Interesting fact: on, say, a multiple-choice test, you are likely to do better by guessing at questions you don’t know the answer to rather than systematically picking an option. The reason is that if you pick an option systematically (say, always yes to yes/no questions or using the pattern A -> B -> C -> […]

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Get-rich scheme of the day: A lot of conferences record and subsequently stream their talks so people can view them afterwards if they weren’t there. Or just blindly share babbling about banalities in an attempt to seem hipster-deep. Everybody knows that talks is not the reason people go to conferences. Rather, the free food is. […]

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I might not be no fancy big-city scientist or whatever, but this is how I understand a pressure cooker works: a bunch of millennials gather around a pot, tell it it wants to be part of the cool crowd, and then they all go a-smoking and playing with their Tamagotchis or whatever. And that’s how […]

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