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by goodside 16y ago
Whether a physicist (in modern times and below a certain age) espouses MWI is quickly becoming a great litmus test for whether you should bother listening to them on anything that isn't established textbook material. Copenhagen is pseudo-sc
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by goodside 16y ago
I accept that some people, perhaps even most people, are fully immune to anything like Internet addiction. If you're one of those people, great. I envy you. But I can say from first-hand experience that compulsive Internet use ("Internet ad
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by goodside 17y ago
To be pedantic, evolution doesn't have to be evolution by natural selection. The word "evolution" is used all the time to describe changes in cultures, technologies, and individuals. These aren't even poetic extensions of Darwinian evolutio
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by goodside 17y ago
I can vouch for this desk, and it's nothing short of wonderful. I've been using it for a year as a standing desk, supporting the load of a 24" iMac, a second monitor, and a stereo receiver. The trick to avoiding back pain is to make sure th
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by goodside 17y ago
"That's leaving out the benefits from practicing general problem solving skills, logical reasoning, analyzing design trade-offs, etc." Yes. I do so explicitly and intentionally, as there is no evidence these benefits exist. That was my whol
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by goodside 17y ago
This paragraph from the original paper explains beautifully how little benefit brain-training really provides: "To illustrate the size of the transfer effects observed in this study, consider the following representative example from the da
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by goodside 17y ago
The problem (or at least the obvious problem) is not that some schools have higher GPAs than other schools, but that average GPA has been increasing over time at a rate that cannot plausibly be explained by improvements in performance.
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by goodside 17y ago
"The meditation-trained group averaged aproximately 10 consecutive correct answers, while the listening group averaged approximately one." I call bullshit. Normal untrained adults would do far better than this on adaptive n-back. If this is
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by goodside 17y ago
Children with the condition are also severely mentally handicapped, and have stunted growth and abnormal facial features. It's a disorder.
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by goodside 17y ago
Simon Baron-Cohen (cousin to the comedian) has an incredible book on gender differences in psychology called "The Essential Difference", where he puts forth the theory that Williams Syndrome is a condition diametrically opposite from autism
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by goodside 17y ago
Alternative headline: "Hacker News on Hacker News: Hacker News is great!" Yes, it occurred to me that this might get voted up for the wrong reasons. And, yes, that's probably what's happening now, and I dutifully feel like a karma whore. I
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In which the author's faith in humanity is restored by Hacker News(goodside.posterous.com)
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by goodside 17y ago
"I generally assume that it's okay to lie if it doesn't lead the other person into a decision that will bring them harm..." Humility is knowing you're not smart enough to know when other people are better off being lied to. Once you start j
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by goodside 17y ago
"If you're a good investment, you get funding faster and on better terms. If you're a bad investment and the VC is any good, you'll get rejected even if you have 1000 leads." In other words, the investor should have known better than to lis
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by goodside 17y ago
Slightly off-topic: if you post something with a misleading title that you can improve, please do so. This article has no information at all on how Visa predicts divorce, just the third-hand assertion that they do. An Amazon text search wit
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by goodside 17y ago
Two stand-out features of The Economist I'd like to see emulated more: 1. No separation of op-ed from news reporting. Just-the-facts-Ma'am reporting isn't objective, it just plays coy games with selective quotes and straw-men. It's dishones
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by goodside 17y ago
The arbitrage opportunity might well persist indefinitely, only because the people with the analytical skills to correct it don't care about winning play money on a fake stock exchange. The authors obviously found it more worthwhile to publ
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by goodside 17y ago
I've had a standing desk for about a year, and largely for the reason you're describing. I have a tendency to stay up late coding, and a standing desk makes it harder to waste time staring at a bright screen when I'm tired enough that I sh
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by goodside 17y ago
I'm 6'0". The desk surface is 3'9" from the ground. It's not low. My girlfriend is 5'6" and can't use it comfortably without standing on a yoga block.
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by goodside 17y ago
Raise the monitor until you have to look straight ahead to use it. Bring it closer to you if necessary. Get glasses.
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by goodside 17y ago
I'm typing this from a standing desk: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1038179/Fredrik2.jpg It's a "Fredrik" from Ikea, which courteously lets you choose the height of the desk and shelves, and doesn't stop you from putting them in the wrong spots
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by goodside 17y ago
In terms of eco-friendliness, the current bottles are better. Square bottles enclose a smaller volume of fluid per unit surface area than round bottles, so these waste more plastic. The supposed savings in shipping costs are negligible -- t
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by goodside 17y ago
"I'm afraid you can't outlaw people working against their own best interest..." Yes, you can, sadly. Minimum wage laws do exactly this. If you enact a minimum wage of X, some of the people who make less than X have their wages increase to X
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by goodside 17y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, nurse, or med school dropout. You shouldn't listen to me.) Nootropics don't work, but this is mostly by definition. Just like any algorithm that works isn't AI, and successful minorities aren't minorities, whe
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by goodside 17y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, a neurologist, or an endocrinologist. I'm in no way qualified to be talking about this. I have a fairly severe form of delayed sleep-phase syndrome: left to my own devices, as when I was on summer vacation back
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by goodside 17y ago
The expansion of the universe does not violate energy conservation. Energy conservation says \del_b T^ab = 0, where T is the stress-energy tensor. The metric tensor in Einstein's field equations is covariantly constant (\del_b g^ac = 0),
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by goodside 17y ago
"Alices", by analogy with "codex".
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by goodside 17y ago
Scroll to the botom, and: 11:44:33 AM Alex K: that makes it sound like it may not be worth huge optimization? 11:44:46 AM Alex M: no, not really
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by goodside 17y ago
The studies mentioned don't show that using hand sanitizers is ineffective, just that mailing the sanitizers to people along with informational pamphlets is ineffective. If you actually read the first study they report finding a signifi
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by goodside 17y ago
No. Yes. Problem solved.

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