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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Author of the piece here, I speak three languages (Norwegian, English, and Spanish) and am currently working on a fourth (Japanese). "Taking the pedals off the bike" advice for language learning: - Learn pronunciation first A lot
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
> Apparently this guys is unaware that pedal-less balance bikes for kids already exist, and are quite popular. Author here. This was the point of the post -- but fwiw I did in fact learn about pedal-less bikes shortly after I learned abo
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Author here. It’s not a totalizing immobilization, it’s not the same as straight paralysis. It’s more like you’ve forgotten how to move your body than that you physically cannot, it is very difficult to express with just words. Discomfort a
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Emmanuel Mignot wins Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy (2022)(med.stanford.edu)
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Author here -- I wouldn't describe it as being completely numb in a way fully equivalent to, say, anaesthesia (or having your limbs fall asleep), but it's very qualitatively different from cataplexy, for sure. It's hard to
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Author here. Xyrem is a miracle drug. Life was getting straight up unlivable, when I'm on it I'm extremely well treated.
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Author here: > I absolutely don't have narcolepsy - quite the opposite, I tend towards insomnia FWIW most people I know with Narcolepsy also have trouble sleeping at night, so that's not so much an opposing symptom as a fully
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
(author here) Wait, we finally know the cause now? When did this happen? How did I miss this!!! How definitive is this finding?
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
> Some of those were before I had Touretts like symptoms turn up. Author here. For what it's worth, I have BOTH Narcolepsy AND Tourette's syndrome, both formally diagnosed. I'm not a doctor, but what you described about ly
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
(author here) Maybe you should get a sleep study done, especially if you have ever had trouble sleeping at night, or are excessively sleepy during the day! I went over twenty years without a diagnosis.
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LLMRank – ranking LLMs using peer-based cross-evaluation and PageRank(github.com)
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Learning to forgive and let go of resentment
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Yes: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/stenography-for-programming/... It was interesting and fun but I didn’t have enough time/patience to get really good at it. To get good requires both a lot of practice and buil
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What's the Singular Form of Cattle? (2010)(motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com)
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Doom is open source. The assets must be purchased but are modular and easy to drop in to any compatible source port engine.
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Oh hey, that article I wrote a while back! How'd I do on my predictions, folks?
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
We have the term “GOFAI” to distinguish “modern” AI from the older stuff (big bag of if statements, behavior trees, etc., but do we need a new term now to distinguish pre-LLM / Diffusion models (neural networks and tree based models)?
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
The thing everyone misses about Valve in all the endless back and forth whenever this handbook is listed is that it is, at its core, a lifestyle company . It is optimizing for a certain lifestyle. It has pros and cons and tradeoffs and way
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
In California Prop 13 makes it so people who bought their properties decades ago essentially have their assessments frozen whereas people who bought more recently get assessed closer to market value. This means that two side by side buildin
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Good question! Let's imagine! Most of the value of churches is in real estate. I imagine a lot of the Mainline protestant denominations (typically the most liberal), who have low and declining attendance, would be hit the hardest as th
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
You’re the author of the book, right? I’d love to chat with you sometime about your work on this and more — care to email me at Lars.doucet@gmail.com?
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
I am aware! Though I have reason to believe this very literal approach will work out less well in real life than in simulation :)
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
There’s a common rule of thumb in sim game design: “never simulate anything more than one layer of abstraction below what the player can actually observe”
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Simulations and models, regardless of whether they're designed for fun or for realism, can still teach you plenty of things about the real world; sometimes not from the simulation itself but explicitly by its omissions. The fact that S
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
I'm actually not a single-taxer, for the record. > The author mentions Decentraland. The whole point of Decentraland, which is a crypto metaverse, was to make land prices go up. They didn't. Decentraland is boring and nobody go
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Simpler ways of going about it are indeed possible and are discussed in detail in the article; a simple regular leasing of land accomplishes all the benefits of an LVT without any of the more complicated bits. Also -- you can just make a ga
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Actually, if you model LVT as a revenue-neutral tax shift (a universal exemption on buildings), most residential single family home owners already come out ahead on net versus existing property taxes in high property tax states like Texas.
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
What I'm curious about is how they derive land value in the first place. Do they have an actual supply and demand model driving it?
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Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)(progressandpoverty.substack.com)
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by larsiusprime 2y ago
Oh hey, thanks for linking my article! I fleshed that out later into a full fledged policy paper / how-to guide: https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/land-value-tax-in-...

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