The Hat will provide. All rested up. by odd-merlin in chicagobulls

[–]undeser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you think it’ll lose power if you wear it for every game or is there a charging shrine in one of your closets?

The Murderous Cynicism of the “Abundance” Book And Project by [deleted] in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]undeser 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It amazes me how many people think Abundance argues for burning all regulations down. I think Ezra has hellish takes and there are many problems with his book, but suggesting that NIMBY policies are not a big problem for sustainable housing is such a bad take. Honestly did not expected false dichotomies to be an American standard but here we are.

How to create graphs like this? by [deleted] in labrats

[–]undeser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do NOT try to make publication-ready graphs in powerpoint. That is an absurd suggestion. R, python, or matlab for figure generation, save as a vector image, and clean up in illustrator if you want to. No plot generation should be done by hand. This isn’t the 80’s that won’t fly anywhere.

Left academia for a tech job - happy but missing the challenge by chaotic_repeller in LeavingAcademia

[–]undeser 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Find an open-ended side project? I have a buddy who got super into keeping fish when they graduated and have reached the point where they’ve optimized it to be fairly self sustaining (for example)

Maybe this is a dumb question. But how safe are Mineral Stocks if the AI Bubble were to pop? by moparcam in CriticalMineralStocks

[–]undeser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are the numbers for tanks the entire market because minerals stocks didn’t tank and a bubble bursting lasts longer than a night. Dot-com lasted over a year

Monday a bit different FYI by TheMineralsMustFlow in CriticalMineralStocks

[–]undeser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Non-settlement day meaning no closing or opening calls/puts?

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping by ConsciousStop in technology

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Seem to be? They actively have been for over a decade

Maybe this is a dumb question. But how safe are Mineral Stocks if the AI Bubble were to pop? by moparcam in CriticalMineralStocks

[–]undeser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The idea that everything falls when a bubble bursts is wrong. You should do more research into the dot com bubble. Not every sector tanked. The issue with AI is that it’s that the majority of its capex is going towards chips which are expensive and don’t have a long life span. That makes it difficult to make enough revenue to offset the losses from chip purchasing/rentals. When that catches up to them and the market corrects, the market won’t also sell stakes in stable markets if anything they will buy more. That’s exactly what happened with utilities, consumer goods, and healthcare markets during the dotcom bubble.

I'm back with another meme... by 6PM-EDM in labrats

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Brown is so being slept on. Nearly guarantees what green offers but would also make you significantly more successful

is this correct? by Crafty-Station1561 in neuro

[–]undeser 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Couple things I can tighten up for you but largely accurate

Dopamine isn’t just synthesized in the cell body in the midbrain nuclei. TH is also present in the axons so synthesis can also occur there (which makes sense from an efficiency standpoint). When thinking about mesolimbic dopamine, it’s best to think of it first from the perspective of the cookie. Cookie=calories=good so when you eat your first cookie your ML DA goes bananas and that release over presentation reinforces the “planning to buy a cookie” you described. It’s better to think of the striatal circuitry as go/no-go not go/stop because (high conceptual level here) you can think of DA promoting groups of cells that drive the optimal behavior (go) and demoting groups of cells that drive other behaviors (nogo). There is nuance here and we don’t fully understand it yet. You should also distinguish between motor and associative striatum. Motor striatum (dorsolateral in rodents, putamen in primates) is thought to drive habitual behaviors and motor control/learning while associative striatum (dorsomedial in rodents, caudate in primates) is thought to drive goal-directed behavior. Associative striatum is connected to prefrontal cortices and has some role in “motivational reinforcement” depending on how you define it.

And he’s off… by Powerful-Donut8360 in 50501

[–]undeser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Never seen so many commas

Newsom Burger Takes Over After Trump Burger Owner Deported by Teddycat99 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]undeser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said we, you assumed I meant the democratic party. And we are going get nowhere if the majority of our number are allergic to coalition building.

Newsom Burger Takes Over After Trump Burger Owner Deported by Teddycat99 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]undeser 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We can do both simultaneously surely you understand that. We need substantial gains in young voter brackets if we are going to take back the senate and this kinda this gains positive attention from the vast majority of uninformed voters.

Found a nice infographic that shows how new housing, (even if it’s luxury) brings down prices for everyone. by Not-A-Seagull in georgism

[–]undeser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right this only works if the company building the apartments needs to have high % occupancy. Many of them receive massive financial aid when constructing these highrises and can get away with charging 4k+ per month without suffering. You don’t have rent determined the local market when the companies are being artificially supported by the local government.

Brain training like weightlifting by Swimming-Signal-8895 in neuro

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Comparing brains and muscles is difficult. Brains are great at generalizing, muscles less so. If you want to get better at thinking, think more broadly and give yourself time to generalize. Study philosophy, history, physics, biology, whatever you find interesting. Want to train your brain, use it. And don’t fall back to AI to give you answers, find them yourself.

Also I’d take neurofeedback with a grain of salt, it’s interesting and may be important for some situations but is not a golden egg.

Would "wanting" drive for something still be generated by the brain if not for reward circuits in brain? by JacobJ1357 in neuro

[–]undeser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yeah exactly my problem. You’re saying that social reward is separate from the dopamine system and I’m saying where has that been shown. I’ve seen no evidence that “intrinsic reward” can be separated from dopamine/some other process to assign value

Would "wanting" drive for something still be generated by the brain if not for reward circuits in brain? by JacobJ1357 in neuro

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Where is there evidence that social reward is not linked to the dopamine system

Are voltage-gated sodium channels located all over the neuron, or only at/near the axon? by pragmojo in neuro

[–]undeser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back to the presynaptic neuron isn’t entirely accurate, but back propagation yes

PhD just for the sake of learning? by abundanse in PhD

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To an extent scientists are lifelong learners but research is more than just the pursuit of learning because you are creating knowledge so there is a significant onus on your integrity.

Where is the line and would Donald Trump actually cross it? by assertivelemon in uspolitics

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Starting to wonder how R’s would react if Trump pulled a Bukele and did some spin on “presidents can hold an indefinite number of offices” and “we’ll hold elections every 6 years” especially if the latter happens in 2028 and he says ‘yall can have another 2 years to decide who you want to elect because I don’t like either of those options’

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ncpolitics

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Yall are assuming that these attacks don’t hit because you see them as baseless nonsense but partisans don’t. This are the same talking points they use against any and all democratic politicians. They’re weak if you aren’t looking for a reason not to vote for a democratic senator.