shoreofwonder

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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
You have some deep misconceptions about science, but state them with certainty anyway, and garner upvotes for this. OK, I'm done with this forum.
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
We can and do make nonhuman mammals sit and repeatedly do tasks all day even when rewarded. Neuroscience behavior experiments in rats, mice, and apes are exactly this. Humans are considered much less exceptional than they were in the 1950s.
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
In terms of character count, it takes fewer characters to convey an idea in Japanese than in English. You see this in NES/SNES-era game translations. Both versions of the game had to use the same number of characters. So the level of d
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
...in Myanmar, for a specific use case.
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
Every decision you make is made under a great deal of uncertainty. A person typically holds overarching beliefs that govern those decisions. For example, how much value do you put into close relationships versus distant ones? Is charity wor
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
The Cory Doctorow book "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" (readable for free online) captures the duality of Disney very well. On one hand, it produces brilliant, creative, high quality work, and makes it accessible to everyone.
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
The fire department and police department are separate entities. Subdividing the police department could work.
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
That's an extreme way to phrase it, but possibly yes. "Infectability of human BrainSphere neurons suggests neurotropism of SARS-CoV-2" https://www.altex.org/index.php/altex/article/view/192
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
If you read the article, you will see that the cognitive effects of covid-19 are not only for critically ill cases. Figure 3B, specifically, shows cognitive effects of milder covid-19 cases. According to another study, covid-19 can infect b
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
> The name "Smoky" comes from the natural fog that often hangs over the range and presents as large smoke plumes from a distance. Wikipedia, "Great Smoky Mountains".
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
Note that this is an opinion piece. The WSJ does not make its flamebait editorial section look especially different from its excellent reporting section.
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by shoreofwonder 6y ago
The syntax differences are indeed minor. But dependencies are not. If you have a large python2 project with 100 dependencies, will all of those have python3 versions? And will they be compatible with each other in the ways your current depe