Hacker News: squircle

Abduction

squircle — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:58:25 +0000

Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328984

Points: 1

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Postmodernism

squircle — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:00:11 +0000

Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328357

Points: 1

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Soundness: How can one decide\know if premise is true or false

squircle — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:55:10 +0000

Article URL: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18051/soundness-how-can-one-decide-know-if-premise-is-true-or-false

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44324080

Points: 2

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Not-for-Profit vs. Nonprofit: What's the Difference?

squircle — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:30:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/not-for-profit-vs-nonprofit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323997

Points: 2

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The Science of a Kundalini Awakening

squircle — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:04:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsgEk0kkJcw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323901

Points: 3

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Wound Healing, the Salamander Way

squircle — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:14:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.asianscientist.com/2014/09/in-the-lab/wound-healing-salamander-2014/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323705

Points: 4

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Counterfactuals

squircle — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:47:19 +0000

Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/counterfactuals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323555

Points: 3

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New comment by squircle in "Ask HN: Favorite Speculative Fiction Novels?"

squircle — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:32:29 +0000

Why is it... the only? Do you think Dick was riffing off this precarious history when he wrote Man in the High Castle?

New comment by squircle in "Brain Study Shows ChatGPT Makes You Dumber"

squircle — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:20:54 +0000

This feels significant. What if, without understanding how AI works, or even clearly understanding how cognition works, treating is at oracle or deity, or simply just a really weird calculator, theres a tendency to allow the LLM to reason for us, or else reinforce biases (and hence pathways?) My programming ability has certainly declined, but I am also thinking with scope, and with patterns more than in the past, solving work related problems more quickly. What to do with this extra energy is a wholenother matter. If I engage in other activities not requiring the computer, would this compensate for whatever the negative effect this loss of complexity entails?

New comment by squircle in "How AI Is Ruining the Electric Grid [video]"

squircle — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:57:23 +0000

Should this problem be solved (as it very well could be) or, should ecological and environment constraints and limitations drive policy considerations here?

New comment by squircle in "How to Build an Electrically Heated Table"

squircle — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:33:38 +0000

There are designs around the web for using tea candles for warmth (when paired with a thermal mass like a terracotta pot.) I tried this but it was not efficient enough. I have some other ideas along these lines but, priorities. You know?