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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Taste can be highly subjective and suggestible. There is a german saying: Das Auge isst mit. (literally: the eye eats with you) which kind of makes you aware that a lot of things end up determining taste [0] beside the direct experience o
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Thank you. This kind of easy to follow step-by-step breakdown of the method section should be included as an obligatory abstract of its own if one really is willing about improving the readability for people outside of the field. It actual
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
> I'm too young to confirm but I assume we had something like this before social media took off. But with everyone connected and very scrutinizing/critical it's starting to go away. As you correctly pointed out "open
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
It reminds of the common advice you often read (also in HN): Go on follow your passion but secure it with a job which provides for you (and your family). In the case of a musician one such way (besides teaching) is playing in "cover ba
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
What he certainly has produced already is a lot of attention, now, if he can't buy up this specific platform at his final bid maybe a dump and a 51% will follow ... whatever the case he got an extraordinary amount of people in and outs
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Tl;dr/PR message: We [protonmail] can provide you with decent privacy (end-to-end encryption, no logs "by default" ...) [0] but anonymity is your responsibility (OPSEC). Fair enough. A bit recursive as good operational securi
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
"Encouraging Self-Doubt" in someone who is over-confident? I can encourage self-doubt when I begin to harbour some doubts but when I'm already over-confident - per definition - I am not able to do that. Actually psychological
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Is it not just perception? And an arbitrary choice (in the POV) in presenting a "chess problem"? Dependent on ranking? I play defensively so with that underlying mindset I solve chess problems to improve my tactical acuity/pr
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
As someone with a private teaching background (>100 pupils, mostly 1to1) I have always wondered about that. There are huge individual differences. It never ceases to amaze me. My pragmatic advice (without going into my theories): just ob
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Tl;dr: most likely some of the billions of humans would survive to repopulate the world (founder effect). A possible dramatic population bottleneck throughout human history [0]. For anyone wondering about the pompous naming: Alliance for Sc
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
> The whole point of bitcoin is trustless action. I don't have to trust you because I can verify the transaction. If anyone can verify a transaction, it's obviously traceable. But you do not need everyone to verify but instea
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
I second this. In order to become an appreciated and appreciative generalist one also has to go deep down (at least one) rabbit hole of "specialized" knowledge. The Dunning-Kruger effect is quite powerful and not only on a small s
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
My take on this is that he wants to bring back more of a wild west. I kinda sympathize with the sentiment to create a more relaxed version of Twitter where only the obvious in terms of free speech is excluded (like MMA/Vale Tudo - in t
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
A very thoughtful piece by Sabine. My advice to college freshmen is to consider universities as a place for meaningful interaction between explorers at different stages. The "learning" (curriculum) part is just a prerequisite don
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
The uprooting of universities and their subsequent erosion as research university in the Humboldtian sense (in the US the John Hopkins University can be considered its first model) of "unity in teaching and research" based on a
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Well, I'm also a fan of testing boundaries. For me comedy can serve as a safe space in throwing wild and outrageous shit around without actually offending someone. A rhetorical splatter fest. Over the years I found myself to be in the
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
This article unfortunately imho does a poor job in putting the mathematical modeling and Hintz' effort into greater focus and context. Possibly to make it more exciting for the casual science interested reader. "Some carefully co
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I would argue that is actually the norm. The more I dig deeper into the history of any field the more I realize how many publicly unknown geniuses there are. Mostly only recognized and praised as such by the connoisseurs of the respective
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
For anyone wondering how our bodies synchronize to a 24-hour-cycle of the earth, it is primarily through light detected by our eyes. (A great resource for in depth: Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology Andrew Huberman [0]) Apart from
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
As a supplement for anyone who is unfamiliar with the communication side of things: In our highly solution-focused (and -driven) societies it is hard to actually see much less adequately express underlying needs [0] to yourself and especia
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
> A brief word here about the scholarship devoted to friendship: I know I’ve been citing it quite a bit, but the truth is, there’s surprisingly little of it, and even less that’s particularly good. A great deal is dime-store wisdom crow
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My rhetoric got a bit over my head, but I really think that every (healthy) newborn human has the potential to become what is called a "genius". This is the norm. The limiting factor isn't some predetermined thing like geneti
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Getting better and better at solving problems (here: in a broad range of mathematics) at an unconventional rate makes it uncanny. It seems like magic. As everyone doing magic tricks knows there is a lot of effort going into a good one. The
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
You can talk to "these" people. It's a number of factors. As with anything in social media the more extreme views get amplified. I mean everyone talks about their "bubbles" but very few acknowledge how cognitively h
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Why do humans have the capacity to be overweight in the first place? The most effective way is to simply strictly (water) fast until you reach your desired weight. [You don't even have to be that strict and can drink some <10kcal dr
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
If the brain power is focused in the "wrong" direction or all the smart people are constantly looking under the same set of "street lamps" it doesn't matter how many there are. Unconventional thinking is hard you ca
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
To be honest: What does this endless list of sanctions actually achieve in terms of ending the war, now? Sadly, it does more look like a luxurious decadent virtue-signalling circus from the viewpoint of India, Brazil or China. ... Coca-Col
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
And how do I know what is happening there? I'm partial toward the people who got invaded but I cannot even verify the stories and sources to a reliable degree. Simply because I lack the resources. Having a clear bias (support for one s
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
As a linguist I find such community-driven projects fascinating as you can literally see before your very eyes in a time-lapse enabled through an artifically imposed restraint (here in reference to "Old Church Slavonic"; a differe
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Trying to step a little more back: Can we agree that there is an ongoing shift from a unipolar moment (1990-ca.2015) to a multipolar world (basically US & China)? What confuses me in this "shift" that there is still very much

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