medstrom

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   by medstrom 6y ago

   > My personal guess is that most people use poems to convey sentiments that could best be done via another form (probably an essay or Tweet). I'm guilty of this. Why? Because I suck at remembering information in the moment, and writ
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   by medstrom 6y ago

   If you want to make your own long bets (no money, but fun), hop on over to https://predictionbook.com/ . Actually many short bets are better for calibrating yourself. Gwern writes about it: https://www.gwern.net&#
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   by medstrom 6y ago

   Axioms are not something you ever prove, as in, they're not provable even in principle. I would not call this an axiom, this is simply a premise. It can be determined. You'd trace this premise back up a chain of premise-based argu
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   by medstrom 6y ago

   Confidence intervals aren't even that informative. Like using boxplots when you could inform the viewer so much more with sina plots [1]. Why not show me the whole posterior probability distribution (perhaps helpfully marking the 95% h
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   by medstrom 6y ago

   The IANA standard for TSV files [1] bans tab characters inside of fields. It's a convenient assumption, so if I'm writing a quick way to sync some data to disk, I choose TSV because the functions can be simpler. https:/&#x2F
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   by medstrom 6y ago

   I enjoyed this abstract. Very clear, no unnecessary academic language.
7. 727.▲
   by medstrom 6y ago

   What? You contradict yourself several times. Does accepting the axioms obligate you to accept the conclusion or not? First you say it does, then you say it doesn't. And proving something is of course quite literally "determining t
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   by medstrom 6y ago

   Well, if the resurrection happened I'd actually class it, and its instigator, as part of the natural world.
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   by medstrom 6y ago

   Thing is, I see 8x25 minute pomodoros as one "uninterrupted" 4-hour work session. The little 5 minutes of rest does not need to get you out of flow, just spend it in a non-stimulating way. Don't go on HN.
10. 730.▲
    by medstrom 6y ago

    I agree, my default is 32/8, it's a slightly bigger proportion of rest. Actually it's OK if you want even longer rest times. Like 25/15.
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    I mean, it sounds like the Japanese objectively did not smell bad. You also hear about the Latin Americans complain about the stench of Columbus and his crew. Was it just the stench of sailors, or did these cultures know a fix?
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    Isn't it odd that Europeans didn't complain about Japanese odor?
13. 733.▲
    by medstrom 6y ago

    I expect that if someone stumbles on a true "fix" for body odor, it'll involve inoculation of better microbes, from live soil maybe (many animals love to roll in dirt for some reason), and then avoiding killing those microbes
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    To be honest, this is in your head, and heads vary. I for one don't experience this feeling whatsoever: >You can say "so what, it still works!" but I think there are weird psychological effects at play when you can make a
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    Some news sources on my Atom reader: Aeon https://aeon.co Undark Magazine https://undark.org The Conversation https://theconversation.com/global Curie https://www.tidningencurie.se/en
16. 736.▲
    by medstrom 6y ago

    Frankly, since we only have ourselves to sample, we have no idea how large the survivorship bias is. It doesn't matter if there's googol of galaxies or just one galaxy, we have zero direct information on how easily life arises. Pu
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    What's your thesis here? It looks like you just want us to like this Goenka person.
18. 738.▲
    by medstrom 6y ago

    Freud's hypothesis that you need to "vent" your emotions, called catharsis theory, has been discredited since like 2002.
19. 739.▲
    by medstrom 6y ago

    HN rule: Don't snark.
20. 740.▲
    by medstrom 6y ago

    You correctly doubted that any scientists were "stunned" to discover plants, so you interpreted it as they found living plants, the one thing that might stun them.
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    Well, what makes thumb keys so great is that the thumbs are particularly independent of what your other fingers are doing. Foot switches fill the same purpose. You can only have so many keys under your other fingers, and the more you add, t
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    Not to mention polysynthetic signs - I don't want to be the one to program that. An example sentence of mostly polysynthetic signs: "i was out driving, just enjoying the scenery, the nature and all the trees passing by me," (
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    Essentially, vocal languages are one-dimensional, thus easy to solve. Filter out disturbances, background noise, and train the machine to adapt to dialects, and you're halfway home. Sign language is at least three-dimensional, it can e
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    I disagree: think of how long it takes to bring up the PipBoy in Fallout 3. Or to open a door in Mass Effect. The amount of times I've had my character just be running into the door for multiple seconds before it finally opens...
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    Now I'm picturing a fat tungsten scrollwheel with a lot of inertia, that keeps spinning after you roll it.
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    "Usable" partly depends on you.
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    This could be fixed if pinning the interpreter's video feed on your screen gave it priority.
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    I think this occurs more in some countries than others, with low sign language awareness. Maybe the US especially due to monolinguality. It seems people love to assume things about other languages that are false and can be insulting. Like w
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    That would be called Signed English.
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    by medstrom 6y ago

    A risky habit: signing with other deaf drivers on the motorway. I've done it...