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On why researchers find Richard Rorty so harde to swallow. (cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
2 points by scritic 16y ago|0 comments
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by scritic 16y ago
That's a very good point - there could be a third graph which has a lot of tiny lines that are far more densely packed together (then the pre-internet graph) but manage to sample the whole spectrum at the same time.
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by scritic 16y ago
I agree, it's almost completely a factor of how much time you spend reading and how you manage that time across topics. Increasing the time spent and becoming a better manager probably means you can cover both breadth and depth.
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by scritic 16y ago
It's true that I was limited to reading Indian dailies when I grew up. But I believe the point stands. I think if your job is not in journalism or politics, then you have a limited amount of time left to read. And you can choose either t
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by scritic 16y ago
You have a point. Although what I had in mind wasn't so much the "real-time" stuff that we get from Twitter and random blogs but the extensive analysis that's often offered on blogs like Brad Delong's, Mark Thoma's Economists View, Savage
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The difference beween reading then (pre-internet) and now. Breadth vs. depth.(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
12 points by scritic 16y ago|8 comments
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Why sorting is easier than ranking. An analysis using distributed cognition. (cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
1 points by scritic 16y ago|0 comments
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Sam Harris' hoped-for theory of well-being is incoherent on its own terms(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
1 points by scritic 16y ago|0 comments
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Embodied interactive systems are good - but harder to teach to novices(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
3 points by scritic 16y ago|0 comments
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How to get people of opposite political persuasions to read each other(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
1 points by scritic 16y ago|0 comments
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by scritic 16y ago
Actually that's what "subway" means in India too. Or at least, that's the word we use to describe the underground road-crossings in Mumbai.
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The same subway sign means two different things in New York and Madrid(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
4 points by scritic 16y ago|2 comments
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by scritic 17y ago
Thanks for the comments, everyone! I don't really disagree on the "external factors" (getting a job, providing for your family, etc.). I think their role is overwhelming, and I say that in the post too. My point is simply to consider the
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Why the best and brightest students in India choose to be engineers(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
19 points by scritic 17y ago|34 comments
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Economics and Sociology: What Scott Sumners defense of EMH really proves(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
1 points by scritic 17y ago|0 comments
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Calling all scientists and mathematicians(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
1 points by scritic 18y ago|0 comments
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In praise of skimming: A response to Nicholas Carr's "Is Google making us stupid?"(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
1 points by scritic 18y ago|0 comments
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Review of Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams(cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
1 points by scritic 18y ago|0 comments