My dad's advice on critics: "Some dogs just bark." — Brad Montague (@thebradmontague) January 14, 2015 via https://twitter.com/thebradmontague
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Tweet by pbump
2015.01.17 – 08:23
http://t.co/h8K4mNrfbt pic.twitter.com/MAL0yOyaXe — Philip Bump (@pbump) January 17, 2015 via https://twitter.com/pbump
Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain — Backchannel — Medium
2015.01.16 – 17:31
Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain — Backchannel — Medium ‘With unsupervised learning, only in the latter stages would the system’s human masters intervene, by labeling the more desirable outputs and rewarding successful outcomes. “Think about little kids, when they learn to recognize cows,” says Hinton. “It’s not like they had a million different […]
“Raw Intellectual Talent” and Academia’s Gender and Race Gaps | Daily Nous
2015.01.16 – 16:25
“Raw Intellectual Talent” and Academia’s Gender and Race Gaps | Daily Nous Statistical analysis of gender/race gaps in academia
Quantifying Impostor Syndrome: Gender Imbalance along the “Stack” — Medium
2015.01.16 – 16:25
Quantifying Impostor Syndrome: Gender Imbalance along the “Stack” — Medium Statistical analysis of gender gaps in IT
Tweet by alexcampbell
2015.01.16 – 15:41
Turns out it's your legal right to find out what college admissions officers said about your application http://t.co/idkVV01eqx — Alex Campbell (@alexcampbell) January 16, 2015 via https://twitter.com/alexcampbell
Tweet by NewYorker
2015.01.16 – 14:36
An illustration by @tomgauld on the four undramatic plot structures of a book: http://t.co/LxDxD91S0v pic.twitter.com/SgSVelNYy8 — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 16, 2015 via https://twitter.com/NewYorker
Money is the New Morality | Scott Adams Blog
2015.01.15 – 13:07
Money is the New Morality | Scott Adams Blog “Luckily we have a better substitute for morality in 2015. It’s called capitalism, social media, and the Internet. Now if you treat others poorly you lose customers, lose job prospects, and lose social options. Capitalism is doing what morality once did — keeping people in line.” […]
We Know How You Feel
2015.01.14 – 12:37
We Know How You Feel “But as she delved into the neuroscience literature she became convinced that reasoning and emotion were inseparable: just as too much emotion could cause irrational thinking, so could too little. Brain injuries specific to emotional processing robbed people of their capacity to make decisions, see the bigger picture, exercise common […]
Religion, Secular Morality, and What Compassion Really Means for Our Shared Human Future
2015.01.14 – 10:44
Religion, Secular Morality, and What Compassion Really Means for Our Shared Human Future from: January 14, 2015 at 10:26AM
Kierkegaard on Boredom, Why Cat Listicles Fail to Answer the Soul’s Cry, and the Only True Cure for Existential Emptiness
2015.01.14 – 00:52
Kierkegaard on Boredom, Why Cat Listicles Fail to Answer the Soul’s Cry, and the Only True Cure for Existential Emptiness from: January 14, 2015 at 12:51AM
How judges, loan officers, and baseball umpires overcompensate for past decisions
2015.01.14 – 00:52
How judges, loan officers, and baseball umpires overcompensate for past decisions from: January 14, 2015 at 12:48AM
Tweet by sara_ann_marie
2015.01.13 – 17:25
Every question we ask is part of a personal history—and lives are so much messier than a form field. New from me: http://t.co/g04bu3isqy — SaraWachterBoettcher (@sara_ann_marie) January 13, 2015 via https://twitter.com/sara_ann_marie
Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies
2015.01.12 – 13:20
Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies
#2 Editor’s Choice Award: 2040’s America will be like 1840’s Britain, with robots?
2015.01.12 – 09:44
#2 Editor’s Choice Award: 2040’s America will be like 1840’s Britain, with robots? “Come to think of it, lack of intelligibility runs like a red thread throughout Average is Over, from “ugly” machine chess moves that human players scratch their heads at, to the fact that Cowen thinks those who will succeed in the next […]
The Toxoplasma Of Rage
2015.01.12 – 09:00
The Toxoplasma Of Rage “A moral action that can be taken just as well by an outgroup member as an ingroup member is crappy signaling and crappy identity politics. If you want to signal how strongly you believe in taking victims seriously, you talk about it in the context of the least credible case you […]
East of Palo Alto’s Eden | TechCrunch
2015.01.11 – 15:38
East of Palo Alto’s Eden | TechCrunch “California was never as overt or horrific as the Jim Crow South. But the Californian way worked tacitly through housing, jobs and education policies. On top of racially restrictive covenants, realtors around the San Francisco Bay Area were engaged in a practice called blockbusting. Hoover remembers it well. “They’d come in and say there’s a black man […]
The Truth About Going Viral
2015.01.11 – 14:37
The Truth About Going Viral “I tried to drag out the success, of course, tried to prolong that temporary feeling of fulfillment that fame brings. But for some reason, it wasn’t enough. And through the process, I learned something: Every week I go back to zero. And so do you.”
Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved
2015.01.09 – 09:11
Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved from: January 9, 2015 at 08:54AM