This was a prose piece I performed for the 2024 KC Winter Solstice celebration, written by me I have a scar running from right above my navel to the right end of my abdomen. You see, I was born premature, with a volvulus, which means that my intestines were tangled...
The Neuralink YouTube channel (which is apparently a thing that exists) released a demo of their technology using Pager, a nine year old Macaque monkey. WHO'S A GOOD MONKEY! YES YOU ARE! Video Overview In the video, Pager plays two games using a joystick. For the first, he moves a...
Nitpick: shouldn't the observation that you didn't observe a proof of negation be a "codisproof" (that is, nonobservation of disproof)? Now, disproof is a type of proof (namely a proof of the negation), so you can validly say that codisproof is a type of coproof (namely, a coproof of negation). This does mean that proof and codisproof are the two that are evidence for H, while disproof and coproof are evidence for -H.
The link is about social contagion[1] type induction of mental illnesses like anorexia. I'm uncertain how true they are for stuff like anorexia, but think that they are much more unlikely to hold for cluster headaches:
Migraines are much worse — there is debilitating pain that lasts for hours, often with extreme light sensitivity and vomiting on top of it. I’ve never had one, but I’ve watched someone close to me get them regularly — and I’d personally pause before wishing a migraine on my worst enemy. Our old good friends, ibuprofen and aspirin, are at least somewhat helpful for a majority of patients
This is not always true about migraines. I rarely (~3ish/year) get migraines, and mine are mild. I am technically "debilitated" for hours, but the pain intensity wasn't much worse than a tension headache for me. The light sensitivity and nausea suck, but mostly I was... (read more)
I personally use only one fist. I go from left to right on my left hand, using my right pointer finger to touch the successive knuckles and valleys. After reaching July for my pointer finger's knuckle, I double back (doing that knuckle again for August). I like the visual compactness, and having separate hands for the pointer and the reference.
For me, a critical step was using shaving cream. Yes, I was not doing that. I think what happened is I once tried shaving cream as a kid, didn't seem to think it did anything, and then for the next few years would spend an hour on an inferior and painful shave. Additionally, using new blades - I think a few weeks to a month is about my razor frequency if it's just used for my face?
I think I'd prefer the header-thing to take up half the vertical width that it does. But I have weaker feelings there and probably others like it more than I dislike it.
"whispy" certainly captures part of my aesthetic discontent. I think it is literally just going from (on my end in dark mode) the previous dark green text on black background to white and grey text on weaker grey background.
Edit: I just looked at the wayback machine, the profile page did not look like what my memories thought it did - I must've been thinking of design features elsewhere on LW, like profile mouseovers and green links in post bodies. The "wispy"... (read more)
There may be stuff I'm doing automatically that makes it go well, but I just say "Well, gotta go!" and then "Bye!" and then wave and walk away.
I took a similar approach early on, for example I only learnt what an integral was part way through an explanation of Lagrangian mechanics, learned linear algebra from a quantum mechanics textbook, learnt basic special relativity while trying to understand the Dirac equation (I think - I'm not sure, and this sounds silly even for me), learned a chunk of multivariable calculus for the sole purpose of understanding the heat equation and then another chunk for Maxwell's, took the shortest path through Lee's book on differential geometry that would get me to the generalized Stokes' theorem.
The strategy seems to work unusually well for me - the standard advice is to not overwhelm students with loads of new information, whereas for me "dump my head into a pool of info as it gradually seeps in" is a very effective approach. I'm not sure why.
I don't like it, and here's what I think is why: since LessWrong already does a good job of showing article text on link mouse over, I like having a bunch of titles that I can hover to get the article text if I want. The new page spends more of the screen on body that I could already easily see if I wanted to, and so is a waste of space.
I'm not sure how much of my feelings are just "AAA, THE UI CHANGED!". Considering how when I (rarely) use reddit I prefer the old UI despite having not been around in the old days and having used the new one for years after finding the platform, it's likely that I'll still object to this UI after getting used to it.
Edit: Looking at the mobile version: It's great! No complaints, I strictly like the new mobile version better than the old mobile version!
This was a prose piece I performed for the 2024 KC Winter Solstice celebration, written by me
I have a scar running from right above my navel to the right end of my abdomen. You see, I was born premature, with a volvulus, which means that my intestines were tangled and blue. I spent the first months of my life in the NICU in New York, my dad trying to get what time he could from a job that required travel to spend with me. The scar is from surgery to untangle my intestines - which is a thing we can do now!
All that has happened since then. Every laugh, every smile, every... (read more)
The Neuralink YouTube channel (which is apparently a thing that exists) released a demo of their technology using Pager, a nine year old Macaque monkey.
In the video, Pager plays two games using a joystick. For the first, he moves a cursor to an orange square in a grey grid, then moves it to the next square to pop up. For the second, he plays his favorite game, Pong.
While he plays, the Neuralink team have been analyzing the neural activity in his brain using a Neuralink implanted in his brain. They are able to receive data in realtime, and figure out which patterns of activity correspond... (read more)
I definitely repeatedly being annoyed by the grid of sequences, especially when there's more than 3 of them.