This is terribly sad. When I was 14, I would have loved to be able to talk to a real scientist.
Is this exclusively an American problem?
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The GrownChildCam
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The 'Art' of Being Donald Knuth
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Sparklines: theory and practice
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As I see it, it's the American media that has conditioned people to think that any interaction between an adult and a child not related to them is suspect.
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There is definitely something new here, although the linked article does obscure what this is---read the actual paper or see my other comment.
Why do you think there is an important connection to many-worlds? Many-worlds is an interpretation of quantum theory: the experiment tests quantum theory itself, independent of your interpretation. |
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You're missing the point. Myers-Brigg types are most useful for understanding other people, not for understanding yourself. Before I read about the other Myers-Brigg types, I just didn't understand why certain other people made decisions as they did, e.g., a member of a group insisting on a worse outcome for everyone to punish someone who'd offended them. I mean, it just wasn't logical!
You see, I was trying to understand/predict others' behaviour by projecting my own personality onto them. Much better is to understand/predict someone's behaviour based on how someone of their Myers-Brigg type would behave. If understanding how others are different is what Myers-Brigg types are for, then the division into 16 types makes sense. It represents a trade-off between having too few types (and not having predictive power) and having too many (and having to learn too much information of less relevance). |
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The linked article is a little confusing. Here's a better description:
Pairs of quantum-mechanically entangled particles seem to know at once what is happening to each other. Experiments show that even if this signalling is not instantaneous, it must be really, really fast. This is from Terry Rudolph's commentary: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7206/full/454831a... The Editor's summary is also good: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7206/edsumm/e0808... |
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Could "recently" mean 2003?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/technology/circuits/12shar... While writing the software, "I lived on savings for a while and then I lived off credit cards, you know, using those zero percent introductory rates to use one credit card to pay off the previous card," Mr. Cohen said... "This past September [of 2003] I had, like, no money," he recalled. "I was just scraping along and doing the credit card thing again."... All along, Mr. Cohen had accepted donations from BitTorrent users at his Web site, bitconjurer.org, but the sum had been minimal. In October [of 2003], however, Mr. Cohen's father prevailed on him to ask a bit more directly. Now [2004], Mr. Cohen said, he is receiving a few hundred dollars a day. "It's been a pretty dramatic turnaround in lifestyle in just a few months, with the job [at Valve] and the donations coming in," Mr. Cohen said. "It's nice." |