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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Crystal Pepsi

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www.genome.gov 7y ago

Plumeting Costs of Genome Sequencing

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Graceful Labeling

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youtu.be 8y ago

7 ways to draw an ellipse [video]

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Cognitive Shift

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: what are societal implications of replicating/digitizing the brain?

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github.com 8y ago

Listing of Hosts Files

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trends.google.com 8y ago

Google Trends query: 'shorting Bitcoin'

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www.seriouseats.com 8y ago

A Social History of Jello Salad

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en.wikibooks.org 8y ago

Language Learning Difficulty for English Speakers

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www.algorithm-archive.org 8y ago

Algorithm Archive

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Kardashev Scale

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www.codercommunities.com 8y ago

A Listing of Online Coder Communities

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

World Epidemics Timelapse (431 BC to 1740 AD)

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Quantum Supremacy

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists

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www.cs.cmu.edu 8y ago

A general technique for automating NES games (2013)

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Human Development Index

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What companies you know are most true to their mission statement?

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Using Wikipedia for Mathematics Self-Study

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Counterculture

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Magic, Art, and Scanimation (2014) [video]

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Combinatorial Game Theory

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english.stackexchange.com 8y ago

plotting Y against X

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Andromeda-Milky Way collision

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plus.maths.org 8y ago

The Two Envelopes Problem

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ericphanson.com 8y ago

Traveling Salesman in 10 Lines of Python

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mortada.net 8y ago

The Traveling Tesla Salesman

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Comparison of Programming Languages Syntax

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

How Computers Add Numbers

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So they help people part with their money. Then, if I was an advertiser, I'd put my money elsewhere:

For example, while Google users click on the first advertisement for search results an average of 8% of the time (80,000 clicks for every one million searches), Facebook's users click on advertisements an average of 0.04% of the time (400 clicks for every one million pages).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

The Human Genome Project (HGP) was one of the great feats of exploration in history - an inward voyage of discovery rather than an outward exploration of the planet or the cosmos; an international research effort to sequence and map all of the genes - together known as the genome - of members of our species, Homo sapiens. Completed in April 2003, the HGP gave us the ability, for the first time, to read nature's complete genetic blueprint for building a human being.

Leading causes of death in the US :

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php

#1 is heart disease

Causes: excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, no regular exercise, stress

I could be wrong but no exercise seems to be the main culprit based on what the disease actually is. Given that coffee increases your heart rate may suggest a causal link.

Edit: Link to the actual study from the article https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl... the comments are worth a look.

A given problem, such as the integral we just computed, may appear to be intractable on its own. However, by stepping back and considering the problem not in isolation but as an individual member of an entire class of related problems, we can discern facts that were previously hidden from us.

A professor put it this way: "the more you assume, the more you can prove"

No, you see, the article author is playing a supergame which is won by finding a play-to-lose version of a game. The parent commenter is simply playing the play-to-lose version of that supergame.

Cats are smart enough to communicate with humans, I have no doubt of that. N=2, but once I had a cat that woke me up at night to point out a possum had entered the house and was hiding under a piece of furniture, and once I had one which (different house) gestured me to follow him in the chase after shooing away the intruder cat that kept stealing its food.

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" -GBS

It's a bit sad we can't yet fully communicate with other life here effectively. I wonder what ethical implications it would have if we ever got there. An analogy to the current state may be that of a man from another language trying to ask for directions to an autistic kid.

What does it mean to understand?

Maybe I'm just paranoid

This common saying.

I'd rather be paranoid and informed than blissfully ignorant. But a person can only process so much while carrying on with their lives.

The jewel beetle attempts to mate with an amber glass bottle it finds attractive until it dies from exhaustion.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/t...

We increasingly manufacture our own deception. Deep fakes, targeted advertising, you name it. We are both the beetle and bottle designers. It is definitely worth thinking about.

It's much easier to design glass bottles than to save beetles from the best and worst time of their lives.

Now, as crafty bottle designer, think of all the stuff you could do, given the necessary resources.

Ambiguous

- is used to exclude results

* is a wildcard

There's other search options i.e. for date ranges, "inurl:", "filetype:", and looking for exact string matches using quotes. But sometimes they don't work as well. Try:

  "define:-2*2"

  "2 * -2 * +2"