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I work in the control room for an electrical generation system an this isn't the case at all for us. Each desk has 12 ~30 inch monitors, and each monitor has a similar degree of in…

"I live in rural France with narrow roads and it's incredibly stressful to be driving with nearly no margin of error preventing a head on collision." This is the crux -- I think th…

What you're describing sounds a lot like a statistically trained system. "until we understand how that information is encoded in our own minds, getting a machine to truly understan…

Pure speculation, but I think heat dissipation is probably the more important bottleneck of spaceship design -- no convective cooling, so you potentially want more surface area to …

Very cool -- what about sliders to feed parameters for new ship generation :)

You're probably at a good point to appreciate the following: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

You're reinforcing this point by with even "stronger opinions" but you're avoiding the fundamental issue: "There's a difference between a person having an unconventional idea, e.g.…

I can't tell if you're kidding or not... Is your question, do writers and mathematicians also speak of elegance and aesthetic in their work? Do writers engage and practice free wri…

There's one more aspect at play here too: If you're brash and "break things" and overall the situation turn out for the worst, if you're a kid, people will tutt and mutter and aww …

The intuitive cynic in me sees a combination of 1b and 2 explaining this: 1b: Many people barely know the name of, let alone trust their neighbours these days. They are turning to …

If you read to the end of the article, you come across an an interesting comment that might be of relevance here: "If you think Phillip Roth, one of the greatest living writers, wr…

And at this risk of stating the obvious: the Michelin guide then went on to evolve a culture and impact well beyond it's intended use...

I deal a bit with arty types, and they tend to pride themselves on being able to identify products, along with designers and quoting how many hundred $'s something "costs" I think …

The analogous concept here is the product of sampling rate and bit-depth , the number of bits per sample i.e the precision of the recording

Neil Stephenson addresses this in his book, Anathem. He states it's a fact "well known" within the military etc. that a certain percentage of folks respond very well to training fo…

Quoth the author: "I've been an advisor to the company for years, and you'd be hard pressed to find a more hard-working, dedicated founding team that has endured every roadblock an…

Files are sorted into filing cabinets or boxes, which are stored on shelves, in different rooms etc.

There's more at stake than that -- malice or not, a simple, tidy diagram can bypass a human's critical faculties and increase the feeling that the false data (and whatever it's con…

That is incredible -- I'm pretty sure a professional statistical research organisation appreciates power of manipulation of humans through visual effect. If they pull the line that…

Because Science, man. You don't do things in science because they are practical (you just write that on the grant applications), in fact you do many things largely because they are…

Yet you're just feeding the same beast you claim to dislike. Yes, the post has a bait title, but it's not entirely irrelevant and -- more importantly -- the article has real substa…

I can appreciate why it took a while for the thought to die off that "brandy drinking women" were prone to spontaneous combustion.

That's a bit dishonest -- the scepticism is direct at the results, not the process itself. I routinely distrust the gushing claims by paid TV advertising actors about how the Magic…

This article has been cobbled together from a few threads here and there taken from Kahneman's own recent book popularising his research (Fast and Slow Thinking, 2011). The book ex…

This is already built into the requirement: 3 to 7 years. After three years he/she is open to apply for what might take others 7.