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How the zebra got its stripes, with Alan Turing (2014)(mosaicscience.com)
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Graviky Labs: Capturing air pollution and recycling to Inks(graviky.com)
1 points by jimsojim 10y ago|0 comments
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Education publisher Pearson reports biggest loss in its history(theguardian.com)
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The persistence of political misperceptions [pdf](dartmouth.edu)
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by jimsojim 10y ago
Freakonomics - http://freakonomics.com RadioLab - http://www.radiolab.org For my Iphone, I use an app called Overcast - pretty decent.
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CMB Cold Spot(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jimsojim 10y ago
Context switching has more overhead cost than we usually estimate. I've found that focusing on a single activity (assuming that activity requires considerable mental effort - maths/CS etc) in a day, and then gradually increasing t
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by jimsojim 10y ago
Could you elaborate a little more on why you feel that way?
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Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record(economist.com)
139 points by jimsojim 10y ago|111 comments
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A Response to Paul Graham's “How to Make Wealth” (2012)(czep.net)
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The former sex worker who set up a retirement home(bbc.com)
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New data show that joining the 1% remains unsettlingly hereditary(economist.com)
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A Case of Spam and Free Speech at Intel (1998)(partners.nytimes.com)
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Apple Seeing Mixed Results from Cloning (1996)(nytimes.com)
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Pepsi Generation (1963)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jimsojim 10y ago
I've found that creating systems & not setting up a definite goal (stretch goal) makes the whole act of doing a task or practicing a skill feel little more on auto-pilot - which kills the drive for pushing it little harder. Creatin
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Intuition in Mathematics (2012) [pdf](as.miami.edu)
119 points by jimsojim 10y ago|34 comments
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How to Get Rejected by YC and Move On(sitepoint.com)
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Tesla’s second generation Autopilot could reduce crash rate by 90%(electrek.co)
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Learning Models of Disease(rbharath.github.io)
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The Many Colors of Sound(theatlantic.com)
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Brownian noise(en.wikipedia.org)
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What I Wish I Knew Before Working Remotely Around the World(lifehacker.com)
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A blueprint for getting more women into information technology(economist.com)
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Mathiness: not just a problem of macro-economics (2015)(magic-maths-money.blogspot.com)
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by jimsojim 10y ago
In that context, it would be more about the number of tasks in your time table instead of how well managed the time is for each one of them (or overall). A schedule with a lot of tasks (context switching), will not serve ADHD person well.
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The Rise of the Post-Doc as Principal Investigator(papers.ssrn.com)
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Palantir has provided help tracking immigrants for US(theverge.com)
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by jimsojim 10y ago
Deep work by Cal Newport, great book on how to develop intense focus to be creative/get more done. Highly recommended. Race Against The Machine - a concise and informative discussion of the impact of technology on employment, income di
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ANTARES Underwater Observatory(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by jimsojim 10y ago|0 comments

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