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Well, that's flattering, got estimated 2173 FIDE.

Unfortunately, wildly off, I was ~1800 FIDE even when I used to play. Will try a few more games to see whether that was a fluke or whether I should consider getting into chess again.

All in all, great submission, thank you

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612668

Some related reading I've ammased about the topic over the time:

https://lithub.com/on-the-link-between-great-thinking-and-ob...

https://psyche.co/ideas/talking-out-loud-to-yourself-is-a-te...

Sticky Fingers have a great take too.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=N3zMmc8UG2g

Additionally, if you add the seed to the URL GET parameters, I can share this with my colleagues to compete who clocks more kms during a morning stand up.

"Dom, get on to recruitment. Get them to look for a security team that can work as a team. They may have to escort the current security team from the building for not acting like a team. "

I wish HN had a feature to follow or anotate users. Not the first time I meet someone interesting I know from another space here on HN. However, without such feature, I shall forget the username.

They have a few sentences about each kanji as a mnemonic which helps you remember the pronunciation and meaning.

Perhaps this could be somehow plugged into DALL•E. Create an image for each kanji for yet another data point which helps memorize it.

And herewith The Laplace's doctor is born, bound to plague medical ethics for centuries to come.

Some time ago I learnt that such an event was called a _syzygy_. What a pleasant sound!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy_(astronomy)

> Supporters of the Strong AI Hypothesis insisted that consciousness was a property of certain algorithms – a result of information being processed in certain ways, regardless of what machine, or organ, was used to perform the task. A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its ‘surroundings’ in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. ‘Simulated consciousness’ was as oxymoronic as ‘simulated addition’. \

Opponents replied that when you modelled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modelled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modelled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion took place. So, when you modelled the human brain, why should you expect real thought to occur? \

— Permutation City by Greg Egan

Related interesting read:

1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-...

There's a behavioural neuroscience method you might be interested in:

> Watch Nancy's brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Measuring neural activity (with fMRI, MEG, ERPs, etc) cannot tell you which brain regions or neural responses are necessary for a given aspect of perception or cognition. To find out if a region is necessary, you have to mess with it. One method to do this in humans is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

http://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/video/watch-nancys-brain-get...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimul...

I worked with extensions for roughly 4 years on a handful of separate projects. I had managed a framework which abstracted over all APIs (including the insane old Safari one).

While I can't share the framework, I have designed a code base architecture which allows incremental abstraction of APIs, uses typed message passing between scripts (with errors being propagated too), unit and integration tests or automation for compilation of the extension for each store according to their respective rules. This architecture is my IP and although I don't actively work with extensions on day to day basis anymore, I still do take on contracts to lay foundations or migrate existing projects.

If this is something you're interested in, reach out to me via email in my bio.

If it's not a secret, I'd love to read some design document about the backend behind this app. What's the blackbox that takes set of images as an input and produces a 3D model as an output?

> But he doen't pay the utilities, the tenants do, so why would he care?

When you talk rent in London the first question asked tends to be "bills included?". This suggests to me that a non-trivial number of landlords would be interested in efficiency. Anecdotal, I don't have the data for the whole UK.

I'm reading through the neuroscience and related literature to compile a list of data and systems relevant for designing algorithms of interest. I'd like to share my hobby with other like-minded people.

The problem with Czech is our extended alphabet and, more importantly, conjugated forms of verbs and nouns. You can't make the code sound good without proper conjugation, but of course no mainstream programing language supports it.

One of my favorite sci-fi books. I had a lot of fun thinking about how I would implement the localizers. I don't have the relevant background so I later found out that my ideas, some of which I put into a blog post[0], were rather naïve.

Anyway, great timing to see this posted over the Christmas break. I wanted to reread The Witcher, but this has revived my desire to read more of Vernor Vinge. Recommendations welcome.

[0]: https://manyagents.ai/posts/001_swarm

I suppose "more direct" can be interpreted differently, but to the best of my knowledge the signal from your cochlea takes more axonal jumps[0] than e.g. visual, which jumps "only" through LGM[1]. Even more direct is the olfactory pathway which skips the thalamus altogether[2].

However, in the context of the article you might be referring only to intertelencephalic processing, in which case I'd love to read a paper which compares the directness of hearing vs other modalities.

[0]: https://teachmeanatomy.info/neuroanatomy/pathways/auditory-p...

[1]: https://www.ophthalmologyreview.org/articles/the-afferent-vi...

[2]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncir.2015.0004...

I made my peace with the fact that some set of sets of abstract rules makes absurd but precise predictions about what I perceive, and I will never know why. I try to direct my marvel on how can I be but a collection of interconnected automata perceiving these rules on scale.

As long as those extensions don't fetch and execute any JavaScript that hasn't been bundled at the time of Chrome store submission, they'll be fine. The biggest change happens at the API for monitoring and managing web requests.

Another fun one is the cricket. Its nerve system contains a single interneuron that inhibits auditory processing during its own chirp[0].

[0]: http://www.wormweb.org/gapfree/files/Poulet_2006_Science.pdf

A searchable index of multidisciplinary projects and motivated people working on them is something I'd support financially. I was recently searching for such a community outside of academia to network withim my area of interest but failed to connect. This would be a good place to start.

I agree that your version is more satisfying and I can imagine that to be the future, although I find more plausible that the first generations will be distinct and geo-spacially localized.

Once the mind hive's perception of self (if that is even necessary for intelligence) is blurred sufficiently that pretty much any system can be plugged in, than the whole possibility I mentioned crumbles.

> Perhaps that is already happening.

Do you mean intentionally by many researcher groups who don't share it, or as a shadow society peggy-baging on the internet without anyone's attention?

Systems around us and designed by us tend to have diminishing returns problem. I wonder what's the limiting factor in the architecture of the human brain should we want to scale it further. How much more intelligent can the cortex get without a massive architectural shift?

I like to think that our first intelligent machines will run on some very specialized hardware with, by definition, designed particular architecture. I suppose both will have many different limiting factors to how deeply can a machine reason about itself. That's why I believe there won't be a runaway effect in intelligent modelling/reasoning. It'll be a step function.

Another related issue is that a new architecture which breaks the scalability limits of previous generation will produce new and distinct entities. If intelligence and self-interest often correlate, a machine might be vary of creating a better version of itself lest it be replaced.

Slightly related new release by ParallaxNick about the topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nrm1JsKhzeA

I generally recommend his high qualify cosmology content and his older Fermi paradox releases.

Parent refers to the behaviour of generating action potentials which travel to synapses connecting (mostly) axons with dendrites. The continuous (analogue) signal processing pre- and post- synapse seems to be a massive part of how neurons achieve the computation they do. A hypothesis I subscribe to claims that it is cheaper to compute locally with molecule gradients and protein folding than with spikes. Brains leverage that. The specific statement you quoted is to the best of my knowledge inaccurate.

I am not an expert, my understanding of neurons is largely is based on [0], [1], [2].

[0]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/principles-neural-design

[1]: http://www.sci.utah.edu/~macleod/bioen/be6003/notes/W08-spru...

[2]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-connections-cortic...

I am learning simplified Chinese without the pronunciation. "It significantly cuts the amount of memorization." I thought. I am primarily interested in Chinese internet which I believe will open a massive new world, and understanding how this completely different way of expressing oneself works.

When I go through a text I understand I either don't sound the words or pronounce broken translation in my mind.

I've doubted this approach a few times because, as you say, it's uncommon, but I'm sticking with it and I'm curious what comes out of it in a year or two.

Blindsight by Peter Watts is a great sci-fi novel in which the author explores an idea somewhat similar your pet theory.