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Is it really that easy for religious folks to dismiss though? If someone believes consciousness arises from a non-physical spirit through an unknown mechanism; then it seems diffic…

Sorry for the off topic reply, but I saw your post "Ask HN: Variable naming guide of matching length?" when looking for the same thing and couldn't find a way to contact you on you…

Not an American but similar view of GWB. However... I feel leaders should be judged by the direction they tried to move things; and the Bush Administration did not move the USA in …

Wow, this is exactly what I'm looking for, thanks so much for developing it. I'm going to give it a shot over the holidays, have a pretty big home assistant install I'd love to con…

I also find moving hand to mouse is a really frustrating context switch, so I ended up getting a roller mouse ( https://www.contourdesign.com/product/rollermouse-red/ ) to use alon…

Thanks for sharing the story, that's an interesting window into their personality. Do you think they were completely serious, some a long running joke or a bit of both? Also if you…

Could you give a one sentence summary makes them awesome?

Agree with everything you said, especially on the challenge of recommendations and feel this is where those designing the recommendation engines have at least the same moral respon…

You can get a referral to a psychiatrist from a doctor who will get you to fill a number of multi choice forms and look at your past school reports to form a diagnosis. This may be…

Outside of speculation and hype; is there currently much demand for bitcoin as a currency outside of industries that operate in a legal grey area?

Get tested for ADHD if you haven't already. Most people think ADHD means hyperactive children but its more an attention disorder where it can be very difficult to get things done i…

There is the "whole food plant based" diet, see Dr Greger's "How Not to Die" and "daily dozen". I found it compelling and switched, feeling healthier and lost around 20kg in 6 mont…

Interesting idea! I'm not an expert, but if I'm reading you right and the decompressor is Turing complete; you're searching for the smallest Turing machine capable of generating th…

I'd totally take that, assuming reasonable convenience and cost.

I'd be keen for a service that made a nice pdf for reading on an e-reader, but a physical book just feels wasteful. Exploring a pocket to pdf to kindle pipeline is on my todolist u…

I've been looking to get my feet wet with SAT and/or SMT solvers; can anyone recommend any short courses that I could start with to get a practical feel where where & how to use th…

Thanks for the reference, from a quick read it seems LogitBoost is a booster for ensembling models under a logistic loss. I meant that the splitting point in a node in the decision…

This is really interesting, thanks for sharing! I've been thinking about extensions to decision tree models that could get the benefits of NNs and it seems like there are a few ide…

I wish there were more options to control tab priority and UI latency in firefox. I have a respectable (2x8 core xeon, 164gb ram) workstation running linux and I have many tabs/win…

Yeah definitely, I'd stick a few around the house if it was easy to create a nice dashboard from multiple data sources. Current top tasks on to-do list, habbitrpg overview, last ni…

Congrats on the launch! Its hard for us with a very mixed tech stack to realise something like this. I've started thinking about using VNC to share Autodesk Sketchbook from my Surf…

This looks really good, I've been going down the rabbit hole of optimising focus and killing distractions... Is there any chance we could get it to make a rest API call on certain …

I suspect we'll see causal techniques start merging with more traditional AI/ML tools over the coming years. Causal forests are an example that extends random forests, but I imagin…

Just wanted to chime in and say never is a big word in tech, VR/AR might be good enough in 1-2 decades to provide 99% of the benefit of a shared office environment. That said, I ca…

On a related note, I've been looking for a way of transparently tunnelling all internet traffic through a vps using KCP to improve an unreliable 4G connection and would appreciate …