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by gms7777 3y ago
I played it first a few years ago and was totally engrossed. A few months ago, I remembered it and thought "well maybe I'll find it again and play for a few minutes"... and then I did nothing else for the rest of the day.
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by gms7777 3y ago
I'm not the person you were responding with you, and I completely agree with you, but I think there is a more charitable reading of that statement which I also think is true. There is no form of society in which ADHD is an advantage. B
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by gms7777 3y ago
The expiration date on most medications functions differently than the expiration date on something like food. It's more about effectiveness than it is about safety. It's the date that the manufacturer can guarantee full potency o
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by gms7777 3y ago
I lived in New Jersey for about 4 years. When I first moved there I thought it was the dumbest thing that we couldn't pump our own gas. Now that I've left, it's one of the few things I miss from NJ. Standing out at a gas pump
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by gms7777 3y ago
Pulse is pretty trivial with another sensor on pretty much every smart phone out there: the camera I've been using pulse apps for probably at least a decade
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by gms7777 3y ago
Of course, I'm not saying that the lower order skills are not important -- as you say, they're foundational. And I'm not even saying that it's a bad idea to test lower order skills. But they're not the only importan
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by gms7777 3y ago
The problem is that there are plenty of valuable skills that are difficult to test in a standardized way. Most standardized test questions focus on Bloom levels 1-3 (remember, understand, apply) and struggle to test higher order skills (ana
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by gms7777 3y ago
I suppose one consequence of being a serial renter that has moved around every 1-3 years is that it changed my relationship with having a large volume of books. Seeing a bookcase full of books does bring me joy but it simultaneously makes m
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by gms7777 3y ago
Thanks, this helps clarify it a lot. I went and looked up a few more articles, and I think I still remain confused a bit about the second quote you list -- specifically what it means to use "a trademark as a trademark", as it seem
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by gms7777 3y ago
Usually, language that tries to simplify or put things in layman's terms is missing important detail for fully specifying the problem. It's like watching the 3 minute version of a recipe on YouTube and thinking you have a good und
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by gms7777 3y ago
The thing that confuses me (as someone that knows very little about the topic) is that I thought the primary purpose of trademark law is to avoid consumer confusion (as opposed to copyright which is about IP, which I actually could see prot
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by gms7777 3y ago
or "mental/cognitive plasticity"
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by gms7777 3y ago
Generally speaking, plagiarism (as in, passing off other's words and ideas as your own) is not illegal except in cases where it intersects with copyright law. In the case of ghost writers, they transfer copyright to the publisher, so l
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by gms7777 3y ago
And with YouTube, anyone that wants to hear it faster can just speed up the video anyway.
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by gms7777 3y ago
That's reasonable. I think being in the academic world, I don't see it as often because daily achievement isn't really rewarded -- it's all about individual output in the longer term (manuscripts, grants, etc. ), and eve
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by gms7777 3y ago
This is possibly a risk, but it's not one I've ever seen play out. I don't think most people favor failing fast. It's something you do because it's good practice, while crossing your fingers that it doesn't fai
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by gms7777 3y ago
I often approach this from a “upper bound” and “lower bound” scenario perspective. So suppose I am trying to extract a signal from data that is noisy and sparse. Often the most time consuming part of solving the problem is figuring out how
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by gms7777 3y ago
One thing that my grad advisor used to emphasize is “failing fast”. That is, for every problem of the form “Is it possible to do X?”, there is a dual problem of “Can you prove it’s not possible to do X?” Before spending far too much time on
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by gms7777 3y ago
This is a valid point, but the “correct” behavior in that instance should be to communicate the constraint, instead of claiming that it would be followed. This is certainly more innocuous than most confident BS-ing that these models do, bu
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by gms7777 3y ago
I went through this at much younger and I completely understand the feeling of loss of identity. I was a college rower back in the day, and at my peak I was doing 11 workouts a week, plus weightlifting. I finished school and it was hard to
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by gms7777 3y ago
Thanks! Based on this, it seems like "exit tax" is a bit of a misnomer -- the proposal was just to tax people even after they've left California, but they would have paid the tax even if they hadn't left.
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by gms7777 3y ago
What would a tax like that even look like?
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by gms7777 3y ago
I did a postdoc at a hospital in a HCOL city which offered still expensive but below-market hospital owned apartments for postdocs. It was a massive perk at the time and I'm not sure I would have even taken the job without it. Even set
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by gms7777 3y ago
Yeah, as someone with ADHD, good diet, exercise, sleep, etc. are critical for managing symptoms. They're also effectively impossible to maintain consistently without medication.
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by gms7777 3y ago
I use Notion as a personal work notebook. I like it for its lack of rigidity and fixed structure. I've always struggled with tools like Trello because they have a specific model that you need to fit your usage into. Then again, I'
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by gms7777 3y ago
I think the two biggest areas it's useful is discoverability and networking. I often catch interesting papers on Twitter that I missed through other avenues. And a lot of people post threads highlighting the main takeaways of their pap
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by gms7777 4y ago
In my academic circle, it remains important for my career. Even as some people have left, it's still super useful for discovering other peoples research, seeing what the post-publication conversation is for published or preprinted rese
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by gms7777 4y ago
T-mobile coverage got considerably better in rural areas sometime around 4 years ago. I did a lot of long drives and would completely lose service for long stretches in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, much of Ohio. Now I can't think of
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by gms7777 4y ago
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. > If you go through hospice with someone please discuss the options before the end. I'll expand on this and say that pretty much all adults should consider making a living will, or at le
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by gms7777 4y ago
The not-completely-bonkers version of this is called "body doubling". Especially for people with ADHD and other executive function disorders, just being in someone else's presence can be hugely beneficial for productivity. Th

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