Help! All this new found rationality and room for improvement is causing me to burn out

3 tetsuo55 15 August 2011 02:23PM

I have been on the quest for winning at life for a long time. But nothing could prepare me for a run-in with a lesswrongian.

My life has been turned upside-down, it turns out that every aspect of my life can be considerably improved or upgraded, but there is so much to do that I'm completely overwhelmed by all there is to do.

The improvement to-do list is a mile long and I've currently reached the point where I'd rather wallow in self-pity than actually get up and do something...

 

I have trouble sleeping because I worry about all the things I'm not doing, and then when I'm awake I'm stuck on sites like lesswrong pressing F5 all day long in the hopes that a new post will save me...

Help,Please.

[LINK] A proposed update model for working memory: multiple-component framework

1 tetsuo55 28 July 2011 01:09PM

I've seen some discussion on "working memory" and "spaced repetition"

I just read this pop-science article in which a new hypothesis is presented that seems to provide better predictions and test conditions for measuring working memory. Maybe this can also be used for the SRS contest.

 

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-brain-track.html

[LINK] Scientists use Bayesian reasoning to update the drake equation for the existence of ET's

1 tetsuo55 28 July 2011 01:03PM

I found this pop-science news article where scientist are seriously trying to use Bayesian reasoning to change beliefs of the field.

 

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-astrophysicists-logic-downplay-probability-extraterrestrial.html

LINK: Journalist's search for counter arguments damages science

3 tetsuo55 25 July 2011 12:16PM

I just saw this link on a pop-news site.

It's a PDF file showing how good BBC's reporting of science news is in general, but more specifically it reports about the fact that the journalists give far too much credit to arguments from people who have no scientific backing for their argument.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/our_work/science_impartiality/science_impartiality.pdf