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Is the Tiger Richard Parker in Life of Pi loosely based on the man in this true story or is that a coincidence?

My brother in law experimented with this camera a few years back on family portraits. The camera picks up a lot of "dark" details. Skin displays pale and veins are very defined. My nieces called it "the vampire camera".

Our expression of grief is probably a result of a mutation that altered the structure of our amygdala so that fear controls brain chemistry less than our primate ancestor. When an animal is in fear, chemical reactions desensitize and suppress brain activity involved in emotional expression to protect the self from being perceived as weak and dedicate brain energy to motor functions.

Looking at tears and the neurological development from genetics through adulthood would be a great way to understand what makes us human.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871162/#!po=29...

I really like the introduction of "cost". Have you considered having a multi-variable time decay distribution function for all learning so that the agents need to reinforce every lesson?

Our brains forget over time because energy is limited and new connections take energy from older memories. So you could introduce a global set energy variable that is the ultimate denominator.

Lastly, have you considered connecting your agents in a one to one public channel where a person interacts with an agent that asks the person about "meaning of objects" and collects opinions from people to create it's own opinion?

I'm working on this right now with a few. I would love to see more contributors to that idea.

Speaking of Bell's inequality, according to Erik Verlinde's theory on emergent gravity, gravity is an emergent force from the supersymmetry relationship of fundamental particles across the entirety of space and time. Each particle was encoded with a quantum memory state before a thermal energy source disrupted the tiny space and separated the paired particles across the galaxy. If this is true, I believe the observed violation of Bell's inequality could be explained by this pre space-time deterministic relationship that causes the force of gravity to emerge.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02269.pdf

I was not involved with Soylent when that event happened. Soylent and I parted at the end of April 2016.

Thank you! Fixed.

I got to 15,000 words and realized that the post was getting to be a 30 minute read. So I decided to split it up into 10 minute reads of how I made it, what it did to me (the results of the experiment), and the details of the neuro-pharmacokinetics of each molecule.

Sourcing material involved cold calling hemp farms and nutraceutical formulators and obtaining certificate of analysis for their ingredients then sending them off to a third party lab to run through an Hplc to confirm the results. The lab I used is called steep hill labs. Hope this helps.

I really appreciate your feedback. Going forward I will be sure to include more useful details.

I said struggle. I meant that to mean a challenge that can be overcome.

In modern society we forget that math is a language, just like spoken language, because it is taught with an emphasis on the physical. Women are better at learning languages than men so why should they be worse at math? The answer is because men's struggle to grasp abstract concepts like language and emotion and their firm nature boxed math into the visual/auditory dimension instead of an abstract/spiritual dimension.

You must rethink how you think about math fundamentally. This video and paper are like poetry - short but demanding. Watch this video and read the paper. Really think about it in your own way, don't try to force your mind into an unnatural construction.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0yfvm0UoU

Get rid of drag and drop and arrange the grid either LIFO or FIFO instead. Let users rearrange the notes after creation. This promotes getting a thought down without distraction while preserving arrangement for a reflection period. Make this awesome please.

Isaac Asimov was inspired to write "The Foundation" series after reading "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". He borrowed Constantines strategic use of Christian ideology to thwart his enemies by applying the ritualistic methods of religion to protect science in a fictional universe 50k years into the future. If you have the time, read Decline and Fall and then "The Foundation" series.

"Second, the gains in average education and health of the workforce over the last 50 years are unlikely to be repeated"

I'm cautious about arguments that rely on a pessimistic expectation that progress will reverse because it's just never continued in the past. If the argument identified some fundamental reasons why progress will slow instead of drawing historical correlations then it would have merit. Then again if we knew those principles then we could correct our society and avoid disaster. Because this argument is flawed and human knowledge and understanding is the only thing that solves human problems, the validity of the argument is lost.

I would recommend reading the selfish gene and other works by Dawkins if you are interested in theories on the functional basis of mutations in the universe.

I thought this article was going to be about the sky rocketing prices of coffee at artisan coffee shops and that a coffee bubble is upon us.

Thank you for sharing this theory. I agree with the theory that low interest rates are meant to incentivize riskier investments and can lead to runaway prices in capital asset classes that eventually must correct because they don't provide consumer value. However, based on this theory, the current actions of corporations and investors are rejecting the incentive to place riskier bets and I can't see run away prices on a capital asset on the macro us or global scale as we saw with housing from 80s to 2008. Perhaps capital allocation managers implicitly agree with the theory and taking cautionary steps to avoid the bust.

But I wonder if this fear of busts is holding back innovation. Society is helpless to progress at a faster rate because God forbid there is another bust and people lose jobs and hope about the future. I think companies are waiting with cash in hand to buy up the good deals in an expecting bust. But I would prefer to have the cash used for risky ventures and I accept the bust outcome.

Rotten tomatoes tells me if a movie is worth seeing, not if its worthy of a place in afis top 100. Yelp and others push answers to decor, service, lighting and mood above the most important question of "should I eat here?". I've seen restaurants with the shameful 3 star rating on Yelp with the top reviews complaining about a party of xx's experience in splitting a check while mentioning that the food is good. It turns out there are "3 star" restaurants that are just fine for one or two diners. I'm excited to see a binary opinion to my decision of where to eat.

We asked this question as a case study in interviews. It's interesting to see what people believe is most important to citizens and how they optimize around it. We found it takes a quality full stack systems engineer who can communicate people's needs and a rational large scale solution in 30 minutes.

63% of minimum wage workers are women:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/who-are-...

Increasing minimum wage would effectively increase the 77% number also.

I used this calculator to compute the CAGR for the S&P 500 from 1995-2015. It calculated the average annual return to be 11.5% before inflation so roughly 9% after. You are correct that 10% is difficult but you can get really close.

http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm

U.S. Manufactures have access to capital such that they extend net 30 terms. That impact on our working capital is tremendous and outweighs the percentage cost savings.

What are the credit terms that you extend to your customers?

Ah, I meant to say we do this for non-engineering roles. For engineering we provide coding challenges as a pre-screen.

We use an alternative screening process where we prompt prospective interviewees with 2 extreme customer service complaints (this product sucks, it didn't arrive on time, i hear it's poison etc.), ask them to provide an answer directed to the customer and create a plan to prevent the issue from happening in the future. It's fascinating to see how people approach the problem of making people happy now and preventing dissatisfaction down the road. If they pass (1/10 do), we use a 30 minute phone call to identify interests and motivations which ends up being the strongest indicator of value add. This might work for B2C companies only but I'd love to see any company identify people that are truly passionate about making people happy.

Edit: Clarifying that this is for non-engineering roles.

"And despite some skepticism, GiveDirectly's financial support is growing (from $5.5 million in 2013 to an expected $40-50 million this year), driven in large part by younger donors working in tech or finance, according to Niehaus."

And according to PG, http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

This should be a setting for the dots on an aerial/satellite view of London. Another skin could be the images of all of the explosions at once.

Plot twist, the TSA dips into conservation by presenting it's water reserves stocked by forgetful travelers.

I see the confusion. That is listing the staff of Apple as discussed in the Hobby Manufacturers as competitor analysis. As in, this is who our competitor is.

I don't think this is Apple. On page 5 it specifically calls out Apple as being part of the Hobbyist market. That right there makes this even more interesting as this thorough business plan was beat out by a company recognized as Hobbyist instead of a pc manufacturer.

So who is this?