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by agnos 2y ago
This reminds me of the current research in ML of "simplifying" models for inference (pruning, distillation, etc.). Our model of reality is so imprecise, can we be confident that all the local details are insignificant to the globa
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by agnos 2y ago
The question was how to reduce your exposure, not eliminate it. Of course you can't be 100% clean from microplastics, but why not do what you can given what we currently know? Yes, freeways are major sources of microplastics and yes, I
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by agnos 2y ago
Silicone -- easy to throw in the dishwasher, too.
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by agnos 2y ago
Yeah, people aren't paranoid enough about this IMO. Legislation needs to catch up with research coming out about the serious health impacts. Reducing personal exposure seems possible. I mean, realistically there are only so many ways m
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by agnos 3y ago
Same here! My introduction to programming was trying to customize my Neopets shop, creating graphics in MS Paint, making little "blogs" to share with friends. In reminiscing, I just found this page https://www.neopets.c
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by agnos 3y ago
> The book asks, even in the face of that kind of cynical and over-intellectualized view of the world, why and how do we try to find meaning in our lives regardless? This. I don't get the sense that Kundera himself is advocating for
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by agnos 3y ago
I've had similar experiences with psychedelics. It seems like once you lose touch with some sort of "self-image", it can be very hard to get back. Wish this was talked about more. The first and most pronounced depersonalizati
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by agnos 3y ago
That museum is great. Spending a day there gave me a deep appreciation for Van Gogh, maybe even art in general. Pictures online definitely don't do it justice. The museum also has a good guided audio tour that narrates Van Gogh's
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by agnos 3y ago
I bought and played it the day of release, because of the hype and since I loved BotW. Yeah, they added some new mechanics and items and overall the gameplay seems more refined, but it definitely feels like a sequel with a lot of familiari
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by agnos 3y ago
This. They made BotW to sell the Switch, and this sequel doesn't add any novel elements to it. This game deserves the success if BotW didn't exist, but as a sequel the hype is pure marketing. If game of the year awards were reserv
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by agnos 3y ago
How did OP manage to get rid of ~/.mozilla? It's the only offending dotfile left in my $HOME and the stickiest. Until Mozilla fixes their 19-year-old feature request to support XDG [1], I couldn't find a workaround that wasn&
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by agnos 4y ago
From the article: The project of the guides is utopian, but they’re a symptom of deep pessimism. They belong to a fractured culture in which symbolic gestures are preferable to concrete actions, argument is no longer desirable, each viewpo
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by agnos 4y ago
I've also struggled with this question since working in industry. There isn't an objective answer to this. I think it largely depends on the narrative you tell yourself about the work you do. IMO, the "meaningful", tangi
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by agnos 4y ago
Maybe just an untimely experience, but I visited Austin once a little over a year ago during the summer, and downtown was basically a ghost town. I assumed it was because UT was on break, but still I couldn't help thinking "where
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by agnos 4y ago
Unlikely that he's still alive, but the evidence of a controlled landing makes the whole thing more puzzling from a psychological perspective. Why slowly and consciously drag it out until the very bitter end when you've already co
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by agnos 4y ago
This is what I don't understand. How is this and other public WEF content not guaranteed bad press/fuel for social unrest? Or is that the intent?
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by agnos 4y ago
Came here to say this, though I don't know if "comfortable" is the right word. I think a fulfilled live involves a balance between freedom and responsibility. This post and discussions like this always remind me of Kundera&#x
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by agnos 4y ago
This. I felt an almost cringe-like reaction from reading the article. It reminds me of Goodhart's Law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. At some point being productive becomes the end goal and no longer a
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by agnos 4y ago
I feel like all these articles about magical self-transformation through psychedelics are misleading and somewhat inaccurate. I would have liked to see more about the actual psychedelic experience itself rather than the aftermath. As an occ
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by agnos 4y ago
Would also like to know this. It looks like they're processing the audio file in 30 second chunks, so a naive approach of keeping a buffer of 30-second input stream chunks and just continually writing to an output .mp3 could work...
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by agnos 4y ago
"You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes" A poetic, bittersweet line. In a way, the sadness is the "good" part, when you feel the most longing for what's been lost. The real loss is forgetting.
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by agnos 4y ago
Came here to link SSC as well. I find the predictive coding theory to be a pretty compelling model of cognitive function/dysfunction. There seems to be another related but separate dimension to the spectrum. I remember an analogy of bo
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by agnos 4y ago
Wow, I've never realized just how often I do this. There's some sort of a reward pathway in my brain connecting my right index finger to seeing that orange bar and lines of text.
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by agnos 4y ago
This caused me a small but concerning amount of anxiety that I'll probably meditate on as I fall asleep now that HN is back up.
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by agnos 4y ago
Is knowing the same thing as believing? Maybe I'm missing something, but a lot of this seems to hinge on an assumption that knowing something with absolute certainty is possible, and a meaningful hypothetical scenario in our human cogn
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by agnos 4y ago
This is the only explanation that makes sense. This strategy in general seems a bit short-sighted though. I suspect engineer retention is going to drop off a cliff after whatever acquisition bonuses have paid off.
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by agnos 4y ago
I think e-commerce (AMZN) is a safe bet. And TSMC, with solid earnings and a market dominance that won't change anytime soon.
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by agnos 4y ago
Not a comprehensive resource, but I found https://cryptozombies.io/ to be a fun and somewhat educational introduction to Solidity.
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by agnos 4y ago
Have in mind a person I might become once I read and do the things I saved for later. This. But is it that you might become that person once you later read and do those things, or that you might later become a person who reads and does th
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by agnos 5y ago
“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

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