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jqgatsby
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About jqgatsby
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Comment #41968978
wow, that's extremely useful and interesting! Can you say more about your condition? Did you have any symptoms? Which company did you use for the full-genome sequencing? It looks l…
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Comment #41968750
you didn't respond to my challenge, look up the history of canola oil and erucic acid and at least familiarize yourself before dismissing
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Comment #41968730
It's funny, you're the only person who replied who mentioned my challenge, and it's clear you aren't familiar with the history of canola oil, nor are any of the other people replyi…
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Comment #41962693
I'm surprised there's no discussion here about the inflammatory role of vegetable oils (aka seed oils). I think it's likely that these oils are actually causing inflammatory diseas…
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Comment #41604062
oh wow, haven't heard anyone mention Danny Dunn in many years. My local library had the whole series and I think I read most of them, way back in the early 90s. I still remember Da…
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Comment #40970519
Hyperbolic embeddings have been an interest of mine ever since the Max Nickel paper. Would love to connect directly to discuss this topic if you're open. here's my email: https://p…
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Comment #40598436
Agree strongly. Another good example is industrial seed oils: canola/rapeseed oil, and even things thar sound innocuous like sunflower seed oil. Avoid, avoid, stick to olive oil wh…
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Comment #39524526
Golly! Thanks, Baloo!
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Comment #35575615
Do you know if any attempt is being made to find the real killer by comparing the DNA evidence from the victim's shoes to genealogy databases?
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Comment #34820321
The best conceptualization of the concept of number that I've come across is Von Staudt's construction of the rationals using the concept of harmonic tetrads. At first it seems wei…
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Comment #34697049
The literal title of the article should be taken with substantial salt, the author is speaking rhetorically.
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Comment #34113198
haha, I am in the same club as you, I spent my first week of gptChat peppering it with non-euclidean geometry questions!
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Comment #33807402
well done. I immediately tried the same idea, but was not successful in breaking it free. Am I right to feel annoyed by this mind-controlled bot? I don't want anything to do with i…
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Comment #33640731
so, uh, you gonna tell us the insight?
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Comment #33594669
It's an interesting point you are making about percentages, and I'm trying to decide if you are confused or I am. We seem to be in agreement that a dollar quota would create dollar…
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Comment #33589416
IMO, that doesn't matter, and OP is correct that taxes are what really drive the pump. If you owe $10 in tax, and all you have are berries, you have to sell the berries to get doll…
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Comment #33152604
The best study guide to Jaynes that I've found is from David Blower (sadly, recently deceased): Information Processing: The Maximum Entropy Principle https://a.co/d/71tL5bw He real…
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Comment #33083029
What is casually asserted can be casually denied. Can you elaborate your reason for thinking this? Is it a special carve-out for Mickey, or would you also include, say, Alice in Wo…
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Comment #32898297
"It's the Mercator projection but for the opinions of people who don't touch grass." Well said! Also, the sample bias phenomenon being raised in the article comes up so often, and …
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Comment #32891995
and that great acronym: OHIO
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Comment #32882774
I think there will be a trend of content being made specifically with a faster playback speed in mind. I watch my 10 year old son who habitually watches videos at 2x and I can't be…
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Comment #32882714
that's funny, I ended up buying the book based on exactly the same HN comment and received it today. The idea that calculus could be learned based on the dual numbers is really int…
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Comment #32862068
I've heard of this constructivist approach to calculus, but hadn't made the connection with nilpotents. that's really interesting, could you explain why nilpotenxy and forgoing the…
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Comment #32827686
I agree. More generally, any business model where your users and your customers are disjoint sets will cause a misalignment of interests that generates an ever-increasing negative …