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> you become dizzy with too much O2 in your blood I've never heard of this, can you elaborate?

Can anyone comment on the similarities with (apparently somewhat less sophisticated) laziness as in Haskell, or the memoisation/caching done by the Nix package manager, or (perhaps…

This looks interesting. I'm open to replacing my current (actually quite rudimentary) "capture to org-mode" setup. Is there any way to dump all/important parts of the information M…

I find it profoundly unsatisfying, but this may be a good starting point for further exploration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-overlapping_magisteria

It is a thing, and there's evidence for it in certain academic fields. [0] studies this effect in economics, and this would be reason to expect similar things in other fields like …

Flagged. This breaks the Show HN rules: OP is not the creator of this. I know the author; they shared it privately with friends and weren't ready to post this publicly yet.

This was posted elsewhere on this page: http://www.seilevel.com/requirements/visual-models-save-live...

Quick note that may be of interest: S² is the mathematical notation for the "2-sphere", aka what we call a sphere in everyday language. I suppose that's explained by this: > A uniq…

> Physiological values are complex in paediatrics. They are more than complicated because although there are published ‘normal values’ which will guide the clinician in knowing whe…

I mean, if a piano (or something closer to a Tonnetz[0] layout) is okay, why not a full organ with >1 keyboard and pedals? :) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz

> Because the two NUMA nodes are ~entirely independent, it's capable of running two independent processes at full speed. I don't understand. From my (admittedly little better than …

Cavafy's The Satrapy , mentioned in the article (and a poem I love very much myself): http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=60

Alexander Grothendieck, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, on cognitive "facility" and giftedness: Since then I’ve had the chance in the world of mathe…

Most sperm, too, are beaten to it by others

Partly PR (like everything he does) and such unflattering things, but also partly an exercise of the ability (read "ubiquitous nerd dream" if you like) of thinking up outrageous so…

> like a thunderstorm formed from two opposing weather fronts, the physicality of outside Prineville air met the everywhere-ness of inside space in an impossible, non-Euclidean int…

Haskell has one of my favourite C FFIs, and there are also libraries that let you seamlessly mix C into Haskell expressions: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/inline-c-0.6.1.0#rea…

Erm, the link in 3. leads to http://zoziapps.ch/web-subscriber/ -- which just seems like a bunch of body text with no links in it.

Alternatively, "If I take a FLAC you own, make a 320kbps MP3 from it, and store it on my laptop, am I still in possession of any IP belonging to you?"

A good set of Haskell bindings to the TensorFlow library: https://github.com/tensorflow/haskell

This is a nifty thing made possible by the MonadFail class, which defines how a monad treats or recovers from a failed pattern-match. When a value is bound in do-notation, the patt…