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progr4mmaticon Ask HN: Good documentaries about finance?

I loved this video by Ray Dalio. Really gives a great macro economic view and explains how he timed 2008.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

progr4mmaticon Ask HN: How do you track and manage your (personal) investments?

I use google spreadsheets with some custom logic for the UI and getting data/ etc. Thinking about making it into a web app for fun...

progr4mmaticon Understanding schizophrenia: What exactly is schizophrenia?

Ah interesting. I didn't realize we'd categorized such a hierarchy. Reminds me of something Hoftstadter wrote in one of his earlier books.

progr4mmaticon Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit

Interesting. I wonder if that could explain the stomach problems I get when taking some pharmaceuticals that are meant to target my central nervous system.

progr4mmaticon Understanding schizophrenia: What exactly is schizophrenia?

interesting. Have you read up on the new research that shows that DNA from mitochondria leaks out during stress and is treated as a foreign invader?

progr4mmaticon Understanding schizophrenia: What exactly is schizophrenia?

Maybe this is because I've been watching Maniac but I've been thinking about this. My hypothesis is based upon the idea that the brain's main purpose is to make sense of the world and to do that it makes predictions and theories of "world" as it goes about.

Schizophrenia just seems like this process on overdrive where some of the key processes involved with keeping this overall process stable go awry. One of these minor processes is probably a belief process where the brain classifies things by True / not True. Since minor psychochis can occur to recreational drug users using psychedelics that make their mind more open to ideas, this seems to make sense to me.

progr4mmaticon Does the entorhinal cortex use the Fourier transform? (2013)

Wow, reminds me of Douglas Hoftstadter's analogy based congition theories.

progr4mmaticon Introducing A16Z Crypto

If the tokens provide utility, e.g. this token is 500gb of storage and adoption, network activity, or technology productivity increases, the value of these utility tokens will go up in value on the market.

So it’s basically like a new commodity. Ether is compared to gas on the Ethereum network for distributed compute for instance.

progr4mmaticon Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI

I think I saw that one of Watson’s engineers is now working on a crypto project. SingularDTV? Heh, shows how much confidence was left in the program.

progr4mmaticon Monitoring the Fermentation of Sourdough Starter with Computer Vision

Cool read. Just found out about sci-kit this weekend. Computer vision is fascinating. Just coding a simple binary filter makes you appreciate the Herculean amount of parallel processes going on in your noggin...

progr4mmaticon Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python

That wasn't the best example. Lots of noise in that high depth shot of a messy cafe + quick movement from the fan. If you look at the end of the new clip, even with high accuracy filtering, you're getting a pretty clean depth image closer up. I'm pretty happy with the D415 so far.

progr4mmaticon Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python

Thank you! Learned a valuable lesson today.

progr4mmaticon Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python

Yikes! Never looked at the file size.. let me fix that