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Don't tell anyone, but in the back of my mind I wonder if what we call quantum mechanics has something to do with the rendering engine in this simulation we find ourselves in.

Is quantum collapse just us "catching" the engine deciding what to render when we observe something? :-)

My thought experiment question around Psychiatry is: How would pre-electricity age people explain the operations of a digital computer? They would probably invent some theories that bore no resemblance to the actual underlying technology. They might be close and even create some relevant metaphors but the theory would never be "correct", I suspect. Is this analogous to Psychiatry?

An old engineering axiom is: "If you can't build it, you don't really understand it"

This leads me to ask, will we only understand the human mind after we learn how to build one or two?

Notwithstanding the question, can a network with X neurons fully comprehend a network with X neurons?

No need to wonder The Top 10 Biggest Sources Of New Permanent Residents To Canada in 2021 are:

India: 96,660 China: 24,995 Philippines: 13,310 Nigeria: 12,500 France: 10,510 United States: 9,525 Brazil: 9,270 Iran: 8,930 Pakistan: 6,625 South Korea: 6,590

Predicting the future of technology seems to be difficult...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1923-envisions-the-tw...

The LA-2A is great compressor. To be clear it uses a different application of "optical coupling" in that Audio is not passing through the optical connection.

The light source is driven by a DC amplifier that generates a control voltage derived from the audio signal. The light shines onto a photo-resistor that is used as the shunt component of an audio pad. (attenuator)

As the light intensity increases the pad reduces the signal level at the pad creating an audio compressor.

Because the simulation maker patched those bugs. :)

No. The phase differences for FULL localization are not in the incident sound. (There are phase and amplitude differences for left/right only)

3D phase changes occur and create comb filters at you ear and your ear is unique to you.

This is why Kunstkopf(dummy head) recordings were never as successful as anticipated.

1. "That's because a human is not 1 microphone." true 2. "It's 2 microphones, with a known distance between the 2" 3. "which allows realtime 3d positioning and isolation of sound to an area"

#3 does not follow from statement #2.

The missing element is that 3D localization is due to the pinna.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1967.005...

Left/right sound localization is partially a function of "shadow" created by the head. However more important to localization is the pinna, the outer ear. Sound enters the earhole directly AND reflects off the folds in the pinna. This causes complex comb filtering. (cancellation) Our brain learns how to correlate sound direction with these complex filterings. It's quite amazing.

Some audio workstations (Logic) have "binaural" processing to try and emulate this effect. It can never be perfect because everyone's ears are shaped a little different.

I say this as often as I can. We have a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer with ~83% efficacy. Following the "bread-crumbs" seems like a good strategy to me.

We have this little beasty in wild. Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1, but no vaccine. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/human-t-lym...

We have correlation with cancer with other viruses. Hep C for example.

How many more clues do we need to expand research in this direction?

Could the implications for the existing cancer "industry" preclude finding prophylactic methods? Asking for a friend.

Fascinating different approach taken by Canada for workers from Mexico and Jamaica. Workers are flown in during the farming season, legally, under laws created for the purpose in cooperation with the governments of Mexico and Jamaica.

The migrant workers don't want to stay in Canada for most part. They just want to work, for $15 CAD/hr, remit money and go home for Christmas.

It's not perfect, as some employers treat them poorly, but that is not the norm. The farmers/country need and appreciate these people.

Forth is very handy for this kind of new iron startup work.

You can interrogate the hardware interactively for those really thorny problems and confirm your hypotheses immediately. You can write short test scripts and send them via the terminal and/or write and send short Assembler routines and test those interactively. Each routine you define is interactively usable to assist with higher level testing and/or can be further compiled together to make higher level or looping tests.

It's old and it's weird but it's still a good tool for this kind of work. It may mean you only have to enter the top domain of Hell. :-)

https://mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc.sourceforge.io/flashing-me...

*I have no connection to mecrisp Forth but know it to have a good reputation. It is a a native code compiler with an integrated text interpreter.

:-))))

"I have never seen a square (Robertson?) screw in the wild, I assume that's regional."

The way I heard it was that Mr. Robertson gave his new screws to Henry Ford for testing. Ford wanted to use them but Robertson insisted on a royalty per screw. Ford would not agree to that so the deal failed. This is probably the reason they are a regional rather than an international screw. The entire electrical hardware industry uses square heads in Canada.

(Source: Probably CBC radio many decades ago (?) )

This site gives some insights into potential tradeoffs between Swift and C++ in memory usage and execution times.

https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/swift-vs-...

It's really hard not to like reducing code size to 30% of C++ for long term maintenance IMHO.

I find this very concerning in an American city.

In The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando Desoto; He makes mention of the bureaucracy overhead in countries that fail at capitalism. Sounds like America needs some house cleaning in places.

My sad observation however is that normal people try to fix things by adding on. It takes quite a bit of smarts to remove things from a system and make it work better. The only case I have heard of is New Zealand re-wrote their tax code to 12 (?) pages or something like that 30 years ago. I wonder how big it is now?

Minor caveat on SEE. If the Forth implementation uses "threaded" code the resulting source code can be quite close to the original text.

If the Forth compiler generates native code the one-to-one relationship with the source is lost and SEE will typically show the compiled code as Assembly Language.

And here we thought Russia was the only place that this kind of thing happened. Who knew? ;-)

Interesting that you used that phrase on HN. Not sure if you ever heard that Fred Brooks said software development is also like this:

"It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many women you put on the the job" The Mythical Man Month

We now return to our regularly scheduled program...

"For the first time in recorded history the entire planet coordinated a response to an existential threat"

Umm... - Smallpox eradication was a global effort. - Polio eradication was a global effort.(unfortunately delayed by religious fanatics in a small number of countries)

I have heard that IQ measurements correlate very well with general success in society. Peterson says they correlate better than any other measurement in human Psychology. (Paraphrasing and I can't validate it)

Peterson also says that it doesn't matter which questions you use. People with hi scores on one test will typically have high scores on the other tests.

It seems to be a hard thing for intelligent creatures to hear:

There are some smarter that you and some less smart and you are most likely in the middle range somewhere.

Parallel History? :) Circa 1968:

"For fun, he [Moore] also wrote a version of Spacewar, an early video game, and converted his Algol Chess program into the new language, now (for the first time) called FORTH. He was impressed by how much simpler it became.

The name FORTH was intended to suggest software for the fourth (next) generation computers, which Moore saw as being characterized by distributed small computers."

https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-programming-language/

Marmite is available in many grocery stores in here but commonly in the international foods aisle. My local store (rural Ontario) put in the baking section with the yeast. LOL

I have thought for many years that "auto-immune disease" was a cop-out versus looking for the root cause. After developing Asthma at 35, after a "common" cold, viruses were top of my list as potential candidates because they alter cellular DNA in the course of being viruses. Nice to see investigations in that direction show some promise. (Disclaimer: medical layman)

It's only Canadian money. :-) <$16 USD

Old cities in North America have cores that were created pre-automobile. They were built on "human/horse scale" like cities in Europe.

New cities in the mid west are spread out over wide distances assuming automobile transportation.

Denver and the surrounding suburbs come to mind and Calgary in Canada as well.

As long as their is oxygen support and health care people show up for work you are correct. In Mexico and other countries with less access to modern health care the death rate seems to be an order of magnitude higher. (if the CDC data is valid)

This was just a trainer pandemic. :-) Imagine one where the children and young people are dying instead of seniors.

Probably not surprising but the 5500 had an impact on Charles Moore, inventor of Forth.

https://colorforth.github.io/HOPL.html

It's the "standard" system in both countries. :)

"However this was the first time a bridge had displayed this type of pedestrian excited lateral motion."

The first time? It seems we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in every generation.

Army officers have ordered troops to stop marching in step when going over bridges for a long time. :)

https://www.livescience.com/34608-break-stride-frequency-of-...