I up vote meetup posts because running a meetup is work, and is undervalued in this community.
EvelynM
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Berkeley visit report
I noticed the distinction between wanting and liking as a result of my meditation practice. I began to derive great pleasure from very simple things, like the quality of an intake of breath, or the color combination of trees and sky.
And, I began to notice a significant decrease in compulsive wanting, such as for excess food, and for any amount of alcohol.
I also noticed a significant decrease in my startle reflex.
Similar results have been reported from Davidson’s lab at the University of Wisconsin. http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/
An external view of your life and health, from a trusted professional, may help you identify causes of your discomfort and, most importantly, strategies to improve your life.
Thanks for the review.
A more recent book on Set Theory: Basic Set Theory—A. Shen, Independent University of Moscow, and N. K. Vereshchagin, Moscow State Lomonosov University—AMS, 2002, 116 pp., Softcover, ISBN-10: 0-8218-2731-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-2731-4, List: US$24, All AMS Members: US$19.20, STML/17
I found it in the American Mathematical Society for Student’s series, which is highly recommended on mathoverflow.com: http://www.ams.org/bookstore/stmlseries
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” Bertrand Russell
Role-reversal education for math and science students (pilot project)
What do you aspire to knit?
This looks to me to be a recipe for adhering to a standard set of documents and roles, not a recipe for empirically investigating reality as it is, together with other investigators.
On [5], just saying you’re avoiding a gender stereotype is different than actually avoiding it.
Priming with Hypothetical questions
This worked “dat ← read.csv(‘http://raikoth.net/Stuff/LessWrong/for_public.csv’)”
I have Android:
Sleep duration data collection (Sleepbot)
Sleepiness forecast (Sleep watcher)
Google Drive (writing/spreadsheet)
White noise/nature sounds for going to sleep (Lightning bug)
Bed lamp (full screen light)
Notes (Catch)
Google Tasks integration (gtasks)
Calendar
Countdown and count up timer
Sudoku
Streaming audio (SomaFM)
Fitness improvement (100 Squats)
Camera/Photo manipulation (Painteresque/Vignette/Paper Camera)
Knitting pattern counter/row counter
Habit building reminder (Beeminder/Habit streak/FailLog/TaskLife)
Daily diary
Rain forecast for where I am (SkyMotion)
Shared grocery list
Current images of earth cloud cover and of the sun (Solaris)
Current wave height, temperature and other data covering the whole earth (Earth Now)
Dual-n-back
IRC client (Android IRC)
walk tracking (MyTracks)
Psychological first aid (The Tools)
Work timer (Pomodroido)
When should I call my family again (Nextcall)
That is a hard thing you’ve done well. For all the people who will never thank you for this, I thank you.
Hey! I resemble that remark. Or at least, I hope I do.
I’m an outlier here on both gender and age scales. And spending time within this community is on the short list of best things I’ve ever done.
I got mine done last year. The practical benefit I received was discovering I was not at increased risk of any significant illness, including those which had occurred in my family, which relieved a source of minor worry.
Other than that, mostly curiosity satisfaction, and the opportunity to follow along with SNP research in a more personally significant way.
The reference I’ve been suggesting for Python is http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
A way I’ve found effective for learning beyond the basics, is to tweak existing programs. github.com has a massive amount of code for you to look at, to copy and change, searchable in many ways, including by programming language.
Learning programming is similar in difficulty to the project of becoming a clearer thinker, and as useful.
You may want to ask Yvain for assistance.
I object to your attributing this failure mode mostly to women, without additional support.
That’s an unhelpful, unthoughtful answer. You can do better.
“Optimizing Reality”
Gwern, you’re an inspiration to us all.