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A few lessons from this: First, intense passion, endless practice and infinite persistence are all prerequisites. They are the bare minimum of artistic greatness. They don't guarantee greatness, but you won't find any greats who d
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POSIWID: The inherent goal of public school isn't to maximize the intellectual development of children. It is to condition them for industrial work. They must be taught to expect and endure endless tasks that are trivial, unproductive,
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We should remember stories like this when we consider the future of AI. Midgley could only see the benefits to be gained. He did not have the foresight to see that seemingly inconsequential scientific and industrial decisions can have immea
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My hack for ending discussion of a particularly controversial subject is to agree with everything the interlocutor claims: “The sky is green.” Quite so. “It always has been green.” Undoubtedly. “Those who say otherwise need an eye exam.” I
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The fact that living in big cities is a risk factor for schizophrenia seems to suggest to me that it is a disorder of excitotoxicity at the network rather than cellular level. It could be that many of our modern psychological ailments share
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Ask HN: What were your tech predictions 10 years ago?
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How the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Works [video](youtube.com)
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Restaurant food is cheap in Japan because there are many high-quality restaurants. The competition drives the price down. Furthermore it may be in the best interest of Japan for their monetary policy to weaken the yen because it induces dem
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Kava Documentary – The Drink of the Gods (1998) [video](youtube.com)
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Yes this seems a totally reasonable approach, especially for those seeking long term arranged situations.
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How much of your rent is going to salaries at city hall? How much better would the city be to substitute these salaries for cheaper rent?
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Nicotine is a wonderful antidote for insomnia, not by putting you to sleep, but to be present with your own thoughts while the world is snoozing. I’ve lately had a 2mg piece of nicotine gum around midnight each night. It’s a surprisingly pr
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Yes, this is available in iOS settings.
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I’ve always wondered what kind of crazy cutting edge tech you get to use at MSS. Auto-GPT powered Metasploit? What treasure trove of zero-days are they sitting on? How many Nebraskan power grids systems have they infiltrated? So hard to ans
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The city is incentivized to increase housing supply, but the voters are not because their individual net worths are mostly in their home prices. Since a city is really just a set of geographically constrained voters, housing supply decr
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Munger recommended 6 intro textbooks that every businessman should know: one each in psychology, accounting, microeconomics, evolution, math and physics.
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Give it time. ENIAC cost millions of dollars and took up a whole hall. 70 years later the processors we're using to post these comments cost 5-6 orders of magnitude less to produce 5-6 orders of magnitude more computations.
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It’s a risk factor for colorectal cancer, which is not only the 3rd most prevalent type of cancer, but is increasingly being discovered in younger people. Alcohol has a number of deleterious effects, from microbiome destruction, to the geno
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Casey is right about the seamlessness of the experience. If you loved iPad kids you’re going to love Vision kids! When these cost $100 dollars and are as easy to wear as glasses or contact lenses, what will the purpose of the smartphone, la
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I built a long-range laser turret in my yard [video](youtube.com)
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Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation (2021)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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In companies of this size it takes decades to expire from the mortal blow. All the while investors crowd around and give reassurances of a full recovery. Always optimize for the long-term.
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In the spirit of hacking, can this be moved to orbit? What would make the economics work out? What would be the environmental effects?
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The arXiv model worked well for LK-99. The preprint went up. It got some buzz from authoritative sources. Different labs tried to reproduce, some succeeded but some failed. Through this process we've learned much more about the object
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This suggests there may be some more low hanging fruit in the hard sciences for transformers to bite at, so long as they can be properly formulated. This was not a problem of scaling it seems.
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To succeed takes 3,650 days. To give up only takes 1. Practice, practice, and practice some more.
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The ski season has so far been miserable in terms of snow pack. Last year was a positive fluke, with high snowfall early in the season. Some resorts are seeing half as much snow as last year.
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I can see myself now, reading this in the university library computer lab a decade ago. And now I've taught myself programming. The journey was much more difficult and winding than I was imagining it back then!
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Purpose and function are only different during design.
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This confirms a deeply held belief of mine, which is that the principle task of a professional software engineer is to research, both in terms of creating a theory of the system you're working on, and researching how to solve problems

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