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This video is much more convincing than the original post


depends on how regulated and taxed it is


sometimes these structures act as heat sinks to ensure even heat dissipation throughout the part and improve conformity


This is a photopolymer printer - while the reaction is mildly exothermic, the amount of heat produced is negligible.


I agree with your other points, but I'd like to point out that there's absolutely nothing wrong with supporting multiple ideas that are usually found in different ideological cages


My girlfriend found a jane street promo t-shirt in an Ithaca thrift shop - it has a nice starry sky pattern and reads something like "A more elegant language for a more civilized age". I'm enamored with the shirt! I don't know much about performant FP financial wizardry but appreciate their design dept.

https://www.janestreet.com/blog/what-we-do/faqs/ <-404's for me


Wow I would love a Jane Street shirt


I know, right? It's one of those companies that depresses me because I think I'd love working there but I don't consider myself a genius


I don't believe you need to be a genius. Just willing to move to New York. Give it a whack. How much can it hurt?


I got given one at ICFP this year. If you're in the UK I'll send it to you.


Are there other paths of study relating to depression that have are gathering interesting evidence? Where do you believe the field should be looking?


> Are there other paths of study relating to depression that have are gathering interesting evidence?

Yes. One of the most promising is Deep Brain Stimulation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/magazine/02depression.html...

Quote: "As it turned out, 8 of the 12 patients he operated on, including Deanna, felt their depressions lift while suffering minimal side effects — an incredible rate of effectiveness in patients so immovably depressed. Nor did they just vaguely recover. Their scores on the Hamilton depression scale, a standard used to measure the severity of depression, fell from the soul-deadening high 20's to the single digits — essentially normal. They've re-engaged their families, resumed jobs and friendships, started businesses, taken up hobbies old and new, replanted dying gardens. They've regained the resilience that distinguishes the healthy from the depressed."

I hasten to add that DBS is nowhere near ready for the clinic -- it's experimental and risky. But it shows what can happen when people are willing to consider biological explanations instead of psychological ones.


Is the Hamilton depression scale scientific?


Because the Hamilton Depression Scale only measures symptoms and doesn't address the issue of causes (theories), no, it isn't. And the linked study will have to be repeated very carefully, with more patients, before it will be accepted as a treatment.

And finally, regardless of its value as a treatment, that study can only be a steppingstone toward actually understanding what depression is, in a biological, scientific sense.


There have been some promising studies showing rapid-onset relief for major depression following the administration of ketamine. Glutamate seems to be getting more attention these days, in terms of its potential role in mental illness.


Depression is atrophy of the limbic system. I understood that flooding your brain in serotonin stimulated neuron growth.

(It has never been the case that depression = low serotonin. No one has ever believed that.)


> (It has never been the case that depression = low serotonin. No one has ever believed that.)

Doesn't everyone who reads about SSRIs on a pop-science level believe this?


suicide tuesdays


See also: darwin pond


Love it! emergent complexity, pixels, and colors! I'm working on a similar project I want to show you if you make it to a Queens Hack Night this year :)


Cha Gheill!! If I'm back in the area I'll definitely swing by, feel free to send me a link until then


our perception of the universe certainly does!


advertise through streamers!


Definitely! Some have already talked about the event a few times while they were live.


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