criticaltinker

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by criticaltinker 4y ago
Relevant post from a few days ago: Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32345670 I’m curious if anyone knows how Google internally works around the l
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
FYI I’m seeing a 404 from that last link. Is this the intended link? https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/2019-10-17-you-want-tor-browse...
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
In the spirit of curiosity and playfulness I would like to respond with a bold claim: The distinction between self and other is simply a concept. Certainly useful in many situations, but ultimately just one perspective - one tool at the min
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” - Alan Watts
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
I’ll bite. The data/graphs look suspicious and convincing enough, so WTF did happen? I was hoping for an answer but alas there was none. Anyone have plausible theories? Is this an unexplained mystery or just an artifact of S curve grow
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
> to produce one litre of petrol it takes 1.29 kg of oil, of which 85% (1.1 kg) is carbon. And as only 1/10,750 of the carbon remains from the plants that were buried millions of years ago, our one litre of petrol is the result of
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
Thanks! I was going to make a similar comment myself but HN isn’t too keen on these ideas yet. Glad to see other like-minded folks here. The Wikipedia page for plasma cosmology is extremely biased, so I suggest anyone interested in these to
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
This is a thoughtful comment but IMO your phrasing is too strong and potentially misleading. As far as science is concerned, the jury is still out on stellar nucleosynthesis. The leading theory - that gravitational collapse causes fusion
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
JS engines have had many serious vulnerabilities in their JIT optimizers, it’s not myopic at all and is a well known technique in the industry. I agree that some folks aren’t executing untrusted ruby code so they wouldn’t have to worry abou
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
Adding to this great comment with my own experience at work where we extensively use signal processing and time series compression algorithms to visualize large amounts of biological signals in the browser. WebAssembly is less than 10%-20%
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
This is known as a digital watermark, which falls within the domain of adversarial machine learning. https://www.sec.cs.tu-bs.de/pubs/2018-eurosp.pdf
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
Interesting! Now what is the correct pronunciation… Day-muhn? My colleagues all seem to say it differently, and I’ve always been curious which one of us sounds the most foolish.
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
> we develop the notion of representation group flow (RG flow) to characterize the propagation of signals through the network. By tuning networks to criticality, we give a practical solution to the exploding and vanishing gradient probl
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
It’s a valid concern and many folks have raised it here on threads concerning this topic. The short answer is yes: beyond mannitol, niacin, and even bespoke substances designed to mimic the organoleptic properties of ayahuasca have been use
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
Listen, your comments on all these threads make it clear you’re seriously pessimistic about psychedelic medicine, and that’s perfectly ok. What bothers me is the incessant pushing of this agenda: > anyone ending up in a psychedelic rese
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
I'm afraid you're misrepresenting this important area of research. > Psilocybin is being studied in conjunction with 10-20 therapy sessions For a quick reality check, you could take a look at Compass Pathways and their phase 1
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by criticaltinker 4y ago
I know you comment on a wide range of topics here, and perhaps you’re jaded by some personal experiences with local ketamine clinics - but IMO your tone comes across as unnecessarily pessimistic and a smidge anecdotal. Ketamine/MDMA&#x
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
This is satire right? You might be getting downvotes because it’s not clear if you’re serious, and those claims seem quite ridiculous at face value.
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
While the benefits of ivermectin in a single-drug regime are heavily contested, a lot of folks here seem to be unaware that certain multi-drug regimes have shown promising results. For example see the positive outcomes of this double blind
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
> Our trees accumulate metals from the soil, making their wood less digestible to fungi Given that fungi play a crucial role in decomposition and also water/nutrient exchange between living plants, do you think there are any majo
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30517519
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
Worth highlighting that they describe it as coordinated activity, ie not random. > studying electrical activity in certain arbitrary frequency bands doesn't tell us a lot about the brain That might be true for now given our limite
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
> because productivity and contentment are linked, it's feasible that satisfaction can operate as a leading indicator of productivity; a drop in satisfaction and engagement could foreshadow impending burnout and lower output. Grea
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
You two are talking past each other, at this point it’s just semantics. > Toyota wasn’t directly targeted GP is trying to say this is the assumption you’re making. Supply chain attacks can be a clever way to disguise a direct target a
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
Highly recommend reading about Wim Hof to anyone interested in this topic. He’s been the subject of quite a bit of research. > A 2014 assessment compared Wim Hof and his identical twin brother. The scientists had them practice Wim'
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
I think that is a reasonable counter argument to the solid advice GP shared. In my experience, vendors are usually well aware of their competition. It’s a thin and subtle line between motivating them and recklessly sharing details regarding
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
> we analyze the brain activity of 102 healthy adults, recorded with both fMRI and source-localized magneto-encephalography (MEG). During these two 1 h-long sessions the subjects read isolated Dutch sentences composed of 9–15 words. Aft
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
Had to read quite a bit before getting to the core insight: > “So when you listen on a port, you’re really listening on a combination of a port, an IP, a protocol, and an IP version ?” > “Yeah, unless you listen on all local IPs. And
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
Previous HN discussion regarding the original tweet: Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28230305 4 Months ago | 221 comments Transcribed text of tweets (for convenience): http
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
Looks like another early but promising line of research to add to the list of potential medical uses. About time to deschedule it yes? Worth noting the previous HN discussion on similar research: CBD Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Prom

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