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> You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well. I'd like this to be true, but Socrates immediately comes to mind as a perfect counter ex…

I attribute the excitement of the VC and CEO cast to the same underlying motive, but I think there are at least several other ways all this could play out: - the Cul-de-Sac: AI pro…

Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563187 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29936104 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31504052

yes, you are correct, sorry for the ambiguity and late reply.

From my own experience, "only" deep and intense breathing for not more than 5 minutes can alter state of mind drastically.

According to the article (and the discussed research) this was only a minor factor: "The researchers also explored the possibility that index changes are more predictable today tha…

> I read all his novels (and some of his short stories), he's one of my favorite authors That makes at least two of us. :) But, I suspect there are quite a few more HN readers who …

An essay on writing by Raymond Carver [1] (as well as pretty much anything by Raymond Carver and authors he mentions in the essay :)). It's about good fiction writing, but, I think…

> Vector search, though, isn't as good on handling typos and not good at all when it comes to as you type searching. Vehic won't match on auto, for example. This is incorrect in ge…

Hi, This is an awesome project, congratulations! Could you share details about the machine translation engine that is used (or where to find out more about it)? Are there any plans…

I can experience something similar with the ventilation system in my apartment. Usually, the sound of it is immersed in the background noise together with other sounds coming from …

Related to this and discussed quite a few times on HN ([1],[2]), 'In Praise of Idleness', an essay by Bertrand Russell: https://libcom.org/files/Bertrand%20Russell%20-%20In%20Prais…

I wonder where the fascination with trains and railways (that I share) comes from. Maybe from the 19th century industrialization and technological revolution when railway was one o…

"The difference between this and word2vec is that the primitive atomic unit we are embedding isn’t a word, but a search query. Therefore this isn’t a language model, but a query mo…

I've recently read a seminal work on LSD and how it affects human psyche: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196573.Realms_of_the_Hum... . Cannot recommend it enough. I feel it de…

Thank you for saying it, cannot agree more. Premature derivation of abstractions so often leads to code that is later difficult to modify and understand and leads to a vicious circ…

I've recently watched Tim Ferris's pod-cast with Dr. Gabor Mate who is well known for his work with people who suffer from ADHD (including himself), Depression and various types of…

Neither most likely. I think that this man is an apatrid and that he doesn't have a real home judging by a similar string of events in my life. My country was economically devastat…

I was not long enough to make any general conclusions, but from what I could see it is a mixture. I saw quite a few 'westerners' who had given up 'western' medicine and came to try…

While I was on a retreat this year in a Peruvian village, I was told by several natives (Shipibo people) that, by their tradition (some estimations are that Shipibo tribes have bee…

Same here, I use python at work for ML related stuff on daily basis for the reason pretty much everyone else chooses python over ruby ('that's what everyone else in my company uses…