swordsmith

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by swordsmith 6y ago
Not if the "reputable media" are pressured/threatened by CCP
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by swordsmith 6y ago
> If the lack of precision, simulation time, and general drudgery doesn't kill your enthusiasm when compared to your textbook learning, then by all means proceed. Exactly why I stopped, this hits close to home
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by swordsmith 6y ago
This is a good way to put it. I suppose Taiwan can boost their nationalism to promote their employees' loyalty. Nationalism has done wonders for China
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by swordsmith 6y ago
Wechat is used by a vast majority of overseas Chinese (and increasingly non-Chinese as well), and a lot of the employees would message each other about work matters over WeChat because of convenience. All these messages are routed through T
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by swordsmith 6y ago
The entire time I'm reading the post, I'm thinking the yellow background really hurts my eyes...
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Would make more sense for the elderly and vulnerable, and those that work/live in close proximity with those to be self-quarantined. Makes little sense to apply those measures to the young and healthy, for whom the effects (both sympto
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by swordsmith 7y ago
This is typical marketing speak. The device is measuring EMG. The motor neurons can fire without causing overt/obvious muscle movements, and these can be picked up still.
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Even a significant chunk of educated Chinese with exposure to Western democracy and political system often justifies the censorship with "most Chinese people are not educated and get easily influenced by things on the internet and this
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by swordsmith 7y ago
This is a common argument that Chinese/East-Asian culture makes democracy extremely difficult. The prime counter examples are Taiwan, South Korea, and even Japan. Similar cultural background, but all are able to operate in a liberal de
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by swordsmith 7y ago
> subtitled videos with links from each word (or idiomatic phrase) in the subtitles to dictionary definitions. I'm not sure having a easy link is necessarily a good thing. The act of typing the characters and opening up the page, es
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Hongkong is more well known than Xinjiang
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Exactly. It's offensive to put legal immigrants (at least to my family and people we know) in the same category as illegal immigrants, and use our success to justify illegal immigration.
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Your issue makes sense when talking about intra-cortical communication between neurons. It is a reasonable thing to speculate, given the right definition, for signal transmission in the peripheral nervous systems -- i.e. what is the bandwid
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Myelin's function is to speed up signal conduction along the axon, not crosstalk between axon fibers.
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by swordsmith 7y ago
I think your concerns are addressed a bit toward the end of the article > Other approaches to improving the efficiency of solar cells tend to involve adding another kind of cell, such as a perovskite layer, over the silicon. Baldo says “
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Our brain craves dopamine releases, which signals future reward. This rewarding-ness of food, info, drugs can be converted to a monetary value and measured.
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by swordsmith 7y ago
> I'm pretty sure that this type of data collection tool is in use today by the Chinese government. Yeah US is a bit slow to that party. Alipay and Wechat-pay has roughly a billion users (conservative estimate) in China. It's w
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by swordsmith 7y ago
> EE, Civil, Mechanical, Aeronautical etc. and in not a single one of them do they do this monkey dance. EEs definitely go through basic, advanced, and domain-specific circuit design questions in their interviews. And compared to LEETCOD
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by swordsmith 7y ago
> The CCP's justification for censoring would probably be that they need to preserve their legitimacy while the country is still in its formative phase. You would expect the censoring to be less instead of more as the country develo
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by swordsmith 7y ago
> The CCP, for all its imperfections, has lifted 850 million illiterate peasants out of extreme poverty in a mere few decades This is one of the most frequent arguments by Chinese excusing the actions of CCP. Keep in mind that this is th
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by swordsmith 7y ago
This is very important -- Chinese people and CCP are separate. Yet years of very successful propaganda have resulted in even fairly well educated Chinese (overseas nevertheless) to treat any criticisms on the party as an attack on all Chine
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Another example: When I work on laptops, I like to have my terminal/editor to be semi-transparent with design doc/browser underneath for quick reference.
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by swordsmith 7y ago
The lattice gives me the creeps. Much better to just get a Lenovo C730 cube. Similar mechanical design, better specs, and 1/5 of the price.
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Someone who reads between the lines
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Regarding the quote -- most of these skills are pretty general though.
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by swordsmith 7y ago
I think you are a bit sheltered about what "bad" neighborhoods can be like
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by swordsmith 7y ago
I read stories about adults trying to find their biological parents all the time and think why do they want to do such a thing? What are they hoping to gain -- by becoming close with their biological parents who possibly have knowingly aban
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by swordsmith 7y ago
Because commercial use requiring brain surgery is most likely not going to work
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by swordsmith 7y ago
ECoG has much higher temporal and spatial resolution than EEG. Conversion from EEG to ECoG is not likely, the opposite can be done, but not very useful though.
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by swordsmith 7y ago
The first and last author both work(ed) at Neuralink.

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