Hacker News: atticora

New comment by atticora in "The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis"

atticora — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:25:33 +0000

There's a nice discussion of this in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

> I discovered a very strange phenomenon: I could ask a question, which the students would answer immediately. But the next time I would ask the question – the same subject, and the same question, as far as I could tell – they couldn’t answer it at all!

> Then I say, “The main purpose of my talk is to demonstrate to you that no science is being taught in Brazil!”

https://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

New comment by atticora in "Bug Thread"

atticora — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:18:09 +0000

Hey this is a good stackoverflow answer, why can't I upvote it? Oh.

New comment by atticora in "Ask HN: Developers, what was your 'Eureka ' moment in coding?"

atticora — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:07:29 +0000

Learning to use a REPL. It's been at the core of my coding practice since. Especially using it as a debugger in an interpreted language was a game changer for me. It converts programming into a fast interactive game.

New comment by atticora in "A woman bought a vintage dress. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note"

atticora — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:49:05 +0000

Is the code for the weather report at all similar to the one for "help I am a prisoner in a vintage dress factory"?

New comment by atticora in "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)"

atticora — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:29:14 +0000

I aim higher.

New comment by atticora in "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)"

atticora — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:42:44 +0000

It depends. I've been coding for a living for 41 years and have a feeling I'll get the hang of it real soon now.

New comment by atticora in "From 2007 to 2017 US age 10-14 suicide rate tripled, quadrupled for girls"

atticora — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:25:13 +0000

The first-generation iPhone was announced in January 2007. As of November 2018 more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold. The child suicide rate topped out when the cell phone market became saturated. Hardly proof but it would be interesting to see suicide statistics broken out by cell phone use.

From 2007 to 2017 US age 10-14 suicide rate tripled, quadrupled for girls

atticora — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:08:23 +0000

Article URL: https://shoresofacademia.substack.com/p/youth-suicide-rise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002408

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by atticora in "Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention"

atticora — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:22:22 +0000

  conscious, kŏn′shəs, adjective -- Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. synonym: aware.

Self-attention seems to be at least a proxy for "awareness of ... one's own existence." If that closed loop is the thing that converts sensibility into sentience, then maybe it's the source of LLM's leverage too. Is this language comprehension algorithm a sort of consciousness algorithm?

New comment by atticora in "VR Game Revolution? New VR Technology Promises Game Titles"

atticora — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:03:34 +0000

No mention of how this can translate smooth motion without VR sickness. Perhaps its a revolution for the people who can tolerate it.

New comment by atticora in "DevDocs"

atticora — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:00:55 +0000

This is a very frustrating app for me. It is one of the best document sources out there but has become unusable because it cannot retain my selection of documentation. Almost every other time I visit I have to start from scratch picking the stack I use. It's great but not great enough to keep doing that over and over and over ...

I don't have an issue with dropping cookies or local storage elsewhere. I'm on an updated linux chrome. Any ideas?

An Infuriating Man [1970]

atticora — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/programs/free_to_choose/detail_samples.php?page=article1&type=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38972677

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by atticora in "Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled"

atticora — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:59:25 +0000

I agree with that paleo approach to diet, and your conclusions. In my case my gastroparesis prevents me from eating any significant amount of fiber and diabetes II from eating many carbs. Meat is what's left. I tolerate beef best so eat it the most.

I think that the ease of digestion and my health improvements are evidence that this is an eating pattern that we're well adapted to.

New comment by atticora in "Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position"

atticora — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:52:25 +0000

Hey that works! Thanks!

New comment by atticora in "Reddit should show upvotes and downvotes separately"

atticora — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:48:55 +0000

So should Hacker News. As is a comment with 2 up and 0 down votes looks the same as one with 102 up 100 down.

New comment by atticora in "Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position"

atticora — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:31:47 +0000

What I really want is an extension that will let me open a retweet by right clicking and opening it in new tab. That way I don't lose my scroll position and can get a collection of things I want to read. I went looking for such a thing but couldn't find it.

I did find Control Panel for Twitter though, which is a great improvement.

New comment by atticora in "Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled"

atticora — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:50:34 +0000

> The important factors with meat consumption are: 1) how they're prepared ('low and slow' is the best method of cooking, i.e., at a relatively low temperature and for a relatively long time in order to avoid creation of AGE's and trans-fats)

I daily eat beef that has been cooked by sous-vide at 155F for 48 hours and then crisp up in an air fryer at 400F for 20 minutes. Is this over doing it with regards to carcinogen production?

New comment by atticora in "The purpose of a system is what it does"

atticora — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:58:03 +0000

My car moves me from point to point and emits carbon monoxide. It would be nonsense to claim that the purpose of my car is to emit carbon monoxide.

New comment by atticora in "Analysis of 200M newspaper pages: Sentiment has collapsed over the past 50 years"

atticora — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:41:11 +0000

  Fighting the media negativity bias, the local Russian newspaper City Reporter decided in 2014 to report only positive news for a day and lost two-thirds of its readers.

It's hard to blame a business for failing to commit financial suicide on principle. You can, but that's like blaming water for falling from the sky.

New comment by atticora in "Analysis of 200M newspaper pages: Sentiment has collapsed over the past 50 years"

atticora — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:13:56 +0000

Here's a PDF of the paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32026/w320...