News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

erd0s

Re:Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:53AM (#19198910)
I’m gonna go put some grapes in the microwave, THEN read this article
Oh yeah I’d second that, this book is spectacular
Thinking fast and slow had the biggest impact in changing how I think about a lot of things, epic study of how you’re predisposed to think and make decisions in a particular way. Coincidentally I read it at about the same time as freakonomics!
More surprising is that yahoo is #7! I might be out of touch but I can’t think of a single person that uses yahoo, maybe it might be the default homepage on my grandmas computer...
I liked it much more when elite meant you could hack Gibsons
Re:Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:58PM (#13182275)
Also, i don't understand it because I'm not a neuroscientist but are the brain networks they're talking about in the abstract of the research related to conscious thinking? I find these kind of articles so frustrating, the articles themselves imply these big dubious claims, then you try to read the research and you don't know what the fk they're talking about.
Re:Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:29PM (#13182153)
Is 11 people a really small sample size for a study like this?