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hour_glass··on Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
What kind of books are on here? I can find what im looking for ~90% of the time on libgen
hour_glass··on A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed for Human Children
Uh oh the humans are on to us
hour_glass··on Likely weakening of the Florida Current during the past century [pdf]
This is what really concerns me when i read about climate change. If global ocean currents change it can dramatically effect weather patterns. This could have devastating ecological implications and could be equally devastating for agriculture. When it comes to biology collapse is quick and recovery is slow.
hour_glass··on Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity Plea
Shouldn't everyones pleas mean something?
hour_glass··on You might not need machine learning
In cases like this and many other cases i feel like the purpose of the machine learning algorithm should be to find a simplified polynomial function. I remember reading a paper in which an “AI physicist” was created and it would reduce complex machine learning models into simple equations that would explain the physics of a simulation. It would reduce the complex simulation into human readable and potentially more useful and predictive “laws” of physics.
hour_glass··on Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped laser pulse
This does seem like a potential path towards transmutation
hour_glass··on Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood
It's just about the perception of injustice. A privileged person facing minor injustices could completely have this mindset. In fact I've met many many people like this.

A journalist came up with this concept at the World Economic Forum, I think it was fractal poverty??, and it was this observation that from the poorest people in the world to the absolute richest there was this sense that they were excluded from and oppressed by someone more powerful. Absolutely anyone can feel this way.

hour_glass··on Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus
people have already been getting covid twice
hour_glass··on International scientists formulate roadmap for insect conservation and recovery
We should have been doing this all along
hour_glass··on Music for Programming (2011)
Not a well known artist but I really like programming to FILMMAKER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUau3wleuXc

hour_glass··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2019)

  Location: USA, NC
  Remote: Yes, strongly preferred
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python,R,SAS,SQL, Cheminformatics
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lougee
  Email: Lougee.Ryan@gmail.com
Currently writing Chemistry software for the United States EPA. I specialize in Computational Toxicology, and would love to continue doing something similar that can use my expertise. I also have a lot of experience using machine learning and data science in chemistry.

Looking for full remote work, but would also be willing to relocate after September.

hour_glass··on Smarter Training of Neural Networks
What does this mean? I can shape a network some other way?
hour_glass··on Analyzing Hacker News book suggestions in Python
The third book is completely different from his results. In the article the third most recommend book is actually "Magi: Uncovering the Secret Society That Read the Birth of Jesus in the Stars Paperback – September 1, 2002 by Adrian Gilbert"
hour_glass··on PFOA and PFOS Cause Lower Sperm Counts and Smaller Penises, Study Finds
Many frying pans are coated with perfluorinated compounds. You would also see these on many other non-stick coatings like goretex product for example. Exposure from frying pans and jackets will be much lower than people near industrial sources. However, these compounds are extremely persistent and will accumulate in your body throughout your whole lifetime. This is definitely something people should be concerned about.
hour_glass··on When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
yeah but were not talking about university students
hour_glass··on When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
> ADHD researcher here

> (all of which happened multiple times in my own classroom)

are you a scientist or a school teacher?

hour_glass··on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer
limes have slightly less vitamin c?
hour_glass··on Suicide increasing among American workers
How are they making these categories of workers?

> Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Occupational Managers category (a sub-group of the Management major group)

> Agricultural Workers category (a sub-group of the Farming, Fishing, and Forestry major group)

Farmers aren't in the Farming major group? I'd like to see a little more detail here

hour_glass··on Magenta Studio (Beta): Music Generation Using Tensorflow
I think a lot of people are interested in exactly this. Alternatively, I'd be interested in simply training on heart rate or even a person physically pressing a button when they're enjoying the music.
hour_glass··on Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin
maybe put two devices inside the body, and if they change orientation or distance too greatly they will no longer function.
hour_glass··on Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
thought maybe has amazing documentaries. It's a shame these aren't easily available elsewhere. I'm horrified this website will go away, and I'll lose access to all these documentaries.

I just watched "The Idiot Cycle" which was very good. https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-idiot-cycle/

hour_glass··on BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration
The TMS product they are using to stimulate the receivers brain is pretty interesting.

https://www.magstim.com/products/

I'm pretty skeptical that you could use magnetism to transfer any sort of useful information into someone's brain. I'm guessing it just gives a sensation, or maybe some vague visual effect since it is used on the occipital lobe in this experiment.

hour_glass··on Drawing Spirograph curves in Python
I'm going to mail one to the oval office. I think spirographs could save us from nuclear war.
hour_glass··on Apple Pulls Gambling Apps Targeted by Chinese State Media
sounds like they're cracking down on vpns as well
hour_glass··on Against Facebook
> The net effect these platforms have on us is to alienate us from our very lives.

I really like this conclusion paragraph. I definitely feel that everything I do through my phone is a much worse version than if I had just done them irl. Socializing is the biggest one. It makes me very happy to be with friends, but when I check up on people through FB etc I may get some instant gratification but it really just leaves me a little depressed in the end.

hour_glass··on Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry
Haha mind if I ask where you were?
hour_glass··on Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
I can't even understand why deep learning creates better predictions than regular neural nets. How does adding layers change anything?