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Case solved. Who needs research when you can just proclaim truth to the world based on personal experience! :)
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Napkin look and feel for java predates them both by years. Balsamiq doesn't have a trademark on hand drawn ui's.
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Posting this link on nearly every study which is not in your subject area is beyond tedious. I cringe every time I see it.
Ask the question - have their been any well designed studies with nootropics - by all means, but enough's enough. If you have no subject matter expertise, don't make claims about lack of good studies. It's like the morons spouting "correlation is not causation". Sure they are right, but the first step in good science is to create a model, the second step is to test it for causality. In the meantime the best we have is correlational studies. The alternative is just to believe whatever your biases allow. Diminishing the result of the study (which is often the implication of posting that link in my opinion) is just showing a lack of understanding of how good science iterates between induction and retroduction over time. BTW: There are 24,000 studies with the search term nootropic. 2500 with piracetam. Even a cursory look may be useful in the future. |
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I used to be into high end audio, and spent rather large sums acquiring great looking machines. When apple first came out with their brushed metal cases, I assumed that Apple had simply copied luxury audio manufacturers of the day.
I still don't know why other computer companies don't try and design beautiful machines that have minimalistic design principles. Here are some earlyish examples I was talking about, but there are plenty more from other companies who I have long since forgotten: http://www.pliniusaudio.nzld.com/photolibrary/photo.asp?id=h... |
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I hate to say this, but this would be an ideal addition to "labs" in gmail. I can't imagine it would take much for them to do either.
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Someone I know was considering dropping out of university for the same reason. Instead of agreeing with them (the papers they were taking were pretty easy), I told them to seek interesting work within the department, and stop taking easy papers.
Within a few weeks, he had a ton of extra work with a top researcher, and ended up with coauthor status on a lot of papers. And this was an undergraduate. All it took was him showing interest and offering time. He even got paid. As a lecturer, you are always looking out for students who show the slightest interest, and will open many doors if the student is capable. And if someone from highschool came and offered to help out, I'd certainly do my best to let them! |
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Jason, either you are not actually reading what aaron's saying or you have an emotional intelligence worse than my mother. Just saying.
Aarons stating facts. You are responding ad hominem. Perhaps you should hold off on the reply button. |
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You are both missing the forest for the trees. Graph axes should scale in proportion to observed variance of the statistic being shown, automatically creating a "natural scale". The magnitude of the scale is of course proportional to the error in the measurement(s) you are showing, it has nothing to do with absolute numbers.
"The creator of the graph will naturally act to advance his own interests" -> "The biased creator of a graph with too much riding on his hypothesis will surreptitiously act to advance his own interests". People who do this are not worth listening to. |
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The first time I tried CD on a new product idea, I quickly realized that my idea was wrong. I can't thank Steve enough for saving me the weeks/months of development I would normally have put into a project only for it to be mediocre performer in the market. I honestly wrote no software at all for the first time, called/met with a ton of people, and learned a lot in the process about how wrong ideas can be :)
I feel like this mentality changes you in ways you can't imagine until you do it. Recently when approached by a local businessman about a really lucrative project instead of doing the coding internally, I simply outsourced all the customer development through elance. So far results are everything we thought they would be and more. And I've done almost no work. This is lightyears ahead of where I was years ago - I remember blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on projects that never even got to market! Now I'm spending ~500$ to outsource customer development (in specific cases - depends on business model of course) and getting better results. |
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Anyone who thinks this isn't real, go and read some mentalism books. Derren's ebooks and audio books are especially interesting for beginners.
I was staggered at the practicality of many of their ideas. E.g. I now recognise when someone unwittingly is using hypnotic suggestion in a conversation and it doesn't have the effect it may have. I'm able to pretend to be psychic at parties, and can pull of some pretty good cold reading tricks as well now. It's worth learning how to do memory palaces just for fun (one of Derren's audiobooks has this, which is a good beginner introduction). If you don't think he's capable of tricks like this without cutscenes, there are some videos floating around of him performing tricks better than this on other top class magicians which couldn't have been faked. I suspect he claims he's doing illusions because it makes it seem less powerful than it really is, and makes us seem more in control than we really are. |