wilder

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by wilder 9y ago
Inference Review is quite simply the most undeservedly under the radar journal online. And I hope it is not alway so.
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by wilder 10y ago
"What keeps this going is that each VC thinks they're better than average. Most of them are wrong." Only some have this belief and only some of those are wrong, but it isn't what 'keeps VCs going' generally. Th
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GiveWell: carbs-obesity hypothesis doesn't fit the evidence(givewell.org)
2 points by wilder 11y ago|0 comments
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by wilder 11y ago
"Different brain regions including external frontal cortex, cerebellar hemisphere, entorhinal cortex/hippocampus and choroid plexus contain fungal material, which is absent in brain tissue from control individuals. Analysis of bra
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Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease(nature.com)
338 points by wilder 11y ago|155 comments
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by wilder 11y ago
I am an Everlane fan (wearing one of their tees right now, actually), but I find their low/no-markup marketing message to be a turn-off. For example, the shirt I'm wearing is $22, but they claim a comparable shirt costs $50. The r
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Simple forecasting tool for enterprise software sales(medium.com)
2 points by wilder 12y ago|0 comments
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by wilder 12y ago
Thanks for posting — after reading Pierre Cartier's article in the Inference Review it is exactly the tour of Recoltes & Clef that I was hoping would appear in time. I had no idea whatsoever that it already existed.
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by wilder 13y ago
I appreciate the vividness of your minestrone, pho and chocolate examples, but I can't seem to do what you describe. I can't imagine smells or tastes -- both are as foreign as the visual modality (though much less missed). When I read the e
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by wilder 13y ago
It's frustrating when people suggest I can visualize and just don't know it. The way one thinks is the most first-personally obvious thing in the world, and I've been sore about the way I do it since I was in elementary school wanting to im
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by wilder 13y ago
FYI, the phenomenon you describe is an afterimage and happens to everybody ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage ). You are correct that the visual cortex is involved in both phenomena but they are quite different. An after-image is sti
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by wilder 13y ago
It has been intermittently amazing to me that I not only get by but am even considered intelligent without what seems (to me) an absolute gift and superpower that most people possess. The rest of the time it's just obvious that there are tr
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by wilder 13y ago
Sounds wonderful. The odd thing is that I can imagine what it would be like to have the sort of visual imagination that would be helpful in calculus. Unfortunately it turns out that imagined imagination is worthless for calculus.
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by wilder 13y ago
I have never been able to consciously visualize (meaning: think in visual mental images). All of my conscious thought is in the auditory mode, though I know what it would be like to visualize as it happens occasionally in a dream. I have al
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by wilder 14y ago
I had not seen the tweet injection as I tend to read less popular stuff. Having just looked at a nytimes article, would have to agree that it's quite abrasive.
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by wilder 14y ago
I'm a big fan of this snapping, page down scroll style. It moves as fast as I can scan yet never halts in position that renders one (or two) entries unintelligible. Should I want to get to a totally different set of stories I can swipe left
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by wilder 14y ago
This app is phenomenal. Other readers (e.g. Flipboard) make too many sacrifices at the altar of design. I enjoy playing with them at first but the information density just isn't high enough for me. Prismatic gets the density right without b
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by wilder 14y ago
With his time. Always interpreted student questions charitably and took them seriously. Not something all professors do.
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by wilder 14y ago
Took a course of his at Berkeley. A fantastic and generous man.
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by wilder 15y ago
Who I'd be submitting my business idea to in confidence is not a detail.
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by wilder 15y ago
Does anyone know the mechanics of how the ads are pushed to the Kindle? Does Amazon observe user behavior and content of the ad supported Kindles in ways they didn't with the Kindle 3?
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by wilder 15y ago
I had the exact same thought.