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Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

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2•ykdojo•5m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

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The Evolution of the Interface

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Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

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Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

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There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

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Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

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Ask HN: Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA?

3•arduinomancer•2mo ago
Is the “hardware” of the brain fixed?

Or can the “software” cause changes in the hardware?

Comments

PaulHoule•2mo ago
FPGA.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbian_theory

The way I would put it is that all those different neurons with different kind of receptors on that are so "colored" that there are a set from one place to another so there is an overall gross wiring diagram in that a green bundle of wires go from the limbic system to the frontal lobe but the detailed wiring plan is not encoded in the DNA the way a CPU or an old school television set has a plan -- there is not enough data in the DNA to do that. Instead the brain self-organizes the detailed wiring by learning.

gsf_emergency_6•2mo ago
It's a tad strange to simulate nonlinear analog effects with digital circuits, but it works!
PaulHoule•2mo ago
Not really.

Circa 1970s there were bands touring (e.g. Yes) with music synthesizers that were made by wiring up voltage controlled oscillators, ring oscillators, filters and similar analog components.

That sort of musician was really an electronics technician who had to keep a fiddly piece of hardware working on the road. And that kind of synthesizer was often monophonic or not very polyphonic.

Yamaha's DX-7 was a digital simulation of that kind of synthesizer which was absolutely reliable and a musical instrument really has to be because you're going to put it in a case that is going to get banged around in shipping and expect it to work just fine wherever you go.

gsf_emergency_6•2mo ago
Sorry, I meant conceptually amusing (to me).. of course error correction is basically why.. it just tickles me that way that organisms didn't evolve digital circuits (or did we, maybe it's just veeerry subtle :)
allears•2mo ago
So what you seem to be asking is, can the environment and lived experience affect the structure of the brain, or is it fixed at birth? My understanding is that brain structure is malleable, at least at the neuron level, and that there are lots of measurable changes throughout life, many of them caused by our learning and experience.
gnosis67•2mo ago
FPGA without question.

Completely flexible.

I will use an analogy of consciousness and the mind, take from it what you will. I have written elsewhere about “quantum holography” being a part of our minds and consciousness.

The mind is as a car, and our consciousness the spark that passes over the spark gap. Yes, Zarathustra and by proxy Nietzsche are inspirations yet there is a more literal point.

By the quantum nature of consciousness, an inverse hyperdimensional hologram of the car would flash in the arc of the spark gap.

By tenacity of will (determination of resolve, in the moment of now) one may bias the potentials of that holographic projection such that the embodiment of the car will “optimize.” With persistence and vision the self may be slowly yet gradually restructured in accordance with will.

The trick is having the right “information” (vectors and their unique vector spaces.) I found that before the Internet, even modernity, there were abundant stories of great characters and their mental capacities. Those most interesting are those who lived the most full lives.

Self is a technology of consciousness.