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by oblique63 13y ago
> The author's argument seems to be "facebook is not a substitute for real social interaction", to which I can only say "duh!". I don't know a single person making that claim. I don't think you have t
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by oblique63 13y ago
Indeed. I just finished my undergrad degree in CS, so going 'in depth' into either field is still on the horizon for myself personally, but I am admittedly a bit more acquainted with the neurological/psychological side of thi
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by oblique63 13y ago
Well, here's one app that's already available on iOS (and supposedly coming soon to android): http://www.biasmodification.com It's a slightly different branch of therapy called CBM (cognitive bias modification), b
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by oblique63 13y ago
> you have to ask the brain to tell you what is going on in English and then make guesses about the circuitry inside of this complex system that you have no way of verifying Ah, but this is where neurology steps in (when possible), no?
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by oblique63 13y ago
> We understand gravity to staggering levels of precision. If I understood the parent correctly, the argument was that the brain was still a 'black box' in that we don't understand how/why exactly it works, therefor
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by oblique63 13y ago
You mean like gravity? As far as I'm aware, that hasn't exactly been fully understood yet either... Modern psychology is very much a science today, and if anything, it's like the relativity to neurology's QM . Both ar
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by oblique63 13y ago
> No, because I specified that it was under a given value function (mine) Ok, but what's the benefit of defending a position on the basis of it being a personal belief? The greater context here is on how certain viewpoints shape
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by oblique63 13y ago
> Fundamentally, it does not matter to me if a paper did demonstrate differences, even in a perfectly equal society. It would still be optimal under my value function to no further accentuate them. Isn't the use of "optimal&q
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by oblique63 13y ago
what about python?
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by oblique63 13y ago
And this is why I started boycotting Apple products. Honestly, I agree with about 99% of the 'pro-apple' arguments here, because it is frustrating that companies aren't stepping up their UX game, but that's just peanuts
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by oblique63 13y ago
This is all purely my own opinion of course (and you’re free to disagree), but it was based on the parent comment's branding of Canonical as a dubious company on ethical grounds when he mentioned fragmentation / community cooperat
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by oblique63 13y ago
> Irregardless of whether they manage to provide value to their users: A fair and reliable member of the greater community they have most certainly not been. Yeah, I think it's good to explicitly separate the idea of the linux de
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by oblique63 13y ago
Points are a pretty bad approximation of 'value' though. My shortest and most mundane comments are always the ones that get the most upvotes, meanwhile my lengthier ones that actually lead to insightful discussions hardly get an
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by oblique63 13y ago
> they want other companies to do it and they will show them Isn't that what the iphone inadvertently did anyway though? If Edge succeeds, the logical consequence would be that other manufacturers would start to pay attention in
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by oblique63 13y ago
> I refuse to believe Canonical want to enter the hardware market I don't know, from all the design hints Canonical's been dropping in the last few years, it seems like they really are trying to place themselves as direct com
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by oblique63 13y ago
> Are there really no off-the-shelf platforms for this? From what I gather, it seems the entire purpose of this 'edge' project is a hardware one, not a software one. They're trying to gather the 'latest and greate
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by oblique63 13y ago
Yeah, that phenomenon plagues everything diet/nutrition/fitness these days. Doctors themselves aren't necessarily scientists nor researchers, and in practicality it's hard to have that kind of wide depth of knowledge whe
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by oblique63 13y ago
> why would it be easier to be poor in a city? Well, I would assume there's some correlation between population density and having a difficult job market. More people == more competition, and under those conditions the types of jo
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by oblique63 13y ago
Not directly about the article, but for anyone interested in finding out what actual research has to say about any supplement you might be interested in, http://examine.com/ is a great resource to explore for that.
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by oblique63 13y ago
It shouldn't be a problem if you have enough vitamin K in your diet: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/03/2...
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by oblique63 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised. I attended the neighboring SF State and it's bad over there too. Many people fail out of the CS 101 course (including aspiring CS majors), and the Calculus 1 course offerings all the time. What I find mor
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by oblique63 13y ago
Along that same note, I thought this[1] post offered some interesting insight on the topic: "NYC Mayor Bloomberg's proposal is to ban soda sold larger than 16 oz. Is it a government intrusion into our private lives? Shouldn&#x27
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by oblique63 13y ago
> if you can't create another example or analogy off of the material you are supposed to be teaching, then you actually don't know it as well as you think This is actually a fairly good metric for telling a good teacher from
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by oblique63 13y ago
> that does not mean the professor's contribution to it was inffective To the particular student that doesn't get it, yes it was ineffective. In any given group of students, that'll yield different percentages of effecti
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by oblique63 13y ago
> This has nothing to do with whether the students can understand it easily or not. He could be communicating effectively (e.g as Knuth does in his Art of Computer Programming books) with the students still not getting it. If the audie
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by oblique63 13y ago
> So while there is some consensus that teaching yourself is better than being taught it's certainly not very efficient. So under which conditions is expecting your students to teach themselves better for them exactly? It seems
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> without it all those words will lose their meaning, and people will invent new ones. I can see where you're coming from, and can respect that, but it still feels to me like this idea that we will just perpetually invent new word
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by oblique63 13y ago
Language is a man-made construct; words only carry as much meaning/importance/value/derision as they are given by society. If we don't like a word, sure we can try (futilely) banning/censoring it, but it'll onl
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by oblique63 13y ago
The best way to test this would be to approach it like Intelligence research originally approached that hypothesis for IQ scores: by testing a reasonably large set of twins separated at birth. That's such a tricky criteria to come by,
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by oblique63 13y ago
I would love to see this kind of study done comparing different programming paradigms (i.e. functional vs. procedural vs. OO vs. logic). Some concrete cognitive data on how lisp-like languages may or may not actually make programmers more

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