How to download ebooks from Library Genesis (libgen) for free
As a follow-up to my prior guide on how to use Sci-hub to download academic papers for free, here's a simple guide to use Library Gensis aka. Libgen. Library Genesis…
Interview with me about the recent furor about the London conference
I had a talk with Tara about the recent furor. (I did not choose the title: I would have chosen something less clickbaity!) https://youtu.be/B4zeW5McZB0 Note to self: maybe move around…
Trying to force academics to apologize for reporting official employment statistics
This is beyond even normal levels of stupidity seen in politics and smear attacks. http://felixonline.co.uk/news/6705/kings-lecturer-sparks-racism-row/ Image form for easier reposting Here's the data from the DST report: http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/Publikationer/VisPub?cid=20704 Any journalist…
LessWrong, MIRI etc. meltdown
What happens if you take a bunch of socially inept, above average intelligence, and mentally ill people and have them try to do stuff together? Sounds like a disaster. Well...…
Science and politics: USA edition
One can find quite a lot of popular articles on the topic: https://newrepublic.com/article/139700/democrats-party-science-not-really http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/07/15/are-republicans-or-democrats-more-anti-s https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/28/can-the-republican-party-solve-its-science-denial-problem http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/the-politics-of-climate/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-republicans-still-reject-the-science-of-global-warming-w448023 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/democrats-have-a-problem-with-science-too-107270 https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/left-science-gmo-vaccines with wildly diverging conclusions. So what is true? It at…
The many contributions of John Fuerst
For whatever reason, John Fuerst created a bunch of different blogs on IQ matters, and posted a lot of nice content all over the place. At some later point, one…
Ending cognitive aging
Consider the findings from the large UK study I recently blogged (Akarlin blogs it too): Some of these have steep declines. It's not just an artifact of the FLynn effect,…
Aarhus University’s reply to SJW letter
In the fallout of the OKCupid dataset release, some people wrote a complaint letter to Aarhus University. I haven't read the letter, but Aarhus University has now replied to it:…
python, virtualenv, pip and sudo/permissions
The problem: To install a virtualenv (virtual environment for python) under a common (not user) folder, so that it is accessible to other users. If we try without using sudo,…
Useful Twitter extensions for Firefox
I often share material on Twitter when I find something interesting. This is the primary purpose of Twitter for me: share and find interesting links. Right now, the process is…