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"The mechanism of action of ketamine primarily involves modulation of mitochondrial metabolism as opposed to NMDA receptor antagonism"

More evidence for Chris Palmer's 'Metabolic Theory of Mental Disorders'


It kinda makes sense if you consider depression to be a mechanism to get into winter hibernation. It's just we can't hibernate and even if we could, somebody has to pay them bills.


That was the funniest social critique I’ve heard in a long time.


But are we built for hibernation? Or is the capacity for depression just a biological mistake for us?


We are not build for anything. It's a legacy codebase. Some stuff stopped working, but nobody removed the surrounding utility codes and the config entry to enable it.


Damned legacy code and technical debt always ruining everything.


Supposedly, the Tesla Model 3 is going to be cheaper than the Chevy Bolt when it comes out.

"Musk points out that Chevy's claimed $30,000 price tag assumes the $7500 federal tax incentive for zero-emissions cars, putting the vehicle's true price at $37,500. The Model 3, Musk insists, will come in at $35,000 before any incentives, meaning buyers will only be on the hook for $27,500. And that's before any additional state-based incentives."


And piece can be piece of the investment, or piece as in "gun". Love that verse.


Maybe not the Oculus Rift but that's coming out soon, one can only imagine what the next 10-20 years will bring. Here is Ray Kurzweil helping with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660oel93vZA


Best article I've seen so far talking about the technology: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/science/taking-real-life-s...


Yeah definitely, combined with reading/watching the Nvidia info it starts to make sense - the technology is incredible on many levels but the problem is it means you've only got 1/5th -> 1/6th the resolution. if they're truly solved (and patented) that with some stroke of genius, they could completely win the VR wars. Also interesting to wonder whether the solution could be applicable to a light field camera.


In the Nvidia video they are using OLED screens from another HMD. It looks like it has a bunch of microlenses on top of it, maybe 200 or so. So it seems like resolution would be a big issue since small form factor OLEDs only go up to 2560 x 1440 in current devices available to consumers.


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