fpiacenza

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by fpiacenza 2y ago
Agreed. But, QBASIC is even better. No need for numbered lines, no need for a book, the basic help documentation covers all you need to know to learn as a 8 yo kid.
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
Body temperature is regulated by norepinephrine.
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
Facebook for business has chat support, you shpuld try through there
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
Funny to think that a guy like Ilya who is obsessed about AI Alignment is completely incompetent about human alignment.
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
The curious thing about Michael Levin's work is that they figured out "top level abstractions" in bioelectricity that tell the body to figure out everything, including the proper wiring. The have grown eyes in the wrong place
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
This is Michael Levin, same guy from the article.
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
This is a very naïve view of Asset management companies work. They have tremendous influence: 1- Blackrock has 170 ETFs with 8.5 Trillion USD. 2- When you buy a ETF, you own the ETF, BlackRock owns the underlying Shares. 3- They exercise vo
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
Important to point out they are talking about harm to self + harm to others. What's not clear is if they are looking at it from a society perspective or from the individual. From a society perspective any drug with high prevalence of u
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
Insulin resistance has been shown to be behind the top causes of mortality in the world: diabetes, heart disease, cancer and even dementias. The #1 offender causing insulin resistance is sugar, there's no controversy around this.
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
DAO deficiency can be a consequence of Copper deficiency, as DAO is a Copper enzyme. Copper deficiency used to be considered rare, but give the rise in popularity of Zinc which prevents Copper and absorption and depletes Copper stores, it h
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
Interesting, but this approach is still about scaling in size. There are other more promising approaches that actually allow to reduce size of the network and have better performance: Closed-form continuous-time neural networks [1], or also
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
"We have no MOAT, so let's make it an Oligopoly through lobbying."
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
It's well know that glycogen stores are heavy. That's why boxers deplete glycogen stores and dehydrate themselves prior to weighting. Same reason why taking creatine will increase your body weight pretty fast due to increases in g
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Closed-form continuous-time neural networks(nature.com)
3 points by fpiacenza 3y ago|0 comments
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
Schizophrenia is a disease, not a "type of people". With enough dose anyone can become psychotic on THC.
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by fpiacenza 3y ago
For gray hair specifically, zinc might do more harm than good: low Copper levels are associated with gray hair and Zinc reduces Copper absorption to the point that it can make you Copper deficient. Copper increases melanin and collagen prod
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by fpiacenza 4y ago
This is bs. I work in Paid Media (Ads). Focused View on TikTok means user has watched at least 6s, or interact with the Ad. This is TikTok's version of YouTube TrueView, which counts a View as watching 30s or interacting with the Ad. T
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by fpiacenza 4y ago
You can reduce your risk of stroke by increasing the risk of dying by other means.
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by fpiacenza 4y ago
Combine the limit of 10k with rampant inflation and 10 years from now you won't be able to buy a TV with cash, they won't update the limit based on inflation.
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by fpiacenza 4y ago
Can we take a look at stocks and other investement instruments at different time lentghs, you know just as a benchmark.
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Alexythimia(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by fpiacenza 4y ago|2 comments
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by fpiacenza 4y ago
This might point as BMI not being the best metric to define obesity. I bet people with high BMI but low fasting glucose and low c-reactive protein are mostly athletes, people who weight a lot due higher muscular weight. It wouldn't be