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There's two posts on HN tonight, lemme be incendiary: Right now a magical being appears before you and lets you know if you can give up one of beef or coffee, that the world will be saved. Do you pick one? Which?
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Not necessarily. Suppose, for simplicity, that we have equal number N of coffee drinkers and non coffee drinkers, for total of 2N. Suppose you try your model on them, and tell which is which based on their MRI 80% of the time. Let’s assume the null hypothesis is that you model doesn’t work, and you just were randomly lucky. If N = 5, that’s 8 successes in 10 Bernoulli trials, that’s already p value of 0.01. With N=25…
Your math is whack. 8/10 coin flips being a 1% chance?
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How much better is homemade bread compared to hearty 12 grain bread at the store?
Nothing tastes better than bread freshly baked. Using a bread machine is stupid simple. Dump the ingredients in, push the button, and come back in a couple hours. You don't even have to clean it (the bread falls off the non-stick surface).
it's been a while since I had one. The only problem was the big hole left by the paddle in the middle of the loaf. I wonder if there are versions that eliminate that now?
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Well covid wouldn’t be expected to increase coffee consumption so the supply was ok. As someone into baking before all this- the amount of 5lb flour sacks and tiny yeast packets for $1.50 is there only to satisfy only frivolous occasional bakers. How do I know? Because it you were serious about baking you would buy this yeast and flour for pennies on the dollar in bulk at somewhere like Costco.
I still use a bread machine bought 20 years ago. It's an engineering marvel, and what the yeast is for. But it makes me sad to see BMs dumped at the thrift store for a few dollars. BMs are perfect for no-talent, lazy, frivolous bakers like me. I also like bread that doesn't taste like cake. If I wanted cake, I'd buy cake.
Smell of baking bread and its extraordinary taste just conspire against you if you attempt portion control. I can control my portions pretty well otherwise, but not when tempted so much.
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> Drink it black, and get used to it. If you're going to end your advice with "get used to it", do you really need everything that came before?
it does take some time to learn the appreciation - like spicy foods. Drinking it black means you taste the full flavour without the bitterness being masked by milk or sugar. But for me personally, drinking esspresso without milk is only good if the beans are excellent, and brewed to perfection by a proper barista (a level of skill i have yet to truly attain - that's why i buy my esspresso instead of making it myself)…
For example, I used to have these shitty speakers, but I'd enjoy music very much all the same. Then, I got great speakers, and could hear all the nuances, but I enjoyed music the same amount, the only difference is that I now needed expensive speakers to do it.
From then on, I decided that ignorance in these matters is usually bliss, and avoid (for example) looking at OLED TVs as the blacks on my TV don't bother me, but they would start to if I bought an OLED TV and I could never go back.
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Well covid wouldn’t be expected to increase coffee consumption so the supply was ok. As someone into baking before all this- the amount of 5lb flour sacks and tiny yeast packets for $1.50 is there only to satisfy only frivolous occasional bakers. How do I know? Because it you were serious about baking you would buy this yeast and flour for pennies on the dollar in bulk at somewhere like Costco.
These frivolous bakers would love to become serious bakers. The shortage of baking ingredients caused by the shutdown just means that people really like to bake if they have the time and energy.
Multi-day breads were easy to time. I could schedule meetings around complex timing or steps if I had to.
Eating more meals at home meant more lunch and breakfast with delicious fresh bread.
The whole world (or at least a lot of mine) having a shared baking experience meant I could converse with many friends about a hobby I enjoyed but no one else I knew was into. Suddenly I could give helpful tips when people posted their frustrations or questions online. Like an earlier comment, I already had ingredients in bulk, so it also meant I could share with people who needed some.
Coffee is the best drink ever, but how do we get it to taste as good as it smells?
If you're genuinely curious, James Hoffman on YouTube is the coffee wizard. All his videos are interesting, even if you couldn't care less about coffee!
Can someone translate this to lay terms?
Well, I’m not really qualified, but reading the abstract, they took a bunch of pictures of the brains of a small group of people, did some stats analysis where it is all linked, and the pictures seem to suggest that the CD group might feel less, be worse at processing whatever it is they do feel and suck more at moving parts of their body compared to the NCD group because all the feely parts and some of the movey-lim…
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Nothing tastes better than bread freshly baked. Using a bread machine is stupid simple. Dump the ingredients in, push the button, and come back in a couple hours. You don't even have to clean it (the bread falls off the non-stick surface).
Nothing SMELLS better than having a bread machine around. it's been a while since I had one. The only problem was the big hole left by the paddle in the middle of the loaf. I wonder if there are versions that eliminate that now?
Mine looks similar to this and the paddle's radius is exactly 5cm: https://makebestbread.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/oster-b...
There's two posts on HN tonight, lemme be incendiary: Right now a magical being appears before you and lets you know if you can give up one of beef or coffee, that the world will be saved. Do you pick one? Which?
Does the magical being still want to go through with the offer?
