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by zo7 3mo ago
It's possible to train your breathing patterns, look up Buteyko breathing.
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by zo7 3mo ago
Awareness of breathing does not mean controlling your breathing, it just means noticing the sensations associated with it. Breathing can be incredibly pleasant!
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by zo7 7mo ago
It's becoming more common in SF and LA too, although it's usually done by the promoter and not the venue.
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by zo7 5y ago
> There are startups that deliver food to other startups, printing revenue numbers using the same VC’s entire portfolio of companies, therefore sloshing around the exact same dollars in order to get an attractive revenue multiple and exi
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by zo7 5y ago
Adding to this, there is a specific kind of meditation you could try called metta (aka loving-kindness) where you focus on cultivating benevolence towards yourself and all things. During a session you follow a similar sequence: first focus
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by zo7 6y ago
What about the processing in the veggie salami/bologna turns you off? Their meat counterparts are also heavily processed and are known to be carcinogenic.
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by zo7 6y ago
Are these conflicting interests? Better bike infrastructure would mean that those who can bike would be off the road, which would mean less congested streets and highways for those who need to drive. Commuting is also only one occasion you
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by zo7 6y ago
> Be more iterative, experimental, and user driven My heart has fallen at the thought of agile software development invading the creative process
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by zo7 7y ago
> I dropped out, started a few companies, and made enough to pay for my education. Don't bother with GPA then, this sounds like something you could focus on instead. GPA is only relevant for new grads without any real experience.
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by zo7 8y ago
The troubling aspect of it aside, a policy like that would result in a net negative for everyone else. Global industries rely on poverty to guarantee an abundance of low-paid (or not paid at all) workers. In their absence, they'd eithe
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by zo7 8y ago
> (b) There's one big difference between Facebook and generic advertising technology: the New York Times doesn't require you to sign up. > (c) Ad tracking knows which websites I visit. Facebook knows which nude parties I att
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by zo7 9y ago
Does the hardware do anything interesting, or does it only process midi input and provide an interface to mix between generated sounds? From their instructions on creating new sounds, it looks like they're pre-computing the generated s
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by zo7 9y ago
Given the number of plugs for Google products/projects/research (especially near the end) it's probably intended to be more of an ad for Google.
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by zo7 9y ago
I feel like this is related to the information bottleneck idea that's been floating around for some time [1]. I only really understand both of these at a superficial level, but from what I think I understand one thing that they observe
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by zo7 9y ago
The author mentions that they only analyzed the collection of C# repositories that they used in their study on Singletons, but I would expect the results to be different depending on the language used. In my experience with Python, unit tes
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by zo7 9y ago
> A far better way to write tests is within your production code. Validate every parameter and every assumption. Raise errors when possible, log everything else. > It runs when you testers, and customers use the applications. Do you r
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by zo7 9y ago
I feel it's pretty arrogant to think that you can contribute to research entirely on your own. You really need to be around other researchers who are smarter and more experienced than you to share ideas with and learn from, you simply
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by zo7 9y ago
You could strike out on your own only to find out there's not enough of a market to support yourself with your skills and you have to get a job again. You could set a goal to save money to travel the world and have it all be depleted r
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by zo7 9y ago
> I'd just be unhappy if I'd constantly be setting big life goals and not reaching them when planned, or at all. This is key, I think. You need to have some acceptance that you actually have very little control over your life.
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by zo7 9y ago
I feel like maintaining the infrastructure for the mammoth amount of data they must serve each day would be quite a lot of work on its own. They can't really afford hiccups in service, and I don't recall the site ever being down o
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by zo7 9y ago
How so? In San Francisco there are several local produce markets within walking distance of where I live. Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are pretty common major grocery chains here, and there are two weekly farmer's markets I can th
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by zo7 9y ago
This seems like a plausible theory, especially since the article notes that online dating is overwhelmingly popular among homosexual couples, but doesn't that theory start to fall apart when a couple is going out together? Unless their
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by zo7 9y ago
That was kinda my point, it's not the be-all deep learning library because they made it for their own use case, but its towering popularity (as in 10x the number of stars of other popular libraries) is not genuine. Also I highly doub
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by zo7 9y ago
I think the author raises a good point about Google envy. TensorFlow is not the most intuitive or flexible library out there, and it is very over-engineered if you're not doing large-scale distributed training. The main reason why ever
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by zo7 9y ago
You know what? I started looking for more facts on this, and to be honest I don't think there are any. All of the news, especially since Trump tweeted this morning, is extremely politicized. For any source that provided evidence one wa
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by zo7 9y ago
There are a lot of charities that have been working to help areas affected by these recent storms and earthquakes. Is there an easy way to donate and have it be spread across several trusted charities at once? What is the best way to help h
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by zo7 9y ago
> I didn't specifically reference Puerto Rico. You commented on a post that was specifically about Puerto Rico.
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by zo7 9y ago
Perhaps my frustration should be directed at leadership instead. I actually wrote that without any data on what the government has done vs what they could have done, but the white house at least has been notably slower to react now than wit
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by zo7 9y ago
Or maybe they're stuck on an island that's difficult to evacuate?
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by zo7 9y ago
Her speech is really kinda chilling too: https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/913871652768878592 Cities should not have to beg for aid. The government should have prepared and started relief efforts in full force as

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