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musicaldopeon Grid-Cell Like Deep Layers in Navigation AI

Additional context for the overlap with previous work on grid cells in neuroscience:

https://twitter.com/gershbrain/status/994678940043284480

musicaldopeon Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?

Any pointers on specific issues to look out for? I'm thinking of upgrading from 16.04 on my XPS 15

musicaldopeon Top White House Economist Dismisses the Idea of a Universal Basic Income

I like how you keep making sarcastic replies to comments in a thread you started. It's like seeing someone litter on their own lawn.

Edit: nevermind, it's not your thread. Just shitting the place up for fun, I guess.

musicaldopeon Life is a braid in spacetime

Any in-depth and technical sources you'd recommend?

musicaldopeon Why Information Grows

Thanks for this, the context you provided is quite informative.

musicaldopeon How humanists are using computers to understand text

Is the word 'humanist' used for people who study the humanities? I've only ever heard it in the context of humanism. Not saying it's wrong, I'm genuinely wondering

musicaldopeon Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking

I don't think any modern neuroscientist "fails to see" that modeling the brain as a computer is a hypothesis. Many wouldn't even subscribe to that theory, and those who do undoubtedly treat it as a working model.

musicaldopeon Why Are Psychedelics Illegal?

This is terribly hilarious -- thanks for sharing.

musicaldopeon How to Be a Good Graduate Student (1994)

Care to follow up on why not?

musicaldopeon Thinking Functionally with Haskell – Richard Bird's New Book

It also says 30 Nov 2014

musicaldopeon Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns

Possibly because antibiotic resistance is seemingly imminent, and global warming is only a threat over a much longer timeframe. I can't say definitively whether this accurately reflects reality, but intuitively it makes sense for people to feel this way.

musicaldopeon After months of delay, Soylent finally ships

True. The intersection of potential Soylent customers and keto-diet people is probably high. It is funny to see this kind of expectation thrown at an untested type of product, though.

musicaldopeon After months of delay, Soylent finally ships

Of course there isn't--that would involve completely remaking a complex product to satisfy some fad diet a few people follow.

musicaldopeon Atomic Clocks Make a Quantum Leap in Accuracy

You'll never walk alone down the road of headline-aimed pedantry, friend

musicaldopeon A Dig Through Old Files Reminds Me Why I’m So Critical of Science

Interesting. Seems maybe journalists should rely on researchers other than a study's authors for interpretation? I don't mean that sarcastically (well, a little), but it seems that there's a fairly simple solution to this problem.

musicaldopeon Show HN: BitJoy

Cool site. The news feed has the month off by 1

musicaldopeon The unusual risks of investing in the Winklevoss bitcoin ETF

"We’ve heard plenty about activist shareholders, but a bitcoin activist would take the concept to a whole new level. Essentially, some investor or coalition of computers could potentially amass a collection of bitcoins so large that it could change the source code bitcoin uses to operate. This would render the whole currency pretty much useless overnight."

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. And this article seemed like it was going somewhere...