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by maebert 1y ago
Very much on point. That said when facilitate breathwork sessions i trade the peaceful hippie music for edm (and it actually works better because it encourages people to stay with the rhythm and get into the same mildly trance-like state yo
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by maebert 1y ago
Key difference here is that freediving is apnea-induced hypoxia, whereas breathwork is literally the opposite: hyperventilation-induced hyperoxia. So while interesting as a study, I don't think it offers any insight into the kind of br
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by maebert 1y ago
yeah in a medical setting it's usually never good, but afaik it's not the tetany that doctors are worried about about but rather what's causing it. I did a longer write-up on the physiological effects which you might find int
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by maebert 1y ago
So the tetany in breathwork is generally caused by the decreased CO2 concentration causing respiratory alkalosis (ie blood gets more alkaline and has a ph balance of > 7.5), which in turn causes the protein albumin to bind more strongly
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by maebert 1y ago
I'm not one to tell people not to have fun, but i also lost a friend to respiratory failure after prolonged nitrous abuse, and had more then one start having auditory hallucinations. I think it's waning in popularity compared to 1
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by maebert 1y ago
it's an incredibly hard workout, depending on the style you're actually using a lot of muscles that you don't typically exercise, so your body wants to naturally give up after a while. it took me probably 6-8 sessions until I
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by maebert 1y ago
i am a (former) neuroscientist and breathwork facilitator (mostly conscious connected breath) — AMA. the effect of decreased co2 concentration on vasoconstrictions (and also alkalosis-induced tetany, ie your muscles cramping, which happens
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by maebert 1y ago
arguably the best episode of Drunken history has duncan trussel retelling this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ruBotHWUs Paraphrasing carl sagan: "You don't go to Japan and kidnap a Japanese man start j k
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by maebert 2y ago
In unrelated news, I just found out Amazon had a zoom alternative called Chime…
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by maebert 2y ago
Hyperspell | Backend (Python), NLP, and Data Engineers | https://hyperspell.com | SF + remote in US timezones Hyperspell is building RAG-as-a-service, allowing developers to build AI apps in minutes, not months — think Plaid for
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by maebert 2y ago
Technically, Facebook is just some PHP on top of a database :)
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by maebert 2y ago
This feels like a sloppier version of Searle’s Chinese Room. Is iterative thinking and search required to understand code? And while LLMs don’t do that, why couldn’t complex system like o1 be able to do that? I was not convinced by Seattle,
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by maebert 2y ago
The description of feeling like he was "in a coma or some afterlife limbo state" sounds similar to Cotard's syndrome [1], a very rare condition that can develop from untreated schizophrenia — basically an unshakable belief th
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by maebert 3y ago
You're not entirely wrong. 10 years ago, I started an ML & NLP consulting firm. Back then nobody was doing NLP in production (SpaCy hadn't come out yet, efficient vector embeddings were not around, the only comprehensive libra
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Artificial Intelligence is a total misnomer (2015)(medium.com)
1 points by maebert 3y ago|0 comments
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by maebert 3y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but always think the “they’re just predicting the next token” argument is kind of missing the magic for the sideshow. Yes they do, but in order to do that, LLMs soak up the statistical regularities of just about e
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by maebert 3y ago
To be fair, anthropomorphizing is kind of a built in feature for us — or more accurately, ascribing intentionality to things as a means of explanation. Magnets “want” to stick together, my vintage computer “thinks” it’s 1993, and the furiou
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by maebert 3y ago
Or, if you prefer to write with sweaty palms and the gun of permanent literary destruction against your head, there’s the Most Dangerous Writing App of course. https://maebert.github.io/themostdangerouswritingapp
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by maebert 3y ago
It’s an entertaining idea, however unfortunately easily proven wrong. The most striking argument against it (or any “Silurian” theory) is that any form of “civilization” in the strictest sense needs permanent settlements that require perman
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by maebert 3y ago
A few practical things that we need superconductors for which currently require very expensive cooling: 1) MRIs — could be way cheaper, smaller and more ubiquitous with room temperature superconductors 2) Maglev trains — superconducters exp
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by maebert 3y ago
It's about as hard to remove a single data point from an LLM as it is to remove a single memory from a human brain. OpenAI doesn't remove data from the trained models, they filter it at the output level. They also remove it from t
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by maebert 3y ago
Ha. I made The Most Dangerous Writing App for that very purpose (sold it a few years ago after it became an unlikely success), I love finding other peoples home made writing tools! Thanks for sharing Enso! https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by maebert 3y ago
The internet archive has tons of old radio shows too; my favourite is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which aired in the early 40s. Best thing is that it also has the original ads in there. “Now that the poultry shortage is over, why not
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by maebert 3y ago
My parents have a sauna in their home (northern Europe), but it takes an hour or so to heat up. I connected the controller to an arduino with Wi-Fi shield and let the sauna run its own tiny Webserver that served a single page with a single
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by maebert 3y ago
Most comments here seem to be missing the legal conundrum that European countries, especially Germany find themselves in. Germany and to some extend the EU guarantees the “right to be forgotten”, ie. You can request that a company deletes a
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Show HN: Upmark – hassle free feedback on your drafts(upmark.work)
4 points by maebert 4y ago|0 comments
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by maebert 4y ago
Yes , proof-of-work crypto is a terrible idea for the environment. But also, this article gets so many things wrong I don't even know where to start. For one, it confuses a "transaction" with "mining a block". A sin
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by maebert 4y ago
That should make most people feel better about their in-laws.
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by maebert 5y ago
Reading the comments, this feels like a giant Rorschach test for HN...
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List of Unusual Articles(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by maebert 5y ago|0 comments

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