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>Days later, she learned she'd had a stroke

Don't you have to get to the ER within hours when you have a stroke?

Re:Why I will never have a girlfriend (1999) on Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:26AM (#13492675)
Personally I just have way too high standards while no person that can fulfil these would ever like me. I can't lower them. I can't settle for someone I don't really find attractive like I can settle for a cheaper car. Because a car has a practical purpose. Even if I wish I could have a cooler car the cheap car still gets me to places. But with a partner is different. I don't have to have one. I can be alone. Sometimes I think nothing is better than something. Solitude is better than an unsatisfying relationship.
What's the best exercise just to stay healthy? And what frequency? I would hate to exercise for years just to find out it actually harmed my health.
Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:26PM (#13369183)
It would just have to not look ridiculous.
Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:54PM (#13368332)
I think being able to draw would really make me happy but I just can't make it through those countless hours of deliberate practice I would need to put in before I can produce any worthwhile art.
Re:When You Are Depressed, Make Something on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @01:07PM (#13367183)
To me it seems like depression is a mindset issue.

After all if depression was caused by external factors only wouldn't all poor people, ugly people, disabled people be depressed? Didn't the majority of the world always live in poverty? How would we have come so far if most people were depressed?

So the question is how can you truly adopt a positive mindset once you got a negative one? Doesn't that feel like self-deception?

Re:Long-term stress erodes memory on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:29AM (#13301623)
So what can you do? How can you escape it?
Re:Doing Business in Japan (2014) on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:50AM (#12890137)
I wonder: how is it being an artist in Japan? How does working part-time work? How is the culture for people working in academia?
Re:Kodak Ektra on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:02AM (#12758242)
Since they don't mention the sensor size I assume it will be barely bigger than that of an average smartphone. So I expect the image quality to be underwhelming. There was the Lumix CM1 and it wasn't a huge hit so I don't know why this would sell well since it doesn't look like it's doing anything better.
Re:Open Cola on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:28PM (#12550896)
Did you try the Red Bull Cola? Did it taste like it?
Re:Nootropics on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:46AM (#12548620)
Can you just get the nutrition supplements from the drug store or are those all no good? I want to supplement magnesium since I am sure I am not getting enough.
Re:How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat on Monday September 12, 2016 @05:07PM (#12483696)
So food with sugar but also a decent amount of fiber is fine? Like vegetables, certain fruit and whole grain bread?

What should the fiber:sugar ratio be? Broccoli has 1.7g sugar and 2.6 fiber per 100g. Bananas have 12g sugar and 2.6g of fiber. I guess you should avoid food that goes below 1:1?

Re:Neural Network Architectures on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:42PM (#12415231)
Isn't data and processing power the most important thing with neural networks? Even if I knew how they worked I would have no idea what to do with them that hasn't been done already as a hobbyst without access to huge amounts of data like companies do.
Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:09PM (#12414953)
So what is the difference in effectiveness between normal soap and hand sanitizer with ethanol and isopropanol?
Re:The Concept of ‘Cat Face’ on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @01:14PM (#12353549)
How exactly is a neural network called that classifies unlabeled data by itself? Also could they turn it around somehow to produce cat faces?
Are there any tutorials on generative RNN's? Or is that a trivial task once you know how to implement an RNN?
Re:Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music on Sunday August 21, 2016 @08:32PM (#12333420)
I am a neural network noob and only know the basic feedforward network.

So the training set is just text files containing songs? How does it test if the output is correct or not? If I understand correctly the goal here was just to produce outputs in the correct format. If one wanted to train for quality as well would one need to grade every output the network produces by hand?