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by jayajay 10y ago
I am skeptical of the 16 metrics used to rank harm on a 0 to 100 scale.
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by jayajay 10y ago
I can't accept that heroin and alcohol are equal in that sense. I would be very skeptical about any sources claiming this equality. Ease of production, pharmacodynamics, etc. Edit: Ideally, humans wouldn't be consuming poison? But
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by jayajay 10y ago
Yes, people don't realize that this "solution" doesn't work for any drug just because it makes sense for marijuana. For the people who disagree: In the limiting case thought experiment, imagine a drug which provides a co
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by jayajay 10y ago
I am not convinced that that it will reduce overdose or trafficking. It depends on the drug's economics and pharmacodynamics, ease of production, addictiveness, LD50, etc. What's better? More people using high-grade heroin in a co
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by jayajay 10y ago
Everyone should read this, and forward to their loved ones. This is very close to home (not literally) because it could happen to anyone, and is something that many people do not consider. Have up-to-date CO detectors, do not operate large
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by jayajay 10y ago
exaclty my thoughts, it seems a bit strange to claim "completely isolated" and "virtually no" communication.
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by jayajay 10y ago
> virtually eliminates all communication between the cerebral hemispheres, thereby resulting in a ‘split brain’ > their cerebral hemispheres can hardly communicate with each other and do so at perhaps 1 bit per second "Virtually
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by jayajay 10y ago
> objects don’t magically construct themselves from unstructured data Very out of context, and very off topic, but this is a profoundly deep statement... its veracity is questionable and unknown.
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by jayajay 10y ago
Too meta, cannot stop thinking about how much meta...
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by jayajay 10y ago
Interesting, and introspective. I think I now remember doing this in 2nd grade. We don't wanna forget about the things in the circle of concern, but we don't want to dwell on them unless we can actively influence them. If one is
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by jayajay 10y ago
This site reminds me of https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon This is not what I expected when I read your comment. I was expecting a platform where you upload the parameters of a hardware system, the platform digitizes
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by jayajay 10y ago
You mentioned people's "ability to problem solve", and that it "takes forever to find people that can do the job". This is very interesting. How do you measure "problem solving ability" in your applicant p
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by jayajay 10y ago
And this, too. I can sleep really well if I am not working on anything that spans multiple days, or if the problem I am stuck on is succinct and self-contained. A lack of closure on whatever I was last working on is the root cause for my di
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by jayajay 10y ago
Thoughts are mainly about work and problems that I need to solve. When I am trying to sleep, I will sometimes work on a problem in my head because it's "bothering me", and this can postpone my sleep by up to an hour. This hap
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by jayajay 10y ago
If you are checking a feed like email, or chat, you are expecting a new item. If you fail to get a new item 9/10 times you check the feed, it certainly makes sense that you may feel stressed or feel like you have less control over thin
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by jayajay 10y ago
I was given some L Theanine by a friend of mine, because I complained about not being able to silent my thoughts when I sleep. Apparently, L Theanine is great at reducing this mental crosstalk. I tried some for a few nights, but I didn&#x27
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by jayajay 10y ago
you said none of the bootcamp people that applied were hired. out of those bootcamp people, how many had bachelors, and what was the distribution of their degrees? i.e. how many had degrees in CS, Math, Physics, Biology, etc. Alternatively,
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by jayajay 10y ago
Would you consider someone with a physics and math degree, and some online ML course experience differently than someone with a degree in, say, CS?
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by jayajay 10y ago
Some big colleges in the US are banning vaping on school grounds (indoors and outdoors). I think it's a reasonable rule to have for a hospital or laboratory, where the environment needs to be as controlled and contaminant-free as pos
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by jayajay 10y ago
These days, I would think they would recommend vaping over smoking. Vaping is apparently much safer, and only contains nicotine (plus glycerin/glycols). In my experience, cigarettes are much more relaxing and calming than vapes. I woul
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by jayajay 10y ago
This is why I have stopped reading articles on Washington Post, and other similar article sites. The standard they are creating for the web is not one I can support.
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by jayajay 10y ago
People seem to start drinking coffee with sugar and cream, and slowly wane to black (if at all). I did a Google search, and I couldn't find any progress on genetic modification of coffee to produce sweeter beans. Most of the research s
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by jayajay 10y ago
Lately I have been questioning whether or not we need large-scale peer-reviewed journals anymore. For example, if I knew that Leonard Susskind read a paper and cited, shared, liked, or bookmarked it, then that could easily replace my fundam
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by jayajay 10y ago
Pilot wave theory only postpones the question of "what is a wave function and how does it collapse?", it doesn't actually say anything new. I think Wigner's Friend is really no fundamentally different than Schrodinger&#x
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by jayajay 10y ago
I think most people are "realists" as Weinberg mentions in his article. A lot of people (including myself) have bashed on so-called "instrumentalists" like Hooft, but after reading this Weinberg article, I am grateful fo
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by jayajay 10y ago
> In this musical analogy, the act of measuring the spin somehow shifts all the intensity of the chord to one of the notes, which we then hear on its own. People can accept that measurements and observables are operators which act on the
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by jayajay 10y ago
This is a cool idea. I see people on youtube recording themselves painfully while driving and stuff, and the entire video is just them in the front seat driving. With this, you can rant while doing activities that require your entire visual
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by jayajay 10y ago
i love how you posted this ironically. "we might be able to see this with the naked eye! why bother when you can see it through JWST?"
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by jayajay 10y ago
Awesome... I found this on December 17th: https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/ponderthis/challenges/Jan... I can't remember if I stumbled upon that from HN or not, but it's a neat little problem to t
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by jayajay 10y ago
It's not as simple as "we are fine now, so we don't need to think". These words are typical of people in first world countries who have grown comfortable with civilization. You should think about things more deeply, firs

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