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by theoh 8y ago
On a possibly unhelpful tangent, I'm expecting it to look something like this: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
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by theoh 8y ago
A similar discussion: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
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Watson, Delta-T Protocol Specification(osti.gov)
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by theoh 8y ago
It's a contested field. Try this article for example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-depression-jus...
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by theoh 8y ago
I'm not sure exactly what claim you are referring to. Maybe if you articulate it I can comment properly. My general impression is that the only way to communicate how psychiatry is would be to write a very thick novel with characters w
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by theoh 8y ago
I just meant that, if you want some kind of psychoanalysis, you don't necessarily need to go the professional route. Medically trained psychoanalysts don't really have a clear advantage over lay analysts in terms of insight.
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by theoh 8y ago
The notion of "biological root cause" is very controversial. In fact I would say that applying the notion of root cause to a distressed individual is part of the problem with the establishment—the situation is inherently complex,
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by theoh 8y ago
It's a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_analysis
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by theoh 8y ago
Can you not see the tragic dimension of this?
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by theoh 8y ago
I'm not sure the original commenter has a clear idea of the distinction between psychotherapy (talking cures) and psychiatry (doctoring). Beyond that there is psychoanalysis (depth psychology) and at the opposite, shallow end, just tal
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by theoh 8y ago
"TCP has 11 different state machines."
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by theoh 8y ago
I checked this out. FLW actually said (in the 30s) "a 10k house for 5K", which translates to a 200k house for 100k today. source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4633622
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Alec Reeves, Inventor of Pulse-Code Modulation(web.archive.org)
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by theoh 8y ago
Peter Galison's book "Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps" is based on his personal speculation that it was the late 19th C preoccupation with simultaneity that inspired the theory of relativity. Whether that's
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by theoh 8y ago
NB the school clocks were only "locally" centralized...
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by theoh 8y ago
The Swiss railways have a slightly similar system of synchronization once per minute, with an interesting nuance: "The station clocks in Switzerland are synchronized by receiving an electrical impulse from a central master clock at eac
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by theoh 8y ago
Maybe I can get away with the observation that this kind of prestigious engineering project has traditionally been a magnet for proud mercantilists. The Science Museum's book about Concorde contains a breathtaking interview with an eng
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by theoh 8y ago
The T-38 first flew in 1959.
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by theoh 8y ago
Most commercially successful artists are "supported" by collectors and/or institutions. That's what makes their work a good investment. To become eligible for that kind of support, an artist's work has to be deemed
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by theoh 8y ago
I don't live in SV, but I've been on HN for a few years. One thing that is certain is that few if any participants in the "art world" (technical term for the active professional business of mediating art via museums, gal
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by theoh 8y ago
I'm not sure he was endearing. He made light of a lot of things other people take seriously, that's true. If his only appeal was an ability to wear his learning lightly, he wouldn't be remembered. There's something corro
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by theoh 8y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775735 Apparently the Spiral Rule is not entirely correct.
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by theoh 8y ago
The business of forming pipes with curves typically involves mandrels. A mandrel, in this case, is a solid body that prevents the pipe from deforming in undesirable ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrel Musical i
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by theoh 8y ago
Man, the subject matter here is literally human nature (why certain things "work" for movie audiences). It's a well-established fact that "low" culture (Hollywood) is just as susceptible to analysis as high culture.
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by theoh 8y ago
"Lightning".
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by theoh 8y ago
OK, I've found the gross reason why the 2^16 + 2^20 arithmetic works: "The Unicode standard permanently reserves these code point values for UTF-16 encoding of the high and low surrogates, and they will never be assigned a charact
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by theoh 8y ago
Wait a minute. "A surrogate pair can represent 20 bits, or 2^20 values. A single UTF-16 byte is of course 16 bits, or 2^16 values. 2^20 + 2^16 == 0x110000, which is precisely as many unicode code points as there are (0–0x10FFFF)."
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by theoh 8y ago
One of us should try to make this clearer on the relevant Wikipedia page.
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by theoh 8y ago
"Surrogate pairs" use two code units (32 bits total) to increase the number of code points that can be represented. It seems a lot more complicated than UTF-8. I have no idea how many code points can actually be represented in the
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by theoh 8y ago
It's what Haskell's 'text' type uses internally. This stackoverflow question seems to discuss why that is the case: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23765903/why-is-text-utf...

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