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by pjdorrell 6y ago
The authors of the paper do various calculations to arrive at 36. How do they determine f_l, the probability of life originating on a suitable planet? They follow the "Principle of Mediocrity", ie life exists on Earth, and we are
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
Useful arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03968 As always, the critical assumption is f_l, the probability that life of any kind will originate on a "suitable" planet. The authors invoke the "Princip
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Why Does Music Trigger Maladaptive Daydreaming?(whatismusic.info)
2 points by pjdorrell 6y ago|0 comments
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Music Is Not a Positive Superstimulus – It's a Negative Superstimulus(whatismusic.info)
2 points by pjdorrell 6y ago|0 comments
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How to Deep Learn Music: Two Suggestions(whatismusic.info)
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Music Is a Superstimulus for the Perception of Non-Spontaneous Speech(whatismusic.info)
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
It's not just a matter of not understanding, it's also the tendency to assume the default, which is a linear scale. One suggestion would be to make the logarithmic scale super-obvious and in your face. "1 10 100 1k 10k 100k&q
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Tell HN: Covid19 testing rates should be expressed in days
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
You won't see the black hole in your telescope, because it's black, and there isn't any stuff currently falling into it (which is one way that black holes can make themselves very visible). Also, using "your telescope&qu
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Paper Suggesting Human Cov OC43 Was the 1890 'Russian Flu' Pandemic(jvi.asm.org)
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
How much do monoclonal antibody treatments cost, per patient, usually? For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570079/ Also, how much of the high cost is research cost, and how much of that
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
Some useful links for more technical background info: https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part1 (& parts2 & 3), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-018-0118-9 and https:/&#x2
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/ All we need now is a "this 'does not exist site' does not exist" site.
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
For l_c, which contains the probability of the origin of life from non-living precursors, the authors suggest an LU (orders of magnitude) of ~200, and say "though one could easily argue for much larger LU". Indeed one could argue.
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
For most forms of passive audio-visual entertainment, we strongly prefer new to old, for example: * films * jokes * stories * news * documentaries Music is unusual in how much we _don't_ seek out new items.
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
The author appears to have the honest intention of analysing this question as thoroughly as possible. If there is some other website or paper that goes through this in more detail, it would be good if someone could post a link to that websi
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by pjdorrell 7y ago
The desire to explore untouched wilderness is something that has been strongly selected for. The world has been colonized by those who had the greatest inclination to explore the unknown. Non-human animals also, eventually, colonize areas b
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by pjdorrell 7y ago
If the number of lives saved by making best use of partial information exceeds the number of lives lost because of people who fail to understand the concept, then that's a net benefit.
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Loss of smell is a Covid19 symptom. That's a test. Everyone should do that test
6 points by pjdorrell 7y ago|4 comments
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What Is Music? The False Allure of the Simple Verbal Definition(whatismusic.info)
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by pjdorrell 7y ago
What do you mean by “many things that some would not consider music”? Is there some group of people who would consider all “organized sounds” to be music? Are you one of those people?
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What is Music? Towards a Working Definition of “Music”(whatismusic.info)
4 points by pjdorrell 7y ago|2 comments
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The Eternal Honeymoons Theory of Fast Cutting Music Videos(whatismusic.info)
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Hypothesis: Music Motivates Constancy of Emotional State(whatismusic.info)
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by pjdorrell 7y ago
Theoretically NULL means "unknown" value. As it happens, most business applications do not have any requirement to deal with "unknown" values. These applications are only interested in acting on requests where all the re
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by pjdorrell 7y ago
In Python type(type) is type evaluates to True. And that is not permitted in mathematical type theory that the Curry-Howard correspondence applies to.
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What Is Music? A Hypothesis About Two Perceptual Systems(whatismusic.info)
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What Is Music? The “World” Hypothesis(whatismusic.info)
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by pjdorrell 7y ago
The best way to understand about war chants is, firstly, to imagine what it would be like to be a warrior in some prehistoric tribe that is about to go to war. Imagine possible scenarios in your future - the beginning of the war, where you
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What is music? A unified theory of music and dreaming(whatismusic.info)
187 points by pjdorrell 7y ago|68 comments

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