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by photon_lines 3mo ago
Eating ultra processed foods with added sugar / loads of calories. A huge reason why they're so destructive is because they lack fibre (which keep our microbiomes healthy) and lack compounds which are good for us. Try keeping weig
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by photon_lines 3mo ago
So I can show you why it works algebraically -- I'm not sure if it will help you though. Kinetic energy is the work needed to accelerate something from rest to speed v (velocity). Below we'll use the regular derivative representat
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by photon_lines 3mo ago
I was going to comment on this too: the style and format of this writing screams 'written by ChatGPT' to me. The funny part is that the AI actually does a good job in making the argument and OP is trying to make: AI will never be
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by photon_lines 3mo ago
- Visual Guide to Number Theory: write up which explains the field of number theory in a visual manner. - Reenvision technologies: simple software. Local first - no added complexity. Infinite scale without having to add 100 front-end UI fra
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by photon_lines 3mo ago
There is an alternative: 1) limit how much descendants can inherit. Allow them only a maximum amount of let's say: 10 million and make sure that either the founder finds a way to redistribute his/her wealth to the rest of the worl
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by photon_lines 3mo ago
I agree with most of what you're saying -- but just wanted to add some notes here: 1) founders should start companies where equity is distributed to the early employees much more evenly: this actually gives additional super-powers to t
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by photon_lines 5mo ago
There is a chance - yes, but there's a lot of other evidence that he was involved in its creation (not just the 10+ years he talked about bit-gold prior to bitcoin). Bit-gold = bitcoin. My guess is that someone (like Hal Finny) impleme
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by photon_lines 5mo ago
I'm almost 100% certain he's the creator of Bitcoin. I didn't need to see his technical chops to suspect it -- all I needed was to read his article from 2002 which discusses the whole concept and key ideas that Bitcoin is cur
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by photon_lines 6mo ago
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful (and that others did too)!!
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by photon_lines 6mo ago
The whole goal of quantisation is to put the data into 'bins' so that it can easily be 'packed' so that you can represent it using less bits (less information). You can think of it like rounding essentially (3.14159 -&gt
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by photon_lines 7mo ago
Thank you Chase -- I was an early Watsi supporter (and still am actually) but you just reminded me I need to donate soon haha :) Either way fantastic work and thank you!
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by photon_lines 8mo ago
I don't have a personal site at the moment, but I do have a blog: https://photonlines.substack.com/ Some of my projects: https://github.com/photonlines
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by photon_lines 8mo ago
I love your website. Very clear and to the point.
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by photon_lines 8mo ago
You do understand that you can run these tools locally right? The code is fully available and open source: https://github.com/blgardner/prism.tools
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by photon_lines 8mo ago
Ahhh OK - that makes sense - thank you.
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by photon_lines 8mo ago
I love what you have here. Thank you for open sourcing your work -- but why the custom license? Why not just do a standard MIT license?
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by photon_lines 9mo ago
If anyone is curious to see what Watson actually was you can find it here (it was nowhere near to a generalized large langue model -- mostly made for winning in Jeopardy): https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4740/
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by photon_lines 9mo ago
Why in the world would economists need to study this? It's been known that large bureaucracies have been dysfunctional for over a couple of decades now if not centuries. The large reason is because 1) the incentives to do great work ar
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by photon_lines 10mo ago
Exciting stuff from a fantastic team.
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by photon_lines 10mo ago
Happy Thanksgiving everyone -- I've mostly been a lurker here over the last 20 years and I'm thankful for being able to interact with such a bright and vibrant community full of thinkers, doers and explorers -- you guys definitely
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by photon_lines 10mo ago
So if your endocrinologist was found to have ran a concentration camp in the past, it would have no effect on your decision on whether you wanted to use them as your doctor? Running a concentration camp also has no bearing on a doctor'
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by photon_lines 10mo ago
She blamed the research fraud on her assistant when she was initially accused of it and denied all liabilities. She only admitted to it after they had her cornered. I had her as my endocrinologist for a while and I would not recommend her.
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by photon_lines 10mo ago
This is 100% true, especially in Canada. I've had multiple encounters with doctors who were not fit for their positions and should not have been working as doctors. One of them nearly killed my mom, and another one was suspended due to
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by photon_lines 10mo ago
20 minutes a day is all it takes. Don't even think about it - just do it. After a couple of weeks you'll wonder how in the world you ever lived without exercise -- trust me on this one :)
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by photon_lines 10mo ago
Are you experiencing the HN hug of death or is your website down? Either way I'm super interested in what you're building and I'd love to use it but I cannot reach your link at the moment. Good luck with the endeavor either w
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by photon_lines 10mo ago
I love this - great work.
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by photon_lines 1y ago
The visual is directly from here (I recommend you give it a read if you want to grasp the full intuition on how a Fenwick tree works (page 97)): https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf I should have included the full visuals whi
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by photon_lines 1y ago
Can you go into a little more detail? What is broken exactly?
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by photon_lines 1y ago
If you guys like visual-explanations that are a bit more intuitive -- I put actually made guides on both data-structures and algorithms not too long ago which you can find here: Visual-Focused Algorithms Cheat Sheet — https://pho
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by photon_lines 1y ago
To answer your question: it is not open source.

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