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by emilga 9y ago
Ray Mears explored this event on Extreme Survival: https://youtu.be/cIJ7cI2aIwc It includes an interview with Steve and a demonstration of how he patched the hole in his raft. A brilliant show!
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by emilga 9y ago
Franklin also describes a technique whereby you don't directly tell someone they're wrong, you simply tell them that in this particular case the circumstances are different. E.g., the bad way to do it: Person A: "We should do
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by emilga 9y ago
You mean something like this Physics textbook http://www.motionmountain.net/ ?
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by emilga 9y ago
At Vitensenteret (science center) in Trondheim they have a web cam hooked up to a TV screen where they show a live view of some face scanner software (multiple faces simultaneously). It estimates your gender, age, and mood (happy, sad, angr
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by emilga 9y ago
I use Smart AudioBook Player for Android. It has adjustable playback speed from 0.5x to 2.5x in 0.1x increments.
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by emilga 10y ago
> In this room there are 63 microphones, 126 cameras, and approximately 30 open laptops, each with their own camera and microphone. Would it not be possible to also use the loud-speakers as microphones?
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by emilga 10y ago
> I was under the impression that working memory is one of the most difficult (if not impossible) things to train or improve. I'm not a psychologist, but the way I understand "improving your working memory" is that it&#x27
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by emilga 10y ago
Yes! :)
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by emilga 10y ago
On the contrary! Here are some of the recent developments in the case: - A brand new police-sketch of her face (after interviewing witnesses) aiming for photo realism. (As opposed to the sketch from the 70's which is more stylistic in
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by emilga 10y ago
> You'd prefer the minimum voting age be raised to 60, so only people with "experience" can vote? This sounds quite interesting, actually. I wonder what the consequences would be if e.g. only grandparents have the right to
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by emilga 10y ago
> He doesn’t spare himself, though. “I have a habit, which I don’t recommend, of finishing essentially every book I start,” he said. “And if I disagree with a book I spend lots of time writing notes in the margins. Perversely, this means
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by emilga 10y ago
Thank you! :)
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by emilga 10y ago
Do you mind elaborating a bit on how to do this well? For example, I know it's possible to create a filtered deck which collects notes from several different decks. I can therefore use each deck to organize the different subjects and p
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by emilga 10y ago
Yes, check out: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/
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by emilga 10y ago
How are you able to keep 10000 notes in Anki organized? With that many notes, how can you tell whether something you want to remember is already in your notes or not? It seems to me that the Anki card browser is quite bad at this, but maybe
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by emilga 10y ago
Interesting story. Reminds me of this story from Flow : > Tollas Tibor, a poet who spent several years in solitary confinement during the most repressive phases of the Hungarian communist regime, says that in the Visegrád jail, where hu
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by emilga 10y ago
The most significant way the book improved my memory is by changing how I conceptualize my memory. That is to say: the way to improve my memory is not to improve This-Thing-Called-Memory, but to improve This-Skill-Called-Creating-Memories.
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by emilga 10y ago
> I'd like to learn more, but there's so much hokum surrounding so called 'memory' techniques it's hard to know where to start. Check out the book "Your Memory: How it Works and How to Improve It" by Ke
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by emilga 10y ago
When I went on a guided tour through Dubrovnik the guide said -- and I'm paraphrasing her from memory -- that assaults carried more lenient sentences during the warmest parts of summer. Looks like being cool-headed is more than a metap
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by emilga 10y ago
Yes, that's it!
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by emilga 10y ago
In one of Greg Egan's short stories there is a religious maniac who engineers a deadly STD so as to permit only one lifetime sexual partner, lest the virus be activated and kill the fornicator. (If I remember the plot correctly. It&#x2
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by emilga 11y ago
> I have a number of friends who are teachers, all of whom say that you can spot a single child within about 5 minutes of observing them. They just act differently. Differently how? Whenever a student comes late to class, I've alway
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by emilga 11y ago
> (He's re-arranged it to be coherent for a modern reader; one reason for this is because the original was meant to be memorised and perhaps used from memory, and was ordered accordingly.) Interesting. Can you comment on how the ori
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by emilga 12y ago
The naive way is presumably to just throw all the floats in a hat, mix them up, and pull one out. This is the method you described. The problem here is that the floats clump together around zero, and they spread out further away from zero.
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by emilga 12y ago
I'm not in a position to rate Python vs. Julia, but the lecture notes were originally published using Python. You can access the Python lectures from: quant-econ.net It even has a comparison: http://quant-econ.net/pytho
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by emilga 12y ago
Thanks. I suspect most calorie counting methods that are disruptive (require effort and attention) to making the food will have a high failure rate. I'll briefly describe my workflow, with the caveat that I have not been using it for l
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by emilga 12y ago
Have you tried MyFitnessPal (an app for counting calories)? If not, is there a particular reason you haven't? If you have, why did it not work?
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by emilga 12y ago
> There are people buying diapers and filling trucks with them going from one country to another because of the large price difference between the countries. See here for an amusing example of this: https://translate.google.no
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by emilga 12y ago
From the link > Get a Brazilian friend to buy the ticket online on your behalf using his Brazilian credit card and CPF number. Note that a CPF number is demanded from the purchaser when booking online, but passengers can leave the CPF fi
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by emilga 12y ago
> If you're not reviewing your notes at least once after you've taken them, you shouldn't even bother taking them. Beethoven would disagree with you, Beethoven left behind an enormous number of sketchbooks. Yet h

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