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by gupe 4y ago
Anecdotally, my grandfather, who was bedridden with advanced dementia for the last years of his life, tended to be far more lucid before breakfast than at any other time of day. Knowing of the type three diabetes hypothesis, I surmised that
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by gupe 4y ago
There is a recent post by Jerry Coyne on this New Zealand issue: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/11/01/richard-dawkins-is...
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Artificial neural networks today are not conscious (Douglas Hofstadter)(economist.com)
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by gupe 4y ago
I use a Pi 400 at home as a terminal to connect to several remote servers on which I work (write code) in VIM. I connect via ssh or mosh to a usually-existing tmux session on a server. When not at home I connect to the same servers using an
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by gupe 5y ago
I've been spending the past several months writing the server-side code of a web-app, which aims to improve the way in which certain difficult-to-price goods are valued. We're on the verge of launching the tool, and before that ha
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by gupe 7y ago
I do the same, and listen to most audio books or podcasts at at least 1.33x (this four-thirds factor reduces the listening time by a quarter). A contributing element to determining what speed factor is suitable is what I think of as "i
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by gupe 7y ago
I wonder if one could make a case for having to be more humane in insect farming? Current practices include steaming and crushing insects to death. (The Economist | Grub’s up https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology&