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That section comes from the part where Milo and his companions arrive in the Number Mines and are completely famished because they’ve been travelling all day. They eat and eat but never get full. Eventually, the Dodecahedron helpfully tells them that they’ve been eating Subtraction Stew because it’s perfectly logical that you’d start off full and eat until you’re hungry.
For scheduling purposes, i’ve found WhenIsGood to be quite invaluable when coordinating between multiple time zones and people.
Dan Ariely’s research found that paying money will destroy social relationships, giving stuff does a little damage, and just doing stuff for ‘free’ is best. So, if you’re trying to keep the social bits, just go straight to ‘free.’
I’d be happy to pre-commit to spending 1-2 hours/day for 4 days out of the week for any week between the coming one and 3 weeks from now. However, I’m not sure how to get notifications for followup posts on LessWrong; in a perfect world, a brick would drop on to my desk when the tech side of things/scheduling thingy has been set up and I’d come and look at the followup post(s).
I get the impression that Metamed also figures out likely diagnoses, which would be a pre-requisite for using Up to Date.
Just wanted to report a massive ARGH moment:
By default, if the user logs in with Twitter, then you spam your Twitter followers and add the company to your list of people followed.
I might be able to help build the site due to the following bits from my past:
Javascript/XHTML/etc. experience
WAMP/LAMP/ASP .NET experience
Coordinated >20 people across multiple time zones using web forums/online chat
Ran a website with a chatroom and used it to hold meetings
Slight obsession with user interfaces (built web applications/desktop applications)
Downside:
Due to personal things, I don’t have the time to lead or contribute -hugely- to this effort.
Ideas:
Keep the project management side of things relatively transparent (perhaps using Github, SourceForge, or at least keeping the spec in a wiki).
Have a public bug tracker.
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I expect Less Wrong people to be more “normal” than me though so… oh well.
Is it possible to post anonymously but link it to my account? Some of the stuff I’d like to say aren’t things I want the general public to link directly to me, even though LessWrong played a possibly significant positive role.
Yes, it is.
The YouTube link is broken. Did you intend to link to a YouTube video of the original video from Schoolhouse Rock?
Great point but I worry that people will point to this post and say “See? Publication bias/questionable study design/corporate funding/varying peer review processes don’t matter!”
In other words, it’s good to strive for a fixed experimental process but reality is rarely that tidy.
This sounds like an expanded exposition of the discussion in HPMoR between Harry and Draco about trying to find good counterarguments to the Death Eaters’ main belief. Is that a fair representation of your article?
If not, I’d like to know so I know to re-read the article. :)
I get 404s on the quizzes from Tom McCabe.
I’m currently working on a website application to figure out what I can’t eat. It will use Bayes Theorem. This could make a huge difference in my life.
I also found that I’m really good at asking lots of questions when I’m stuck but not good at realizing that I need to stop working on something until more resources arrive.
That’s precisely the reason why I gave up and am building my own Bayesian classifier to do … almost exactly what this post’s project will do. Only, mine is meant for strictly personal use and is related to hashing out a diagnosis with the help of a doctor.
Hi there!
I found HPMoR via TVTropes and then found LessWrong via HPMoR. I decided to hang around after reading the explanation of Bayes Theorem on Eliezer’s personal site and finding it quite nice. Also, it matched up with how I thought of Bayes’s theorem. You could say that I got attracted to LW by confirmation bias. :)
On a more useful note, I got interested in rationality/etc. through a somewhat convoluted path. I got introduced to Bayes Theorem via Paul Graham when I built a website filter for a science fair project.
My reading material also contributed heavily. I’ve also always been a fast and constant reader so discovering the (FREE!) interlibrary loan offered by the University of California was a boon. Major nonfiction books that affected me were cognitive science stuff (especially Dan Ariely) and books on how things/processes/systems work I distinctly recall re-re-re-checking out a book on landfills and waste management in elementary school because it was long enough to be somewhat thorough and had enough photos to be interesting. Major fiction influences include books by Thornton Burgess, the Redwall series, and David Brin. I got introduced to the concept of fanfiction by the Redwall Online Community and spent many years in related activities so it wasn’t too much of a leap for me to take HPMoR seriously. Getting keyword matches between Ariely and HPMoR kept me hooked, never mind the bit about arbitraging gold and silver, which I can’t believe Harry hasn’t tried doing by now.
Another thing that helped me take the ideas in Less Wrong seriously was my constant desire to re-examine by beliefs. For example, I’ve always been interested in the ideas in Christian apologetics.
As for where I started at LW, I can’t really say. I know I read stuff that confirmed what I already knew like things about the Planning Fallacy. The first bit of new material was probably Mysterious Answers (and those in its sequence).
Looks like a great idea. It’s certainly an easy way to build a version of Sequences with explanatory comments. Optimally, such comments would appear in the actual article but this is a good step towards that.
After “dying” twice on Habit RPG and reading the first few chapters of Don’t Shoot the Dog (via a Reddit post from EY, the evidence seems to indicate that I’m trying to make too big of a change too quickly (or, too many small changes).
I’m going to look for a way to pause or temporarily hide items on Habit RPG. I’m also open to similar sites that are more stable. Habit RPG tries really hard with good fundamentals but it doesn’t work reliably in Internet Explorer or Firefox. I’m aware that they’re rewriting the site but I’m trying to change things now and I suspect that using “Habit RPG is down, why bother today?” as an excuse isn’t a good idea.
In my experience as a programmer (who wore all the software-related hats), I found that even when I understood the domain quite well, inquired about the purpose multiple times, and wrote little stories illustrating my interpretation of the users’ desires, I could walk away from early usability tests with major changes to the project.
In one particularly memorable instance, I got all the way through making paper prototypes and making pretend e-mails. Then, I convinced my manager to try out the system. The process started in a pre-existing e-mail package and then routed stuff to the proposed custom software. He sat down, opened up the pretend e-mail, and started to save the attached files. At that point, we discovered that there was no need for the custom software and killed the entire project.