I’m just gonna add: Say “Sir” all the time. It really calms them down.
He asks you a question? (“have you been drinking?”) Say “Yes sir” or “no sir”
″I stopped you because you were speeding”—“I’m very sorry, sir”
and so on. This has saved me countless times.
folkTheory
Check out the book called “The 4-Hour Body” by Tim Ferris
This is what the Church of Scientology does.
This is an introductory textbook for students who haven’t been exposed to these ideas before. The paragraph makes a lot more sense under that assumption, than under the assumption they are trying to be technically correct down to every term they use.
Don’t forget the pill also practically eliminates akrasia. He was almost unable to NOT do what he knew he should do.
But we could establish an a posteriori one
8AM?? Have some mercy!
I’m from the greater DC metro area...I can’t make it so early.
It looks like there might be enough people in MoCo for our own meetup. Maybe we should try doing one, and see if it’s something we can/want to keep having?
Sure, but the current status quo is largely a result of chance and mathematical fads over the centuries than any concerted effort to find consistent and good symbols and notation (with Leibniz being an exception to this). There’s really no reason to think we can’t do better than the current state of mathematical notation.
Works for me.
I propose we make a series of exercises to go along with the articles of the sequences. These exercises could help readers know how well they understood the material as well as help them internalize it better.
I’m glad this is actually happening, and at great speed.
I hereby commit to doing exercises for ‘Belief in Belief’ and ‘Bayesian Judo’ by what appears to be our standard commitment: Deliver by April 17, 2011 or downvote to −10Note: It’ll be a combined exercise for those two articles as they’re very related.
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I claimed ‘Belief in Belief’ and ‘Bayesian Judo’, see here.
Absolutely, I’d love to.
Done.
Lol that was me.
No, I got an email saying you were sending it, but it wasn’t attached.
It might be a good idea to hold it in Bethesda or some other city in Montgomery County, MD, as there seem to be a lot of LWers from MoCo. (I’m in MoCo as well).
But I’d go to a meetup in DC just the same.
No that’s from me.
I’m glad I can actually answer something!
This is how I do it and it works really well:
reverse the cover so it’s inside out.
stand with it’s opening facing you, reach into it and grab the far corners, from the INSIDE. If it’s hard to find them, simply let the edges (from the inside) guide your hands all the way to the ends.
Now using your two hands (which are already holding two corners of the cover from the insides), grab two corners of the duvet
Now this is the fun part: Lift the duvet, so the cover falls all around it. This is like reversing a bag when you pick up dogpoop.
release the corners and you’re done. (you may need to adjust things a bit if it isn’t prefect)