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by slurry 13y ago
That book is essentially worthless. Its methodology is to read through philosophers and literary critics, find places where they talk about science, evaluate whether they talk about science accurately, and when they do not, to dismiss their
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by slurry 13y ago
I will even suppose that something useful and important is being done in those fields--nevertheless, at the end of the day, I can point to my computer or bike and say "Engineering and hard science made this possible", and they ca
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by slurry 13y ago
There was a contention that the government subsidizes humanities research . I demonstrated that, barring the rounding error that is the NEH, it does not. You reply that yes in fact the government does subsidize humanities teaching . I don
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by slurry 13y ago
You don't even need to hedge that much. Quite a few non-PhD granting colleges offer superior education (not even arguably superior, just superior) than all but the highest tier research universities, public or private. I won't pic
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by slurry 13y ago
That comment is very misleading. No it's not. I was responding directly to this: A better question may be is it worth it for the government to subsidize research for humanities professors? The article itself didn't have anythi
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by slurry 13y ago
This part was really interesting too: Public and private research universities had increased revenue from services like hospitals as well as from the Federal government, yet raised tuition to further increase costs. Other private instituti
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by slurry 13y ago
A better question may be is it worth it for the government to subsidize research for humanities professors? Where is all of this filthy lucre that the government is throwing at humanities professors? I would like to get some. The only fed
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by slurry 13y ago
What does make me sad was that I thought (being extremely naive) that the Crash of 2008 might have a positive effect on technology, by reversing the "talent graveyard" effect of finance. The crash, and the policy response to it,
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by slurry 13y ago
Shorter me: "I think Greenwald is annoying but he's doing a good job with this." Not sure why you'd fix in on "Greenwald is annoying".
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by slurry 13y ago
Hopefully Tulsa.
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by slurry 13y ago
Not actually a big fan of the New Atheists. Don't recall reading Greenwald's ripping of them but I'd probably agree with most of it. Other than Citizens United, I can't recall an issue where I've thought Greenwald w
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by slurry 13y ago
Normally I can't stand Greenwald because even though he's usually right imho, he has to drama everything up so hard and force everything into a simplistic moral narrative that it's usually not even worth reading him. But in t
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by slurry 13y ago
There actually are shorter-form therapies derived from psychoanalysis that do have manuals, and studies purporting to show their effectiveness. The point wasn't that these therapies are all that great - they probably aren't - but
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by slurry 13y ago
The bums always lose, Lebowski.
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by slurry 13y ago
ALEXANDER SHULGIN!!!!!????? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin
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by slurry 13y ago
Picture a herd of elephants crossing the savannah. Each elephant carries 50 monkeys on its back. A sudden mutation makes it so that each elephant can now only carry 30 monkeys, but also doubles the number of elephants in the herd. This is t
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by slurry 13y ago
The hypothesis that depression comes from a deficiency of serotonin is, from what I understand, no longer considered viable among research psychiatrists[0], although it's still widely believed by practitioners and the general public. W
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by slurry 13y ago
I was actually thinking something just a little more technical aimed at coders only. But maybe that's the real reason it doesn't exist: no one can agree on what it is. :)
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by slurry 13y ago
When I picture a Hitchhiker's Guide to Mathematics, I don't picture a book that actually teaches you mathematics. I picture a book will, on demand, give you just enough information to get by in a particular area of mathematics wit
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by slurry 13y ago
I' m not sure it makes a ton of sense either, even for an older book. OTOH, knowing a lot about programming language history/politics and knowing a lot about math and rigorous CS theory tend to be negatively correlated in my exper
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by slurry 13y ago
According to Phornoix, Chris Wilson of Intel wrote this in a Git commit: We do not condone or support Canonical in the course of action they have chosen, and will not carry XMir patches upstream. http://www.phoronix.com/sc
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by slurry 13y ago
CBT gets quite a lot of props. It legitimately deserves many of them but probably gets more than it should, especially relative to "black magic" psychotherapies. The main reason CBT is so popular in the industry is that it was des
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by slurry 13y ago
The alleged new thing about the research he cites is that it's based on a 'circuit' model rather than a chemical imbalance model. The other new[ish] thing is that strong-version biopsychiatry advocates feel the need to explai
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by slurry 13y ago
Hip Hop is giving up on PHP internals while not having to throw out legacy code [immediately anyway]. They might for all I know still use plain PHP for some things but the Hip Hop project is not a vote of confidence.
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by slurry 13y ago
German universities aren't very good at attracting foreign students and they tend to underperform in international rankings (in large part due to the previous point). I don't think German universoties are an example anyone wants t
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by slurry 13y ago
It's not only hard to teach yourself calculus, it's also something you wouldn't think of doing unless you're Gauss or one of those guys. Agree with the rest, kind of disagree with this part. Measure the slope of a curv
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by slurry 13y ago
Not making any causal statement, just pointing out the correlation. Unity and Gnome 3 don't actually remove the complexity of a multilayered X environment, they just selectively attempt to hide some of it from the user. I don't th
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by slurry 13y ago
No he isn't. The question is whether or not merit is the ultimate criteria for admissions. If gender is to be elevated above merit, all we've done is exchanged one form of discrimination for another. If what the article was talk
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by slurry 13y ago
X has a warm place in my heart and has ever since I first logged into my high school's SGI workstation that students Weren't Supposed to Use. However, the multilayering approach encouraged/required by X is a vector for an awf
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by slurry 13y ago
X-infterfaced Linux has been failing to make a dent in end user space for two decades. Non-X unices have been highly successful in end user space (various Aplle and Goodle offerings, not to mention set top boxes etc.) I don't necessari

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