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thelastestate··on The disappearance of the “absent-minded, eccentric professor” from our culture
Why have a bias for that particular attribute?
thelastestate··on The disappearance of the “absent-minded, eccentric professor” from our culture
This disturbed me as well. The nuts and neurodivergent (there's a difference!) still exist but maybe it's not a filtering phenomenon but just the author not recognizing code switching?
thelastestate··on Staying awake to treat depression (2018)
What's to stop someone conducting safe, ethical trials into the random 'forbiddens' such as magic mushrooms in a far off country? Deal with their FDA system?
thelastestate··on Staying awake to treat depression (2018)
serotonin?
thelastestate··on Staying awake to treat depression (2018)
How did you break out of the funk!? And I found a way to mitigate the 'punishment' via prescribed SSRis anti-anxiety.
thelastestate··on Staying awake to treat depression (2018)
Yup, too embarrassed to admit it, but this... People love me when I'm in that state, which, I guess who I am when not going through (waves arms this), so I make sure to give it to them. I tested myself and besides some extremely light loss in agility and mental acuity (then again more social when tired) my work's the same... except for the flashes of insight, drive, energy and hmmm... Given the MASSIVE gains to productivity, wealth creation and global competitiveness any sane government should be investing incredible sums into mental health.
thelastestate··on Why are most climate models in Fortran?
My understanding is that they're mostly fortran programs linked together with unix scripts which are run on HPCs - could the models run in a more distributed way like high quality grid computing setup? Lastly, what's the best way to find and learn more about the models?
thelastestate··on I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
In Frank Herberts Dune, the fremen walk without rhythm to avoid the great sand worms. I wonder if, not too far away from now people will begin intentionally varying their intonations and body language randomly to avoid detection...
thelastestate··on As Online Video Surges, Publishers Turn to Automation
My side-project is trying to achieve some semblance of this.

From your experience what makes you think people would be willing to pay? Wouldn't you need a massive user base consuming hard to create local content like what Patch was supposed to be? http://patch.com/