News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

notablyconfused

Re:Why the days seem shorter as we get older on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:47PM (#19456489)
The "store" operation in mammalian episodic memory is triggered by novelty signal. Novelty is poor predictability. As we become more familiar with the world, fewer things are memorized as episodes, so in hindsight things contract to more high level faster narratives.
Re:This Cat Does Not Exist on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:56PM (#19212411)
I also had Grump Cat. Looks like their dataset was not large enough to avoid overfitting.
> 100,000 Bq per square meter

What is the Sievert dose one receives from being permanently exposed to such radiation (ideally expressed as bananas eaten per time)? To the lay person such numbers are useless without some comparison.