monkeycantype

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by monkeycantype 7mo ago
One of my favourite conversations I ever had with another human being, was with someone who was telling me about a book he was reading, which he evidently loved very much. He spoke almost no English, and I spoke absolutely no Cantonese, so
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by monkeycantype 7mo ago
I only know your mother from a distance, although sometimes that was only few blocks apart on the map, I'm not aware of even passing her on the on the street, I knew only the part of her revealed in her writing and records of her publi
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by monkeycantype 11mo ago
yes I agree it's not the angle of the article, but it is my entry point into the idea/concern/unanswered question at the end of the article “My worry is not that these models are similar to us. It’s that we are similar to th
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by monkeycantype 11mo ago
Until we have a testable, falsifiable thesis of how consciousness forms in meat, it is rash to exclude that consciousness could arise from linear algebra. Our study of the brain has revealed an enormous amount about how our anatomy processe
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by monkeycantype 11mo ago
Hello Rohan. This is really great. If you are able to include parameters to expose the intermediate data as inputs and outputs, so that this can be run to a step in the process and output the data, or run from a step with pre-prepared data.
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
as I dabble with neural networks, I keep having these moments where i wonder, is this what I am? (a neural net) And it has begun to make we wonder in an entirely unscientific manner, whether a large part of what notice as neurodivergence, i
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
no, chi and centrifugal force do not really exist. But because everything we percieve is essentially a metaphor, a model of reality, sometimes chi or loosy goosey uses of the word 'energy' really can be a valid heuristic for the t
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I think it's the theory in the article linked just above by renewiltord
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
Ah! That's the thread, not the source I read but I beat if I read the referenced paper I get there , thank you
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I wasn't but that's intriguing Thank you
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
no there is a very specific reason, related to mapping the 2d surface of your body to a 2d mapping on your brain that allows the areas of your brain that process sensory input from your skin to be adjacent to the processing of the areas tha
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
can you be my collective memory for a minute, I remember the existence of a very satisfying engineering explanation for why the representation of various body parts needs to be flipped left/right in the brain that came down to the top
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I disagree, these are not anonymous people, but real work collegues that I enjoyed working with, who would love to be able to settle in Australia, and would make a great contribution to the country. Australia without post war migration woul
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I'm ont talking about anonomous people, I'm talking about remote-work collegues whose name I know. They were not slaves, they were absolutley paid wages, but not equivalent wages to local hires.
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I worked for a company that was bought by CBA, and this was happening while I was there. This would be great if: Indian workers were hired on equivalent terms, in Australia, on visas that give them a clear path to citizenship. If they were
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
Thank you. Is there somewhere I can read about the different theological viewpoints/practices of different branches?
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
Some influential people in my life were quakers, which has given me a lifelong interest in quakerism, but in my one interaction with a quaker meeting, I was surprised that it seemed much closer to bible based church than I had expected. I t
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I wonder instead if what is being described here comes from a conflation of drag and maybe something from the BDSM world with trans? I think it does describe the experience of people who live a life in which they feel if not undesirable, th
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I also ask for any nested codeblocks to be delimited with ~~~, not ``` so as not to break out of the code block
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
pensions can be whatever we decide as a society agree they should be. Your perspective is an opinion, and many people share it, it has been a dominant view for decades, but it has never been a universal view.
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I apologise if my comment comes across as mean and snarky, and I can see how it does so I'm sorry. I wasn't my inention to mock the poster. I have always been interested that we cannot see infrared, but some reptiles can, we canno
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I have long deep close experience with people who create similar situations, who have no criminal intent, just a remorseless indefatigable belief that this time it's going to work, and I have witnessed many times that the vaster the vi
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I remember from a few few years back that the lipid coating may have caused problems for the liver, when treating people for diseases that needed to target a lot of tissue, such as muscle disorders. Is that still the case?
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I vote we aim the heat dishes at passing comets to steer them into moon to give it temporary oceans and atmosphere.
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
Finishing off above question… Is that What this model is suggesting or is the uneven distribution of mass contributing too?
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
If it’s all a swirling spinning turbulent mess is there enough difference in relative velocity that we’ve had more or less time since the Big Bang than other places?
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
Importantly this is how I work on my own personal fun projects, so it really doesn't matter if is productive, I find it enjoyable so I'm going to keep exploring it, there will be pros and cons, don't have the final ficture on
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
I disagree with this negative take. I can use Claude to quickly explore libraries, I’m not familiar with, and have developed a development process where I describe the purpose of each class and method in a markdown file , and have Claude, G
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by monkeycantype 1y ago
leptin deficiency is rare, so supplementation does not produce an effect in most people. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199909163411204 There is more information about the family involved out there

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