Everything is heritable:
Politics/religion:
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
Psychology/biology:
Technology:
Economics:
Philosophy:
Fiction:
Good article for a general audience on Nick Bostrom and Superintelligence in the latest New Yorker:
Statistics
The relationship between sample size and power. Or if you're lazy...
So you want to draw inferences about an individual from a group?
Relationship between number of participants and number of clusters
Refugee health
Psychiatry
Current decision tools to determine if non consensual mental health treatment is used
Percieved coersion and psychiatry: A primer that frames the issues of patient rights (v.s. coersive psychiatry) as a question of impression management by clinicians (deceptive psychiatry) rather than as a framework of privellaged rights for psychiatric occupations and deprivation of rights from their subjects.
Coercive psychiatry, human rights and public participation - an article identifying the factors underlying the persistance of human rights abuses in mental health care in Australia in spite of formal enquiries.
Evidence-based Health policy
http://policymakers.evidencemap.org/#/category/36
Psychotherapy
http://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/A-Systematic-Review-of-Potential-Mechanisms-of-Change-in-Psychotherapeutic-Interventions-for-Personality-Disorder-2161-0487.1000133.pdf http://www.cochrane.org/CD003388/DEPRESSN_psychological-therapies-chronic-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-adults
Psychometrics
Item design:
Survey design:
Misc
Ring signatures are the future of the anonymous cryptocurrencies? Zero knowledge proofs are probably impossible
Caplan's the Danger of Economics - most of which I think he's wrong about, but I appreciate that he's discussing topics and subtopics that I'm interested in.
Recent redditing about anxiety and toxaplasma here got my researching:Given that Amantadine actually kills the pathogen associated with depression, whereas causitive agents are not associated with most types of depression, could it be that Amantadine can cure and not merely treat depression and/or bipolar or other mood disorders (and speculatively due to research on associations with schiz.) and even psychotic disorders? Unfortunately the low sample size of the only available study, the unfashionability of bringing infectious disease and mental health silos together, and the lack of a follow up study for the longer term, or even cases studies contacting participants in the last study if they had remissed is going to hold back those answers. I wonder why the malaria drug makers don't enter this psych pahrma industry themsleves
codified of the 'honour code' of two American gangs
experiential avoidance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_avoidance), social role valorisation and learned optimism
limits of computation. I wonder if this is telling about human cognition too?
chambers of commerce and the wiki
look at predictive modelling, econometrics and math finance
Robert Green's sick articles on getting jobs and not living in the present
I don't know. I'm taking that argument from authority and posting it, in part, to remind myself to reprocess the ideas when I'm better prepared to receive them.
The following link trail conditioned my interpretation:
Zero-Knowledge Proof is a very new, very speculative field with few if any academic research - plus, it is currently plagued with the trusted accumulator issue (you have to trust the very first "user"), scalability issue and, more intrinsic to the procedure, issues with wholly obscured economy, which prevents detecting a bug/exploit until it is much too late. Also, ZKP is considered doubtful.
Where the author here hyperlinks to the above article with 'doubtful'
The blogpost you linked to is explaining, in detail, with a worked example, that zero-knowledge proofs are possible. The only thing in it that even slightly matches the reddit guy's view is the sidenote near the beginning pointing out that just because someone claims a cryptosystem is zero-knowledge, doesn't mean they're actually right, or that the cryptosystem is secure.
This guy is really passionate about what he's talking about. But in a RSD kinda way, rather than a HappierHuman kind of way. It's still awesome
This guy is also really passionate:...
Seperate:
Until the Sea Shall Free Them. Inherently partisan, and I have no real measure of its accuracy, but a compelling narrative that goes some way in expanding to the systemic ways things go wrong, while still very firmly rooted in its single example.
Light, by M John Harrison (based on the first 22%). I'm finding it genuinely hard to read - a bit like The Quantum Thief or The January Dancer, but more so than either of them. I can't yet say it's good per se - in particular the three narrative strands show very little sign of converging at this stake - but it's a striking, provocative experience.
I just read The Flux by Ferrett Steinmetz, the sequel to his novel Flex. Short review: Like its predecessor, The Flux is the literary equivalent of a summer blockbuster film: it doesn't feel like High Art, but it's action-packed, suspenseful, and a heck of a lot of fun. Recommended for anyone looking for a good time; 4 out of 5 stars.
the Kanbaru arc which seems to be the final arc
That's the final arc chronologically, but there are still a number of unresolved/unrevealed things that will be/are being dealt with in the ongoing season, Owarimonogatari, which is very good so far.
I find the character Nadeko Sengoku impossible to understand
Her issue was that she felt forced to act overly cute to please other people, and eventually got sick of it and lashed out.
will be/are being dealt with in the ongoing season, Owarimonogatari, which is very good so far.
I hope so. Hanamonogatari was a big disappointment after Second Season.
Her issue
No, I got that much. The dialogues were very blunt about that. The problem is that Nadeko is also explained at length to have several other issues, such as being so self-involved that she cannot understand or listen to other people besides her own delusions, and to have a fake love to insulate herself from other people, and these three character problems are practically mutually contradictory (if she's overly cute to please other people, then she doesn't need a fake love; if she's that self-centered & navel-gazing, then why does she need to be overly cute, and how did she fail at self-insight so consistently? if the love was just a convenience, what's with the whole homicidal rage, not to mention the rather sadistic treatment of snakes right from the beginning of her backstory? how does any of this really fit with the final twist of her being na nfcvevat znatnxn, juvpu lbh'q guvax jbhyq or nagvgurgvpny gb orvat hygen-frys-nofbeorq naq ynpxvat nal erny vafvtug vagb barfrys? and so on). The character makes no sense, but not in a good way, more of a 'Nise wrote himself into a corner and piled on too many problems to try to justify her homicidal rage' (ie 'the lady doth protest too much'). All in all, it left me feeling nonplussed and maybe a bit disgusted.
Just for the record I really liked her arc. I think I saw part of myself in her? Would have to rewatch to be able to be any more specific.
Touhou:
Kantai Collection:
Doujin:
Vocaloid:
This month, Enya's back with Dark Sky Island. The title refers to the British island of Sark, the world's first whole island that freed itself of nighttime light pollution so that people can see the stars.
Escape from chaos - a light instrumental playlist that's good for concentrating and elevating my mood while reducing anxiety
The most awesome song. Awesome possum! It's awesome to win and awesome to lose!
Kiki's Delivery Service SVH ?????? (hope 'I wish') rap remix Dj Day&Go or this or this since it frequently gets removed wherever it's hosted, like the original youtube clip
One vision productions - amazing indigenous hip hop and my favourite song
Affirmation song 'I'm a man in control of my life'
Caught in a hustle - Immortal Technique
This song reminds me to be good. I use to listen to it as a socialist adolescent and teenager. Now I look past that and his leanings towards conspiracy theories and try identify the authenticity, anger, hatred, sadness, self awareness socially consciousness, compassion, passion and mercy in the lyrcist's minds and words as sharing a kind of EA sentiment. I was reminded of this randomly while having a really off day today, without a sense of direction. I haven't listen to it yet. I wanted to see what I remember about it before I do by sharing it here.
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.
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