Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision-Making Is a Fallacy
The popular idea that avoiding losses is a bigger motivator than achieving gains is not supported by the evidence
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Posted on 2018-08-05T05:31:05+0000
Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (part 1 of N)
Before I started doing research, I saw SAT solvers as academically interesting but without practical uses ouside of other academic applications. I've since then changed my mind, and I want to change yours, because modern SAT solvers are neat, fast and almost criminally underused by the industry.
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Posted on 2018-08-04T19:53:53+0000
Andrew Sullivan: When Racism Is Fit to Print
The left defended New York Times hire Sarah Jeong’s tweets attacking white people because in their worldview, anti-white bigotry simply can’t exist.
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Posted on 2018-08-04T03:09:05+0000
A Japanese medical university lowered women's test scores because it was a "necessary evil"
The scores were rigged so that no more than 30% of the successful candidates would be women.
Three Children, Two Abortions
What a woman chooses to do with her body should not be up for debate in 2018.
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"America: a country where pro-life actually means pro-blastula, pro-embryo, and pro-fetus, not pro-baby. You know what pro-life policies actually look like? Universal health care, so all women could afford prenatal doctor visits and the birth itself; paid maternity and paternity leaves, to allow parents to actually care for a living baby without emptying their bank accounts; subsidized daycare, so parents could go to work without paying all or most of their income to private babysitters; and a school day that hews closer to the workday, not to some outmoded agrarian schedule designed to get kids home in time to harvest crops."
Posted on 2018-08-03T14:31:50+0000
Pakistan: Adventure travel's best-kept secret?
Are you looking for the ultimate in adventure travel? Then look to Pakistan. This surprising destination has "mountain scenery that is beyond anyone's wildest imagination," says the British Backpacker Society.
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Posted on 2018-08-03T03:22:24+0000
How we scaled nginx and saved the world 54 years every day
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post is about one of the...
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Posted on 2018-08-02T04:28:54+0000
How LeBron James’ new public school really is the first of its kind
The I Promise School is unique — but it’s also building from a successful model.
Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm | Quanta Magazine
18-year-old Ewin Tang has proven that classical computers can solve the “recommendation problem” nearly as fast as quantum computers. The result eliminates one
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Cue impostor syndrome in...
“For quantum computing, Tang’s result is a setback. Or not. Tang has eliminated one of the clearest, best examples of a quantum advantage. At the same time, Tang’s paper is further evidence of the fruitful interplay between the study of quantum and classical algorithms.”
Posted on 2018-08-01T16:37:19+0000
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’
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This was a really interesting human interest story.
"The colorful court case, held in Jacksonville, Florida, started September 10, 2001, the day before terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The stunned news media quickly forgot about the McDonald’s trial, which explains why so few Americans remember the scandal, or how it ended. During the trial, jurors watched defendants celebrating in McDonald’s commercials, including the fake one filmed by the FBI. Glomb recalled that the victim of the McSting, Michael Hoover, told him that he thought Amy Murray “kind of liked me,” before learning she was part of an FBI operation."
Posted on 2018-07-29T21:44:39+0000