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by sn9 7y ago
Evolution is more complicated than you realize. Kin selection is the term you need to read up on for our current explanation on why we live so far beyond reproductive age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection
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by sn9 7y ago
Your suspicions are correct; that would be a bad idea. What are your goals?
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by sn9 7y ago
Yeah reduction in NEAT is fairly common in prolonged caloric deficits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermogenesis https://www.strongerbyscience.com/metabolic-adaptation/
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by sn9 7y ago
Oh man you weren't kidding. I put 2000+ calories worth of potatoes and buttermilk into Cronometer and it was surprisingly complete.
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by sn9 7y ago
>Growing up in poverty and experiencing traumatic events like a bad accident or sexual assault can impact brain development and behavior in children and young adults. It's literally the first line.
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by sn9 7y ago
No smartphones or unrestricted access to the internet. No social media. Have a computer in a common space like the living room for when they want to be online. You don't have to be watching over their shoulder. You could try to keep up
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by sn9 7y ago
Could you please include a note explaining that in the text? I, too, thought it was referring to a subset relationship. Ctrl-F 'Material' also doesn't turn up anything in the page.
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by sn9 7y ago
Seconding CS50. This site can fill in the rest: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
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by sn9 7y ago
Sam Harris's Waking Up is actually a great short read about both the neuroscience behind the self and meditation and how meditation can help you become more aware of how the self is more a useful fiction than an irreducible thing.
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by sn9 7y ago
You say that but there's mounting research that we get more susceptible to financial scams as we age, especially in retirement years when we have the most money and make the juiciest targets. NPR ran a series last week on the topic t
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by sn9 7y ago
I would be very interested in reading about your process (e.g., what kinds of cards you make, what sort of questions you ask yourself, how this varies depending on the source or the subject, etc.). Have you written about this in any detail
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by sn9 7y ago
The billionaire vs NBA comparison would make more sense if the number of billionaires allowed to exist was a fixed number.
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by sn9 7y ago
Think Python , 2ed. It's available for free online. Follow it up with Automate the Boring Stuff with Python .
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by sn9 7y ago
Not necessarily. The demands of everyday life are sufficient to keep you strong enough for those activities. Strength training helps with you meet the demands of the things that happen irregularly like moving furniture, clearing snow, havin
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by sn9 7y ago
Starting Strength also has an app, which includes access to the book and videos.
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by sn9 7y ago
Genius by James Gleick is the best biography I've ever read. It's about the life of Richard Feynman. Gleick's Isaac Newton is also fantastic.
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by sn9 7y ago
Figure out a way to stop people from flying unnecessarily: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2017/11/...
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by sn9 7y ago
My recommended route: Harvard's CS50x on edx -> Think Python 2ed -> https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html#toc You don't need to take CS50, but it's the probably the best introduction
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by sn9 7y ago
Inspect the element. It's cute.
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by sn9 7y ago
The canonical undergrad CS theory text is Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation . The prereqs are a comfort with discrete mathematics and proofs and a course in algorithms and their analysis.
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by sn9 7y ago
TDD with Python : https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
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by sn9 7y ago
I, too, thought this piece took a strange position. It would be better titled "Books and lectures don't work if all you do is passively consume them in a single pass", which I don't think anyone argues or believes or pre
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by sn9 8y ago
The newest iteration of 18.06 [0] is using this textbook [1] that incorporates usage of Julia in a companion book. [0] https://github.com/mitmath/1806/blob/master/summaries.md [1] http://vmls-
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by sn9 8y ago
Not everyone knows who Joey is . . . .
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by sn9 8y ago
1) If you haven't, take this MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn 2) Machine learning and computational neuroscience are two different fields. You really don't need to understand neurosc
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by sn9 8y ago
I'm surprised nobody's talking about how the code is mostly Haskell, and how it's being used to control electronics which seems to be a rare usecase (AFAICT): https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/joey/ho
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by sn9 8y ago
If you needed ideas: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
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by sn9 8y ago
Jonathon Blow had a really interesting but subtle response to this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk&feature=youtu.be
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by sn9 8y ago
Some of my favorite talks from Strange Loop: * Contracts For Getting More Programs Less Wrong: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/contracts-for-getting-mo... * "It's Just Matrix Multiplication": Notatio
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by sn9 8y ago
Why do people focus so much on dollar amount for salaries? They aren't very informative when you don't take into account the differences in local/state/national tax rates, purchasing power, cost of living, etc. You need

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