schizoidboy

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by schizoidboy 7y ago
This is shockingly comprehensive and valuable; thank you. One minor suggestion is to generate a single-page or PDF version. I manually created one although of course this will go stale: https://drive.google.com/file/d&#
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by schizoidboy 7y ago
The SpaceX/Musk presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOpMrVnjYeY
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by schizoidboy 7y ago
Thanks, I've added an existing research section and will reach out to researchers in the field for more feedback.
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by schizoidboy 7y ago
Thanks, I've tried to expand the abstract.
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I think the meta-point is that betting on intellectual ideas is an underused tool in the toolbox of decision making. Endless academic journal debates don't seem to help much in moving people across ideological divides. For all of those
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
The point is that these are bets between people who disagree with each other. They negotiate the data and terms and hopefully learn from the result and change their minds. This is one way to help tune bayesian priors about what ideas and pe
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
Dr. Caplan is a big proponent of betting. Disputes in academic journals are endless and inconclusive. Betting gets people to put their money where their mouth is. I think this is the best part of the economics profession and needs to be app
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
It's worth noting that the economist John Quiggin didn't propose an adjustment for this in the bet.
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
> Second, he never addresses any other value than the unemployment rate as a number (for example, I can easily imagine an "apologist" being uninterested in his bet if they think he might be right about the numbers, but they val
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
He includes a link to data connecting unemployment to unhappiness. His so-called smugness derives from betting: putting his ideas on the line and winning. I think he's the opposite of smug because he's humble enough to put his ide
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
The first sentence of the paragraph you quote links to data connecting unemployment to unhappiness.
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
My favorite quote from Ioannidis: “Science is a noble endeavor, but it’s also a low-yield endeavor,” he says. “I’m not sure that more than a very small percentage of medical research is ever likely to lead to major improvements in clinical
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
Summarized by Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I think this gets to the heart of it. Some places to start: Meaning in Work TED talk by a researcher in the field: https://youtu.be/RLFVoEF2RI0?t=177 Happiness vs Meaning: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/174
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
Actual quote from Linus as opposed to the click-bait title: > I still wish we were better at having a standardized desktop that goes across all the distributions. There's been some progress there. I mean, this is not a kernel issue,
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Ask HN: How do you find a freelancer to produce a landing page video?
1 points by schizoidboy 8y ago|0 comments
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
It's a short(ish) and somewhat thought-provoking read, although it has the questionable value of most analogies, and is light on details; however, I enjoyed this line: > One of my biggest personal fears is working in the wrong field
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I know nothing about Citadel, but it may be unfair to generalize from one experience. For example, that particular group may be bad but other groups may be fine and don't know about the bad group. If you're feeling particularly bo
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I guess this is the Bandcamp link: https://aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com/album/quest-for-glory-shad...
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Formal Complaint on Scholarly Publishing Market to the EU Competition Authority(zenodo.org)
1 points by schizoidboy 8y ago|0 comments
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I hear ya. I've been a programmer for over a decade and even though I'm making great money and it's intellectually stimulating, I'm essentially giving it all up and diving into biotech (studying now for an M.S. in Bio).
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
WINAMP, WINamp, winamp... it really... Still works. Winamp is still my main music player (with classic skin, of course). I run it through Wine on Fedora 28. Some things cause crashes, but the only things I really care about are MilkDrop, th
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
If we suppose that his conclusion is using boolean logic, then what you're saying is a strawman because of his last claim; namely, protobufs are bad if "[...] && !Google": > They're clearly written by amateurs
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I was in a similar state of mind and things turned around after pursuing more meaningful work in biotech. There's a whole subfield of Psychology that researches how people find meaningful work and it helped me greatly. A few places to
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I'm surprised this didn't get more upvotes. Sure, there's some blatant and repetitive self-promotion, but it could start some great threads of discussion. I guess HN has gotten so big that some important articles are falling
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I think that's a good summary. My favorite relevant quote from Dr. John Ioannidis: > “Science is a noble endeavor, but it’s also a low-yield endeavor,” he says. “I’m not sure that more than a very small percentage of medical researc
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
Why do you think it's basically zero? To me, it just seems like an (admittedly difficult) engineering problem that we're likely to make a lot of progress on. I'm currently studying biology and it's pretty amazing what hu
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
> Our maximum lifespan may not have changed much, if at all. But that’s not to delegitimise the extraordinary advances of the last few decades which have helped so many more people reach that maximum lifespan, and live healthier lives ov
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
I can confirm this. I used to work on the IE team. Went from a team of hundreds to just a handful.
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by schizoidboy 8y ago
See my other comment in response to the parent - I hope neither of you were being sarcastic and that a bet is worked out.

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