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emanuer
9mo ago
Subscribed! As a layperson, I find this an approachable way to get an overview of a topic. However, I am only interested in a few select topics, and I was not able to find a way to subscribe to specific ones, such as #insulin-resistance (to
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emanuer
1y ago
Location: Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (travel up to 2x/month) Technologies: Jira, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google LLM APIs, WEKA, Deeplearning4
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emanuer
1y ago
Could someone please help me understand how a multi-modal RAG does not already solve this issue?[1] What am I missing? Flash 2.5, Sonnet 3.7, etc. always provided me with very satisfactory image analysis. And, I might be making this up, but
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emanuer
1y ago
Well, you seem crazy enough to, possibly, find some sort of enjoyment from this book: The Romance of Reality by Bobby Azarian The author explores an philosophical framework to explain the universe through the lens of entropy. I loved it. Al
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emanuer
1y ago
Hey, sorry cannot be an intelectual sparing partner to you in any way. However, I think your sleepless days/nights were very well spent, thank you! I am out of depth when it comes to the graph theory. But I certainly like the way you a
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emanuer
2y ago
You are correct, it was just a random example. And I share your observation, if there is no clear answer to your question, the idea must be disregarded.
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emanuer
2y ago
Here is the perspective of a serial founder, exploring fields which I might be able to disrupt: - The regulatory moat is immediately intimidating. - The data moat, often, is quite surmountable as long as LLMs can generate high-quality synth
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emanuer
2y ago
As being part of a software development team working on RPS (runway performance) I can tell you, it is stories like this which keep us up at night. The amount of business logic involved is staggering, but miraculously there are experts who
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emanuer
2y ago
My absolutely new favorite heuristic for decision making comes from Mr. Bezos: Is the decision costly to reverse (costly as in time / money)? No → Make a decision fast. Yes → Take your time, consider alternatives, talk to p
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emanuer
3y ago
What an excellent point. If it is addressed in the book, I don't remember. If we actually accept that expansion increase in entropy, I do not know what could possibly compete with this.
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emanuer
3y ago
To anyone curious about the intimated interplay of entropy and life, I want to highly recommend the book: The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity by Bobby Azarian > W
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emanuer
4y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, I can wholeheartedly recommend the book: "The WEIRDest People in the World" by Joseph Henrich. The book provieds a beautifully constructed framework to understand culture and its effect on psyc
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emanuer
5y ago
This is why I love HN, you gave me a surprising, but after evaluating your links trustworthy explanation. Thank you! If anyone else is wondering Exodus Cry is an organization which originated out of a weekly prayer group founded 2007 [0], t
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emanuer
6y ago
I am asking this question out of true intellectual curiosity: Could someone please link me a study which shows strong evidence for micro-plastics being harmful to health, that goes beyond finding "potential" harm? – Thank you! Ser
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emanuer
7y ago
This is a wonderful tool, I am very much looking forward to seeing further development & countries Thank you very much! One observation I had while playing with the numbers was: The most accurately shaped curves were achieved by adjusti
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emanuer
7y ago
My 9 years old son has refused to go to his public Tokyo school for two years now. I am from a German speaking country and the idea of a child not to attend school is absolutely unimaginable. His mother (Japanese) has always insisted that t
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emanuer
7y ago
This is amazing, it took me some time to understand it, but now I am blown away by the simplicity of the tool and the possibilities it holds. I already started gaining insights in some systems I am currently involved with. Could you point m
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emanuer
11y ago
As a non-American I am less than qualified to provide an answer, but one possible hypothesis is Race and ethnicity. The midwest has according to Wikipedia with 79% the highest Non-Hispanic White ratio of any region.[1] As Blacks have the hi
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emanuer
11y ago
I can anecdotally confirm and at the same time fail to confirm these findings. Since recently I am awoken about 1—2 times per night. Yet, the noise is only disturbing enough to awake me in between my sleep cycles. I have not noticed any mo
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emanuer
12y ago
Oh, I am Austrian (culturally very close to Germany) and I worked in a German company in Tokyo. I am not alone with my opinion, that Japanese are taking perfectionism to a whole new level, actually harming productivity.
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emanuer
12y ago
Thank you for your advice, I fully agree. I cannot edit my comment anymore, so I actually think about just deleting it. Edit: I am surprised to find; I mistakenly assumed I have the ability to delete my comments. That seems new...
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emanuer
12y ago
Yes you are right, this is massive over generalization, and I am rather unhappy with my wording, unfortunately I can not edit my comment anymore. In my culture these almost „polemical statements“ are rather accepted and interpreted differen
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emanuer
12y ago
My wife is Japanese and through her I cam to a realization about this very topic. My hypothesis is: Japanese do not accept anything less than perfection. The accompanying motto seems: "If you cannot archive perfection, don’t even bothe
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Neuroscience of Programming; A strong relation to language processing [pdf]
(infosun.fim.uni-passau.de)
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Dual-lens smartphone cameras are coming
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13y ago
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13y ago
I am on page 60 where train operators and station agents are making $122 000. The difference between "workers" and manager salaries is about 4x, pretty low compared to the private sector. I find the salaries to be outrageously hig
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Agile Best Practices that You Don’t Need to Follow
(swreflections.blogspot.com)
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13y ago
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emanuer
13y ago
I really would like to have links to the studies mentioned, the most interesting one I could find is: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=205797 — 2007, Cited by 1214 Treatment with beta carotene, vitamin
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emanuer
13y ago
Could someone please explain to me why these tools are not commercially available? This is the desktop version of the app Bret Victor created: http://vimeo.com/64895205 The tools would make my live so much easier, I can not start to expre
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emanuer
13y ago
The Samsung software I have seen on their TVs, laptops, phones has been adequate at best. I wish them best of luck developing another closed ecosystem. However their track record of developing good, functioning software is not very promisin
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