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Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic(lesswrong.com)
2 points by tyn 17y ago|0 comments
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by tyn 17y ago
You should add the option "I'll upvote any comment that contains TL;DR". My vote would go there.
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by tyn 17y ago
What 85 years worth of research says about who to hire: http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/selecting-tal...
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by tyn 17y ago
What if i play in the options market?
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by tyn 17y ago
What value do I provide to the society if I'm able to predict the stockmarket movements? I will end up very rich for sure (meaning I will hold a lot of assets that other people's work created) without having contributed anything in the gene
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by tyn 17y ago
Very good article, Sid. An out of subject note, though: You say "High fat, high sugar foods were not a part of our natural environment". I keep reading statements like this and always make me wonder: was it really so difficult for our ances
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What 85 years worth of research says about who to hire (bobsutton.typepad.com)
2 points by tyn 17y ago|0 comments
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by tyn 17y ago
Hedging is one use of derivatives that is not gambling.
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by tyn 17y ago
True, I would still count them after ssing the message
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by tyn 17y ago
What is the purpose of this feeling? There is no obvious evolutionary advantage in "feeling" the red.
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The Genius of Play(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by tyn 17y ago|0 comments
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by tyn 17y ago
And what about qualia?
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by tyn 17y ago
And still you initiate a meta-meta-discussion
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Your Most Valuable Skill(lesswrong.com)
1 points by tyn 17y ago|0 comments
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by tyn 17y ago
This new system saves me a lot of time by making HN less attractive.
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by tyn 17y ago
Plus he doesn't take inflation into account
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The "where did the energy come from?" game(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
1 points by tyn 17y ago|0 comments
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by tyn 17y ago
One problem is that this could end up to be a very limited area. Another problem is that students might not like the same things.
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by tyn 17y ago
You could just attribute it to the attractiveness of blue eyes. Most people consider blue (and green) eyes more beautiful than eyes with a different color. But this will get you only as far as the next inevitable question: why are blue eyes
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by tyn 17y ago
This guy was an investment banker before. If they plan and execute the same way in investment banking as he did in his startup, no wonder we are in this mess now. I appreciate that he shared his story, though.
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by tyn 17y ago
Number 4 was a surprise to me. And I'm not sure I really get the meaning of "If you're not threatening, you're probably not doing anything new, and dignity is merely a sort of plaque".
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Good to great to gone(economist.com)
4 points by tyn 17y ago|3 comments
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by tyn 17y ago
I'm sure you could take a grant from telecom providers.
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by tyn 17y ago
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/allbudgets.php A lot of films with budget below 1 mil. (although some of them are very old and you have to take inflation into account)
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by tyn 17y ago
"If all that is known is that one of the children is a girl, only one possibility out of 4 is ruled out, and the answer is 2/3." Well, that's the case when you glimpse from the window. Probably I'm wrong but I don't see why there is a fix,
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by tyn 17y ago
From the Jeffrey Rosenthal paper that Jeff Atwood suggests ( http://www.probability.ca/jeff/writing/montyfall.pdf ): <Quote> Nebulous Neighbours: Your new neighbours have two children of unknown gender. From older to younger, they
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by tyn 17y ago
I think the point of the article is more about the idea of self-experimentation than the diet itself.
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The Accidental Diet(nytimes.com)
40 points by tyn 17y ago|18 comments
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by tyn 17y ago
Where does he claim that this is a scientific theory? I think he just makes an hypothesis.
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Despite crazy rules, America is still a great place to do business(economist.com)
20 points by tyn 17y ago|3 comments

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