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   Can a Neuroscientist Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?(theatlantic.com)

   5 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|2 comments
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   by tdaltonc 10y ago

   I wonder how Thailanders would handle the street tacos and the 'C' rated taco truck down the street from my apartment.
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   by tdaltonc 10y ago

   except this isn't open source.
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   by tdaltonc 10y ago

   Just because the government says it will be "forever" doesn't mean it will. When thinking about planing the multi-generational prosperity of your family (something few people do to any serious degree) you can't take the
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   by tdaltonc 10y ago

   I think that's still up in the air. Hopefully they'll consult with the researcher they just hired before finalizing their back of the napkin design.
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   by tdaltonc 10y ago

   Somewhere between 10 years and the-rest-of-your-life, you need to start taking geo-political risk into account. Just because a government says it will be forever, doesn't mean it will.
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   by tdaltonc 10y ago

   > Even for new grads, the correlation is slight, the company has found. Small_correlation != no_correlation
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   by tdaltonc 10y ago

   Here's one of the points of stock: If you want a stake in a company you have to buy it (it can't just be given to you). A lot of employees don't have the cash on hand to buy stock so companies issue options instead. And even
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   by tdaltonc 10y ago

   > ... Mark Zuckerberg’s message hasn’t got through to Facebook’s employees. What is this referring too?
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    I wonder how people would have felt about 'The Martian' if it had been about the political infighting within NASA a la 'The Wire.'
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    I'm super familiar with the problems of revealed preferences (that's literally chapter 1 of my PhD thesis). But we don't need to naively interpret every action as an expression of 'values.' For example, consider net
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    I think that these powers can be used for good. I'm building a subreddit for people who want to learn how to align the behaviors their apps construct with their users best interests. https://www.reddit.com/r/behavi
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    If you're interested in learning more about these power and how to use them for good, consider joining us: https://www.reddit.com/r/behaviordesign https://www.reddit.com/r/habitdesign
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    That's not such a big problem. I think we can get good an inferring values from behavior and using values in marketing. Then if you download an app that has positioned itself with certain values, the designer can reasonably assume that
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    So based on what this author is saying, what is a more ethical design pattern for karma? or is there no ethical karma design pattern?
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    > We need our smartphones, notifications screens and web browsers to be exoskeletons for our minds and interpersonal relationships that put our values, not our impulses, first. People’s time is valuable. And we should protect it with the
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    CRISPR isn't tech?
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    Do you mean "information technology" instead of "technology"? Because I don't know what you could mean by "technology is mature." Jets are technology, they were new, now they're mature. Same for any t
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    > canny sculptors may have gone for smaller dimensions to make their statues more robust as well as aesthetics. I think that's one step to far. It's a better (at least 'cleverer'?) argument if you just leave it at &qu
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    Neither majors nor schools are randomly assigned to students, so I don't think that there's actually much to take away from this.
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    Because there is a big selection bias in university education, it's hard to say that Harvard caused someones income to go up using your math. I prefer this post from last year which tries to calculate value-added. http://www
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    I'd love to see a contrast between apps received, apps invited to interview, and apps accepted (but I imagine that they're keeping that close to their chest).
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    I think the ipad pro could could shape this up a lot. A good ipad app (even if just for slide-over) could become a must for most utility or communication apps.
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    Maybe one day Springer, the publisher who owns Nature, will also stop suppressing scientific research.
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    by tdaltonc 10y ago

    Wouldn't posting to a google indexed blog legally amount to the same thing?
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    by tdaltonc 11y ago

    This is a very money-where-thier-mouth-is move. Like they said, moving away from Torch is a big deal. I know that google has been criticized for not dog-fooding GCS, does anyone know if that has changed? For example, does DeepMind use it?
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    by tdaltonc 11y ago

    Even after the birth of Alphabet, Google still has a lot of seeming unrelated parts. Should it have been broken up further? Does it make sense to have YouTube, Google Cloud Platform, and android (but not Fiber or Google Capital) all in the
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    by tdaltonc 11y ago

    Any examples?
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    by tdaltonc 11y ago

    I think it would be interesting to have a league where these are legal, but you have to start the race with a dead battery and change it with resistive breaking. Mostly, I'd like that league to exist so that there would be an incentive
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    by tdaltonc 11y ago

    > giant money laundering scheme for the rich father. How does this do that?