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by billswift 14y ago
The problem is the "mass" part. While I agree that not needed approvals is a good thing, from the point of view of "massification", mass broadcasting just makes it go faster. You have the lowest-common-denominator on both ends of the comm
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by billswift 14y ago
Revisiting my comment from a couple of weeks ago, "mass media, which includes Google, however they may try to deny it, lives by the numbers, which means adapting to the lowest common denominator. Just think, as the Internet spreads, Google
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by billswift 14y ago
My Quotes and Aphorisms file is over a megabyte, it's been growing for 16 years. I formatted it so that the fortune-cookie program can pull up quotes at random, or I can search it with various keywords whenever I want.
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by billswift 14y ago
Not necessarily. With widespread vices like religious faith, it's the other way around.
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by billswift 14y ago
Even comparing yourself to other achievers isn't as big a problem as what some people do: >It's bad enough comparing yourself to Isaac Newton without comparing yourself to Kimball Kinnison. Eliezer Yudkowsky, http://lesswrong.com/lw/y7
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by billswift 14y ago
If you really want to achieve something, you need to benchmark what you have accomplished against your goals; not benchmark yourself against other people, or even against your earlier self, its the accomplishment that matters, not you.
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by billswift 14y ago
On the other hand without separation of concerns, you get the risk of the lab "finding" what the investigators wanted, like the incidents in the FBI labs in the 1990s.
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Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio(lesswrong.com)
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Ground-truth documents(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by billswift 14y ago
In fact, calorie restriction doesn't even work well in rodents. One of the articles points out that whether calorie restriction "works" in mice depends on the lineage, some breeds it works and some it doesn't.
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by billswift 14y ago
Yes. Derek Lowe discussed the articles, and I made almost your exact point in the comments there. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/29/caloric_rest...
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by billswift 14y ago
Check out accountants' Journals, they have lined paper rather than quadrille, but they work well.
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by billswift 14y ago
Page numbers and table of contents are very important for finding the info again. Also, they don't have to, and shouldn't, interfere with note-making. I number the pages before I start using a new notebook, and add things to the ToC at th
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by billswift 14y ago
I have fine motor control issues; I can write just about as fast as I can type. Using a lot of symbols, for example when writing math, I can write much faster than I can type. And I get an automatic, permanent record that I can review anyw
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by billswift 14y ago
There are many problems with patents in drug development as well, as Derek Lowe discusses in these essays, http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/patents_and_ip/ . It may be time to try to develop something new, maybe based on patent law,
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by billswift 14y ago
Linux is too hard to configure; if the distro gets it right out of the box it's fine, but not otherwise. I started with Windows 3.1 in 1995, mostly used Slackware, and some Windows 95, from 1996 to 2000. Slackware and Windows 98 from 2000
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by billswift 14y ago
Even if there is, that doesn't mean he'll know who the lead is. I have been in interview where I have gone from person to person with no one in two consecutive sections. As far as I could tell there was no one person to discuss sensitive
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by billswift 14y ago
>They can help to push repetitive things off to the automatic portions of your brain. I agree, further, anything that can be automated should be. GTD and most similar systems stress getting everything possible out of your head and into
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by billswift 14y ago
Almost 20 years ago, I had a ten-speed junker I bought for $20 just for riding around town, only three gears actually worked, but it got me around. Somebody stole it off of my front porch.
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by billswift 14y ago
>Same concept can also exist for hiding information In which case it is known as a "cold drop".
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by billswift 14y ago
A comment I left on a LessWrong post in July might help people understand why it is such a problem: The genome is the ultimate spaghetti code. I would not be at all surprised if some genes code for the direct opposite characteristics in the
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by billswift 14y ago
I participated in their forums for a few months several years ago, but I quit bothering because they are not particularly incremental. As one of their references, Jon Fisher's The Last Frontiers on Earth , points out, one of the things pi
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by billswift 14y ago
According to Bayesian reasoning it is evidence, only weak evidence, as are, for example hearsay and anecdotes.
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by billswift 14y ago
Interestingly, if you look at it the other way around, "probabilistic" is a good way of describing analog output. Something I read many years ago on computer history claimed that one of the reasons digital technology displaced analog was t
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by billswift 14y ago
>If it's genetic, as you assert, then what hope is there? Recognizing what their specific problems actually are, there is significant variation in the strength of the particular difficulties individual autistics face. Teaching autistics
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by billswift 14y ago
There is inadequate evidence of a link between the hygiene hypothesis and autism, which is what the article was about. I agree that there seems some fairly good support for the hygiene hypothesis and immunological problems, like allergies
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by billswift 14y ago
"You should have an open mind, but not so open all your brains run out." In fact, the "hygiene hypothesis" is almost the diametric opposite; vaccines, by challenging our immune systems, would reduce the risk of autism. Not that it does tha
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by billswift 14y ago
Greg Cochrane mentions that here, http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/paternal-age/ , in the context of the influence of paternal age on mutation rates, and excessive numbers of mutations having negative influences on fitness and hea
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by billswift 14y ago
That is not what "syndrome" means. Syndrome refers to the fact that there are multiple symptoms pointing to the disorder.
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by billswift 14y ago
Evidence that you can actually do the work is what is essential, those are only examples. Generally, the broader and more interesting the work at the job you're applying for, the broader the examples of your work, and other evidence, like

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