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by jbullock35 6y ago
Note that N = 24 for this study. From the article's abstract [1], on method and sample size: "High-density electroencephalogram (HD EEG) was used in 12 young adults and 12, 12-year-old children to study brain electrical activity a
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by jbullock35 6y ago
The linked Ars article is excellent, and it's a reminder of how much better Timothy Lee is at covering these issues than the people who cover them for major newspapers. For example, compare his article to the Times article on the same
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> The median house in Lafayette costs roughly $150,000. A family living in this house would currently pay about $1,500 per year in taxes to the local government of which 10%, approximately $150, goes to maintenance of infrastructure [...
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by jbullock35 6y ago
Yes. Sometimes it's not hard: > In 2018 the BBC looked into a video circulating on social media showing soldiers blindfolding and then shooting two women and children in Cameroon.
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by jbullock35 6y ago
> if you get recruited to play Water Polo, Crew, Golf, Volleyball, or Beach volleyball at UC Berkeley, and ~95% of kids who play those sports come from wealthy families, and recruiting gave them an edge in admissions, does that count as
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by jbullock35 6y ago
> Cancelling Pound would be no great loss for humanity. It would be a loss, and not just because his poetry would be lost. The point is elaborated in a good, recent article on the attempt to cancel Pound in 1946: https://www.n
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by jbullock35 6y ago
Those percentages are a little different from the percentages given (along with much other detail) by Yale's Office of Institutional Research: https://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/w004_enroll_racegen.
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This hasn't held up well: > Martin E. P. Seligman, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania [...] has been monitoring the temperature of emotional incidents on the computer network to see how they differ from "
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by jbullock35 6y ago
> I don't think the Socratic Method is universally applicable. I'm not sure how one would use it to effectively teach Spanish, or history, or geometry. Doesn't seem hard. Socrates himself used the method to teach geometry:
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by jbullock35 6y ago
It's not the case. It would be true to say that no one pays full price unless they have a lot of money. Harvard, not unrepresentative of other top U.S. schools in this regard, says that 55% of their students receive financial aid [1].
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by jbullock35 6y ago
> See the books of Edward Tufte, for example. Better to see his manifesto on slides: "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within." https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
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by jbullock35 6y ago
For more than a decade, I've lived exclusively in modern U.S. buildings (built or fully renovated after 1999). I don't think that I've ever seen a building fitting this description that didn't have a trash chute.
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What was wrong with the Gesture?
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> Require local residency for the first ten years of service. This is a popular idea, but it seems like a bad one. It limits the pool of highly qualified applicants, which we badly need to expand. I've seen arguments in favor of th
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> I dislike these absolutist statements and manifestos. From the manifesto: "We don't hate frameworks, nor we will ever create campaigns against frameworks, but we perceive the misuse of frameworks as a lack of knowledge regard
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by jbullock35 7y ago
From the article: "One thing that I miss is the fact that in GMail folders are actually labels and you can have multiple labels for an email." Which competing services (apart from Outlook) offer Gmail-like labeling for individual
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by jbullock35 7y ago
> A large number of the remaining 56% are classified as "essential": grocery and certain retail, public servants and first responders, healthcare, education [...] The authors already code 82% of teachers as able to work from ho
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by jbullock35 7y ago
> Someone please tell me one benefit of Airbnb for society It has been an enormous benefit to travelers of all kinds. It has made a huge variety of properties available for short-term rental, and because these rentals are often less exp
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by jbullock35 7y ago
Interesting. Would be even better if it let you download data on returns at any point. For example, you might pause after Day 200, download data on the S&P 500 for Days 1-200, analyze the data, and then proceed accordingly.
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> Could this all be avoided by just not telling anyone that you are in the running for a job, until you have the written offer in hand? Probably not in U.S. academia. When a U.S. department is thinking of hiring you as a professor, you g
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by jbullock35 7y ago
Yes, that line in the article is naive, perhaps gratuitous. "Credible commitment" is a major concept in game theory. It's also important in certain branches of the study of international relations.
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> What Roth didn't say but could have was that while Updike's best sentences may have been better than Roth's, he also wrote many more bad ones. That sounds right. The author could have added that most of Updike's bes
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by jbullock35 7y ago
> people do not need to profit from housing to build it Yes, I'm sure that you volunteer your services to build new housing all the time.