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Big List of Philosophers' Science Fiction Recommendations

adhdbrain — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:16:25 +0000

Article URL: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/SF-MasterList-160815-byauthor.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423637

Points: 14

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We Roleplayed the End of the World with 4000 Other People [video]

adhdbrain — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:36:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6EYmRX7wk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38385473

Points: 2

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New comment by adhdbrain in "Qanat"

adhdbrain — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:39:07 +0000

This was an incredible video. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by adhdbrain in "The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols"

adhdbrain — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:02:26 +0000

You can change this by switching to Modern English in the navbar.

New comment by adhdbrain in "Britain’s statisticians fix a blunder and find a bigger economy"

adhdbrain — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:22:21 +0000

Thanks for the instructive example! Gives a much clearer understanding of GDP.

Anyone have recommendations for Economics books that explain such concepts with simple to understand examples?

New comment by adhdbrain in "Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes"

adhdbrain — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:21:02 +0000

But it won't work if all the kids die. Just the females.

New comment by adhdbrain in "Will India Ban Twitter?"

adhdbrain — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:44:50 +0000

I'm going to go with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli... on this.

New comment by adhdbrain in "Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math"

adhdbrain — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:12:37 +0000

Can someone please explain how the math works out to 89%?

>> let’s imagine two players, Alice and Bob, and a 3-by-3 grid. A referee assigns Alice a row and tells her to enter a 0 or a 1 in each box so that the digits sum to an odd number. Bob gets a column and has to fill it out so that it sums to an even number. They win if they put the same number in the one place her row and his column overlap. They’re not allowed to communicate. Under normal circumstances, the best they can do is win 89% of the time.

New comment by adhdbrain in "Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

adhdbrain — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:23:09 +0000

Try LeechBlock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng...).

It's been a lifesaver in tackling my internet addiction. It has the useful 'delay option' and other nifty features that helped wean me off social media sites.

Personally, I have it installed on all my desktop browsers and Firefox on Android. I give myself half an hour quota per day for the time waste websites (Youtube, Twitter, FB, Insta, etc) after which a 60 second delay rule kicks in. I've found that my monkey brain almost never bothers waiting for a minute for the page to load unless it's absolutely necessary.