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by jayro 12y ago
Yep! How facts backfire - Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains "In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political
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by jayro 12y ago
"Research shows that even when news reports have been retracted, and we are aware of the retraction, our beliefs are largely based on the initial erroneous version of the story. This is particularly true when we are motivated to approv
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by jayro 12y ago
Here are some additional stories on the topic that are worth reading: * Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-l... * At M.I.T., L
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by jayro 13y ago
Honestly, I can't remember if I have, but it would be interesting to read something about it. I wonder if it's kind of the same problem as trying to teach concepts to kids that are just at the limit of their ability to comprehend
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by jayro 13y ago
Wow, thanks for that! It's so hard to make broad generalizations about how to teach kids to code because it really depends on so many different factors (age, interest, ability, etc), but after a lot of trial and error I do think we&#x2
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by jayro 13y ago
This is a valid sentiment / concern that was also raised in the comments section of the Google+ post. Here's a mildly edited version of my response. ... When you don't formalize the challenges, the kids just kind of meander,
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My New Strategy for Teaching Kids How to Code(plus.google.com)
99 points by jayro 13y ago|28 comments
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by jayro 13y ago
Cool! Thanks. ;)
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by jayro 13y ago
Previous to Carl Lange’s post, this was described in "How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area" - http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf... Apparently, Carl was unaware of it as well despi
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by jayro 13y ago
Hacker Newsletter is simply a weekly coalition of curated links. HN Digest would aim to provide a short summary for every article that makes the home page. So, if say fifteen of the articles on the home page look interesting to you, but you
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by jayro 13y ago
I would love to see this fly. I can't count the number of 1000+ word articles I've read that could have been reasonably summarized in a paragraph or two. Sure, there are long articles that are so engrossing or relevant that you wo
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Russ Tice Reveals the Truth About NSA Spying [audio](corbettreport.com)
1 points by jayro 13y ago|0 comments
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Birth of an AI Trading Company (Part I)(tarcancapital2013.wordpress.com)
1 points by jayro 13y ago|0 comments
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by jayro 13y ago
Brooks is the ultimate apologist for this kind of corrupt military, industrial, surveillance state crap. What a tool. This article about Brooks (written by Greenwald and dating back to 2009) is pretty illuminating. * David Brooks: our natio
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by jayro 14y ago
Here are two relatively inexpensive options for tick-by-tick market data: * IQFeed http://www.iqfeed.net/dev/ * Nanex http://www.nanex.net/historical.html The Nanex data is more expensive and harder to work with, so you mi
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by jayro 14y ago
In other news ... House Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/house-approves-spy-...
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Darpa, Venter Launch Assembly Line for Genetic Engineering(wired.com)
1 points by jayro 14y ago|0 comments
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by jayro 14y ago
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. "The filmmaker: Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, whose recent films include “My Country, My Country,” about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and “The Oath,” whic
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Interview with the Director of Research at HFT Firm Headlands Technologies(techzinglive.com)
2 points by jayro 14y ago|0 comments
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How to Protect Yourself from Yelp's Robot Protection(theatlanticwire.com)
3 points by jayro 14y ago|0 comments
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by jayro 15y ago
This is precisely what AnyFu is: http://www.anyfu.com . We haven't launched yet (just testing out the system), but we've processed five client/expert sessions in the past couple weeks and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
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by jayro 15y ago
It would be really interesting to see a list of posts where he's been right as well as a list where he's been wrong. In fact, it would be great if there was a site that hand a right and wrong list for all the major economic and foreign poli
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The Only Way to Stop SOPA(plus.google.com)
198 points by jayro 15y ago|51 comments
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Christensen, Bezos, Branson and Musk - The Power of Long-Term Thinking(plus.google.com)
1 points by jayro 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Need Questions to Ask the Copy Hacker on TechZing
8 points by jayro 15y ago|2 comments
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Letter to a Flash Developer(plus.google.com)
11 points by jayro 15y ago|0 comments
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by jayro 15y ago
Fair enough. I'll try to do a little better next time. But in all fairness it was just an anecdotal G+ post.
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Increasing Your Luck Surface Area and Yes, the Big Dogs Read Hacker News(plus.google.com)
137 points by jayro 15y ago|14 comments
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Why I Quit Algorithmic Trading to Do Web Startups (codusoperandi.com)
101 points by jayro 15y ago|7 comments
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How a Coding Obsession Killed My Startup(patmaddox.com)
19 points by jayro 15y ago|4 comments

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