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by gms7777 4y ago
I have chronically cold hands (to the point that they're painful and interfere with typing), and in the last few years I've discovered that hands down the best way to warm my hands up is to warm my core up more. I have a big down
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by gms7777 4y ago
Brains are funny things. I saw the link for the first time a few hours ago, while I was on a lunch break, and immediately thought about the animal. I didn't click the link but did have a thought of "okay, that's kind of a str
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by gms7777 4y ago
I agree. I'm in an applied computational field, that attracts a lot of computational and mathematical researchers that don't have knowledge of the applied system. I've learned from experience that often researchers new to the
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by gms7777 4y ago
Another factor in my field as well is linking to software -- papers that introduce algorithms or use computational analyses are rightfully expected to include the code (usually github) and reviewers are expected to at least check that the c
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by gms7777 4y ago
It's not that they're not paid to care, it's that they're not paid to teach. At least at research universities, tenured/tenure-track faculty's job is to do produce research and get grants. Teaching is a thing t
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by gms7777 4y ago
> Stupid people think they know entire breadths of knowledge - call Peter Principle or Dunning–Kruger: Just to add: Dunning-Kruger is not a problem of "stupid people". We're all susceptible to it, and we all fall victim t
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by gms7777 4y ago
In my experience, science is rarely driven by outliers. Most scientists are very smart of course, but the majority of scientific progress is shaped by slow, steady incremental work that builds on top of itself, rather than brilliant idea me
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by gms7777 4y ago
I was one of the mac users that made that comment -- my point wasn't that this application isn't useful, it was that the landing page doesn't even try to explain why its useful.
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by gms7777 4y ago
Some feedback from a mac user (if this is your project): The only description of the functionality on the page is "brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS." As someone that hasn't used Windows in year
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by gms7777 4y ago
Possibly retention? A group of friends coming into something together might stick around longer than a typical new grad. On the other hand, they might all bounce as a group if they're unhappy.
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by gms7777 5y ago
The simplest answer would be medication. (The following is a vast oversimplification of the biology involved but essentially) the ADHD brain is starved for dopamine. When it finds something that's a reliable source of dopamine (like vi
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by gms7777 5y ago
Have you ever been evaluated for ADHD? I'm not a specialist, nor does your post have anywhere near enough info for me to judge, but your second to last paragraph especially sent up some flags for me so I thought I'd mention it
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by gms7777 5y ago
Just to expand/add nuance to your comment about controversy: It's pretty uncontroversial that cancer screening for women above 50 years old or women with high risk (e.g. familial or genetic evidence or risk, history of cancer&#x2F
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by gms7777 5y ago
Never auto-renew by default. Any time I sign up for something, I only sign up for a month and I immediately turn off auto-renew. If I miss it at the end of the month, I can sign up again, but usually I won't. If I get through another m
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by gms7777 5y ago
I agree -- I'm a lifelong chalk/whiteboard-er. Having a large space where I can write/draw/diagram is critical for me to work through ideas. Occasionally I take pictures or copy down my notes, but usually I just erase an
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by gms7777 5y ago
I agree. It definitely helps me (and it helps me enough that I'm willing to put up with the bureaucratic hurdles and considerable side effects) but it's far from a "cure".
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by gms7777 5y ago
I have a post-it note in my desk drawer that reads "Don't Prioritize, Just Keep Moving". With ADHD, executive function is a challenge, and the moment I try to slow down and actually plan out an entire day or I try to force my
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by gms7777 5y ago
> You wouldn't expect an article that talks about the long-term effects of COVID to also address the downsides of mask and restrictions The parallel of this example would be an article discussing the evidence for the effectiveness o
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by gms7777 5y ago
I am a researcher, and despite having institutional access to most papers I want, I still rely heavily on Sci-Hub as do my colleagues. It has been such an incredibly valuable resource and I'm constantly surprised by how complete it is
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by gms7777 5y ago
I make heavy use of email scheduling (and more recently Slack message scheduling) and will often schedule messages to go out in a few hours or the next day. That way, I can get my thoughts down in the moment, but not get sucked into a back-
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by gms7777 5y ago
"How to cook everything" by Mark Bittman was a book I found very useful. It has a whole bunch of recipes but it also does a great job of explaining the logic and overall structure behind each recipe. So you learn not just how to m
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by gms7777 5y ago
The "some" was referring to the set of vaccinated people. A small percentage ("some") of vaccinated people are dying of covid.
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by gms7777 5y ago
As someone who has found ADHD medication to be hugely beneficial, I completely agree with you. Treatment has its tradeoffs. In general, stimulants greatly improve my quality of life. But at the same time, they can wreck my appetite and make
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by gms7777 5y ago
It's a real world example of a trolley problem. They're choosing to let a large group risk severe disease or death through inaction, rather than pulling the lever and have a small group be at risk due to their actions.
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by gms7777 6y ago
And note that the golden rule and its counterpart the silver rule are only a fall back for when you don't have enough information to apply the platinum rule: "Do unto others as they would want done to them"
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by gms7777 6y ago
Trail router looks great. I put my location in and the first three routes were already regular routes of mine , and the next one was one I'll probably have to incorporate. Bookmarking it for when I travel next.
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by gms7777 7y ago
Suppose a test has a 1/100 false positive rate, and the true incidence of the disease over the population that you're testing is 1/1000 (that is, you expect a true positive every 1/1000 times). In this case, every positi
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by gms7777 7y ago
Discrimination is not illegal except when it is discrimination against particular protected classes -- federally, this includes race/nationality/citizenship, religion, sex, age, disability, or veteran status. A private company is
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by gms7777 7y ago
They're mistakes in the sense that there is a "plan" -- replication of a genome with full fidelity. A mutation is an error/mistake in replication.
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by gms7777 7y ago
I think most people nowadays are binge reading. They're just not necessarily binge reading books. They binge read articles on reddit, hacker news, new york times, any variety of quality and less than quality online sources.

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