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by dnc 2mo ago
> You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well. I'd like this to be true, but Socrates immediately comes to mind as a perfect counter example of someone who was opposed to writin
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by dnc 3mo ago
I attribute the excitement of the VC and CEO cast to the same underlying motive, but I think there are at least several other ways all this could play out: - the Cul-de-Sac: AI progress flattens as scaling data and compute, RL and algorithm
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by dnc 3y ago
Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563187 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29936104 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31504052
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by dnc 3y ago
yes, you are correct, sorry for the ambiguity and late reply.
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by dnc 3y ago
From my own experience, "only" deep and intense breathing for not more than 5 minutes can alter state of mind drastically.
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by dnc 3y ago
According to the article (and the discussed research) this was only a minor factor: "The researchers also explored the possibility that index changes are more predictable today than in the past, leading sophisticated market participant
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Laid Off Tech Workers Quickly Find New Jobs(wsj.com)
4 points by dnc 4y ago|2 comments
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by dnc 4y ago
> I read all his novels (and some of his short stories), he's one of my favorite authors That makes at least two of us. :) But, I suspect there are quite a few more HN readers who like Kafka's works and literature in general (t
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by dnc 4y ago
An essay on writing by Raymond Carver [1] (as well as pretty much anything by Raymond Carver and authors he mentions in the essay :)). It's about good fiction writing, but, I think, good to keep in mind for writing in general. [1] htt
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by dnc 4y ago
> Vector search, though, isn't as good on handling typos and not good at all when it comes to as you type searching. Vehic won't match on auto, for example. This is incorrect in general case and it entirely depends on the model
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by dnc 4y ago
Hi, This is an awesome project, congratulations! Could you share details about the machine translation engine that is used (or where to find out more about it)? Are there any plans to open source the extension code (with the WebAssembly opt
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by dnc 5y ago
I can experience something similar with the ventilation system in my apartment. Usually, the sound of it is immersed in the background noise together with other sounds coming from the outside, so most of the time I'm not aware of it at
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by dnc 6y ago
Related to this and discussed quite a few times on HN ([1],[2]), 'In Praise of Idleness', an essay by Bertrand Russell: https://libcom.org/files/Bertrand%20Russell%20-%20In%20Prais... . I return to it every o
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Michel Houellebecq: World will be worse after ‘banal’ virus(dawn.com)
2 points by dnc 6y ago|0 comments
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by dnc 7y ago
I wonder where the fascination with trains and railways (that I share) comes from. Maybe from the 19th century industrialization and technological revolution when railway was one of its main symbols ("locomotion of progress")? Rel
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by dnc 7y ago
"The difference between this and word2vec is that the primitive atomic unit we are embedding isn’t a word, but a search query. Therefore this isn’t a language model, but a query model." If a primitive embedding unit is a search qu
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by dnc 8y ago
I've recently read a seminal work on LSD and how it affects human psyche: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196573.Realms_of_the_Hum... . Cannot recommend it enough. I feel it demystified a great deal of unc
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by dnc 8y ago
Thank you for saying it, cannot agree more. Premature derivation of abstractions so often leads to code that is later difficult to modify and understand and leads to a vicious circle of adding more abstraction and complexity.
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by dnc 8y ago
I've recently watched Tim Ferris's pod-cast with Dr. Gabor Mate who is well known for his work with people who suffer from ADHD (including himself), Depression and various types of addiction: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by dnc 9y ago
Neither most likely. I think that this man is an apatrid and that he doesn't have a real home judging by a similar string of events in my life. My country was economically devastated due to unfavorable Geo-political circumstances and I
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by dnc 9y ago
I was not long enough to make any general conclusions, but from what I could see it is a mixture. I saw quite a few 'westerners' who had given up 'western' medicine and came to try Ayahuasca for various reasons. As for n
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by dnc 9y ago
While I was on a retreat this year in a Peruvian village, I was told by several natives (Shipibo people) that, by their tradition (some estimations are that Shipibo tribes have been using Ayahuasca for millenias), Ayahuasca is orally taken
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by dnc 9y ago
Same here, I use python at work for ML related stuff on daily basis for the reason pretty much everyone else chooses python over ruby ('that's what everyone else in my company uses and it just has more mature ML libraries and gre
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Mozilla invests in Germany’s Cliqz, a private search browser(techcrunch.com)
2 points by dnc 10y ago|0 comments
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by dnc 10y ago
There was an excellent talk related to this that Joanna Rutkowska gave at the 32c3 conference (she talked quite a bit about Intel's ME too, I was completely unaware of its existence up to that point): https://media.ccc.de&#x
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by dnc 11y ago
Completely share this point of view. I was a heavy smoker for a ten years and no level of taxation would make me quit. Back at the time I would rather smoke and stay hungry for a while if I was to choose. And quitting is very hard. I have h
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by dnc 11y ago
That is also what I find the worst. Everything else, that can be seen in the disturbing pictures of the place seems to me as merely surface and materialization of the inner despair and suffering that one has to go through in a such situatio
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by dnc 11y ago
Related to this, great article of E.W.Dijkstra: The strengths of the academic enterprise ( https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/E... )
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by dnc 11y ago
For grokking git, indispensable resource is git early dev mailing list and corresponding code base (first couple of months after project started). Linus explained it in very clear and precise way in the mailing list and related code. The i
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by dnc 12y ago
Thanks for the book!

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