Aretae: I’m fascinated but unconvinced at least on the uncorrelated side. As you know, I focus on implicit leaning models … research like this is super interesting.
Alistair: On all 3 occasions my wife has given birth, I’ve noticed just how noisy and stressful the wards are. Daytime noise is constant; nights are a bit quieter, but still broken by constant monitoring, crying infants, and distant slamming doors. Hard, washable floors and surfaces don’t help at all. On all three occasions my wife’s mental welfare deteriorated sharply after 72 hours of exhausted exposure. This of course, made her a “risk” for even more invasive monitoring...
Sam J.: And just for fun look at this operating system. Jehanne Operating System http://jehanne.io/ I really like this. I like the ideas behind it and if it was to take off, probably never happen, the world would be a better place. Seems to be a combination of plan9, QNX with a Unix user space laid on top.
Sam J.: “…The economics of open source are archetypally communistic…” ; No I believe people program open source projects for status. Very much like the American Indian practice of potlatch.
Sam J.: I spent some time in the hospital and by the time I got out of there I was utterly exhausted and so angry I couldn’t wait to get away. Waking you up every two hours to stick you for blood, constant bleeping. I suspect people in ICU give up and die to stop the abuse. I’m serious about this. It’s horrible. It’s HAS to completely destroy the immune system to be so angry and stressed.
Bruce: Everyone is dying, kid. Eric Raymond is pretty smart.
Felix: For those interested, it appears that some of the input for the last of these “implicit learning” tasks is at: https://osf.io/we5gj/ The paper seems to be behind the Elsevier paywall.
Harry Jones: If you’re wrong and it matters, the universe itself will prove you wrong. It’s better to take the hint early rather than late, to minimize the harm. I attend to the faintest stirrings of cognitive dissonance. Since I adopted this approach, the universe has been much kinder to me than it once was. (One of the smartest people I know is dead wrong about certain things and doesn’t care to take in new information or reconsider his view in the slightest. You could call him...
Alrenous: The legal incentives are such that one has little choice but to favor 1,000 false positives over one false negative.If the pattern holds from all other instances of legal incentives like this, the outcome is in fact killing vastly more people, like 15x or something, than allowing a few false negative would.
Alrenous: Mostly a waste of time masquerading as exercise. If you want to become smarter, prove yourself wrong, and find out what how you generated the wrong belief so you don’t do it again. While writing out an opposing view may be part of such a thing, it is neither necessary nor a sufficient part of this complete breakfast. Science. Literally nobody understands science. Falsification 101. Come on. Listening to ‘difficult’ music is about as useful as watching someone else do a...
James James: Stalin was literally an editor: http://abandonedfootnote s.blogspot.com/2018/01/s talin-as-reviewer-2.html
EDM: ESR is himself one of the dying contributors… He is a “famous” programmer yet has no job and has to beg for Patreon contributions and borrow wheelchairs… Is he that disagreeable that he cannot work a job? Or is that beneath him? –Ed
Isegoria: I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had to spend so much time in ICUs, Handle. In my few short visits to hospitals, I’ve found the cacophony extremely stressful — especially when I’ve seen its effect on someone sick, tired, and desperate to get better, but unable to rest. Come to think of it, they should probably pipe all the audio alerts to a speaker outside the door. It’s not the patient who wants or needs to hear them at full volume.
Handle: I’ve spent months in intensive care units, and yes, the alarms are indeed constant, deafening, annoying, and mostly ignored. While most people would like to fix that, it’s impossible. The legal incentives are such that one has little choice but to favor 1,000 false positives over one false negative. And the kind of positive we’re talking about is quickly fatal, so requires an alarm consonant with the necessary urgency of reaction.
CVLR: Open source (meaning Linux and its ecosystem) works to the extent that it does because of a unique and largely accidental confluence of historical events which produced an open, industry-standard hardware platform (the IBM PC), and an open suite of software which could run atop it (GNU/Linux). We look back and see this situation as predestined, but I suspect that things could have happened very differently. Maybe we got the right fate; maybe we didn’t. Certainly, smartphones are a scourge, and I’d...
CVLR: Musk goes full vertical integration, decides to grow his own. There’s something profoundly perverse about the outcomes from intense competition for schooling. The striving terminally suffocates high-variance activities and their practitioners. If you want a really great school you need to somehow simultaneously a) have the most desirable thing going, b) it not be especially appealing to the strivers, and c) select for the classically educated and well bred at the expense of the abominable...
Wang Wei Lin: Stopped reading at the mention of Musk.
Wang Wei Lin: Given feedback? Is that the same as leading the witness? What kind of ‘survey’ gives feedback? Seems you could ‘feedback’ you way to the desired outcome. Trash study.
Ross: Sounds similar to parts of the analytic section of the GRE.
