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Spinoza understood thought and extension were unified. A change in extension is a change in thought and vv.

I found this paper a while ago and have it on my list of things to model: http://arep.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Chen99.pdf . Ultimately, we could have a full gene-expression-as-a-dynamic…

Hi HN. I'm a relatively new coder so I have only just begun to play around with more sophisticated issues like running code on clusters, networking (ports and stuff like that). I w…

This would be about 100x cooler if there was an environment you could fly through and not just empty grass.

Does anyone know an email for neuralink's office?

I'm an undergrad doing some neuroscience research; I think the existence of such tools are essential to progress. As soon as you can start doing CompBio on the web, more people (i.…

Thanks for your explanation. So what this really does is enable one to train code using machine learning techniques such as gradient descent, traversing a code-space instead of tra…

Does this only work for mathematical programs? I don't understand how this would work for more general computations, involving loops, writes to files, etc.

so what does it actually mean to differentiate a program?

This looks really interesting but I just don't understand it. Can someone with more expertise explain in layman's terms what this paper is about?

It is very important this research was shared. However, the very difficult and likely impossible part is to actually change the emotional and interpersonal ethos of society. Given …

How do we bypass cognitive limits? Can we offload rationality to our subconscious without allowing ourselves to succumb to heuristics? What are some strategies we can use for relyi…

I saw this a while ago too: http://unisonweb.org/2015-05-07/about.html#post-start

Also you can try asking this question on Quora if this HN thread and researchgate doesn't get anywhere.

I'm a college freshman now and I wish my middle and elementary school teachers were as devoted to their students as you seem to be. I would suggest going to ResearchGate.com where …

Here's a standard Topology textbook which will get you up to speed on manifolds: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers/munkres2.pdf And here's Schroedinger's Space-Time Structure w…

Parag Khanna: global connectivity and urban meccas: http://www.paragkhanna.com/

This is awesome – I've been passively looking for someone to do this and finally you have. I'll have to take a longer look at it (and respond in more breadth/depth), but great work…