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by wombatmobile 5y ago
A lot of us could be on opioids, but we'd know it. There's just not a lot we could do about it.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> it must have been diseases the Spaniards brought that permanently wiped out the whole Amazon civilization. The Spaniards didn't go deep into the Amazon. It was possible to hide from them in the jungle, which is thousands of miles
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
It sounds like you have developed particular expectations for chatbots.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Is it important to argue about whether chatbots are intelligent?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
The charm of Eliza is that it was simply a Rogerian therapist who didn't try to be intelligent. Eliza's talent was in getting you to express yourself, free from inhibition. That doesn't require “intelligence”, but it does req
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
David Crowe writes in The Age https://archive.ph/Ohx6d The political cost of letting Djokovic stay was too high for Morrison Australians have been barred from visiting a dying parent in hospital, blocked from seeing a new g
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> The Yerkes–Dodson law refers to an inverted U-shaped relationship between performance and arousal, where performance increases with arousal, but only up to a certain point. The quest to discover and apply "laws" like this cou
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
I read TFA. It was a roundabout experience. The cookie policy is explained as if there is some semblance of user choice, but actually there is none. You have to accept performance cookies, functional cookies, and Targeting cookies because
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Companies are certainly able to proactively raise salaries based on future inflation expectations, and many do that for CEO salary packages. They just don't do it for workers.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> The semantic web will never happen if it requires additional manual labor. Is manual labor the reason things turned out the way they did, with google spending whatever it took to index and monetise the whole web the way it did? Or migh
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Pretty small chance she answers to a female name, I imagine.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
There is only one average HN user. Half of all the rest are below average.
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What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris(newscientist.com)
4 points by wombatmobile 5y ago|0 comments
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
This made perfect sense to Lyn Margulis, an evolutionary biologist who was once married to astronomer Carl Sagan. She put up with decades of skepticism and derision from older scientists before Woese and Doolittle identified the genetic da
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
If we keep improving the whole animal, refining its physiology, appearance, personality, behaviour, judgement, presentation skills, longevity and resilience, the USA will eventually have the opportunity to elect a leader who can heal and un
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
I'm not sure how to discuss TFA because I can only read half a paragraph of it due to the paywall. Instead of commenting speculatively, I'm going to wait for someone to post more of the article, or a link to the full article.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Fascinating research into the question of how the first eukaryotic cells arose from prokaryote antecedents. The ancestors of the mitochondria organelles you see today in every cell in your body were once free swimming bacteria, in a world w
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Is there any such thing as "procrastinating"? Luke: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different. Yoda: No. No different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned. Luke: All right
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> I had no idea laughter had previously been believed as confined to so few species. What humans believe about other species tells us a lot about humans, and nothing about other species.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Q: What did the duck say when he bought lipstick? A: "Put it on my bill."
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> This is current situation of service industry. Once consumer bought service, they don't care. It isn't a question of human emotions, such as caring, or not. At every touch point, someone in the corporation does "care&qu
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Goldfish who can drive: why scientists taught fish to navigate(theguardian.com)
2 points by wombatmobile 5y ago|0 comments
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Are DDG searches fulfilled by Bing?
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ― Anais Nin
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> These kinds of changes are not cost-free: people who drove oil trucks will need to find other jobs, and we should help them make the transition. Who is “we”? If it isn’t the people who own the oil trucks, how is it going to happen? So
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Ask HN: What Shapes Us Now?
1 points by wombatmobile 5y ago|0 comments
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
The charm of Eliza is that it was simply a Rogerian therapist who didn't try to be intelligent. Eliza's talent was to give you a way to get to get to hear yourself. That doesn't require intelligence, so much as listening ski
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Transient in some people in certain circumstances. Not transient in others.
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
ADHD people have a different calculus that affects their project management. NonA-DHD typically respond to deadlines with increased urgency, commitment, and re-factoring assessments. ADHD may respond to deadlines by abandoning tasks and sta
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
Australian. Short for “top notch”.

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