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by vinchuco 8y ago
(Redacted)
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Orly?
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by vinchuco 8y ago
> Do you know any other examples https://youtu.be/lFIYKmos3-s Where "complex numbers" is Chinese, "imaginary numbers" is German, and "2D numbers" is English in this analogy.
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by vinchuco 8y ago
This has also a great intuitive explanation of why sqrt(-1) is a rotation. HTTP://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/6/
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Crystal Pepsi(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vinchuco 8y ago
So they help people part with their money. Then, if I was an advertiser, I'd put my money elsewhere: > For example, while Google users click on the first advertisement for search results an average of 8% of the time (80,000 clicks f
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by vinchuco 8y ago
What value does Facebook provide as a company? Do ads create value?
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by vinchuco 8y ago
And good sleep, low stress, and proper hydration. Working out is ideal but hard to keep up which is why a lot of people quit the gym shortly after the new year resolution rush.
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by vinchuco 8y ago
> The Human Genome Project (HGP) was one of the great feats of exploration in history - an inward voyage of discovery rather than an outward exploration of the planet or the cosmos; an international research effort to sequence and map al
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Plumeting Costs of Genome Sequencing(genome.gov)
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Housing+utilities+food
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Leading causes of death in the US : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php #1 is heart disease Causes: excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, no regular exercise, stress I could be wrong but no exercise
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Using TeX syntax (or any language with collapsing blocks of text), a text file with branches. https://hastebin.com/gocibazeji.rb
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Graceful Labeling(en.wikipedia.org)
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7 ways to draw an ellipse [video](youtu.be)
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by vinchuco 8y ago
> A given problem, such as the integral we just computed, may appear to be intractable on its own. However, by stepping back and considering the problem not in isolation but as an individual member of an entire class of related problems,
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by vinchuco 8y ago
No, you see, the article author is playing a supergame which is won by finding a play-to-lose version of a game. The parent commenter is simply playing the play-to-lose version of that supergame.
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Here is a tic-tac-toe version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe_variants And a chess version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_Chess A large (finite?) list of chess variants also exist
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Kudos to the animation illustrator [0]. See also [1]. I'm collecting these for reasons. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rocchini [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15549197
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Cognitive Shift(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ask HN: what are societal implications of replicating/digitizing the brain?
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Cats are smart enough to communicate with humans, I have no doubt of that. N=2, but once I had a cat that woke me up at night to point out a possum had entered the house and was hiding under a piece of furniture, and once I had one which (d
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Here is also slime mold 'communicating' their knowledge to other slime mold https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491547 . For anyone that is fascinated by nature studies and would like to be exposed to more of t
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by vinchuco 8y ago
"My hovercraft is full of eels"
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by vinchuco 8y ago
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" -GBS It's a bit sad we can't yet fully communicate with other life here effectively. I wonder what ethical implications it would have
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by vinchuco 8y ago
> Maybe I'm just paranoid This common saying. I'd rather be paranoid and informed than blissfully ignorant. But a person can only process so much while carrying on with their lives. The jewel beetle attempts to mate with an amb
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by vinchuco 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevo...
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Note your donate link https://html.brow.sh/https://www.brow.sh/donate/ 'broke' the QR code. Amazing work!
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Could you clarify how? I don't see how that follows.
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by vinchuco 8y ago
Can medical tourism grow enough to bring medical costs down by competition?

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