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by papeda 6y ago
+1. His conversation with Neal Stephenson is a fun entry point. A recording and transcript is here: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-neal...
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by papeda 6y ago
> I am constantly encountering people that Absolutely. Will. Not. Admit. Ignorance. Or. Fault. Even when it’s quite clear. IMO this is one of the fringe benefits of a good math education. Almost everybody who does math for long enough, e
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by papeda 6y ago
> mandatory office music What?
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by papeda 6y ago
What would you prefer? That anyone who receives government research funding be barred from entering the private sector later?
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by papeda 6y ago
Not the point, but I love this bit: > Lydia made the mistake of remarking, “What a beautiful tree,” presumably too casually, whereupon Wittgenstein glared and demanded, “What do you mean?” and she burst into tears.
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by papeda 6y ago
Interesting, but today's prompt left me questioning the exercise. This is because the prompt doesn't spell out the main point of the text in its entirety. It doesn't even spell out what smaller goal the prompt is trying to ac
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by papeda 6y ago
It seems easier to bankroll museums and concert halls (especially when Carnegie lived) than change the kind of legislation that gets passed. This article is more about the second impact.
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by papeda 6y ago
I get that large sample sizes are impractical for experiments with monkeys, but I'm reluctant to draw conclusions from a study where all relevant groups have <= 10 participants.
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by papeda 6y ago
Does your username come from your interest in trauma? A palimpsest is a pretty elegant physical representation of human memory.
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by papeda 6y ago
The featured article's pitch is that there's still way more historical writing about war, including ignoble stuff, and this imbalance still strongly suggests that PTSD was somehow much less common. (It's also funny that the B
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by papeda 6y ago
On a related note, a while ago I read a little about how ancient families coped with the deaths of their children. My takeaway, pretty much cribbed from this article [1], was that such deaths produced less trauma than they would today becau
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by papeda 6y ago
This piece seems pretty short on details for such a strong claim. As far as I can tell, all concrete objections appear in this bit of text > Who tells your phone that you’ve been diagnosed, for example? Given the possibility that – in a
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by papeda 6y ago
My pet theory is that a lot of "identity politics"-type stories are really about punching up vs. punching down. The success, overall, of Asian-Americans means discrimination against them at least does not feel like punching down,
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by papeda 6y ago
My issue with this kind of extended contemplative analysis is that the actual form of the art becomes less important than the attention paid to it. So the real contribution of museums is not selecting the "right" pieces for displa
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by papeda 6y ago
What movie is this?
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by papeda 6y ago
Maybe this is sarcasm, buy Zoom has that exact feature.
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by papeda 6y ago
The content of the article explores (and to a large extent answers) the question in its headline. It doesn't seem to make any value judgements. It is interesting to see who is behind this cause and organizing to support it. The track r
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by papeda 6y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. But I don't think it qualifies as "popular". The Wikipedia page says it lost around $10mil a year and then folded after 6 years in a mess of debts. At around the same time, Rush Limba
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by papeda 6y ago
Same type of question: was there ever popular left-wing AM radio? Like a counterpart to Rush Limbaugh? Like highly emotive and monetized liberal (in the American sense) talk radio?
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by papeda 6y ago
Here is a basic question: how are the sensitivity and specificity (false negative and false positive rates, IIRC) of these tests determined? It seems like a learning problem with noisy labels. Does anyone know what they do in practice? Espe
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by papeda 6y ago
I don't think so. The featured article only mentions 1) federal encouragement to relax these citations and 2) a city council resolution encouraging the mayor to evaluate the situation. Neither of these are law.
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by papeda 6y ago
Similar but more general question: is testing available to everyone, e.g. random asymptomatic passersby?
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by papeda 7y ago
Japanese honey bees have a remarkable defense strategy against these things. From the Wikipedia page for Asian giant hornet [1]: > As the hornet enters, a mob of hundreds of bees surrounds it in a ball, completely covering it and prevent
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by papeda 7y ago
I wonder if it makes sense to forbid members of congress from owning anything other than a narrow class of investments (for example homes and index funds, though I'm surely missing many). This sounds like the old "cut their pay!&q
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by papeda 7y ago
Oligarchy translates literally as "rule by the few" [1], and aristocracy as "rule by the excellent" [2]. Kakistocracy is "rule by the worst" per the featured article. So kakistocracy and aristocracy are opposit
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by papeda 7y ago
The problem I keep running into is that the more room for nuance and fit and holistic evaluation that you inject into a hiring process, the more room there is for interviewers to fill that space with their own biases toward hiring people li
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by papeda 7y ago
This is doubly strange because “recounting dreams” is, in modern society, a pretty surefire way to bore other people. But it may be that when you live this kind of pre-modern life you don’t have all the random coins of so much life, media
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by papeda 7y ago
Reminds me of orangutans, too [1]: > Males mature at around 15 years of age, by which time they have fully descended testicles and can reproduce. However, they exhibit arrested development by not developing the distinctive cheek pads, pr
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by papeda 7y ago
Sure, that’s one point on the privacy-vs-utility spectrum. Is it the best one? Contact tracing to track the spread of coronavirus seems pretty high utility. If there’s a way to get a lot of that utility with a lot of (but not perfect) priva
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by papeda 7y ago
Is this the right trade? When a restaurant goes out of business, we do lose a kind of stock of wealth. It's a tuned machine (suppliers, cooks, customers, an evolving menu maybe) and now we're starting over from scratch with an unt

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