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New comment by TuringTourist in "Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis"

TuringTourist — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:14:29 +0000

What is your definition of processed food? Are potatoes processed because they are cleaned? Is chicken breast processed because the chicken is plucked? Is vinegar processed because it has undergone a chemical transformation via fermentation? Are potato chips processed because they are sliced potatoes fried in oil? Are fried plantains processed because they are sliced plantains fried in oil?

I do not mean to come across as antagonistic, I just haven't been able to find a line that everyone agrees with and felt it was useful to demonstrate that by asking a bunch of questions.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru"

TuringTourist — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:48:57 +0000

Echoes of Terry Pratchett:

Archaeologists are excited for this find because it comes with a visitor's center and a parking lot.

New comment by TuringTourist in "I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected"

TuringTourist — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 01:38:09 +0000

I suspect this might be because diet marketing before AI was one of the most fraught with misinformation subjects you could run across. This is because the "sale" of the idea has an effect on every salesman, so all of the salesmen are trying to sell every thing at once,since that's also selling their thing, and ground truth gets stampeded. Now when you combine diet marketing and AI, you get a multiplier. Both in the sellers and the buyers, since the desire to believe is stacked.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Machine Code Isn't Scary"

TuringTourist — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:20:18 +0000

You could try the thing that made it click for me, long after x86 was dominant.

Show them a CPU running on Logisim (or the like, such as the newer Digital) and show how when you plug a program into a ROM, it turns into wires lighting up and flipping gates/activating data lines/read registers etc.

New comment by TuringTourist in "The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'"

TuringTourist — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 22:56:44 +0000

I never watched Samurai Jack when it was coming out as a child. I have begun watching it recently and it is absolutely a breathtaking piece of work.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Claude 4"

TuringTourist — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:23:59 +0000

I cannot fathom how you have obtained the information to be as sure as you are about this.

New comment by TuringTourist in "CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe"

TuringTourist — Thu, 22 May 2025 06:59:22 +0000

Imagine inventing something like a better coffee carafe and being able to say this about a sizable portion of notable structures.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Web search on the Anthropic API"

TuringTourist — Thu, 08 May 2025 01:29:42 +0000

Can you elaborate? What information are you gleaning from anecdotes that is both reliable and efficacious enough to outweigh research?

I'm not trying to challenge your point, I am genuinely curious.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields"

TuringTourist — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:51:48 +0000

And a follow up from the Krikkit species from the Hitchhiker's Guide:

- "It'll have to go"

New comment by TuringTourist in "Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing"

TuringTourist — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:50:40 +0000

By being amazed when observing it, one can conclude that a thing is amazing.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Smart fabric heats up under the sun"

TuringTourist — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:54:06 +0000

I take "external power" to mean power that is not "free" as in humans paid for it. Otherwise the phrase "External power" is meaningless, as all energy comes from somewhere else eventually. (unless you're at some point in time extremely close to the birth of the universe, then we might accept that it's actually internal or at least locally sourced)

New comment by TuringTourist in "See how a lab-grown diamond is made"

TuringTourist — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:25:52 +0000

Well the process isn't quite the same, they are missing the immense value-add of substantial human suffering in their creation.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism"

TuringTourist — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:11:33 +0000

People you don't know are boring. Most people are full of surprises, unique insights, traits, and perspectives, if given enough time in the right setting. An increasing rarity at this point.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Sitters and Standers"

TuringTourist — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:13:47 +0000

Somewhat ironically you are underestimating the amount of effort it takes to be as universally reviled as that person. Presumably because you, like most people, have never been in that field.

New comment by TuringTourist in "AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells"

TuringTourist — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:33:19 +0000

There is a (likely small) chance that you lost your keys in an unknown or lost oil/gas well. So yes, in theory.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry"

TuringTourist — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:50:34 +0000

The domestic accident is in the home, a far less acceptable place to have a threat. Furthermore, the threat/cause of the accident is presumably being visualized as a human shaped live-in android a la Bicentennial Man. A human shaped threat can feel a lot more viscerally unacceptable, at least in my experience.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure"

TuringTourist — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 23:19:22 +0000

possibly counter to intuition, I find that since I have started to religiously use my stationary bike in the morning, I have a lot more energy for the day, not less. I suppose if you're butting up against caloric/nutrient limits you might suffer. I personally find exercise clarifies my thoughts and improves my mood, even if its the last thing I want to do when I do it.

New comment by TuringTourist in "Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?"

TuringTourist — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:26:04 +0000

Make your own 8-bit computer on breadboard a la Ben Eater for bonus points

New comment by TuringTourist in "John Wheeler saw the tear in reality"

TuringTourist — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:22:12 +0000

And if that is the case, the odds are basically 0 that we happen to be the first of an infinite number of universes emulating themselves

New comment by TuringTourist in "Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview"

TuringTourist — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:40:16 +0000

The point is that one needs specifically deliberate practice to achieve constant improvement. GP is saying that driving demonstrates this by showing that non-deliberate practice ceases to show improvement fairly quickly.