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by gambling8nt 16y ago
I agree that lack of physical activity is another likely factor for changing hormone levels and their secondary effects. However, I know of no reason to think that these changes are heritable, or that naturally low T is actually a reproduct
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by gambling8nt 16y ago
Half a century--two human generations--is not nearly enough time for evolutionary pressures to have the sort of effect you are talking about. Least of all in a society of abundance in which the majority of members reproduce. Instead, I'd s
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by gambling8nt 16y ago
If the bolts holding the payload in place shear away under the lateral force of supporting the payload, the payload may fall and hit the hard inside of the launch vehicle, making the two events quite similar. (Indeed, the original drop I li
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by gambling8nt 16y ago
This does indeed suggest that there may be other factors at work. I could try tossing out other ideas, but they would be little more than hypothesis. (Bending during the tipping process damaging the joints in multi-segment launch vehicles
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by gambling8nt 16y ago
The launch vehicles themselves may not be that fragile, but payloads often are. Multimillion-dollar satellites can be damaged or completely non-functional from effects as small as being dropped 1 meter (see http://www.spacetoday.net/Summ
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
As noted in the how it works link (posted twice on this page, or at the bottom of your chart), they've assumed you have the average emission levels for all sorts of other activities, such as home telephone service, car purchases, apparel pu
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
About 30% of first marriages and 40% of second marriages fail within the first ten years (and, as the parent noted over 50% of first marriages fail-- see table 41 and the appendix table II of http://cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_022.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
To elaborate on cperciva's (correct) point: On a projective plane a parabola contains a single point at infinity, connected (both figuratively and topologically) to the two open ends. A hyperbola contains two distinct points at infinity ea
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
It's not like the IPCC was trying to hide this. If anything, the entire way this scenario played out should be a reassurance that the IPCC and cooperating scientists are acting in good faith. They're not trying to "cover up" failures; they
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
The original article indicates fewer, but slightly stronger.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
As a fellow believer in not bothering to go to class, my feeling on the matter was always that I would go to class if and only if it was at least one of (1) more efficient than reading the textbook, or (2) substantially different from readi
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
It looks like there are too many "unspecified" articles to learn much from this visualization, other than a moderate decrease in the number of articles in your "startup" category, supplanted largely by "ask" topics--a trend that largely lev
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Real life situations have finite cutoffs in behavior that remove many pathological problems with certain statistical models.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Except that in real life there are no distributions with support outside of a finite interval in space or time; there's always some point when you stop running the system...if some packets don't arrive by that point, you generally don't car
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Chi-squared distributions are well approximated by normal distributions close to the mean. The point is not that arbitrary statistics will necessarily always be perfectly behaved (or even well behaved) on sampling data--it's that to make re
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
What Zed is saying when he notes that meta-statistics are normal is that, thanks to the central limit theorem, the average and standard deviation of data sets collected from the same underlying probability distribution (with convergent aver
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
You can get some of the PISA mathematics test questions (on which Hyde & Mertz variance ratio claims are based) from the 2006 PISA at http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/14/10/38709418.pdf [pdf]. A cursory examination of these question
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
The original paper by Hyde and Mertz can be found at http://tctvideo.madison.com/uw/gender.pdf . In it, the authors reference data from the Program for International Student Assessment as their primary evidence in attempting to discredit
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
As noted above, the collection of all sets cannot be a set in any set theory with specification, regardless of regularity: Call the collection of all sets S. We specify T by T=\{x| x \in S \wedge \neg x \in x\} T is then the subclass of S
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
The collection of all sets is not a set under ZF set theory, regardless of choice. Such a collection, if it were a set, would imply the existence of a set of all sets that did not contain themselves from the axiom schema of specification.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Previous discussion of this article at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772556 (slightly different URL, but same text).
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783912 was a Wired article on that topic on HN two months ago; perhaps that's what you are remembering?
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
I noticed that as well; I assume people basically all tended to check page length at the same point through the page--presumably at some boundary between content sections.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
I was going to post a comment directly disagreeing with this, and citing the large number of Jewish dating sites, but these are really only used by people on the more religious end of the spectrum, so it is possible that the effect is more
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
After my freshman year of college I hitchhiked from Washington DC to San Francisco, zig-zagging across the US. While I did not travel with absolutely nothing (nor did I hitch the entire way; parts of it I went by bus), I wound up spending
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
That definition more accurately fits the typical usage of the term 'dork'. The word 'geek' is usually used to indicate someone with a great deal of specialized knowledge (such as a computer geek, or a math geek, but also sometimes less tech
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
That's actually on the list.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
He did discover new information. The probabilities of survival switched from: A: 1/3, B: 1/3, C:1/3 to A: 1/3, B:0, C: 2/3 He just didn't discover any information to change the probability of his own survival.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Because of the way the information was gathered, the chances of survival for A and C are no longer equal (C is twice as likely to survive)--having only two possible outcomes does not guarantee that the probability is 50-50.
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by gambling8nt 17y ago
Why is your "deduction and imagination" time a fixed quantity? The thrust of the argument in favor of learning through books rather than the internet is that you will spend an equal amount of external problem solving time, but more interna

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