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I'm curious, how do you lay face down? Do you turn your head sideways or have a special pillow? It sounds painful to me.

I have an unpopular opinion: matplotlib sucks, but it's going to be really hard to improve on it. I don't think I need to give anyone reasons why it sucks, but the reason it's goin…

I think this is a really valuable way of thinking. Something similar I wish everyone would ask themselves is "why do I have this opinion/belief/etc?" for any topic. Just like most …

I've done a few small personal projects in d3 and I like it a lot. My biggest gripe though, is that I can't find decent online help for it. It's not popular enough to have its own …

Honestly, just being careful and catching mistakes. On almost every project I've worked on, I've found a few. When things get big enough, what's the chance that there's not some mi…

I'm hoping/wondering if 2020 will be the year there's some sort of real cultural shift in how this is all viewed. We already know about all the research pointing to social media ma…

I don't have any love for Microsoft, but they at least have a handful of objectively useful products that probably make the world a little better. Pretty much all the research I've…

I think it's a funny coincidence that he says "Light acts as a medium of information transfer here.", because IMO this article is only a medium of info transfer from the source he …

This can really apply to almost everything though, since if I understand you, it seems to be about progress in the face impermanence. The history of science is basically a constant…

Is this true? From what I've read about Alpha Zero/etc, in both Go and chess, it's going interesting move sequences that people hadn't considered viable before. That certainly seem…

Wait, is that right? I thought your definition of immoral there is correct. But I thought that "gray area" means a person has morals, but the goodness of the topic is tricky to dec…

Because you did 5-8-5!

I agree with you in general, but there are much better people to do that with than Crowder. He doesn't seem like he's acting in good faith, and more generally, think about stuff ve…

I think a lot of AI research now is very narrow, but this ignores that there's also a lot of research in RL/etc that's working to solve the problem of generalization. Meta learning…

Ah sorry, I think I see now. Do you mean that his baseline amount he uses every day is less than the deficit, so even if he consumed nothing, it still wouldn't be enough?

I might have misunderstood what you meant, but it seems like you're saying his problem is that the required deficit to lose that amount of weight in that time is more than a typica…

Ahhhh, that makes sense. I'm on mobile. The choice of "bolded" words seemed to make no sense...

Professor Sapolsky has talked about this in a somewhat different context as well, about what it does during childhood development. Really tragic actually.

Interesting article, but the sporadic bolding of a few words is killing me: >The International Maritime Organisation has codes governing...

I think that's really more a function of what slant the market is currently in, ie, renter's or landlord's market. If there were a glut of apartments compared to renters, the despe…

Yeaaaahhhhh..I found that option while searching, but I don't want to risk messing up my phone

When I try to turn it on, a dialog box pops up, telling me to go to some att website or dial 611. I think att because Cricket piggybacks off them.

Very interesting! I'm on a budget mobile service provider (Cricket), and only recently discovered that they disable using my phone as a hotspot on my plan. I called them up, becaus…

I went to the maker faire in NYC a few years ago. There was lots of cool stuff, but unfortunately about 60% of it were various slight mods/etc of 3d printers. Lots weren't even spe…

Not that I want extra bacteria, but I wonder how significant that increase is practically, or what the baseline is. I'll sometimes shake a dozen peoples' hands in a row if I'm at a…