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by tsumnia 7y ago
> I'm wondering if someone else could have control of the implant. My thoughts are that each brain has their own neural network that is unique to the person. This would mean that each neuron, despite similar/same location, will
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by tsumnia 7y ago
As others have said, Khan Academy is great. I used it to prep for the GRE after being of college for 5 years. I took my answering very seriously, so I would only move forward if I got 5 questions in a row correct. If I continued to answer w
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by tsumnia 7y ago
Since this is causing such an uproar over privacy, instead I'd like to pose some ethical questions: - Would you be willing to receive a basic living wage for sharing your information? - Do you think some people's information is va
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by tsumnia 7y ago
If you're still feeling froggy with your data, I'd love a follow up with some NLP term frequency used in the posts. Did intern frequency drop or did the sheer increase in posts shrink their overall percentage? The concern I have t
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by tsumnia 7y ago
The issue is what is defined as "AI". From [1], some of those definitions include - Thinking Humanly - the ability to problem solve, introspection, and learning (Cognitive Science) - Thinking Rationally - the ability to perceive,
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by tsumnia 7y ago
While it doesn't do ASCII art, [1] does show some of the programs people have built where they've included space for artwork [1] http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
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by tsumnia 7y ago
Funny enough, for me, it depends on the "thing". Laptop or car? No dice; but water bottle and home PC, stickers on them. I don't go out of my way to sticker them up, its mostly a collection of stickers I think look "cool
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by tsumnia 7y ago
True, but Piet [1] already does that without Hilbertizing code. Also, humble flex for calling this 7 months ago [2] [1] http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by tsumnia 7y ago
More of an aside, but I really like the article they linked [1] because in addition to scientific explanation, it included a lesson plan and questions for practice. With the spark in "Nifty Assignments" in CS journals, this was a
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by tsumnia 7y ago
NOTE: Most of my comments on HN are about "practice", so feel free to just read them. I'd be curious what qualifies as "ambiguity" and "diversity of background" however. Is that simply a collection of smal
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by tsumnia 7y ago
While I can agree with the sentiment, when is indirection okay vs. when does it become spaghetti code? Given [1], there needs to be a happy medium between 12 layers and all in a single method. I think with less experienced developers, the i
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by tsumnia 7y ago
I don't know though; I think it has to be done with a LOT of trust by the creator and the public. CD Projekt currently has that trust with the fan base; however Elder Scrolls 6 [1] last year was not a welcomed with a cinematic trailer
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by tsumnia 7y ago
I'd say yes. Elderly people speak about how doing activity and crafts helps "keep their mind sharp" and further, deliberate practice theory says that if you continue to purposefully practice you will improve. I think at some
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by tsumnia 7y ago
True, though I'd still say the individual day-to-day practices can sometimes become dull. As you mention, this is where I think a lot of "fun" activities form - experts looking to spice up a particular activity. I like to tra
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by tsumnia 7y ago
> If practice is not fun I just don't play, and I don't get better. But what if your goal is to be one of the greatest pianist alive? Then we have to dissect what is "not fun". There are moments of neutral practice, o
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by tsumnia 7y ago
> If they can learn by observing humans, without the humans specifically intending it, then what's so different, or unethical, if it's done with intent? I think this might interfere with some research involving the gorillas. Yo
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by tsumnia 7y ago
I've always thought that people would be more than willing to opt in to data collection services if they were paid. I gladly answer location questions via Google Rewards because they give me 10 to 50 cents each time. It doesn't ne
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by tsumnia 7y ago
Depending on your interests and timeframe, here are some ideas: - Teach them about color theory with three flashlights and a red, green, and blue gel taped over each one. Then, kill the lights and show them how additive color turns things w
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by tsumnia 7y ago
Scrolling HN, I saw the two words I'm always weary of - "from scratch". Mostly because I will click on the link, hoping to learn the mathematics behind a particular algorithm, only to see they've import sklearn and skip
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by tsumnia 7y ago
I wouldn't call it a stigma. I'd say there are issues with doing it appropriately. Adults have jobs, children, etc. They do not have the same "freedoms" a child has. While a child is forced to learn because of school+fam
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by tsumnia 7y ago
> Adults have a better sense of when they actually understand something, rather than just superficially. Dunning-Kruger would disagree; in another context (martial arts), this is why we have so many people quit after 2 years - they think
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by tsumnia 7y ago
CLT is a theoretical model indicating how we process information, not how it is stored. There is long term memory, which stores it schemata (knowledge), and working memory, where schemata are retrieved from long term memory and processed. W
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by tsumnia 7y ago
To me, this doesn't sound so surprising - Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory theorizes that we have an unlimited memory capacity. I think the primary issue comes from time and practice. With a child, even when they don't "w
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by tsumnia 7y ago
To continue with the other NC'ers (there's literally dozens of us!), I used to live in Wilmington, NC, which has a large number of scooters to the point a term I've taken from others is to refer to them as dui-scooters (read
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by tsumnia 7y ago
This may be a different idea to "doing nothing", but when I teach labs, I explicitly do not get on the computer while students are working. Instead, I literally just stand there looking for students to ask me questions. I've
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by tsumnia 7y ago
Agreed, "ninja" came with a lot of dogs and cats (assumbly named Ninja). And "test" provides a weird assortment of not tests. I'd say filename keyword matching might be dangerous and some measure of image analysis s
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by tsumnia 8y ago
Quasi-experiment is not necessarily a bad thing. It is to denote a study that does not have a traditional control-experiment structure with explicit pre- and post-measurements. This is particularly difficult to do with real time data analys
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by tsumnia 8y ago
> When people first look at ways to cheat in a team sport, I would argue that using them for target practice (in a ball sport that is) is a suitable lesson. While that will happen, as I said, as the rules exist now, house rules and socia
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by tsumnia 8y ago
Looking over the rules, it looks like there's an assumed "causal"-ness to the game (not good, not bad, just noting there's an assumption that everyone will play by the rules at all times). Based on the rules [1], there d
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by tsumnia 8y ago
Darwin Mail seems to struggle with nested labels - https://imgur.com/a/w7PzoY3 To be productive on GMail, I have tons of filters, labels, and use the inbox as my "todo" pile. Once something is done, its filed

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