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by halfcat 12y ago
Stephen Covey wrote a book along these same lines, First Things First [1], which advises to first define your roles in life, such as developer, parents, home owner, and so on, then identify the priorities in each of those areas, and sched
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by halfcat 12y ago
My wife and her friends are into essential oils. I have mixed feelings. Some of the oils do seem to be effective, but there are definite red flags as far as the business behind the oils. On the shady side, they have the ZYTO hand scanner, a
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by halfcat 12y ago
>If you have physical access to the harddrive and can turn it on or off legitimately, then can you not just image the harddrive to a backup (While its running) How would one complete an image level backup of an encrypted hard drive wit
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by halfcat 12y ago
>Freund says common forms of earthquake lights include bluish flames that appear to come out of the ground at ankle height; orbs of light called ball lightning that float in the air for tens of seconds or even minutes Perhaps coinciden
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by halfcat 12y ago
Thanks. So the main benefits are from simply enumerating sub tasks, assigning best/likely/worst case values, and repeating the exercise to improve sub task coverage. It sounds like the actual statistical analysis is only an increm
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by halfcat 12y ago
>PERT 3-point estimates...It's taught in project management courses but there're no simple tools for it. Thanks for mentioning some theory behind this. What is lost by doing a simple best/worst/likely time estimate of
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by halfcat 12y ago
It can be [1]. Instead of saving 10-15% of your income, suppose you cut your expenses drastically and started saving 80% of your income. The math works out that you will be financially independent within 5-7 years and no longer have a requi
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by halfcat 12y ago
Minecraft is the only game that led me to a major life change. When I look around the real world, I realized it's the same thing, only more advanced . Once I made that realization, mining and crafting virtual resources became a lot le
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by halfcat 12y ago
Chess engines make use of similar Markov-chain-like techniques, such as killer [1] and history [2] heuristics. They also use win-loss-draw outcomes from millions of grandmaster games in a similar way to build an opening database, to guide t
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by halfcat 12y ago
I once wrote a chess engine that played completely random moves and let it play on the Internet Chess Club against humans for a day. It played 1/0 games (1 minute for all moves). The final result was 46 wins, 22 draws, and 446 losses.
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by halfcat 12y ago
>From company's point of view I can't think of any advantages of forcing programmers come to office every day. Why is this style of working so unpopular between employers? I have seen companies on both sides, where remote wor
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by halfcat 12y ago
'Humankind' is also a prejudice term, and it's easily modifiable to 'animal', 'collection of biological material', 'product of genetic material', or 'matter'. It's unfortunate that
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by halfcat 12y ago
The article "Is There Anything Good About Men?" by Roy Baumeister [1] takes some interesting angles on the reasons and motivations for men choosing war, and generalizes why the worlds most powerful people, as well as the overwhelm
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by halfcat 12y ago
>What about women? I wonder the same, and more specifically, about women who have been in war.
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Ask HN: What criteria helps focus your interests?
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by halfcat 12y ago
> CBS News isn't a reliable source. This tells me nothing. Are the facts presented by parent's post false or not?
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by halfcat 12y ago
> unless he has a lethal weapon on him And if he does? Your argument has excluded half of the (rather important) outcomes.
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by halfcat 12y ago
>At least 50 Americans have been seriously injured, maimed or killed by flashbangs since 2000 I was surprised to see this statistic included. It really makes this issue seem less significant and does not help the argument being made. T
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by halfcat 12y ago
Does the app track wherever you go? Such as, "iPhone was at this location from 2pm to 3:45pm"? Or do you have to manually add locations? I have always wanted something that tracks my location that I can refer back to. I drive all
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by halfcat 12y ago
Did you normally get enough sleep before starting the fasting? You mention that you now get more sleep, and I wonder how much of a factor that is in improving your blood pressure and cholesterol.
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by halfcat 12y ago
That's right. You train to recall, by recalling. This was a big revelation for me when I studied mnemonics. Information can flow in two directions: into your brain, and out from your brain. It is the act of repeatedly retrieving the in
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by halfcat 12y ago
This sounds like the same concept from Kelly McGonigal's TED Talk, "How to Make Stress Your Friend" [1]. For those who don't want to sign up to read the Scientific American article, the video will give you the gist of th
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by halfcat 12y ago
A lot of this says, to me, that the human brain doesn't do well with concepts like statistics and probabilities. I think the far more interesting questions are why we do irrational things in the face of clear and overwhelming evidence.
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by halfcat 12y ago
The research of Dr. Carol Dweck is interesting here [1]. It says that students who were praised for "being smart" developed this ego/defensiveness problem and subsequently began to underperform. While students praised for wor
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by halfcat 12y ago
>Because if you don't require evidence proportional to the claim, your world view can end up including any and all beliefs, which is neither interesting nor useful. This is a reasonable approach, and probably the best universal algo
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by halfcat 12y ago
If you put an AK47 into a USB port and pull the trigger, the server is very likely to go offline. Not even reimaging will help.
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by halfcat 12y ago
The opposite seems to be true. Poker is very popular on television. Chess is not. I am someone who enjoys poker and watching chess on TV (usually an internet broadcast). The problem with chess as a spectator event is that, at least for me t
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by halfcat 12y ago
>plus an interesting career that isn't affected by delayed sleep phase Would you mind sharing what kind of career you have chosen, or examples of others that fit this description?
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by halfcat 12y ago
>Or did people's being healthier cause them to be runners? There was another study that showed that people who take up mixed martial arts in their late 40s are healthier than people of the same age who only walk [1]. No word on whet
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by halfcat 12y ago
This has been tried many times before, with better-but-still-lackluster results. Sunfish is impressive because it's written in Python and in a tiny number of lines while still being readable. I LOVE Sunfish, but it is among the weakest

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