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Venture capital (VC) has delivered poor returns for more than a decade.Mushrooms civilization shortTue, Oct 1, 2019Psilocybin mushrooms occur in higher concentrations around human settlements than in wild nature (still today).Why shouldn t I have my own water fountain? shortTue, Oct 1, 2019If anything, Thomas believes that the state should—where it can, within the law—support the separation of the races.We find that former founders receive fewer callbacks than non-founders; however,all founders are not disadvantaged similarly. Former founders of successfulventures receive even fewer callbacks than former founders of failed ventures. The Effect of Founder Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: A Field Experiment(emphasis mine)nginx Rails (puma) on NixOS Fri, Sep 27, 2019Not too much on the web about how to set this up, so here s an example.How to: GPU-Accelerated R/Keras on NixOS (via Docker) Tue, Sep 24, 2019I spent a weekend trying to get R, Keras, and CUDA to play nice together onNixOS. I suspect this ll be the task I m assigned on my first day in Hell.Top Places to Buy Cheap Houses in USA, 2019 homesteadingSat, Jun 22, 2019Houses in this country can be had for far cheaper than almost anyone realizes.GUIDE: the best place to buy land for homesteading homesteadingMon, Jun 10, 2019There is no clean, one size fits all answer to the question, Where is the best place to buy land for homesteading?The possession of a cow or two, with a hog, and a few geese, naturally exalts the peasant.In favour of about one citizen in five hundred, who, by education or practice in scribbling, has acquired a tolerable style as to grammar and construction, so as to bear printing; or who is possessed of a press and a few types.The Best Self-Sufficiency Blogs homesteadingMon, May 13, 2019Here are my favorite self-sufficiency blogs, along with links to content I particularly enjoyed. Note that I continue to expand this list whenever good articles hit my RSS reader. Last updated 06/26.I ve been going through the second edition of the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise after reading the first years ago, and was delighted to find the new edition has a chapter on excellence among entrepreneurs.Some highlights:Any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be.Where is homeschooling most popular? States by the numbers homesteadingWed, Apr 24, 2019Surprisingly, no one has published homeschooling rates per capita for different states, so I ve mashed together some census data to figure that out.File this under everything you believe about yourself is lie : Surveys of the psychological literature suggest that perception of skill is often only moderately or modestly correlated with actual level of performance. Several studies have indicated that, for men, regular blood donation results in a massive reduction in heart attack.Web Roundup: Links for October linksSat, Oct 11, 2014They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners.A 60-Second Exercise That Boosts Goal Achievement By 20% cogsciTue, Sep 23, 2014The hero of our tale, Jason Padgett. (Content note: this is an example of what I send out to email subscribers.Analogical Thinking: Concepts as Example Bundles cogsciTue, Aug 12, 2014Analogy is our best guide in all philosophical investigations; and all discoveries, which were not made by mere accident, have been made by the help of it.Book Review: A Random Walk Down Wall Street Sat, Aug 9, 2014_(Note: this review originally appeared on a sister-site I m building out, Top Financial Advisor, but I m cross-posting it for readers here, as part of my ongoing book reviews.Web Roundup: Links For August linksThu, Jul 31, 2014Useful Science is a super cool website, aimed at summarizing instrumentally useful science.Review and Summary: Advertising Secrets of the Written Word Tue, Jul 22, 2014I made you a promise. I promised that book reviews were going to become a regular thing around here you know, in my Born to Run review and summary, where I said: I plan for this to be the first in a very long tradition of reviewing books, so stay tuned for more.Spinach, unhealthy? Reflections on one month vegan philosophyMon, Jul 21, 2014Rewind. It s August of last year. I ve just published a post on the reasoning behind certain strange beliefs.I m recording this here in case anyone else is unfortunate enough to encounter this Code 39 message, and so that she can avoid wasting several hours of her life attempting to fix it, by instead Googling it and reading this.Born to Run: Book Review and Summary Thu, Jul 10, 2014I m training for a half-marathon. As someone not terribly athletically gifted, it s been slow-going.Web Roundup: Links For July linksTue, Jul 1, 20143 book recommendations straight from Amazon s CEO, Jeff Bezos: The Goal, The Innovator s Solution, and The Effective Executive.Pareto Principle Examples and History Mon, Jun 30, 2014Economics consists of theoretical laws which nobody has verified and of empirical laws which nobody can explain.Tiger Petting, Not That Dangerous Wed, Jun 25, 2014I was not designed to be forced.—Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceHow the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings Affected This Year’s Attendance Tue, Jun 10, 2014A year ago, I logged a prediction (at 60% confidence) that this year s Boston Marathon attendance would be lower than the previous year s as a result of the 2013 bombings.Why I Like Surprises and You Should Too cogsciFri, Jun 6, 2014I love surprises.Imagine a man oh, I ll just pick a name at random, let s call him James Randi.Web Roundup: Links For June linksMon, Jun 2, 2014Regarding MMOs: 23 percent of men play as women, but only 7 percent of women try taking a walk on the hairier side.Web Roundup: More Links For May linksThu, May 15, 2014Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish to know but to talk.The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Checklists philosophyMon, May 12, 2014Dr. Peter Provonost had a problem. People were dying and to borrow a line from Fight Club not in the Sylvia Plath, Tibetan Buddhist, we re-all-dying-so-get-used-to-it sense of the word.Web Roundup: Links for May linksFri, May 2, 2014Expensive wine doesn t taste better: In a sample of more than 6,000 blind tastings, we find that the correlation between price and overall rating is small and negative, suggesting that individuals on average enjoy more expensive wines slightly less.Why Category Theory Matters Wed, Apr 30, 2014I hope most mathematicians continue to fear and despise category theory, so I can continue to maintain a certain advantage over them.From most recommended to least (roughly):The movie Manufacturing Consent details Noam Chomsky s criticism of the media, covering Indonesia s invasion of East Timor and media bias generally.Web Roundup: More Links For April linksSat, Apr 19, 2014Andrew Drucker has a paper where he mentally multiplies ten-digit numbers by exploiting human image recognition.The AMS has a 2005 paper Foolproof: A Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor which is delightfully filled with math jokes.It Probably Won A Prize excerptWed, Apr 16, 2014Architect Sam Sloan coordinated a project in which employees were able to select their own office furniture and plan office layout Since both the Seattle and Los Angeles branches of the FAA were scheduled to move into new buildings at about the same time, the client for the project, the General Services Administration, agreed with architect Sloan s proposal to involve employees in the design process in Seattle, while leaving the Los Angeles office as a control condition where traditional methods of space planning would be followed.Why Dogs Bark At Night excerptTue, Apr 15, 2014A reformed thief, telling of his success, put it this way, I m telling you, if I had a hundred dollars for every time I heard a dog owner tell their dog to shut up and go lie down while I was right outside their window, I d be a millionaire.Here s a metaphor that comes to me by way of Nobel laureate and Turing award recipient Herbert Simon.Web Roundup: Links for April linksMon, Apr 7, 2014A sociology-style deconstruction of the pick-up community.Nearly twice as many black men than black women are looking for a long-term relationship, or so they report.Anki Tips: What I Learned Making 10,000 Flashcards Sat, Apr 5, 2014If you don t know what Anki or spaced repetition is, start by reading gwern s excellent introduction.Creativity, Fan Fiction, and Compression cogsciFri, Apr 4, 2014I ve written before about the relationship between creativity and compressibility.You Could Have Discovered Quantum Mechanics excerptMon, Mar 24, 2014Quantum mechanics is what you would inevitably come up with if you started from probability theory, and then said, let’s try to generalize it so that the numbers we used to call “probabilities” can be negative numbers.The Creative Process Demystified cogsciMon, Mar 24, 2014Jack Kerouac is a liar.Okay, let me rewind. I don t know how much experience you ve had with creative writing types pale, imaginative creatures but let me tell you how they talk about Jack Kerouac.The Stable Marriage Problem Explained Sat, Mar 15, 2014You are out in a thunderstorm. You look up, at the rolling thunderheads painting the sky, and wonder, Why am I here?What Are Quantum Computers Used For? compsciFri, Mar 14, 2014The literal answer to the question, What are quantum computers used for?Fox News Versus MSNBC: Who’s More Opinionated? Mon, Mar 10, 2014Listening to the internet, you d think that Fox News is some sort of liberal boogeyman the lowest of the low that is modern journalism.Why Do We Think The Way We Do? cogsciThu, Mar 6, 2014I sometimes experience a sort of mental disconnect a sense of knowing what I m going to think before I bother to think it.A review of linear algebra, with pictures instead of matrix computation which, if the Lord God had possessed a bit more foresight, would have been banned in Leviticus instead of shrimp.The Boy Girl Paradox Explained Wed, Mar 5, 2014Probability theory is notorious for violating human intuition. Consider the Boy Girl Paradox:People All Think The Same cogsciTue, Mar 4, 2014On May 7th of 1997, Garry Kasparov the second strongest chess player of all time was hunched over a chess board.Worldbuilding, Worldbuilders, and Mathematics Fri, Feb 28, 2014This week, I was introduced to the hobby of worldbuilding inventing imaginary places, making maps, elaborating histories.Does the internet lie? (Hint: Yes.) Fri, Feb 28, 2014Yesterday, I saw someone spin this very plausible theory about why it s so repellent when someone brags about their IQ on the internet.Statistician on a Plane Joke excerptThu, Feb 27, 2014Speaking of probability and statistics, there is the story of a statistician who told a friend that he never took airplanes: I have computed the probability that there will be a bomb on the plane, he explained, and although this probability is low, it is still too high for my comfort.Online Community Building: Why Communities Decay Wed, Feb 26, 2014The first day of September 1993 was the beginning of an eternal September, a calendar month whose days stretched to infinity.What Savant Memory Says About The Limits of Memory cogsciWed, Feb 26, 2014Scientific American has published an article on savantism, which rattled a few ideas loose in my head.Developing Good Research Skills: Compressing Knowledge scienceMon, Feb 24, 2014I wrote a couple of days ago about how we can think of humans as agents who take in information from the environment, compress that information, and then store it in long term memory.Love Is Not A Choice And Other Tools For Thinking philosophySun, Feb 23, 2014I m not much of a romantic. If I wanted to hack romance I d start with going through all the literature on the mate preferences of chimpanzees, bonobos, and great apes generally.What Makes Something Interesting? cogsciSat, Feb 22, 2014Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin and maybe best known for his work on intelligence, was a bit obsessed with the idea that people have certain innate traits.Users with many Facebook friends are less likely to post about politics and gay rights.The Ultimate Guide to Simulated Annealing compsciSun, Feb 16, 2014Imagine that you re approached by the Greek goddess of discord, Eris and, given that Eris is a cruel goddess, she places you into the mathematical space above.Where are the women in the IT industry? Tue, Feb 11, 2014It has become fashionable as of late for media outlets like Gawker and others to attack Silicon Valley, math, computer science, and the hard sciences generally for being unfriendly to women.The Science of Habit philosophySat, Feb 8, 2014The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.What s the most bullshit-sounding-but-true fact you know? My personal favorite: There used to be a flying reptile that was as tall as a giraffe.Why Replication Is Important philosophySat, Jan 25, 2014Every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.No one in her left brain could reject reductionism.Polya Urn Model Dissolves The Gender War Fri, Jan 24, 2014Now listen, you queer, you stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.Expert Memory: What Can Memory Experts Teach Us? cogsciMon, Jan 20, 2014That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.Future Generations Are Your Legacy, All Of Them philosophySun, Jan 12, 2014I have heard tell of a time in a man s life where he begins to worry less about his own dreams and invests more in living through his children.When Is It OK To Break The Rules? philosophyWed, Jan 8, 2014I propose a new way of thinking about rules. Not as something that distinguishes between what one is allowed and not allowed to do, but rather as a penalty that certain actions carry.Could OSX’s Spotlight Suck More? Doubt It Sun, Jan 5, 2014There was a post about a week ago about how new computer science students don t get the Unix philosophy and the power (and great responsibility) of the command line.Thoughts On The Police Body Cameras Privacy Debate philosophySat, Jan 4, 2014There s a link on Reddit to the sort of story that the internet can t get enough of: police abuse.An Interesting Academic Field Mon, Dec 30, 2013I m troubled by not only how much I don t know, which is legion, but how much that I don t know that I don t know.Bill Thurston on Reading Hard Things excerptWed, Dec 25, 2013I was really amazed by my first encounters with serious mathematics textbooks.Two Cultures of Number Theorists excerptMon, Dec 23, 2013There is a famous distinction in prime number theory between the number theorists who like to multiply primes, and the number theorists who like to add primes.Scott Aaronson on Mathematics excerptWed, Dec 18, 2013From Luke s recent interview of Scott Aaronson (theoretical compsci guy at MIT, who blogs here):The Life Satisfaction of Economists Fri, Dec 6, 2013Tyler Cowen has written a post on a paper about the life satisfaction of economists.World War II: Not a Moral Triumph philosophyWed, Dec 4, 2013I ve started reading through some of the works of Mencius Moldbug.The Terrible Future Isn’t: Drone Delivery Edition Mon, Dec 2, 2013Last night, Amazon s CEO Jeff Bezos appeared on 60 Minutes and spoke about the possibility of using drones to deliver small packages ( drone delivery ).Criticism of Economics Fri, Nov 29, 2013I don t have the requisite expertise to lay out compelling criticism of economics as a whole, and I suspect such an endeavor would be profitless (heh).“Not A Real Christian” Is Real Rhetoric philosophyTue, Nov 26, 2013Perhaps Sarah Palin will actually read about what that Jesus guy kept talking about and her head will explode.Unreasonable Doubt: Legal Certainty is Impossible philosophyMon, Nov 25, 2013The line about what if he s guilty? made me almost throw my laptop across the room.Fecund Universe and The Blind Universemaker philosophySun, Nov 24, 2013Imagine that there are many universes, not just the one we live in, and that they can reproduce; that one universe can have many children.An Argument Against An Agument Against Nihilism philosophyWed, Nov 20, 2013Skepticism, while logically impeccable, is psychologically impossible, and there is an element of frivolous insincerity in any philosophy which pretends to accept it.Categories for the Working Philosopher Tue, Nov 19, 2013Elaine Landry is working on putting together a book, Categories for the Working Philosopher.Epsilon-Delta Proof Intuition Mon, Nov 18, 2013There s a nice question on MathOverflow about the mental experience of mathematics.What’s deadlier: HIV or Smallpox? Thu, Nov 7, 2013The annals of history are strewn with smallpox-infested corpses. The idealist thinks, Ah, the past.Feynman on the Supernatural excerptWed, Nov 6, 2013The nurse recorded the time of death, 9:21 P.M. He discovered, oddly, that the clock had halted at that moment —just the sort of mystical phenomenon that appealed to unscientific people.Bad at math? Have you tried steroids? Fri, Nov 1, 2013Men with lower T performed better than other groups on measures of spatial/mathematical ability, tasks at which men normally excel.Sir John Harington on Treason excerptFri, Oct 25, 2013I thought about titling this as “Sir John Harington on Selection Effects,” but treason seemed more compelling.How To Get Started With Anything philosophyFri, Oct 18, 2013A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.Reading Math: Tips and Heuristics Tue, Oct 8, 2013Reading math is tough. So tough that even Fields Medal winner Bill Thurston wrote about his near-constant confusion.Mathematics is a process of staring hard enough with enough perseverance at at the fog of muddle and confusion to eventually break through to improved clarity.Being a Good Person Does Not Depend On Perfection philosophyMon, Sep 30, 2013The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. Snow is white is true if and only if snow is white.Kaprio, Koskenvuo, and Rita (1987) noted that in the week following the death of a spouse, suicide rates are elevated almost tenfold for women, and almost seventyfold for men.Depressed? Try Plastic Surgery philosophyThu, Sep 26, 2013Ohlsen, Ponten, and Hamburt (1978) noted that twenty-five of seventy-one women in their study were receiving psychiatric treatment prior to a breast augmentation procedure, whereas only three continued to do so after the operation.Prior to [the mid-19th century], lobster was considered a mark of poverty or as a food for indentured servants or lower members of society in Maine, Massachusetts, and the Canadian Maritimes, and servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice per week.I recently tried my hand at making this bean-based, vegan taco filling (recommended), and noticed something curious while reading the recipe s comments:Are introverts ever happier than extroverts? Mon, Sep 23, 2013Here s one actual perk of being a wallflower:Although extraverts are generally happier than introverts, Kette (1991) found that extraverted prisoners were less happy than introverted prisoners.I don t collect many things, who needs that junk? But I do have a collection of great math quotes that I d like to share with you.Either the books contain what is in the Koran, in which case we don t have to read them, or they contain the opposite of what is in the Koran, in which case we must not read them.Relationship Between Incompleteness and The Halting Problem compsciTue, Sep 10, 2013Yesterday, while googling around for information on hyperoperations, I came across Scott Aaronson s essay, Who can name the bigger number?Women Friends are Better Friends Sat, Sep 7, 2013The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women.Math Art: Picasso as a Mathematician Wed, Aug 28, 2013Math art. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.Why Some Weird Beliefs Aren’t philosophyMon, Aug 26, 2013People hold a lot of weird beliefs, but these weird things seem a whole lot less weird once you understand the reasoning behind them.Book Summary: The Psychology of Happiness Mon, Aug 5, 2013The Psychology of Happiness. width= 199 height= 300 srcset= https://rs.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/psychology-happiness-michael-argyle-paperback-cover-art-199x300.jpg 199w, https://rs.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/psychology-happiness-michael-argyle-paperback-cover-art.jpg 200w sizes= (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px / This is my The Psychology of Happiness summary.Book Summary: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science Mon, Aug 5, 2013Happiness: Lessons From a New Science. width= 195 height= 300 srcset= https://rs.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/happiness-lessons-from-a-new-science-cover-195x300.jpg 195w, https://rs.How To Spot Important Problems In The World Today philosophyMon, Jul 15, 2013If you do not work on an important problem, it s unlikely you ll do important work.The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge goes unclaimed. The price of an ounce of marijuana in Colorado drops to under 150, half of what it s going for today.I read an interesting interview with Matias Duarte, Android s head of user experience, this morning.You've read this far⁠—want more?Subscribe and I'll e-mail you updates along with the ideas that I don'tshare anywhere else.

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