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by araneae 16y ago
Wow, that was really beautifully copy-edited. Damn, guys.
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by araneae 16y ago
Well, in 23andme, my obesity probability is listed under "disease risk" :) Interestingly, the average obesity risk according to 23andme is 59%, which is higher than any other "disease" that 23andme offers risk evaluation for. (Type 2 diabet
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by araneae 16y ago
This reminds me of some unintentional errors. Neil Gaiman recently noticed something on Wikipedia that he had made up in a novel being treated like fact. http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/05/one-book-one-twitter-o...
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by araneae 16y ago
Man, so many of his tech imaginings are getting implemented. And by so many, I mean two. Still, it's pretty impressive. (The first being the virtual world in Snow Crash, from which Second Life was based.)
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by araneae 16y ago
How much effort do you put into understanding them? As with everything, the more complicated something is (or the further away things are from what you're familiar with) the more you have to put into it. If you're interested in understandi
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Web 2.0 Suicide Machine has been hacked
7 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." -Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural addres
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by araneae 16y ago
Go. The same, except it's been around longer than chess and is better. :D
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by araneae 16y ago
Another beekeeper! Although I haven't had a hive in quite some time.
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm not sure I buy the binary approach to this, nor his experience with "extroverts." One, I'm not really one or the other; 23andme quizzes claims I'm extroverted, Meyer Briggs claims I'm introverted. I actually went around and asked peopl
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by araneae 16y ago
According to one of my profs, something like 80% of programmers are INTJ in the Meyer's Briggs scheme... the I stands for introvert. I don't know what the other 20% looks like but there are probably a lot of I types.
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by araneae 16y ago
The two professions you mentioned (doctor and lawyer) are graduate degrees. And no, it's not true just of programming. I'm currently working a job that I would get paid more for with an Associate's in the field... my four years of Ivy Leag
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by araneae 16y ago
Right. There are a lot of people who are all talk and no code. I would think that someone would ask to see something as proof of concept before doling out money and publicity. If anything, they might have wasted their 5 minutes of fame
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by araneae 16y ago
That might be how you define gifted, but if that's the case, then it would be erroneous for you to draw any conclusions about the "gifted" based on these data. These data are based on standardized testing of young children. Nurtureshock
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by araneae 16y ago
Yes, but that could have been the result of regular lightning. Which is necessary to produce the hallucination. More damning evidence would be any video of it; there are some on YouTube, but I'm not really qualified to tell if they're beli
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by araneae 16y ago
If you browse the internet while logged into facebook, some sites automatically trigger opening that site's fb fan page in another window. At least that's what I assume that's about. It's really annoying.
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by araneae 16y ago
Exploit is fixed, and follower lists are rolled back, but they didn't do a perfect job... Felicia Day is still following me. ^-^
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by araneae 16y ago
Alternate explanation: We suck at telling who is actually gifted from early performance. See ch. 5 of Nurtureshock : "The Search For Intelligent Life in Kindergarten"
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by araneae 16y ago
Great, now I have no excuse not to take those pictures of me and my fiancé that my mom has been asking me for...
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by araneae 16y ago
If by porous you mean far less than 1% of the population is of indeterminate sex, than yes. To me it seems pretty solid, compared to pretty much anything else you can tell about a person's biology just by looking at them.
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by araneae 16y ago
Yeah... it was kind of creepy discovering I was the only "fan" of an obscure book which has a description that I wrote and I picture I scanned.
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by araneae 16y ago
Before they rejoice perhaps they should consider that the main function of the FCC since its inception has been to censor the airwaves.
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Women navigate more efficiently than men(physorg.com)
3 points by araneae 16y ago|2 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
"Grades may coincide with good skills but they are _COMPLETELY_ orthogonal." No, they are not orthogonal. A moron cannot get good grades, at least not when competing in the same classes.
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by araneae 16y ago
I have to agree that the post wasn't written very sensitively. Here are the following red flag passages, for me, at least: "From what I can tell, the 23rd chromosome has a pretty amazing impact on the way people use computers." -Drawing a
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by araneae 16y ago
I agree with you generally, but the most damning information about me that's on Facebook was posted by other people.
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by araneae 17y ago
I wonder about the timing of it; could it be, in fact, a result of Google featuring Lala songs in web search? I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but in the past few weeks when I would Google a song, a Lala box would be at the top of
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by araneae 17y ago
Well, my co-founder is an academic, and his contract says that he is allowed to work 20% of his time as a "consultant" but 80% has to be for the university. IP was not an issue.
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by araneae 17y ago
In the U.S., many jobs that do not have set hours have clauses like this. For instance, many university jobs, especially in research, stipulate that you are not allowed to have any other jobs. The reason for this is that because a researc
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by araneae 17y ago
Why do we believe that intelligence and nerdiness go hand in hand? Not to be all anecdotal or anything, but the top 6 GPA ranked people in my high school class were normal. They weren't popular, but they certainly weren't nerds. I was 7t

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