I’d be nice if they mentioned how to identify structural problems. Itd be even more nice if the paper wasn’t hidden behind a $64 paywall.

Oh I think you absolutely nailed it. I just meant its not just two separate words. Like the difference between a game with action and adventure" and an “action-adventure game”

I love it, I wouldn’t have clicked this post without it. Its an actual term

https://www.howtogeek.com/what-are-boomer-shooters-and-are-they-worth-playing/

Continuing gaming’s long tradition of dumb names for game genres, boomer shooters are first person shooters that don’t use auto-regen health (COD, Halo), in offline they give health frequently from killing enemies (rather exclusively health packs), and they’re designed to be fast paced, usually with a wide FOV, an absurdly high “walk” speed with no run button, and somewhat disorienting or labyrinth-like map style. They’re often offline, but can be multiplayer player-vs-player.

Even if the game is completely modern: Doom Eternal, Ultrakill, Dusk, Turbo Overkill, etc its still called a boomer shooter.

Those are really good points, and I appreciate the input. I could see why alcohol being on someones desk isn’t a problem, e.g. depending on the person its possible the bottle doesn’t have a “gravity” tempting them.

I’m going to guess that reality is somewhere between my points and your points. Notifications can be configured, but my grandmother isn’t going to figure it out. Having a bottle of alcohol on every person’s desk is probably completely neutral for a lot of people, but could be detrimental to others. Etc

I’m saying one of the big downsides has nothing to do with self discipline.

• Even if we never click an advertisement.
• Even if we never eat from the candy bowl.
• Even if we never use the bad phone apps.

Merely living in a world covered in advertisements, living next to a delicious smelling candy bowl, living 30 seconds away from memes, rage-bait, doom scrolling, sports gambling, and other slop – just living next to those things are bad for our mental health.

Some sources if you’re curious on the research behind it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4731333/

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301694

https://scholarworks.uark.edu/mgmtuht/31/

I disagree. Yes there can be good intermediate steps, but deleting slop is not even half as healthy as locking a phone away.

1. Interruptions

Not just phone calls or texts, but things like typing an email on the phone and then seeing a text or having the GPS interrupt your train of thought by yelling “Continue straight for 5 miles”. Brains hate interruptions. Those are still going to exist even when the slop is gone.

2. Resisting a temptation is exhausting. “not eating candy is healthy”… yes but having a candy bowl right next to your desk is exhausting. It takes 2sec to open a twitter link in the browser. Uninstalling an app is like moving the candy bowl to a nearby room, yeah its better, but it only takes 30 sec to reinstall.

Turning off the dopamine machine (not eating candy) is one thing. But Eddy was showing something a lot bigger than that; deleting his access to the temptation. He didnt know the code to unlock the phone.

less than 5% of Americans support using economic strong-arming, and less than 1% support military force for Greenland or Canada (source below). Annexing is overwhelming unpopular for both conservatives and liberals. The people, including people in the military, will revolt if Trump uses force to annex any country. And the people of Canada and Greenland have made it very very clear: force will be necessary.

No comment from me about the rest. Expectations can be bad but keep them in check.

https://angusreid.org/canada-51st-state-trump/

Fair enough 😁 but think of the portability

My guess, 10,000x the cost on CL1. Even with the tech perfected, bio neurons fire much much slower than logic gates and electricity in a circuit board. If you have an ASIC (custom built board that isn’t really using a CPU), the ASIC would be much much faster for deterministic calculations at high speed with an active cooling system.

Bio neurons are great at self-organizing. If you already know how they need to be organized (e.g. a hashing algorithm), and you need max-speed output there’s no real advantage.

It’s not wrong to say bio neurons are power efficient, its just that power efficiency depends on what the activity is.

Don’t worry all neurons are cage free, grass fed, open range

For real though, where the neurons come from is as interesting/impressive as the computation itself. The guys at Cortical, at least in prototyping, give blood samples, revert blood cells into a stem cell state, and then (over the course of 6 months) they convert their stem cells into neurons before putting them into a dish. (To be clear, Cortical did not invent the stem cell tech at all. Apparently its standard practice and nobody in the bio engineering world cared to tell the rest of the world.)

Meaning… You could theoretically build a computer out of your own neurons and then program them.

The neurons in the machine (or at least the prototypes idk about every CL1) are neurons from the lab lead (Hans). And he has given consent 😁

I’ll ask them, I happen to see them in a zoom meeting occasionally.

I very very very much doubt its a new machine, however you might need to send your machine back to get it refilled as I imagine there is a precise integration between bio neurons and electrical hardware.

You actually legit feed it snacks haha. There’s a nutrient mixture/sludge to keep them alive.

Sounds good. Given its creeky all over the place, I’ll probably try mapping out the joists first. I’ll (hopefully) post an update after my attempt.

Thanks for the advice!

Blue heeler!

Yeah I’d say that’d be pretty tough with carpet

Nope, unfortunately

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For a post that sparks good answers that I’m happy to see, I’m sad to see the post itself have so many down votes.