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by skolor 17y ago
You certainly look too hard at it then. You apparently missed: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface?content=a782431... , the article that I most want to read from it. Sure, it isn't an EEG of the sailors, but it sounds (from what I
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by skolor 17y ago
Really? I would certainly say Google and Dell were revolutionary. Now, they may not have been the first to do it, but they were early, and they were the best (at that time). Facebook and twitter, get a little bit of a "meh" from me, they mo
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by skolor 17y ago
You're right, I can't find any evidence other than several polyphasic sleepers' blogs. I can find a handful of articles on polyphasic sleep, but all of them are behind pay-walls and I can't get to any actual data. The only actual data I cou
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by skolor 17y ago
The way I understand it, Polyphasic sleep is designed to trick your body into skipping the first two stages of sleep, so you spend all the time in the last two, where the biggest benefits are.
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by skolor 17y ago
You have to figure: Color Blindness is a recessive trait (at least in humans, I don't know about other species). In order for it to survive, and even increase in expression over the course of human evolution, it has to carry with it some be
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by skolor 17y ago
I'm confused. How is that a problem? A student who is having trouble with a problem, rather than being told "Huh. You must be some special kind of stupid, everyone else got it" is instead told "Huh, you must be a real kinesthetic learner."
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by skolor 17y ago
We have been discussing this article on our work ListServ since it came out on Wired this afternoon ( http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/colortherapy/ ). The conversation turned rather quickly to whether or not those of us who were c
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by skolor 17y ago
To throw my anecdote in there: Several years ago my family moved to Florida to be closer to my grandparents. My mother found out that the only teaching position she was "qualified" to do was as a substitute teacher. She had previously taugh
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by skolor 17y ago
What is this? He seems to be arguing against an issue that doesn't exist. As far as I know, there isn't a single school that classifies students as Visual/Kinetic/Aural and then locks them into only those sorts of classes. Instead, they hav
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by skolor 17y ago
Personally, I believe three things are necessary for success: * A specialization. Without specializing in something, you will never be the best/at the top of your field. You need something to be good at, something to be better than everyone
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by skolor 17y ago
Make failure immediately visible in a non-destructive way . A nuclear reactor that fails and explodes immediately is not a good thing. A nuclear reactor that fails and notifies someone qualified to fix the problem immediately is a very goo
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by skolor 17y ago
Its an interesting read, but I disagree with many of the points: In the West, specialization is encouraged at early ages. While it seems to be mostly anecdotal, I tend to think the opposite, that this happens more in Asian countries than
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by skolor 17y ago
Can anyone explain what exactly Foursquare is? From what I can gather it is some sort of social-networking mixed with Geocaching, but I seem to be missing something about it.
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by skolor 17y ago
I would not consider Carl Sagan or Richard Dawkins "PR people". While they do educate the public, "PR people" tends to refer to someone who has an active interest in a particular side of an issue, rather than a general interest in educating
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by skolor 17y ago
None, they're mostly a lost cause. On the other hand, the locking down of actual research makes it that much easier to make wild claims: Turns out there is a cure for Cancer. They did a paper in XXXXXX about it, called "BioFlavin shows rece
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by skolor 17y ago
I agree, and that's an even bigger problem. I find it far easier to just google any site I haven't been to before, but that is relatively easy to poison, especially if the domain/site/service is particularly new.
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by skolor 17y ago
The only problem is accessing all those results Google has stored away. The attempts I have made to access their database have met in huge failures, except when jumping through some rather massive hoops. They restrict you to the first ~60 r
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by skolor 17y ago
Keep in mind how Google's database works: These notes can only be found if there is a link to them on a page already in their database. That means one of two things: Their profile is set so that Google can read it, and it scraped the link f
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by skolor 17y ago
I never thought of the High Speed Rail as a commuter exclusive option. While that may be the intent, looking at the routes that have been brought up so far I was under the impression that this was intended as a general attempt to make the U
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by skolor 17y ago
This statement confuses me. Looking at that map, it looks like most of the rail is being put in places that could most use it. There are a few confusing places (like the Buffalo-Cleveland being left out), but for the most part it seems to b
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by skolor 17y ago
"American's own more cars than any other group and are ridiculously mobile." I don't have any hard, general statistics, but back in high school we did a rather informal survey, with a relatively small sample size (~50 students). Out of th
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by skolor 17y ago
the investment required to pull that off is staggering. Europe taxes heavily to pay for the infrastructure. The problem is, we (America) have been neglecting our infrastructure for far too long. As a country, we've been doing little more
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by skolor 17y ago
That depends on a few things. Specifically, if NASA is sufficiently far-sighted, finding sources of intra-solar resources which are easily accessible once in space could be viewed as a long term R&D investment. It may be massively expen
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by skolor 17y ago
Huh, its kind of cool, but it definitely seems like vaporware to me. I can't find any prices for it anywhere, but I did find a few mentions of it being released "Q3 2008".
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by skolor 17y ago
Do you have both a 4-6 month idea and a 1-2 year idea? If you do, pick the one you are most passionate about. Keep in mind that 3 years is long time, its likely that whatever time table you start out with will be completely warped by the ti
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by skolor 17y ago
I found this somewhat confusing. I'm not a big FPS player, so this might be way off base, but wouldn't a 2x2 being the best setup? Unless I'm wrong, most FPS games are designed so that what is shown on the screen is what would be directly i
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by skolor 17y ago
His situation is more of "When I bend my wrist backwards, it hurts". He's using it in a way that is not necessarily good. Yes, it is included. And yes, it may be helpful/beneficial. But if you're having problems with doing things that w
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by skolor 17y ago
In this case, yes. This isn't a broken leg, its a cut. You keep it clean (ie, don't refresh the front page every five minutes), and you don't poke it. If it was a broken leg (ie, the front page gave you only the chronological order), then t
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by skolor 17y ago
I can't imagine trying to read it via a feed reader. Like you said, that's a lot. What I tend to do is just use the site, not even use a feed at all. When I've got 15-20 minutes to spend reading articles, I'll come to the site. When I don't
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by skolor 17y ago
hire enough engineers and buy enough hardware that scaling won't be an issue for long I don't know about that. Twitter is still having problems with downtime due to scaling. The way I see it: don't completely ignore scaling, but don't f

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