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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Among the people I see in my office probably 80% or more have significant sleep disturbances, common is "night owl" syndrome, people who can't get to sleep early enough to get adequate sleep when having to arise at 06:00 to t
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
While Walter Mischel is enormously accomplished, the ideas described in the article re: self-control appear to be simpler than observation of people struggling with behavioral control reveals. I'm not familiar with Mischel's work,
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I'm not so sure diverse (divergent?) approaches to a problem are always better than one leader's effort. For one thing, stand-out genius or talent shows up randomly in populations, it's not really predictable when or wher
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Mentioning vitamin D is a great way to start an argument, especially what is an optimum level for humans as measured in a blood sample. The controversy certainly comes up frequently at the medical conferences I attend. The "evidence b
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This sounds interesting. Not real clear about details, but apparently it uses silicotungstic acid, a common oxidative catalyst. Water electrolysis produces oxygen, which would be catalytically oxidized to peroxide, binding O-, and presuma
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Seems like a "filler" piece, not much info there. Sleep isn't "on/off", but normally goes through levels of consciousness from wakefulness to unaware. Not surprisingly we might be able to handle a simple task
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While it's true humans are the only species inventing the internet, science is also finding out other species have greater problem-solving abilities than previously understood. The course of evolution is predictable only to the extent
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Fact is "depression" is among the most prevalent illness among humans, and a leading cause of disability world-wide. It affects people in all regions though incidence is higher in industrialized countries for unknown reasons. Par
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
No question ceiling (and other) fans are useful for cooling, also for heating by distributing warm air that otherwise pools overhead, especially in high-ceiling rooms. A cool water radiant system certainly seems it would save electric power
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Thanks. You and schoen are right--I'd forgotten about Fup's "obituary". I hadn't been so regular a visitor to the bookstore since the late 90's. Around that time pace of change was speeding up, everything in t
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Reminds me of the cat that years ago inhabited Powell's technical bookstore (in Portland OR). The grayish feline was a inconspicuous mascot. Sometimes seen calmly striding among the bookshelves, with little attention to the humans mi
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Frankly, IMO the student loan situation is as big a mess as any we have in our nation. It is outrageous that it costs $40000 a year to attend college. It saddens and sickens me to know that is the case. It represents a skew in our priorit
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
An excellent article covering the meaning technology adds to, or subtracts from, elements of culture as it is today. Whether or not culture is truly "monolithic" depends on which parts are considered. Does the Internet put a diff
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
There is huge liability in living to be old. Sure, work hard, save money for old age, and get old, there's a stash of funds. But even a million bucks has got to last the rest of your life, and who knows, my aunt is 100 years old, and
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Wonder what happened? Maybe it can't handle many requests and not responding when busy. Or it crashed. The PS server did respond a few hours ago, it did work, at least for a while.
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While I don't doubt the work is a "massively parallel computing platform", like the IBM chips, but it's similarity or structure is at best only tangentially reminiscent of the brain. The little we do know about the brain
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At least two issues involved. You are right about the "context" of the information. Test results need to be shared with the individual by a trained genetics counselor. Interpreting genetic results requires knowledge of the subjec
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The issue is health-related genetic information must be given to the individual by a qualified genetic counselor. Informing an individual about genetic health risks requires counselors with adequate training re: potential outcomes associat
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Indeed, the line from the movie was "you can't handle the truth" meaning I shouldn't tell you because in my judgement it will be harmful, directly colliding with your right to know the truth if you wish to know it. It&#x
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Very clever and interesting. Reading and writing Postscript always twists by brain in a particular way. Having written web servers in a number of languages, particularly in Scheme, which twists in another, contrasting direction, even thoug
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I think it's healthy that this discussion expresses amazement, skepticism, methodological questions, and observations about competition for public media attention, and frequent instances of journals cynically manipulating publication f
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Curious. I mean WiFi still connects up to something, probably a line owned by Verizon, etc. WiFi is not 100% available everywhere, may not be secure (but then again, the cell connection isn't either...). Nonetheless, cell connection
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The comparison of Shen and Haskell caught my eye since Shen was mentioned in HN a few days ago, and I was looking into it. Since I've used Scheme and a port of Shen runs under Chibi Scheme, I wondered what error would show up in Schem
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The housing crash certainly affected many parts of the US. Overall, there has been good recovery of the housing market, though some areas less robust than others. Judging by what I see in my region (Pacific Northwest), what has been a pos
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If I were a Scot, I don't know how I would be able to decide which way to vote. The impulse toward autonomy collides with the value of "economies of scale". A small autonomous entity has to provide its needs for itself, or
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When it works, Firebug is good and useful, though with some Firefox "Nightly" versions, Firebug is broken. Of course, I know, that's what I get for running Nightly... The Firefox developer tools have matured and recent itera
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This question is bound to be a can of worms. There has been a great deal written about the matter, particularly in regard to observational studies. Drawing causal inference is overwhelmingly likely to be wrong when there is a good chance t
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The defining features of Scheme, differentiating it from predecessors, were probably "proper tail recursion" and "first class continuations". Recursion was not only encouraged but also the principle method of looping. A
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Whether functionality should be contained in the "core" or in libraries is often a subject arousing contention, but I think it is, or can be, largely a technical distinction. Where it matters is how well the functionality is integ
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Very interesting to observe that Alaska is politically conservative, yet shows "liberal" values in important ways. I visited parts of the state again this summer, and impressed with it's the breadth of its multicultural histo

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