"As I lay there musing in the brisk darkness, I suddenly sensed a tightening inside me. It was as if I was being ever so gently wound. Then quickly, the pressure intensified, and I breathed in rapid-fire staccato and…
I think Co-star is fascinating for this reason because it's not so much the science of belief but the charisma of truth. People like it mostly because it's kind of sassy. For the most part, sun-moon-rising offers a…
I read a paper once about an ancient tribe of hunters who had exhausted the local fauna and consulted the wisdom of the spirits through an oracle bone ceremony for the next bounty. In essence, the oracle bone would give…
edit: I deleted most of my comment. I don't think it added anything substantial to the conversation. I will point out that this seems like plagiarism. "...the retina is actually an extension of the brain, formed…
4-5 cups seems about right. I typically ingest about 8 cups of coffee throughout the day. That's a close-to-full pot of coffee for me. As some have mentioned, "cups" the measurement does not necessarily equate to "cup"…
Should this be posted automatically two weeks prior to the first? I am being entirely serious, I always find these threads helpful.
This may sound obvious and pedantic but by practicing it. Getting yourself in someone's head is something you should return to casually, formally in various contexts and subtexts. I like to use this one: "What part of…
Von Neumann outlined two rules. 1) Self-reproduction 2) Simulation of a Turing machine I have seen other summaries of this description as replacing step 2 with "mutation" or using simulation of a Turing machine as being…
You may consider the Cold War a real world usage for ordinary people: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2016/09/09/mutually-assur...
It took me a month to finish a full game for my AP European History class in High School. Easily the best board game I have ever played. It inspired me to actually pursue a path in diplomacy and international relations…
Perhaps you've heard of the "Butterfly Effect" but not a formal definition of the term. For the issue of predicting weather, the model of weather is "sensitive". The observation metaphor of the "butterfly effect" is…
One of my early childhood memories was crayfishing. You can pretty much put anything on a string and these things will bite onto it. They are not picky. It's not even really fishing, it's almost as easy as just grabbing…
I tried looking up more information about this: https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Mommy_and_I_are_one "According to studies that determine the subconscious mind's ability to absorb subliminal messages, the subliminal…
Few observations: Cicada groups split off while they occupied glaciated territory. The Appalachia mountain range is famously, formed by glaciers. The Valley and Ridge part of Appalachia, was a major highway of…
For those who don't get the reference: There's a scene in Silicon Valley based on a story about Peter Thiel. The scene involves the idea of 'prime collision' and cicada cycles.…
Addendum: Don't just pick any prime numbers. The Babylonians devised our time system because it's highly composite or 'antiprime'. So obvious primes such as 2, 3 and 5 won't do.
For the uninitiated, hella is flexible as a quantifier and intensifier. Hella has hella meanings for hella words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella Honestly, being from the Bay Area, I'm against pegging hella to a…
If you want to record your Terminal output, here's a helpful answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396123/how-to-recor... This will let you record from your built-in microphone. If you want to record direct…
I submitted this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579216 I've been into program to music to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music If you want indiscernible lyrics:…
I saw "Love is the Message, the Message is Death" at the SFMOMA. It was the first and only time I have ever been reduced to complete sobbing in public by a piece of art.
Can't get the page to load despite disabling all of my trackers.
I talked to an Uber employee once about a "Zoolander mode" project for drivers so that it only turns right and cannot turn left. The code was pretty simple if you've ever written a maze-solving algorithm. (Hint: What…
Oh that makes a lot of sense. Somehow, I managed to permanently set my advertisements to Vietnamese, which I don't know how to change. What's weird is that Google also started doing this to me too. It gave me an idea. I…
Have you considered: One tier and one price? Make it simple. Consider this, how much time/money/effort do you want to spend incentivizing multiple tiers of payment which may or may not just stress out the user to not…
One of the replies briefly mentions coffee cup vibrations. There's a fun Numberphile episode just about this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfzNJE4CK_s By far, it is my favorite trick for impressing dining…
"As I lay there musing in the brisk darkness, I suddenly sensed a tightening inside me. It was as if I was being ever so gently wound. Then quickly, the pressure intensified, and I breathed in rapid-fire staccato and…
I think Co-star is fascinating for this reason because it's not so much the science of belief but the charisma of truth. People like it mostly because it's kind of sassy. For the most part, sun-moon-rising offers a…
I read a paper once about an ancient tribe of hunters who had exhausted the local fauna and consulted the wisdom of the spirits through an oracle bone ceremony for the next bounty. In essence, the oracle bone would give…
edit: I deleted most of my comment. I don't think it added anything substantial to the conversation. I will point out that this seems like plagiarism. "...the retina is actually an extension of the brain, formed…
4-5 cups seems about right. I typically ingest about 8 cups of coffee throughout the day. That's a close-to-full pot of coffee for me. As some have mentioned, "cups" the measurement does not necessarily equate to "cup"…
Should this be posted automatically two weeks prior to the first? I am being entirely serious, I always find these threads helpful.
This may sound obvious and pedantic but by practicing it. Getting yourself in someone's head is something you should return to casually, formally in various contexts and subtexts. I like to use this one: "What part of…
Von Neumann outlined two rules. 1) Self-reproduction 2) Simulation of a Turing machine I have seen other summaries of this description as replacing step 2 with "mutation" or using simulation of a Turing machine as being…
You may consider the Cold War a real world usage for ordinary people: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2016/09/09/mutually-assur...
It took me a month to finish a full game for my AP European History class in High School. Easily the best board game I have ever played. It inspired me to actually pursue a path in diplomacy and international relations…
Perhaps you've heard of the "Butterfly Effect" but not a formal definition of the term. For the issue of predicting weather, the model of weather is "sensitive". The observation metaphor of the "butterfly effect" is…
One of my early childhood memories was crayfishing. You can pretty much put anything on a string and these things will bite onto it. They are not picky. It's not even really fishing, it's almost as easy as just grabbing…
I tried looking up more information about this: https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Mommy_and_I_are_one "According to studies that determine the subconscious mind's ability to absorb subliminal messages, the subliminal…
Few observations: Cicada groups split off while they occupied glaciated territory. The Appalachia mountain range is famously, formed by glaciers. The Valley and Ridge part of Appalachia, was a major highway of…
For those who don't get the reference: There's a scene in Silicon Valley based on a story about Peter Thiel. The scene involves the idea of 'prime collision' and cicada cycles.…
Addendum: Don't just pick any prime numbers. The Babylonians devised our time system because it's highly composite or 'antiprime'. So obvious primes such as 2, 3 and 5 won't do.
For the uninitiated, hella is flexible as a quantifier and intensifier. Hella has hella meanings for hella words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella Honestly, being from the Bay Area, I'm against pegging hella to a…
If you want to record your Terminal output, here's a helpful answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396123/how-to-recor... This will let you record from your built-in microphone. If you want to record direct…
I submitted this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579216 I've been into program to music to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music If you want indiscernible lyrics:…
I saw "Love is the Message, the Message is Death" at the SFMOMA. It was the first and only time I have ever been reduced to complete sobbing in public by a piece of art.
Can't get the page to load despite disabling all of my trackers.
I talked to an Uber employee once about a "Zoolander mode" project for drivers so that it only turns right and cannot turn left. The code was pretty simple if you've ever written a maze-solving algorithm. (Hint: What…
Oh that makes a lot of sense. Somehow, I managed to permanently set my advertisements to Vietnamese, which I don't know how to change. What's weird is that Google also started doing this to me too. It gave me an idea. I…
Have you considered: One tier and one price? Make it simple. Consider this, how much time/money/effort do you want to spend incentivizing multiple tiers of payment which may or may not just stress out the user to not…
One of the replies briefly mentions coffee cup vibrations. There's a fun Numberphile episode just about this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfzNJE4CK_s By far, it is my favorite trick for impressing dining…