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by technocratius 3y ago
Sounds interesting! Can someone explain a bit in simple terms what happened here and why it's noteworthy? Thanks :)
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by technocratius 3y ago
Thanks, I specifically did that but somehow it seems to have been trimmed/lost. No idea what happened there, and I can't edit the link anymore.
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Foxconn Working Conditions Controversy(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by technocratius 3y ago|2 comments
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by technocratius 3y ago
They let participants solve the knapsack problem under the influence of common ADHD meds like ritalin, dexamphetamine, modafinil. Interesting results were observed. Participants who performed below average while on placebo tended to improve
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Drugs like ritalin, dexamphetamine decrease the quality of cognitive effort(science.org)
45 points by technocratius 3y ago|66 comments
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by technocratius 3y ago
I believe that EVs on average are associated with higher particulate matter "emissions". Noowadays the majority of PM comes from the friction/erosion of tires on the road (as combustion soot gets filtered out due to regulatio
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by technocratius 3y ago
Although not unthinkable, more likely, consider the effect of mental health, socioeconomic background, momentary stress levels, education level, etc that can influence both eating habits and cognitive abilities... I'm not saying their
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by technocratius 3y ago
From what I understand from TFA this study was merely observational in nature and did not involve any blind randomized interventions of eating habits to probe the effect on insulin resistance and cognitive capabilities. Yet another correlat
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by technocratius 3y ago
Good to see that technological applications of AI for the mass surveillance of EU citizens will be heavily regulated/banned: "MEPs substantially amended the list to include bans on intrusive and discriminatory uses of AI systems s
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European AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence(europarl.europa.eu)
2 points by technocratius 3y ago|1 comments
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by technocratius 3y ago
Same for me. I like the breadth of (sub)topics dicussed and Stephen has a unique view on AI. Although often he is persistently trying to keep his pet theory (computational irreducibility) in view, despite not always that relevant. And it an
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Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality and Computation(youtube.com)
25 points by technocratius 3y ago|4 comments
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by technocratius 3y ago
Thanks for adding this context. As someone suffering from SNHL with a great wish to have some of my hearing restored, headlines & articles like these often give my a sense of hope for a near-term solution that turns out to be false. I w
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by technocratius 3y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of farm-raised fish are fed smaller fish from natural ecosystems, effectively shifting but maintaining the overfishing problem. If you care about omega-3 (you probably should) without contributing to overfishing (again,
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by technocratius 3y ago
Depends on what you consider a "new" product though. Intel makes CPUs, and if you look at it from an architectural perspective it's quite reasonable to say that every generation is a new product. But I guess you could argue t
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by technocratius 3y ago
True, with the connotation that architectur and preprocessing pipeline are kept equal. E.g. if you're training convnets, data augmentation like rotating and flipping increases generalization.
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by technocratius 3y ago
I don't like the tone and thoughts of Yann LeCun (who I deeply respect for his technical work) in this interview at all. Unfortunately, he also has a clear conflict of interest in this discussion, as lead AI at Meta. He basically waves
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by technocratius 4y ago
> A few miles away from a remote forest road in the wrong direction and you might not see any people for years and years. This is essentially what happened to this McCandless guy in Alaska. That book about him - Into The Wild , by Krakau
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by technocratius 4y ago
Love this idea! Tried a 10 sec clip on Firefox for Android. App seems to be stuck on Transcribing... for few mins now...
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by technocratius 4y ago
Wow nice idea and impressive execution! Why make age a factor in the matchmaking though? I think it's kinda nice to connect with people from different backgrounds and (life)experience levels, so why "restrict" that?
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by technocratius 4y ago
Alcohol and marijuana particularly inhibit REM sleep and dreaming
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by technocratius 4y ago
Great article, thanks for sharing. This was also interesting to read: 'One of the sketches showed an isosceles right triangle with "Equatione di Moti" written along the hypotenuse. Gharib was curious about the meaning of the
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by technocratius 4y ago
I think that JetBrains' PyCharm does an excellent job in the debugging arena. For the basics, you can effortlessly but breakpoints, click through stackframes, inspect and modify variables via the GUI variable inspector window, execute
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by technocratius 4y ago
There's a case report [0] where they were able to reverse the staining with a potassium idiode treatment, might be a potential solution in the future. [0] https://meridian.allenpress.com/operative-dentistry/article
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by technocratius 4y ago
Sounds interesting, if you don't have caries in visible parts of your teeth! I did a quick search and it's apparently also an effective treatment for adults: "According to an umbrella review, application of 38% SDF prevented
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by technocratius 4y ago
I like it! Does exactly what it needs to do and nothing more. Unfortunate that it can only work when phone is on - I guess this means that for longer sessions, users need to change their auto-screen-off time, right?
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by technocratius 4y ago
This sounds (very narrowly) similar to the Enigma network, a blockchain-based technology that can be used for fully encrypted multi-party computation (MPC). It was one of the earlier blockchain projects that actually had an interesting use
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by technocratius 4y ago
I'm on 36 mg of Concerta. I've spent a lot of time trying to find the right dose in the beginning, now have settled for this dose. Tbh it has been a huge positive change in my ability to get things done professionally without havi
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by technocratius 4y ago
Can you elaborate? Intuitively it feels you might be right, but every reason I can come up with myself I can also rationalize to the point that it shouldn't matter
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by technocratius 4y ago
AFAICT the article is based on data collected from their suite of IDE plugins that a.o. track coding time. Based on some statistics from those, they make very broad and presumptuous conclusions on how developers are distracted from coding a

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