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Horffupolde··on South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize
Korean existentialism reinvented?
Horffupolde··on Ask HN: How do I find my co-founder?
If you have to ask, it’s not the right option.
Horffupolde··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
You were by definition not targeted. You are collateral damage.
Horffupolde··on Chain of Thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems
It is actually impressive.

One could argue that writing enabled chain of thought across generations.

Horffupolde··on Satellites Spotting Aircraft
What for?
Horffupolde··on Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30
They want you to use their client. All others are excluded by non compliance.
Horffupolde··on Exercise May Be the Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known
Any job which pays well and lets you train by yourself.
Horffupolde··on Exercise May Be the Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known
“Exercise” is just an integral part of life, like eating and sleeping. Just because it can’t be reductionistically understood doesn’t mean it’s not necessary.
Horffupolde··on NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2024
It’s part of the test.
Horffupolde··on Economist Eugene Fama: 'Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It's not reality
It’s not a hypothesis. It’s a model.
Horffupolde··on Lady tasting tea
That’s one reason. The other one is that when you have a small amount of total milk, you have to make sure there’s enough for everyone. By pouring milk first you can more easily measure how much milk you pour per cup.
Horffupolde··on Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality
So our body is best adapted to our natural environment where UV exposure is frequent. Scientists had their null hypothesis backwards.
Horffupolde··on Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park
Very well articulated. The key part is “passive trust.”
Horffupolde··on How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?
Just study all of them.
Horffupolde··on Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 min
That’s like sarcastic sarcasm which cancel themselves.
Horffupolde··on Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study
Wait until your realize botulinum toxin has an LD50 of just 3 ng/kg.
Horffupolde··on Oncologists on simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer
On some measurement function F.
Horffupolde··on How to implement a hash table in C (2021)
Until it does and you do and you don’t.
Horffupolde··on Ask HN: What book bit, stung and shook you deeply?
Like Dr. Wilson from Dr. House.
Horffupolde··on Heavy resistance training at retirement age induces lasting beneficial effects
At this point you have to assume that nothing in our body is a coïncidence. Also there’s no free lunch.
Horffupolde··on My Python code is a neural network
Taylor series work on differentiable intervals. You specifically chose a function and interval where this is not true. Of course it will not be a good approximation.
Horffupolde··on Working Title (Insurance)
Utis posidetis is already present in Roman law.
Horffupolde··on Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists
Are you being facetious or what are you basing on?
Horffupolde··on Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial
It’s a different kind. HIV is a retrovirus in that RNA is reverse transcribed into DNA. Coronavirus transcribes to RNA directly.
Horffupolde··on How Much Water Is in Earth's Crust?
It’s similarly difficult to have an intuitive grasp regardless. And I’m an SI-loving engineer.
Horffupolde··on Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?
Data is both at rest and in memory. It’s not mutually exclusive. Binary backups or images of data encrypted at rest will continue to be encrypted.
Horffupolde··on Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women
For men there’s sexual dysfunction.
Horffupolde··on Google AI: People should eat at least one small rock a day
Technically salt is a rock so the first part is correct.
Horffupolde··on Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
When you go even further, math is again invented to represent The Underlying. If it were discovered, math would be it.
Horffupolde··on Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
The opposite. Laws are just conceptual representations of underlying intractable processes.
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