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by sooheon 4y ago
> If the answer is unsatisfying, then I had an unarticulated preference and I can just choose the (apparently preferable) alternative. Then I discover the alternative is unsatisfying as well. Which causes me to spend time trying to under
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by sooheon 4y ago
Lean supply chain is maybe not the best analogy, because suppliers are limited, their properties are known, and deals and optimizations are made in advance. Knowledge foraging is very different in that knowledge supply is constantly shiftin
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by sooheon 4y ago
Great thoughts. But I think the distinction between push and pull is not so clear. When I want to pull information, at some point I have to query the world (because I don't have direct indexing into the world's knowledge). The res
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by sooheon 4y ago
Western blots are analog -- the captured image is the underlying data.
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by sooheon 4y ago
A paid tool in this direction is APSE ( https://apse.io ) which bills itself as a personal search engine that OCRs intermittent screencaps. I loved the idea, but in practice it lacked polish. I agree that additional metadata like
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by sooheon 4y ago
I remember you were bullish about Swift a few years ago. What's your current view on non-python deep learning?
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I don't care if a meter of road is dangerous, I care if the amount of driving necessary to live in a city is likely to get me killed. Or if I'm liable to be killed while walking. Deaths/distance is a limited metric that has n
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by sooheon 4y ago
No, I'm pretty sure it makes more sense to measure deaths per capita. If poor urban planning made people's commutes 2x longer, would it suddenly be half as bad for someone to die?
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by sooheon 4y ago
This is like an oil company spending a lot on oil spill cleanup. Or saying we have a very well appointed water bucket brigade to clear water from a ship with a giant hole in the side. When you believe car centric development is harmful to i
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Strength is multidimensional. Power projection and defense entail different capabilities. It's not like a "strong military" is something you order online, it takes an economic and demographic base which Ukraine couldn't
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That's what this topic is about -- the standard for nuclear is high (as it should be), but we take the status quo of fossil fuels without a second thought, even though it's immeasurably worse in almost every way.
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What part about the described system is free or a market?
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All good points. Those are justifications for VC's existence as a financial instrument. But that's orthogonal to whether retail should buy into IPOs. Elsewhere in this thread there's discussion of VC concern regarding downstr
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If early capital thought they would get better risk adjusted returns holding on to companies, they wouldn't exit. When considering a trade, you have to ask yourself "what do I know about the future prospects of this asset that the
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by sooheon 4y ago
Yes, when there are both buyers and sellers (which is the definition of a market that clears), there will always be a number of trades that were right, and an equal number that were wrong.
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They can and do. But if you pay for a bunch of lab/clinical research with a specific strain you get to say it’s the one that’s actually been tested.
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by sooheon 4y ago
It is found all over the place in nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limosilactobacillus_reuteri > It appears to be essentially ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, having been found in the gastrointestinal tracts a
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by sooheon 4y ago
The strain itself (and its specific genome) can be patented. Not as it's found "in the wild", but with genetic modification. The thing is this "genetic modification" includes not just techniques like CRISPR, but als
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The relationship between diet, microbiome, and health is fascinating. Another metabolite of L. reuteri is ergothioneine, which is hypothesized to be a "longevity vitamin"[1] by biologist Bruce Ames[2]. Plants and animals cannot sy
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by sooheon 4y ago
> The blame rests solely with the politicians This is scapegoating. Who put them in power? > The consumer simply saw cheap flights and did what they do best. The politicians saw lobbyist money and did what they do best. The lobbyists
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by sooheon 4y ago
The political machine that handed out those subsidies also responded to the incentives set in front of them. The lobbyists and entrenched interests also were acting naturally in accordance to their incentives. By this logic, everyone can al
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by sooheon 4y ago
Millions? You mean billions. You know your incentive structure is wrong (and people will never learn) when hedge funds don't actually hedge (their long/short fund fell the same as their long only fund), instead essentially gamblin
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by sooheon 4y ago
Beanie babies are investing. Poor investing is still investing.
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by sooheon 4y ago
Ex-growth. Which, as long as companies don't outgrow expectations in perpetuity, is the final destination of all growth stocks.
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by sooheon 4y ago
> realization, hindsight, genius and humbleness These resources are rarer and more expensive than increasing cloud bills (for now).
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by sooheon 5y ago
If by breathing workout you mean Wim Hof style hyperventilation, then yes. Hyperventilation causes hypocapnia, which reduces air hunger.
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by sooheon 5y ago
Yeah this works because of indexed access. The tradeoff is you get a limited number of spaces, and you require a much larger key binding surface area. Like how indexes take memory. If your state is A1/B2 (two monitors A and B displayin
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by sooheon 5y ago
They were also contemporaries: True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you
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by sooheon 5y ago
Yeah this annoys me too. I just had get used to the fact that if I context switch away to a different desktop, I should switch back with ctrl-left, not with cmd-tab.
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by sooheon 5y ago
Better or worse depends on use case, but I will say that a tree is a much better semantic fit than a flat list.

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