic morphology (meaning a language where the words are very long and composed of lots of little parts), but turns out it is largely analytic (the opposite: the
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by eindiran 7y ago
I think I might have been in the University of Chicago/Nicholas Epley study mentioned at the end of the article, or at least a very similar study at Booth around that time. When I was an undergrad, volunteering as a guinea pig for stud
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by eindiran 7y ago
The answer depends on how you want to test for self-awareness. For a long time it was defined via the mirror test [0], but there is a lot of evidence that the test isn't a great test for many animals (eg where vision isn't one of
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by eindiran 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "rational", but certainly there are consistent, "systematic" ethical theories that one could arrive at from first-principles. Think Kantianism, Utilitarianism, Egoism, etc. If you were
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by eindiran 7y ago
There is a fairly large number of collaborative board games: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2023/cooperative... Some interesting ones: * Gloomhaven * Spirit Island * Pandemic (or any of the other game
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by eindiran 7y ago
In the US, most people do say "near-sighted", but in the UK "short-sighted" is common. For example, on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Short-sightedness/ The reason you can use &
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by eindiran 7y ago
This latter version has quite a bit of extra content, particularly at the end where he is discussing how far it is possible to push the game within different axiom systems. The discussion of his proof on why BB(8000) can't be determine
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by eindiran 7y ago
Rather than the BB sub n definition proposed in the article, I propose a new notation BB^n( x ), which is to the Busy Beaver sequence what Knuth up-arrow notation is to the hyperoperation sequence. So you don't need to rely on the magi
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by eindiran 7y ago
A big reason is that parents read kids' text messages. If there is no text message sent, there is nothing for your parents to find.
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by eindiran 7y ago
Wow, I had been under the impression that the Arba'een Pilgrimage[0] was the largest human annual migration but the Lunar New Year easily surpasses it. This article has some good info on the sizes of a few recurring migrations and thei
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by eindiran 7y ago
I used to use `skim` a fair amount, but over time I've gradually found myself defaulting to `fzf`, but YMMV. I haven't personally used `exa`, but I do like `lsd`. I would also vouch for the other three tools mentioned by eerrt (`r
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by eindiran 7y ago
It can be quite confusing, but not everyone who uses English and Arabic numerals uses the decimal point for separating the whole part and the fractional part of a decimal number. See the "decimal comma" related sections in this Wi
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by eindiran 7y ago
I'm interested to find out how you made the decision to use Rust for this project. It seems like it would have been much simpler to use Python directly. Were you trying to learn about the Rust-Python FFI? Was there a performance concer
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by eindiran 7y ago
Here are some more that I've used or seen: * lsd - https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd * sk - https://github.com/lotabout/skim * hx - https://github.com/sitkevij/hex
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by eindiran 7y ago
What a clickbait nonsense headline. From the article: `[I]t is more likely that the telescope can’t detect the FRB’s wavelengths or that any bursts it emitted while Oostrum and his colleagues were observing were just too dim to see, says Ja
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by eindiran 7y ago
This is an interesting way of framing the idea, but it's not a question of traveling in DNA space from some point (eukaryotic cell) to another specific point (mushroom): that would be very difficult in the way that you're talking
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by eindiran 7y ago
Wikipedia has a pretty good article article on the phrase (and its sister phrase "Death to Israel"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America As a side note, its fun to see something from Language Log o

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