serhii.net LINKS BLOG!
In the middle of the desert you can say anything you want
Similar to the master page in the DTB, this contains all the links on one page for easy searching.
-
TIL piped secrets and env variables when passed to the running command can be seen with `ps`
-
I tend to try and keep my eyes shut until I have mentally drafted a rough plan of the things I will want to have done by the end of that day.
-
Really fascinating about all the different definitions of life and how much more complex it gets if you have to find a definition not limited know planet-Earth ones.
“The ability to reproduce—that is the essential characteristic of life” said one statesman of science. Everyone nodded in agreement that the essentials of a life was the ability to reproduce, until one small voice was heard. “Then one rabbit is dead. Two rabbits—a male and female—are alive but either one alone is dead.”
-
Wooohooo First article in Fiamma since a _long_ time!
-
https://0x0.st/ is where it runs live A minimalistic file upload server
-
The term Moscow itself is an acronym derived from the first letter of each of four prioritization categories: M - Must have S - Should have C
- Could have W - Won’t have
-
Both authors started writing right after and as a result of WW2.
As terrifying as all this is, we encounter it in a childlike world where, however bad things get, mother is able to make them right. ‘If only we can get home to mamma before it comes, nothing can happen,’ Moomintroll says anxiously when he learns the time that the comet will hit. ‘She will know what to do.’
The strain this put on the family is transformed into Moominpappa’s absence. He has ‘[taken] off with the Hattifatteners’, ‘who are forever wandering restlessly from place to place in their aimless quest for nobody knows what’. Moominpappa later quietly omits his infatuation with this strange, mindless crowd when he writes the story of his life, which was the approach taken by many Finnish supporters of Nazi Germany. When Moominpappa’s memoirs are complete, there is nothing in them at all about his wayward years with the Hattifatteners, much to Snufkin’s puzzlement.I’m also not sure whether that is a case of blue curtains or not:
It is in their depiction of gender and sexual fluidity that the stories are most radical. Jansson herself had relationships with both men and women before finally settling, as she put it, on ‘the spook side’, with a female partner, the graphic designer Tuulikki Pietilä. […] Thingumy and Bob have a secret language and hide the King’s Ruby, which symbolises their love, in a suitcase. But the Groke, who represents the forces of repression and negativity, wants to deprive them of it. In the parody court that the Moomins hold, the Groke’s legal right to the ruby is contrasted with Thingumy and Bob’s moral one. In Moominland Midwinter (1957), Jansson brought Pietilä into the book as the character Too-Ticky; though referred to as ‘she’, Too-Ticky dresses in trousers and Breton tops, with short hair, a beret, and a knife on her belt.
-
Indeed, in 2006, the top twenty per cent of earners were twice as likely to work more than fifty hours a week than the bottom twenty per cent
-
Nice blog with a lot of nice readable examples about stuff, starting from Linux and Unix fc command tutorial with examples | George Ornbo
-
// no affliation or endorsement of the website itself
-
TL;DR:
- Sleep
- Diet
- Exercise
- Stress Management
- Exogenous Compounds
And the main take-aways are: a) the above IN THAT ORDER, b) prevention / investment as opposed to thinking about it only when you have to fix it because it’s broken.
-
Very nice personal homepage of a very interesting person, who seems interested in many of the things I am - but noticeably deeper.
-
Interestingly summarized without connections to any one particular belief system.
-
Rotating dots that fit multiple rotating things in different directions :) Found in the comments of https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1069756255835586560
-
Very well summarized by the title :)
-
These are excellent, pasting them here in case the apocalypse happens:
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you.
• Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.
• Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.
• Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.
• Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it.
• Being able to listen well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them “Is there more?”, until there is no more.
• A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.
• Gratitude will unlock all other virtues and is something you can get better at.
• Treating a person to a meal never fails, and is so easy to do. It’s powerful with old friends and a great way to make new friends.
• Don’t trust all-purpose glue.
• Reading to your children regularly will bond you together and kickstart their imaginations.
• Never use a credit card for credit. The only kind of credit, or debt, that is acceptable is debt to acquire something whose exchange value is extremely likely to increase, like in a home. The exchange value of most things diminishes or vanishes the moment you purchase them. Don’t be in debt to losers.
• Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.
• Extraordinary claims should require extraordinary evidence to be believed.
• Don’t be the smartest person in the room. Hangout with, and learn from, people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people who will disagree with you.
• Rule of 3 in conversation. To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. Then again, and once more. The third time’s answer is close to the truth.
• Don’t be the best. Be the only.
• Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them, they are waiting for you to send them an email, they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.
• Don’t take it personally when someone turns you down. Assume they are like you: busy, occupied, distracted. Try again later. It’s amazing how often a second try works.
• The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self-negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it. Good habits can range from telling the truth, to flossing.
• Promptness is a sign of respect.
• When you are young spend at least 6 months to one year living as poor as you can, owning as little as you possibly can, eating beans and rice in a tiny room or tent, to experience what your “worst” lifestyle might be. That way any time you have to risk something in the future you won’t be afraid of the worst case scenario.
• Trust me: There is no “them”.
• The more you are interested in others, the more interesting they find you. To be interesting, be interested.
• Optimize your generosity. No one on their deathbed has ever regretted giving too much away.
• To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just re-do it, re-do it, re-do it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
• The Golden Rule will never fail you. It is the foundation of all other virtues.
• If you are looking for something in your house, and you finally find it, when you’re done with it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.
• Saving money and investing money are both good habits. Small amounts of money invested regularly for many decades without deliberation is one path to wealth.
• To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up, fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.
• Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
• You can obsess about serving your customers/audience/clients, or you can obsess about beating the competition. Both work, but of the two, obsessing about your customers will take you further.
• Show up. Keep showing up. Somebody successful said: 99% of success is just showing up.
• Separate the processes of creation from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgement.
• If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting.
• Perhaps the most counter-intuitive truth of the universe is that the more you give to others, the more you’ll get. Understanding this is the beginning of wisdom.
• Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
• This is true: It’s hard to cheat an honest man.
• When an object is lost, 95% of the time it is hiding within arm’s reach of where it was last seen. Search in all possible locations in that radius and you’ll find it.
• You are what you do. Not what you say, not what you believe, not how you vote, but what you spend your time on.
• If you lose or forget to bring a cable, adapter or charger, check with your hotel. Most hotels now have a drawer full of cables, adapters and chargers others have left behind, and probably have the one you are missing. You can often claim it after borrowing it.
• Hatred is a curse that does not affect the hated. It only poisons the hater. Release a grudge as if it was a poison.
• There is no limit on better. Talent is distributed unfairly, but there is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with.
• Be prepared: When you are 90% done any large project (a house, a film, an event, an app) the rest of the myriad details will take a second 90% to complete.
• When you die you take absolutely nothing with you except your reputation.
• Before you are old, attend as many funerals as you can bear, and listen. Nobody talks about the departed’s achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving.
• For every dollar you spend purchasing something substantial, expect to pay a dollar in repairs, maintenance, or disposal by the end of its life.
•Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe, and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.
• When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress.
• On vacation go to the most remote place on your itinerary first, bypassing the cities. You’ll maximize the shock of otherness in the remote, and then later you’ll welcome the familiar comforts of a city on the way back.
• When you get an invitation to do something in the future, ask yourself: would you accept this if it was scheduled for tomorrow? Not too many promises will pass that immediacy filter.
• Don’t say anything about someone in email you would not be comfortable saying to them directly, because eventually they will read it.
• If you desperately need a job, you are just another problem for a boss; if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now, you are hired. To be hired, think like your boss.
• Art is in what you leave out.
• Acquiring things will rarely bring you deep satisfaction. But acquiring experiences will.
• Rule of 7 in research. You can find out anything if you are willing to go seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn’t know, ask them who you should ask next, and so on down the line. If you are willing to go to the 7th source, you’ll almost always get your answer.
• How to apologize: Quickly, specifically, sincerely.
• Don’t ever respond to a solicitation or a proposal on the phone. The urgency is a disguise.
• When someone is nasty, rude, hateful, or mean with you, pretend they have a disease. That makes it easier to have empathy toward them which can soften the conflict.
• Eliminating clutter makes room for your true treasures.
• You really don’t want to be famous. Read the biography of any famous person.
• Experience is overrated. When hiring, hire for aptitude, train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time.
• A vacation + a disaster = an adventure.
• Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford.
• Learn how to take a 20-minute power nap without embarrassment.
• Following your bliss is a recipe for paralysis if you don’t know what you are passionate about. A better motto for most youth is “master something, anything”. Through mastery of one thing, you can drift towards extensions of that mastery that bring you more joy, and eventually discover where your bliss is.
• I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong, and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.
• Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems.
• The universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success. This will be much easier to do if you embrace this pronoia.
-
A classic :)
Table of Contents
1. Don’t forget to take care of yourself
2. If necessary, make mental health your top priority
3. Deal with your physical health (not forgetting your back!)
4. Apply scientific research into happiness
5. Improve your basic social skills
6. Surround yourself with great people
7. Consider changing where you live
8. Use these tips to save more money
9. Try out this list of ways to become more productive
10. Learn how to learn
11. Be strategic about how to perform better in your job
12. Use research into decision-making to think better
13. Consider teaching yourself these other useful work skills
14. Take these steps to master a field and make creative contributions
15. Work on becoming a better person
How to be successful: the compounding benefits of investing in yourselfTL;DR basics -> science -> extraversion -> either hubs or Thailand -> actual productivity
-
Short story, The Thing written from the POV of The Thing itself, loved it.
-
List of examples of various ways communication can go wrong :)
Yoruba culture of Western Nigeria, girls are required to kneel down and bow while boys are required to prostrate fully on the ground while greeting elders.
-
Very nice questions to ask oneself from time to time. Pasting here for completeness:
Love
What can I do to find my soul mate?
How will I know when I’ve found my soul mate?
Which of my personality traits are most likely to attract love?
What obstacles must I overcome to find love?
How can I strengthen my relationship with the one I love?
Career
Where am I likely to be in 10 years time?
What is preventing me achieving my full career potential?
What can I do to progress my career?
What are my key career weaknesses?
Which skills should I use to progress my career?
Friendship
How can I make more friends?
How can I nurture my friendships?
What can I do to ensure my friendships last a lifetime?
What should I do if I want to end a toxic friendship without causing an argument?
How can I be a better friend?
Wealth
What can I do to overcome financial struggles?
How can I create a life of wealth?
Which of my personality traits should I use to become wealthy?
Which skills should I develop to make more money?
What’s standing in my way and preventing me from building wealth?
Health
What should I be doing to improve my overall health?
How can I create a life of health and happiness?
How can I boost my energy levels?
What is standing in my way of optimum health?
How can I find the courage to cope with a serious health issue?
Grief
What can I do to overcome grief?
How is my loved one doing?
If they could pass a message to me, what would they say?
How can I make the person I lost proud?
How can I find happiness again and achieve a life of joy?
-
People perform better on tests of delayed free recall if learning is followed immediately by a short wakeful rest than by a short period of sensory stimulation.
-
Hollywood Superstitions vs. Data Science: Investigating for 99PI • Andrew and Zachary Burchill (
- 7
/- 6
)Testing the superstition that movies with question marks in their titles do worse on the IMDB dataset. Hollywood Superstitions vs. Data Science: Post-mortem • Zachary and Andrew Burchill is the more technical writeup.
-
After a rough initial period, the store proved to be very successful. Warren’s goods were much cheaper than competitors', though he maintained that he was not trying to put other stores out of business. Another store in the neighborhood converted to Warren’s methods. The fact that prices for goods rose the more time a customer spent with Warren resulted in very efficient transactions. Warren said that he was doing more business in one hour than normal businesses do in one day, leading him to close shop part of the day to rest.
[..]
Nonetheless, at the time it was the most popular mercantile institution in Cincinnati
See also Time-based currency - Wikipedia
-
One of the more creative I’ve seen, but still extremely hard to navigate.
-
But these are just conveniences of language, and they’re both incomplete pictures. An electron is neither a wave nor a particle. An electron is an electron.
-
Marx believed that religion had certain practical functions in society that were similar to the function of opium in a sick or injured person: it reduced people’s immediate suffering and provided them with pleasant illusions which gave them the strength to carry on. Marx also saw religion as harmful, as it prevents people from seeing the class structure and oppression around them, thus religion can prevent the necessary revolution.
-
Ants recognize themselves in a mirror. " Consciousness may be far more ancient, far more widespread than we ever suspected."
-
The other question is “why don’t you see that noise when the TV is tuned in?” The TV has automatic gain control. When the signal is weak, it will amplify it up to the right level. If the signal is just background noise, then it will amplify that background noise until it’s at the “right level” for a proper TV signal. So, the gain is lower for stronger signals, and very high when there is no signal at all.
the artefacts created in the black and white picture by the colour signal are hardly noticeable, but they are enough to recover the colour from a black and white recording!
-
weasels=“many|various|very|fairly|several|extremely
|exceedingly|quite|remarkably|few|surprisingly
|mostly|largely|huge|tiny|((are|is) a number)
|excellent|interestingly|significantly
|substantially|clearly|vast|relatively|completely” * passive voice * Duplicates
-
> . First, they found that the volunteers’ performance improved primarily during the short rests, and not during typing. The improvements made during the rest periods added up to the overall gains the volunteers made that day > Dr. Bönstrup found activity patterns that suggested the volunteers’ brains were consolidating, or solidifying, memories during the rest periods
-
Wenn = can be replaced “at what time” wann = can be replaced by “a thing”
-
The absolutely excellent description of what Steve Wolfram does, ways to organize things, etc etc.
-
Looks like an excellent website for words and their prefixes and their various meanings
-
TL; DR make a keycap remover from a clip
-
Googletrans: Free and Unlimited Google translate API for Python — Googletrans 2.4.0 documentation (
- 7
/- 6
)Nice little module for translating text using GT’s web interface!
-
Now, I didn’t say I wrote the book every day — just that I worked on it. Some (many) days, I would work on sample code, futz with formatting, brainstorm ideas, or make edits. All I needed to do was stare at the page for ten minutes and try to do something that felt like progress.
Instead, I got into a different kind of zone — one where the work was omnipresent, but in the background. More sous vide than flame grilled. Writing every day kept ideas top of mind. When I finished writing, I’d carry the puzzles to my commute or the shower, and I’d talk to people about them. My ideas were always nearby, making it easy to jump back in. If I’d worked for 70 minutes, every Saturday, I’m sure I’d have made far less progress. I’d have forgotten where I was every time I was ready to start.
If I had writer’s block, I didn’t beat myself up about it — **today might not be a good day, so let’s use it for something I have to do anyway.** There’s always tomorrow to take another crack at writing.
On those days, I would often review and edit dozens of pages, which kick-started my thinking by reminding me of the big picture — and of the gaps — in a way that I couldn’t when my cursor was sitting and blinking in the middle of a sentence. I rarely found myself unable to write for more than a few days or a week at a time.
-
Excellent-excellent-excellent, as is the entire website.
-
Actually has nice actionable steps about how to do it. Here is a smaller version with the main points.
-
*The definition of validity was taught as: if premises are true, the conclusion must be true or it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion to be false. *
Isn’t the premise false?“The premises are contradictory. So it is impossible for the premises to all be true. Thus it is impossible for the premises to all be true and the conclusion false. Therefore the argument is valid.”
-
“The people who have thought about this more than I ever will”
As linked on http://quantifiedself.com/2012/03/numbers-from-around-the-web-round-4/.
COICOP 01-12 - Individual consumption expenditure of households 01 - FOOD AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES 01.1 - Food 01.2 - Non-alcoholic beverages 02 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO 02.1 - Alcoholic beverages 02.2 - Tobacco 03 - CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR 03.1 - Clothing 03.2 - Footwear 04 - HOUSING, WATER, GAS, ELECTRICITY AND OTHER FUELS 04.1 - Actual rentals for housing 04.3 - Regular maintenance and repair of the dwelling 04.4 - Other services relating to the dwelling 04.5 - Electricity, gas and other fuels 05 - FURNISHINGS, HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT AND ROUTINE MAINTENANCE OF THE HOUSE 05.1 - Furniture, furnishings and decorations, carpets and other floor coverings and repairs 05.2 - Household textiles 05.3 - Household appliances 05.4 - Glassware, tableware and household utensils 05.5 - Tools and equipment for house and garden 05.6 - Goods and services for routine household maintenance 06 - HEALTH 06.1 - Medical products, appliances and equipment 06.2 - Outpatient services 06.3 - Hospital services 07 - TRANSPORT 07.1 - Purchase of vehicles 07.2 - Operation of personal transport equipment 07.3 - Transport services 08 - COMMUNICATIONS 08.1 - Postal services 08.2/3 - Telephone and telefax equipment and services 09 - RECREATION AND CULTURE 09.1 - Audio-visual, photographic and information processing equipment 09.2 - Other major durables for recreation and culture 09.3 - Other recreational items and equipment, gardens and pets 09.4 - Recreational and cultural services 09.5 - Newspapers, books and stationery 09.6 - Package holidays 10 - EDUCATION 11 - Restaurants and hotels 11.1 - Catering services 11.2 - Accommodation services 12 - MISCELLANEOUS GOODS AND SERVICES 12.1 - Personal care 12.3 - Personal effects n.e.c. 12.4 - Social protection 12.5 - Insurance 12.6 - Financial services n.e.c. 12.7 - Other services n.e.c.
-
- Loosen your muscles with a foam roller. “You’ll increase blood flow, improve your range of motion, and increase your chances of avoiding future injuries,” according to the list.
- Do a short exercise session. Exercise is great for your mental and physical performance, and you only need to do 10 minutes to start making a difference.
- **Find a new healthy recipe. “**One of the most common reasons we skip eating healthy is our lack of preparation. Spend a few minutes in the morning looking for recipes that excite you, and you’ll be prepared and motivated to execute on cooking healthy meals down the line.”
- Drink a full glass of water. Your body will thank you and it couldn’t be simpler.
- Drink coffee. Go ahead. As long as you skip the sweeteners, research shows it’s not bad for you.
- Drink tea. Not a fan of water or coffee? Not only is tea healthy, but recent studies show it might even boost your creativity.
- Brush your teeth … mindfully. You have to do it anyway, so why not take a moment to really notice what you’re doing? It will make you calmer and happier (this works with other minor morning chores, too, like doing the dishes).
- Take a cold shower. Pleasant? No. But some claim it’s a procrastination cure.
- Do the Wim Hof method. This one I’d never heard of before. Here’s what it entails: “1. As soon as you wake up, sit in a meditation posture. 2. Do 30 power breaths – inhale through the mouth or nose and exhale through the mouth in short powerful bursts (like blowing up a balloon). 3. Hold your breath until you gasp. 4. Take a deep breath in and hold for 10 seconds. 5. Repeat for three more rounds. 6. Have a cold shower.” It “sounds like a recipe for torture,” but devotees swear it boosts performance and reduces stress (maybe because you’ve gotten the most stressful part of your day over with already).
- Cross off yesterday from your calendar. “Remind yourself that another day in your life is gone. Evaluate how you feel about that and consider what adjustments you may want to make moving forward,” suggests the list.
- Write Morning Pages. Here’s a quick intro to what this is and how it works.
- Notice your first thought. “Write it down, say it out loud, or simply pay attention to it. Decide on what you want your next thought to be. This morning routine exercise has amazing impact for the amount of effort,” insists the list.
- Do productive meditation. “In his book, Deep Work, Cal Newport presents the concept of productive meditation,” notes the list. “You focus on a question you have, but you don’t critically think of the answer. Instead, you focus on being present and mindful, letting thoughts come to you. When you notice your thoughts steering away from your question, go back to your question.”
- Think of a one-word description. Love this idea: “In only one word, think about or write down how you feel about the day ahead, where you are in your life right now, or what you need to hear. Put that word somewhere where it’ll be visible during the day.”
- Video log. “Record a short video diary for the day (one to two minutes). You can talk about virtually anything: what’s happening in your life, what you’re grateful for, what you’re thinking about, or simply choose a random speech topic. Share with others or keep it private.”
- Capture a second a day. Trying using “the second a day app to create cool videos of your past month, year, etc.”
- Photo log. Even easier – just take a daily photo “with the help of an app like the Everyday phone app.”
- Read a book. Reading is the best way to improve your mind. Full stop.
- Listen to a podcast. For the rushed, this can be paired with getting dressed, exercising, or even that cold shower. Here are some suggestions.
- Take in a TED talk. There are so many good ones out there.
- Be grateful. It won’t just make you happier in the moment, it will also rewire your brain to more easily see the positive in life.
- Read a blog post or article. OK, it is self-serving for me to include this one, but it doesn’t make it a bad idea.
- Work on a crossword puzzle. “Relax and kick your brain into gear by working on a crossword puzzle,” suggests the list. My mother has started her day this way for decades and highly recommends it.
- Learn and absorb one to three new things. As writer and entrepreneur Michael Simmons has pointed out, making space for continual learning in your life is one of the most valuable ways to invest your time, and is one of the most consistent elements in the routines of super achievers.
- **Write down 10 new ideas. “**Think of them around certain categories (like 10 books I could write, 10 words I wish I understood the meaning of, 10 business ideas),” instructs the list. Don’t filter. Just scrawl down whatever comes to you.
- Train your gut sense. Here’s a cool suggestion from Seth Godin: “Practice going with your instincts in private. Every day, make a judgment call. Make 10. Make predictions about what’s going to happen next, who’s got a hit, what designs are going to resonate, which videos will go viral, which hires are going to work out. Write them down, or they don’t count.”
- Read good news. Science shows just five minutes of negative news can impact your mood all day, and you don’t need to keep up with every headline to stay informed.
- Keep a dream journal. “Dreams are our window into our subconscious mind,” claims the list.
- Meditate. There’s a reason this is probably the most commonly recommended addition to your daily routine.
- Strike up a conversation with a stranger. “You never know what may come out of it, and you just may make someone’s day,” points out the list. Plus, it’s an empathy booster. Here are some conversation starters to try.
- Do an act of kindness. “Give change to a homeless person, pick up garbage on the street, reach out to a friend you haven’t heard from in a while, let other drivers into your lane, give your partner a massage.”
- Cultivate awe. Feeling small in the face of the vastness of the world is a powerful stress buster, science shows.
- Do creative work. “Every small bit of work toward a big creative project adds up. Work on a book, blog, video, art project … whatever your heart desires,” suggests the list. Plus, your mind probably is at its best in the morning.
- Do SAVERS. Nope, this isn’t anything to do with getting your finances in order. The list explains: “Created by Hal Elrod and the focus of his popular book, The Miracle Morning, this is a combo of six rituals that make up a morning routine: silence (meditation, prayer, etc.), affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and scribing (writing, journaling, etc.).”
- Review your previous day’s spending. Here is one that WILL help you get your financial life in order. “There are some great tracking apps as reviewed by Investopia – Mint. You need a budget, Wally and Acorns.” notes the post.
- Make a small donation. “There are a few apps where you can make micro donations so that you can wake up and immediately cultivate giving,” suggests the list. “Here’s a list to consider” or “another option is to put aside a small amount per day, and then make a larger donation.”
- Do your most important task first. Then the rest of the day will feel like a breeze.
- Process email. Yes, tons of productivity gurus argue that checking email in the morning derails your own agenda for the day, but the stark fact is most high achievers disregard their advice. You might want to as well.
- Count your distractions. This could be ugly at first, but it should improve your concentration over time. “Set a timer and have a pen and paper handy. Every time you get off task, tick a tally on your piece of paper. Do this for several weeks and you’ll ramp up your focus,” instructs the list.
- Work on a side hustle or business idea. Similar to number 33, but more commercially focused.
- Do one or two small marketing actions. Already in business? Why not use your morning energy and clarity to grow what you’ve got? “Post a comment or article on social media, send a message to make a new connection, or try a new marketing technique,” suggests the list.
- Appreciate something in your home. “Our instinct is to appreciate new items or items we desire, instead of focusing on what we have. There are likely enough items in your house for you to appreciate an item every day for several years.”
- Make your bed. It’s an easy win that will set you up for success for the rest of the day.
- Open the curtains and welcome the day. “Be there. Embrace the moment. Take a deep breath and open the curtains. You may also want to add in a phrase, mantra, or a simple, ‘Thanks for today.'”
- Take care of plants. This is part of my personal routine. One, it’s good because my plants don’t die, but two, I also find it deeply relaxing. Nature can do that to you.
- Listen to music. This is the perfect morning playlist, according to psychologists.
- Spend time on a hobby. “The idea here is to spend some time at the start of your day doing something you love. How much better would you feel about your mornings if you spent even 10 minutes doing that?”
- Cuddle with someone you love. Self-recommending.
- ‘‘‘Remember someone you’ve lost. ‘''“Take a few moments every morning and remember a lost loved one. It’s one of the best ways to keep them alive.”
- Take your dog for a walk. “It can also be a great way to begin your day with some calm, and you can combine it with other rituals that involve listening, thinking, or exercising. Win-win-win,” enthuses the list.
Also very relevant: https://www.creategoodmornings.com/morning-routine/
-
Excellent. Especially useful for copypasting stuff from the internet to any rich text to markdown converter, then to mediawiki. Though I should optimize this process. TODO
-
Dieses Formulierungswörterbuch unterstützt Sie mit einer Sammlung typischer Formulierungen aus dem akademischen Kontext.
-
The first quote already got me:
Natural selection doesn’t “want” us to be happy, after all; it just “wants” us to be productive, in its narrow sense of productive. And the way to make us productive is to make the anticipation of pleasure very strong but the pleasure itself not very long-lasting.
-
> Figure: synthetic images generated by pg-GAN from Nvidia. None of these images are real! Wow. Just wow.
-
Excellent; it’s an explanation of https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/The_twelve_pillars_of_wisdom.
-
Very nice about backpropagation, activations, exploding/vanishing gradients, etc etc
-
Really nice, actually.
-
randomly provide incorrect answers so graph looks the same but you can’t get individual answers
-
I still struggle with naming things. I often find myself sitting frozen at my text editor, trying to name some minor variable. I’ve learned that when that happens, it’s likely because I’m dealing with something difficult to conceptualize, which makes it all the more important to find the right name for it.
-
Klassisch: „Mit freundlichen Grüßen“ Das sagt die Expertin: Wenig originell, aber in Ordnung beim Erstkontakt, wenn Sie noch nichts über den anderen wissen. Genauso formal, aber einen Tick moderner: freundliche Grüße. Das kann jeder machen. Etwas informeller: „Beste Grüße“ Das sagt die Expertin: „Beste Grüße“ sind eine gute Alternative für alle, die eine Variante zwischen freundlichen und herzlichen Grüßen suchen. Noch etwas informeller: „Viele Grüße“ Das sagt die Expertin: „Viele Grüße“ sind als Grußformel geeignet, wenn man informell und wiederholt schreibt. Vertraut: „Herzliche Grüße“ Das sagt die Expertin: Wenn man sich überhaupt noch nicht kennt, werden herzliche Grüße von manchen als seltsam empfunden. Daher sollte die Grußformel mit Bedacht eingesetzt werden. Nach einem persönlichen Kontakt vermitteln herzliche Grüße Wertschätzung und bauen eine herzliche Verbindung auf. Liebevoll: „Liebe Grüße“ Das sagt die Expertin: Das ist sehr persönlich und daher für den Erstkontakt völlig ungeeignet – viel zu distanzlos. Wenn man aber mehrfach und intensiv zusammengearbeitet hat, können liebe Grüße durchaus eine Option sein. Nur sehr vorsichtig einsetzen. Selbstverliebt: „Schöne Grüße“ Das sagt die Expertin: Das klingt für einige Menschen seltsam – beinahe so, als würden Sie Ihre Grüße selber loben. Wann ein Gruß schön ist, entscheidet der Empfänger. Mit Ortsangabe: „Grüße aus Hamburg“ / „Grüße nach Berlin“ Das sagt die Expertin: Es gilt als aufmerksamer, nicht die eigene Stadt zu nennen, sondern den Herkunftsort des Adressaten: Das stellt ihn in den Mittelpunkt. Es kann aber auch durchaus nett sein, in einer längeren E-Mail-Konversation mal den eigenen Ort zu nennen – so bringt man Abwechslung rein. Mit Wetter-Bezug: „Sonnige Grüße“ Oder auch, kombiniert mit einer Ortsangabe: „Herzliche Grüße aus dem frühlingshaften / völlig verregneten / weihnachtlich verschneiten / trüben Hamburg“. Das sagt die Expertin: Das kann sehr nett wirken, wenn man sich ein bisschen kennt – wie ein kleiner schriftlicher Smalltalk: Es signalisiert dem Empfänger der E-Mail, dass die Konversation über den reinen Austausch geschäftlicher Informationen hinausgeht. Abgekürzt: „MfG“ / „VG“ / „LG“ Das sagt die Expertin: Bei aller Liebe zum Zeitmanagement: Das geht maximal in einer SMS, wenn man kurz und informell einen Termin bestätigen will und es so schnell wie möglich gehen muss. Bei allen anderen Gelegenheiten wirkt es salopp und wenig wertschätzend – zumal es Alternativen gibt, die keine Zeit kosten: Viele Mailprogramme können MfG automatisch zu „Mit freundlichen Grüßen“ ersetzen. Oder Sie nehmen die Grußformel mit in Ihre E-Mail-Signatur auf. Wünsche statt Grüße: „Einen guten Start in die Woche“ / „Ein schönes Wochenende“ Das sagt die Expertin: Wünsche sind eine gute Möglichkeit, die E-Mail persönlicher zu machen. Sie ersetzen aber nicht die Grußformel am Schluss der E-Mail. Eilig: „Gruß“ Das sagt die Expertin: „Gruß“ wirkt sehr kurz angebunden. Wenn Sie es wirklich eilig haben, schreiben Sie lieber nur „Ihr/e + Name“ oder „Herzlichst“. Gestelzt: Mit dankenden Grüßen Das wirkt etwas aufgesetzt. Besser: Vielen Dank schreiben und dann die Grußformel Ihrer Wahl. Altmodisch: „Hochachtungsvoll“ Das sagt die Expertin: Das sollte man heute nicht mehr schreiben. „Hochachtungsvoll“ weckt bei vielen Adressaten heute nicht mehr die Assoziationen von Hochachtung und wirkt fast unfreundlich. Mit diesen Worten unterschreibt beispielsweise die Polizei bei Strafbescheiden.
-
- One work with all interests in it
- Shifting between two+ jobs, graphic design by day, yoga instructor by night
- Einstein approach (work somewhere calm, and have time and energy for more interesting stuff)
- Switch when you get bored every 4-6 years
-
Below are several mathematical typefaces which are inspired by mathematical theorems or open problems. Most include a puzzle font: reading them is itself a mathematical puzzle.
-
*moderate (70 dB) versus low (50 dB) level of ambient noise enhances performance on creative tasks and increases the buying likelihood of innovative products. *
Process measures reveal that a moderate (vs. low) level of noise increases processing difficulty, inducing a higher construal level and thus promoting abstract processing, which subsequently leads to higher creativity
One exception in this line of research is the finding that for highly creative individuals, a moderate noise level may lead to higher creative performance relative to both low and high noise levelsMaybe relevant:
Von Neumann did some of his best work in noisy, chaotic environments, and once admonished his wife for preparing a quiet study for him to work in. He never used it, preferring the couple’s living room with its television playing loudly
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Early_career_and_private_life)
-
Five rules and a link to a book. Excellent article
-
tl;dr russians differentiate goluboy/siniy better than English-speaking people
-
The finding suggests that language universals might be explained, at least in part, by what appears to be the human brain’s innate preference for “short dependencies.”
Interesting in its use of an artificial language to see deeper patterns, patterns that can not be explained by existing languages' similarity. A nice interesting pattern/idea I can use
-
- They were especially designed for the poor that could not afford to pay. Their contractual responsibility was twofold: to treat plague patients and to refrain from treating other patients, the latter provision representing an attempt to prevent the spread of disease from plague victims to other patients via a shared physician*
-
Both dangerous when no other meaning in life exists
-
Another classification of possible errors when compared to some “right” form
-
I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced—mistakenly—that this was the only way to maintain my balance.
-
Each neuron may be involved in tens of thousands of memories, each contributing a tiny, but necessary, part to the processing that results in thinking of your grandmother, calculus or recognizing the words in this sentence.
-
[2] übertragen: heimlich geplante, (bei Nacht) durchgeführte, oftmals zusätzlich schnell und überraschend umgesetzte (polizeiliche oder dergleichen) Aktion oder Maßnahme (am Rande der Legalität zur Umgehung von zumeist bestimmten Vorschriften, Gesetzen oder dergleichen)
-
Time in summer when nothing happens + time when you’re doing some work and it’s hard and uninteresting. As mentioned by P_schk
-
sent by M., really nice visual way to communicate stuff
-
this is absolutely brilliant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongard_problem
The idea of a Bongard problem is to present two sets of relatively simple diagrams, say A and B. All the diagrams from set A have a common factor or attribute, which is lacking in all the diagrams of set B. The problem is to find, or to formulate, convincingly, the common factor. The problems were popularised by their occurrence in the 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, himself a composer of Bongard problems
-
Okay, so the punctuation I hate is not the only one existing in English. “Those quotes”, with punctuation outside if it isn’t part of the quote, have a name, and are normal in England
-
Epistemic effort as compared to epistemic status. “How much effort did I put into making this right” pretty neat
-
“The science behind the service” https://personality-insights-livedemo.mybluemix.net/?source=myself, that gave me the following awesome results:
-
A North Vietnam operative who was interrogated for years without giving up
-
Another excellent guide
-
What type of visualization to use for what sort of problem? This tutorial helps you choose the right type of chart for your specific objectives and how to implement it in R using ggplot2.
Excellent. Also, as a bonus, visualizations you should learn in R
It seems to me that learning visualizations is another very nice blend of science/logic/data and creativity/visuals. Definitely on my list
-
In healthy owls, sleep deprivation correlates with a decrease of depressive symptoms; in …larks? early birds? it’s the opposite
-
Will use something similar for my own data
-
Excellent about how to measure word similarities, find nearby words etc etc based on a corpus using simple linear algebra and algorithmic tools. What I need for Gesturehand, pretty much.
-
With even more time on your hands than ever before, you go just a bit mad and start monitoring any and every phone number you can find. You start to build up a detailed record of your accountant’s sleep patterns. You wonder what it is that she gets up to until two am every Wednesday. You build some interesting graphs of the WhatsApp usage patterns of some of your exes. You wonder what it is that causes them to send so many messages during some weeks, but almost none during others. One of your friends plays squash with Vanilla Ice and has his phone number. You investigate and it turns out that Vanilla has never adjusted his WhatsApp privacy settings. Also the dude NEVER seems to go to sleep. You’re dying to know whether your friends Lara and Tara are secretly dating. You can’t help but write multi-variate cross-correlation software that shows a striking alignment between their WhatsApp usage patterns.
-
Immediate Mood Scaler: Tracking Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Novel Mobile Mood Scale (
- 6
/- 6
)A very nice scale in the multimedia appendix, with ideas on what to track
-
*In order to get at you individually, I must talk in the first person. I have to get you to drop modesty and say to yourself, “Yes, I would like to do first-class work.” *
One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode’s office and said, “How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?” He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ‘''“You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.” ‘‘‘I simply slunk out of the office!
What Bode was saying was this: Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity — it is very much like compound interest. I don’t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.
*but the idea is that *solid work, steadily applied, gets you surprisingly far
*Darwin writes in his autobiography that *he found it necessary to write down every piece of evidence which appeared to contradict his beliefs because otherwise they would disappear from his mind.This is actually interesting. The subconscious works only on problems you=it find important!
- And so you wake up one morning, or on some afternoon, and there’s the answer.' For those who don’t get committed to their current problem, the subconscious goofs off on other things and doesn’t produce the big result’. So the way to manage yourself is that when you have a real important problem you don’t let anything else get the center of your attention — you keep your thoughts on the problem. Keep your subconscious starved so it has to work on your problem, so you can sleep peacefully and get the answer in the morning, free.*
- I finally adopted what I called “Great Thoughts Time.” When I went to
lunch Friday noon, I would only discuss great thoughts after that. By
great thoughts I mean ones like: “What will be the role of computers in
all of AT&T?”, “How will computers change science?” *
You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it*, so they will indeed say, “Yes, I’ve stood on so and so’s shoulders and I saw further.” The essence of science is cumulative. By changing a problem slightly you can often do great work rather than merely good work. Instead of attacking isolated problems, I made the resolution that I would never again solve an isolated problem except as characteristic of a class. […] Yes, I can attack the whole class with a far superior method than the particular one *because I was earlier embedded in needless detail."
“Look, if you adopt the present method and do what you can do single-handedly, you can go just that far and no farther than you can do single-handedly. If you will learn to work with the system, you can go as far as the system will support you."
I know enough not to let my clothes, my appearance, my manners get in the way of what I care about.
-
Some quotes:
- Aspies have a blunt style of speech, because they mean well. If you’re nearly incapable of malice, it’s hard to imagine others may read malice into your remarks.
- Neurotypicals always think it’s about them. Tell them social media is not good for children, and they will say, “Don’t tell me how to raise my child.” Tell them intelligence is heritable, and they assume you just called them stupid. Tell them you disagree, and they think you just don’t like them. Tell them the gender salary gap is not because of patriarchy, and they will remove you from their Facebook friend list.
- It’s not rude to assume others can handle the truth. It’s not necessarily polite to modulate your tone, or give a compliment to soften the blow of what is to come after. Quite the contrary, it’s disrespectful to assume all people are so lacking in strength
-
His book is called Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha, but he could also have called it Buddhism For ER Docs. ER docs are famous for being practical, working fast, and thinking everyone else is an idiot. MCTB delivers on all three counts
-
A useful way to recognize status quo bias is to ask, “What things wouldn’t be allowed if they were introduced today?” Here are some examples.
-
The five laws of behavioral genetics are: All human behavioral traits are heritable The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes. A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families. A typical human behavioral trait is associated with very many genetic variants, each of which accounts for a very small percentage of the behavioral variability. All phenotypic relationships are to some degree genetically mediated or confounded.
-
According to the Jack-of-all-trades theory, people with a balanced set of skills are more suitable for self-employment than are those without. In this paper we test this theory using Swedish Military Enlistment data. […] We find clear support for the Jack-of-all-trades theory, in the sense that the likelihood of being self-employed is higher for individuals whose skills are balanced. In addition, their earnings from self-employment tend to be higher.
-
As recommended on Melting Asphalt as example of a good sermon
-
DENIAL - “There’s no way I could be gifted!”
EXCITEMENT - “This explains so much of my life!”
ANGER - “Why didn’t anyone tell me this before?” and “Why don’t others care now?”
BARGAINING / DEPRESSION / PANIC - “Can I give it back?"…“OMG I can’t give it back!”
ACCEPTANCE - “Ok, this is how I am. How am I going to use it to my advantage?”
REBUILDING - “I’m doing the work to rebuild myself based on who I am.”
CREATIVITY - “What else can I create from my unique self?”
-
Their study, published in 2010, posits that a person’s preference for a given color can be determined by averaging out how much that person likes all of the objects they associate with that color. Your inclination for orange, for example, depends on how you feel about pumpkins and traffic cones and Cheetos, among other things; for green, it varies according to your thoughts on grass and American dollar bills and broccoli.
“It turns out, if you look at all of the things that are associated with blue, they’re mostly positive,”
-
As recommended by … on the FedCSIS conference
-
Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestaltzerfall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu
-
Clean Language helps clients to discover and develop symbols and metaphors without any content introduced by the therapist/coach/interviewer.
-
I’ve noticed that the ENTP archetype is highly valued within the MBTI community, and a lot of people view ENTP strengths as something to aspire to. ENTP weaknesses (especially in ENTP online communities) are typically viewed as idiosyncrasies no one else can fully relate to.
But here’s the truth:
The majority of any personality type will NOT amount to much (in the bigger picture). This applies doubly to ENTPs, who pride themselves on being scatter-brained adventurers. The problem is, ENTPs are the most likely to justify their inadequacies and sell themselves short.
Are you an ENTP who can’t finish anything you start? That’s okay, because that’s just who you are. You’re obviously just too eccentric and smart for the system. The system DOESN’T UNDERSTAND YOU.
Are you an ENTP who utilizes debate tactics to the point of pissing everyone off? Good! It doesn’t mean you’re an antisocial asshole who can’t meet people where they’re at – it just means you’re more HONEST AND INTELLECTUAL than everyone else.
Are you an ENTP who can’t commit to anything? That’s okay – you’re just more OPEN MINDED than everyone else. Fuck commitment and depth; ENTPs are just BUILT to EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES!!!!LOLZ!!!
I say FUCK ALL THAT.
If you’re an ENTP, you’re going to be pulled in a hundred different directions at once. Not only are you going to have many different interests, you’re also going to have a lot of raw talent at your disposal. This means you have the POTENTIAL to excel at different areas of interest, although specialization is your weak point. To commit to one or two primary career paths will seem like spiritual suicide; How could you possibly settle for just ONE THING???!!111
But let’s not kid ourselves:
ENTPs usually settle for mediocrity. ENTPs rationalize their inability to follow-thru with vague appeals to their innate nature.
The reality is this:
If you don’t learn how to FOCUS, SACRIFICE, and COMMIT, you’re always going to be the pathetic “idea guy” who gets by via raw talent, but never pushes himself/herself fully.
The anecdote to ENTP weakness is this:
- Spend several years exploring your talents and proclivities. Don’t commit. Just explore. But do this consciously – take note of what you excel at and what you fail at.
- Don’t be afraid of limits – if you’re naturally better at certain things, make note of this. If you suck at certain things, learn how to compensate. But once you’ve explored enough, it’s time to limit your potential paths in life down to 2-3.*
- Limit yourself and set goals. Once you’ve established your natural talents and proclivities, start making goals and STICKING TO THEM. Acute awareness of opportunity costs and fear of missing out will plague you, but that’s okay – you can’t do everything at once. Double-down at what you’re good at, because if you don’t, you’ll just be a dog chasing his/her tail. COMMIT TO A PATH and let distracting opportunities dissolve in your periphery (it’s okay – you can’t have everything).
- Optimize. Optimize constantly. Once you have a good thing going, don’t stop when you’re bored — OPTIMIZE. Figure out how you can streamline and/or outsource the boring parts of your daily routine to maximize the amount of time you spend brainstorming Bigger Picture solutions to problems. NEVER ignore the details – just make them manageable.
- Don’t chase dreams. Fuck your dreams and fantasies. Unless you have actionable strategies for accomplishing your vision, fuck you. You’ll talk a big game to people who don’t know you; everyone who knows you will understand you’re all talk and no action. This pattern will repeat itself until you’re in your mid 30s and sick of doing nothing your life, at which point you’ll double-down on routine and boring procedures which allow you to rise within whatever dominance hierarchy you’ve managed to settle in (and I promise you it won’t be one you truly want). If you want to avoid this issue, accept that whatever path you commit to will require attention to detail and follow-through that will initially drive you insane. The positives? If you’re able to master boredom, you can actually begin to utilize your creative nature to propel yourself forward in whatever area interests you.
Just don’t think for a second you’re “too unique for society.” You’re not too unique – you’re just lazy, unfocused, and arrogant.
Focus on your weaknesses and put yourself through hell sooner than later.
TRUST ME.
-
The Pirahã language and culture seem to lack not only the words but also the concepts for numbers, using instead less precise terms like “small size”, “large size” and “collection”. And the Pirahã people themselves seem to be suprisingly uninterested in learning about numbers, and even actively resistant to doing so, despite the fact that in their frequent dealings with traders they have a practical need to evaluate and compare numerical expressions. A similar situation seems to obtain among some other groups in Amazonia, and a lack of indigenous words for numbers has been reported elsewhere in the world.
Many people find this hard to believe. These are simple and natural concepts, of great practical importance: how could rational people resist learning to understand and use them? I don’t know the answer. But I do know that we can investigate a strictly comparable case, equally puzzling to me, right here in the U.S. of A.
-
60 year old historian Martin Bühler (who identified himself to the press, I do not identify activists without consent) appears to ‘photobomb’ a lot of media images of the G20 in Hamburg. In reality he is a long time observer documenting police brutality. In Hamburg he chose to cultivate the most non-activist ‘white bystander in a suit with a bike’ look he could manage and casually walked in front of police. As police slowed down or interrupted attacks and waited for the ‘bystander’ to get out of the way (being caught on camera trashing what look like bystanders is bad press after all), activists had time to regroup or retreat.
-
If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
-
in a simple memory span task, pupil size precisely tracks changes in memory load, ‘‘‘dilating with each new item held in memory and constricting as each item is […] recalled ‘''
High working memory subjects’ pupil diameters were 0.97 millimeter larger* than those with low WMC, *
*‘‘‘Working memory explained 6% of the variance ‘‘‘in baseline pupil size and with each 1 SD increase in WMC there was a 0.30 mm increase in baseline pupil diameter, b = 0.30, r = 0.24. Fluid intelligence explained 12% of the variance in baseline pupil size and each 1 SD increase in Gf was associated with a 0.45 mm increase in baseline pupil diameter, *Additionally, the nice phrase “All grist to the mill.” = All things are a potential source of profit or advantage. ( http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/grist-to-the-mill.html )
-
The von Restorff effect, also known as the “isolation effect”, predicts that when multiple homogenous stimuli are presented, the stimulus that differs from the rest is more likely to be remembered.
Less pronounced among the elders
-
Excellent way to view learning mathematics and learning in general.
Tetris mindset vs Mega man"Here's the trick: every boss has a weakness. After you beat Fire-man with your regular gun, you earn a fire weapon. This makes your upcoming fight with Ice-man easier, which helps defeat the next boss, and so on. '''In Mega Man, you look forward to encountering more bosses.'''"“Think about Tetris: would you look forward to a variety of new shapes appearing? Heck no. Tetris can be fun in a “survive hordes of incoming zombies” sort of way, but in terms of learning, it’s a frustrating, Sisyphean task. Every new piece is something to move beyond, not a learning opportunity. It’s a test to find your breaking point.”
When learning, I ask: "Did I internalize the concept so much I look forward to seeing it?". Learned ideas become allies, a decoder key to help unlock future equations.
-
If you want to maximize the happiness of your experiencing self, plan a lengthy vacation. An extra week of sipping cocktails in the sun will almost certainly keep your stress levels lower than hunching over your keyboard at work.
But if you want to maximize the happiness of your remembering self – mind you, a self that lasts far longer than the fleeting experiencing self – a lengthy vacation makes far less sense.
You can switch up the vacation dramatically halfway through, so you create new memories for your remembering self. Or you can spend half the time doing something less expensive, like staying at home and avoiding hotel and rental car fees – because in the long run, chances are the money isn’t buying much anyway.
Additionally: https://www.businessinsider.nl/perfect-vacation-according-to-science-2017-7/?international=true&r=US
- Plan far ahead to build anticipation
- Limit yourself to few options to minimize regret
- One week instead of two
- Take a few days to unwind before the vacation starts
- Experiences instead of stuff
- Explore at the beginning
- Most exciting should be middle and end
- Talk about the trip at home to make the memories more permanent
-
Path dependence explains how the set of decisions one faces for any given circumstance is limited by the decisions one has made in the past, even though past circumstances may no longer be relevant.
-
spend a little more time identifying what you need before approaching your manager. Fortunately, there are only a few types of asks. Here are some of the common ones I’ve experienced, along with suggestions for effectively introducing them to your manager. Help me identify a problem. Something is not quite right. I’ve observed the following concrete things, and I sense an issue but am having a hard time putting my finger on it. I’m looking to leverage your experience to help me identify the problem. Help me frame the problem. I’m looking to solve the following problem. I’m inexperienced when it comes to framing possible options, and I could use your help. Review my analysis. I’m looking to solve the following problem. I’ve spent some time framing possible solutions. I’d like to discuss the options with you and hear your critical feedback so that I can improve the options and make an informed recommendation. Sanity-check my choice. I’m looking to solve the following problem. I’ve developed a few options and identified my preferred path forward. I’d like you to sanity-check my preferred path. Heads up. I just wanted to give you a quick heads-up. I’ve made the following decision and am planning on implementing it on the following date. Just Venting I need to vent about something. I don’t need anything solved for me, just a sympathetic ear.
-
TL;DR: the most productive development happens when one person knows the system intimately because they wrote it; this is in conflict with growing a system beyond what one person maintains.
If you are this person, please realize that no one else experiences this work the way you do. For other people, every change is scary, because they don’t know what effect it will have. They spend hours forming theories about how a piece works, and then struggle to confirm this with experiment; they don’t have the testing setup you do. They study every log message instead of skimming over the irrelevant ones, the ones you’ve skipped over so often you don’t even see them anymore. By the time they do figure something out, you’ve changed it; they can’t gain comprehension of the system as quickly as you can alter it. When they do make a change, they spend lots of time limiting the scope of it, because they don’t know which changes will cause problems. They get it wrong, because they don’t know the users personally; communication is hard.
If you are this person, please go easy on everyone else. You are a synthetic biologist and can alter the DNA of the system from within; they are xenosurgeons and have to cut in through the skin and try not to damage unfamiliar organs.
-
Hi, I’m Hilary. I’m an anthropology PhD student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. My Master’s research, which was the inception for this blog, was on on the subject of drug use, harm reduction and electronic dance music culture in Toronto. (I usually call it rave culture for short but I do know how contentious the term ‘rave’ can be.)
I started this blog as a way of engaging with fellow ravers and the communities I’m working with, both online and in Toronto. Tell me when you think I’m right, wrong, missing something or completely full of shit. Academic research needs to be a much more transparent process, so this is my attempt at helping to bridge that gap.
A nice example of blog made for a certain academic purpose. This is excellent.
-
No matter how complex your product is, a few simple business models tend to move the needle most. Make intimidating things painless. The smartest person you know understands how 0.01% of the world works, tops. An 18-year-old applying for college is asked to determine on their own whether their lifetime earnings will justify five figures of non-dischargeable debt. What do you think that feels like? Build a service around the empathy of others’ intimidation and they will run towards you, arms wide open. We recently invested in NextGenVest for this very reason. Make boring things exciting. Rule of thumb: Boring tasks will be ignored until their neglect hurts you. Which means boring products leave enormous potential on the table. Kahn Academy made learning fun. Long Game makes savings a game. Mint made personal finance easy. Bring joy to painful activities and you multiply your addressable market. Make complicated things simple. Lyft and Uber made it easier to get a ride. That’s all they did. But when you consider the number of steps it took to get a cab – giving yourself enough time to find one, hailing one, telling the driver where you’re going, trusting him to figure out how to get there, making sure you have enough cash to pay him, saving your receipt – you realize how much potential there is in reducing a lengthy set of tasks. Make obfuscation transparent. A surprisingly large percentage of consumers have finely tuned BS detectors. Brute-force honesty in an industry plagued with concealment is a great way to build trust. Even revealing your faults does wonders for trust. My colleague Sophie Bakalar recently wrote: “Honesty can be its own marketing strategy. That’s because authentic transparency is a proxy for a company’s values, which modern consumers increasingly care about.” Totally agree. Make middlemen irrelevant. Someone told me most economic growth is just “the elimination of one middleman at a time.” Directionally true. Narrowing the gap between production and purchase, without sacrificing quality or distribution, will almost always be a winning formula. This is especially true when middlemen are gatekeepers of data. Empower customers to make better decisions and you’re indispensable. Make things disappear. More value has been created taking stuff away from consumers than has by offering them more. That stuff includes: The need to farm, standalone cameras, cassette tapes, cable TV subscriptions, physical books, physical newspapers, filing cabinets, fax machines, mail, malls, a second car, and maybe soon, any car. All of these were replaced by something as good or better, but so invisible that you barely know it exists. Which can make customers happier than getting something new.
-
80 years ago tomorrow, one of the finest moments in BBC history occurred.
Lt.-Cmdr. Thomas Woodrooffe was a retired Royal Navy office who covered the navy for BBC news. He’d previously served on the battleship HMS Nelson.In 1937 the fleet held a large review at Spithead, which included the visiting battleship USS New York. The plan was for him to broadcast that evening from aboard HMS Nelson, when all the ships would have lights strung in their rigging.
Unfortunately, after he boarded Nelson he ran into many of his old shipmates, and they decided to have a drink… then another… then a few more… With the end result being that when Woodrooffe took the microphone that night he was completely smashed drunk.
“There’s nothing between us and heaven. There’s nothing at all."
-
-
The Gist: Taking good breaks is important for your daily productivity. Breaks reduce fatigue, alleviate boredom, and can restore attention. Using tech during our breaks may backfire and make us more susceptible to boredom and want more breaks, more often. Restorative breaks can improve attention and refresh our focus. Break ideas based on research include: Nature exposure Doodle and daydream Eye exercises — 20/20/20 Laugh Brief exercise
-
My notepad about stuff related to IT-security, and specifically penetration testing. Stuff I have come across that I don’t feel like googeling again.
-
Interestingly, the subjects who held the “smaller” key in their left hand and the “larger” key in their right responded more quickly and with fewer errors than those in the opposite group. This suggests that we carry around a mental number line in our heads, implicitly associating left with “small” and right with “large”;
Interestingly, Iranian students living in France who had initially learned to read from right to left showed a reverse SNARC effect (associating small numbers with the right and large numbers with the left) if they’d recently immigrated, but those who had lived in France for some time showed the same SNARC effect as native French students.
-
Because monetizing your open-source project means you take on a second job.
Here are your choices:
* Turn your OSS project into a company (Docker). The pro is that you can capture a lot of the value, the con is that you’re splitting your project into CE/EE and also now you’re a CEO
* Give the software away for free and charge for the hosting (Gitlab). Pro here is that you get recurring revenue, but the con is that now you’re in DevOps and wear a pager. Also this model doesn’t work well for libraries, only “apps”.
* Charge for support (Ubuntu, Nginx-ish). Pro here is that by helping folks implement your software, you’ll have a long line of success stories. Con here is that it isn’t scalable - your upside is bounded by the hours you can bill
* Get a job at a company that will fund you to work on it (React, Angular). Pro here is that you can make tons of money with a job you love. Nice work, if you can get it. Con is that now you work for that company and you’re subject to whatever whims they have.
* Run a Kickstarter (Light Table, Diaspora). Pro: you can gauge demand and you don’t have a boss. Cons: it’s one-time revenue, you have potentially inflated expectations, and just kidding, now you have 1,000 bosses.
* Run a Patreon (Vue). Pro: you have autonomy and recurring revenue (yay!). Con: now you’re a personality. This is limited to celebs who are good at marketing _themselves_ as much as their software
* Ask for donations (Babel, Webpack). Pro: this works for tools and libraries (not just apps) and you can keep your mission. Con: Companies feel these donations have ambiguous deliverables. There’s a lot of mental overhead too (How many projects can one company fund per month?)
* Sell documentation, books, videos (React Training, my current gig). Pro: JavaScript fatigue makes you money! Con: Writing the docs isn’t as satisfying as writing software (for many developers)
So to answer your question: monetizing your open-source project means you take on another job _besides writing software_.
In an ideal world if you write software and it gets used, you’d be able to capture some share of that value. But we’re not there yet.
[If you want to chat more about funding OSS, reach out to me (see my profile). I’m working on a few new ideas.]
-
Strong men are socialist, reports study that previously reported the opposite – Put A Number On It! (
- 7
/- 5
)In fact, if you test 20 hypothesis you don’t need to even bother collecting data to get a p-value of 0.05, the number of hypotheses virtually guarantees it.
I didn’t edit any of the data. I didn’t throw out any data points as “outliers”. I used the same technique (linear regression) with the same data set used by the researchers, and I reached the opposite conclusion with a p-value that’s 5 times more significant. It took me less than two hours.That’s the power of multiplicity – it can “prove” any hypothesis you throw at it, and the opposite of that hypothesis as well.
-
A group of Manhattan Project physicists created a tongue-in-cheek mythology where superintelligent Martian scouts landed in Budapest in the late 19th century and stayed for about a generation, after which they decided the planet was unsuitable for their needs and disappeared. The only clue to their existence were the children they had with local women.
The joke was that this explained why the Manhattan Project was led by a group of Hungarian supergeniuses, all born in Budapest between 1890 and 1920. These included Manhattan Project founder Leo Szilard, H-bomb creator Edward Teller, Nobel-Prize-winning quantum physicist Eugene Wigner, and legendary polymath John von Neumann, namesake of the List Of Things Named After John Von Neumann.
Here’s something interesting: every single person I mentioned above is of Jewish descent. Every single one.
Due to persecution, Jews were pushed into cognitively-demanding occupations like banker or merchant and forced to sink or swim. The ones who swam – people who were intellectually up to the challenge – had more kids than the ones who sank, producing an evolutionary pressure in favor of intelligence greater than that in any other ethnic group. Just as Africans experiencing evolutionary pressure for malaria resistance developed the sickle cell gene, so Ashkenazim experiencing evolutionary pressure for intelligence developed a bunch of genes which increased heterozygotes’ IQ but caused serious genetic disease in homozygotes.
For centuries, Europe was sitting on this vast untapped resource of potential geniuses. Around 1880, in a few countries only, economic and political conditions finally became ripe for the potential to be realized. The result was one of the greatest spurts of progress in scientific history, bringing us relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclear bombs, dazzling new mathematical systems, the foundations of digital computing, and various other abstruse ideas I don’t even pretend to understand. This lasted for approximately one generation, after which a psychopath with a stupid mustache killed everyone involved.
-
Some of Riches' defendants are not even persons subject to suit. These include “Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party” and the “13 tribes of Israel."[22] One lawsuit, which includes George Bush, also includes another 783 defendants that cover 57 pages. They include Plato, Nostradamus, Che Guevara, James Hoffa, “Various Buddhist Monks,” all survivors of the Holocaust, the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower, the USS Cole, the book Mein Kampf, the Garden of Eden, the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, the Appalachian Trail, Plymouth Rock, the Holy Grail, Nordic gods, the dwarf planet Pluto, and the entire Three Mile Island.[
-
“Teachers should prepare the student for the student’s future, not for the teacher’s past.” — Richard Hamming
I ran across the above quote from Hamming this morning. It made me wonder whether I tried to prepare students for my past when I used to teach college students.
*How do you prepare a student for the future? Mostly by *focusing on skills that will always be useful, even as times change: logic, clear communication, diligence, etc.
Negative forecasting is more reliable here than positive forecasting. It’s hard to predict what’s going to be in demand in the future (besides timeless skills), but it’s easier to predict what’s probably not going to be in demand. The latter aligns with Hamming’s exhortation not to prepare students for your past.
-
critical slowing when recovering as sign of impending loss of balance
-
Also part 2: http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/
And, this is fascinating: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Here are the color names most disproportionately popular among women: Dusty Teal Blush Pink Dusty Lavender Butter Yellow Dusky Rose Okay, pretty flowery, certainly. Kind of an incense-bomb-set-off-in-a-Bed-Bath-&-Beyond vibe. Well, let’s take a look at the other list. Here are the color names most disproportionately popular among men: Penis Gay WTF Dunno Baige I … that’s not my typo in #5—the only actual color in the list really is a misspelling of “beige”. And keep in mind, this is based on the number of unique people who answered the color, not the number of times they typed it. This isn’t just the effect of a couple spammers. In fact, this is after the spamfilter. I weep for my gender. But, on to:
-
Very dubious validity but still interesting
-
Mental contrasting helps your subconscious understand. It ties together the promise of future reward with obstacles which must be overcome in the present (e.g. do x,y, and z,, and you will receive your reward). You, the conscious, already understands. Your subconscious speaks in images, which is why your thoughts of grandeur and accomplishment fail to help it understand. But visualization in the form of mental contrasting? That works.gi
Instructions 1a) Write down or think about several positive aspects associated with completing your goal. For example, if you’re trying to lose weight, those positive aspects could be: looking good, living longer, spending less on healthcare, feeling more lively, being able to stay active, getting your spouse to stop nagging you, etc… 1b) Hone in the most positive aspects. This could be one especially large benefit, or a few smaller ones. Then take a few moments to visualize those benefits. The longer and the more detail, the better. 2a) Write down or think about several obstacles in the way of you completing your goal. For example, if you’re trying to lose weight, those obstacles could be: being tempted by snacks, purchasing unhealthy food while shopping, eating too much at dinner, emotional binging, lack of motivation to exercise, etc… 2b) Hone in the largest obstacles. This could be one especially large obstacle, or a few smaller ones. Then take a few moments to visualize those obstacles. The longer and the more detail, the better. That’s it
-
Virtual rabbits across Second Life will fall asleep on Saturday then never wake up, now that the their digital food supply has been shut down by a legal battle. The player-made and player-sold Ozimals brand of digirabbits are virtual pets that players breed and care for in the sandbox MMO, and even need to feed by buying DRM-protected virtual food. But they rely on servers. Waypoint reported earlier today that the seller of Ozimals and the Pufflings virtuabirds has received a legal threat he says he cannot afford to fight, so they’ve shut down. By Saturday, rabbits will run out of food and enter hibernation.
The rabbits aren’t dead, they’re sleeping. They simply can never wake up.
[…] At least the Ozimals' birdy cousins, the Pufflings, had a swift death. They shut down instantly on Wednesday when the servers went down, while rabbits hold on with the food in their cyberbellies.
Ozimals did give rabbit owners a brief chance to save their rabbits. Before shutting down, they gave away items which make rabbits not need food – and leaves them sterile. Some rabbits will live on forever, the last of their kind. If you wish that fate upon your rabbit, apparently some kindly players have a stash you’re welcome to.
-
Rationality: From AI to Zombies This book is a distillation of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s “sequences” on human thought and rationality. It’s intended to serve both as an introduction to thinking about thinking and as a resource for people interested in digging deeper into epistemology, metacognition, and how to be less wrong. Thinking, Fast and Slow In the 1970s, Daniel Kahneman co-founded the study of cognitive biases. Now a Nobel laureate, he summarizes his life’s work and the subfields of psychology and economics he helped create. This is an engaging book about the causes of human error, written by the field’s most prestigious researcher. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction New York Times bestselling author and professor Phillip Tetlock explains the habits of the best people in the world at predicting the outcomes to uncertain events. Focusing Psychologist Eugene Gendlin teaches an advanced intropection technique he calls Focusing. It’s used to access the very edges of what you’re thinking and feeling, to discover beliefs and connections that are difficult to access analytically. Predictably Irrational In this New York Times bestseller, Dan Ariely humorously and accurately weaves together stories from his career as a researcher and reflections on the nature of human reasoning. Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion Dr. Robert Cialdini explains the psychology of why people say “yes,” and the details of six specific principles you can use to become a skilled persuader (or to spot attempts by others to persuade you). What Intelligence Tests Miss Psychologist Keith Stanovich has spent decades conducting experiments which show that intelligence and rationality are not the same thing, and that highly intelligent people are still susceptible to many biases and thinking distortions. In this book, he offers a unifying explanation of how bias works — and how it might be meliorated. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t Nate Silver has reliably predicted electoral results better than any other pundit. How does he do it? As his book reveals, he does it by bothering to obey the laws of probability theory; that is, by using Bayes’ Theorem to update his beliefs. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work Chip and Dan Heath explain where human decision-making often stalls out and offer habits and reframes to help you avoid cognitive derailment. Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long Useful ways to stay productive and focused in work environment with a focus on neuroscience so you’ll understand the why as well as the how. Academic Rationality and the Reflective Mind Keith Stanovich’s model of human bias and how it might be meliorated is perhaps the most advanced in the field, and nowhere is this model better explained and defended than in this book. Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition With its first edition published in 1988, Thinking and Deciding is perhaps the “standard” introductory textbook on the normative, descriptive, and prescriptive aspects of judgment and decision-making; how an ideal agent would reason, how humans do normally reason, and what humans can do to think and act more like ideal agents. Rational Choice in an Uncertain World, 2nd edition This textbook on judgment and decision is more advanced than Thinking and Deciding and covers more material. The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning This excellent volume contains up-to-date chapters on nearly every major subject in the psychology of thinking and reasoning, written by some of the leading authors on each subject. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making This textbook is engagingly written, offers numerous illustrative examples, and does an excellent job of organizing decision science in memorable and useful ways. It is particularly useful for those who want to apply decision science to business management, but its coverage is general enough to be useful to all readers. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases Gilovich, Griffin, and Kahneman deep dive into shortcuts and systematic errors in judgement made by people in uncertain situations. Staff Picks Nonviolent Communication In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Gödel, Escher, Bach By looking at the brilliant minds of mathematician Kurt Godel, graphic artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, computer-science and cognitive-science professor Douglas Hofstadter ties together the aesthetic gift of pattern recognition and manipulation with theories on artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and the essence of self-awareness. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fiction wherein Petunia Evans has married an Oxford biochemistry professor and young genius Harry grows up fascinated by science and science fiction. When he finds out that he is a wizard, he tries to apply scientific principles to his study of magic, with sometimes surprising results. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre Switch off the no-saying intellect and welcome the unconscious as a friend: it will lead you places you never dreamed of, and produce results more ‘original’ than anything you could achieve by aiming at originality. Mister Fred Written for elementary and middle school kids, this novel about a possibly-alien substitute teacher contains a surprising amount of insight into pedagogy, managing group dynamics, antagonistic learning, and rationality. Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives The dynamics of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why the same sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before. Bonds that Make Us Free An interesting take on how reinforcing patterns of self-deception disrupt relationships, and what to do about it. Grounded in religious philosophy rather than cognitive science, but several of us found it life-changing.
-
Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity.[1][2] In other words, it is the error of treating something that is not concrete, such as an idea, as a concrete thing. A common case of reification is the confusion of a model with reality: “the map is not the territory”.
-
£sd (occasionally written Lsd) is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout Europe, especially in the British Isles and hence in several countries of the British Empire and subsequently the Commonwealth. The abbreviation originates from the Latin currency denominations librae, solidi, and denarii.
Under this system, there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings, or 240 pence, in a pound. The penny was subdivided into 4 farthings until 31 December 1960, when they ceased to be legal tender in the UK, and until 31 July 1969 there were also halfpennies (“ha’pennies”) in circulation. The advantage of such a system was its use in mental arithmetic, as it afforded many factors and hence fractions of a pound such as tenths, eighths, sixths and even sevenths and ninths if the guinea (worth 21 shillings) was used. When dealing with items in dozens, multiplication and division are straightforward; for example, if a dozen eggs cost four shillings, then each egg was priced at fourpence.
-
The Science of Fear is the first book that opened my eyes to how poor we are at interpreting risk. The Big Change, a look at how life in America changed from 1900-1950, got me interested in the social and cultural part of economic growth. The Quest of the Simple Life, written in 1907, totally changed how I think about personal finance and life goals. Famous Financial Fiascos is one of the best investing history books that few people have heard of. The Great Depression: A Diary is the best economics book I’ve read, written by a person who didn’t know he was writing one. Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit has had the biggest influence on how I write. The Patriarch, a biography of Joseph Kennedy, shows Kennedy to be one of the most fascinating people in American history even if his son had never became president. Endurance is the best example of how far people can be pushed when the stakes are high. Truman, a biography of the 33rd president, is an incredible story of the world’s biggest problems falling into the lap of someone who never thought he’d face them. The Wright Brothers is one of the best business and innovation stories of all time. The Frugal Housewife, written in 1833, shows how primitive everyday life was not that long ago. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism will make half of readers angry, but the other half will be better able to realize that no system for organizing an economy is perfect. Guns at Last Light is the best World War II book I’ve read, and explains the most important event in modern history through human stories rather than bland statistics. The Better Angels of Our Nature taught me that you can be a long-term optimist even when things around you look pretty bad. 30 Lessons for Living is a collection of life advice from very old people who have seen it all. This Will Make You Smarter is a series of short essays by brilliant people in a book that lives up to its title. Boyd is an excellent story on brute-force learning, focus, and bureaucracy. The Birth of Plenty is the best explanation of how and why economies grow. The Wisdom of Psychopaths shows how big an advantage you have when you’re unemotional about emotional topics. When Breath Becomes Air will make you reexamine what’s important in life and make you appreciate each day you’re here. Investing: The Last Liberal Art is the most underappreciated investment book. Why Don’t We Learn From History? shows why people keep screwing up after others before them did the same thing. How To Lie With Statistics will make you laugh and be skeptical of almost everything in one sitting. TwitterFacebookEmail May 12, 2017 by Morgan Housel · @morganhousel
-
Obvious: 1 - Always. 2 - If the number is even. 5 - If the number ends in 5 or 0. 10 - If the numbers ends in 0. Less Obvious: 3 - Add all of the digits in the number. If the result is divisible by 3, then so is the original number. (Note that this rule can be repeated with the result if you still don’t know.) 4 - If the last 2 digits of the number are divisible by 4, then so is the entire number. If you don’t know then halve the last 2 digits twice. If you still have a whole number then it is divisible by 4. 6 - If the number passes the ‘2’ rule and the ‘3’ rule, then, yes. 8 - If the last 3 digits of the number are divisible by 8, then so is the entire number. If you don’t know then halve the last 3 digits three times. If you still have a whole number then it is divisible by 8. 9 - Add all of the digits in the number. If the result is divisible by 9, then so is the original number. (Note that this rule can be repeated with the result if you still don’t know.) Obscure: 7 - Remove the last digit from the number. Take the number formed by the remaining digits and subtract by 2x the removed digit. If the result is divisible by 7, then so is the original number. Example (889): 88-(9x2) = 88-18 = 70 => 889 is divisible by 7.
-
Welcome to the Fermi paradox, mired in shit. Shall we itemize the errors that the tapeworm is making in its analysis?
The first and most grievous offense our tapeworm logician has committed is that of anthropocentrism (or rather, of cestodacentrism); it thinks everything revolves around tapeworms. In reality, the human is unaware of the existence of the tapeworm. This would be a good thing, from the worm’s point of view, if it had any grasp of the broader context of its existence: it ought by rights to be doing the wormy equivalent of hiding under the bed covers, gibbering in fear.
It has inferred the existence of other humans, but it doesn’t know about cooking, or the other arcane processes by which food makes its way into the gut for the tapeworm to absorb. Or about the sanitary facilities that kill tapeworm eggs before they get to another, intermediate host. There are vast, ancient, alien intellects in the macrocosm beyond the well-known human, and they are unsympathetic to tapeworms. Intrepid tapeworm cosmonauts seeking to make their way beyond the anus and across the universe to colonize other humans are in for a rough ride indeed, for they are intimately evolved to thrive in one particular environment, and that environment (the mammalian gut) is sparsely distributed throughout the universe. Much of the cosmos is inherently hostile to tapeworms. This is why tapeworms have not, in fact, colonized the universe and converted all available biomass into a constantly spawning Gordian knot of Platyhelminthic life, contra the prognostications of some teleologically-inclined tapeworm-philosophers of yore.
The human does not owe the tapeworm a living, or even a comfortable home. The tapeworm’s existence is contingent on it not damaging its human, resulting in an undesirable human/tapeworm interaction with fatal consequences for the tapeworm. Some of the tapeworm’s descendants might be able to find another new human to claim as their home, but the same constraints will apply. Only if the tapeworm transcends its tapewormanity and grows legs, lungs, and other organs that essentially turn it into something other than a tapeworm will it be able to make itself at home outside the human.
-
Yeah! Shub-Niggurath! Come on! Shub-Niggurath! Come on! Shub-Niggurath! YEARS! Shub-Niggurath! Shub-Niggurath! We have Shub-Niggurath! THANK YOU NOW! Shub-Niggurath! We have Shub-Niggurath! THANK YOU NOW! Shub-Niggurath! Shub-Niggurath! Shub-Niggurath! Shub-Niggurath, ever since! Shub-Niggurath! All right now! Shub-Niggurath! Everyday! Shub-Niggurath ever had it! Shub-Niggurath! Ever since! Shub-Niggurath has ever been here! Shub-Niggurath has always been here! Shub-Niggurath has ever been here! Shub-Niggurath has ever been here in all times! Shub-Niggurath! Ever since, all around the world! Shub-Niggurath! In the days of nowadays, all over the world! Shub-Niggurath! EVERYTHING EVERYTHING ALWAYS ALLOWED! Shub-Niggurath! Ever since, all over the world! Shub-Niggurath! Ever since, all around the world! EVERYTHING EVERYTHING IS HERE! Shub-Niggurath! Shub-Niggurath! Ever since, all around the world! Shub-Niggurath! EVERYTHING EVERYTHING ALWAYS ALLOWED! Shub-Niggurath! Ever since, all around the USA! Shub-Niggurath! EVERYTHING EVERYTHING ALWAYS HERE! Shub-Niggurath! EVERYTHING EVERYTHING ALWAYS ALLOWED NOW! Shub-Niggurath! Ever since, all around the world! Shub-Niggurath! EVERYTHING EVERYTHING! Shub-Niggurath! Ever since, all around the world!
-
An Alternative Writing System Whose Properties Combine the Linearity of Spelling with the Free-Form Nature of Drawing
-
Fractals of the fractal dimensions most often found in nature (~1.4) make us happy; we are evolved for exactly those dimensions, found in trees/clouds/…
Taylor calculated that the fractal dimensions of Pollock’s work hovered close to 1 in the early days of his experimentation, in 1943, which means they were barely fractal at all. But over the next decade, they increased regularly, hitting just over 1.7 in 1952, 20-odd years before Mandelbrot’s seminal work.
Our fractal fluency begins with the movement of our eyes. When we look at a fractal, our eyes trace a fractal trajectory with a dimension of around 1.4 —no matter what the fractal’s dimension is. Nature’s most prevalent fractals share this dimension, falling within a range of 1.3 to 1.5. “If we lived on a planet where 1.8 was prevalent, we would have ended up with an eye trajectory of 1.8,” Taylor says. “Clearly what’s happened is our visual system has evolved.”
And we feel good when we do what we’ve evolved to do.
The fractal dimension of art is not always obvious. The bare-boned Zen meditation garden of Kyoto’s 15th-century Ryoanji Temple, for example, solely of 15 rocks positioned across a rectangular swath of raked gravel. In 2002 a group of researchers decided to investigate the mathematical reason for its appeal to tourists and meditators. Using a technique called medial-axis transformation, they found that the axes of symmetry between the rock clusters formed the fractal contour of a tree. When the rocks were rearranged in computer simulations, that tree-like structure and its meditative effect were lost. “The people who built the temple didn’t know about fractals,” says Sternberg, who was not involved in the study. “But they understood at some unconscious level that placing the rocks in that way made people feel calm.”
In the brain, as in the heart, “just right” means just fractal enough to walk the line between chaos and order.
-
In all three settings, the vocabularies of motive among panhandlers have a common theme of need: for shelter, drink or food. What’s interesting is how each cultural setting changes the calculus about what kind of motive is most likely to bring in the cash. Perhaps it comes down to what each society views as among the basic human rights: in the US, shelter has a plausible claim to that status, but beer does not; whereas in Germany, it an appeal for trinkgeld succeeds as an appeal to common humanity and decency; in Turkey, hunger seems to trump all other claims.
-
However, running this hidden service has been a learning experience. The problems that I’m experiencing with my Tor Hidden Service are similar but different from non-Tor services. They have the same basic causes – bots and denial-of-service attacks – but the Tor architecture introduces a serious problem. This problem leads to choke point on the hidden service server. Bad bots and attackers can create a bottleneck, resulting in a denial of service. Without rewriting the tor daemon or spawning dozens of parallel servers, there are few mitigation options.
-
“In today’s digital environment, where rumors and false contents circulate, journalists need to be able to actively sort out true, authentic materials from the fakes. This groundbreaking handbook is a must-read for journalists dealing with all types of user generated contents."
-
Excellent for the heuristics (how it decides which review(s|ers) are fake). Really nice idea.
-
One one thousand, two one thousand, …
-
Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog - Officially our best-ever cease and desist - ThinkGeek (unicorn meat) (
- 7
/- 5
)“their awkward silence when we explained our unicorn meat wasn’t real”
-
temperature, extraction time, ratio of water-to-tea and tea particle sizes had significant impacts on the extraction yield of theanine. The optimal conditions for extracting theanine from green tea using water were found to be extraction at ‘‘‘80 °C for 30 min with a water-to-tea ratio of 20:1 mL/g ‘‘‘and a tea particle size of 0.5-1 mm.
-
The Wisdom of Children - The New Yorker (conversations at the dinner table as imagined by kids) (
- 8
/- 5
)Absolutely wonderful.
-
Excellent number of resources linked; one of the best things I’ve read on topic
-
…
A supermarket called Shopwell’s is filled with anthropomorphic grocery items that worship the human shoppers as gods who take groceries to the “Great Beyond” when they are purchased. Among the groceries in the store is a sausage named Frank, who has dreams of living with his hot dog bun girlfriend, Brenda, in the Great Beyond, where they can finally consummate their relationship.
After Frank and Brenda’s packages are chosen by a woman named Camille Toh to leave Shopwell’s, a returned jar of Bickle’s honey mustard tries to warn the disbelieving groceries that the Great Beyond is a lie. Nobody listens except for Frank. Honey Mustard calls on Frank to seek out a bottle of liquor named Firewater, before committing suicide. This creates an accidental cart collision that causes Frank, Brenda, and several groceries to fall out, including a douche who gets his nozzle bent, and plots revenge against Frank and Brenda.
Seeking to verify Honey Mustard’s warning, Frank leads Brenda, Lavash (Armenian national bread) and a bagel named Sammy Bagel Jr. to the store’s liquor aisle under the guise of taking a shortcut to their proper aisles. There, he smokes weed and learns from Firewater that he and other non-perishable foods invented the story of the Great Beyond as a noble lie to assuage past food’s fears of being eaten by shoppers. Frank, vowing to reveal the truth to the groceries, is encouraged to travel beyond the store’s freezer section to find proof. While waiting for Frank, Brenda and the others are led into the Mexican aisle, where they meet Teresa, a taco who falls in love with Brenda on sight.
Meanwhile, Frank’s friends Carl and Barry are horrified as they witness the other purchased foods being cooked and eaten by Camille, shown from the foods' perspective as brutal murder. Carl and Barry attempt to escape out a window, but Carl is killed when Camille slices him with a knife. Barry manages to escape and stumbles across a human druggie, who becomes able to communicate with his groceries after he injects himself with bath salts. After sobering up and attempting to cook Barry, the druggie is decapitated in a domestic accident.
Back at Shopwell’s, Frank reunites with his friends and tries to get them to come with him into the dark aisle but Brenda refuses and she and Frank end up having an argument until she, Teresa, Sammy and Lavash head back to their aisles, leaving Frank to head into the dark aisle solo. Once Frank reaches the dark aisle, he discovers a cookbook and finds pictures of humans eating food. Frank then rips out a few pages and sets out to reveal the truth to the groceries. Frank reveals the groceries pictures of humans eating food from the cookbook and they begin to panic. However, they choose not to believe him, fearing they lose their sense of purpose, prompting Frank to lash out at them for their blind belief. Frank then tries to rescue Brenda from being taken away but a women grabs her new package and Frank tries to find her, but loses track of her and gives up hope until Barry and other groceries from the druggie’s home return to the store with the druggie’s severed head, revealing that the humans can be killed. The groceries are able to drug the human shoppers and employees using toothpicks laced with bath salts. After saving Brenda from getting purchased, Frank apologizes to the foods for misjudging their beliefs and convinces them to fight against the shoppers when they start attacking them, and a store-wide battle ensues.
Douche, after absorbing the contents of liquor bottles, becomes a wild monster and takes control of the store manager named Darren by inserting himself into Darren’s anus and yanking on his scrotum to puppeteer his actions. Once he and Darren catch Frank, Douche gets revenge by biting on Frank’s torso. Barry and the other foods launch a rocket at Douche and Darren made from propane tanks and a garbage bin used to dispose of expired foods. Brenda rescues Frank from Douche and Darren just as the rocket hits them, sending them both through the store’s ceiling and killing them in an explosion. With the battle over, the foods celebrate their victory in a massive orgy.
Afterwards, Frank, Brenda, Barry, Kareem, Sammy and Teresa meet with Firewater and Gum, who have had a psychedelic experience and discovered that their world is not real, and they are merely cartoons voiced by famous actors in another dimension. Gum has constructed a portal to this dimension, and the groceries decide to travel there to meet their creators.
-
Over the past 20 years, the role of Russian organised crime in Europe has shifted considerably. Today, Russian criminals operate less on the street and more in the shadows: as allies, facilitators and suppliers for local European gangs and continent-wide criminal networks.
The Russian state is highly criminalised, and the interpenetration of the criminal ‘underworld’ and the political ‘upperworld’ has led the regime to use criminals from time to time as instruments of its rule.
Russian-based organised crime groups in Europe have been used for a variety of purposes, including as sources of ‘black cash’, to launch cyber attacks, to wield political influence, to traffic people and goods, and even to carry out targeted assassinations on behalf of the Kremlin.
European states and institutions need to consider RBOC a security as much as a criminal problem, and adopt measures to combat it, including concentrating on targeting their assets, sharing information between security and law-enforcement agencies, and accepting the need to devote political and economic capital to the challenge.
-
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21959/21959-h/21959-h.htm full text of the book
College doesn’t make fools; it develops them. It doesn’t make bright men; it develops them. A fool will turn out a fool, whether he goes to college or not, though he’ll probably turn out a different sort of a fool.
-
What Parenting Can’t Affect
Personality, IQ, reading ability in teenagers, and income are affected negligibly by the “shared environment” contribution. Drug abuse is also very heritable and not much affected by parenting.
What Parenting Might Affect
Reading ability in children and grades in teenagers have a sizable (but minority) shared environment component; reading ability in toddlers is mostly affected by shared environment. Grades are generally less IQ-correlated than test scores, and are highly affected by school engagement and levels of “externalizing” behavior (disruptive behavior, inattention, criminal/delinquent activity.) Antisocial and criminal behavior has a sizable (but minority) shared environment component. You may be able to influence your kids to behave better and study harder, and you can definitely teach your kids to read younger, though a lot of this may turn out to be a wash by the time your kids reach adulthood.
What Parenting Can Affect
‘‘‘Having a mother — even an adoptive mother, but not a father — with major depression puts children at risk for major depression, drug abuse, and externalizing behavior. Conflict at home ‘‘‘also predicts externalizing behavior in teenagers. Mothers of teenagers who treat them well are more likely to have teenagers who have loving and secure relationships with them. Basically, if I were to draw a conclusion from this, it would be that it’s good to have a peaceful and loving home and a mentally healthy mom. Father’s income and family income, but not mother’s income, predicts years of schooling; I’m guessing that this is because richer families can afford to send their kids to school for longer. You can, obviously, help your kids go to college by paying for it.
-
If you wear a white coat that you believe belongs to a doctor, your ability to pay attention increases sharply. But if you wear the same white coat believing it belongs to a painter, you will show no such improvement.
-
Distribution targeted at SE, linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialEngineering/comments/64xu55/til_there_is_a_free_osintoriented_linux_distro/ Might be interesting for the tools; todo: research existing SE/OSINT tools, didn’t do this since the Cree.py times
-
intelligence and thinking skill are not directly related
Verbal facility: Intelligent people learn that well-articulated is often mistaken by others for well-thought-out. Since verbal skills come easier than thinking skills, the intelligent person is tempted to substitute the former for the latter.
Backdoor commitment: An intelligent person can create a rational and articulate argument to support almost any position, sometimes without even examining it. It is very easy for him to then slip into having an emotional stake in the position, not because he has critically evalutated it, but simply because he has pride of ownership of the argument in its favor.
Bias toward criticism: If you advocate an idea, you make yourself vulnerable to the criticism of others. If you shoot down others’ ideas, you get to be the one who showed others they were wrong. This behavior can be very seductive. It is also self-reinforcing: once you have been the critic for a while, you visualize others doing to your ideas what you routinely do to theirs, and are therefore even less inclined to put forward new ideas of your own.
The “Everest effect”: Intelligent people often seem to prefer reactive and analytic thinking over projective and synthetic thinking. In reactive thinking the problem is there before you and you have to respond, usually on the problem’s own terms. In projective thinking, you have to find the problem, the objectives, and the solution space. Reactive and analytic thinking appeals to intelligent people the way a big mountain appeals to skilled mountain climbers: because it’s there. However, most of the important problems in life require projective and synthetic thinking.Is this what MBTI calls rationality vs intuition? + in indian mythology there was something about the logic that divides to atoms to understand vs logic which understands things by having them whole
Speed: Because an intelligent person can reach a conclusion without walking through all the intermediate steps, he is tempted to do so. But some of the intermediate steps may be important and reveal considerations that make the easy conclusion inappropriate.
See suggestions that cognitive bias is mildly correlated with iq; find better sources than http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-people-are-stupid
Bias toward cleverness: There are greater social rewards for demonstrated cleverness than for demonstrated wisdom. This can lead the intelligent person to habitually retreat into cleverness.
How is this different from “Everest effect” and “Bias towards criticism”?
-
gi
general relationship between the initial intensity of something and the smallest detectable increment is exactly what Weber noticed and formalized into “Weber’s Law”.
Another take on this is http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/biomedical/bionics/does-the-brain-work-logarithmically Relevant: about how easy it is to point at stuff I need a category for the intersection between Psychology and mathematical laws
-
You Can Hack Propaganda Like a CIA Analyst: Richards Heuer Describes the Approach – Myth Composer (
- 7
/- 6
)seems vaguely based on the book “Psychology of intelligence analysis”
-
Use caffeine for short-term performance on a focused task (such as an exam).
Avoid caffeine for tasks that require broad creativity and long-term learning.
-
More data = more ways to create the picture you want or need; also different videos shown give a different reaction
Seen at speed, his raising of his hand looked nothing more than an involuntary and instinctive act of self-defence. Viewed in slow motion (as the third umpire saw it), it seemed a wilful and deliberate act of wicket–preservation. In the first instance, everything happened so quickly that it seemed impossible that Stokes had time to think; in slow motion it seemed impossible that he hadn’t.
those ‘juries’ shown a slow-motion replay were more than three times as likely to convict as those who saw events at the correct speed. The effect diminished when the footage was shown at both speeds, but persisted: such juries were still one and a half times more disposed to find the gunman guilty.
A fairly good rule of thumb is that the more data you have, the more gold is contained therein… but at the price of an even greater volume of false gold
Constructing an inaccurate but plausible narrative is much easier when you can cherry-pick from 50 pieces of information than from five.
-
It is encoded at U+2234 ∴ therefore (HTML ∴ · ∴). For common use in Microsoft Office hold the ALT key and type “8756”. While it is not generally used in formal writing, it is used in mathematics and shorthand. It is complementary to U+2235 ∵ because (HTML ∵).
To denote logical implication or entailment, various signs are used in mathematical logic: →, ⇒, ⊃, ⊢, ⊨. These symbols are then part of a mathematical formula, and are not considered to be punctuation. In contrast, the therefore sign is traditionally used as a punctuation mark, and does not form part of a logical formula.[3]
-
Three questions that researchers frequently ask to quantify the complexity of the thing (house, bacterium, problem, process, investment scheme) under study are
1. How hard is it to describe?
2. How hard is it to create?
3. What is its degree of organization?
Here is a list of some measures of complexity grouped according to the question that they
try to answer. Measures within a group are typically closely related quantities.
-
Drawing from psychological research on the nature of tension and suspense, series creator Michael Tucker highlights certain “key components of tension experiences,” including uncertainty, instability, and a lack of control, and shows how Tarantino uses them to heighten the tension as much as possible throughout these seventeen minutes.
-
Said LA Police Commissioner Crowley, “They say the chalk washes away but that’s not the problem here. The issue is that these sigils are made by amateur occultists who don’t always know what they’re doing. They mean to mark their ethereal turf but several of these alignments are capable of awakening Samael."
-
Maternal experience of childhood abuse has been associated with offspring autism. To explore whether familial tendency towards autistic traits-presumably related to genetic predisposition-accounts for this association, we examined whether women who experienced childhood abuse were more likely to select mates with high levels of autistic traits, and whether parental autistic traits accounted for the association of maternal abuse and offspring autism in 209 autism cases and 833 controls. Maternal childhood abuse was strongly associated with high paternal autistic traits (severe abuse, OR = 3.98, 95% CI = 1.26, 8.31). Maternal and paternal autistic traits accounted for 21% of the association between maternal abuse and offspring autism. These results provide evidence that childhood abuse affects mate selection, with implications for offspring health.
Oh. my. God
-
- Below are some examples of sending .1 + .2 to standard output in a variety of languages.*
-
The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.
-
It’s also an example on how to market a text well. There’s quite a lot to learn about PR just from the table of contents included on the website:
Chapter 1: Why Position Your Company? You’ll learn: The situation you’re probably in: You’re playing “catchup” because you started working for yourself with little or no preparation. Landing new business is an afterthought, a struggle, or both. You operate from a position of weakness in rate/fee negotiations. Your business is treading water with no growth or meager 10 or 20%/year “cost of living” rate increases. You almost never say no to work Why you need a “product”, even if you’re 100% a services business. (p8) How positioning accelerates your business development. Why saying yes to clients is killing you (p13) The 5 reasons you’re suffering a feast/famine cycle in your business How positioning helps move your business out of “water-treading mode” (p12) How positioning helps you avoid nightmare clients (p13) Chapter 2: Who This Manual is For You’ll learn: This book is for owners of technical services firms like programming consultancies, web or digital agencies, independent consultants or freelancers, people considering make the leap to self-employment, and self-employed people who need to be making more money within 12 months and can invest 6 months of effort to lay the foundation. Why this book will give you a world-class ROI on the time you spend reading it (2 hours cover to cover or less) Chapter 3: Understanding Positioning You’ll learn: What it means to “own a word in the mind” and how this relates to positioning your business. (p20) What Volvo has to do with your business. (p20) The three things positioning does from your perspective and the two hugely important things it does from your client’s perspective. The Positioning Rule of Thumb: the one rule that simplifies any question about how to position your business. How to use the specificity-value curve in your business. The 5 ways to justify higher fees or increase demand for your services. (p24) How to develop expertise more rapidly than your competition. (p26) The problem with focusing only on firms located in Nevada. (p28) Why your positioning must change over time. The best time to position your business. Chapter 4: It’s Gonna Hurt You’ll learn: The 4 fears that can shut down your efforts to benefit from positioning. Why your personal brand can cause problems with positioning. (p37) Why your creativity is actually a threat to increasing your profitability through positioning. Why expanding your skill set to the bleeding edge, networking, simply demanding higher rates or fees, a fancy new web site will fail your business better over the long term. The 4 approaches that will help you get better clients and higher fees without positioning. What happens when you start saying no to good, profitable clients. The self-reinforcing feedback loop that helps you overcome imposter syndrome. What TED Talk speakers can teach you about positioning. The terrible “shrinking brain syndrome” and how that affects you. Why you’ll have to give up “on the job learning” and what you’ll do instead. How to prepare yourself for the episodes of loss aversion and analysis paralysis that you’ll face when positioning your business. Chapter 5: The Narrow Focus Strategy You’ll learn: The one change you need to make to implement the Narrow Focus strategy. The situations where word of mouth will help you and the much more common situation where it won’t. What happens when a small manufacturer, a dentist, an attorney, and a delivery truck driver go bowling together. What a beachhead market is and why you want to find one pronto. The difference between sales-driven company and a market-driven company. The number one source of information that high-tech buyers reference. Why pragmatist buyers are your best ally, and how they will try to help you if you position yourself correctly. Why some clients like to be “owned” and how you can make that happen. How the Narrow Focus strategy helps you gain “insider status” and how that gives you an edge over your competition. How to gain a trust advantage that helps you increase rates and win more desireable projects. How to use the “nobody got fired for hiring IBM” effect to your advantage. The similarities and differences between audiences and market segments. (p61) Market segmentation criteria that matter, and ones that don’t. (p62) What Fortune 500 CEOs and cancer support group participants have in common (p63) An easy hack to help you figure out how specific to go in your positioning and how to avoid going too specific. (p69) An implementation checklist with: A list of who should and who should not use this strategy Research TODO items to help you verify that you’re on the right path Checklist items to help you choose the appropriate level of risk for your business A dead-simple formula to jump-start your positioning statement Validation techniques to further reduce risk before you make any changes to your marketing Specific TODO items to help you update and re-orient your marketing to match your new position Case studies showing you how other self-employed developers have executed the Narrow Focus positioning strategy: Web design services for a tiny audience: creative female entrepreneurs who are using their web presence to build and sell to their own audience. Marketing education & consulting for handmade soapmakers. Interaction design for independent, stable, bootstrapped businesses that need great software. Interior design for boutique medical practices (surprise! This case study shows that not only software developers can use positioning!) WordPress sites for membership businesses. Maritime emergency response (you’ve got to see this one. It shows a fantastic example of a powerful, clear, and focused “visual hammer”/”verbal nail” combination.) Chapter 6: About Categories You’ll learn: How categories are used to organize and subdivide markets. Why you need to move past 1-dimensional categories. Why you need a “verbal handle” to go with your category. (p103) Chapter 7: The Category Leadership Strategy You’ll learn: The one thing you have to do to implement the Category Leadership strategy. A simple tool to help you estimate market size. (p109) What percentage of a market segment you need to own to claim a leadership position. The things that will change and the things that won’t change when you become a market leader. A formula for estimating the addressable size of a market segment. (p111) Why what seems like a small market segment to you is probably too large. (p112) The 5 benefits that market leaders enjoy. These benefits work to reinforce their leadership position while also making it easier and cheaper for them to acquire the best clients. The kind of free stuff that market leaders routinely get. Who should use the Category Leadership strategy and who should not. The 4 tactics that help you move into a market leadership position. The 5 “unbillable” activities that market leaders tend to engage in. (p116) An implementation checklist with: Research TODOs, including 4 strategy questions to help you identify new leadership opportunities. Validation techniques to further reduce risk before you make any changes to your marketing Case studies showing you what the Category Leadership strategy looks like in practice: A pricing strategy consultancy that has a client list with a phenomenal number of Fortune 500 clients on it. A conversion-focused copywriting business focused on startups. An agile development shop that has achieved a clear leadership position. Chapter 8: The Category Pioneer Strategy You’ll learn: What to do if the category you want to become a leader in is already “owned” by an incumbent leader. What large companies do all the time to circumvent competition and how you can adapt this approach to your business. What you can learn from agile vs. waterfall development to help you position your business. (p131) The 5 evergreen patterns for creating new value or pioneering a new category. (p132) Understanding how service bundling or unbundling can help you pioneer a new category. Understanding how positioning as an insider or “localizing” your services can pioneer a new category. (p133) How the changing technology landscape and the emergence of overseas talent markets can help you pioneer a new category. Understand how much time and effort you’ll need to pioneer a new or divergent category. What kind of business the Category Pioneer strategy is ideal for. An implementation checklist with: Detailed descriptions of how service bundling or unbundling works. (p139) How altering your service presentation can help you create a new category. How the emergence of new technology, new social forces, or new financial forces may create a new functionality segment for you to move into. How you can differentiate from the existing leader in an existing category to pioneer your own category. Case studies showing you what the Category Pioneer strategy looks like in practice: A fast, limited scope service that focuses on fixing conversion rate problems rather than creating an entirely new design. A service that borrows techniques from public relations professionals and combines those with evergreen SEO best practices to create a new category and automatic category leadership. A marketing agency that uses a unique approach to conversion-focused copywriting to pioneer a new category. An audio editing service that created a new category for their services, positioning them as the de-facto leader in that category. A business coach that positions himself as an audience insider to own the new category he has created for himself. Chapter 9: Combine Two Strategies You’ll learn: When it’s ideal to combine two positioning strategies. The most common, lowest risk way to combine multiple positioning strategies. Chapter 10: Selecting the Right Strategy For Your Business You’ll learn: What your gut feelings can tell you about choosing the right positioning strategy. (p170) Why positioning strategies are necessarily provisional. (p170) The ideal positioning strategy for a generalist firm. The ideal positioning strategy for a firm already focused on a specific audience/market segment. The most suitable positioning strategy for a firm currently in or close to a leadership position. The most suitable positioning strategy for a very experienced firm in any current position. For common patterns for moving from least to most risky positioning strategy. Chapter 11: Developing a Positioning Statement You’ll learn: The two basic positioning statement formats you can use. Why you need to just be simple, clear, dogmatic, and blunt when crafting a positioning statement. How going after the pain can help your positioning statement. An idea for testing multiple positioning statements with no expense and very little time investment. (p181) Chapter 12: Go Forth and Read the Benefits of Correct Positioning! Wherein I wish you well and invite you to contact me if you get stuck at any point. 🙂
-
*What if I told you that prominent AI engineers and scientists are already retiring from their work? The reason behind their decision is the amount of money they have already made by working on AI. *
Lol. Whatever, it gives a couple of nice resources:
- https://medium.com/@rayalez/list-of-the-best-resources-to-learn-the-foundations-of-artificial-intelligence-934dbce5939#.ym2xo35jl
- http://www.aaai.org/Resources/resources.php
- http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/books.html
- http://blog.liveedu.tv/become-artificial-intelligence-engineer/
- http://labs.openviewpartners.com/artificial-intelligence-resources-guide/
-
The recommendations seem excellent.
- Pragmatic Programmer
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- Head first design patterns
- Code complete 2
- Refactoring
- Mythical Man Month
-
Especially ncdu for visualizing folder size.
-
At the age of 20, Christopher Knight parked his car on a remote trail in Maine and walked away with only the most basic supplies. He had no plan. His chief motivation was to avoid contact with people. This is his story
And once, when he was in an especially introspective mood, Knight seemed willing, despite his typical aversion to dispensing wisdom, to share more of what he gleaned while alone. Was there, the journalist asked him, some grand insight revealed to him in the wild?
Knight sat quietly but he eventually arrived at a reply.
“Get enough sleep,” he said.
-
Yes, it is valid. Only the first ? in a URL has significance, any after it are treated as literal question marks:
The query component is indicated by the first question mark ("?") character and terminated by a number sign ("#") character or by the end of the URI.
-
Here are a few small steps you can take toward a less complacent life. Pick 3! Social Dynamism Get off of social media for a month. Don’t even announce that you’re doing it. Just do it. Have a civil conversation with someone you typically disagree with on social or political issues. Take the time to figure out what drives them and where their ideas come from. (If you’re single) Ask out a stranger in real life. In case we’ve all forgotten how to do this, walk up to someone at a bar, start a conversation, and go from there. Delete the four most frequently used apps from your phone for a week. Stop listening to music or podcasts while you’re in public and interact with your physical surroundings. Go to lunch with someone in your office from a different department. Go to the movie theater, without looking in advance, and choose a movie that you wouldn’t normally see. Explore a music genre you are not familiar with until you find three songs you really like. Talk to your Uber driver… about something other than Uber. (Bonus) Grocery shop exclusively at a specialty grocery store for a month, such as an Asian food market. Intellectual Dynamism Write an article defending the opposite political view of what you believe. Try to be as convincing as possible! Take an online or evening class that has nothing to do with your career or existing talents. Next time you get upset about a political or social injustice, do something about it. Volunteer, protest, or donate to a cause. Use Google in funny ways. Be creative about what that means. Identify the quirkiest thing about yourself and double down on that trait. Find similarly eccentric people in person or online. Think of a product or service that should exist but doesn’t. Share ideas with friends and family at a minimum and get feedback. Imagine your dream job. Look for it. Apply for it even if you think you aren’t qualified. What’s the worst that could happen? Schedule a conversation with your boss about your future and new opportunities. If you aren’t getting what you think you have earned, ask for it. Judge a book by its cover: use tinder for books or go to a bookstore and pick a book based solely on its cover. Make a decision based on a coin flip. Physical Dynamism Stop using yelp or other go-to restaurant review sites for a month. For that matter, avoid eating at chain restaurants for a month. Start a savings account so you can one day buy or rent the home of your dreams. Or at least have enough money to couch-surf all over the world. Stop using delivery-service apps of all shapes and sizes for a month. Try to get to a location 20 or more min away (as the car drives) without your GPS. Leave your phone at home once a week. Pick a city 50-ish miles away from you. Take a day trip. Park in the middle of town and explore. Make time to travel to new places outside of your comfort zone (Bonus) Pick a city that you’ve never lived in that interests you and apply for a job there
-
An AI playing a video game learned to navigate via the stars in the sky! Unexpected behaviour makes it hard to know *why* an action occurs.
In the early part of the 21st century, researchers found a novel way to manipulate basic neural networks to cause them to incorrectly identify images.
Just like humans, AI can be brainwashed. Awaking to do our bidding on command.Excellent short story set in the future about manipulating AIs
-
Standartized tests test mostly IQ, school grades are much more dependent on personality
-
> The most important process underlying strokes of creative genius is cognitive disinhibition—the tendency to pay attention to things that normally should be ignored or filtered out by attention because they appear irrelevant.1 Cognitive disinhibition is correlated w/ psychopathology > Exceptional ‘‘‘intelligence alone yields ‘‘‘useful but unoriginal and unsurprising ideas. > the creative geniuses enjoy the asset of superior general intelligence. This intelligence introduces the necessary ‘‘‘cognitive control ‘‘‘that enables the person to separate the wheat from the chaff. > ertain events […] in childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood enhance a person’s creative potential. These diversifying experiences include multicultural exposure, bilingualism, and various forms of developmental adversity, such as parental loss, economic hardship, and minority status. Creative geniuses who grew up in such environments will actually be less likely to display traits or symptoms of psychopathology!
-
About better ways to treat patients going through a bad trip in the ER than sedating them
-
THE MAJOR SYSTEM NUMBER-SUBSTITUTE SOUNDS No. Sound(s) Memory jogger 0 z,s ‘z’ sound for zero 1 t,d ’t' and ’d' both have just one downstroke 2 n ‘n’ has two downstrokes 3 m ’m' has three downstrokes 4 r four … ends in the ‘r’ sound 5 l roman numeral for 50 is L 6 j,sh,ch,soft g ‘j’ reversed is something like a 6 7 k,q,hard c or g ‘k’ looks like it can be formed from two 7s 8 f,v handwritten ‘f’ can look like an 8 9 p,b ‘p’ reversed is like a handwritten number 9 – vowel sounds, w,h,y These sounds can be used anywhere without changing a word’s number value.
Also see: http://www.real-memory-improvement.com/the-major-system-basics.html
-
the content of the course is usually presented in whole or in part by the students themselves. Instead of using a textbook, the students are given a list of definitions and theorems which they are to prove and present in class, leading them through the subject material If a student had already studied topology elsewhere or had read too much, he would exclude him. He would usually caution the group not to read topology but simply to use their own ability. Plainly he wanted the competition to be as fair as possible, for competition was one of the driving forces. […] After stating the axioms and giving motivating examples to illustrate their meaning he would then state some definitions and theorems. He simply read them from his book as the students copied them down. He would then instruct the class to find proofs of their own and also to construct examples to show that the hypotheses of the theorems could not be weakened, omitted, or partially omitted. When the class returned for the next meeting he would call on some student to prove Theorem 1. After he became familiar with the abilities of the class members, he would call on them in reverse order and in this way give the more unsuccessful students first chance when they did get a proof. When a student stated that he could prove Theorem x, he was asked to go to the blackboard and present his proof. Then the other students, especially those who had not been able to discover a proof, would make sure that the proof presented was correct and convincing. When a flaw appeared in a ‘proof’ everyone would patiently wait for the student at the board to ‘patch it up.’ If he could not, he would sit down. Moore would then ask the next student to try The students were forbidden to read any book or article about the subject. They were even forbidden to talk about it outside of class. Hersh and John-Steiner claim that, “this method is reminiscent of a well-known, old method of teaching swimming called ‘sink or swim’ “.
-
- The ability to perform astonishing feats of memory, such as remembering lists of several dozen words, can be learned, researchers report. After 40 days using a strategic memory improvement technique, individuals who had typical memory skills at the start and no previous memory training more than doubled their memory capacity, going from recalling an average of 26 words from a list of 72 to remembering 62. Four months later, recall performance remained high.*
-
10869 ± python2 confundo.py pchr8 рchr8 pсhr8 pcһr8 рсhr8 рcһr8 pсһr8 рсһr8 Printed 7 similar strings.
Using this list: http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/latest/confusables.txt
-
Excellent.
[The professors] began the project assuming that the gender inversion would confirm what they’d each suspected watching the real-life debates: that Trump’s aggression—his tendency to interrupt and attack—would never be tolerated in a woman, and that Clinton’s competence and preparedness would seem even more convincing coming from a man.
We heard a lot of “now I understand how this happened”—meaning how Trump won the election. People got upset. There was a guy two rows in front of me who was literally holding his head in his hands, and the person with him was rubbing his back. The simplicity of Trump’s message became easier for people to hear when it was coming from a woman—that was a theme. One person said, “I’m just so struck by how precise Trump’s technique is.” Another—a musical theater composer, actually—said that Trump created “hummable lyrics,” while Clinton talked a lot, and everything she was was true and factual, but there was no “hook” to it….Someone said that Jonathan Gordon [the male Hillary Clinton] was “really punchable” because of all the smiling. And a lot of people were just very surprised by the way it upended their expectations about what they thought they would feel or experience.
-
What is Security Engineering? Protocols Passwords Access Control Cryptography Distributed Systems Multilevel Security Multilateral Security Banking and Bookkeeping Monitoring Systems Nuclear Command and Control Security Printing and Seals Biometrics Physical Tamper Resistance Emission Security Electronic and Information Warfare Telecom System Security Network Attack and Defense Protecting E-Commerce Systems Copyright and Privacy Protection E-Policy Management Issues System Evaluation and Assurance Conclusions What is Security Engineering? Protocols Passwords Access Control Cryptography Distributed Systems Multilevel Security Multilateral Security Banking and Bookkeeping Monitoring Systems Nuclear Command and Control Security Printing and Seals Biometrics Physical Tamper Resistance Emission Security Electronic and Information Warfare Telecom System Security Network Attack and Defense Protecting E-Commerce Systems Copyright and Privacy Protection E-Policy Management Issues System Evaluation and Assurance Conclusions Bibliography
-
= carefully Found in http://thislandpress.com/2013/07/28/subterranean-psychonaut/
-
Also see https://extranewsfeed.com/a-spell-to-bind-donald-trump-and-all-those-who-abet-him-february-24th-mass-ritual-51f3d94f62f4#.l44ck88sz Also: so /that’s/ what was that Daria line about! http://www.dariawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=That_Was_Then,_This_Is_Dumb
Jake, Helen, and the Yeagers once tried to levitate the Pentagon. This is a reference to a real-life “attempt” to do this in October 1967 by Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg during an anti-war march that was prevented from reaching the building, though the characters aren’t part of a larger protest in this flashback. (This is the same march where George Harris famously placed a carnation in a soldier’s gun) Whereas Hoffman and Ginsberg were doing guerilla theatre, young Jake actually believes it could be levitated…
-
The fact that it’s loaded via https allows us to change it, in this case using a Javascript keylogger to post to another website every time a character is typed. For example: https://wiremask.eu/articles/xss-keylogger-turorial/,
-
Found here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/02/a_survey_of_pro.html
…in Russia, it’s about flooding the channel with a mix of lies and truth, crowding out other stories; in China, it’s about suffocating arguments with happy-talk distractions, and for trolls like Milo Yiannopoulos, it’s weaponizing hate, outraging people so they spread your message to the small, diffused minority of broken people who welcome your message and would otherwise be uneconomical to reach
*As to defense: *“Debunking doesn’t work: provide an alternative narrative."
-
Excellent; using Markov chains to predict next possible character.
Using 2 grams and some more social information like date of birth, we see that 32.5% users use some of their social information in their passwords. Here’s the query.
-
populations and species of larger size are found in colder environments, and species of smaller size are found in warmer regions
-
Excellent guide to securing a Linux server. Broken by this guy: http://polynome.co/infosec/inversoft/elasticsearch/linode/penetration-testing/2016/08/16/hack-that-inversoft.html
-
Definition of sophomoric 1
2
- lacking in maturity, taste, or judgment
- lacking in maturity, taste, or judgment
-
HashKnownHosts no ############################################################################### # Servers # ############################################################################### Host example.com www.example.com brand.example.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/Michael-Van-Delft.id_rsa User michael # Port forwarding for I2P. Simply run
ssh I2P_Router# then browse to http://localhost:7657/ Host I2P_Router HostName example.net IdentityFile ~/.ssh/Michael-Van-Delft.id_rsa User i2p_user LocalForward 7657 localhost:7657 LocalForward 4444 localhost:4444 LocalForward 6668 localhost:6668 # Example of a local server with IPv6 only Host zilean IdentityFile ~/.ssh/pi@zilean.example.com.id_rsa User pi AddressFamily inet6 HostName 2001:0db8:6101:cc01::7
-
1 a : parched with heat especially of the sun : hot
b : giving off intense heat : scorching 2 - ardent, passionate
- ardent, passionate
-
Additionally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitl%C3%A4ufer
The German term Mitläufer (plural: Mitläufer) was used after World War II by the denazification hearings in West Germany to refer to people who were not charged with Nazi crimes but whose involvement with the Nazis was considered significant to an extent that they could not be exonerated for the crimes of the Nazi regime.
-
Excellent guide relevant for pretty much any high-stress times. I liked the idea about procrastinating effectively.
A. Stay physically healthy
Regular, goal oriented physical exercise at home will save time/money. Eat small meals throughout the day to keep your energy levels consistent. Walk for at least one hour every day Try exercise first thing: an early commitment kept makes other daily habits easier.
B. Stay mentally healthy
Try to cultivate hobbies that involve social contact, but where you can turn them on and off like a tap when you need to. Social dancing is a good example.
C. Procrastinate effectively
You are going to spend most of your time procrastinating, so do it well. Enhance the ergonomics and comfort of your workspace and equipment. Develop your research infrastructure, use tools you’re excited to learn and try. ‘‘‘Start and maintain a ‘second project’ to keep you interested '’’ Do something useful for your research sub-community. It really pays off. Follow people you respect on twitter, post something useful for them daily. Organize and re-organize your literature, files, data, drawers, pencil case etc. Seek out new tweaks, hacks and incremental improvements everywhere.
-
Yet another post to remind me just how how lucky I am to be able to program and solve such small questions/problems
-
Alice has a GPG secret key on a usb keyring. If she loses that keyring, she will have to revoke the key. This sucks because she go to conferences lots and is scared that she will, eventually, lose the key somewhere. So, if, instead she needed both her laptop and the usb keyring in order to have her secret key, losing one or the other does not compromise her gpg key. Now, if she splits the key into a 3-of-5 share, put one share on her desktop, one on the laptop, one on her server at home, and two on the keyring, then the keyring-plus-any-machine will yield the secret gpg key, but if she loses the keyring, She can reconstruct the gpg key (and thus make a new share, rendering the shares on the lost usb keyring worthless) with her three machines at home.
-
A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to “catch the ear of the listener”. The term generally applies to popular music, especially rock, R&B, hip hop, dance, and pop. In these genres, the hook is often found in, or consists of, the chorus.
-
*a large group or collection *
a group of animals and especially quail (=перепілки)
-
Small little wrapper that allows to output arbitrary things to i3status while retaining the origiral colours.
-
Different pauses, implying: a) You know how long you are gonna pause before saying the word, b) Different words in our minds
-
If I’m ever gonna write a driver for my keyboard this seems the resource to go
-
- Associate words with their grammatical counterparts. (e.g. “city” and “cities”) 2) Calculate the occurrence of each word in the text. 3) Assign each word with points depending on their popularity. 4) Detect which periods represent the end of a sentence. (e.g “Mr.” does not). 5) Split up the text into individual sentences. 6) Rank sentences by the sum of their words' points. 7) Return X of the most highly ranked sentences in chronological order.
-
I was pleased when I discovered the 0 register. If you yank text without assigning it to a particular register, then it will be assigned to the 0 register, as well as being saved in the default " register. The difference between the 0 and " registers is that 0 is only populated with yanked text, whereas the default register is also populated with text deleted using d/D/x/X/c/C/s/S commands.
Paste the yanked text with “0p
Or you can append to a register by using a capital letter
“Kyy
Note that p or P pastes from the default register. The longhand equivalent would be ““p (or ““P) and “0 holds the last yank, “1holds the last delete or change.
Additionally, registers and macros work really well together. @n would be executing the exact sequence of characters in the registers!
*Mapping to delete single characters without updating the register. _ is the /dev/null of registers. Gotten from *https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1497958/how-do-i-use-vim-registers/1504373#1504373
noremap x “_x
-
Really interesting example of using a mindmap as a way to organize information
-
= gently persuade. Also coaxial cable. Found here
-
INTPs in the main are not clannish. The INTP mailing list, with a readership now in triple figures, was in its incipience fraught with all the difficulties of the Panama canal: we had trouble deciding: whether or not there should be such a group, exactly what such a group should be called, and which of us would have to take the responsibility for organization and maintenance of the aforesaid group/club/whatever.
-
An INTP’s learning is improved when: Learning is systematic and intensive They work independently with the study material Material is delivered at a moderate pace (INTPs can get distracted, trying to come up with a theoretical connection between pieces of information) The same material is presented from different points of view (improves retention) The subject significantly expands and deepens their knowledge and understanding of the topic and is presented on a conceptual basis The material is complex (increases drive) An INTP’s learning is hindered when: Material is trivial (sharply reduces interest) The knowledge gained does not significantly broaden and deepen their understanding in the given field They participate in group work with the study material Significant amounts of information lacking logical flow are presented at a fast pace (INTPs try to find a unifying pattern and lose acuity and focus in receptiveness)
-
I mark link according to their distance. The following may or may not look different on your browser: Absolute (remote) links: before visiting, visited Relative (site-local) links: before visiting, visited Internal (page-local) links: before visiting, visited Mnemonic: red like remote (and slow), fast is green (same page). Blue is not fast, but neither conceptually remote. This is an excellent idea, marking the links depending on where they lead. Yet another reminder of how flexible most things can be, if used a bit outside the box. And – encoding information in the color of the links is something I /could/ use!
-
The phrase dates back to at least World War II, when homosexual acts were illegal in the United States. Stating that, or asking if, someone was a “friend of Dorothy” was a euphemism used for discussing sexual orientation without others knowing its meaning.
-
Hello! I’m Niklas Roy, an inventor of useless things. As you can find a lot of information about what I do on the left
-
Spotted and patched, especially in black and white
“A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of pigmented spots on an unpigmented (white) background of hair, feathers or scales."
-
This guy is pretty much everything I want to become. Author of the following bots: http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress/bots/ esp. @trippingbot Also http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress/2016/05/17/algo-incantations/
-
A Dutch uncle is an informal term for a person who issues frank, harsh, or severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage, or admonish someone. Thus, a “Dutch uncle” is the reverse of what is normally thought of as avuncular or uncle-like (indulgent and permissive).
-
Play about a robot caring for a women with dementia
-
Then they picked out the eight email sign-offs that appeared over 1,000 times each and figured out the response rate linked to each sign-off. Here’s what they found:
"Thanks in advance" had a response rate of 65.7% "Thanks" had a response rate of 63% "Thank you" had a response rate of 57.9% "Cheers" had a response rate of 54.4% "Kind regards" had a response rate of 53.9% "Regards" had a response rate of 53.5% "Best regards" had a response rate of 52.9% "Best" had a response rate of 51.2% The average response rate for all the emails in their sample was 47.5%.
-
More details: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341
You want to do X, and you think Y is the best way of doing so. Instead of asking about X, you ask about Y.
Also: Men
-
This is excellent in how it’s written – almost my own multiple levels of footnotes, coded by colors; a really nice writing style; many images Another extremely inspiring example
-
Also:
An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path. He wasn’t sure of which direction to go, and he’d forgotten both where he was traveling to…and who he was. He remembered absolutely nothing. He suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: “Now your third wish. What will it be?” “Third wish?” The man was baffled. “How can it be a third wish if I haven’t had a first and second wish?” “You’ve had two wishes already,” the hag said, “but your second wish was for you to forget everything you know.” She cackled at the poor man. “So it is that you have one wish left.” “All right,” he said hesitantly, “I don’t believe this, but there’s no harm in trying. I wish to know who I truly am.” “Funny,” said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. “That was your first wish…”
From Reddit.
-
Small Truecrypt-like tool to encrypt individual files with a password
-
People have an unique SM feed -> more chances to visit certain links -> deanonymization
-
Excellent example of how to make a resume website – perfectly formulated and full of examples.
-
This idea spawned another: “Why not orchestrate a social movement around natural highs: around people getting high on their own brain chemistry – because it seems obvious to me that people want to change their consciousness – without the deleterious effects of drugs?”
“We didn’t say to them, you’re coming in for treatment. We said, we’ll teach you anything you want to learn: music, dance, hip hop, art, martial arts.”
Their analysis revealed clear differences between the lives of kids who took up drinking, smoking and other drugs, and those who didn’t. A few factors emerged as strongly protective: participation in organized activities – especially sport – three or four times a week, total time spent with parents during the week, feeling cared about at school, and not being outdoors in the late evenings.
“At that time, there had been all kinds of substance prevention efforts and programs,” says Inga Dóra, who was a research assistant on the surveys. “Mostly they were built on education.”
- Education works worse than activities
-
A total of 95 male inpatients were assigned to three groups and were asked to take either caffeine (60, 120mg) or placebo (soymilk powder) daily for 4 weeks on the basis of their current antidepressant medications. Results showed that chronic supplementation with low dose of caffeine (60 mg) produced rapid antidepressant action by reduction of depressive scores. Furthermore, low dose of caffeine improved cognitive performance in depressed patients.
-
Rosenhan experiment - Wikipedia (On people being admitted to a psy hospital while faking symptoms) (
- 7
/- 5
)The first part involved the use of healthy associates or “pseudopatients” (three women and five men, including Rosenhan himself) who briefly feigned auditory hallucinations in an attempt to gain admission to 12 different psychiatric hospitals in five different states in various locations in the United States. All were admitted and diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. After admission, the pseudopatients acted normally and told staff that they felt fine and had no longer experienced any additional hallucinations. All were forced to admit to having a mental illness and agree to take antipsychotic drugs as a condition of their release. The average time that the patients spent in the hospital was 19 days. All but one were diagnosed with schizophrenia “in remission” before their release.
*The second part of his study involved an offended hospital administration challenging Rosenhan to send pseudopatients to its facility, whom its staff would then detect. Rosenhan agreed and in the following weeks out of 193 new patients the staff identified 41 as potential pseudopatients, with 19 of these receiving suspicion from at least one psychiatrist and one other staff member. *In fact, Rosenhan had sent no pseudopatients to the hospital.
The study concluded “it is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals” and also illustrated the dangers of dehumanization and labeling in psychiatric institutions.- none of the pseudopatients were identified as impostors by the hospital staff, although many of the other psychiatric patients seemed to be able to correctly identify them as impostors.*
- Hospital notes indicated that staff interpreted much of the pseudopatients' behavior in terms of mental illness. […] The patients' normal biographies were recast in hospital records along the lines of what was expected of schizophrenics by the then-dominant theories of its etiology.*
-
- “If I were to drink a quart of blood and, concealing what I had done, come to the emergency room of any hospital vomiting blood, the behavior of the staff would be quite predictable. If they labeled and treated me as having a bleeding peptic ulcer, I doubt that I could argue convincingly that medical science does not know how to diagnose that condition."*
-
By requiring subordinates to speak untruths, a leader can undercut their independent standing, including their standing with the public, with the media and with other members of the administration. That makes those individuals grow more dependent on the leader […] Promoting such chains of lies is a classic tactic when a leader distrusts his subordinates and expects to continue to distrust them in the future.
Another reason for promoting lying is what economists sometimes call loyalty filters. If you want to ascertain if someone is truly loyal to you, ask them to do something outrageous or stupid. If they balk, then you know right away they aren’t fully with you.
[…] creating a situation where the lack of trust is reciprocal
-
Each person in the chain contributes a panel to continue the story, but only sees the panel immediately before the one they draw. Hilarity ensues.
-
Chrome’s Incognito mode is safer than IE’s, but data may still be found in RAM and pagefile.sys, which the program can’t control
-
Nietzsche’s quotes over a children’s comic Additionally: http://timeisaflatcircus.tumblr.com/
-
Troy Hunt: Your affairs were never discreet – Ashley Madison always disclosed customer identities (
- 5
/- 5
)Slightly different output using the exact same text
-
Here comes the magic!
Task Score = ((Value Impact) + (10 - Time) + (10 - Complexity))/3
Too complex for you? Think about it like this — the best score will be for the task with the greatest value, the shortest time to implement and the least complexity.
-
TL;DR quietly and by themselves with as little hospital involvement as possible
Several years ago, my older cousin Torch (born at home by the light of a flashlight—or torch) had a seizure that turned out to be the result of lung cancer that had gone to his brain. I arranged for him to see various specialists, and we learned that with aggressive treatment of his condition, including three to five hospital visits a week for chemotherapy, he would live perhaps four months. Ultimately, Torch decided against any treatment and simply took pills for brain swelling. He moved in with me.
We spent the next eight months doing a bunch of things that he enjoyed, having fun together like we hadn’t had in decades. We went to Disneyland, his first time. We hung out at home. Torch was a sports nut, and he was very happy to watch sports and eat my cooking. He even gained a bit of weight, eating his favorite foods rather than hospital foods. He had no serious pain, and he remained high-spirited. One day, he didn’t wake up. He spent the next three days in a coma-like sleep and then died. The cost of his medical care for those eight months, for the one drug he was taking, was about $20.
-
Apparently, one of the very few self-help resources which relies only on experimentally proven data.
-
Excellent Using invisible fields which get autofilled by the browser
-
All content on Click-o-Tron is hallucinated by a computer algorithm, and is thus entirely fictional.
Technical writeup: https://larseidnes.com/2015/10/13/auto-generating-clickbait-with-recurrent-neural-networks/
-
icanhazip on steroids As used on https://anttiviljami.github.io/browser-autofill-phishing/
-
Excellent read
Cassandra could foresee the future. Her curse was that she was not believed. That is how people with psychosomatic disorders feel. Their suffering is real but they do not feel believed.
-
*“Satire doesn’t stand a chance against reality anymore.” *
— Jules Feiffer in 1959
The core idea of Poe’s Law is that a parody of something extreme can be mistaken for the real thing, and if a real thing sounds extreme enough, it can be mistaken for a parody
-
Excellent auto-generated ding dictionaries from Wikidictionary. Really nice idea and implementation
-
Text same colour as background and size zero. Additionally, all the clipboard-modifying javascripts
-
Excellent regex tutorial!
-
Using an array of microphones, the creature would turn its head in the direction of a sound, its speed proportional to the volume. If the direction of the sound source remained constant, the rest of the body would gradually follow, making the “animal” appear to home in on the sound. It would shy away from loud noises, and at overwhelming sound levels it would raise its neck vertically and “disdainfully” ignore further sounds until the volume came down
-
Students made to feel a lack of control more often reported seeing images of animals, people, or foods where none existed.
*“Superstitions create a form of structure in an unstructured world,” *“Engaging in superstitious behavior creates a subsequent illusion of control over future outcomes.”
It turns out that if what you do is really risky and dangerous, or involves lots of uncertainty, then you’re more likely to hold and practice superstitions. It’s not just sailing. Gambling, Wall Street trading, and baseball are just a few more examples.
-
“describes the time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices he or she has: increasing the number of choices will increase the decision time logarithmically.” + The higher the IQ, the slower does the time grow:
Roth's application of Hick's law \"Bit\" is the unit of log2(n)
-
Ostracism (Greek: ὀστρακισμός, ostrakismos) was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.
-
The source, in defending his ego, reveals information to justify or rationalize his actions.
-
Schizophrenia in the family, mood disorders (esp. bipolar and depression), ability to find connections between ideas, high (but not necessarily exceptionally high) IQ seem to cover everything pretty well.
-
There is absolutely nothing you can do about it. It would be like telling you not to blink while I stuck a hot needle in your eye.
At the time my lungs emptied and I began to draw water, I would have sold my children to escape. There was no choice, or chance, and willpower was not involved.
-
The idea by itself is excellent and has immense potential. I need to think more about this
-
“high ceilings seemed to put test participants in a mindset of freedom, creativity, and abstraction, whereas the lower ceilings prompting more confined thinking.” + interesting ways to measure that
-
“our brain encodes new experiences, but not familiar ones, into memory, and our retrospective judgment of time is based on how many new memories we create over a certain period. In other words, the more new memories we build on a weekend getaway, the longer that trip will seem in hindsight"
-
I want to use such a title sometime. It’s awesome
-
In the first chapter, the narrator and his good friend, Havran, set out on a rather typical journey for young Poles—eastwards to Ukraine. More specifically: to the western area of Ukraine that was part of Polish territory for many centuries, known in former eras as “Galicia.” Fueled by cultural nostalgia, many Polish people are drawn there to seek out vestiges of Polish history or traces of their own families. A popular destination is the now-Ukrainian town of Drohobych, where people go in order to pay homage to one of Poland’s greatest writers—Bruno Schulz. In this book, which is written in a gonzo-like style that blurs boundaries between travel reportage and fiction, Szczerek reveals that this type of journey has acquired the aura of a Kerouac-style road trip among young Poles in search of adventure. Just like the beatniks, the narrator and his sidekick Havran are constantly intoxicated. Their alcohol of choice is “Vigor,” a strong “balsam” that can be bought over the counter in Ukrainian pharmacies.
-
The vibe fell somewhere between a support group and an extreme sport.
This researcher thinks you can form compelling bonds in no time by skipping straight to the deep questions.Additionally, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html “The 36 questions that lead to love” Quite an interesting topic to research, actually. Forming bonds by talking about deep topics while skipping over the formalities – is it deep topics -> attachment because attachment -> deep topics?
-
smoothly elegant; devoid of any superfluity Interestingly enough the “smoothly elegant” meaning is first
-
What is surprising is that these designs do not exist for the sake of style. Rather, these designs are actually the optimal solutions to multiple competing design requirements. Why do they look organic or biological? Is there some underlying fundamental principle that exists in biological systems that leads to this? Why aren’t the solutions sparse, but rather complex?
Really, to think of it. It looks “biological”. The more I think of this the more fascinating it becomes. Additionally:
-
Speaking of our Linux folk, we found they tend to speak more languages than other OS users. 58% of Linux users speak more than one language, compared to 38% for Mac and Windows users.
-
“Perfect” GPG config + ability to compile GPG to allow keys bigger than 4096
-
1% create content Also 90-9-1 – 90% lurk, 9% edit, 1% create
-
Failure to meet the rubber collection quotas was punishable by death. Meanwhile, the Force Publique were required to provide the hand of their victims as proof when they had shot and killed someone, as it was believed that they would otherwise use the munitions (imported from Europe at considerable cost) for hunting.[30] As a consequence, the rubber quotas were in part paid off in chopped-off hands.
-
stone baby*, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy,[1] is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as part of a maternal foreign body reaction, shielding the mother’s body from the dead tissue of the fetus and preventing infection.*
-
Smallest park in the world, 60cm across Has been occupied during Occupy Portland
-
The opposite of Schadenfreude
The traditional paradigmatic example of this mind-state is the attitude of a parent observing a growing child’s accomplishments and successes. Mudita should not be confounded with pride as a person feeling mudita may not have any interest or direct income from the accomplishments of the other. Mudita is a pure joy unadulterated by self-interest.
-
The “sweater curse” or “curse of the love sweater” is a term used by knitters to describe the belief that if a knitter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, it will lead to the recipient breaking up with the knitter.[1] In an alternative formulation, the relationship will end before the sweater is even completed.[2] The belief is widely discussed in knitting publications, and some knitters claim to have experienced it
Also confirmation bias, statistics, + timing
-
Excellent system of Direct directives, indirect directives, and context-dependent directives. Plus the site itself looks pretty interesting.
-
- was a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical and pornographic snowmen.*
- the locals decided to use the snowmen as a form of protest. The different socioeconomic classes each constructed different kinds of snowman. As a result, the poor would destroy snowmen built by the ruling classes*
-
document.body.contentEditable=true
to make the page editable is really nice
-
In 1953, Los Angeles county building inspectors were baffled as how to classify Van Meter’s innovation. They ultimately decided it was a wooden **“fence”.[1] No further regulatory action was taken for over twenty years and the building department left him alone, along with his “folk art” innovation, until 1977. In that year the city fire department declared his creation “an illegally stacked lumber pile." He was instructed to tear it down. Van Meter, using some imagination, convinced the Cultural Heritage Commission and the city of Los Angeles to designate his creation a Historic Cultural **Monument.[6] It was declared then as HCM Monument No. 184 in 1978.[7] This designation protected Van Meter’s pile of pallets until he died or moved.[2]
Later, then-commissioner Robert W. Winter said “maybe we were drunk” when the pile was designated a monument for Van Meter’s lifetime.[8] Winter said it was the funniest thing they ever did.[7]
-
A white elephant is a possession which its owner cannot dispose of and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. The term derives from the story that the kings of Siam, now Thailand, were accustomed to make a present of one of these animals to courtiers who had rendered themselves obnoxious, in order to ruin the recipient by the cost of its maintenance. In modern usage, it is an object, building project, scheme, business venture, facility, etc., considered expensive but without use or value.
-
A site of a camgirl from Reddit
Over time I’ve been saving some of my favorite articles from those inevitable Wikipedia doom spirals. Here’s a list of odd, interesting, unusual, or curious links straight from my juicy bookmarks folder!
Also https://aellagirl.com/2016/08/21/421/
I lived in a house of accepting camgirls.
-
Really cute software that automatically locks/unlocks the screen when you (=USB device) cross a certain distance
-
Discovered part of this by myself while playing with the Genius keyboard, but still excellent writeup.
-
Really nice read about analyzing a dongle.pcap with wireshark.
-
Becasue of the excellent first answer, which is a walk-through of how to write a tool reacting when it sees certain Wireshark-packets
-
From https://plus.google.com/+ShavaNerad/posts/2BFT537oq17 Shava Nerad’s post
-
“The Ars Amatoria (English: The Art of Love) is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD. It teaches basic gentlemanly male and female relationship skills and techniques.” “The first two books, aimed at men, contain sections which cover such topics as ‘not forgetting her birthday’, ‘letting her miss you - but not for long’ and ‘not asking about her age’. The third gives similar advice to women, sample themes include: ‘making up, but in private’, ‘being wary of false lovers’ and ‘trying young and older lovers’. Although the book was finished around 2 AD, much of the advice he gives is applicable to any day and age. His intent is often more profound than the brilliance of the surface suggests.” “However, the word ars in the title is not to be translated coldly as ‘technique’, or as ‘art’ in the sense of civilized refinement, but as “textbook”, the literal and antique definition of the word.”
-
Denny Hayes, who spent fifteen years as a chaplain for the ’s critical response team, says:
- Always deliver bad news in person.
- Always bring a partner (“95 percent of them defer to me to do the actual speaking of the words—nobody wants to experience sad”).
- Skip the s—they comfort no one except the person speaking them.
- Never abandon anyone until they have someone else to hold onto.
-
Metacognition is “cognition about cognition”, “thinking about thinking”, or “knowing about knowing” and higher order thinking skills. It comes from the root word “meta”, meaning beyond.[1] It can take many forms; it includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving.[1] There are generally two components of metacognition: knowledge about cognition, and regulation of cognition.[2]
-
Evolutionary Quanta
The following is the classical sequence of metasystem transitions in the history of animal evolution according to Turchin, from the origin of culture:
- ''' Control of Position = ‘'': the animal or agent develops the ability to control its position in space
- ‘‘‘Control of Motion = ‘'': the movement of the agent is no longer given, but a reaction to elementary sensations or stimuli
- ‘‘‘Control of Irritability = ‘'': different elementary sensations and their resulting actions are integrated into a coordinated, but still rigid, reflex-like behavior
- ‘‘‘Control of Reflex = ‘'': behavioral routines become flexible or adaptive, through the learning of new associations between experienced stimuli and actions
- ‘‘‘Control of Association =
- ‘‘‘Control of Thought =
-
" a term often used when a caregiver or spouse fabricates, exaggerates, or induces mental or physical health problems in those who are in their care, with the primary motive of gaining attention or sympathy from others"
-
Otherkin* are a subculture of people who socially identify as partially or entirely non-human. Some of them surmise that they are, either spiritually or genetically,[2] not human*
Otherkin largely identify as mythical creatures,[5] with others identifying as creatures from fantasy or popular culture. Examples include: angels, demons, dragons, elves, fairies, sprites, aliens,[6][7][8] and cartoon characters.[9]
-
“The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When levels of arousal become too high, performance decreases.”
-
A Joan Miró-Inspired Animation of Federico García Lorca’s Poem, “Romance Sonámbulo” @ Open Culture (
- 6
/- 6
)“Romance Sonámbulo” Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. With the shade around her waist she dreams on her balcony, green flesh, her hair green, with eyes of cold silver. Green, how I want you green. Under the gypsy moon, all things are watching her and she cannot see them. Green, how I want you green. Big hoarfrost stars come with the fish of shadow that opens the road of dawn. The fig tree rubs its wind with the sandpaper of its branches, and the forest, cunning cat, bristles its brittle fibers. But who will come? And from where? She is still on her balcony green flesh, her hair green, dreaming in the bitter sea. —My friend, I want to trade my horse for her house, my saddle for her mirror, my knife for her blanket. My friend, I come bleeding from the gates of Cabra. —If it were possible, my boy, I’d help you fix that trade. But now I am not I, nor is my house now my house. —My friend, I want to die decently in my bed. Of iron, if that’s possible, with blankets of fine chambray. Don’t you see the wound I have from my chest up to my throat? —Your white shirt has grown thirsty dark brown roses. Your blood oozes and flees a round the corners of your sash. But now I am not I, nor is my house now my house. —Let me climb up, at least, up to the high balconies; Let me climb up! Let me, up to the green balconies. Railings of the moon through which the water rumbles. Now the two friends climb up, up to the high balconies. Leaving a trail of blood. Leaving a trail of teardrops. Tin bell vines were trembling on the roofs. A thousand crystal tambourines struck at the dawn light. Green, how I want you green, green wind, green branches. The two friends climbed up. The stiff wind left in their mouths, a strange taste of bile, of mint, and of basil My friend, where is she—tell me— where is your bitter girl? How many times she waited for you! How many times would she wait for you, cool face, black hair, on this green balcony! Over the mouth of the cistern the gypsy girl was swinging, green flesh, her hair green, with eyes of cold silver. An icicle of moon holds her up above the water. The night became intimate like a little plaza. Drunken “Guardias Civiles” were pounding on the door. Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea. And the horse on the mountain.
-
As you can see, the maps are more different than they appear at first glance. And each map shows a surprisingly different view of the world. We’ll be examining these differences, and many others, as we continue on.
-
"This came about in the midst of an (ongoing) obsessive inquiry into a cluster of topics roughly related to "effectiveness" while stumbling through various mountain ranges and cities in central europe and the american northeast."A very good example of what I like – learning things from many different areas and using them to create something not existing for one’s own needs.
-
“The talk will include tips on writing reusable scripts, the basics of Git and Github, the importance of READMEs and software licenses, and creation of reproducible Python environments with Conda.”
-
“It’s a picture of an IE7 browser running on Windows Vista in the transparent Aero Glass theme with a page containing a JPEG of an IE7 browser running on Windows XP in the Luna aka Fisher Price theme?” I pointed out.
An interesting idea would be a chrome extension that makes every secure site recognizable by making a small gravatar-like icon — like https://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/papers/02-hp-petname/ , but graphic. It would be interesting from a graphic-design perspective too.
-
“The drugs were hidden inside the rings of Native American style dreamcatchers. “This is one of the most unusual smuggling episodes we have ever encountered,” said CBP Columbus Port Director Robert Reza. “”
-
gratuitous ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs/ adjective adjective: gratuitous 1. done without good reason; uncalled for. “gratuitous violence” synonyms: unjustified, without reason, uncalled for, unwarranted, unprovoked, undue; More antonyms: justifiable, necessary 2. given or done free of charge. “solicitors provide a form of gratuitous legal advice” synonyms: free, gratis, complimentary, voluntary, volunteer, unpaid, unrewarded, unsalaried, free of charge, without charge, for nothing, at no cost, without payment; More antonyms: paid, professional
-
“Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each “eye” of the net, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering “like” stars in the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring.”
-
Definition of jinx: one that brings bad luck; also : the state or spell of bad luck brought on by a jinx (used in http://nautil.us/blog/the-rituals-that-ward-off-bad-luck-arent-arbitrary)
-
Opposite of paranoia: Pronoia is a neologism that is defined as the opposite state of mind to paranoia: having the sense that there is a conspiracy that exists to help the person. It is also used to describe a philosophy that the world is set up to secretly benefit people.
-
“. By the time you read this, Terence McKenna will likely have died.” “The most prominent feature of the room are the 14 large bookcases that line the walls, stuffed with more than 3, 000 volumes: alchemy, natural history, Beat poetry, science fiction, Mayan codexes, symbolist art, hashish memoirs, systems theory, Indian erotica, computer manuals.”
-
“They’re no longer extra worried about getting into a car accident. If they knock down on the table, that bad feeling goes away,” said Risen. “There’s very little cost to knocking, and it does seem to affect people’s beliefs about things.” “Like the knocking of wood or throwing a ball in the previous examples, washing your hands is “a way of distancing yourself, a way of separating yourself from previous events”” Basically small things that make us feel better make us feel better and improve our outlook on things
-
Names...Names Everywhere! The Problem, and Non-Problem, of Name Pollution - ActiveResponse.org (
- 7
/- 6
)Excellent, about the problems encountered when naming unknown threats by different entities and the chaos which usually follows + Excellent blog itself
-
It’s about how much effort they think you spent, not how well the work was done Extremely relevant: http://www.regpaq.com/i-was-expecting-a-lot-more-from-you/
-
Awesome on multiple levels, from 2CB being cocaine to the content of his beliefs
-
The Luhn algorithm or Luhn formula, also known as the “modulus 10” or “mod 10” algorithm, is a simple checksum formula used to validate a variety of identification numbers, such as credit card numbers, IMEI numbers etc The Luhn algorithm will detect any single-digit error, as well as almost all transpositions of adjacent digits. It will not, however, detect transposition of the two-digit sequence 09 to 90 (or vice versa). It will detect 7 of the 10 possible twin errors (it will not detect 22 ↔ 55, 33 ↔ 66 or 44 ↔ 77). It is not intended to be a cryptographically secure hash function; it was designed to protect against accidental errors, not malicious attacks. Most credit cards and many government identification numbers use the algorithm as a simple method of distinguishing valid numbers from mistyped or otherwise incorrect numbers.
-
First N hours in the morning are the most productive More generally: find the best N hours and use them to do Deep Work Seems obvious but I never thought about this in those terms
-
Vulnerability search engine, using CVE Details, Exploit-DB, CERT, MITRE, NIST, SecurityFocus, ExploitHub, PacketStorm, Secunia, Defcon, Blackhat, SecurityTube, Rapid7, Metasploit, WPVulnDB, osvdb.info, LWN vulnerabilities (Linux Weekly News), SensioLabs, Tenable (Nessus), Varutra MVD (Mobile Vulnerability Database), and VulnerabilityCenter.
-
Site of a yacht and how not to catch rides across the Atlantic - and a pretty interesting satire of the vagabond-hitchhikers-subculture in general
-
About the physical effects of depression and the changes in structure of the brain
-
Excellent answers to things like “what to do with my life”, “what to do with my career” etc
-
You have an important message to send to the world. It’s your mission to make your message as clear as possible. Your message will not resonate with everyone. Your job is to win over those in the “grey area” If you’re performing in a rock band, or delivering a speech, or being interviewed for a job, you have to believe that deep-down what you are presenting is valuable and meaningful and important.
Also:
Here are the basic steps to preparation and rehearsal for a big speech or lecture: Choose your big idea – What’s the big message you want to deliver to your audience? What’s the purpose behind your presentation? You need to have something you want to share with others before you can start building a presentation around it. Make an outline – First make an outline of how you want to present your ideas. What’s your big idea? What small ideas do you need to present along the way to build up to your big idea? This can just be a rough outline, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to update later. Write a rough script – Once you have an outline in place, write a rough script of the things you want to say about each idea. Try to keep in mind that you’ll eventually be reading these words out-loud, so it’s best to write similar to how you speak. Table reading – Now that you have a script, you can practice reading it and seeing how it flows together. You can try reading it to yourself inside your head, though it also helps to read it aloud since that is eventually how the script will be performed on your big day. Content mapping – In this phase of the rehearsal, you will be focusing on the flow and rhythm of your speech. What words do you want to emphasize? Where do you want to pause after making an important point? What ideas are worth repeating or saying twice? You can make small notes on your script (underlines, circles, text) to signify how you want to deliver the speech from a performance standpoint. Blocking – Blocking is your plan for how you will move during the speech or presentation. It includes how you will walk around the stage, make use of lighting and space within the venue, and how you present yourself through your posture, movement, and gestures. These are often neglected areas of presentations that people don’t think about, but they can have a powerful impact on how well your message is delivered to others. Costumes, props, and media – If your presentation includes costumes, props, or technology (like a powerpoint presentation or speaker system), it’s important to go through these items in the rehearsal phase so that you aren’t caught off-guard during your presentation. Have a good working knowledge of the props and technology you’ll be using, and make sure you double-check everything is working before you get on stage. This also includes what you plan to wear during the event. Don’t wait last minute to try on that new suit or dress. Practice improvisation – Once you have a lot of the basic essentials figured out for your performance, it can help to rehearse while also leaving room for improvisation. Improvisation during rehearsal can be a great way to find new material to add or take out in a performance. Maybe while rehearsing your performance, you think of a joke or story you can add that will add an extra punch to your message. Discovering this new material through improvisation can be a great addition to your performance’s script. Invited rehearsals – Now that you are prepared to deliver your presentation, try a couple rehearsals around friends, family, or coworkers and see if they can give you any feedback. At this point, you probably won’t be making any major changes to your presentation, but you might get valuable feedback from others that you can incorporate into your presentation. Maybe someone notices you aren’t making enough eye contact with the crowd, or you tend to keep scratching your head during performances. Having an outside perspective during the rehearsal phase can often make you aware of little changes that you would’ve never caught on your own. Open rehearsals – Open rehearsals are rehearsal performances that are open to the public. Many performers, bands, and stand-up comics will “test their material” in front of a small live audience before they deliver a big event. For example, I know comedians like Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari will often do open mic nights at bars or clubs to test out new material before doing a new HBO special or big tour around the country. The feedback you get from live audiences can also be a powerful way to shape your performances in the future. By acting “as if,” you give yourself permission to be something other than what you typically think of yourself as. This can have a huge impact on your ability to be the best performer you can be.- Have a collection of awesome stories
- Keep playing when you hit the wrong notes
-
yet another reminder to appreciate what you have
-
Situation-Task-Action-Result
-
“The Müller-Lyer illusion, then, is a great example of how our brains get acculturated in ways that shape even simple and straightforward perception tasks.” Illusion doesn’t work for hunter-gatherer tribes and other people not used to such environments around them!
-
- Formulate core values and remind yourself about them, to keep yourself grounded (Relevant: AOM)
“Together these studies make an important point: before heading into a situation where we may be challenged, we can reduce our anxiety by reaffirming the parts of our authentic best selves we value most. When we feel safe with ourselves, we become significantly less defensive and more open to feedback, making us better problem solvers, too.”- Feeling powerful
When researchers prime people to feel powerful, those who feel more powerful tend to perform better on tests that measure their cognitive ability, problem-solving skills, spatial tasks, and creativity. It’s also been shown to reduce stress and anxiety which often take up our mental resources and block our ability to bring out our best self.- Good body language (Think Amy Cuddy and that legendary TED talk) and/or visualize a power pose!
- Change breathing to mimic the mood you want to achievePanic – Short, fast, shallow breaths Anger – Long forced breaths Calmness – Slow steady breaths Happiness – Long inhalations, long exhalations
-
Includes scanners, privilege escalation exploits, proxying + various others
-
- Memories stay longer when created while inhaling - Cognition works in general better while inhaling - Deep breathing helps thinking more clearly when under the effect of emotions Basically, another study proving what meditation&yoga&company has been saying
-
Reading emotions of each other + not being scared to talk + about same time to talk + Reading the Mind in the Eyes test
-
" He will blog about what he actually did soon, but basically he created a bot that knows nothing of the world except for the text of my book. From this, it worked out what was important by seeing what was listed in the index, and it attempted to deduce a relationship between those things by analysing their proximity in the text." " What all this is, essentially, is an experiment in apophenia. Apophenia is the process in which people project connections and narratives onto random data." “- Humans are apophenia machines, basically” An author about a bot which is based on his book. fascinating
-
Also see The patterns which may appear while under the influence of hallucinogenic substances have been found in many different prehistoric art pieces, implying the cavemen may have used them and thought that the patterns had a big spiritual significance There’s something deeply unsettling and fascinating about almost-pre-conscious people exploring their own mind that way
-
“For this project, I took the incantations of the Necronomicon and produced a linguistic model capable of producing novel incantations.” Beautiful
-
About why hallucinations of different origin contain spirals
Also see http://www.pchr8.net/f/index.php/Scientists_Think_Cavemen_Painted_While_High_on_Hallucinogenic_Drugs about those same patterns appearing in prehistoric cave art
-
List of Russian infosec/websec beginner resources + interesting site itself, looks like a semi-underground advanced-level forum
-
I like the idea of looking at the structure of a file to be able to extract it.
-
This is really brilliant. Long spoons in both Heaven and Hell, in Hell no one is able to eat because they can’t get the food to their mouths, in Heaven people feed each other.
-
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html is a nice full text of the gospel “Be passerby!” “Marvin Meyer writes: “This saying may also be translated ‘Be wanderers’; compare descriptions in early Christian literature of wandering teachers and missionaries. Another possible but less likely translation is, ‘Come into being as you pass away’;”
-
In the study, caffeine stopped being significant after 2-3 days of 5h sleep compared with placebo. (200mg twice a day, if I read this right?) “Results showed that the caffeinated group had faster reaction times during the first two days compared with the placebo group, but not on the last three days [out of 5] of the experiment, […] The people who took caffeine reported feeling happier than those who took the placebo only on the first few days of the experiment.” + “those in the caffeine group rated themselves more annoyed than those in the placebo group” Study did not increase amount of caffeine
-
Interesting scenario with generation of all possible HTMLs ( <footer onafterprint=“console.log(244599)” onbeforeprint=“console.log(309354)"[…] ), onwheel/oninput resulting in xss and clickjacking.
-
A Ballade of Suicide by ACS The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in a knowing way As one that knots his necktie for a ball; But just as all the neighbours–on the wall– Are drawing a long breath to shout “Hurray!” The strangest whim has seized me. . . . After all I think I will not hang myself to-day. To-morrow is the time I get my pay– My uncle’s sword is hanging in the hall– I see a little cloud all pink and grey– Perhaps the rector’s mother will not call– I fancy that I heard from Mr. Gall That mushrooms could be cooked another way– I never read the works of Juvenal– I think I will not hang myself to-day. The world will have another washing-day; The decadents decay; the pedants pall; And H.G. Wells has found that children play, And Bernard Shaw discovered that they squall, Rationalists are growing rational– And through thick woods one finds a stream astray So secret that the very sky seems small– I think I will not hang myself to-day. ENVOI Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal, The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way; Even to-day your royal head may fall, I think I will not hang myself to-day.
-
Fascinating. Written from the other side of the barricade «Two of the most important things I learned during my third year were “Tell me more” and “[awkward silence]”. “Tell me more,” works for every situation. Part of the problem with psychotherapy is that you’re always expected to have something to say. As a last resort, that thing is “Tell me more”. It sounds like you’re interested. It sounds like you care. And if you’re very lucky, maybe the patient will actually tell you something more, as opposed to their usual plan to stonewall you and hide all possibly useful information.» Really really interesting on multiple levels
-
I’m getting tired of the “Learn X they hard way” scheme. Otherwise looks pretty interesting.
-
Seems relevant to a couple of my projects.
-
For something to be interesting it has to be not /too/ new but not already known (optimal gap); Trading rewards for information; Creativity is a signal from brain that you’re not using it enough; bored/curious are not opposites of a continuum
-
“Every time you compare two values, ask yourself: what could someone do if they knew either of these values? If the answer is at all meaningful, use a constant-time algorithm to compare them.”
-
Excellently written. Site contains also other similar articles, for example:
A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers Intuitive Arithmetic With Complex Numbers Understanding Why Complex Multiplication Works Intuitive Guide to Angles, Degrees and Radians Intuitive Understanding Of Euler's Formula An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform Intuitive Understanding of Sine Waves An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra A Programmer's Intuition for Matrix Multiplication
-
“to show who’s boss”, “because I have ADHD”, or “because I was provoked”. + Hacking is not concerned with which description best suits the act, but rather, how the descriptions under which people act depend on the descriptions available to them.
-
Optimal eating/drinking habit is: T-2 hours get coffee and food. + Study very intensely RIGHT before the test.
-
" In that spirit, we send along this year’s edition of the UC Berkeley Summer Reading List for New Students, which includes some fantastic reading recommendations, centered on the theme of “Firsts,” that have been selected for you by Berkeley faculty, staff, and your fellow students."
-
The more expressive a teacher is, the better he is rated, despite not making sense
-
“Floaters + tiny bright dots moving rapidly + phosphene (when pressure is applied)” My favourite way to reach a decision quickly after the coin
-
“Fitts’s law is used to model the act of pointing, either by physically touching an object with a hand or finger, or virtually, by pointing to an object on a computer monitor using a pointing device.”
-
“A wandering machine learning researcher, bouncing between groups. I want to understand things clearly, and explain them well.”
-
Intrinsic VS Extrinsic and Positive VS Negative; only intrinsic positive works; + much more about it + literature Relevant: this TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y “The puzzle of motivation”
-
Brings back really so many memories, haha. Making a bot in Node.js which retweets everything “Make * great again!”
-
What I’ve always done explained much better than I ever could. The way we call (=think about) a concept can dramatically change how well we understand it and can use it. Take away point is thinking well about the importance of the metaphors we choose to use.
-
Using a program to monitor what’s happening on the computer, then nicely visualizes this. Program is here: https://github.com/karpathy/ulogme
-
Looking at faces in the morning as therapy for BPD and depression – looks pretty interesting. More on the same site here: http://blog.sethroberts.net/category/mood-disorders/faces-and-mood/
-
One of the best algorithms to decrease dimensionality of a set (think “group together similar elements”). Gotten from here: http://karpathy.github.io/2014/07/02/visualizing-top-tweeps-with-t-sne-in-Javascript/
-
“I love the feeling of having a new way to think about the world. I especially love when there’s some vague idea that gets formalized into a concrete concept. Information theory is a prime example of this.” Just excellent. Excellent way to explain things and excellent material.
-
Group the top people on twitter based on the similarity of what they tweet.
-
At first teach a neural network “good” vs “bad” selfies (number of likes controlling for follower count), then let him sort given ones. Fascinating because a) something interesting to do with data, b) Twitter API, c) damn cool, d) then a nice little visualization with t-SNE.
-
Excellent walkthrough about the first security things to do on a new server. // At first, I thought I was going to read an article about “first 5 minutes I pass on a server I get access to” with the some post-exploitation defenses. I’d gladly read one of those. Think permissions, compartamentalization, etc etc.
-
Security researcher. Favourite articles: https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/ https://blog.filippo.io/so-i-lost-the-password-of-my-nas https://blog.filippo.io/securing-a-travel-iphone/
-
“I never felt confident in the security of my long term keys. The more time passed, the more I would feel uneasy about any specific key.” “Worse, long term keys patterns like collecting signatures and printing fingerprints on business cards discourage practices that would otherwise be obvious hygiene: rotating keys often, having different keys for different devices, compartmentalization.” Advocates switching to Signal/Whatsapp and other more or less ethereal stuff. Interesting how at the end it’s signed with “all the keys he could find”
-
{{#set: k=infosec,opsec,en route,secure communications,
Contains a couple of very interesting tips about being secure while on the road, esp. I liked the “Out of office” part
-
In my case:
sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness <<< 200