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   Stigler Diet(en.wikipedia.org)

   111 points by vinchuco 9y ago|68 comments
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   by vinchuco 9y ago

   This is just another guess, but it might refer to something of this nature: http://www.analyzemath.com/calculus/Problems/minimum_distanc...
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   by vinchuco 9y ago

   >But people—and institutional review boards—aren’t usually amenable to cracking open skulls in the name of science. I feel as if future civilizations (if we get there) will look back at the lack of practice quoted above with the same dem
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   by vinchuco 9y ago

   what percentages of skill would you say were transferable to and from your independent and professional work?
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   by vinchuco 9y ago

   short term: anything with glucose or caffeine long term: varied but balanced diet (diversified portfolio strategy), the body likely takes care of all the messy details Many others here mention sleep and exercise. Hydration should also be co
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   by vinchuco 9y ago

   Really missed a chance there to make the final boss the complete graph on 5 vertices. Pic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Complete_graph_K5.svg Why: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratowski
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   What Should Be The Goal of Education?(youtube.com)

   2 points by vinchuco 9y ago|0 comments
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   by vinchuco 9y ago

   I was confused at first, but by 'mistakes' the author only means false positives, and not false negatives. I guess... "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"
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   by vinchuco 9y ago

   A 10-year followup to this could be interesting.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    I get that advertising is effective by scale. You're more likely to choose something you've heard of. But I still can't help but feeling resentful for a company when they're out to steal my time and attention.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    spent a minute trying to figure out if this is a meta humble-brag
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    Who's the problem solver: the teacher or the student? And what job? Learning? When is that 'done'?
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    Deductive: A,B,C, ... strictly implies Q (for all subsets of premises A,B,C,...) Inductive: A,B,C, ... may imply Q (a prior probability distribution) Abductive: Best possible from Q1,Q2,... given a subset of A,B,C,... For your question, I t
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    The place I wish I had started at: The Nature of Computation - Moore, Mertens What I got (graduate coursework): Graph Theory - Reinhard Diestel A more encyclopedic treatment (most big results, no proofs): Handbook of Graph Theory - Gross, Y
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    insert the mathematical joke about the half-black sheep
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    Real Time World Statistics(worldometers.info)

    1 points by vinchuco 9y ago|0 comments
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    > You can google as easily as I can. Unsure. But you're the one making the claim.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    Characterizing something as "politically difficult" is no evidence for a claim.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    Nature vs nurture.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    Hey Alexa/Siri/etc? Please raise my baby colony.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    I can't dispute the statement if it happens to be vacuously true https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth It's true people can assign value. It's not necessarily true that they will.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    Passive-aggressive paraphrasing, for free: > then video games are bad! Checkmate! > assuming people assign BTC value then BTC will not reach zero value > I don't think that will happen so it won't happen.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    Some previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16310690
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    How many data points to drop to gain perspective?
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    Nice! Needs more figures. Minimal surfaces, Sierpinski's gasket, Klein bottle or a Möbius strip tease.
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    How Could Machines Learn as Efficiently as Animals and Humans? – Yann LeCun(youtube.com)

    1 points by vinchuco 9y ago|0 comments
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    Leading Causes of Death in the US(cbsnews.com)

    3 points by vinchuco 9y ago|0 comments
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    In other news: Technology will be used.
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    let's not be so quick to be so harsh. Remember the glee WolfAlpha provides us with their interactive visualizations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slop2Vi8cKE
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    by vinchuco 9y ago

    https://www.google.com/search?&q=distance+from+brazil+to+sun