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Can You Spot The Partisan Legislation?(politicalmathblog.com)
8 points by araneae 17y ago|8 comments
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Does Wikipedia Suck?(insidehighered.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Eye-Tracking Tablets and the Promise of Text 2.0(wired.com)
2 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Yeah, this is not the Prisoner's Dilemma! The way they described it the table looks like this: Player 1, Player 2 C D ____ ____ C|1, 1|0, 1| D|1, 0|0, 0| In this case, both cooperate and defect are Nash equilibrium
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by araneae 17y ago
How did you manage to go to high school with him if he attended an online high school?
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by araneae 17y ago
There is no HFCS "molecule"- high fructose corn syrup is a solution containing a certain percentage of fructose and glucose molecules, which are not attached to each other. You may be confusing it with sucrose (table sugar) which does consi
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by araneae 17y ago
Well, you can scale for mass, just not linearly. Metabolism scales with mass^(3/4). Interestingly, so do the number of cars in a city with a city's population size- this is a fun essay on the subject: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/
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by araneae 17y ago
The ironic thing is that this is probably true because corn syrup is more "natural" than table sugar. We're better at extracting calories from foods commonly found in our evolutionary history. Sucrose is only found in a handful of foods (li
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by araneae 17y ago
You could make an argument for using that for, say, deciding on which products should be featured on a page that's promoting products to consumers. But for actual product "scores" that people see that's a very bad idea. A book shouldn't ha
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by araneae 17y ago
That's not really appropriate for what this blog post was talking about, which is rating products. It doesn't make sense for products' ratings to be time sensitive. That would make the most recent items have an artificially inflated score
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by araneae 17y ago
Agreed. Even if you find the formula scary, he implemented it in Ruby for you. It's a pretty short trip to implement it in the language of your choice.
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by araneae 17y ago
Or a nice 301 redirect.
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by araneae 17y ago
Where's the geany integration? sniff
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Will Google help breach the great firewall of China? (newscientist.com)
2 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Yes, but it wasn't meant to be current information about how race admissions are done. If a 1600 was indistinguishable from a 1360 in 1999, I doubt it's much more significant now, considering that schools have been moving away from using t
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by araneae 17y ago
SAT results count for very little these days. At universities like Harvard, a perfect score will not get you in. Even at University of Michigan, a state school, a 1360 on the SAT is worth the same as a 1600: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=
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by araneae 17y ago
That's just two jobs. I'm sure there other jobs where she could use her IQ that aren't as pointless as academia or stressful as finance where she could make use of her intelligence.
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The Certified DBA(thedailywtf.com)
25 points by araneae 17y ago|8 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Or maybe they'll be better prepared because they actually learned more in school. 8th graders with 1 hour of sleep less perform two whole grade levels lower on tests (i.e. like 6th graders.) There's an entire chapter of Nurture Shock devo
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Unix recovery legend(ee.ryerson.ca)
220 points by araneae 17y ago|83 comments
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HTML5 Online Conference(carsonified.com)
2 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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CSS clock(x.dtott.com)
2 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
The title of the article is a little misleading, I think. It's really not about how being green makes you a cheater any more than being about how voting for Obama makes you a racist. I don't think the research is implying anything in part
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by araneae 17y ago
I posted this because of our discussion on this post yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1207136 It seems that "self-control fatigue," as they tested it, is indistinguishable from the "moral self-licensing" discussed here.
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Exposed: green consumers' dirty little secrets (newscientist.com)
37 points by araneae 17y ago|22 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
How does one know if one arrived before or after this Reddit influx? I first heard about Reddit from people who were complaining about it on hn.
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Hackers, architects, and superheroes: 3 ways to be an excellent programmer(reprog.wordpress.com)
73 points by araneae 17y ago|10 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Not to mention the flat-out lies. "In fact, no country allows unrestricted flow on the Internet of pornographic, violent, gambling or superstitious content, or content on government subversion, ethnic separatism, religious extremism, racial
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by araneae 17y ago
I had the same thought. Back when I was in school, I would often eat a lot of junk food after studying. It wasn't that I was tired from exerting self-control, but rather that I thought I deserved it. Many other studies about morality have
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by araneae 17y ago
I don't think it really has anything to do with music in particular, but just our attentions spans in general. I mean, right now I'm on HN, texting, IMing, listening to music, watching anime, and coding. ...

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