Curiouskid

> Yesterday, they announced that The Center For Open Science was making $1.3mm available, via ScienceExchange, to reproduce and validate 50 important cancer biology studies. > > I am excited about this for a bunch of reasons; 1) reproducing and validating research is critical, 2) The Center For Open Science...

Discussion article for the meetup : Fourth Purdue Meetup WHEN: 01 February 2013 06:50:11PM (-0500) WHERE: hicks library -purdue Same Time. Same place as the previous meetups. I'll be re-teaching some of what I learned about operant conditioning at the CFAR rationality workshop. Discussion article for the meetup : Fourth...

Discussion article for the meetup : Third Purdue Meetup WHEN: 25 January 2013 06:50:00PM (-0500) WHERE: Hicks Library -Purdue The first meetup had 5 people. The second had 8. PM me if you plan on coming. Discussion article for the meetup : Third Purdue Meetup

Discussion article for the meetup : Second Purdue Meetup WHEN: 18 January 2013 07:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: Purdue- Hicks Library The first meetup went really well. We had 5 people show up in total. We're hoping more people will show up for the next one. EDIT: We had 8 people show...

Discussion article for the meetup : First Purdue Meetup WHEN: 11 January 2013 06:50:00PM (-0500) WHERE: Purdue University - HICKS library Several times, I've tried to get a meetup started at Purdue. However, each time I post on LW that there might be a meetup if enough people comment and...

Copy and pasted from here.For those interested, there's an book that expands on the article. EDIT: people seem to like the first few myths, but they get rather political as the article goes on. I couldn't find much on hunger on GiveWell's site other than these three articles. The Advanced...

Discussion article for the meetup : Purdue Meetup WHEN: 28 September 2012 09:45:46PM (-0400) WHERE: Purdue We don't have a regular meet-up group at Purdue, which is a shame because meetups are great. I thought we weren't having meetups because there weren't very many LWers at Purdue. However, the last...