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by yboris 5y ago
I developed a bad habit of not wanting anything in my clipboard after I've used it, so I usually copy the letter `e` (or something similarly unimportant). It's almost like an OCD at this point (in the browser, CTRL + L, 'e&#x
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by yboris 5y ago
Thank you for sharing! A related experience I had was when I took LSD and smoked weed for the first time. At the time weed would sometimes give me paranoid thoughts (I've only smoked about a dozen times at this point) - and the LSD exa
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by yboris 5y ago
Sorry you have such a reference class. I think the "lose grip with reality" is only temporary - the next day (and even earlier) you have memories of what went on, but your mind is back to "normal". I've had numerous
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by yboris 5y ago
I explicitly want all three things you list. I also would like to see Open Borders ;) https://openborders.info For psychedelic drug decriminalization: the alternative is status quo, which results in tremendous amount of sufferin
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by yboris 5y ago
I suspect you're thinking of 3.5g amount - which is a typical amount of magic mushrooms to consume. The study is using psilocybin directly. Wikipedia states "The concentrations of psilocin and psilocybin ... [is] 0.37–1.30% (dry
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by yboris 5y ago
Language is a way of thought. Languages come with their own quirks, and just like [plant] monoculture is bad for an ecosystem, so would a single language. Since I was born in Russia and came to the US (thus becoming fluent in both languages
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by yboris 5y ago
I was a math teacher for 5 years and have switched to web dev 5 years ago and have been loving it. I did have a bunch of personal web-dev experience, so it made switching careers pretty easy. But I wanted to share that it seems doable. Sinc
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Japan is the most amazing place I've been to in my life (though I've not traveled very extensively). But I recommend Tokyo, other cities, and the countryside of Japan.
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by yboris 5y ago
I'm eager to finish adding facial recognition to my charityware project Video Hub App - a browser / organizer for videos on your computer. https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source: https://github.com&
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Related: Japanese Door Prank (Shimura Ken (志村けん）) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-2USGVoEE
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I love SpeedCrunch on Windows, but for MacOS I prefer Numi https://numi.app/
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The "file system" is stupid-easy: just a JSON file renamed to `.vha2` -- see the interface here: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/blob/main/interfac... I've had no problems with 2
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For reference, Portugal has decriminalized drugs for personal use in 2001 (20 years ago!) Claims: - Drug-related deaths have remained below the EU average since 2001 - The proportion of prisoners sentenced for drugs has fallen from 40% to 1
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by yboris 5y ago
For browsing, previewing, searching, and organizing videos I created Video Hub App . The primary feature is scrub / preview thumbnails from inside the video as you hover with your mouse and an infinite scroll of all your videos. It al
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I think since communication is vital to any professional setting, one of the best impact-per-point-of-improvement may at first come from better communication. A great book that provides a framework for dealing with difficult conversations i
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Your mention of "mastery" and "autonomy" fits directly with Self-determination theory (that posits that "Competence", "Autonomy", and "Relatedness" are three important components to a good
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As for career-specific advice, keep Self-determination theory in mind. The three foundational components are CAR: - Competence (work on something that demands skill and attention from you) - Autonomy (be able to determine what you'll
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by yboris 5y ago
Optimize it by learning about happiness via Positive Psychology , a direction of inquiry about what makes people happy (above baseline). One gem from the field: If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending I
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A good overview is here: https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...
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Studying Positive Psychology feels like a good benefit-for-time-spent. A great book on it is Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. It's a great overview of how error-prone our predictions about what will make us happy are; alon
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by yboris 5y ago
I keep remembering Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most fondly. I suspect that is where I had come across the most-dense (in good advice) collection of approaches for talking about difficult things with people. I read
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JPEG XL has no patents on it - it's free to use by everyone.
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The JPEG XL standard has now been formally approved(twitter.com)
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I love that we can, for some network architectures, "ask" it to generate a (set of varied) super-stimulus example(s), something that is 100% "that thing". So at least sometimes, we can see what "friendly tank"
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Thank you for the response. A bit of a push back: On the driverless cars example you're right that AI models abstract away needless complexity, but so do we, as humans, can live without understanding that bodies are made up of cells (o
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https://archive.md/vJNu0
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How to Know Your Donations Are Doing the Most Good(nytimes.com)
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Running iOS 15.1 (will update to 15.2 soon) - and it works fast. Keep in mind I'm comparing to iPhone SE, but it's fast-enough for me.
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I'm curious about Gensim Doc2Vec Model. I used it 3 years ago and got decent results in vectorizing articles and then finding articles that were similar based on input text (half-written article for example). What is new here? https
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I'm curious, when you say "This kind of understanding won’t work with an AI", do you mean currently, or in principle, even in the future? note: children's brains come pre-loaded with so much stuff when we are born (we ar

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