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by lynguist 9mo ago
For a single time fix (“rewire brain to be healthy again”) you need psychedelics (psilocybin has seen multiple studies where its effect is way better than psychopharmacological drugs). A single dose can make you healthy for a year to come,
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by lynguist 9mo ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/February The pronunciation of the first r with a y sound has always been one of two possible standards, in fact "February" is a re-Latinizing spelling but English doesn’t like t
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by lynguist 9mo ago
Also hugely popular in German speaking Switzerland under the name of Vermicelles.
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by lynguist 10mo ago
There's a certain culture that prefers "efficiency", punishes non-productivity, and every little slack, even enjoyment of life must be "earned". In that culture these video games that are pure playfulness (but it do
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by lynguist 11mo ago
For me the biggest plot hole of the popular penicillin discovery myth is clearly the open window story, including its multiple side plots with meteorological events. And that that story exists and has PREVAILED despite the fact that everyon
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by lynguist 11mo ago
This makes sense once you understand the definitions of Hegelian an sich vs für sich and Lacanian objet petit a. It might look like rumbling to you but it is a very precise philosophical-technical text that does pure analysis. I liked i
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by lynguist 11mo ago
I have never seen this idea expressed so clearly. Thank you for your comment.
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by lynguist 11mo ago
I discussed this premise with my LLM and we came to this following conclusion which I find quite elegant: > In any bounded system under feedback, refinement produces diminishing returns and narrowing tolerance, governed by a superlinear
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by lynguist 1y ago
I wouldn’t program with it but I find it extremely aesthetic.
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by lynguist 1y ago
Sygnum started as a pure cryptocurrency bank, initially without a banking license. They did all the steps and received a full banking license. (Most other companies in the same sector in Switzerland don’t have a banking license.) So just to
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by lynguist 1y ago
I still don’t understand. In actual history whale oil made airplane engines go (as lubricants) until the 1970s when they switched to synthetic. Most whales were killed in the 20th century to make planes go, not in the 19th to make city ligh
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by lynguist 1y ago
Same with the original Sixaxis PS3 controller without rumble! I liked that lightweight controller a lot! It was also short lived and replaced with the PS3’s version with rumble included – they were saying it’s because of a patent dispute.
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by lynguist 1y ago
What is the Intel 915?
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by lynguist 1y ago
You pay for fuel for your car => Saudi monarchy gets it share because they supply it => while they completely waste 20% for “supercars” and vanity, they still have enough money to do whatever they want including => they grow alfalf
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by lynguist 1y ago
Intel headcount in 2022 was 131,900. Intel’s projected headcount for 2025 is 75,000. Intel fired 43% of its staff over the course of 3 years (when approximating natural retirements at zero and assuming a stop in new employments).
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by lynguist 1y ago
Which was recently replaced by Aptos!
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by lynguist 1y ago
Do you call “tomato sauce” “red sauce”?
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by lynguist 1y ago
Also directly connected to “The Summit of the Gods” via the famous Vest Pocket Kodak camera. Animation film: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Summit_of_the_Gods_(film... Manga: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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Mount Everest mystery: Was there a cover-up of a dead climber's ascent? (2022)(salon.com)
3 points by lynguist 1y ago|1 comments
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by lynguist 1y ago
When reading it it immediately makes me think of: - the good old “through coach” („Kurswagen“) which existed until 2013 from pretty much any train station to any train station, for example there used to be one going directly Basel-Moscow -
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by lynguist 1y ago
Thank you so much for sharing this, it scratches a very particular itch I have! I love such routes and travels and plans and pictures and the writing about it.
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by lynguist 1y ago
Only thing is when suddenly “colour” and “centre” pops up in the menu that makes you double check what is actually meant
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by lynguist 2y ago
https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language... The section about hallucinations is deeply relevant. Namely, Claude sometimes provides a plausible but incorrect chain-of-thought reasoning when its “true
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by lynguist 2y ago
See also previous discussion in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12069662 One commenter shows that this was caused by Bayer Nemacur (an anti-nematode pesticide), a pesticide which was only banned in 2021(!) https
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by lynguist 2y ago
Thank you! I had a very similar feeling, as I had read another long-format investigative report on Covid (I don’t remember where I put the link now), which especially paralleled the Lancet magazine and high profile officials!
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Spanish toxic oil syndrome cover-up (2001)(theguardian.com)
30 points by lynguist 2y ago|3 comments
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by lynguist 2y ago
It feels like under whatever hood one looks or whichever layer of paint one looks behind - when it’s a relatively new change in society, one always finds the root cause to be neoliberalism. Your comment reconfirms this especially pictoriall
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by lynguist 2y ago
Correct. Try Ms Rachel for your younger child instead of Cocomelon. The very young ones tend to love her.
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by lynguist 2y ago
> After the Ottomans took Constantinople, the use of Tyrian purple died out. Popes and cardinals changed their vestments from purple to red, and the color disappeared from use. The article was almost right until here but this is just unb
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by lynguist 2y ago
I actually think it’s not a coincidence and they specifically built this M3 Ultra for DeepSeek R1 4-bit. They also highlight in their press release that they tested it with 600B class LLMs (DeepSeek R1 without referring to it by name). And

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