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Getting ready to binge through Westworld and I noticed the last episode is called…

Posted by on December 11, 2016 2 comments
Getting ready to binge through Westworld and I noticed the last episode is called The Bicameral Mind.

This reminded me that I posted about bicameralism here on G+ long ago.

Even though Google, a search company, makes it hard to search through your own posts, I found my original post.

I remembered making this post even though it's almost 5 years old!



Bicameralism is a fascinating psychological theory to think about. I’m not…
Bicameralism is a fascinating psychological theory to think about. I’m not qualified to comment on it’s likelihood other than the fact that many people… – Dustin Wyatt – Google+

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Something to watch while this election stresses you out.

Posted by on November 8, 2016 No comments
Something to watch while this election stresses you out.


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Something to watch while this election stresses you out.

Posted by on November 8, 2016 No comments
Something to watch while this election stresses you out.


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Video from the ISS of the grounds of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in North Korea….

Posted by on October 16, 2016 6 comments

Video from the ISS of the grounds of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in North Korea. Notice the little black blip turning the corner on the street or walking area…this is a video of people on the Earth from space!

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Learn how to do a cartwheel as an adult

Posted by on October 6, 2016 1 comment


Cartwheel Tutorial: Learn to Move Like a Kid Again
Remember feeling free in your body as a kid? This cartwheel tutorial will give you that sense of freedom back, no matter where you’re at now.

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Over 100 car models sold in the US with their costs to own vs carbon emissions

Posted by on September 28, 2016 2 comments
Couple of big takeaways:

1.) It doesn't really cost much to own a vehicle that meets or beats carbon emission goals.
2.) No gasoline car sold today meets the US climate goals.

Carboncounter | Cars evaluated against climate targets
Find out how your car compares against climate targets and against other cars with respect to costs and emissions!


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Cogntive Bias Codex

Posted by on September 24, 2016 No comments
Cogntive Bias Codex

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Andrew Gelman jumps up and down on the corpse of psychology

Posted by on September 23, 2016 No comments
Psychology is in quite the crisis mode now and some of the old guard are having a hard time dealing with the fact that social media is so much faster and free-er than traditional peer review.

Talking about one of the apparently bad psychology papers, Gelman says:

And that’s why the authors’ claim that fixing the errors “does not change the conclusion of the paper” is both ridiculous and all too true. It’s ridiculous because one of the key claims is entirely based on a statistically significant p-value that is no longer there. But the claim is true because the real “conclusion of the paper” doesn’t depend on any of its details—all that matters is that there’s something, somewhere, that has p less than .05, because that’s enough to make publishable, promotable claims about “the pervasiveness and persistence of the elderly stereotype” or whatever else they want to publish that day.

When the authors protest that none of the errors really matter, it makes you realize that, in these projects, the data hardly matter at all.

What has happened down here is the winds have changed – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Someone sent me this article by psychology professor Susan Fiske, scheduled to appear in the APS Observer, a magazine of the Association for Psychological Science. The article made me a little bit sad, and I was inclined to just keep my response short and sweet, but then it seemed worth the trouble to give some …


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Not much to add here other than the fact that the internet is important to the livelihoods…

Posted by on September 13, 2016 No comments
Not much to add here other than the fact that the internet is important to the livelihoods and lifestyle of vast swaths of people so it's not as trivial as some might say. 

Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet – Schneier on Security
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet. Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can …


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Using your eyeballs, watch this video wherein you see a real-life visualization of…

Posted by on September 8, 2016 1 comment
Using your eyeballs, watch this video wherein you see a real-life visualization of bacteria developing antibiotic resistance.


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