woodchuck64

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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Sometimes anxiety is a symptom of high-functioning autism spectrum. (Note that anxiety doesn't need to be solely related to social situations in this case either) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> Burnout is caused by a series of failures. Your brain is quick to pick up patterns and will assume your next attempt will be a failure. I like the simplicity and elegance of that definition. It means work, pressure, "stress"
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
There's got be some non-political algorithms. Maybe tracking news articles to their sources (text/phrase similarity searching), showing sources, and flagging quality by accuracy of details? A few years of improvement on automati
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
One thing's for certain: Facebook AI research is running deep-layered natural-language ANNs right now on a year of election comments and likes. I think well before four years they'll know exactly how to detect bubbles of alternat
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> You assume I am a creationist because.... Because the only reason to reject well-established scientific conclusions such as evolution and global warming is moral and emotional reasons deriving from membership in a Conservative Christia
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> Ok... according to woodchuck64, We live in the land of PURE unbiased science! There are ZERO reasons to lean on or massage data one way or another. Funding just comes in, no matter the conclusions. I didn't say we live in a land o
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
You are a creationist so it is likely your moral and emotional need to believe in God is biasing and corrupting your understanding of science. > Consider, for example, the "lost squadron" of WWII. These planes were discovered o
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
I'm with you, the disinformation campaign is growing here.
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> What we don't understand (unless we decide GCMs are predictive and can be validated) is the impact of a given thermal forcing on planetary temperature. This is the "climate sensitivity." Unfortunately, this is the number
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
In very few things the truth lies somewhere in the "middle". You either have rigorous treatment of evidence combined with methodological design to reduce or eliminate human bias, i.e. sciences, or you have what someone believes b
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> For that matter, increases in air temperature in the 20th century by no means constitute definitive evidence of anthropogenic warming, since the planet has been warming for about four centuries. If by definitive, you mean 100%, then ye
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> But all ten researchers, faced with the choice of what hypothesis to formulate and/or investigate, naturally chose high-impact hypotheses -- ones that, if confirmed, adjust past temperatures downward. You have to show this, you ca
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Much is made of voter anger this election, but what if a larger factor turns out to be social media designed to inflame anger and fear? Inflaming emotions equals clicks equals profit.
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
True, but now I realize we're getting far afield of the original point of contention. The issue is that US rural men are unemployed. But the US rural economy will continue to decline until it reaches a balance with global commerce; pr
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
China exports 800 million tons of steel and the US only imports 1.9% of that. Burning coal here will have very little impact on China steel operations. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-russell-steel-china...
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
What reality-based approach to predicting Trump's win would you have used? Note; anecdotes are not a reliable approach.
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Makes sense. Now, how can Silver correct his methodology to capture the above in future elections, I wonder.
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> if the data is garbage or the model is garbage There's no better reality-based approach than aggregating polls across the political spectrum. But who would have thought that all polls would be wrong in the same direction?
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Not just the left and right's echo-chambers, but those who attempt to actually listen to reality got it wrong, too: FiveThirtyEight for example has been using proven, reality-based statistics for a while and should have predicted this
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> Honestly I think the democrats should do the best the sabotage him and make sure everything he does fails. I don't think this is necessary. With Obama, his policies were ultimately shaped, designed and compromised to benefit cent
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
That's factually wrong. Documented workers’ wages rise with increases in the share of undocumented workers in a worker’s county and employed by their employers. Why? The law of comparative advantage says we get more productive when we
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> It wasn't a race issue, it was an immigration issue since many illegal immigrants have taken American jobs. This is factually wrong. Immigrants and native workers compete for different low-skilled jobs: http://www.urba
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
I remain skeptical that anyone can be content contributing nothing. The Mosuo Cultural Development Association, which works directly with the Mosuo, has this to say: "It is true that, traditionally, Mosuo women tend to take on most of
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Women doing backbreaking work in the (rural) fields while the men stay at home with the children? Citation needed!
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> We could start by not calling them privileged, demeaning them in their struggle. We don't call them privileged. Rather, they hear the insults and put-downs they want to hear by tuning in to customized news and propaganda that con
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> Toleration is a better lubricant for social order than is constant challenges to deeply held beliefs. Sure, but "cocoons" breed intolerance by magnifying the fears and insecurities of the group. Maybe if you have balanced,
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> This all helps them spend less energy on "uninteresting" things. And then they burn all that saved energy on moral warfare, raging furiously at non-threats. That's the problem.
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> It allows them to spend less thought on the topics that are not concerned them in their day lives and spend more on their... day lives! This works as long as the cocoon is perfectly insulated. But it isn't, as elections show. Th
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> On top of the sheer audacious difficulty of creating whole brain emulations, there's the problem of competing with boring old "narrow" AI. Surely an economist of all people should recognize the feedback loop that makes n
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> So it's ok supporting Hillary even though she is largely responsible for huge parts of US foreign policy having sacrificed hundreds of thousands of innocent people as collateral damage for a bigger political goal. Is this conspira

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