Viewing profile — nomadpenguin

It's a genuinely fascist tendency. Only the elite few are "real people" who think. Everyone else is irrelevant, democracy is a failed experiment, wealth = worth, etc etc etc

Yeah, this smells very fishy to me. It's almost trivially easy to gather a small validation dataset in humans for the paper. At my institution, it's about $800 an hour to scan some…

For me, the biggest AI writing tell (other than the blatantly obvious ones) is an unnatural consistency in style, whatever style that may be. It's most apparent in longer pieces, a…

The Cincinnati Zoo covered all their parking lots with solar panels last year. Your car stays cool in the summer, and there's motion activated lighting under the panels after dark.…

"Genetically encoded" is the appropriate term here -- it was used in the original journal article. It's a common industry term in neuroscience research. For example, GEVIs and GECI…

> I have over 14 years of education in developed countries, and out of those, maybe 1 year combined meaningfully helped me in my jobs/career in terms of skills. I think you're unde…

I believe Macrofactor has had these features for quite a while now.

I think Buddhism still (arguably rightly) doesn't sit entirely well with non-religious Westerners. I have studied with a Zen Sangha and transmitted teachers on and off for a bit an…

There are specialized architectures (the Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine)* that are able to complete this kind of task. Interestingly, once trained, their activations look strikingly sim…

As Freud said, there is no negation in the unconscious.

He also believes that he can remember full memories from when he was 3 months old. There is no evidence that this is possible.

How are you handling scheduling with FSRS? The challenge that I quickly saw was that it was difficult to figure out when you should advance a segment of information. If you get 80%…

Poor generalization (overtraining on prompts) and loss of context over time are the biggest issues I've found with them. Slow card creation workflows and needing to rate your own r…

Yes, that is true. I phrased that badly -- it's more that we didn't take the evolutionary branch where we retain the fetal hemoglobin because it is maladaptive in adults.

High affinity RBCs would actually be a disadvantage for athletics. You actually don't need very high affinity to pick up oxygen from the lungs -- your lungs are comparatively extre…

This is correct, it's called empiric treatment. If a patient comes in with altered mental status and neck rigidity, you don't have time to take a lumbar puncture and culture bacter…

You're using two en dashes to approximate it -- few people have the en dash character on hand.

> No amount of willpower or happy thoughts will cause your hormones or neurotransmitter levels into the homeostasis you want. Behavioral-only therapies are effective, even if they'…

What do you mean by loopable mindmap? What software do you use for this?

Which is itself a major risk factor for dementia (and strokes)

That would suck. I want to see something I haven't seen before.

The catch with deep brain stimulation currently is that it's only SOTA for implanted electrodes, meaning it's incredibly expensive, and while DBS implantation is very safe for a br…

Why do you think Tantacrul is seedy? I've watched a couple of his videos and thought they were entertaining; does he have a history of doing shady things?

I think there's a huge division in toxicity between wet bench and computational/dry lab work. If your math PhD friends go on a wild goose chase or slack off for a few weeks, the on…