I have fallen into many pits of depression over almost 20 years now, even now I am struggling to get out of a deep one. Seems this is just a cycle in my life, unfortunately. You can't logic yourself out of beliefs, I…
Probably wise. Also relatable, I have tons of old notes of ideas at some point I thought were potentially profound, only to realize they were half-baked and/or already explored. I'm still waiting on my "new kind of…
How have I misrepresented it by saying it is as effective as a self-help book? The thing about therapy, is that you usually want benefits to last for a duration that makes the effort put in worthwhile. >Only four…
Speaking from experience, you analysis is spot on and this is a very common coping method in social work as well. It is done because otherwise in the 9/10 cases where things do not improve, you feel you have failed.…
I mean... I don't agree with "harmed," the author's tone, or the title alleging some sort of coverup, but otherwise, Yeah, of course. If you look at a longitudinal, high-quality trial (or meta-analysis, since you'd be…
Serious question -- How do you nominate someone for a Turing award?
So what would you suggest to replace it? Obviously there needs to be some federal law enforcement agency... And as much as their past has portions that are super fucked up, wasn't that also a reflection of American…
Oh wow, summit.news! Those other headlines are stellar, be sure to give them a look. What's next for HN, Breitbart? I love the topic too, a comedian whining about "cancel culture." So great. Sparks joy. Definitely not a…
I'm far from an expert in this subject but doesn't this ranking of large text compression algorithms with NNCP coming first suggest that neural-nets are pretty great at compression? http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html…
Fork yeah, that's very exciting, thank you for the info. I'm not a Rustacean but these memory related CVEs need to stop. Any small steps toward a memory safe(r) OS is good news to me!
I'm talking about both. When I was comparing them to competitors like Symbolab I was using the Alexa ranking for alpha. I find it faster and more accurate to use a specific package in an interpreter than query Wolfram…
Nobody should try anything new in the DE space because more mature things have been established with far more engineering hours? That's odd to me. You don't think they'll look at the design and learn from the advances…
Oh man, I just did a thesis on using a memory safe language like Rust for the kernel. The consensus in research was that Rust is extremely promising for designing a next gen memory safe OS. Some data structures are…
Thank you! I am trying to argue with myself more. Partly because I can be a bit of an opinionated know-it-all which is unpleasant and very foolish! Also I think about how young we are as a species that uses the…
It's still around but I imagine it is experiencing a bunch of competitors biting chunks out of it. A lot more people can script now, so open source packages of computer algebra systems (Sage, numpy, scipy etc.) Probably…
Hmm, I think it's dangerous territory to use disbelief or skepticism of personality disorders as a potential diagnostic criteria. There are a lot of incongruities in research surrounding them that psychology fails to…
Devil's advocate: From an evolutionary perspective, our bodies were designed as mere vessels to propagate our genes. They were not designed to survive 7-8 decades regardless of diet, because by this time reproductive…
I like to fast for a couple days, simply because I find it helps a lot with mental clarity. However, I think you make a good point. Fasting absolutely can have downsides. The link in the comment you are replying to, for…
Initially I thought that the reason for this would be that most people with transplants live less than 10 years, and eligibility requirements of who gets transplants (and therefore who gets calcineurin inhibitors) might…
Working in the trades the guys that yelled and blew their fuses constantly were always clearly in over their heads and were failing to cope with the stress. I'm fond of the term "Mantrum" to describe the behavior.…
Indulge me with an odd potential counter-point though. What if human knowledge is fundamentally both more inductive and collectivist than we care to admit? After all, Hume's problem of induction (that deductive…
>"Perhaps the best defense against epidemics like this one lies in choosing to look more closely and more sympathetically at the people in those hoods—to put a higher priority on community than we’ve done in recent…
I really appreciated this, thanks. Here's a nod back.
When I was younger I was a big fan of existentialism. "Life has no prescribed inherent meaning, it is whatever you want it to be!" seemed very freeing. Then I suffered a disability and came upon the realization similar…
This is the best guide I’ve found: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a50/1230517/ Goes into depth debunking most of the conspiracies I've heard of. My best ELI5 for the one you are asking about: Does a bar of…
I have fallen into many pits of depression over almost 20 years now, even now I am struggling to get out of a deep one. Seems this is just a cycle in my life, unfortunately. You can't logic yourself out of beliefs, I…
Probably wise. Also relatable, I have tons of old notes of ideas at some point I thought were potentially profound, only to realize they were half-baked and/or already explored. I'm still waiting on my "new kind of…
How have I misrepresented it by saying it is as effective as a self-help book? The thing about therapy, is that you usually want benefits to last for a duration that makes the effort put in worthwhile. >Only four…
Speaking from experience, you analysis is spot on and this is a very common coping method in social work as well. It is done because otherwise in the 9/10 cases where things do not improve, you feel you have failed.…
I mean... I don't agree with "harmed," the author's tone, or the title alleging some sort of coverup, but otherwise, Yeah, of course. If you look at a longitudinal, high-quality trial (or meta-analysis, since you'd be…
Serious question -- How do you nominate someone for a Turing award?
So what would you suggest to replace it? Obviously there needs to be some federal law enforcement agency... And as much as their past has portions that are super fucked up, wasn't that also a reflection of American…
Oh wow, summit.news! Those other headlines are stellar, be sure to give them a look. What's next for HN, Breitbart? I love the topic too, a comedian whining about "cancel culture." So great. Sparks joy. Definitely not a…
I'm far from an expert in this subject but doesn't this ranking of large text compression algorithms with NNCP coming first suggest that neural-nets are pretty great at compression? http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html…
Fork yeah, that's very exciting, thank you for the info. I'm not a Rustacean but these memory related CVEs need to stop. Any small steps toward a memory safe(r) OS is good news to me!
I'm talking about both. When I was comparing them to competitors like Symbolab I was using the Alexa ranking for alpha. I find it faster and more accurate to use a specific package in an interpreter than query Wolfram…
Nobody should try anything new in the DE space because more mature things have been established with far more engineering hours? That's odd to me. You don't think they'll look at the design and learn from the advances…
Oh man, I just did a thesis on using a memory safe language like Rust for the kernel. The consensus in research was that Rust is extremely promising for designing a next gen memory safe OS. Some data structures are…
Thank you! I am trying to argue with myself more. Partly because I can be a bit of an opinionated know-it-all which is unpleasant and very foolish! Also I think about how young we are as a species that uses the…
It's still around but I imagine it is experiencing a bunch of competitors biting chunks out of it. A lot more people can script now, so open source packages of computer algebra systems (Sage, numpy, scipy etc.) Probably…
Hmm, I think it's dangerous territory to use disbelief or skepticism of personality disorders as a potential diagnostic criteria. There are a lot of incongruities in research surrounding them that psychology fails to…
Devil's advocate: From an evolutionary perspective, our bodies were designed as mere vessels to propagate our genes. They were not designed to survive 7-8 decades regardless of diet, because by this time reproductive…
I like to fast for a couple days, simply because I find it helps a lot with mental clarity. However, I think you make a good point. Fasting absolutely can have downsides. The link in the comment you are replying to, for…
Initially I thought that the reason for this would be that most people with transplants live less than 10 years, and eligibility requirements of who gets transplants (and therefore who gets calcineurin inhibitors) might…
Working in the trades the guys that yelled and blew their fuses constantly were always clearly in over their heads and were failing to cope with the stress. I'm fond of the term "Mantrum" to describe the behavior.…
Indulge me with an odd potential counter-point though. What if human knowledge is fundamentally both more inductive and collectivist than we care to admit? After all, Hume's problem of induction (that deductive…
>"Perhaps the best defense against epidemics like this one lies in choosing to look more closely and more sympathetically at the people in those hoods—to put a higher priority on community than we’ve done in recent…
I really appreciated this, thanks. Here's a nod back.
When I was younger I was a big fan of existentialism. "Life has no prescribed inherent meaning, it is whatever you want it to be!" seemed very freeing. Then I suffered a disability and came upon the realization similar…
This is the best guide I’ve found: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a50/1230517/ Goes into depth debunking most of the conspiracies I've heard of. My best ELI5 for the one you are asking about: Does a bar of…