HN user

Epokhe

24 karma
Posts0
Comments21
View on HN
No posts found.

Was your mother a late bilingual? From this paper [1], we know that for late bilinguals, regions for each language are spatially separated in Broca's area. Broca's area is responsible for speaking, while language understanding is attributed to Wernicke's area*. It's possible that the stroke affected only the part of the Broca's region responsible for English speaking. And since language understanding is handled by another region, it wasn't affected.

*For completeness, according to current neurolinguistic models it's more complex than that, more brain regions are actually responsible for speech/understanding.

[1] http://www.nature.com/articles/40623

Yeah, makes sense that it's popular. I just thought you were making a joke by creating a similar looking issue with a different underlying reason.

In Go example the issue happens because item variable is per-loop, in your python example the issue is not related to loops at all, it's just because functions capture the value of global variables at execution time.

And the cherry on top is that the solution is also similar looking(i=i), but working with a different mechanic underneath(default argument assignment).

Anyway, this was my perspective that led me to interpret this as satire. A bit disappointed haha

I also thought about just using search. But trending topics let me know if something important is happening when I'm not aware. I still think it's valuable at times, while I also think it may be spammy and should be improved.

I think its low signal to noise ratio makes you ignore it, which is bad. But I think instead of just removing it, spams should be prevented more effectively. Because I know "trending" concept is useful when it works. HN, Reddit and some other aggregator sites have homepages with trending content, of course with varying degree of success.

I don't use trending topics in ordinary days. It helps me a lot when something important happened recently.

An important political speech, a big earthquake, bombing... For this kind of situations, Twitter trending topics help a lot, because it provides you the most up-to-date source of news.

When critical situations happen, your priority is getting the news live. Correctness, officialness are less important. I don't know a better way to get that kind of news other than trending topics.

What I Worked On 5 years ago

Prevent your success from spoiling your kids. Your kids probably are not jealous of anything they see because you provide them anything they want. I think a parent should think and figure out how to create a challenging environment for their kids. Not just artificial challenge like games. Real challenge that will shape(and I think improve) their personality.

I'm not a parent so I can't give concrete advise, just sharing my thoughts.

Sorry if that came across that way. I just found your first reply unnecessary.

I think each take is useful, no matter how opinionated they are. I understand your point though, I also wouldn't want every comment in the thread being neutral. Knowing HN, I think we're doing fine :)

It’s also interesting that you’re so worried by this comment. I found some value in the original comment because it highlighted a software company is doing it. Just relax.

Notice that the given prompt has an error as well, "GPT-3 on Philosphers by GTP-3", missing an "o" from "philosophers". Seeing the prompt, it may have adjusted itself to be more prone to make errors.

Spying on HTTPS 7 years ago

Well, your(and my) parents would download an .exe file to play Farmville and run it with admin privileges by clicking yes on the user account control popup. So, maybe a web browser is not the safest place for parents...

More on Dota 2 9 years ago

it does. the bot can be defeated easily with tactics it didn't encounter while playing with itself.

Just want to point out that majority of Turks in Germany(and some other EU states) are labourer immigrants that went there during 1960-1980. If you take United States instead where the Turks living there belong to a more elite class, you will see significantly more no vote. It seems expats are divided in terms of world view according to where they live.