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I found out I won second place in an idea contest at work and am being granted ~$400 to spend at Best Buy (the web site for any unfamiliar). Originally, I believe the second place prize was going to be an iPad, but it looks like they've decided to just...

Edited 3/4/2012: I shortened up the summary a bit and add the following update: Thanks for the lively comments. As a preliminary summary of things I've found quite useful/helpful: * Shorten/transform the document (David_Gerard) * Remove/postpone any reasons (TimS) * Don't be so prosy/fake sounding (orthonormal) * Show to religious...

I just returned from buying a multimeter at Menards and wanted to post my thoughts while they were still fresh. I hardly ever have the need to use a multimeter. In diagnosing my non-heating microwave, I fried my 2-3 year old meter (don't ask) and went out for another to...

I was very interested in the Rationality Boot Camp, when it was announced, but the practical limitations for someone with kids, financial commitments dependent on a full time job, etc. made it completely unfeasible. I'm still very interested in something like this and wondered if there would be any interest...

I'm about 2/3 through an apologetics book that was recommended to me, Menssen and Sullivan's, The Agnostic Inquirer, and was quite surprised to run into a discussion of Bayes theorem and wanted some input from the LW community. The book is quite philosophical and I admit that I am probably...

There seem to here have been a fair amount of meetups posted with no times, and then re-posted with added times or slightly adjusted wording. Perhaps Google Reader is the problem (how I follow the top-level), but not only are there a lot of meetups (which has been talked about...

I've been reading through the sequences, and am currently working through the Intro to Bayes' Theorem (by the fact that I'm reading the Intro to Bayes (finally), you can tell that I'm pretty early in the process). It's been quite thought provoking. I'm finally getting questions right more reliably, and...