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by porkbrain 4y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30252263
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by porkbrain 4y ago
This could be a line in Alan Parker's "Urban Warrior" bit. Some watchwords strung together, inadequate for the situation they are being posed in.
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by porkbrain 4y ago
Well, that's flattering, got estimated 2173 FIDE. Unfortunately, wildly off, I was ~1800 FIDE even when I used to play. Will try a few more games to see whether that was a fluke or whether I should consider getting into chess again. Al
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by porkbrain 4y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612668
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There will soon be seven billion people on the planet (2011)(education.nationalgeographic.org)
2 points by porkbrain 4y ago|2 comments
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by porkbrain 4y ago
Some related reading I've ammased about the topic over the time: https://lithub.com/on-the-link-between-great-thinking-and-ob... https://psyche.co/ideas/talking-out-loud-to-yourself-is-a-te...
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by porkbrain 4y ago
Sticky Fingers have a great take too. https://youtube.com/watch?v=N3zMmc8UG2g
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Visualization of European history (1500-2022)(twitter.com)
1 points by porkbrain 4y ago|0 comments
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by porkbrain 4y ago
Additionally, if you add the seed to the URL GET parameters, I can share this with my colleagues to compete who clocks more kms during a morning stand up.
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by porkbrain 4y ago
"Dom, get on to recruitment. Get them to look for a security team that can work as a team. They may have to escort the current security team from the building for not acting like a team. "
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by porkbrain 4y ago
I wish HN had a feature to follow or anotate users. Not the first time I meet someone interesting I know from another space here on HN. However, without such feature, I shall forget the username.
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by porkbrain 4y ago
They have a few sentences about each kanji as a mnemonic which helps you remember the pronunciation and meaning. Perhaps this could be somehow plugged into DALL•E. Create an image for each kanji for yet another data point which helps memori
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by porkbrain 4y ago
And herewith The Laplace's doctor is born, bound to plague medical ethics for centuries to come.
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Building a sailing starter board with Rust (RTIC)(gill.net.in)
1 points by porkbrain 4y ago|0 comments
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by porkbrain 4y ago
Some time ago I learnt that such an event was called a _syzygy_. What a pleasant sound! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy_(astronomy)
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by porkbrain 4y ago
> Supporters of the Strong AI Hypothesis insisted that consciousness was a property of certain algorithms – a result of information being processed in certain ways, regardless of what machine, or organ, was used to perform the task. A co
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by porkbrain 4y ago
Related interesting read: 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-...
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by porkbrain 5y ago
There's a behavioural neuroscience method you might be interested in: > Watch Nancy's brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Measuring neural activity (with fMRI, MEG, ERPs, etc) cannot tell you which brain re
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Ubuntu (Philosophy)(newworldencyclopedia.org)
1 points by porkbrain 5y ago|0 comments
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by porkbrain 5y ago
I worked with extensions for roughly 4 years on a handful of separate projects. I had managed a framework which abstracted over all APIs (including the insane old Safari one). While I can't share the framework, I have designed a code b
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by porkbrain 5y ago
If it's not a secret, I'd love to read some design document about the backend behind this app. What's the blackbox that takes set of images as an input and produces a 3D model as an output?
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by porkbrain 5y ago
> But he doen't pay the utilities, the tenants do, so why would he care? When you talk rent in London the first question asked tends to be "bills included?". This suggests to me that a non-trivial number of landlords would
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by porkbrain 5y ago
I'm reading through the neuroscience and related literature to compile a list of data and systems relevant for designing algorithms of interest. I'd like to share my hobby with other like-minded people.
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by porkbrain 5y ago
The problem with Czech is our extended alphabet and, more importantly, conjugated forms of verbs and nouns. You can't make the code sound good without proper conjugation, but of course no mainstream programing language supports it.
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by porkbrain 5y ago
One of my favorite sci-fi books. I had a lot of fun thinking about how I would implement the localizers. I don't have the relevant background so I later found out that my ideas, some of which I put into a blog post[0], were rather naïv
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by porkbrain 5y ago
I suppose "more direct" can be interpreted differently, but to the best of my knowledge the signal from your cochlea takes more axonal jumps[0] than e.g. visual, which jumps "only" through LGM[1]. Even more direct is the
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by porkbrain 5y ago
I made my peace with the fact that some set of sets of abstract rules makes absurd but precise predictions about what I perceive, and I will never know why. I try to direct my marvel on how can I be but a collection of interconnected automa
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by porkbrain 5y ago
As long as those extensions don't fetch and execute any JavaScript that hasn't been bundled at the time of Chrome store submission, they'll be fine. The biggest change happens at the API for monitoring and managing web reques
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by porkbrain 5y ago
Another fun one is the cricket. Its nerve system contains a single interneuron that inhibits auditory processing during its own chirp[0]. [0]: http://www.wormweb.org/gapfree/files/Poulet_2006_Science.pdf
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by porkbrain 5y ago
A searchable index of multidisciplinary projects and motivated people working on them is something I'd support financially. I was recently searching for such a community outside of academia to network withim my area of interest but fai

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