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by kuhewa 4y ago
I would have paid to be in the room when emeritus linguists discussed ussification
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by kuhewa 4y ago
A bit more dry and sneering tone and ChatGPT could outright replace HN for all things beyond the realm of software
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> The null hypothesis is always that mammals go where they can. Period. That's not how null hypotheses work
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by kuhewa 4y ago
Related, from 2020: "Population genomics of the Viking world" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2688-8 What I find most interesting, even in the early Viking age 700–800 CE there were people with sou
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by kuhewa 4y ago
Michael Crichton was good about those little devices that could fill a plot hole just plausibly enough for it to not be distracting.
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A much greater proportion of Australia is foreign born. They are doing pretty well.
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That's comparing a tool to an insight though, like sure 'grammar' isn't as interesting as a poem. Math is interesting because despite being axiomatic there are all of these emergent things it can correctly predict about
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by kuhewa 4y ago
Similar but not the same concept. Lindy is that age predicts life expectancy for non-perishable items. Survivorship bias has nothing to do with the future. I could have used survivorship bias in that post and lost little, but the implicatio
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by kuhewa 4y ago
> I hope that at some point we'll stop sacralizing things because they are old. The Lindy effect is in play though. People don't consider The Brothers Karamazov classical canon merely because it is 140 years old, because there
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Ideas are necessary for execution but regarding their worth I'm pretty firmly convinced there is nothing new or unique under the sun. Wasn't Friendster already launched while Zuck was coding Thefacebook in his dorm room? Fleshing
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It would seem really odd to me if it was just one aspect of modern lifestyle and diet. I would be shocked if both proliferation of cheap highly processed and hyperpalatable food and declining activity rates/greatly increased in screen
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Weight is back to baseline within a few months after lipectomy and sometimes greater than baseline. In animal models there is regeneration of fat cell number following lipectomy along with increase in cell size, and which mechanism predomin
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Liposuction isn't a solution for fat loss beyond some localised cosmetic reduction. You can't use it to put a morbidly obese person in normal BMI range.
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At least if you've actually learned the concept of derivatives and integrals, it wouldn't be that hard to refresh enough for a given use case. I'd agree that most of us that have taken a year of university calculus don't
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Well, the answer should be yes. Otherwise you would have to conclude very few people use arithmetic in their work which seems peculiar. A tool based on calculus could be rather abstracted from the math though and the user not even know they
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by kuhewa 4y ago
To your second point, I would disagree that we learn maths that we may likely never directly use not because of historical fascination, but because progressively expanding student's mathematical knowledge serves the purpose of meta-lea
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by kuhewa 4y ago
ChatGPT vibes
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If 2-3 mb of text on average, the Library of Congress's 24 million books — excluding the large amount of of manuscripts and other items would be about 60 TB of text for a reference point. Depending how you count what is available on th
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by kuhewa 4y ago
Well, that's the fundamental difference between tech and science. With tech the 'truth' is entirely instrumental - is the product useful? (Not entirely accurate, as a product could be far less useful than the alternatives but
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by kuhewa 4y ago
It isn't just mutation rate but generation time as well, even with the same mutation rate a virus that replicates several times a day would evolve faster. But there's certainly scope for us to artificially select for traits in vir
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by kuhewa 4y ago
That jibes with the $500 per plant figure and the other fellow's 'could get 1 lb+ off a single humongous plant' figure, typical yield is closer to 1/2 lb.
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The kind of nothing which the mere thought of for more than five seconds fills one with existential dread.
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Cons of private thinking — I've spent multiple days on mocking up and deciding on the best version of one element of a project. Only to spend 45 seconds describing the issue out loud, dialectically in a tea room conversation, to realis
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by kuhewa 4y ago
Decoding the Gurus pod nailed it with their most recent episode on a Musk interview where he hammers this point home. He's the techno-shaman — by demonstrating how different he is to the rest of us mortals and how he has unique knowled
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by kuhewa 4y ago
Sure. My point is simply people can be referring to lacto-fermented cucumbers without realising it. The vinegar is often added for shelf stabilisation of fermented cukes is my understanding.
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by kuhewa 4y ago
Well, for a foodie it probably isn't, a sushi enthusiast is going to be into the terroir of the fish, farm raised salmon is kinda hamfisted in that sense, slight step above a California roll. But that doesn't preclude it from as
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It's also that issue of globalisation where a 1 in 10000 rate of severe food poisoning per annum might means there might be an outbreak in a small village once per generation, but in a large country it would make the nightly news reg
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Gets confusing though as in the anglophone west at least, 'Pickles' as a noun refer to lacto fermented cucumbers e.g. kosher dills
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The roots of sushi were in preservation of fish by fermentation. The major food safety improvements recently were probably for industrialized production, where the issues were often creations of modernity anyway. OTOH onboard flash freezing
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This tracks with the historic consumption of other species that are also hosts to zoonotic nematodes raw. It's worth noting that wild salmon do have a very high natural prevalence of Anasakid roundworms.. however these aren't micr

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