kadonoishi

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by kadonoishi 2mo ago
Used to live in Yokohama. This is relaxing, to listen to the quiet traffic, thanks.
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by kadonoishi 1y ago
Note Elon said he'd destroy the Republicans for their budget vote last June: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1lojll9/if_its_th...
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by kadonoishi 1y ago
[0] A summary on ACX of a debate between nuclear and solar proponents; and [1] The video of the debate itself. I thought solar won. [0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/notes-from-the-progress-stu... [1] https:/&
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by kadonoishi 1y ago
> Much of what's wrong in the current world is actually loneliness, having no outlet for your expressions. A dramatic line. I made a note of it.
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by kadonoishi 1y ago
To detect a presence, a real brain takes in sensory input and compares it to expectations, and stays calm or registers surprise, and from time to time issues predictions to guide the organism. To detect an absence, the brain cannot rely on
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by kadonoishi 1y ago
Gah, that would be hard to dig out. It was over 30 years ago. edit: Ok that wasn't too hard, it was in a box. It's "Fields on the Hoof: Nexus of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism" by Robert B. Ekvall, 1968, 1983. Thanks for ma
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by kadonoishi 1y ago
I once read a small book for an anthropology class, and got more and more puzzled, and rather incensed. It was covering its subject well but with this bizarre hodgepodge of different anthropological framings, some of them quite anachronisti
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by kadonoishi 2y ago
Yeah, yes, Schrodinger meant no such thing. But suppose for a moment that a wave, in going up and down repeatedly, is manifesting time itself repeating. Like time legit has an aspect where it's a repeating thing. To reconcile that with
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by kadonoishi 2y ago
Ok, so, try dividing time into a view of it repeating, and progressing. Time "repeats" in that we have days, years; your heart repeatedly beats about once a second; menstruation is about a month. Time "progresses" more l
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by kadonoishi 2y ago
Here's another answer to the Fermi Paradox, that while life is normal and abundant, there are lots of random possibilities for destruction such as a primordial black hole coming by. The apparent rarity of intelligent life might be a st
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by kadonoishi 3y ago
Peter Jenkins did his Walk Across America in the 1980s.
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
Oh, is that why Tolkien had Frodo throw the Ring in the Fire on March 25? And then King Elessar made that day the first day of the New Year. And the tradition held on until the 18th century. Huh.
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
I'd really like to know if menstrual synchronization is real, because there's a straightforward explanation: temporal herding. In the ancestral environment, it drew predators, so under the normal dynamics of prey and predators it
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
I spent some years doing computer simulations of cancer screening. The confusion between the output of the simulation, which is not evidence, and real evidence, led me into a nightmare of the Hall of Mirrors, where everything I attempted to
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
Yeah, I was getting my Japanese visa and noticed the office wasn't that far from Shinagawa Station, so I decided to walk. Everyone thought it was super-weird I would walk that, where any Tokyo native would take the bus. It was 2km, s
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
Yeah, I was getting my Japanese visa and noticed the office wasn't that far from Shinagawa Station, so I decided to walk. Everyone thought it was super-weird I would walk that, where any Tokyo native would take the bus. It was 2km, s
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Ask HN: Is it possible to create ultraviolet cloth dyes
2 points by kadonoishi 4y ago|2 comments
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un... [1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-consc...
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
builtwith.com gives a lot of information, although the results page comes back with a "Misleading Technology Profile Warning".
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
Yeah. I'd note the need for a centralized fuel supplier, as you don't want hundreds of little municipal nuclear plants trying independently to dispose of the waste. Have a centralized "library" of nuclear fuel, where the
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
> There's some kind of logical fallacy in this line of argument, but I can't put my finger on a name for it. "Cowardice"? From an old version of the Wikipedia article, "Fear and excessive self-concern lead one to
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
Tidal would rely on orbital energy.
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
Is evolution not brute-force?
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
People have put in further thought about this and had good insights. A couple examples would be Rao's essay on The Gervais Principle [0] and, much heavier, Bob Jackall's 1988 book "Moral Mazes." [1] [0] https:/&#x2
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
Appreciate the careful space after "We ".
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by kadonoishi 4y ago
Oh right, I didn't mean this as an offer of employment but I see now that it sounds like that. How about, connect it to vacation destinations? If people like the smell of the air at the moment, and could connect that with where the air
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Request HN: Build me an app to show where the air I'm breathing came from
9 points by kadonoishi 4y ago|6 comments
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
I wonder if there could be conscious life inside neutron stars, organized through nuclear reactions not chemical and therefore going much faster.
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
Elon Musk will get turned into art and will be the main thing remembered from this time. He's going to succeed in building his city on Mars, and multiplanetary life will be the basic reality of people in 500 years. They'll wonder
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by kadonoishi 5y ago
You could use word2vec [0] to process bodies of text in those languages, then use your C++ to build cool visualizations. The geometrical shapes that the processing finds in the languages might give you interesting insights. [0] https:&#x2F

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