memebox3v

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by memebox3v 8y ago
I knew a guy at university who smoked everyday. And before he took exams or tests, he would do a bong hit to settle his nerves. He got a 1st in Chemistry. #anecdatasmackdown
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by memebox3v 8y ago
There is such a thing as over stimulation. I'm rather sensitive to stimulation and become uncomfortable quite quickly around bright lights, strong smells, loud films, large grouos if people, ect. The flush of dopamine causes too much s
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by memebox3v 8y ago
In the uk its a non thing. 50% of my friends are atheists. Its such a non issue that it hardly ever comes up. The first time i had a problem is when i couldnt have a church wedding because I couldnt morally profess a belief in a christian g
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by memebox3v 8y ago
Lol. This wasn't dreaming. This was posturing. It was America puffing themselves up to look big when confronted with the threat of the USSR. You have to dig deep to find the dreamers, you can sometimes find thier writing on the subway
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by memebox3v 8y ago
I think its much more likely it was an accademic working around this area in the years leading up to bitcoin. Staying anonymous is an extremely clever and mature thing to do, I'd say whoever it is is 30 years old +. Possibly someone no
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by memebox3v 8y ago
Why does everyone claim to know things they don't know? The more I know the more stupid popular opinion becomes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine
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by memebox3v 8y ago
I think some believers see a steady state universe. Life then becomes a boltzman brain. But I think panspermia is likely a thing and I think life naturally arises in open dissipative systems. Get a rock, water, and a heat source and wait
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by memebox3v 8y ago
Not for price reasons. Its because the more wave guides you super glue together the more image disruption you get. It's allready blocking a significant proportion of the light, not to mention the splitting out of colors.
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by memebox3v 8y ago
"Science is dead" Poor Stacey. He is trying to be reasonable in the face of ideology.
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by memebox3v 8y ago
All the comments advising caution are unpopular. I didnt expect hacker news people to be so gung ho. But then again maybe I should have expected hubris.
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by memebox3v 8y ago
I still dont get it. Is this sending signals into the severed spinal cord from an artificial device? If so, how is training going to help? Is it reading from one end of the spinal chord and transfering to the other?
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by memebox3v 8y ago
I have the same thing. Preople look at me like i'm crazy and tell me that I should be careful not to hurt myself. I make a half hearted effort yo poiny them in the direction of some studies like the above, but mostly people arent smart
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by memebox3v 8y ago
Eh? What does conceptually mean?
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by memebox3v 8y ago
You want me to give you my best ideas? Lol, no. I can create them myself thanks.
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by memebox3v 8y ago
Why is this on hacker news?
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by memebox3v 8y ago
I agree. I think I could have done my degree in a year. Didnt go to any lectures, do any coursework or workshops, learnt the material in a month before the exams. Got 1st class marks (although pulled down to a 2.1 because i didnt do coursew
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by memebox3v 8y ago
Is it aliens?
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by memebox3v 9y ago
But its still all von neumann architecture. We need a clean break at the hardware level to really get somewhere on this imho. I think reservoir computing is the way to go, with a specially designed substrate on silicon acting as the reservo
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by memebox3v 9y ago
I thought that two paths leading to a single path was equivalent to wave function collapse. When we percieve things as acting clasically, what has happened is that from our point of view, all those universes that are compatible with our cur
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by memebox3v 9y ago
Its because new ideas are built from old ideas. And old ideas travel around the world from mind to mind. When it is time for a new idea to be born, the ideas from which it is constructed are readily available. That is to say: When the last
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by memebox3v 9y ago
Or. You know. Stop killing people for oil?
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by memebox3v 9y ago
I think I work with a clone of Sergey. He has somehow managed to convince his boss that he knows what he is doing. Every interaction with him is painful as he subconcsiously does everything in his power to discredit me and make himself look
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by memebox3v 9y ago
Impulse over powers free will in the long term. Try starving yourself to death. Unless you are exceptional your will power will fail you. Ultimately you are not the master of desire. Desire is the master of you.
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by memebox3v 9y ago
God. This "free will trumps all things. You are in total control of your destiny. All things that happen to you are your own doing" needs to die. Slowly and painfully. You are a tiny sliver of consciousness on top of a vast, power
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by memebox3v 9y ago
I have also been late for a flight. And often very nearly late despite giving myself huge margins. Some people, like me, just have minds that have too much going on to keep track of. There is no dead space to organise things, its always mov
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by memebox3v 9y ago
Or for that matter self driving cars. You could commute for 5 hours a day, spend 2 hours in the office and go home again. All while being productive. That greatly increases the commutable range. Then you have the prospect of self driving Mo
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by memebox3v 9y ago
This is absolutely brilliant. I have been looking for a way into an understanding of learning within biological neural nets. I dont suppose there is source code around?
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by memebox3v 9y ago
Yup, lots of ppl are very defensive about this! We are the farm workers looking at a prototype of a combine harvester. We will stop ourselves from believing it until its taken our job and then we will claim it was obvious all along. Ppl are
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by memebox3v 9y ago
But some of us are very easily bored. Being trapped doing the same job for a few years is torture. So automating the stuff thats boring becomes very attractive. I cant imagine how unpleasant it will be if i have to write html and css for th
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by memebox3v 9y ago
The Darwinism/Lamarckism thing is wrapped up in politics. Darwinism is used as a justification of the social order. Might is right. The strong survive. Lamarckism has a more touchy feely feel to it. Not that Darwinism is fundamentally

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