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by robg 18y ago
Not thinking about. That far back is a reconstruction of the data compression that happens in the retina. Attention can shift activation there slightly, but there's little abstraction from the retinal image.
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by robg 18y ago
Exactly. The visual system produces a very stable activation pattern, relative to other senses and multidimensional objects. The noise inherent in those other systems is probably the best protection of our inner privacy. There simply isn't
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Brain-Enhancing Drugs: Legalize 'Em, Scientists Say(blog.wired.com)
5 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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Why asset bubbles are a part of the human condition that regulation can’t cure(theatlantic.com)
44 points by robg 18y ago|33 comments
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A Moment of Truth for the Golden State(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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Where Is the Expedia of Local News?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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Football and the Unconscious(scienceblogs.com)
3 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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Your amazing brain: Top 10 articles from 2008(newscientist.com)
20 points by robg 18y ago|2 comments
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Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’?(nytimes.com)
1 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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Is Shanghai Turning Pro or Just Building High? by Nathan Myhrvold(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
7 points by robg 18y ago|10 comments
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Inside DCSNet, the FBI's Nationwide Eavesdropping Network(wired.com)
3 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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Are the new ascetics masters of self-denial or just self-promotion?(motherjones.com)
2 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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by robg 18y ago
So there's a correlation with where a QB was picked and their performance? But you can't tell me how to, objectively, judge their performance? What, we're back to relying on the teams and how they dole out playing time? I see little evidenc
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by robg 18y ago
The complicating factor, of course, is all those former first rounders but second stringers, have had significant money invested in them. It's a lot easier to cut the lower picked players but not necessarily because of their "talent". Matt
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by robg 18y ago
This is getting far afield of the original critique. The point there was that scouts do a good job in selecting QBs, especially for picking the best QB (first!) in a given draft. There is very little evidence to support that claim. Surely,
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by robg 18y ago
There are 10-15 QBs taken every year out of 250 picks. The question is whether where they were picked correlates with future success. I see no evidence to support that correlation. Otherwise, we're taking about a very limited skill set (i.e
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by robg 18y ago
Now, you're arguing with yourself. If it's the "system" that's getting "rated", then there's even less reason to assume a team knows what they're doing when they're picking a specific QB. And that's the interesting bit of logical jiu-jitsu
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by robg 18y ago
No, the fact that by the time they're eligible for the draft, and of the 10-15 taken every year, there's usually little to differentiate the top picks from the worst. What separates them is anyone's guess. That's Gladwell's point.
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by robg 18y ago
But it's not "every now and then". Look at the names of "nobodies": Brady, Bulger, Garrard, Romo, and Cassell And that's just the last nine years. They're as good, if not better, than "top" picks. Then you have the more historical guys like
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by robg 18y ago
Hmmm, who's cherrypicking data? ;) 2000: Chad Pennington, Pick 18, Career Rating: 89.7; Marc Bulger, pick 168, Career Rating: 85.7, Tom Brady, Pick 199, Career Rating: 92.9 2001: Mike Vick, Pick 1, Career Rating: 75.7; Drew Brees, Pick 32,
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Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one researcher calls "withitness."(newyorker.com)
57 points by robg 18y ago|66 comments
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The Psychologist - new magazine in a new online format(issuu.com)
4 points by robg 18y ago|2 comments
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by robg 18y ago
Cool, thanks. (The number of users 9 days ago from pg: 12385) Anyone know the number of daily posted links? Comments? Now versus six months and/or a year ago?
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Origins of the Senior Moment(online.wsj.com)
2 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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When Languages Die(papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com)
14 points by robg 18y ago|1 comments
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by robg 18y ago
Also, any idea what those two huge spikes are at the beginning of August and, especially, the middle of September?
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by robg 18y ago
In the Just Curious Dept: Can you provide the number of user accounts? Have the number of posts also increased 12x fold? The turnover on the new page seems more like 3-5x from what it used to be.
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New record: 94,563 Indian students in US(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by robg 18y ago|0 comments
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by robg 18y ago
Should have said too that some folks in Newbury have cable. We're literally one mile off the main road, and five miles from I-89 (a major highway). and don't.
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by robg 18y ago
Cool! We're in Newbury. We'll be moving closer to Boston in the next few months, though.

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