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Most groups here in Argentina run on WhatsApp. You get like a hundred messages per day. Luckily someone pins the important messages, she deserves a medal.

Racket is using https://www.discourse.org/contact , but I'm not sure how civilian friendly it is.



What do "near/3" and "near/+2" mean?


> When I was in fourth grade they weren't supposed to use Encyclopedias for their reports if the library had suitable books. So the trick was to find a topic that the library did not have suitable books on.

Protip: Use Wikipwdia, but copy the cites and never say you used Wikipedia.


Today it's Sunday. It will be posted tomorrow automaticaly by whoishiring.


Thats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_reflex

The "decition" is made by the spinal cord. It's not surprising if you imagine that the brain is an oversized part of the spinal cord.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion


If it’s known some kind of decision making, so to speak, was happening via electrical signals in the spinal cord… why is it suprising that it happens in other types of cells too?

Neurons can do more operations than normal cells.

If I can make a bad approximation:

* Making circuits with normal cells is like making circuits with resistors and capacitors.

* Making circuits with neurons is like adding transistors to the mix.

(Please don't take this analogy too seriously, probably biologist and electricians are writing angry replies now.)


you are making sense with it, here read this:

Electrically Excitable Cells

https://neurotext.library.stonybrook.edu/C4/C4_1/C4_1.html


Someone replied to me in an old comment that for fast Python you have to use numpy. In the folder there is a program in plain python, another with numpy and another with numba. I'm not sure why only one is shown in the data.

Disclaimer: I used numpy and numba, but my level is quite low. Almost as if I just type `import numpy as np` and hope the best.


For what it's worth, I've ported a lot of heavily optimized numpy code to Julia for work, and consistently gotten 10x-100x speedups, largely due to how much easier it is to control memory allocations and parallelize more effectively.

> Almost as if I just type `import numpy as np` and hope the best.

As do we all. If you browse through deep learning code a large majority is tensor juggling.


One problem is people selling their home to pay for snake oil, so their children now are not only orphan but also homeless.

Imagina an evil bank clerk on the door of a cancer center that says:

fake quote> There is a new promising [unverified] treatment that can save the life of your S.O. It's very expensive so you have to take a double mortgage on your home. You are very lucky, because today we are offering it with only a 49.99% interest rate. Do you love him/her?


Okay great point I hadn’t considered - makes the parent comment more sensible. Thanks!

Two minor complains:

Why the bell off is sliced? https://www.itshover.com/icons/bell-off-icon

Why the refresh icon rotates in the wrong direction? https://www.itshover.com/icons/refresh-icon


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