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by truculation 8y ago
>I do wish folks who’ve never had to navigate the internal landscape of a body would stop offering their opinions on how one should learn it. I'm not recommending we end the use of cadavers -- and this is a discussion site, not
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by truculation 8y ago
Eww. I suspect that in the computer age the enduring value of dissecting dead bodies is that it's even more repulsive than cutting open live bodies (which trainee medics will have to do later on). For those of us who don't have
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by truculation 8y ago
>Of course, we know that today the Luddites are not viewed particularly kindly On the contrary, it is technology and progress that are viewed with scepticism -- watch almost any recent sci-fi movie. https://www.youtube.com&#
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by truculation 8y ago
>The sense we have that someone is fit generally comes from their posture. Exceptions I've noted are joggers with hunched shoulders, splayed feet, leaping too high off the ground, and so on. By no means uncommon. >Does this id
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by truculation 8y ago
It's a reason why some people become social cynics, I think, and this reason is represented in their brains. However they may not be able to articulate it, partly because they need to see themselves (and for others to see them) as go
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by truculation 8y ago
No doubt, but consider that some people will then become cynical about society in order to become freeloaders. (Rather as in Upton Sinclair's famous quote: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary de
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by truculation 8y ago
Debate and criticism are defence , it seems to me; their value lies in averting heartache and war. For the purpose of changing the world, the ultimate argument is to create something new and substantial and then make progess with it , giv
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by truculation 8y ago
Rainbow theme music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsaujSs7Fw
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by truculation 8y ago
Are mirror neurons really a thing? Why can't the neurons which govern my arm be used to help predict the actions of other people's arms?
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by truculation 8y ago
My idea of middle-class existence is a thrifty but relatively happy family life with an emphasis on education. The budget could vary enormously depending on how this is implemented.
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by truculation 8y ago
Thanks! Took me a minute to work out which planet was which (Jupiter being the one just outside the 'belt').
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by truculation 8y ago
Superb stuff. On a more mundane level I hope we'll soon also have a chart of all the asteroids in our solar system (to the most realistic extent possible).
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by truculation 8y ago
Yes and it's not just at work: most of us feel we should fill every hour of our non-working lives with activities . Especially our kids' lives (no wonder people are having fewer kids!) There are two things wrong about this I th
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by truculation 8y ago
Yep, high speed can definitely ruin a wheel(!): https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/969654857895301120
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by truculation 8y ago
If the sci-fi I've been reading lately is any guide, one of the greatest threats to humans in stasis will be sabotage by ideological fanatics.
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by truculation 8y ago
In another sense, 'Goodhart' seems like a splendid cosmic coincidence. Instead of obsessing over targets, try to perceive the whole system. And who can do that? Good-hearted individuals.
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by truculation 8y ago
Feynman again, on the topic of prizes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUcmKDaklY So the real prize is seeing one's work used by others in their work.
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by truculation 8y ago
The way I see it. Exams can check recall of facts, names, definitions. Also skill at identifying narrow classes of problems (which resemble facts) and extracting them from unrealistic settings. e.g. 'There are 49 dogs signed up to comp
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by truculation 8y ago
>stupid gimmick like anti-suicide ceiling fan Yep. It matters less apparently if millions of people wander around feeling suicidal as long as they don't actually commit suicide. For what? So we can pick candidates for the professi
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by truculation 8y ago
The ridiculous thing is that exams are irrational: they don't measure knowledge and ability, i.e. they don't measure what they purport to measure. It makes the societal scale suffering and death all the more meaningless and distur
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by truculation 8y ago
>we have largely moved away from some of the nastier edges of "traditional" parenting, with good reason Corporal punishment, you mean. Yes. However we've regressed in at least one way: many toddlers are now in daycare fo
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by truculation 8y ago
>if by “intention” you mean “clumsily projected attitude”. Nah, just intention. For example, teaching children arithmetic with great moral seriousness, as we do, doesn't produce great arithmeticians. It merely encourages people to
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by truculation 8y ago
>Are you saying you or anyone else is equipped to be a decent parent just because you were a child and maybe had a parent? Yes. I think that, as things stand, good parenting is largely a matter of being lucky enough to have oneself rec
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by truculation 8y ago
Fine, as long as you accept that the main purpose of reading a story aloud is to relax and enjoy the story together rather than to develop skills. Just as the main purpose of lego and similar toys is not to develop 'hand-eye coordina
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by truculation 8y ago
IIRC this guy or his associates dug up soil from a medieval burial site near Cambridge (England) to try and find a bacterial enzyme capable of breaking down 7-ketocholesterol (and hence potentially to cure artherosclerosis). Maybe not India
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by truculation 8y ago
Indeed, but if control and resources (e.g. immune resources) are allocated via some kind of map in the brain then mightn't that make proximity relevant? (notwithstanding the bone barrier!) I admit it's a stretch...
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by truculation 8y ago
That may well be but my questions are genuine questions (I'm curious).
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by truculation 8y ago
What's the typical walking time to the toilet in a large warehouse? Where do the relevant employees keep the bottles (e.g. are they attached to their legs underneath trousers? If not how do they avoid CCTV?) Are break periods mandatory
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by truculation 8y ago
Yes, it may be just a coincidence that this is so, with the temples and the temporal lobes being physically close to one another. But intuition makes me wonder.
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by truculation 8y ago
>Roman numerals make all kinds of arithmetic much harder than in Arabic notation Sure. But of course they made arithmetic easier than it was before ('tallying' I think, i.e. IIIIIII....) It's interesting how notation a

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