_game_of_life

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by _game_of_life 5y ago
I have fallen into many pits of depression over almost 20 years now, even now I am struggling to get out of a deep one. Seems this is just a cycle in my life, unfortunately. You can't logic yourself out of beliefs, I completely get tha
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Probably wise. Also relatable, I have tons of old notes of ideas at some point I thought were potentially profound, only to realize they were half-baked and/or already explored. I'm still waiting on my "new kind of science.&q
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
How have I misrepresented it by saying it is as effective as a self-help book? The thing about therapy, is that you usually want benefits to last for a duration that makes the effort put in worthwhile. >Only four studies looked at longer
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Speaking from experience, you analysis is spot on and this is a very common coping method in social work as well. It is done because otherwise in the 9/10 cases where things do not improve, you feel you have failed. Much easier if the
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
I mean... I don't agree with "harmed," the author's tone, or the title alleging some sort of coverup, but otherwise, Yeah, of course. If you look at a longitudinal, high-quality trial (or meta-analysis, since you'd
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Serious question -- How do you nominate someone for a Turing award?
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
So what would you suggest to replace it? Obviously there needs to be some federal law enforcement agency... And as much as their past has portions that are super fucked up, wasn't that also a reflection of American society at the time?
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Oh wow, summit.news! Those other headlines are stellar, be sure to give them a look. What's next for HN, Breitbart? I love the topic too, a comedian whining about "cancel culture." So great. Sparks joy. Definitely not a tired
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
I'm far from an expert in this subject but doesn't this ranking of large text compression algorithms with NNCP coming first suggest that neural-nets are pretty great at compression? http://mattmahoney.net/dc/t
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Fork yeah, that's very exciting, thank you for the info. I'm not a Rustacean but these memory related CVEs need to stop. Any small steps toward a memory safe(r) OS is good news to me!
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
I'm talking about both. When I was comparing them to competitors like Symbolab I was using the Alexa ranking for alpha. I find it faster and more accurate to use a specific package in an interpreter than query Wolfram Alpha or use Math
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Nobody should try anything new in the DE space because more mature things have been established with far more engineering hours? That's odd to me. You don't think they'll look at the design and learn from the advances made du
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Oh man, I just did a thesis on using a memory safe language like Rust for the kernel. The consensus in research was that Rust is extremely promising for designing a next gen memory safe OS. Some data structures are troubling to implement (p
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Thank you! I am trying to argue with myself more. Partly because I can be a bit of an opinionated know-it-all which is unpleasant and very foolish! Also I think about how young we are as a species that uses the scientific method to question
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
It's still around but I imagine it is experiencing a bunch of competitors biting chunks out of it. A lot more people can script now, so open source packages of computer algebra systems (Sage, numpy, scipy etc.) Probably take a small bi
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Hmm, I think it's dangerous territory to use disbelief or skepticism of personality disorders as a potential diagnostic criteria. There are a lot of incongruities in research surrounding them that psychology fails to address and warran
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Devil's advocate: From an evolutionary perspective, our bodies were designed as mere vessels to propagate our genes. They were not designed to survive 7-8 decades regardless of diet, because by this time reproductive success (and there
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
I like to fast for a couple days, simply because I find it helps a lot with mental clarity. However, I think you make a good point. Fasting absolutely can have downsides. The link in the comment you are replying to, for example, recommends
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Initially I thought that the reason for this would be that most people with transplants live less than 10 years, and eligibility requirements of who gets transplants (and therefore who gets calcineurin inhibitors) might further complicate t
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Working in the trades the guys that yelled and blew their fuses constantly were always clearly in over their heads and were failing to cope with the stress. I'm fond of the term "Mantrum" to describe the behavior. Children sc
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Indulge me with an odd potential counter-point though. What if human knowledge is fundamentally both more inductive and collectivist than we care to admit? After all, Hume's problem of induction (that deductive reasoning stems from ind
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
>"Perhaps the best defense against epidemics like this one lies in choosing to look more closely and more sympathetically at the people in those hoods—to put a higher priority on community than we’ve done in recent years. America ha
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
I really appreciated this, thanks. Here's a nod back.
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
When I was younger I was a big fan of existentialism. "Life has no prescribed inherent meaning, it is whatever you want it to be!" seemed very freeing. Then I suffered a disability and came upon the realization similar to Helen Ma
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
This is the best guide I’ve found: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a50/1230517/ Goes into depth debunking most of the conspiracies I've heard of. My best ELI5 for the one you are asking about:
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
No... That's not true. You're off by over one hundred years for the Western world. The UK passed the Cruelty to Animals act in 1876 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_Animals_Act,_1876 The act states th
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Every single issue… are you certain about that? To my knowledge Android doesn’t censor the Taiwanese flag emoji at the request of the Chinese communist party, if the locale is mainland China. But maybe you consider that a pro and not a con.
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
Neat but it's still a simplistic article and pretty much everything "comes from human minds." My emotions are disdain and disbelief that people still gobble up this horseshit. Nothing wrong with that. Do you believe yourself
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-laureates-by-a... That saying doesn't seem to be true at all if you sort by age. If you have your nobel prize by 30 you are an outlier. There are similar sayings
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by _game_of_life 5y ago
I forget, is your quote attributable to Michael Scott or Wayne Gretsky? You assume I've neither read the article or researched demonology. I have. All of the neopagan bullshit and demonic sigils can be traced back to obvious frauds sta

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