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by deskglass 2y ago
Friends say they typically use Dynamo and that using a relational database requires approval from a vp (because of scaling concerns).
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by deskglass 5y ago
The replication crisis isn't merely in psychology, old studies, or studies that didn't carefully record their methodology. Eg the review I linked mentions a study from 2006 that didnt replicate in a larger trial. The one about sto
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by deskglass 5y ago
Note that I didn't just read the word "priming" in the book and seize upon it generically. As noted in Ritchie's review, Sapolsky references specific studies which larger trials have failed to replicate (eg the Macbeth E
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by deskglass 5y ago
True, but Behave was published in 2017! That's ~7 years after people noticed these theories fail to replicate. So it's not that some parts of the book don't stand the test of time, it's that it doesn't accurately r
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by deskglass 5y ago
I read Science Fictions and don't recall politics coming up much. Ironically, his most political point was his defense of the Mertonian norm of universalism from both leftist and rightist critiques. That norm is relevant in this discus
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by deskglass 5y ago
After enjoying Sapolsky's lectures on YouTube (including this one) I began reading his book Behave. I was surprised to see that it refers to theories that fail to replicate (eg priming) as if they were solid theories. Stuart Richie (a
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by deskglass 5y ago
Automatic market making for prediction markets, eg Auger.
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by deskglass 7y ago
What is the recourse here? Would it be reasonable to contact the person that approved the patent with information showing that plenty flashcard systems precede this patent? I imagine there is some more formal system.
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by deskglass 7y ago
> It’s why you see a lot of COOs and CEOs with some legal background or at least familiarity. An alternative hypothesis based on people I know - traditionally, smart/middle-to-high class people pick between medicine, law, and financ
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by deskglass 8y ago
Incremental Reading[1] is a related tactic that coverts reading material into facts preserved via space repetition software. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_reading
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by deskglass 9y ago
Makes sense, thanks!
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by deskglass 9y ago
Is 1 really all that different from driving in a car with the AC on? If I understand correctly, car filters typically only filter very large particles that would damage the engine.
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by deskglass 9y ago
Note that if your gambling laws are too restrictive/expansive you lose the social benefit of prediction markets, which enable society to have a well calibrated understanding of the likelihood of various events. http://mason.
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by deskglass 9y ago
It's interesting that you assume it's a myth. I can personally attest to answering spam calls, politely asking to be added to the do not call list, and still receiving calls from the same spammers over a period of months. Eventual
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by deskglass 9y ago
How do you take naps? It takes me an hour or two to fall asleep. I don't drink coffee.
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by deskglass 9y ago
I had success with earplugs combined with whitenoise. For white noise, you can used an air purifier, a fan, or a noise machine like https://www.marpac.com/
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by deskglass 9y ago
Similarly, I ate at an Indian restaurant in Beijing and didn't notice any difference from Chinese food.
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by deskglass 10y ago
Gwern discusses this in his essay at https://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20S... He makes an interesting point that by withdrawing from larger society into sub cultures, people can return to dealing with
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by deskglass 10y ago
Those interested in this may also be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_reading which gradually converts reading material into flashcards that are memorized using spaced repetition software.
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by deskglass 10y ago
I faced the same decision you did, had the same concern, and chose New College. I was fortunate in that CS at NCF has blossomed recently. A couple more professors were hired recently and there's increased student interest in the field.
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by deskglass 11y ago
Bazqux is also great because it can fetch content from social media - Twitter, Google Plus, some Facebook, etc. Unfortunately, you can't just get your account's entire feed from it, but you can, for example, give it a Twitter page
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by deskglass 11y ago
I think you're responding to a strawman version of Eliezer's writing advice. He's never claimed that rational, goal oriented characters are sufficient to write good fiction. His "(first) Three Laws of Fanfiction," f
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by deskglass 11y ago
Beijing airport had water fountains despite the water not being good to drink and traditional Chinese culture having a stigma against drinking cold water.
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by deskglass 11y ago
I used a pipe that created RSS feeds from Google+ pages in conjunction with some other stuff to get all the articles I'd want to read in one document (with a table of contents) delivered to my kindle. I'm now working on something
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by deskglass 11y ago
Awesome idea and execution! I'm reading through the featured emails and laughing at how unresponsive public officials are. I recommend adding a signature feature. If I were to use this service, I'd want to add a signature to the e
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by deskglass 11y ago
If you mean functional red-black trees in general, then there's http://matt.might.net/articles/red-black-delete/
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by deskglass 12y ago
This is awesome. Now, if I come across an interesting article, I can find places that may link to other interesting articles. A suggestion: It'd be nice to be able to specify an article URL in the article search field. That way you can
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by deskglass 12y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check that book out. Once, in thread similar to this one, I saw another recommendation for The Light of Other Days ( http://smile.amazon.com/Light-Other-Days-Arthur-Clarke-ebook... . I
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by deskglass 12y ago
If you're interested in this idea you may like The Unincorporated Man, a book partially about a future where people buy and sell stocks of each other. Taxes, for example, are replaced with the government receiving 5% of a person's

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