shokwave

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by shokwave 14y ago
60% of people drop out[0] - before you knew this, you had an 60% chance of dropping out. Now you know the statistics, you can go about exerting effort to end up in the 40% that don't drop out. And that number - 60% to 40% - tells you a litt
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by shokwave 14y ago
The search function joke got me good.
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by shokwave 14y ago
The author writes as if, when a 'real person' makes a recommendation, they aren't just making a prediction from data. The difference is that we can see how the algorithm works, whereas our picture of what the human brain does when it thinks
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by shokwave 14y ago
We got used to it with laptops (think back to when they were mostly desktops - "I have to charge my computer?") and we'll probably get used to it with cars, assuming the same value to be gained is there (probably is).
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by shokwave 14y ago
tl;dr: They take too long to charge so clearly nobody should wait 58 minutes instead of 46 or whatever. Hell, why even bother charging for 46 minutes? Charge it for however long you estimate it takes you to fill up the gas in your other car
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by shokwave 14y ago
Huffington Post Sports "Deceptive" Title
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by shokwave 14y ago
Agreed, instance_eval is definitely disgusting, but this trick scores well on readability, it's no more of a trap than some other Ruby idioms, and it serves a good purpose (robustness!). def foo(bar, baz=(default = true; 'default'))
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by shokwave 14y ago
Signed up. I want to see this train wreck first-hand.
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by shokwave 14y ago
It's all well and noble to say "health journalism is flawed, everything is breathlessly reported as a breakthrough", but when you put Tara Parker-Pope and Gary Taubes in the same category, you're committing more of the same mistakes. There'
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by shokwave 14y ago
Start with -just- the bar. Or get Starting Strength, by Mark Rippetoe, which has about 70 pages of instructions and diagrams on the correct form of each lift. Or find a gym that has a personal trainer willing to teach you the proper form. O
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by shokwave 14y ago
Once you see the strength gains tapering off, go into a cut phase - eating less than maintenance calories - and you'll see aesthetic gains to rival your strength and confidence gains.
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by shokwave 14y ago
From Pistol Lake is good.
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by shokwave 14y ago
Yes! Even a "Trash Exchange" where all moderated posts are dumped instead of deleted would be an improvement.
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by shokwave 14y ago
What if I told you that you could get these same benefits with only a 10-20% drop in WPM? And that you could be faster on the newer layout in two weeks? Believe it. Go to carpalx's key swaps page ( http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?partial_op
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by shokwave 14y ago
Insurance pays out when you lose your job or crash your car; ie, when you get unlucky. Lotteries pay out when your pick of numbers was a better pick than ten million other people; ie, when you get lucky. Economics has repeatedly suggested t
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by shokwave 14y ago
If you do want to write a system of equations and solve for happiness... http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/the_science_of_happiness/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/bq0/be_happier/
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by shokwave 14y ago
Without the hostility, the designers might get the idea that their suggestions were good. Without the hostility, the submitter might get the idea that hackernews liked the article. You say the response "is not constructive and leads to no l
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by shokwave 14y ago
Explanations are great, but I've found I got a lot of use out of an intuitive method for applying Bayes' Theorem. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4305144
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An Intuitive Method for Bayes' Theorem(imgur.com)
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by shokwave 14y ago
When I find a great fishing spot, I always make sure I release a joint statement informing the fish.
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by shokwave 14y ago
The author makes it seem as if you have two choices: "tolerance and dependence" or "kick the habit". Maybe acting like caffeine is methamphetamine bumps up the pageviews, I don't know. But I do know that caffeine once or twice a week for a
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by shokwave 14y ago
Hey. There's a problem you want to solve, and you tried a way of solving it. Now everyone's waving their arms about and yelling at you. Right now, you're going to feel like you should stand by your decision. That is a mistake. That is a mis
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by shokwave 14y ago
Well, one obvious counterpoint: startup founders and early employees work 90 hour weeks before you point cameras at them.
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by shokwave 14y ago
He has patents, he tried a space program, and he's a strong supporter of the Long Now foundation - wait, that's evidence for him being crazy?
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by shokwave 14y ago
It's tempting to think that since a group is bigger than an individual, they should have some sort of power to select beyond the individual's procreation - but while groups are more powerful than individuals, groups are not more powerful th
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by shokwave 15y ago
Interesting. I take modafinil 2-ish times a week, sometimes to skip a night's sleep to work on my own projects, sometimes to get a really productive day at my day-job with a startup. My subjective experience with driving on Modafinil is ver