chaosfactor

And you've just increased your attack surface.

Facebook to the right, Stallman to the left. When I write code, I use tools written by Stallman. When I communicate with friends and family, I use Facebook. There is no contradiction here: they are both useful, and useful is the yardstick by which reality judges memes.

There is a strong correlation between IQ and reaction time. A leading theory is that IQ is basically a measure of reaction time.

On the other hand, IQ is steadily increasing on average. This may, however, reflect how as society develops better abstractions, it tends to increase our reaction time.

I am a long time IRC user and I have been hanging out in the digital nomads slack channel. I've also used Slack at a couple of jobs.

Slack has nifty features like integration with tools, and inline gifs, etc. But the really nice thing is that it feels a little more human. Everyone knows that IRC turns people into jerks. Slack won't completely prevent that, but it does help to promote the feeling of community. It's made for teams, so it's kind of designed around it.

Read the abstract. Then the figures. Then the introduction. Then the conclusion. If you're still in the paper, read the whole thing.

This is called an exploding offer. It's not really real.

^ Agree.

I think that pivoting the framing from a known known (look at these guys who have brain damage and are killing themselves) to a known unknown (have we really accounted for all the variance?) is risky, because you're then flirting with confirmation bias.

I think that if one guy wants to fly through a canyon in a wingsuit, it's one matter. But when you have an entire nation cheering this behavior on, it starts to make us introspect and say... wait.. exactly how hedonistic are we? Is this really the kind of behavior we want to teach our children? The reductio is that it could lead to us selecting against ourselves, as a species. Go Team!

His argument that he keeps playing because he likes hitting people, is analogous to saying that I keep doing heroin because I like the high.

Where is the code?

This article makes reference to Terror Management Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory) and Ernest Becker's book The Denial of Death (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death).

Convert to tfidf space and search for the documents with the highest correlations (using, i.e., a clustering algorithm).

The technical details of the puzzle described in the article strike me as trivial.

Someone PLEASE make a startup that somehow enables people to stop suppressing thoughts of death related to heart disease, cancer, alzheimers,etc., and instead helps up mobilize a response. 3000 people die every 30 minutes. And yet we spent trillions on 9/11. A complete waste of money. We could do so much better.