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by sergioisidoro 8y ago
I think Paul Stamets is going to be one of those genius we will only learn to appreciate after their death. Those pioneers that are so far ahead they get dismissed. His applications of fungi go from medicine to pest control, and probably al
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by sergioisidoro 8y ago
LSD does not come from fungi. It is derived from lysergic acid from the ergot fungus (the reason why witches have brooms - check it out), but it is synthesized Lysergic acid related compounds are not unique from fungi tho. LSA is found in s
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by sergioisidoro 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin
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by sergioisidoro 8y ago
/rant "after one week of exciting sleepless nights of work (which explains the lots of typos you will found ahead), the darkriscv reached a very good quality result" Not commenting on the actual quality of the code, but I won
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by sergioisidoro 8y ago
I've recently made the switch from Django/Flask to Rails. And I have a feeling that those frameworks surpassed rails in terms of maturity. Rails feels a bit hacky in comparison (ORM, migration management, validation and data mana
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by sergioisidoro 8y ago
This is nothing new, and I have a hunch we're going to find more subtle mental changes associated with external infections (not just extreme dementia, paranoia, and seizures). Things that people currently associate with innate personal
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by sergioisidoro 9y ago
This! I'm horrible at mental arithmetics and I have a degree in engineering. Everyone has access to a calculator in their pocket anyway, and ... Who's going to pay with cash within a couple of years? To add to what you said: I thi
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Automating Financial Services – The Danger of Machine Humanity(medium.com)
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Evil tradeoffs: Security vs. UX(medium.com)
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Not paying for software and how it impacted the perception of my own work(medium.com)
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
I recently attended a talk by Dr. Rhonda Patrick on the biohacker summit in Finland. It was extremely interesting. Another finding that I remember about physical activity being accounted for is the fact that sauna itself contributes to hea
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
I found the title a bit misleading. As I understood this is more of a workflow engine, using microservices for each step of the workflows. Quite interesting, seeing this join Airlfow, Luigi, and other task orchestration tools, with a differ
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
I've played around with this concept, trying to replicate some previous work [1]. It's a sensitive topic, because sometimes we're actually tampering with the data, trying to eliminate known human or selection biases. The firs
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Ask HN: How does your back office/admin ui look like?
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
Developed world is dying of obesity, diabetes, suicide and depression. Are those problems less severe than under developed countries, without access to vaccination, medical care and nutrition? All problems are relative to your frame of refe
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
Fear is crippling. But safety if also misleading. I do aerial acrobatics, I've tried to battle fear of heights when being 5/10m up and making a drop, having to be sure that I did the correct moves and the rope will stop my fall. T
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
Last pass also has a flaw on 2Fa. They cache local copies of the encrypted files, and the auto-fill populates the fields after password, before promoting 2fa. It does erase the fields and promoted 2fa, but passwords are available briefly. I
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
Yes, in the last example you can see it as rigging the input data. I replicated the results of the experiment in the paper, and I made some remarks of this sorts in my own report and discussion. The idea is that a sensitive parameter should
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
I think the case of zip code based discrimination is even named. It's called redlining, and is being used in machine learning world to describe indirect discrimination based on certain attributes (eg. discriminate people based on their
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
I made a couple of experiments on discrimination free machine learning models with naive Bayes, and I changed my perspective on data science. Usually people are concerned about maximising prediction accuracy, and never stop to think about w
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
I learned that the hard way, after going to trouble of collecting spores from a wide variety of mushrooms during autumn, and realisong after classification that they were in fact mycorrhizal. However, I've learned, you can buy pre inoc
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
Ok, that I did not know. Maybe they vary in concentration of gyromitrin? Or is it just folk knowledge? Eating large quantities of it is really not advisable, and you are recommended to drink lots of water afterwards. As far as I know, and p
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The world of mushroom growing(medium.com)
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
Edit: Found one study, but this is likely to be a confirmation bias effect: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26094889 "Bi-monthly FMD cycles started at middle age extended longevity, lowered visceral fat, reduce
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by sergioisidoro 10y ago
I've read in multiple places that biohackers are using Intermittent fasting as a way of preventing cancer. By making sporadic (eg. once a month) fasting periods of 12h to 24h, they expect to starve cancer cells in their very early stag
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by sergioisidoro 11y ago
Legalisation, no, but decriminalisation, yes: Take for example Portugal: Almost 1% of the population was addicted to heroin a couple of years ago, as the country moved away form a dictatorship and found freedom (also coming from a colonial