Matti

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by Matti 14y ago
"In perhaps the biggest surprise, Armor's studies found that black elementary students who go to magnet schools (which have the highest percentages of whites) score no better on standardized tests than do blacks who go to all-black nonmagne
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by Matti 14y ago
Running on Raspberry Pi: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tHeHPtlBCvk/UJe3gKJtn3I/AAAAAAAAAK...
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by Matti 14y ago
The photos on a single page: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/09/unpublished-photos-of-s...
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by Matti 14y ago
Do you have a link, paper or book recommendation for those wanting to read more about how kids "fail" repetitive logic tests as you just described?
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by Matti 14y ago
The entire first session on Youtube: http://youtu.be/o6yaSLipeWg
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by Matti 14y ago
Would most or all participants reach cursor-to-target accuracies in the 98-100% range if you allowed them to continue training indefinitely?
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Sex, Lies and Julian Assange(abc.net.au)
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by Matti 15y ago
Set the default price to $15, $20 or $30 instead of the $1 that it's at now. You'll increase the perceived value of the font while making a ton more money. There's no point in having the initial price "anchored in" at the ridiculously low p
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by Matti 15y ago
Here's a 1 hour talk on the Wave Glider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq4G2ciXjZI&t=13m11s
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by Matti 15y ago
It was posted in 2010 and generated the following discussion: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720244
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by Matti 16y ago
But if you were to receive a personalized, sixteen page sales letter signed by Paul Graham, you'd probably read it multiple times. "The astonishing startup secrets of Ycombinator's founder Ryan, below I'll reveal an amazing startup plan spe
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by Matti 16y ago
I found this short article to be a decent introduction to using grid systems in CSS: http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/the-960-grid-system-made-...
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by Matti 16y ago
I upgraded to a paid Historious account a couple of days ago and I just imported all of my 4000+ bookmarks from Delicious. What drew me to historio.us was the caching: I love the fact that all my bookmarks are cached.(1) Lately I've been tr
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by Matti 16y ago
Copywriting has nothing to do with general text writing -- it's about salesmanship in print. Paying a one-time fee of $15k and a small percentage of all future sales generated by the copy isn't expensive if you compare that to what it woul
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by Matti 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1qoINo2MPM
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by Matti 16y ago
Perceptual Control Theorists would argue that you don't understand behavior if you think that we, or other animals, respond to stimuli. "The illusion of stimulus and response [..] What we see from outside the system is that the crosswind p
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by Matti 16y ago
I'm using the Firefox add-on LeechBlock to block access to "www.facebook.com/plugins/". (Facebook still works fine. It wasn't immediately apparent that you could use Leechblock to block access to individual folders.) http://www.proginosko.
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by Matti 16y ago
5days2freedom.com redirects to 5daystofreedom.com with the affiliate ID "curt505" appended to the URL. I think the landing page looks pretty decent. Information marketers and copywriters don't care about creating websites that look pretty -
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by Matti 16y ago
An investment of fourteen hours of training over five weeks does result in some changes: Changes in Cortical Dopamine D1 Receptor Binding Associated with Cognitive Training McNab et al. Science 6 February 2009: 800-802 Working memory is a
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by Matti 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc "Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experience. Right now it is the number four cause of disability in the US and it is becoming
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by Matti 17y ago
"Test-Score-Differences Fallacy 1: Nonfixedness Proves Malleability This fallacy uses evidence of any fluctuation or growth in the mental functioning of individuals as if it were proof that their rates of growth can be changed intentionall
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by Matti 17y ago
The original paper is behind a paywall but I found the 4-page article "Rejected and alone" by Roy Baumeister -- one of the researchers -- to be an interesting read. http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm/v... * Rejecti
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by Matti 17y ago
Piano Stairs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw The world's deepest bin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEKAwCoCKw
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by Matti 17y ago
"Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now)" is the original title of the video. Unless you are a big fan of Merlin Mann, in which case you'll be watching the video regardless of what I say, I'd say that this is
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by Matti 17y ago
"Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authe
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by Matti 17y ago
After reading that column, read "Logical Fallacies used to dismiss the evidence on intelligence testing" by Linda S. Gottfredson. It's available here: http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/2009fallacies.... Now, go back and re-re
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by Matti 18y ago
Go look at yourself in the mirror. Do you see a number stamped on your forehead? Unless an individual has been monitored 24/7 since (s)he hit puberty, there's no way of knowing how many persons that individual has slept with. Women aren't