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New comment by hellrich in "Scientists Prolong Life of Mice with Invisible Energy Fields, New Study Shows"

hellrich — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:18:13 +0000

To do so, they genetically engineered aged mice to activate cellular reprogramming genes in response to EMFs. They applied the EMFs cyclically to induce cyclic cellular reprogramming

Sounds less magical…

New comment by hellrich in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

hellrich — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:55:40 +0000

Embedding „meaning“ in vector spaces goes back to 1950s structuralist linguistics and early information retrieval research, there is a nice overview in the draft for the 3rd edition of speech and language processing https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/5.pdf

New comment by hellrich in "Munich from a Hamburger's perspective"

hellrich — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:35:09 +0000

Munich/Bavaria were not ruled by the Habsburgs, unless you want to count the whole Holy Roman Empire.

Lovense sex toy company uses ChatGPT to whisper fantasies at you

hellrich — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/lovense-chatgpt-pleasure-companion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36633568

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients

hellrich — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 08:44:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-surgeons-must-now-consider-ethnicity-in-prioritising-patients-for-operations-some-are-not-happy/ONGOC263IFCF3LADSRR6VTGQWE/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36388752

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

iPadOS 15 Allows You to Build iPhone and iPad Apps on an iPad

hellrich — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/07/ipados-15-allows-you-to-build-iphone-and-ipad-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27426024

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How the Coronavirus Is Spread Through the Air

hellrich — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:54:38 +0000

Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24961996

Points: 24

# Comments: 0

Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities

hellrich — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:35:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gradeinflation.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18448885

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by hellrich in "Ryzen Boards Reign at Embedded World 2018"

hellrich — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:52:01 +0000

Depends on how many people know about it and might interprete it as some kind of association. I would be sceptical to use 88 as a designation, at least in Germany. See 4 or 13 for numbers avoided in other cultures (for non-political reasons).

New comment by hellrich in "Fructan, not gluten, induces symptoms in patients with gluten sensitivity"

hellrich — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:13:14 +0000

Why should organic products not contain gluten?

New comment by hellrich in "Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to find them"

hellrich — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:34:55 +0000

Baroni published on using a word-word-link (e.g., object-of) tensor instead of the more common word-word matrices: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00016

New comment by hellrich in "Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to find them"

hellrich — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:40:24 +0000

One argument for SVD is the low reliability (as in results fluctuate with repeated experiments) of word2vec embeddings, which hampers (qualitative) interpretation of the resulting embedding spaces, see: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C/C16/C16-1262.pdf

How (Not) to Run a Modern Society on Solar and Wind Power Alone

hellrich — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:07:23 +0000

Article URL: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/09/how-to-run-modern-society-on-solar-and-wind-powe.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256403

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hellrich in "Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it"

hellrich — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:32:37 +0000

Polls show over 40% in the US to believe in creationism http://www.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-h...

Also religion is not only concerned with what happened, yet often very active in prescribing what has to happen: abortion, divorce, homosexuality,...

Revisiting the Norm of Normality of Individual Performance

hellrich — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:29:06 +0000

Article URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x/full

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15124087

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hellrich in "UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU"

hellrich — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:13:05 +0000

The alternative of competing nation states lead to two world wars. Even a less than perfect EU seems far preferable to a third one.

New comment by hellrich in "Machine Learning: A Summary on Feature Engineering Using R Language"

hellrich — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 06:57:34 +0000

A colleague of mine is quite happy using caret for streamlined feature selection http://topepo.github.io/caret/index.html

New comment by hellrich in "Vipers, mambas and taipans: the escalating health crisis over snakebites"

hellrich — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:19:59 +0000

So why is no African government / company stepping in to produce antivenoms, if the technology is supposed to be 80 years old and rather basic?

New comment by hellrich in "How the Arab World Came Apart"

hellrich — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:22:36 +0000

Similar punishments are prescribed by the Old Testament, so not specific to Islam. Luckily religion was replaced as a moral and especially legal guideline in "the West" thanks to the Enlightenment and the French revolution.

New comment by hellrich in "Implementation of various string similarity and distance algorithms in Java"

hellrich — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 20:30:59 +0000

Am I missing something? I regularly write static methods and test them with JUnit.