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i'd love to know, too. do we even know, yet?
taken over the years
Re:Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:16AM (#22325654)
If the changes are small and gradual enough, identity is preserved, like in atoms in our brains, or an beloved antique car.
Re:The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016) on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:17PM (#22197046)
Thanks, all of that is quite interesting. I want to learn more.
Re:The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016) on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:41AM (#22179830)
Someone knowledgeable please advise:

Do cryotherapy or cold showers increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in the long term?

"Tau phosphorylation is exquisitely sensitive to temperature, increasing by 80% for each degree below 37°C, due to exponential decrease in PP2A activity during direct hypothermia, or anesthesia-induced hypothermia."

This means that one might expect a significant increase in tau phosphorylation from modest decreases in body temperature, possibly leading to increased risk of Alzheimer's in the long run.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00480

i'm with you but isn't this different, given that it's open source? of which twitter itself will eventually be a client
if anything, whimsical memery adds authenticity, sincerity, hacky feeling. i'd be suspicious of anything more packaged or polished
Re:Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf] on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:28PM (#21714214)
So many resources are freed when remote working that can be invested in other activities that involve human interaction.
Re:Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video] on Thursday November 28, 2019 @05:14AM (#21656025)
Absolutely yes
Re:Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video] on Thursday November 28, 2019 @05:01AM (#21655965)
Same here.
Re:Renaissance Technologies on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:05PM (#21509403)
* ~10%
Re:Renaissance Technologies on Monday November 11, 2019 @01:48PM (#21507575)
Hold on, it's not comparable to the ~10$ CAGR of the SP500 is it? RenTec's fund is capped so it's an average return of 71.9% but not an annualized return, since the returns are not compounded. Correct?
Thanks for this. What a sensationalistic title.
Who is Rocket? Could you give us a link, please?
Thanks!
Where could I find a list of links to the videos?
Re:Coursera shuts access to old platform courses on Thursday June 16, 2016 @06:45PM (#11919493)
Thank you very much for the clarification. Would it be possible for you to share with us the list of the few dozen courses that will not migrate to the new platform?
Re:Your freedom online is threatened by an EU proposal. on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @09:52AM (#7421868)
How was the SOPA strike organized? We need another one, pronto.
Re:Don’t Take Your Vitamins on Sunday June 09, 2013 @09:19AM (#5848791)
For what it's worth, regarding the multivitamin and prostate cancer study: http://www.rayandterry.com/blog/prostate-cancer-and-vitamin-...
Re:Minute 53, very emotional moment by Elon Musk on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:57AM (#5824728)
Building a car is an engineering project. Building a new kind of car will be a science intensive engineering project, but an engineering project nevertheless. Designing a new car is an attempt at optimizing a high dimensional design space that spans many disciplines that are interdependent. This requires fundamentally different methods and organization than those used conventional research.

How are metaphors processed in Kurzweil's PRTM?

For those of you interested in Ray Kurzweil's new Pattern Recognition Theory of the Mind, and metaphors:In "How to Create a Mind", Ray says:“The third and most powerful method is the ability to combine two lists. One list can have a set of transformations that we have learned may apply to a certain category of pattern; the cortex will apply this same list of possible changes to another pattern....

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