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by dewarrn1 14y ago
This is an example of a Keynesian beauty contest [0]. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
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by dewarrn1 14y ago
Or perhaps giving publicly is what you do when you want to rehabilitate a tarnished public image. Regardless, Gladwell is taking the lazy columnist's approach of irresponsible prediction, intending to provoke indignation. There's plenty of
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
Neat site! Tiny copy edit for you: "Share you coolest trick" should be "Share your coolest trick".
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
It's a shame, mine has been a reliable workhorse for years. Perhaps collectible status awaits?
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
I typed the way that you're describing for years, but with my dissertation looming I decided that it wasn't good enough. Having tried and failed to pick up QWERTY touch-typing in the past (it was very easy to relapse into my non-touch styl
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
Not that this should necessarily be the final word on the matter, but a recent controlled study suggested that even experienced players can't distinguish old from new violins: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/01/02/1114999109
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
This submission's title is misleading, and the original work could be better summarized as "improving at one task while doing another". The authors first determined a pattern of brain activation (indexed by blood flow) associated with the
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Mercurial adds support for large (10MB) files(mercurial.selenic.com)
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
Same, text file on Windows/Firefox. Other formats (PNG, SVG) were displayed in the browser without difficulty.
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
This sounds like the standard "BSD is dying" canard from Slashdot and elsewhere, and without substantiation it doesn't merit a top spot in this discussion. BSD has been and remains a server-first OS, with desktop support for the latest and
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
This looks slick, thanks for the pointer!
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
I've had some success with output from lattice using Cairo's SVG option, although you're right that it's never easy. Self-citing, the plots in these pubs were generated as above (JoCN may be behind a paywall): http://www.frontiersin.org/h
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
I use R as my primary data-analysis tool for almost all of my work, with occasional recourse to SAS for certain specialized models (e.g., PROC GLIMMIX for generalized mixed models). My only complaint is the awful default IDE, which can be m
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by dewarrn1 15y ago
Lots of great suggestions have already been made (I'm particularly intrigued by The Quantum Thief ), but I believe that Startide Rising has gone unmentioned so far, and that's a shame. The rest of the Uplift Trilogy is also great fun.
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by dewarrn1 16y ago
Well, correlation certainly isn't causation, but being a data-nerd, I had to take a look. I grabbed Anne Hathaway's web presence from Google Trends, and Berkshire-Hathaway's performance from Google Finance. After a little massaging, I dum