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by kashyapc 5y ago
It's more complicated ... it's "multifactorial". To expand on it, I'll quote from a short review of 'Behave', by the inimitable Robert Sapolsky, that I wrote on a previous thread[1]: The most important id
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Speaking of words ... here's a fun one: "founder" vs. "flounder". Both words can be nouns and verbs: • founder [noun] – one who establishes • founder [verb] – to sink / to collapse / to fail • flounder
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Today I learnt: "Overseas" is also apparently an adjective ! As in, "overseas trips"
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Evolutionary Psychology by David Buss[1]. [1] https://www.routledge.com/Evolutionary-Psychology-The-New-Sc...
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I fully agree. Thanks for the excellent articulation of the layered complexity involved here, including a chilling example.
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I'm conscious that this is a flame-bait topic. That said, no, dismissing the whole field as "questionable" is callous. Yes, there are many open questions, loaded landmines, and ethical concerns in evolutionary psychology
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I'm just done with a 3-hour reading session of an evolutionary psychology book by one of the leading scientists in the field. The book is extremely competently written, and is awash with statistics on almost every page, "70% of
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Ten years ago I've read Margaret Cheny's (a mathematician) biography of Tesla. Unfortunately, I don't recall anything much besides a vague, pleasant memory of being impressed by Tesla's inventive mind and Cheny's r
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It depends where you are, I guess. What you say is perhaps more true in the Netherlands, my experience in Belgium (particularly Flanders, where I live) has been different. People seem to appreciate my efforts and forgive my mistakes. Gra
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I did not know, but guessed as much, given that Dutch shares a lot of German grammatical structure. Thanks for the confirmation and the examples. :-)
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A couple of things that required a mini lobotomy for me while learning Dutch (the Belgian variant, Flemish) as my fourth language. As a Germanic language, many rules that apply to German also apply to Dutch. As I continue to learn many of
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I don't know how Terraform works, but `virt-builder` will cache the xz-compressed template images locally on your first pull. So for example, if you build a Fedora image: $ virt-builder fedora-32 --size 10G --format qcow2 The
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There's a lot of useful command-line tooling for KVM- and QEMU-based virt. Here's a small selection of them: • virsh — This[1] is libvirt's shell interface; and gives you access to the rich set of libvirt APIs. • virt-bui
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The article misses to mention an important work on this topic. I mentioned it earlier on a different thread[1]; re-posting it: Little over hundred years ago, the dashing Dutch Historian Johan Huizinga wrote a book called: "The Autumn
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If you're new to the Culture series by Banks and are wondering where to start, I'd suggest not to start with the first book, "Consider Phlebas" . Instead, I'd strongly recommend to pick up the second one, &
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(Prior art from 2000+ years ago.) The first 29 letters (out of 124) that Seneca wrote, to his friend Lucilius, end with a quotation—the "daily dole" referenced below—from writings that have impressed Seneca. He ends his letter 6
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Fair question. I did anticipate it, as my argument wasn't watertight. I mean to say that the sheer variety aggravates our boundless appetites, which are difficult to restrain as-is. Couple that with the unhealthy eating habits our mode
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I don't think you're deprived of any nutrients. Sticking to a well-chosen, consistent diet is a feature , not a bug. Most of us living in modern cities have a dizzying array of options to the point that today more humans die
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Besides the three excellent authors I've already mentioned above, I can share a selection of what I found curious. (Not all books I wrote down were mentioned by name; I picked some based on combing through the index.) If you've c
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Yes, indeed; sorry for not spelling it out. I picked up some 24 books from it. Definitely worth a careful reading.
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I recently began educating myself about human language acquisition (a rabbit hole I was pursuing from another book, Behave ). I learnt that there's two main schools of thought—the "innate instinct" model (Chomsky et al) and
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There was recently a thread[1] about an open-source alternative to GPT-3 here, called "GPT-Neo". I hope it takes off. But the language on their website undermines some confidence: "GPT-Neo is the code name for a series of tr
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Small correction: I mixed up the author and the co-author's names—it is Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb.
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This boring imperative falls into the same trap as "Be Clear". Gregory Williams, author of the classic "Towards Clarity and Style" , has a thoughtful rebuttal to these punchlines in his book's description (quoting
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To see Game Theory from a 'cooperation' point of view, check out the landmark book, The Evolution of Cooperation [1] by Robert Axelrod. Axelrod's work was also summarized in The Selfish Gene . (And more recently, in Behav
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Yeah; trying to "system-2 all the things" is indeed ludicrous, and is simply unsustainable in terms of energy, which we can well attest from our own experiences. Kahneman himself doesn't advocate that extreme, but he does nu
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This is less well-known, but worth noting: Gerd Gigerenzer is a long-time critic of Kahneman and Tversky's work (quite popular here, understandably). So it is instructive to see the other side of the coin. I'm a little embarrasse
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Hi, you're right; sorry for being sloppy. I simplified the term bank teller to banker when I wanted to pose that problem to some non-native English speakers. I did that reduce some "distraction" — the term 'teller'
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"Paying attention", in all senses of the phrase, has been one of "killer features" of well-being, dating back to ancient Greeks. That said, the "conjunction fallacy" mentioned in the article, it seems to be one
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Real-time Linux is a thing, although it was maintained separately, outside mainline Linux, for a long time. About 4-ish years ago, the project got some decent funding and is now part of Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfounda

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