iQuercus

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by iQuercus 6y ago
How do I make money? - Get lucky in a Casino. How do I not lose money? - Don’t gamble. How do I not not make money? - Take more risks. A true inversion with a negative works better than the not-not structure, and it is easier to wrap your
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by iQuercus 6y ago
No. No correlation.
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by iQuercus 6y ago
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History - Good on a cloudy day Methodically Processing Systems - Good for a quirky evening (I make this one) Econtalk - Good for commuting. BBC’s In Our Time - Good during a shower.
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by iQuercus 6y ago
At the cellular level it’s a numbers game. The more enemy combatants, the sicker you will be. The more exposure to the virus, the more viruses you’ll have in your body, the more intense the symptoms. Hospitals don’t have great access to fre
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by iQuercus 7y ago
It’s a good recipe for making a lot of estimation errors. Worse, it will leave you feeling more confident than you should be. Then, when you least expect it, it’ll blow up in your face.
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by iQuercus 7y ago
This sounds more like diet marketing. People have such varying success with different diets that one set of foods simply cannot fit all. Exercise is a different story. The most likely to bring about the improvements you describe.
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by iQuercus 7y ago
I think it’s better to know it in your bones and then go back and formalize it with theory and terminology.
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by iQuercus 7y ago
Put down the books and websites and articles. Write music.
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by iQuercus 7y ago
What does his personality have to do with what he is arguing? Is he using “bad statistical” arguments or not?
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by iQuercus 8y ago
Shameless plug, I made a short podcast episode about this, from a systems perspective. It looks at what it takes to clean your teeth...and how systems have a tendency to spiral out this way. It’s a feature of problem solving systems: they g
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by iQuercus 10y ago
It's easy to analyze in a frictionless vacuum.
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by iQuercus 10y ago
The question is, can you effectively replace a meeting to discuss the nature of life and existence with a meeting to discuss games and movie fandoms? Or does that deeper topic interplay with meeting and socializing with people?
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by iQuercus 10y ago
Shameless plug, since I recently wrote it: https://medium.com/the-craftsman/the-whoa-how-did-you-do-tha... Basically, don't forget the human in human computer interaction/UI/UX. It's very easy to co
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by iQuercus 10y ago
I'm curious, why would you recommend Piketty's Capital for 21st Century as the one economics book?
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by iQuercus 10y ago
I have a feeling the pencil will be around after this is no more.
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by iQuercus 10y ago
Just because someone is proclaimed "expert" doesn't mean they are good at what they do. This is especially true for the softer fields that Gladwell writes in. At the end of the day it's up to you to determine if what you
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by iQuercus 10y ago
Think about it this way: Suppose my theory is that a fair coin is not actually fair but always lands on heads. If I flip a coin one million times and only publish the ~500,000 results that show coin toss coming up as "heads," I co
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by iQuercus 10y ago
This area is not exactly renowned for being a hard, mechanically measurable science, so you will get many different answers as to whether this is a problem at all or not. The wisest suggestion I've gotten with regard to this is to not
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by iQuercus 10y ago
Why do you save money?
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by iQuercus 10y ago
Eli Schiff, whilst pointing out potentially valid concerns about minimalist designs, is also himself with his articles a symptom of a much larger Soviet-style centralist attitude that seems to pervade the modern design community. Right now,
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by iQuercus 10y ago
Without trying to make any predictions, I wouldn't underestimate the human appeal of a conversational interface on the basis of its quantifiable inefficiencies. The author applies a narrow engineer's lens to something needing a mo
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by iQuercus 10y ago
Disruption as a concept seems to be a bit of an empirical controversy these days. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-05/did-clay-c...
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by iQuercus 11y ago
Source?
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by iQuercus 11y ago
It's unwise to extrapolate from one domain into another that doesn't follow the same models/rules. If I walk 20 miles and my ultimate goal is to get to 10,000 miles, then 20 miles of effort translates into 20 miles of distanc
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by iQuercus 11y ago
Dr. Steven Novella on brainwave entrainment, from 2008: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/brainwave-entra... "That is generally where the science ends and the pseudoscience begins. A number of com
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by iQuercus 11y ago
Even into the summer of 1914, post-assassination, there were articles like this coming up. The fact is we can't predict the future. Just because less people are dying in battle today doesn't mean 180,000,000 won't die in one
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by iQuercus 11y ago
To my knowledge, Apple ran a program called "The Apple University Consortium," among others, where they would tap into work of higher education research. It's my understanding these efforts continue, you just don't hear
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by iQuercus 11y ago
The problem with broad history is that some things interest some people, some don't. Ideally, you could let students interested in a particular historical topic focus on that.
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by iQuercus 11y ago
The research in this area is still too inconclusive to prescribe how to listen to music for productivity. Not to mention the act of "listening to music" can vary dramatically from person to person. For some it involves picking mus
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by iQuercus 11y ago
In effect yes they are essentially the same thing. One of the (potentially annoying) things you'll see going through the literature is that the term has very broad meaning. Other times it'll be a very narrow term. The broadest is

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