Tuesday, April 29, 2014

illumiNITE Reflective Wind Pants: a weirdly unique product

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Have you ever tried to buy high visibility wind pants? Something in bright orange for example? Good luck with that. Ninja black is the rule...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Apple and healthcare -- what if Cook went for the ring?

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Everyone expects Apple to soon sell some personal monitoring device like the suspiciously defunct Nike Fuel Band. We remember that the “revo...

Salmon, Picketty, Corporate Persons, Eco-Econ, and why we shouldn't worry

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I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

The Einstellung effect: simple truths we cannot see.

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Epistemic closure (in political thought) . Confirmation bias  [6]. Availability heuristic  ( Kahneman System 1 ). Premature cognitive commit...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Beijing Genomics Institute - the second coming of eugenics

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Via Funny Times  [1], I came across allegations of a confident eugenics program (emphases mine): NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News Beijin...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Exercising hard as an old person - one year of CrossFit

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Dave Foley, who is 67 to my 55, describes what it’s like to run hard as a senior citizen … Silent Sports: Getting along with getting old P...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Encyclopedia Britannica lives - at least on iOS

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As a kid I wanted to read the encyclopedia - from A to Z. We couldn’t afford an encyclopedia though , so I had to make do with the dictiona...
Monday, March 17, 2014

What you sign up for when you pay Virgin Mobile Canada for phone services

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I've once again gone through the tricky process of setting up a Virgin Mobile Canada prepaid account  on an unlocked AT&T iPhone. T...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Late revelation -- Doom of the Face

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I have the face of a Disney villain . This came to me as a slowly unfolding personal revelation after reading Emily Matchar’s humorous ess...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

I need a word for the willful failure of reason

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Kahneman 's  Thinking Fast and Slow is a brain dump of his research career and speculations about mind. The Wikipedia description isn...
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How could we create an evidence-based classification of disorders of the mind?

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The software/hardware metaphor is usually considered as misleading as every other model of mind we've come up with. I don't agree. ...

Why geezers hit the gym (warning - for mature audiences only)

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Today's CrossFit workout was open   14.2 . With low weights and bands I sort of got through part of the 3rd round. The world record is ...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Mobile carrier SMS pricing created the messaging lottery - and WhatsApp won it

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If mobile carriers priced MMS/SMS messaging as a dumb pipe data service, there'd be no WhatsApp. But mobile carriers wanted short term r...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

Vanguard and Fidelity: When did civilization collapse again?

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I must have been asleep when civilization collapsed. Anyone know the date? I say this because I haven't done much with our mutual funds...
Sunday, February 02, 2014

21st century market failure: what the rise and fall of Guitar Hero teaches about gamification

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My oldest wants to learn to play drums. Learning is difficult for him, and the Smart Music program his school uses is obviously too sophisti...
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