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This might be overly pragmatic and underthinking things, but what worked very well for me personally is to make an account on meetup.com and go to random events (but of course thin…

There is some evidence, mostly fMRI-based as far as I'm aware, of slow (~10s period) fluctuations between functional coupling of brain regions on a macroscopic level. The associate…

I recently (2021) saw a TV ad on a Russian-language channel for noopept, during a visit to Moldova. It included a slow-motion happy family. Looks like it's gone mainstream by now (…

I find this sentiment rather unsettling. Who am I to deny someone else their fun in life? There is a Dutch retort to this kind of condescending remark: "who are you, the pope"? Las…

A brilliant tool I once worked with is TetGen; it takes a hollow 3D shape and creates a volumetric, space-filling mesh of the inside using tetrahedra. Most of what is TetGen is in …

Just my 2¢: I'm also using plain text files as a 'mind-dump'/exocortex/organsation system. After a while, the file tends to get rather big, and so I need some coarse hierarchical l…

What happens when we take this concept into the third dimension—could we assemble these modular blocks into a mass of computronium? Perhaps slightly more realistically speaking, co…

This seems silly for another reason: these fish are genetically engineered to be fluorescent, which means that if you shine light on them at one frequency (typically UV-A light), t…

I seem to be the only one with this opinion in this thread, so perhaps I'm misguided, but the reason I'm tired of these cookie permission pop-ups is that they strike me as security…

> Scientists have believed for a long time that severe damage to the visual cortex in the left side of your brain will leave you unable to see out of your right eye, assuming that …