neurocat123

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by neurocat123 4y ago
This might be overly pragmatic and underthinking things, but what worked very well for me personally is to make an account on meetup.com and go to random events (but of course things that you're likely to enjoy). Especially meeting up
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by neurocat123 4y ago
There is some evidence, mostly fMRI-based as far as I'm aware, of slow (~10s period) fluctuations between functional coupling of brain regions on a macroscopic level. The associated networks are often referred to as resting state or de
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by neurocat123 4y ago
I recently (2021) saw a TV ad on a Russian-language channel for noopept, during a visit to Moldova. It included a slow-motion happy family. Looks like it's gone mainstream by now (at least in some parts of the world).
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by neurocat123 4y ago
I find this sentiment rather unsettling. Who am I to deny someone else their fun in life? There is a Dutch retort to this kind of condescending remark: "who are you, the pope"? Last night, I had a discussion with a friend about ho
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by neurocat123 5y ago
A brilliant tool I once worked with is TetGen; it takes a hollow 3D shape and creates a volumetric, space-filling mesh of the inside using tetrahedra. Most of what is TetGen is in once giant C++ file, clocking in at 36,566 raw SLOC. https:
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by neurocat123 5y ago
Just my 2¢: I'm also using plain text files as a 'mind-dump'/exocortex/organsation system. After a while, the file tends to get rather big, and so I need some coarse hierarchical levels, like 'random cool stuff
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by neurocat123 5y ago
What happens when we take this concept into the third dimension—could we assemble these modular blocks into a mass of computronium? Perhaps slightly more realistically speaking, could they be made stackable? Perhaps this could be a way to s
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by neurocat123 5y ago
This seems silly for another reason: these fish are genetically engineered to be fluorescent, which means that if you shine light on them at one frequency (typically UV-A light), they emit light at another frequency (red, green or blue). Th
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by neurocat123 5y ago
I seem to be the only one with this opinion in this thread, so perhaps I'm misguided, but the reason I'm tired of these cookie permission pop-ups is that they strike me as security theatre. It's pretending to the end user tha
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by neurocat123 5y ago
> Scientists have believed for a long time that severe damage to the visual cortex in the left side of your brain will leave you unable to see out of your right eye, assuming that the ability to see out of one eye is largely due to the v