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Yesterday or the day before IIRC a fellow "WilsonPaige", https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wilsonpaige posted much earlier on Hacker News and, right in front of us, deduced that…

Why did you delete most of wilsonpaige's posts? All he did is put two things together and come up with an idea that will apparently work. So he's kinda in Neils Bohr's situation wi…

WilsonPaige is right (if not always for the "right" reason): "Coronavirus Chloroquine & Zinc Treatment": https://citycourier.org/news/coronavirus-chloroquine-zinc-tr...

Lancet Article(February 22, 2020): "Reducing mortality from 2019-nCoV: host-directed therapies should be an option" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... …

Title: "Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... from the Lancet article:…

The key may not be a vaccine but simply staying alive. Covid-19 kills with a "cytokine storm": cytochine release syndrome(cytokine storm): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_re…

Years ago one doctor (IIRC a general practioner) noticed that all his diabetes patients taking metformin never got cancer. So he wrote a letter about it. I've lost the cite. Today …

" ...The results suggest that push-up ability might be a simple, reliable and D.I.Y.-in-your-living-room method of assessing heart health... " I call BS. Body weight exercises like…

carapace says> "Little rings of gunpowder in the paper to make it act like a fuse..." There is no gunpowder in cigarettes: https://www.verywellmind.com/big-tobaccos-list-of-599-cig…

I prefer David Deutsch's optimistic approach to our problems: use science to find solutions. Rebellion is beyond the pale. We don't need rebels; we need scientists and more good sc…

Is there a text focusing on the known differences between the lower dimensional spaces of 1-4 dimensions and the higher-dimensionality spaces commonly used in DNN calculations?

What a great analysis and reveal. Thank you!

thecupisblue >"...previously was a Chrome and Opera (but never again after I learned what the f is going on there)." What is going on there?

Phone the FBI and tell them. They will set you up with a new identity and tell you how to stay hidden.

leCun hit big when neural networks got a boost from Moore's Law and he was one of the few remaining working on them. Now he's the toast of the town. Is LeCon a genius, a drudge or …

All your suggestions are nice but I was thinking this topic should seriously be more along the lines of "How to Get Laid". Cooking? Fixing an old car? Shakespeare? Get to the crux …

Title says "bull shit", but the picture is of a cow with full udder! Chalk this one up to Internet illiteracy.

JackRabbitSlim says > I suspect the biggest barrier/reason is aversion to liability and safety of beaming lasers directly into customer eyes. Yes, what could possibly go wrong whil…

"Did China Steal Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponize It?" https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-china-steal-coron... From the article: "In March 2019 ... a shipment of excep…

Lesson learned years after middle- and high-school: most everybody (even those you know) is having sex (but you aren't)!

I think it relevant to mention Lippmann's statement on Congressional investigations: "So bad is the contact of legislators with necessary facts that they are forced to rely either …

Sure, if the smaller triangles are allowed to overlap.

Ummm, so how is "Coq" pronounced?