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"As I lay there musing in the brisk darkness, I suddenly sensed a tightening inside me. It was as if I was being ever so gently wound. Then quickly, the pressure intensified, and I…

I think Co-star is fascinating for this reason because it's not so much the science of belief but the charisma of truth. People like it mostly because it's kind of sassy. For the m…

I read a paper once about an ancient tribe of hunters who had exhausted the local fauna and consulted the wisdom of the spirits through an oracle bone ceremony for the next bounty.…

edit: I deleted most of my comment. I don't think it added anything substantial to the conversation. I will point out that this seems like plagiarism. "...the retina is actually an…

4-5 cups seems about right. I typically ingest about 8 cups of coffee throughout the day. That's a close-to-full pot of coffee for me. As some have mentioned, "cups" the measuremen…

Should this be posted automatically two weeks prior to the first? I am being entirely serious, I always find these threads helpful.

This may sound obvious and pedantic but by practicing it. Getting yourself in someone's head is something you should return to casually, formally in various contexts and subtexts. …

Von Neumann outlined two rules. 1) Self-reproduction 2) Simulation of a Turing machine I have seen other summaries of this description as replacing step 2 with "mutation" or using …

You may consider the Cold War a real world usage for ordinary people: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2016/09/09/mutually-assur...

It took me a month to finish a full game for my AP European History class in High School. Easily the best board game I have ever played. It inspired me to actually pursue a path in…

Perhaps you've heard of the "Butterfly Effect" but not a formal definition of the term. For the issue of predicting weather, the model of weather is "sensitive". The observation me…

One of my early childhood memories was crayfishing. You can pretty much put anything on a string and these things will bite onto it. They are not picky. It's not even really fishin…

I tried looking up more information about this: https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Mommy_and_I_are_one "According to studies that determine the subconscious mind's ability to absorb…

Few observations: Cicada groups split off while they occupied glaciated territory. The Appalachia mountain range is famously, formed by glaciers. The Valley and Ridge part of Appal…

For those who don't get the reference: There's a scene in Silicon Valley based on a story about Peter Thiel. The scene involves the idea of 'prime collision' and cicada cycles. htt…

Addendum: Don't just pick any prime numbers. The Babylonians devised our time system because it's highly composite or 'antiprime'. So obvious primes such as 2, 3 and 5 won't do.

For the uninitiated, hella is flexible as a quantifier and intensifier. Hella has hella meanings for hella words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella Honestly, being from the Bay A…

If you want to record your Terminal output, here's a helpful answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396123/how-to-recor... This will let you record from your built-in mic…

I submitted this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579216 I've been into program to music to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music If you want indisce…

I saw "Love is the Message, the Message is Death" at the SFMOMA. It was the first and only time I have ever been reduced to complete sobbing in public by a piece of art.