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The Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 Showdown: AMD's Ryzen Picasso Vs.Intel's Ice Lake(anandtech.com)
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by moh_maya 7y ago
so, thinking fast and slow has received a fair amount of criticism, both here on HN and elsewhere. Some previous threads & links that may be of interest (and perhaps value!) to you. Start with this: [0] https://retractionwatc
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Books on Thinking About Thinking(bloomberg.com)
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The Snapdragon 865 will make phones worse in 2020, thanks to mandatory 5G(arstechnica.com)
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by moh_maya 7y ago
To quote just one interesting thing (for me): "Hagfish slime is made of two different kinds of protein. One is a type of mucin, which acts much like the mucus that the human body uses to drown bacteria and viral intruders in antibodies
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Weird Substances: Hagfish Slime(hackaday.com)
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by moh_maya 7y ago
Re reservatol: The jury is out in terms of its efficacy, or lack thereof. [1,2] [1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/resveratrol-the-hype-con... [2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/diet-rich
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Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security(nature.com)
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Neurons hide their memories in their imaginary fluctuations(arstechnica.com)
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: linguistic relativity(en.wikipedia.org)
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by moh_maya 7y ago
[2016]
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by moh_maya 7y ago
Has anyone tried Microsoft sculpt [1]? I use the 4000 series [2], and that's been amazing.. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar... [2] https://www.microsoft.com&#x
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NASA Announces US Industry Partnerships to Advance Moon, Mars Technology(nasa.gov)
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by moh_maya 7y ago
The article is from 2016. A lot has changed since then..
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by moh_maya 7y ago
A medium article by the founder of Gumroad on the same topic [1]. Well written & articulated, IMO. "It took years for me to realize my pursuit of growth was misguided from the start" [1] https://medium.com/s&#x
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One dead after poop transplant gone wrong, FDA warns(arstechnica.com)
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by moh_maya 7y ago
Heart burn meds are often Mg Oxide or sulfate, which isn't that well absorbed. [1,2] for anxiety and depression, Mg Citrate works well, as does Mg Glycinate [3] Just a heads up. [1] http://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine
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by moh_maya 7y ago
I am not an astrophysicist (or a physicist even) but one piece of evidence that may be useful here: Based on our understanding of the nuclear fusion reactions, starting from hydrogen, we expect to see, for a star of a given light / rad
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by moh_maya 7y ago
From Terry Pratchett's "Guards, Guards" [1] "One of the Patrician’s greatest contributions to the reliable operation of Ankh-Morpork had been, very early in his administration, the legalising of the ancient Guild of Thie
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by moh_maya 7y ago
Previous discussion on HN [1]. Re. the orbit, note that this was a test in LEO, at 300 km orbit; all the debris will, in relatively short order, be de-orbited. [2] While I will not indulge in the whataboutism of CN & USA conducting thes
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Germany’s first criminal indictment in VW emissions scandal is ex-CEO Winterkorn(arstechnica.com)
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by moh_maya 8y ago
The argument you appear to be making (as I interpret it) is equivalent to saying some members of the Freedom caucus support neo-Nazis / "alt-right", therefore all conservatives are now proponents of eugenics & "white
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The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship(inc.com)
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by moh_maya 8y ago
Damn. Thanks for the link. I was just speculating.. I don't think the authors are drawing a casual effect here; in effect, this is scientific anecdata: hey, we tried this and this happened. We think you should know. I think it's g
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by moh_maya 8y ago
And you don't know what downsides fecal transplants may have. There's clear preliminary evidence that gut microbiomes can drive obesity. Imagine giving someone who is not obese / diabetic a fecal transplant to treat depressio
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by moh_maya 8y ago
So, if you actually read the 3-4 blog articles [1,2,3,4,5] on epigenetics that he's written, I don't interpret them as him suggesting epigenetic changes do not occur. Rather, I think he is challenging the notion that epigenetic in
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by moh_maya 8y ago
absolutely. I would hope people don't now start doing fecal transplants for treating depression, or Alzheimers, or schizophrenia. These results, interesting though they may be, are not a cure; they may not even be diagnostic. But clear
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by moh_maya 8y ago
from a twitter thread [1] critiquing the paper, by a neurogeneticist [2]: " And we can test them on a whole range of behaviours, without correction for multiple tests, without a hypothesis of which should show an effect, and again with
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by moh_maya 8y ago
absolutely. I think what's happening is the "let's see what sticks" approach. I'll throw every possible symptom and try to draw correlations in every possible way. We can always come up with a hypothesis later. Whic
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by moh_maya 8y ago
There is good reason to be skeptical of the claims in the article. This twitter thread [1] is a good, articulate criticism of the issues around the paper. To quote a segment from the series of tweets by the author, Kevin Mitchell (a neuroge

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