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Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
IRB you kidding me?
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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
Report back on how it goes
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Breakdown of data on homeless populations across the U.S.
Many people see a homelessness crisis, but what does the data say? We examine different locations, rates of change, types of homelessness, and mental health and substance abuse issues.
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Maybe there's a pattern here?
Inventors and impacts
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Make product worse, get money
It’s so easy
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DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum
reject clever
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Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain
FROM BEING A WASTE TO THE BATHER AND COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING IT BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLICK
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Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus
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My stupid noise journey (2023)
A tale of bad choices
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Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts
Are speed dating and network effects contradictory?
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What caused the hallucinations of the Oracle of Delphi?
Why did the oracle of Delphi go into a trance state? Does it have anything to do with ethylene?
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Pseudpocalypse
Here’s a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text itself.
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LLMs predict my coffee
Why not benchmark with physical experiments?
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Can I take ducks home from the park?
16 queries and 6 language models
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Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess
are they good or bad?
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Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
Why did the Asian flush evolve? What does this say about alcoholism? What does this have to do with Odysseus?
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In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)
examines claims that the big five personality traits is more scientifically valid than the myers briggs personality indicator
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Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?
Reflections on a phenomena that’s unique to culture-war topics
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Two conspiracy theories about cola
Does cola contain a drug to prevent you from throwing up from the sugar? And is Mexican Coke somehow better than American Coke?
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WHO aspartame brouhaha
the territory under dispute
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So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂
You face certain challenges
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Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined
ratios will be ratios
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Arguing Without Warning
We should encourage more public disagreement.