Alekanekelo

I agree with you that it would be interesting to see a Taleb-Peterson conversation. Perhaps you might enjoy this podcast with Gad Saad and Taleb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezhjumayRsg

Yes, one of the central points of his books ("Maps of Meaning", "12 Rules for Life", and "Beyond Order") is that meaning in life is found by taking on personal responsibility. A good starting point is probably his "12 Rules for Life".

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A preprint of the paper is available on arXiv [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080

p-values are commonly misinterpreted as the probability of a type-I error, i.e. that the null hypothesis is true but is being rejected. However, the p-value is actually a random variable. A nice paper covering this can be found in [1].

p-hacking also seems to be an abundant problem, i.e. the replication crisis in psychology [2], and it's not necessarily done on purpose [3].

Regarding the threshold for statistical significance, there are arguments for abandoning the concept altogether [4].

[1] https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/000313008X332...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

[3] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...

[4] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/ab...

Morningstar published a response to this paper [0].

[0] https://www.morningstar.com/learn/bond-ratings-integrity

> Bell's explanation of his theorem in a 1985 BBC Radio interview includes an appeal to the debate between free-will and determinism when interpreting his results.

That sounds very interesting. Is the radio interview (or a transcript) still available? I tried searching for it and found a possible match for a show on BBC Radio 3 in 1983 [1].

[1] http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7c8c2aba48024a5e925d0aca69c57b21

A similar thing happens to clang (Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)) which gives the following error message:

        fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]

According to the User's manual the default is 20 for -ferror-limit [1].

[1] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html

Thank you very much for this book! As a beginning game developer this was just what I was looking for. After learning how to do rendering, physics, AI and so on I was missing how to put it all together in a proper way. This is a great resource! :)

> there's a rotate button when you click through to the detail page.

When rotating some of the images (for example Img 999) it seems to cut the edges of the image off and clicking to zoom doesn't help.

Thanks for the post. They are simple but extremely helpful and not always apparent tips. Courtesy and personal conversation gets you a long way.

Thank you all for the answers. Yes I suspect that I was a bit quick to jump on the appeal of the faster microcontroller on the Due while I wont really need it at all, especially in the beginning.

I am new to Arduino but very interested in starting. So far I have read that the Uno R3 is the best for beginners but now that the new Due is out will this be preferable for a beginner?

From what I've read, the Due is faster and able to handle more things. But is it easier to use compared to the Uno?

The gravitational acceleration is equal to G * M/r^2 where G is the gravitational constant (G = 6.67 * 10^(-11) N * m^2/kg^2) M is the mass of Earth (M = 5.97 * 10^24 kg) and r is the radius of the Earth (average radius = 6.37 * 10^6 m).

At the place where he jumped out the gravitational acceleration would roughly be:

g = G * M/((6.37 * 10^6 m) + (39000 m))^2 ~= 9.69 m/s^2

This is not far from the normally used 9.8 m/s^2 and this would of course get larger as he gets closer to the ground.

Could you elaborate a bit on your point 1/3? How come the little interest in this subject? Even though it contains no relativistic effects it would seem to have some importance in filling out the complete 'cube' of theories?

Achievements might work as motivation for some but it can also easily divert attention from work to simply 'hunting' achievements especially if you are competing with colleagues.

With the example of the visual studios achievements (http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio) that a few has already posted here, there are even achievements 'just for fun' that doesn't exactly encourage productive work. For example the 'Go To Hell' achievement for using a goto statement.

Humorous post. I can't say that I am surprised by Paris dissected. All those small streets and alleys creates a lot of small segments and those small segments, when looked from above, will seem monotonous and all in the same shape. It seems that it is mostly the larger segments that are oddly shaped and that is not really surprising.

But maybe you are used to not care about the clock. People like the person who wrote this blog post obviously felt that the clock controlled his life and stressed him out because of that. The only way for him to not care about it is to get rid of it altogether. At least in the beginning.

Personally I don't think this would match my lifestyle. I don't know anything about this persons lifestyle but most employed people and students have deadlines they need to meet and that requires to know the clock to the minute.