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by robg 3y ago
Anyone know of a school district that teaches neuroscience from a young age? Basically a user’s guide to the brain? There’s so much emphasis on mental health, shocked schools aren’t teaching how brains work best. The neurosciences have been
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My 4-step plan for non-fiction book writing(natesilver.substack.com)
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Artificial Intelligence Can’t Work Without Our Data. We Should Be Paid for It(politico.com)
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by robg 3y ago
So instead of manufacturers bearing the cost of quality control during manufacturing you expect every single import to be tested for all potential contamination? How would that work exactly? And without documentation of quality assurance, h
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by robg 3y ago
So you treat each subsequent container load as a new batch without a potential common cause, like manufacturing defects? Testing every single batch for any possible harmful defects?
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by robg 3y ago
A random sample by definition isn’t the entire batch, so how would you define ‘batch’ without documentation? The FDA would force recall on the entire product entering the country? Until how many samples are cleared?
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Relying on apps for meditation is a recipe for distrac(theatlantic.com)
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You don’t mention quality controls. What should FDA do if upon said random testing there are concerns? How can they and/or the manufacturer trace the causes without documentation?
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Short daytime naps may keep brain healthy as it ages(theguardian.com)
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Can America’s Students Recover What They Lost During the Pandemic?(propublica.org)
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Longevity enthusiasts want to create their own independent state – Rhode Island(technologyreview.com)
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by robg 3y ago
Highly recommend the exercises in Rumelhart and McClelland - Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition from 1986-1987 (two volumes) https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4424&#x2F
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by robg 3y ago
Please tag with [2021]
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Click for bait, stay for the science.
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Congress is racing to regulate AI. Silicon Valley is eager to teach them how(washingtonpost.com)
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*On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.* https:&#x2F
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by robg 3y ago
I’ve been on HN since 2007. It has always been general interest.
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He was there at the beginning with Run DMC then the Beastie Boys, the latter was a punk rock band until he started to push them and as a member.
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Loved this podcast with Rubin and him being asked right up front what a music producer does. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1sMxk3DfydYWasJVZ4Nqy5?si=J...
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by robg 3y ago
Great example of the technicians and the artists dismissing the business development guy understanding users. https://www.loudersound.com/features/walk-this-way-run-dmc-a...
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by robg 3y ago
Similar cross over with Walk this Way leading to Run DMC’s mass adoption. Where the guy loves music and knows how to sell it. https://www.loudersound.com/features/walk-this-way-run-dmc-a...
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Or the need to get hip hop understood by the masses through a familiar lens - ergo the Toys in the Attic hook into Walk this Way with Run DMC who he had to convince those washed up rock stars would help them sell more records. https:/
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When AI Overrules the Nurses Caring for You(wsj.com)
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Jose Delgado and the forgotten era of brain chips (2005) [pdf](wireheading.com)
38 points by robg 3y ago|3 comments
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by robg 3y ago
I’m a neuroscientist and I don’t feel qualified to weigh in. The problem of any complex problem today is the niche nature of expertise.
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It’s easy to forget how difficult learning is, for us as individuals and as flocks in formation. Pick any topic and it’s likely it took you years to learn well. So simply switching out beliefs embedded in that topic requires overwriting yea
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by robg 3y ago
Web advertising with a detailed sign up page is the best way to do that? Seems like a bunch of video ads would be more effective for that.
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What are they aiming to accomplish?
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You’d think they get that in free media.
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Ask HN: What’s with all the paid advertising for Apple Vision Pro?
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