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by erlich 13d ago
What is missing is a graph of all the data and its relationships. Then its just a matter of grouping things together appropriately for humans to understand. It's funny how a graph underlies absolutely everything but no one seems to use
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by erlich 14d ago
> I do appreciate this conversation Me too :) I like discussions like these because its always an opportunity to absorb more information.
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by erlich 14d ago
We are just talking past each other now. > not how most psychiatric conditions are diagnosed Psychiatry as a whole is questionable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatry#Controversy_and_cri... Read about the hist
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by erlich 15d ago
Why should 6 symptoms constitute ADHD while 5 don't? The person with only 5 doesn't have it? This is not science. Change the diagnostic criteria to a blood test or brain scan and then we are in the realm of proper science. But unt
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by erlich 15d ago
Everything I have said is explained with citations here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9189308/
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by erlich 16d ago
Amphetamine used to be legal. As an example, President JFK received regular injections containing high doses of amphetamines from his personal physician. Then the risk of abuse and side-effects in the population were observed and it was ban
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by erlich 16d ago
People are way too happy when they find out that the treatment is taking speed every day for their whole life, as if this isn't going to take its toll on the body and that the brain is not going to adapt to this.
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by erlich 16d ago
The biggest risk for ADHD treatment is that most diagnosed people are told: "you brain doesn't make enough dopamine" which makes it feel safe for you and why they say non-ADHD people cannot take it. But for your specific brai
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by erlich 16d ago
ChatGPT's take was that 10 ADHD people/animals would go exploring and if one produced a new source of food then it would be advantageous for the group, but the other 9 could fail and be completely useless. A bit like venture capit
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by erlich 20d ago
I actually like the SQL example.
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by erlich 23d ago
Australia has 28M people and isn't part of any supranational union. Same with many other countries. Why are Europeans so obsessed with this integration?
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by erlich 28d ago
> "whatever Jarred feels like should be in there" This is the main draw. Everything he implemented was fast and minimalist and he usually implements a standardized api (web apis, esbuild bundler api). The opinionated stuff is u
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by erlich 29d ago
It's more "what one tool can do everything", not that its ideal. Like why people use Microsoft Teams even though its terrible. The relational model and sql force us to simplify our data models too much by eliminating relation
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by erlich 1y ago
Political discussions for me are like programming. I enjoy them because I like finding bugs in people's logic like I do in programming. I find a lot of people's political arguments wouldn't compile because of basic logic erro
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by erlich 1y ago
> to realize fundamentally different visions of the world, based on fundamentally different values I think your use of the word "world" is telling. Trump, the Republicans, and the global right are focused on their citizens. The
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Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
73 points by erlich 2y ago|81 comments
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by erlich 3y ago
Thanks! Lisp is so damn cool.
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by erlich 3y ago
So are these "specials" being parsed by a grammar? Would be interesting to see how the interpreter works actually... I would guess it checks what `defun` is, which is a macro...then expands it, and the expansion should ultimately
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by erlich 3y ago
CLOS looks really interesting. So many good ideas. A lot that I have been thinking about for a while. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/clos.html : > arguably one of the most powerful object systems availabl
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Ask HN: Is Lisp Simple?
7 points by erlich 3y ago|17 comments
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by erlich 3y ago
There's always gonna be space when you jack into Zuck's metaverse.
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Ask HN: Where to discuss programming and software architecture?
4 points by erlich 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What if we discovered LLMs 10 years ago?
1 points by erlich 3y ago|2 comments
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by erlich 3y ago
When people talk about us living in a simulation...you have to wonder if they have ever tried to simulate real liquids (e.g. computation fluid dynamics). Computer graphics in films gives people an unrealistic expectation of what we can do.
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by erlich 3y ago
This furthers my point. They even got an exclusive and still run Trump stuff.
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by erlich 3y ago
I love how the nytimes front page is just all Trump and political crap. Literally not a word about this, and if it's real, its like the biggest thing ever.
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Tell HN: Anyone else realize that Twitter has been in the news every single day
4 points by erlich 3y ago|6 comments
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by erlich 3y ago
> guessing your current state & figuring out the next one I look at React from a Backbone lens. In Backbone, you had view with a model that managed a dom element tree. You could render whenever you wanted and exactly when needed. &gt
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Tell HN: Unpopular opinion: All Meta's open source front end stuff sucks
27 points by erlich 3y ago|15 comments
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by erlich 3y ago
It's amazing we don't have good personal content filtering yet. I would pay so much for an all-encompassing blocker. There is so much content I would block if I actually could. Completely disable YouTube Shorts on mobile. All snar

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