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Planning for the World Digital Mathematical Library(terrytao.wordpress.com)
1 points by tokenadult 14y ago|0 comments
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by tokenadult 14y ago
As I commented when I shared the link kindly posted here among my Facebook friends, "Like most studies of child-rearing of this nature, it is correlational rather than experimental, subject to argument about definitions, and not yet replica
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Ethnic Self-Identification Is Optional for U. S. College Admission(talk.collegeconfidential.com)
2 points by tokenadult 14y ago|0 comments
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Nocebo Mass Delusion(theness.com)
1 points by tokenadult 14y ago|0 comments
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Praise, profits propel Tesla to valuation of more than $8 billion(mercurynews.com)
1 points by tokenadult 14y ago|0 comments
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by tokenadult 14y ago
A really good new site about "p-hacking" and how to detect it http://www.p-curve.com/ is by Uri Simonsohn, a professor of psychology with a better than average understanding of statistics, and colleagues who are concerned about making sci
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by tokenadult 14y ago
As the previous discussion of the actual NSA document (kindly submitted in the HN thread linked here by brown9-2, and also linked in the article submitted here) http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf notes, the NSA
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by tokenadult 14y ago
This editorial commentary and the article on which it is based are part of an ongoing effort to improve the quality of scientific publication in a number of disciplines. The Retraction Watch group blog http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/
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by tokenadult 14y ago
He should have done better research. Given the date of his paper, he wouldn't have been able to see the current review article on the issue, Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C., Dickens, W., Flynn, J., Halpern, D. F., & Turkheimer, E
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by tokenadult 14y ago
This will greatly improve the appeal of Massive Open Online Courses for people like me who would rather read than listen to a lecture. I can read faster than almost anyone can talk. And a well selected set of readings by several authors pro
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by tokenadult 14y ago
I don't like this article's groundless speculation about Albert Einstein, who is used as an unwilling poster child for dozens of causes without support in Einstein's actual biography. I have carefully read Einstein's longest autobiographica
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by tokenadult 14y ago
The most sensible European regulations of those listed in the article kindly submitted here are "What Europe did: Banned all forms of animal protein, including chicken litter, in cow feed in 2001." and "What Europe did: In the EU, all antib
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by tokenadult 14y ago
The article "In Medical Triumph, Homicides Fall Despite Soaring Gun Violence" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732471250457813... from December 8, 2012 provides some perspective on falling absolute numbers (and thus a falling
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Photo Series Explores What Happens When Kids Don't Do Homework(shine.yahoo.com)
1 points by tokenadult 14y ago|0 comments
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Enbrel for Stroke and Alzheimer’s(sciencebasedmedicine.org)
1 points by tokenadult 14y ago|0 comments
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21st-Century Teacher Education(educationnext.org)
1 points by tokenadult 14y ago|0 comments
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by tokenadult 14y ago
Previous submission of main article, which has been on the front page of HN for several hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179 By the way, I agree with the several comments there that the hypothesis mentioned in the article i
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by tokenadult 14y ago
The legislation now before Congress simply allows states to collect sales taxes (if the states have sales taxes) on transactions to residents of their states by online retailers. (There was a special act of Congress that exempted online ret
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by tokenadult 14y ago
The New York Times article submitted here is a very good overview of the key issues, well reported with historical and policy context. As I've commented in other submissions on this issue, it's helpful to read the article hand in hand with
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by tokenadult 14y ago
Submitted several times already--submitting the canonical URL helps make clear whether a story has been submitted before or not. There were lots of comments on this previous submission two weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56
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by tokenadult 14y ago
This is the citation to the underlying research study. Mark Pagel, Quentin D. Atkinson, Andreea S. Calude, and Andrew Meade. Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia. PNAS 2013; published ahead of print May 6, 201
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Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’(washingtonpost.com)
108 points by tokenadult 14y ago|56 comments
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by tokenadult 14y ago
As I did the last time I posted a reply about mathematics education, I read the original post and the comments here before posting this reply. First things first. Mathematical notation is now universal. A student in China learns in middle s
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A 21 Word Solution to False-Positive Psychology(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by tokenadult 14y ago|0 comments
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by tokenadult 14y ago
You are asking, gwern, a question about what people like about your writings. My answer, I hope, will be taken as a friendly suggestion about how to make your writings even better and more likeable. One area of research interest you and I s
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by tokenadult 14y ago
The blog statement by the director of National Institute of Mental Health http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia... is much more informative and balanced on this issue. I am part of a local "journal club" of psycholo
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by tokenadult 14y ago
That submission originally went to blogspam, as the top comment points out, and a curator must have changed the URL of the link.
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by tokenadult 14y ago
The goal is not crazy, as long as you use definitions that would stun most Americans. Most of what is called "poverty" in the United States is called "wealth" in much of the rest of the world. The article explains the definition of "eradica
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How to Disagree(paulgraham.com)
1 points by tokenadult 14y ago|1 comments
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by tokenadult 14y ago
This project is interesting in its own right, and links to a cool tool by the same author http://blog.jgc.org/2012/01/international-object-sizing-tool... for showing the size of photographs, which I just told my Facebook friends about and

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