- Feedback for Learning:Seven Keys to Effective Feedback: ‘Decades of education research support the idea that by teaching less and providing more feedback, we can produce greater learning’
- Critiquing the “who needs college, anyway?” meme
- Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders
- The 7 Requirements of All Effective Scientists
- Wikipedia: Mendelian randomization
- ‘any task that can be measured by the metrics of productivity — output per hour — is a task we want automation to do. In short, productivity is for robots. Humans excel at wasting time, experimenting, playing, creating, and exploring. None of these fare well under the scrutiny of productivity’
- Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes. By comparison, smoking a single cigarette reduces life expectancy by about 11 minutes,
- Knightmare: ‘For an entire generation of British children, it was the televisual equivalent of owning a terminally ill hamster’
- “Inbox Pause” — adds a pause/unpause button to your Gmail
- What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics?
- FollowUpThen: forward an email to be sent back to you at a specified later point
- Vaughan summarises Paul Rozin’s list of 7 types of descriptive study which are undervalued by psychology
- ‘Traditional societies do not exist to help us tweak our lives as we emulate a few of their cultural practices. They remind us that our way is not the only way.’
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