patricklynch

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by patricklynch 15y ago
You've misread his comment. The comparison of his wife and best friend is the anecdote. He then adds separately that he has empirical evidence--unshared with us--that each is competent in their respective fields. He doesn't claim anything t
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by patricklynch 15y ago
How is that ambiguous? Although that was probably rhetorical: It's ambiguous because most people[1] automatically view implicit multiplication as higher rank than both division and explicit multiplication. -- [1]this is a wild guess with
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by patricklynch 15y ago
At risk of sounding like a sore loser, IQ tests, whether or not they are bias, are not a good indicator of success I wondered if this was actually true, so I did some digging. I'm not saying you're wrong, but here's a fairly recent (in ac
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by patricklynch 15y ago
Before everyone starts posting their Amazon affiliate links, look at the requirements that makes the LessWrong thread so valuable: 2. You must have read at least two other textbooks on that same subject. 3. You must briefly n
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by patricklynch 15y ago
Kinesis Advantage - http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/
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by patricklynch 15y ago
Fine; replace 'offended' with 'disappointed.' My point--which you seem to have missed--is the same. I'm not addressing the issue of gender discrimination. I'm saying that your rhetorical approach, which seems to be "loudly proclaim that eve
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by patricklynch 15y ago
"It's not an assertion because this isn't something up for debate." If he hasn't seen any compelling evidence of [Issue X], then for him it remains unresolved. Rather than being offended that his mind isn't made up the right way, you migh
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by patricklynch 15y ago
Doesn't appear to work on Linux Mint 11 (katya)
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by patricklynch 15y ago
> there are such things as kids that knowledge comes easier to Of course, if it's possible to learn how to learn--that is, if you can learn more efficient study methods--one would expect to see this disparity (effort expended per unit o
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by patricklynch 15y ago
There seem to be a lot of new Skyrim mods coming out every other day. Mostly cosmetic stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised to see more 'total conversion' style work soon. I haven't really checked moddb.com since Unreal Tournament 2004 was th
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by patricklynch 15y ago
Are the course videos online somewhere? I know the database class was basically an organized walkthrough with extra assignments for videos that were mostly already public.
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by patricklynch 15y ago
I'd like to note this isn't actually an answer; you've just begged the question.
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by patricklynch 15y ago
What are you talking about? The basic text -- 12 px Arial? -- is pretty standard. I'm sure I'm not the only person who read it without issue. But what's more -- unlike most things I read online -- this essay even has text that's much bigger
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by patricklynch 15y ago
In the case of TF2, this has really hurt my ability to enjoy the game. Since they made it free and added a thousand new items, there are vastly more new (less skilled) players, many games are spammed in both text and voice chat with offers
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by patricklynch 15y ago
They're programming languages based on lisp. The main site is here: http://www.lambdassociates.org The documentation is here: http://www.lambdassociates.org/doc.htm An interesting essay that relates to the project is here: http://ww
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by patricklynch 15y ago
[Insert any creative work or admirable skill here] is actually not all that hard, if you are willing to play with it long enough.
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by patricklynch 15y ago
My standing desk is a set of $60 industrial shelves from CostCo. If all you care about about is functionality, furniture can be pretty cheap. I'm thinking of the Xooglers video where Google's massive line of desks was a series of doors on t
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by patricklynch 15y ago
Check out the book 'Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software' (Steven Johnson) for more awesome discussion of ant behavior, among other things. Some highlights: * Ants will sacrifice themselves as 'living bridges
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by patricklynch 15y ago
Absolutely agree. I made the switch to more minimalist footwear shortly after reading a relevant article two years ago.[1] If it were socially acceptable to wear Vibram fivefingers where I work, that's what I'd do. Since that's not really a
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by patricklynch 16y ago
Right Click ==> View Source, obviously :D http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/static/js/io.js So, it looks to be built on the Box2DJS Javascript physics engine: http://box2d-js.sourceforge.net/ The author, Matt King, says he recent
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by patricklynch 16y ago
I got a 5 as well, but in my case it was less a function of calculus mastery and more a function of knowing how to program everything they asked for into a TI-89. (I've since gone through a few calculus textbooks to actually learn everythin
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by patricklynch 16y ago
This was fun. Granted, if I ever use MongoDB it'll probably be in Rails with either Mongoid or MongoMaper, but this is a great intro to the underlying operations. And the linked book was concise, clear, and definitely worth the read. *nitpi
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by patricklynch 16y ago
Sure! I spent one semester back in college on a kick of reading about evpsych. Really, anything by Miller is great. Or Matt Ridley. Or Cosmides and Tooby. Or... ...Yeah. It's way too easy to get caught up in a cycle of more and more books.
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by patricklynch 16y ago
Great book. If you like that (or really, even if you don't), I'd also recommend "Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior" by Geoffrey Miller. It goes into the more general evolutionary psychology behind why anyone buys anything. I part
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by patricklynch 16y ago
Let me play Devil's Advocate here. Perhaps you're taking something with many shades of gray, and unjustly trying to flatten it into black and white. ... >>>>"But the comments comparing women with mentally handicapped and chi
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by patricklynch 16y ago
Well, most (all?) public universities let you check out books from their libraries without being enrolled. And many professors will let you sit in on lectures if you're polite and not a disturbance. So in that sense it's been possible to 'm
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by patricklynch 16y ago
Another recommendation - Keisler's Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html (pulled from this old slashdot thread) http://books.slashdot.org/story/04/03/04/028253/Five-Free-Ca...
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by patricklynch 16y ago
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. -from Gödel, Escher, Bach
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by patricklynch 16y ago
I just bought one from a Radio Shack in Austin. They weren't on display yet, but they were in stock. Signal: Pandora's streaming fine and I can browse the web as well as I'd expect to. The phone itself: It comes with a little bit of bloatwa
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by patricklynch 16y ago
Yes, that line came off as egotistical posturing. We got it. But I don't like that your snarky quip--which distorts the fact that the author continues to use facebook out of a sense of social obligation, and which I don't think adds much to

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