faux_intellect

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by faux_intellect 8y ago
I highly recommend listening to the interviews Wallace did with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW's Bookworm. https://www.kcrw.com/people/david-foster-wallace
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by faux_intellect 8y ago
Yeah, definitely. The vlogs are cool. Check out the amount of hard drives he ends up using https://youtu.be/Zlu5tkeTg9Y?t=4m54s
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by faux_intellect 8y ago
Casey started monetizing his channel much, much later. In my view, the footage he has amassed and shared on Youtube over the years shares parallels with what Tryniski is doing, namely, he has provided people with a visual account of what it
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by faux_intellect 8y ago
Casey Neistat is someone who comes to mind. He has chronicled so many moments of his life on video and shared them with the world.
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by faux_intellect 8y ago
From David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: "no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable"
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by faux_intellect 9y ago
Nice one. The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis is my favorite episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Stuart Russell: Three Principles for Creating Safer AI [video](ted.com)
1 points by faux_intellect 9y ago|0 comments
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by faux_intellect 9y ago
For a laugh, I'd sure love to see the half-baked list of disabilities the author thinks solely merit a handicapped placard, which he has doubtless already compiled. What sucks is that there tends to be a stigma that goes along with hav
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Two incompatible sacred values in American universities [video](youtube.com)
2 points by faux_intellect 10y ago|0 comments
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by faux_intellect 10y ago
CMU's self-paced and free Open Learning Initiative classes on statistics might be helpful early on: Empirical Research Methods: http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/future/empirical-research-methods... Probability and
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by faux_intellect 10y ago
Andy Field also posted some great lectures that pair well with Discovering Statistics here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfAndyField/videos
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by faux_intellect 10y ago
Thanks for sharing this. It's always great to reread DFW. He had such extraordinary prescience about so many things. Another bit of gold from that excerpt: > First there’s some sort of terrific, sci-fi-like advance in consumer tech
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by faux_intellect 10y ago
At this point, I think Google Scholar should step in and just put a replications section beside every scientific publication. People should be able to quickly and easily know how many times a study has been attempted to replicate and, of th