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by nvader 5y ago
Oh, I get it now. And then when they expire they deposit undigestable material in the soil, capturing carbon and eventually turning into coal. The dawn of the dextro-carboniferous period.
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by nvader 5y ago
But what do they eat?
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by nvader 5y ago
Big Health | Lead Software Engineer: Backend, Frontend or Full-Stack, Engineering Manager | US or UK, REMOTE, fulltime Are you passionate about mental health? At Big Health, we're building a digital therapeutics platform that uses clin
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by nvader 5y ago
My school got students to do the work of maintaining these computers! But they bribed us with our own room in the library with a handful of computers with admin access, so we could play games. And we had Norton Ghost, so re-imaging was a br
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by nvader 5y ago
FWIW I still saw the link at #1, clicked it almost in exasperation after seeing it at the top of HN all day, and was pleasantly surprised to see it load. Bravo, little calculator.
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by nvader 5y ago
I don't know what TI ever did to you, but I know that I would not cross you lightly.
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by nvader 5y ago
Will it replicate?
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by nvader 5y ago
No soap, radio!
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by nvader 5y ago
Pasted tense
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by nvader 5y ago
Big Health | Lead Software Engineer: Backend, Frontend or Full-Stack | US or UK, REMOTE Are you passionate about mental health? At Big Health, we're building a digital therapeutics platform that uses clinically proven techniques to hel
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The moral cost of chicken (vs beef)(astralcodexten.substack.com)
3 points by nvader 5y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 5y ago
Are you passionate about mental health? At Big Health, we're building a digital therapeutics platform that uses clinically proven techniques to help our users deal with the problems of worry and sleeplessness. Our evidence-based techni
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Fun with Generators (2018) [pdf](dabeaz.com)
3 points by nvader 5y ago|1 comments
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The Hairy Ball Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by nvader 5y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 5y ago
This reminds me of the Hairy Ball Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
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by nvader 5y ago
Thank you.
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Our commitment to mental health equity(blog.bighealth.com)
1 points by nvader 5y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 5y ago
Big Health | Lead Software Engineer: Backend, Frontend or Full-Stack | US or UK, REMOTE Are you passionate about mental health? At Big Health, we're building a digital therapeutics platform that uses clinically proven techniques to hel
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by nvader 5y ago
Are you thinking of Survivorship bias?
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by nvader 5y ago
Really good immune response.
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by nvader 5y ago
I've been playing a bit of chess lately. The rules of the game are deterministic, and the best engines have solved many positions completely. Nevertheless, it's still fun to play, for me. I'm trying to play the most optimal m
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by nvader 6y ago
I would buy this t-shirt.
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by nvader 6y ago
You can also paste into a <body contenteditable>. When you land on a site with a delayed paywall, you can copy out the content just before the popup, and then paste it into <body contenteditable> to view at your own leisure.
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by nvader 6y ago
I am partial to the formulation, "Make it correct, make it clear, make it concise, make it fast. In that order." - Wes Dyer
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by nvader 6y ago
I found this helpful. Not because it has helped me to grok ergodicity yet, but because it's another foothold on my way to climb the mountain. At some point it will click, and your pinball-bowl mixer will help, I'm sure. I'm a
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De Morgan's Flaw: Perform This Refactor Carefully(danverbraganza.com)
1 points by nvader 6y ago|0 comments
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by nvader 6y ago
Unless the disaster was self-inflicted by the Venusians, when they unleashed the sequestered carbon by harvesting energy. This is one of the reasons this story sticks in my mind.
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by nvader 6y ago
This is very cool. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the AND gate to work for me.
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Harnessing vision for computation: Embedding Circuits in Optical Illusions [pdf](gwern.net)
1 points by nvader 6y ago|1 comments
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by nvader 6y ago
There is not even an anecdote here, just folksy hearsay that has been debunked in aviation. See this article on Spatial Disorientation, especially the section on the Graveyard Spiral. https://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety&#

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