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by oceliker 4y ago
As of now, it is the first chapter of that Wikipedia article.
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by oceliker 4y ago
I always thought the spirit of the paper was "we have a set of techniques to probe the brain and try to understand functionality (e.g. calcium/voltage indicators, optogenetics, laser ablation); could we have understood how a black
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by oceliker 4y ago
It’s his wife who requested protection, according to the article’s sub-headline.
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by oceliker 4y ago
> Wouldn't that mean unskilled people tend to overestimate their skill, and experts tend to underestimate it? I think it's because the original paper speculates far beyond it: > The authors suggest that this overestimation o
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by oceliker 4y ago
I think the gist of the article is this: Suppose you make 1000 people take a test. Suppose all 1000 of these people are utterly incapable of evaluating themselves, so they just estimate their grade as a uniform random variable between 0-100
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by oceliker 4y ago
Just because their account was created for this comment, does not mean the comment itself is worth disregarding. Throwaway accounts exist for many reasons. You can address their point and move on. Leveling accusations unrelated to the point
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by oceliker 4y ago
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by oceliker 4y ago
I thought I remembered reading something similar a while ago (except for the speed being stuck), a quick google yields quite a few similar cases: https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+computer+shutdown+whil...
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by oceliker 5y ago
There's another school down the street from MIT where the grad students already have a union.
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by oceliker 5y ago
I believe you are thinking about representative bodies (maybe the equivalent of UA for undergrads, or GSC for grads, at MIT) while the union in the news is employment-based and is the sole legally recognized entity to negotiate salaries, em
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by oceliker 5y ago
I miss the Facebook chat from the late '00s - early '10s, which also had easter eggs. The only one I remember is :putnam: which showed a face of a person (presumably named Putnam). I wish FAANG companies still did easter eggs.
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by oceliker 5y ago
Not if you read the author’s blog posts (or just the URL) about it https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
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by oceliker 5y ago
Merhaba :) they are visible in this image [1], so I assume they are supported, but I sadly don't have the font myself to try it out. [1] https://neil.computer/content/images/size/w1600/2022/02&#
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by oceliker 5y ago
That sounds like Bitcoin with extra steps Jokes aside, that would actually be fun if the password is actually reasonably guess-able, I would definitely give it a try if that existed
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by oceliker 5y ago
Based on their press releases, it sounds like they actually hold significant stock, hence the urgency to do something about it I guess. https://www.blackwellscap.com/pressrelease/blackwells-capita...
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by oceliker 5y ago
Wish I could tell you exactly what I was doing at the time, but I don't remember :( I only remember I was entering guesses as fast as possible even while the slow return animations were going on, maybe it has something to do with that.
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by oceliker 5y ago
I think that's part of the game: > Repeated bad guesses incur a time penalty.
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by oceliker 5y ago
Is this a bug or am I missing something here? Looks like I'm out of vowels... https://imgur.com/a/D57IgjE
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by oceliker 5y ago
Maybe it was paid for with bitcoin, like the infamous case: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/cryptocurrency/bi...
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by oceliker 5y ago
This one is a guaranteed win: https://www.unixpapa.com/floodit/?sz=2&nc=8
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by oceliker 5y ago
True, I go by Mike in Starbucks. I guess I can do the same there. I guess it hasn't occurred to me because I never actually called a pizza place :) My point about the accent is still valid in my opinion. It's difficult to call som
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by oceliker 5y ago
I remember posting this in a similar thread a while ago but I’ll repeat it here. As an international student with an accent and an uncommon name, I will literally never order a pizza over the phone.
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by oceliker 5y ago
> Is ground-breaking neuroscience research only performed at tier 1 universities? Absolutely not. I'm just sharing my perspective. People don't seem to realize the sheer amount of money that circulates in these institutions. A
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by oceliker 5y ago
Graduate student in a neuroscience lab at a tier 1 institution in the US here. $1.1 million for a grant is very normal. I cost my advisor over $100k per year in tuition and stipend, not including the costs of any equipment and reagents that
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by oceliker 5y ago
I am pretty sure the list is sequential. If you look at the list in the Javascript code of the game and Ctrl-F today's word, you'll see the previous dates' words are right before it. Here's tomorrow's word (spoiler
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by oceliker 5y ago
> An ant mill was first described in 1921 by William Beebe, who observed a mill 1200 ft (~370 m) in circumference. It took each ant 2.5 hours to make one revolution. I’m pretty sure I could also get stuck in a loop in a forest if the cir
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by oceliker 5y ago
I use ADIEU to get 4 wovels, likely the same reason you picked AUDIO.
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by oceliker 5y ago
> “We need you to be on these calls [with pushback/pressuring if you don't want to]”. I fully agree, pushback/pressuring would make this unacceptable. But I'm not seeing that in the post, even before correcting for th
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by oceliker 5y ago
I think people see it as a manager being kind and trying to involve their future employee in decisions that will impact them directly. (Assuming they are not expected to be actively leading the calls…) I can envision a scenario where someon
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by oceliker 5y ago
I really wish someone made a browser extension that simulates a slow connection when you visit a social media website. I have a feeling the addiction would go away if you were subjected to a random 1-5 second wait after each click on Twitte

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