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by lamename 4y ago
I've found the "_ for Dummies" series to be quite clear for math. I used Linear Algebra for Dummies to brush up on some concepts recently to solve a problem at work.
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by lamename 4y ago
Humans and some animals also use fine structure for localizing sounds in horizontal space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaural_time_difference
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by lamename 4y ago
You are right, but so is the grandparent. A noise, click, or tone-based ABR is very basic in terms of measuring restoration of natural hearing. There are issues of rich spectrotempral aspects of speech, music, and natural sounds that (ideal
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John Oliver Blackmails Congress with Their Own Digital Data(rollingstone.com)
70 points by lamename 5y ago|13 comments
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by lamename 5y ago
If the professor in question brings the university a lot of grant money, especially if they're tenured, a lot gets ignored. As for the honor code I cynically suspect it's more about having an item go use against someone when the u
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by lamename 5y ago
The paper pdf notes the first author's sole affiliation is with Northwestern.
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The Surprisingly Low Price Tag on Preventing Climate Disaster(time.com)
1 points by lamename 5y ago|0 comments
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by lamename 5y ago
It sounds like after the model is trained, it also pulls from the training database at generation time. Can someone explain how this isn't a kind of "cheating" at generation? Happy to be wrong.
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Mechanical actions of dendritic-spine enlargement on presynaptic exocytosis(nature.com)
1 points by lamename 5y ago|0 comments
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by lamename 5y ago
Maybe, but as I understand it, within voting system reform there's at least one big practical conflict: the tradeoff between 'the best' vs. the simplest voting system that you can convince people is marginally better. The ave
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by lamename 5y ago
You beat me to this thought, but the difference is that exercise and high-level lifestyle changes will include underlying changes in a million biological factors, including mitochondria. We see this over and over in press releases when new
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Networks, Prestige, and the Spread of Scientific Ideas(twitter.com)
1 points by lamename 5y ago|0 comments
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by lamename 5y ago
I would also add that 60% coming back doesn't necessarily mean those people prefer working in office full stop. It could be partly that, partly people enjoy flexibility but are tired of the monotony of home, or other factors. Ask that
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by lamename 5y ago
The website mentioned in the article https://amazingribs.com/ is excellent. And it will help you skip a lot of the BS/myths that people are exposed to when starting out, because Blonder and Meathead (the main host of t
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by lamename 6y ago
Maybe a naive question: Would it be possible and useful to have some type of checksum system for videos? (Perhaps we already do). This might not defend against all deep fakes, but at least it could in certain cases with more...official vide
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by lamename 6y ago
Could you expand with evidence to justify and further explain what you mean?
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by lamename 6y ago
1. The mind always tries to simplify. One way that manifests is in dogma. Many people are satisfied or just dont have the time and energy to continually update or critically assess their own beliefs (not that this is justified, just an expl
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by lamename 6y ago
> We were both bothered by the current fetishization of science. It's troubling that otherwise well-educated, logical people have come to elevate science as this god-like authority... I agree. But as you point out this is basically
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by lamename 6y ago
I developed some RSI in my right followed by both wrists/fingers last fall due to overuse and poor body/hand/arm posture. Thankfully it relieved with lots of rest, but heed your body's warnings lest it become permanent!
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by lamename 6y ago
You're right. This is how people with an agenda misuse facts. But just because specific facts can be misused does not mean we abandon using facts at all. Many facts are biased. All personal experiences are biased. Being less wrong is t
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by lamename 6y ago
Consider reading The Growth Delusion by David Pilling https://www.amazon.com/Growth-Delusion-Poverty-Well-Being-Na...
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by lamename 6y ago
"The list must grow, the spice must flow"
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by lamename 6y ago
You may be a self-described noob at whatever you're learning, but it's clear from your outlook that you've had substantial work or life experience to understand complexity as a general phenomenon (i.e. expecting unexpected er
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by lamename 6y ago
The educational youtube channel Domain of Science has a pretty wide-scope Map of Mathematics, depending on your background https://youtu.be/OmJ-4B-mS-Y
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by lamename 6y ago
Also a nice quick ref here https://www.bigocheatsheet.com/
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by lamename 6y ago
It's a reminder of how ancient our brains really are, despite our advancement of the average state of society as a whole.
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by lamename 6y ago
This sounds reasonable. The trick is to identify companies/cultures of each type at interview time. But is that even possible?
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by lamename 6y ago
As a neuroscientist, I can tell you with high confidence that many if not most neuroscientists would agree with you. You might also be interested in "Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?" https://journals
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by lamename 6y ago
Perturbing units and observing change is so much like the early days of neurology and neuroscience. Lesion studies in post-surgery patients or those with stroke or brain damage told us a lot, removing part of the circuit and observing what
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by lamename 6y ago
I am young and am ignorant of a lot of this history, but the claim here is that Democrats have lost working class voters, particularly white working class voters. What I do not see is how this is consistent with: 1) policies advocated by pe

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