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Fans -> cool human via wind-chill [1] Air conditioning -> cool human by cooling environment [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill

'How are your Golden Insight Nuggets today?' 'I've been collecting all these great Golden Insight Nuggets.' God it's horrible. Why not just: "GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Go…

Some examples: they admit in interviews to lying to obtain votes. They propose entrapping their client's opponents by bringing girls to them, or by giving them an offer 'too good t…

Why is CA so evil? There's just been an expose: https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...

What a great quantitative evaluation of bias you just carried out.

It's actually one of the best value health care systems.. Sadly it is being made inefficient by the current government. If we are going by anecdotal evidence, the NHS has been abso…

> work for cats and dogs That could still be conditioning. > deep pressure touch improves subjective relaxation That could still be conditioning. I'm not saying it definitely is co…

> a weighted blanket can trigger an uptick in the brain’s production of serotonin Surely that could be a result of conditioning.

Going fully digital with info, verifying with blockchain is all well and good, until a malicious actor forbids/prevents people from using blockchain somehow. if you've gone fully d…

I would suggest that we shouldn't ever rely on digital archiving of important information. There should always be a copy of the information in analog, that can be dated & verified …

> if a person tries and fails and I never try; at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no? What a bizarre statement. This is a generalisation that can easily be shown t…

So far the generative models I've seen (VAEs, GANs) really just seem to morph between images.

Do you want one already very large company to be the only browser provider? That company could start to make its implementation less user friendly/less friendly to competition; but…

That is useful, thanks!

I also use Keep and agree it's not ideal. Would be nice to easily export all the notes to file. Would be even nicer if could store and make changes to notes on local filesystem and…

From the article: > The complaint is that for several months in 2011 and 2012 Google placed ad-tracking cookies on the devices of Safari users which is set by default to block such…

> We suggest that our personal awareness does not create, cause or choose our beliefs, feelings or perceptions. Instead, the contents of consciousness are generated “behind the sce…

I also thought the delivery was pretty good. But found the image quality too low to easily read the notes in the background (and would also have liked audio for the videos).

Matlab/octave

Some things I'd recommend, off the top of my head: - Do not grab phone/computer etc. and mindlessly browse first thing in the morning. (Or before bed. Or at any time really.) But d…

I'm sorry, but where is the whining? He simply said that no-one would buy his work, and that he felt he owed it to the people who kindly shared some of their lives with him to try …