zeidrich

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by zeidrich 11y ago
Prime numbers are tricky things. They are one of the most fundamental parts of our numerical systems, but they're difficult to predict. You would kind of expect that something so elementary should be easily predictable, or follow a pa
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I read to my daughter every night starting when she was about 10 months old. Now, I read little books to her all the time prior to that too, but we read novels. The first book was the Hobbit, and then we read all the Hitchhiker's Gui
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by zeidrich 11y ago
One thing that I want to teach my child(ren) is how to function in school, and what the purpose of school is. I was always ahead of the class, and similarly I was bored and it actually hurt me in grades (but not what I learned). I learned
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Essentially you're asking for the same thing. If you're constantly overthinking it's become involuntary. Part of that cycle comes from stress hormones. One of the easiest ways we can motivate ourselves is to increase stress,
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by zeidrich 11y ago
While he's misusing the word there's still value in the things that he's reporting. What the article talks about is how there is a benefit both from focused thought, and involuntary thought. There has a growing trend towards
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Hiring who you want is agency and power. Being powerless hurts, and giving us less agency makes us more powerless. Applying to a position to a human similarly gives us agency and power. It's a bit of competition. If we pass or fail,
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I think algorithmic hiring can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Putting people in situations that are not optimal for them can cause them to grow. This might lead to situations where people are not as productive, or where they leave the job
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I think it's a big challenge of culture. Substance abuse is a problem that becomes a symptom. Part of the issue I think is cultural ideas about mental health. American culture is strongly focused on good and bad, strength of will a
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by zeidrich 11y ago
It's funny that you see it as flipped upside down. I see it as flipped left and right. In terms of whether the Y is up or down, neither of them are, but the original one had it leaning right, and the one currently on their page has it
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Communicating with your friends online via insult isn't bullying. Bullying is about the power dynamic and about making another person feel weak or appear weak to their peers. Forcing someone to withdraw from using social media when the
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by zeidrich 11y ago
It's interesting though because this is not a technical problem. A cremated body's ashes don't take up much space, and don't need to be housed in an urn. It's entirely a cultural issue, in that we have special feeli
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I think there's a big difference between these two things. When you use a phone to track exercise and reduce insurance premiums, that's a good thing, it encourages (or at least rewards) people who exercise and become healthier and
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Boredom isn't the act of having nothing to do. That's idleness. Boredom is a problem of a lack of satisfaction. There's various reasons for that but I believe having too much to do, and too much stress is what leads to bore
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Maybe, but anecdotally, I saw the FFV remake on steam, and I'm the target audience and have bought a number of versions of various Final Fantasy games and remakes. However, I didn't buy the FFV remake because it looked horrible v
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Two things: 1 - Regulatory capture. 2 - Startups might be efficient because they're lean on things that might be important to government. Like a small IT firm handling a presidential candidate's e-mail server. #2 feeds #1 because
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean "It gets coded as green". It doesn't consider an entire statement, it considers word choice. Similarly, it says that green means that it's placed in the "writing tone" evaluatio
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Science is composition. We build a bit, we test, if it's solid, we build a bit more. We don't need to come up with hypothetical black hole computers. The paper and the concept of TOW dynamics has been referenced in http:/&#
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I've never had a person actually get upset with me because I've not responded back to a text immediately. I have some people who will always respond to my texts immediately, and some people who I will be lucky if I hear back in an
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Its these kind of experiences that I want to learn to teach my child to make it through. There are a lot of other people out there who will unknowingly be very discouraging, to both children and adults, but their opinions have no bearing on
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by zeidrich 11y ago
And I think that's the biggest issue is that Microsoft makes it pretty easy to disable them. Most of these settings are all in the same place, right where you set up the OS. In my opinion, none of them have to be off. I understand why
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I have a 2 year old, and we play Minecraft, and I'd say we've started with 'concepts' already. Simple things, but things like make a switch that turns on and off a lamp or opens a door. Or simply building larger things o
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I've never felt millenials have been relatively happy socialites. I've felt millenials are the generation that feels the most helpless. Gen-X felt like they were promised something awesome and then screwed out of it. Millenials
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Because many people speak similarly. If a number of people who speak similarly can train it, it can learn how you will say words that you haven't even said to it yet if a number of other people already have. Machine learning algorithm
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Does it say that it will send actual audio data? I mean more of my problem has to do with the fact that it's an open door than what they will actually do. It doesn't say they will send audio data, it at most says "associated
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I agree that calling it a disability is not right. It's a difference, it might make certain things more challenging, but a disability carries tones of uselessness. The thing is I also don't think it can be thought of as a trade-o
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I don't know if I agree. The thing is, what Newegg is doing, especially by publicizing it is to tell trolls to avoid Newegg. That's great for Newegg, but it means that future trolls will skip them, and just go after the startups
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Stress hormones take time to leave your body, and they keep you awake. When you are frustrated that you can't sleep, that creates stress, which makes it harder to sleep. When you think about your stress of the day it creates stress t
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by zeidrich 11y ago
I've fluctuated between being able to sleep easily and being unable to go to bed. In the end the issue has always been satisfaction. If I feel satisfied at the end of the day, there's no resistance to sleep. If I am "missin
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by zeidrich 11y ago
What's funny is that I felt smug and self satisfied for getting the correct answer even though I watched that video when it came out.
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Yes, in the book of large numbers, there is a page between 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,639 and 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,641 where it has in giant block type "This page left intentionally blank d

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