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Re:_why: "Goodbye until I can shake this." on Thursday August 20, 2009 @06:01PM (#776438)
it's what Tweety bird does on Halloween? Tweak or Tweat! :)
Re:What My 7 Year Old Learned From MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @06:50AM (#772448)
there's also an issue of Rhabdomyolysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis
Re:What My 7 Year Old Learned From MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @06:40AM (#772441)
and if he gets into a fight that he can't get out of? what will he do? surf? :P
Re:Facebook shown to increase jealousy in relationships on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @06:03PM (#771552)
the paper is here: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/cpb.2008.02...

I'd like to see the Facebook Jealousy scale mentioned in the paper and possibly do a CFA on it ...

Re:Facebook shown to increase jealousy in relationships on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @05:41PM (#771506)
that will break the TOS:

"4. Registration and Account Security

...You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account..."

Re:Ask HN: Staying Sharp on Sunday August 16, 2009 @05:33PM (#766802)
a lot of journals accept reviews also! and they have revenue models as well! :)
Re:Ask HN: Staying Sharp on Sunday August 16, 2009 @05:31PM (#766800)
I think we can help academia by using web apps to create ease off some of the computational requirements needed for papers like factor analysis, MDS, multiple regression etc. - also for surveys etc. My educated guess is that some of the confirmatory factor analysis for something seminal like Hofsteder's work could easily be done in various countries if the people working on the papers have someone with a web app development backgroun.
Re:Ask HN: What do you think makes a good teacher? on Friday August 14, 2009 @06:14PM (#763947)
taught 300 students in Kabul, Afghanistan at one go (English Class) - what we did was we had PowerPoint, we had a microphone (connected to a mixer and JBL speakers) - and everyone had a sheet so they can follow the lessons, even had think-pair-share (using the PowerPoint as prompts) - had 5 of these classes going at the same time in Kabul University and 1 at the Kabul Polytechnic simultaneously. So you could ask 300 students all at the same time if you set it up properly :)
Re:Ask HN: Where do you live? on Monday August 10, 2009 @10:47AM (#753023)
me three :)
Re:Propose HN: Give me an Idea for a Startup on Monday August 10, 2009 @10:39AM (#753001)
Stackoverflow in [pick a language other than English i.e Chinese]
"... Manila, Manila ... I keep coming back to Manila ..." back here doing startups after trying out Rangoon, Kabul and Dubai :)
Re:Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag In 3 Months on Friday July 31, 2009 @07:51AM (#734195)
http://www.jpgmag.com/stories/1151 (I AM NOT PLASTIC bags!)
Re:Ramen Profitable on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:59PM (#728691)
couldn't you theoretically attain ramen profitable with minimal fire fighting and NOT create new features - case in point - 37Signals - assuming they didn't have that big base to start with - they could just have been cruising at ramen profitable and not have added a new feature (which I think they've still refused to do so ...)
Re:The R programming language for programmers on Monday July 27, 2009 @03:34PM (#726518)
thanks for this - exploring how R is vs. Statistica
Re:Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule on Monday July 27, 2009 @03:26PM (#726510)
that's why more people should be on ROWE (http://www.culturerx.com/) then their manager's schedules would be MORE efficient :)
Re:"you should follow me on twitter here" is annoying on Sunday July 26, 2009 @02:26AM (#724129)
you should follow me on Plurk then (is that better?) hehehe (hey it's a new cognitive hack!)
are you going to hit the China market? email me at paul.pajo [at] asiapay [dot] com - we also have some turn-key solutions ...
Re:The Calculus Trap on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @04:24PM (#718472)
I'm convinced that young people should be learning descriptive statistics and move on to inferential statistics online like in: http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html it's easy now to learn from online data sets and you can collect more information through social media (vs. using physical paper questionnaires.) I learned these kinds of statistics when I was 12 years old - I wish someone told me what I could do multivariate analyses ...
Re:Why I'm Quitting Social Media on Thursday July 16, 2009 @07:25PM (#709015)
I got my fb account disabled for putting the eternalmoonwalk.com link during the CNN Live.com/fb coverage of the MJ memorial and I didn't realize how peaceful my life became when I had no fb account - and then the phone calls, IMs, SMS, emails came in, looking for me (people thought something bad happened to me when I got dis-faceboked :P
you can actually differentiate between your MBTI type (i.e. ENTP etc.) vs. your DiSC behavioral pattern - your personality might be the same but depending on the context (home, work, leisure) - your behavior can change from a Di to an IS or even an SC
it's one of the older models - I used to live in Afghanistan and you could get the very old models of cellphones still in mint condition (case in point, I still have one with me) - I remember being in a hotel when all my signal went away - it turned out that President Karzai was having a meeting next door! :)
any suggestions for items in a questionnaire? :)
classic interpretations of the Central Limit Theorem considers a sample size of n>29 to be "large"; so if this guy has 29 other friends, that's a "large" enough SS
great idea! :) you want to spin this off to a new startup? :)

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