On being right and avoiding being wrong
The two goals: 1) having true beliefs, 2) not having false beliefs may seem to be equivalent or something like that, but they in fact result in different optimal strats.…
Thoughts about the Sherlock series and other series with very clever protagonists
So, i have watched the Sherlock series (becus the the Swedish Mathematician© told me to do so). The reason for me to watch that series is that i like watching…
Methods for discovering which language is the hardest to learn
Languages differ in how hard they are to learn, they are not just 'different' or some other relativistic nonsense. Aside from intuitve estimates, is there some systematic way to measure…
Re: Why Would You Remove Half a Brain? The Outcome of 58 Children After Hemispherectomy—The Johns Hopkins Experience: 1968 to 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiplegia Paper: Why Would You Remove Half a Brain The Outcome of 58 Children After Hemispherectomy—The Johns Hopkins Experience 1968 to 1996 This is really strange but also interesting!…
Paul Graham on philosophy
http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html - There are things I know I learned from studying philosophy. The most dramatic I learned immediately, in the first semester of freshman year, in a class taught by…
Quotes from Nyborg (ed.) The Scientific Study of Human Nature (
The Scientific Study of Human Nature - Helmuth Nuborg ed I had thought about reading this book, but decided against it due to its age (1997). The reasoning is that…
Proposal for a free, open source Magic the Gathering alternative to Magic Online
1 Introduction Currently, there is no free, open source proper alternative to Magic Online. This makes it hard to play for many people because the cards are extremely expensive or…
I want to get into philosophy, where do I start?
A rewrite of something I wrote earlier. This time in standard English as to make it easier to get people to read. -- Q: I want to get into philosophy,…
Quote: /lit/ anon on female writers
OP: "I've been pondering. Why have so few significant female writers been produced (or auteurs for that matter)? Visual media is overflowing with female talent. However, behind the scenes where…
Peer-review again
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/no-comments-please-weve-made-it-through-peer-review/ http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/07/why-publish-science-in-peer-reviewed-journals.php http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/12/S4/S13
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