There was a blog post on the significance of crocodiles in Russian culture. Mainly, that they are used as 'sensitive, educated outsider' characters. Not sure if it was on HN, though.
Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#122An article about some species of octopuses that have a relatively high IQ, but since the parents die before their offspring comes to life, every generation have to relearn everything from scratch. IIRC, the lack of inter-generational communication deprived this species from developing to the level its IQ permits. I wish I can find that piece again!
Are we learning a lot from our parents? I had highly educated parents (university professors) and what I learned from them was a tiny fraction of the total amount of things that I've learned so far (from written material, other people, and life experience). I think there's merit to what you said, but I don't think the crucial bit is the parents specifically. I think the crucial bit is that without language you can't…
I wish I could remember the book, but I originally got it because it's title was something like "Understanding and improving learning", something like that. It ended up being more about the first 10 years of life's learning rather than just learning in general. Still read it because it was interesting.
Anyways, to the point. The first few years of someone's life is proven to be crazy important. It's well confirmed when they find kids who have literally lived in the woods since babies (Jungle Book style, there's a few cases world wide of this and they are all nuts/heartbreaking) and of one case of some loony parents that locked up their kid in a room from birth with next to no interaction. Just enough to feed. Wasn't rescued until around 13 or so.
They find that those missing the first few years of a parents teaching basic social interactions, speech and motor skills through play are at a severe disadvantage. It's simply a foundation. If you have a weak structural foundation, the building will collapse. Even though that foundation is never seen by the outside world (both for buildings and metaphorically), doesn't mean it's not there and it's not vital.
A bulk of your knowledge does come from outside sources. But you can't learn calculus without knowing arithmetic. And you can't learn arithmetic without someone putting up with "What number is this?" "Twee!" "Good job!". Those sessions help accelerate your learning. Without that base, learning is probably a shallow linear line through life experiences. Because you only "learn"... ish... from what you encounter. Parental teachings give you a base that help accelerate learning from linear to something more logarithmic.
I wish I could remember the book's name. She goes into some relatively well thought out public education reform that, at the least, is a damn good start in my opinion. The woman also better explains everything I mentioned because developmental teaching is her field of expertise. My library doesn't seem to offer an online history of checked out books... which is surprising or I'm stupid and can't find it.
Maybe the TLDR to this is, the parents education process helps turn learning into a logarithmic endeavor instead of a trial/error shallow linear one.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#123I've been trying to find an email server which was mentioned in a comment a few months ago. I read through the setup instructions - the only point I remember is once it's setup one can add as many domains to it as one wants - if I remember correctly. There were several that popped up this past year, https://mailinabox.email this being one of them but I don't think it was the one I'm talking about. The setup instructi…
Was it perhaps this? https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck#wild-duck-mail-server It's had a few submissions, but no discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wildduck.email
Thanks but it wasn't that one. The one I'm talking about wasn't in beta and I would like to say one could use any DB one wanted to but that might just be wrong :)
Edit: grammar.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#124This is less one that I read, but more one that I wrote. Sometime ~mid 2012 I wrote an Ask HN looking to meet people and find co-working space in the bay area, 6 years later I find myself living here (due to folks I met via that thread). Unfortunately, it was on a separate account and I've never been able to find it
This should be helpful to finding it. It’s a search hacker news sorted by date with a few key terms. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bay%20area%20ask%20hn%20meet&s...
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#125A service that converts PDF research papers into a clean readable webpage. Their example paper was a research paper with two columns and diagrams to show their service actually works well. I searched a couple of times but couldn't find them again...
Probably this demo: http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988
I have stumbled upon this, but unfortunately, this is not it.
That was a hosted web service and it extracted the text and figures from the research paper but didn't maintain the structure. You could read it on a phone too.
I remember it didn't work on all research papers but was slowly expanding its database of supported papers. There was a place to paste the URL of a research paper to be processed.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#126A post about a startup that was trying to create an open database of algorithmic ways to treat patients. I've tried and tried to find this with HN's search engine, but can't seem to pick the right search terms.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#127Just a reminder to always upvote/favorite what you consider relevant, and you can find it later on your profile, in case you don't use an app like Pocket to consolidate everything.
I use Materialistic app for HN. Saved there many stories. Lost my mobile. Then I realized this app saves stories only locally.
Materialistic doesn't run any servers
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#128A post about a startup that was trying to create an open database of algorithmic ways to treat patients. I've tried and tried to find this with HN's search engine, but can't seem to pick the right search terms.
I am physician. Would love to work on a decision support tool...
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#129Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#130An article about some species of octopuses that have a relatively high IQ, but since the parents die before their offspring comes to life, every generation have to relearn everything from scratch. IIRC, the lack of inter-generational communication deprived this species from developing to the level its IQ permits. I wish I can find that piece again!
Not about IQ but I read somewhere about how the properties of octopus bodies (squishiness, bonelessness) form a very different understanding of the world compared to those of primates. Can't find where it was.
This isn't at all what you're looking for, but the book Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (Flusser, V. & Bec, L., 2012) might be a fun read for you.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/vampyroteuthi...