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1. 61.▲
   China has made obedience to the State a game(independent.co.uk)

   28 points by growlix 11y ago|4 comments
2. 62.▲
   Pigeons as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images(journals.plos.org)

   1 points by growlix 11y ago|0 comments
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   Carl Icahn Invests $100m in Lyft(cnbc.com)

   2 points by growlix 11y ago|0 comments
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   Big data as statistical masturbation(utopiaordystopia.com)

   2 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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   Why Bayes’ rule has not only captured attention, but inspired religious devotion [pdf](stat.cmu.edu)

   1 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
6. 66.▲
   by growlix 12y ago

   Does making teachers easier to fire draw better candidates into the profession?
7. 67.▲
   by growlix 12y ago

   Whatever this means: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-uni...
8. 68.▲
   by growlix 12y ago

   blame the algorithm
9. 69.▲
   by growlix 12y ago

   Finland both pays and respects its teachers. This is not so much the case in the US, where teaching is viewed as overpaid babysitting. Also, prestige/symbolic capital is a powerful motivator. It seems to me that in the US, wealth is a
10. 70.▲
    by growlix 12y ago

    I TA'd a capstone neuroscience seminar at McGill for multiple years, and you'd be amazed at how much difficulty many of the students had at expressing themselves in writing. And I'm talking about those who spoke English as a
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    A Primer on Probabilistic Approaches to Visual Perception(purveslab.net)

    3 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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    Our Comrade the Electron(static.pinboard.in)

    3 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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    Economic indicators must account for depreciation of natural capital(nature.com)

    4 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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    Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General(nytimes.com)

    1 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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    by growlix 12y ago

    I'm not sure if it's paywalled so here's a link to the author's site that has the full article plus a nice summary: http://gking.harvard.edu/publications/randomized-experimenta...
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    Reverse-engineering censorship in China(sciencemag.org)

    2 points by growlix 12y ago|1 comments
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    by growlix 12y ago

    I would consider your Mendeleev quotation as an example of a different, though also quite fascinating phenomenon. What is being discussed in the above article relates to processing sensory input during sleep. The Mendeleeev anecdote is rela
18. 78.▲
    Friendship and Natural Selection(pnas.org)

    1 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
19. 79.▲
    The Scourge of “Relatability”(newyorker.com)

    1 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
20. 80.▲
    by growlix 12y ago

    Thanks to both of you for your explanations. I think I'm beginning to understand it, though it I find it far more comprehensible when considered in the context of a gold-backed dollar than fiat.
21. 81.▲
    by growlix 12y ago

    Can you (or someone) explain how black market transactions in USD act as a free loan to the US government? This isn't intuitive to me.
22. 82.▲
    Privacy and the Pool of Information(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

    1 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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    by growlix 12y ago

    I had a difficult time parsing this. Maybe I still am, because that sentence continues to tell me that using this app will somehow make my most beloved musicians listen to my favorite music.
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    Filler Word Use as a Function of Age, Gender, and Personality(jls.sagepub.com)

    2 points by growlix 12y ago|1 comments
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    Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers(nytimes.com)

    142 points by growlix 12y ago|61 comments
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    Privacy watchdog files complaint over Facebook emotion experiment(theguardian.com)

    2 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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    Financial Regulation Turf Wars(bloombergview.com)

    1 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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    by growlix 12y ago

    I think the real kicker here is that they're able to reproduce racial incarceration disparities ONLY by manipulating sentence durations, a known trend in the justice system[0]. [0] http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc&#x
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    Informed Options Trading prior to M&A Announcements: Insider Trading? [pdf](irrcinstitute.org)

    1 points by growlix 12y ago|0 comments
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    Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes(pnas.org)

    2 points by growlix 12y ago|1 comments