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by notshift 4y ago
I used to think like this too, but I realized recently that actually the human brain doesn't train over ~20 years of data, it trains over ~200 million years of data. Human babies aren't an empty neural network with no weights, the
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by notshift 4y ago
Those are fair suggestions. I'm not typically inclined to "do the work for them" so-to-speak, by asking them what experiences & observations have framed their approach, because that's basically priming the person to
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by notshift 4y ago
The question makes more sense if you additionally pose an alternative (i.e. change my position to Y). Given strictly like this, all I can really say is that I would change my position if you demonstrated to me that it was in my own or other
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by notshift 4y ago
For synthesizing new ideas maybe it takes that long. But if you hold any serious views that you expect to have challenged by others (relating to politics or otherwise), you should have clear rules for why you believe those things and exactl
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by notshift 4y ago
Hilarious to characterize those as sounding like suicide notes. But people use those subject lines because they are extremely effective at getting high open rates, above pretty much everything else.
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by notshift 4y ago
Have you looked at your diet? I used to have a ton of mucus, and cutting out bad carbs from my diet (processed bread, waffles, store-bought muffins, etc.) pretty much eliminated the issue. Peppers / nightshades can be an issue for some
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by notshift 4y ago
PaulHoule is correct; potassium and iron are dangerous in excess. Magnesium you can just take in a separate supplement since you really want more of it than easily fits in a multivitamin. You can get sufficient potassium by eating 2-3 meals
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by notshift 4y ago
A large amount of computation takes place in the gut, largely by the foreign bacteria that make up our gut flora, and the gut has direct lines of two-way communication with the brain. Hence the term "gut feeling". The brain certai
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by notshift 4y ago
I agree with the legs example, but neural networks are basically a mathematical construct, and they solve problems that any other intelligent species in our universe would also have to face. I think if a better mathematical construct for so
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by notshift 4y ago
I sure hope we don't have mass-reproducing space mosquitos in our future.
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by notshift 4y ago
> for example, through an instant rewiring of the brain that doesn't require any practice. You might have an alien species that can copy the brain state of someone who already knows a task, or one that can gain skills extremely quic
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by notshift 4y ago
I agree with this exactly. I think appeals to SOLID or any other design principles are generally not helpful when arguing/discussing about code quality. I think people should just talk about readability and maintainability instead, sin
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by notshift 4y ago
Opening and closing your comment with ad-hominem, by calling the person's argument a conspiracy theory, makes you less persuasive, not more. It makes me more inclined to think your own arguments are coming from a biased position rather
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by notshift 4y ago
I built a new PC recently and installed Windows 11 on it. The bluetooth & sound UIs were completely broken. I had two headsets connected, one was displaying as "Default for audio" but sound was coming through on the other one,
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by notshift 4y ago
Is that a broken link or is my browser broken? That opens to an empty Hacker News page for me.
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by notshift 4y ago
> Magnus didn't play particularly well and Hans played ok. Everyone says this, but do you really know? Those statements are after-the-fact observations of engine evaluations. They don't speak to the amount of mental work that H
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by notshift 4y ago
Starch converts to glucose, which is processed VERY differently from table sugar, sucrose, or the type of sugar found in fruit, fructose. So, sugar is not all sugar. I believe Lustig has argued that the latter two are much worse than the fo
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by notshift 4y ago
Probably sugar consumption has gone down because people have replaced it with artificial sweeteners, which have similar metabolic effects in the body to what Lustig has attributed to sugar. It'd be nice to see a combined graph of sugar
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by notshift 4y ago
Why so hostile? We're just talking about fast food man, lol. > Do you eat a lot of low quality fast food? That could be one reason your gut bacteria are craving food from a fast food joint instead of something that isn't deep f
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by notshift 4y ago
I don't have much evidence to support this claim, but as best I can tell Chick-fil-a has far superior food quality than Raising Cane's. Chick-fil-a holds their ingredients & preparation to the same high standard as they do the
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by notshift 4y ago
Am I an outlier? I think probably most people could focus on a red triangle for 10 minutes or something, if they wanted to, to "prove" that they had free will. Changing major habits is much harder, I would agree, but it's jus
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by notshift 4y ago
I can focus on a red triangle for as long as I would like. I can also change any of my major habits that I would like (and I have done so recently). I don't think that study shows that we don't control our own actions. Certainly 9
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by notshift 4y ago
Nah, I can come up with countless examples of companies making decisions to maximize their market cap over the next 0-2 years, that are obviously going to have a huge negative impact over the next 5-10 years (a much greater negative impact
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by notshift 4y ago
I don't think it's arrogance, I think you have far too much faith in large groups of people. Of the 4.4 million software developers in the US, most of them produce really bad code and have a lot of wrong ideas about development an
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by notshift 5y ago
Ah, fair enough. I was mostly skimming the linked article and clicking through to the referenced studies. You're right, you'd certainly have to throw out that particular IQ study in that case.
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by notshift 5y ago
The second article you linked cites several studies. I looked at each of them and pretty much all of them conclude that breastfeeding is better than bottle, except the childhood obesity one, which found no effect (I wouldn't expect bre
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by notshift 5y ago
Do you have a source for the claim that breastfeeding is no better than formula? I don't have a study to the contrary off hand, but everything I've read/studied has agreed conclusively that breastfeeding is the preferred opti
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by notshift 5y ago
We're still discovering new plant molecules and the effects they have on us all the time. Supplements are never going to be able to completely make up for a diet lacking in real whole plant food & animal meat. With respect to the q
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by notshift 5y ago
The problem and solution has been known for almost a century now; check out the book 'Nutrition and Physical Degeneration' by Weston Price. 'The Dental Diet' is also solid reading. I'm still working through the book
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by notshift 5y ago
Does he talk about that in one of his videos? I'm curious to hear more. It looks like there is still a bitchute page up with his brand and videos.

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