mometsi

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Comment · 1 year ago

In the linked article, [email protected] uses the CORREL function in an openoffice spreadsheet to determine a weak correlation between autism diagnoses and sulfur content in tap water in a few regions of New Jersey.

His other publications include a self-published amazon book titled Autism, Enzymes and the Brimstone Demons. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Enzymes-Brimstone-Demons-Trill...

Comment · 1 year ago

It's not used for b12 production in human metabolism. It is, after all, a vitamin. Is this about cobalt deficiency in dairy and meat animals?

Comment · 1 year ago

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  }

Comment · 1 year ago

Exactly. It's the same way that having a deformed jaw, hydrocephalus, and leg braces equates to being absolute ruler over an empire colonizing half the world.

Comment · 1 year ago

Feature request: an alarm clock mode that gradually fades in stall warnings and mayday chatter when you need to wake up.

Comment · 1 year ago

> How is this different from tesseract and friends?

The workflow is for digitizing historical printed documents. Think conserving old announcements in blackletter typesetting, not extracting info from typewritten business documents.

Comment · 1 year ago

Most clever has to be the encoding on the left side of the flag of Belarus, which reveals a special pattern after 1991 iterations!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus#/media/File:Be...

Edit: not really. But what a wasted opportunity. Come on, State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus, what are you doing all day?

Comment · 1 year ago

I wonder if there's a significant nominative determinism effect--

One might expect some of the most prominent people in math and cs theory to have names like Aaronson and Baez...

Comment · 1 year ago

Mandatory binding arbitration will still be an issue.

Maybe pack those pseudocourts by registering a huge roster of consumer-oriented arbitrators?

Comment · 1 year ago

Edit: Whoops. I incorrectly believed that Caffe was developed with DARPA support. I see DARPA acknowledgments on papers written at BLVC by some of the same authors, but not on Caffe itself.

Comment · 1 year ago

Seems like a reasonable alternative to Proton for multiple domains: email that costs money instead of being haunted by AI.

That logo is creepy though, and implies exactly the opposite.

Comment · 1 year ago

I'm no topologist, but I don't think they're going to be able to place that catheter without at least one hole.

Comment · 1 year ago

Less conveniently, you can use your browser to inspect the code panel and change its font to whatever you like.

Comment · 1 year ago

You may gaze upon SF Mono only in conjunction with the APPLE DEVELOPER TOOLS; any unauthorized viewing will melt your eyeballs.

Here's the location of the Ark, for those still curious:

https://github.com/thelioncape/San-Francisco-family/tree/mas...