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This is a good starting point for generally useful math. Probability is a conspicuous omission. http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/eohrr/to_everyone_who_posts_about_learning_more_math/

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16792615?nclick_check=1 (Betting on Michael Vassar)

(Disclaimer: very poor knowledge of physics here, just interpreting the article) http://www.physorg.com/print209708826.html - looks like there are many of them, as non-creationists would expect The really good news is > In the past, Penrose has investigated cyclic cosmology models because he has noticed another shortcoming of the much more widely...

This is just a summary via analogy where I human values come from, as far as I understand it. The expanded version would be Eli's http://lesswrong.com/lw/l3/thou_art_godshatter/. The basic analogy is to chess-playing programs (at least the basic ones from 40 years ago, the art has progressed since then, but not...

(While this is a general discussion, I have "doing well on interview questions" as an instrumental goal; the discussion below is somewhat skewed due to that). I noticed one of the common failures to solving problems (especially under time constraints) is trying to solve the problem prematurely. There are multiple...

I will not summarize this. Or transcribe it. It's just funny(video link).

Light reading about 'Rationalist Heroes'. I am not sure how useful people find having personal heroes. I would argue that they are definitely useful for children. Perhaps I haven't really grown up enough yet (growing up without a father possibly contributed), but I like to have some people in my...