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by simonster 10y ago
According to the link, the CM-1 had 16 processors on a chip, but there were a lot of chips (up to 4096 to yield up to 65536 processors). Still, the programming paradigms that were used for the Connection Machine might be useful for the mass
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by simonster 10y ago
This is an interesting idea, and the paper is pretty well thought out. But I think one source of information not sufficiently explored is anatomy, which would help a great deal with the microprocessor, although it seems to help less with th
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by simonster 10y ago
Certainly the situation is ridiculous, but why blame the citizens of Austin instead of Uber, which could allow drivers who are willing to get fingerprinted to drive?
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Apple Confirms Music Deletion Glitch, Says Fix Incoming in Future iTunes Update(macrumors.com)
1 points by simonster 10y ago|0 comments
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by simonster 10y ago
The Nature paper was about isolating a metabolite of ketamine that is not responsible for the intoxicating aspects, but is responsible for the antidepressant activities (at least in mice).
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by simonster 10y ago
The "antidepressant screens" referred to here are in mice, not humans. The Nature paper is an amazing set of experiments that provide very compelling evidence that (2R,6R)-HNK is responsible for the antidepressant effects of ketam
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by simonster 10y ago
The preceding sentence is: > Either way, if you’ve used iTunes Match as a convenient way to free up space on your Mac by deleting your own copy of any of your music, don’t cancel your subscription in favor of Apple Music if you want to k
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by simonster 10y ago
The article you linked to appears to describe something totally different. It says that if you delete your music from your computer, then re-downloading the music through Apple Music will give you DRMed files. But it also says: > If yo
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by simonster 10y ago
But other people have posted here and said they enabled Apple Music and their music was not deleted, so clearly this doesn't happen under all circumstances, and this wouldn't be the first time a technical support representative wa
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by simonster 10y ago
Some people in this post are assuming that this is something iTunes does to everyone intentionally. Other people are saying this is not something iTunes has ever done to them. I'm not sure it's worth debating whether this practice
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Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism(nih.gov)
1 points by simonster 10y ago|0 comments
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Recent Advances in Conversational Speech Recognition(developer.ibm.com)
2 points by simonster 10y ago|0 comments
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by simonster 10y ago
I doubt the problem is that academic CS researchers don't know how to publish their code, but rather that the disincentives are usually stronger than the incentives.
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by simonster 10y ago
HN is not the right forum for this, but that's definitely not why he was banned.
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by simonster 10y ago
WebAssembly is a neat idea, and could be useful for creating cool ways of interacting with scientific data. But a lot of code scientists write only needs to run once on one machine. And in that case, there's no reason to take the inevi
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by simonster 10y ago
If I can switch between programming languages that use 0-based and 1-based indexing without getting confused, surely you could too. If you don't think that learning to use 1-based indexing is worth it, that's fair enough, but it&#
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by simonster 10y ago
The answer to "Does X contain lead?" is nearly always going to be "yes." It's hard to get rid of all the lead atoms out of the ~10^25 going into a computer, no matter how hard you try. Even bottled water is going to
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by simonster 10y ago
If you want interactive stuff, there are plenty of Python plotting libraries that can produce interactive visualizations, e.g. Bokeh, MPLD3, or Plotly.
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by simonster 11y ago
Yes, from the WP article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipratropium_bromide ), the anticholinergic in Berodual does not diffuse into the blood and also does not cross the blood-brain barrier, so it seems like you'r
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by simonster 11y ago
Here's the "Colin 27" brain atlas, derived from 27 scans of Colin J. Holmes's brain: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesAtlases/Colin27 Here's a lot of data from Russ Poldrack, who scanned hi
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by simonster 11y ago
If you can do a good job predicting monkey visual cortex responses with a linear combination of units from a convolutional neural network, that implies that the network and the monkey compute similar nonlinear functions of visual inputs. If
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by simonster 11y ago
To me, the most remarkable thing about recent neural network research is that a very substantial proportion of the human brain is dedicated to vision, and neural networks can now achieve human level performance at object recognition, and wi
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by simonster 11y ago
It's also possible that it results in an IQ increase only for a specific subpopulation that you may or may not be a part of, e.g. the linked metanalysis says that "international studies tend to find more transfer than U.S. studies
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by simonster 11y ago
In the metanalysis, Hedges' g is 0.24. Hedges' g is a less biased measure of Cohen's d, and Cohen d between 0.2 and 0.3 as a "small" effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_size#.22Small.22
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by simonster 11y ago
There's http://www.azulsystems.com/products/vega/processor , which is a CPU with special GC instructions, created by the same company as one of the most sophisticated garbage collectors. Apparently they though
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by simonster 11y ago
If journals ever demand code that reviewers can read (as they should IMO; who knows whether hard to read garbage is actually doing what they claim it is in the methods section, and the call for reproducibility in science is getting stronger
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De-Coupling Review from Signing Unlisted Add-Ons in Firefox(groups.google.com)
2 points by simonster 11y ago|0 comments
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by simonster 11y ago
Not two-based? https://github.com/simonster/TwoBasedIndexing.jl
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by simonster 11y ago
The OSC Science paper separates cognitive and social psychology papers and journals, and cognitive psychology papers replicate at about twice the rate of social psychology papers. But still only a bit more than half of the cognitive papers
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by simonster 11y ago
This is possible and I'd be surprised if no one has done it. The methodology is to inject subjects with a mildly radioactive drug that has a lower binding affinity for a given receptor than the endogenous ligand (e.g. [11C]raclopride f

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