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links for 2010-10-17

  • His model predicted, in different fields of medical research, rates of wrongness roughly corresponding to the observed rates at which findings were later convincingly refuted: 80 percent of non-randomized studies (by far the most common type) turn out to be wrong, as do 25 percent of supposedly gold-standard randomized trials, and as much as 10 percent of the platinum-standard large randomized trials. The article spelled out his belief that researchers were frequently manipulating data analyses, chasing career-advancing findings rather than good science, and even using the peer-review process—in which journals ask researchers to help decide which studies to publish—to suppress opposing views.
  • In her speech, the chancellor specifically referred to recent comments by German President Christian Wulff who said that Islam was "part of Germany" like Christianity and Judaism. While acknowledging that this was the case, Mrs Merkel stressed that immigrants living in Germany needed to do more to integrate, including learning to speak German.
  • don't crouch before jumping, don't lean forward, take two quick steps right before jumping, i might be able to add inches to my vert this way
  • to send to people who ask about vibram five fingers, in addition to tim ferriss's article
  • how to learn how to code, for the absolute beginner. covers how to execute programs, and emphasizes difficulty of said task, thank goodness. will be recommending this to people who ask
  • a student fails to copy a mondrian, there are subtleties that make it excellent, difficult to replicate. this is good because i've wanted to learn more about what makes good artists so good

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links for 2010-10-16

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links for 2010-10-15

  • The researchers designed a series of four experiments to test and manipulate Stanford students' beliefs about willpower. After a tiring task, those who believed or were led to believe that willpower is a limited resource performed worse on standard concentration tests than those who thought of willpower as something they had more control over. They also found that leading up to final exam week, students who bought into the limited resource theory ate junk food 24 percent more often than those who believed they had more control in resisting temptation. The limited resource believers also procrastinated 35 percent more than the other group.

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links for 2010-10-14

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links for 2010-10-12

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links for 2010-10-11

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Where do I find cool/interesting links?

1. I use an RSS reader to follow about forty different websites (here's an OPML file with all the feeds I subscribe to). Many of the websites I read are also aggregators of good content. My two favorites right now are Hacker News and The Browser. Jason Kottke is also good, as well as Tyler Cowen. 2. I use Delicious.com to save links. I also have the bookmarks of several people on Delicious show up in my RSS feed. Two good people to follow are Andy McKenzie and Ben Casnocha. 3. Very Short List sends out an email a day pointing to cool stuff. 4. I keep a Twitter account that just follows people who link to interesting things. Currently I'm following aaker, bakadesuyo, vaughanbell, globeideas, and harpers. 5. I'm not on Facebook at the moment but Shane Davis and Chris Blees have consistently good material on their Walls. They are possibly the two people at the Claremonts who spend more time browsing for links than I do.

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links for 2010-10-10

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links for 2010-10-09

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