geedy's comments

I just bought my ppu digitizer two days ago! Very excited to get that working.

There are a couple reasons you would go this route or classic nesrgb, and I was very tempted (I might still do a nesrgb on my other nes, if ppu digitizer goes well).

Primary one is lumacode is a digital signal that requires interpretation before it can be input into a tv. You can use the creator's rgb2hdmi which requires a raspberry Pi, or you can use a scaler like retrotink or ossc (pro). An RGB connection is standalone in many setups, and also works with scalers. If you want to interface with a CRT, lumacode doesn't immediately support that.

Additionally, ppudigitizer doesn't (directly) support multiple palletes. You are stuck with whatever your lumacode interpreter provides (though you could in theory change this yourself).

Thank you for your amazing work! :)

Variants occur in both unvaccinated and the vaccinated.

Given enough time, a virus will tend evolve to become more infectious period.

Somebody else could confirm this, but it seems to me that the current known variants of concern are not responses to vaccination.

Is this the kind of thing one can easily buy? Do we know how she it is for general use?

Each though.

Religions house many people fearful of what is happening in their lives, the lives of their loved ones. They want explanations for why their expectations and needs are not met. Is it surprising that the powerful would leverage that fear?

Funny how the Hebrew and Greek words for fear have so many other meanings, and yet the church has taught but one for so long when considering the "fear of God".

Seems to contradict "perfect love casts out all fear". Perhaps we would all be better off if we understood "wisdom begins with the awe of God" as the preferred intention.

Because fear based things really suck.

I appreciate your call to pay attention to subtlety.

And in that light:

Both science and economics are used broadly and brutally to justify a biases.

Both are ignored for their ability to measure, and used to shout over disagreements instead.

May we use both for more nuanced conversations, instead of less.

> It's not a great move to assume that conservatives are dumb, racist, and unsophisticated.

I don't love labels, but I don't think "conservatives" are simply any of those things.

This isn't an original thought, but I think they are mostly afraid of losing their community if they change their mind.

Fear of disconnection is innate and biological. When my trump supporting friends say "I believe it" to somebody suggesting that the Capitol Hill rioters were antifa pretending to be trump supporters, their lack of interest in challenging their own beliefs stems from the risk incurred with disagreeing with their friends and loved ones.

This effect is so strong that our brains give hits of dopamine whenever our beliefs are confirmed. We are not weird to change our minds.

So no. "Conservatives" aren't dumb. Just like the rest of us, they biologically afraid of social disconnection. And all that shouting across the isle makes it harder for them to see "progressives" accepting them.

I love this.

Any tips for doing this during a pandemic? Beyond just the usual of treating people well?

I'd argue he never experienced anything that terrible. I can totally relate to wondering whether even another hour was doable, and no, being alive just for the sake of being alive in those moments is not worth it. I guess I've always been hopeful even in the worst of times that things will get better (they always do) and that's the only thing that makes those stretches workable.

Not necessarily the future? Use musk of done part of past to predict a different party of the past?

If we take on defeatist language, we will be defeated. Scaring people into inaction by accepting defeat isn't a productive path forward.

The general problem is that the warmer waters are trapping the cooler waters below. Upwelling is an attempt to fix it!

David Wallace wells isn't your best source. His work has been criticized for misrepresenting the science by many reputable climate scientists, many of which are easy to find online. It is clear in his response to being called too alarmist that he chooses to stretch the truth.

Whether or not his tactic is ethical is worth debate perhaps, but whether his picture is reflective of what climate scientists believe is an answered question (its not). The situation is bad, but we need not become defeatist, lest we give up entirely.

I am not associated with any of the following, but there are organizations attempting to build devices that will bring colder, nutrient rich waters to the surface to cause phytoplankton blooms (or use the same nutrients for seaweed farming):

1) ocean-based.com 2) http://www.climatefoundation.org/

We should of course do everything we can to stop emitting carbon. But projects like these may an important part in our future.

Optimism is really, really hard. It requires you to risk looking foolish. Our emotional needs to feel connected work against us staking a position too far away from the norm.

But few great things have been accomplished without the risk of looking foolish, at least at the outset.

So is it fair to say that basically your only constraint is the price of your input electricity?

Can you elaborate on the benefit for a high number of hyper parameters?

Is there a place where major scientific findings are searchable to easily see the level of evidence supporting, whether they have been replicated, etc?

The other reply to this comment does a good job of summarizing a lot of the problems Peterson poses. I would also say he has a cultish following, which means he holds a fair amount of influence, which he doesn't always wield responsibly.

I have also consumed a lot of Peterson content, and much of what he says has a lot of value, and not just for young men. He also holds positions I think are indefensible, unscientific, and highly prejudiced. It is important to embrace nuance and subtleties, loving parts of what we dislike and disliking parts of what we love.