nomadpenguin

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by nomadpenguin 9d ago
You can get most of the benefits of walking barefoot without the hookworm by wearing a good pair of barefoot shoes. I personally love my Xero Prios. If you want the full experience at the expense of looking like a freak, you can get those V
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by nomadpenguin 20d ago
Is that even a conspiracy? It's well documented how closely the military works with Hollywood -- of course government apparatuses are interested in funding media that aligns with their goals.
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by nomadpenguin 2mo ago
It's a genuinely fascist tendency. Only the elite few are "real people" who think. Everyone else is irrelevant, democracy is a failed experiment, wealth = worth, etc etc etc
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by nomadpenguin 2mo ago
Yeah, this smells very fishy to me. It's almost trivially easy to gather a small validation dataset in humans for the paper. At my institution, it's about $800 an hour to scan someone. You can probably get enough data to validate
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by nomadpenguin 4mo ago
For me, the biggest AI writing tell (other than the blatantly obvious ones) is an unnatural consistency in style, whatever style that may be. It's most apparent in longer pieces, and I'm not sure I can really pin down exactly what
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Writing as an Iterative Cybernetic Process(shudhana.substack.com)
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by nomadpenguin 8mo ago
The Cincinnati Zoo covered all their parking lots with solar panels last year. Your car stays cool in the summer, and there's motion activated lighting under the panels after dark. It's awesome.
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by nomadpenguin 9mo ago
"Genetically encoded" is the appropriate term here -- it was used in the original journal article. It's a common industry term in neuroscience research. For example, GEVIs and GECIs are "genetically encoded voltage indic
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by nomadpenguin 10mo ago
> I have over 14 years of education in developed countries, and out of those, maybe 1 year combined meaningfully helped me in my jobs/career in terms of skills. I think you're underestimating the effect of 14 years of daily tra
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by nomadpenguin 11mo ago
I believe Macrofactor has had these features for quite a while now.
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
I think Buddhism still (arguably rightly) doesn't sit entirely well with non-religious Westerners. I have studied with a Zen Sangha and transmitted teachers on and off for a bit and have found their explanations helpful. However, it&#x
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
There are specialized architectures (the Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine)* that are able to complete this kind of task. Interestingly, once trained, their activations look strikingly similar to place and grid cells in real brains. The team were a
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
As Freud said, there is no negation in the unconscious.
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
He also believes that he can remember full memories from when he was 3 months old. There is no evidence that this is possible.
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
How are you handling scheduling with FSRS? The challenge that I quickly saw was that it was difficult to figure out when you should advance a segment of information. If you get 80% of the info right, should it be advanced? What happens to t
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
Poor generalization (overtraining on prompts) and loss of context over time are the biggest issues I've found with them. Slow card creation workflows and needing to rate your own reviews are merely UX issues -- losing context and losin
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
Yes, that is true. I phrased that badly -- it's more that we didn't take the evolutionary branch where we retain the fetal hemoglobin because it is maladaptive in adults.
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
High affinity RBCs would actually be a disadvantage for athletics. You actually don't need very high affinity to pick up oxygen from the lungs -- your lungs are comparatively extremely high in oxygen. What matters more is being able to
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by nomadpenguin 1y ago
This is correct, it's called empiric treatment. If a patient comes in with altered mental status and neck rigidity, you don't have time to take a lumbar puncture and culture bacteria. I don't know anything about phage treatme
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by nomadpenguin 2y ago
You're using two en dashes to approximate it -- few people have the en dash character on hand.
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by nomadpenguin 2y ago
> No amount of willpower or happy thoughts will cause your hormones or neurotransmitter levels into the homeostasis you want. Behavioral-only therapies are effective, even if they're not as effective as we'd like. We have the
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by nomadpenguin 2y ago
What do you mean by loopable mindmap? What software do you use for this?
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by nomadpenguin 2y ago
Which is itself a major risk factor for dementia (and strokes)
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by nomadpenguin 3y ago
That would suck. I want to see something I haven't seen before.
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by nomadpenguin 3y ago
The catch with deep brain stimulation currently is that it's only SOTA for implanted electrodes, meaning it's incredibly expensive, and while DBS implantation is very safe for a brain surgery, it's still a brain surgery. tTIS
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by nomadpenguin 3y ago
Why do you think Tantacrul is seedy? I've watched a couple of his videos and thought they were entertaining; does he have a history of doing shady things?
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by nomadpenguin 3y ago
I think there's a huge division in toxicity between wet bench and computational/dry lab work. If your math PhD friends go on a wild goose chase or slack off for a few weeks, the only thing that is lost is time. In a wet lab, it co
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by nomadpenguin 3y ago
Perhaps all the sleep allows them to be energetic.
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by nomadpenguin 3y ago
I've been experimenting with "spaced free recall". So first, I'll read a section of a textbook. Then, I write down everything I can remember about it in a blank text file, organizing things in a way that makes sense to m
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by nomadpenguin 5y ago
I recently worked on a project involving segmenting clinical CT scans. Almost every python package for working with CTs was written by the same guy.

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