He's ignoring that people might not like how larger muscles look.
And personally (though I don't care much) I would only care about practical athletic ability, not weight lifting.
He's ignoring that people might not like how larger muscles look.
And personally (though I don't care much) I would only care about practical athletic ability, not weight lifting.
I understand this line of thought, but.. strength doesn't have to be developed through weights, strength increase doesn't necessarily mean much hypertrophy, and most importantly strength is a prerequisite/accelerator for increasing pretty much all athletic abilities (power, flexibility, endurance..)
I reinvented this method, except using a coin flip, during an urban economics class. We were going to actually conduct surveys in the Detroit area and thus had to learn about the problems with surveys. However my professor didn't seem very excited and pointed out some incentive shortcomings (I was too disappointed to listen too closely), and I got the impression that this is a known method with known limitations.
Is there such a thing as human-friendly decorating which is gender non-specific?
I strongly suspect there is. The men's setup was specifically full of masculine-coded adornments (wood, leather), and the women's setup was full of slightly feminine-coded adornments (plants, lots of light).
But I think that there's considerable overlap, and there are also environments that are considered conducive to specific kinds of activities.
For example, most people seem to like dimly lit spaces for romantic activities or "night life" (though personally I hate dimly lit places; light is cheap, why should I struggle to see things?).
OTOH most people like to work in environments with lots of natural light, the "window office," because of the cumulative effect of sunlight on mood. (Being inside and away from the sun all day wears you down. I never noticed this when I was in school because I never spent long periods of time away from the sun. Now that I work in an office it's obvious.)
The reason I've been cited for the dimly lit preference is pupil dilation, a sign of attraction.
Russell and Norvig do seem to have the only general A.I. textbook out there that I can find...
There's artint.info, which I found helpful during ai-class
I did send in an application to the Center for Modern Rationality but I haven't heard back
Please email me (elcenia@gmail.com) and tell me which types of work you wanted. There has been a spreadsheet-tracking issue, and I'm not sure who I have and haven't reached yet. (I'm considering just mass-mailing everybody on the list with "if you haven't heard from me before, please let me know and I can give you sample work". Thoughts on whether this would be more obnoxious than helpful?)
Useful/helpful.
They un-retracted the offer at the last minute, and I was able to go.
I found it quite interesting also, especially meeting all those intelligence studies folks.
Yes, I'll be going. We should chat!
(No idea why someone would downvote this.)
ETA - Nope! "Offer" of a full stipend not honored 24 hours after it was made. Not cool, Spooks, not cool.
ETA2 - Yup! They came through in the end, I went and it was extremely interesting.
How did you know the offer wasn't honored?
I registered and bought air tickets, but some of the details are confusing me. I'm calling them tomorrow to straighten it out.
Interested, though 10-12 hours seems quite short.
I've also gotten a handful of the local LW types into swing dancing. Not exactly a "synchrony" dance (big group all doing the same thing), but a similar effect MAY hold for partner dances (at least towards the people you partner with).
I dance tango a bit and there's definitely people you have affinity for dancing with and not. There's a fair correlation to whom you actually like hanging out with.