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This is great. But how incremental are these advancements? I picked one at random (B.2 -- the second autocorrelation inequality). Then, I looked up the paper that produced the prev…

Is there a good scientific/safety reason for which Tesla's batteries are held together by polyurethane cement, as opposed to something easier to deal with?

NPEs help make the market for patents more efficient -- small firms invent and have a hard time protecting their patent? They sell it to an NPE. Is the system imperfect? Probably. …

Draw three independent random variables a,b,c~U[0,1]. In the first experiment, let the baby pick between a and b: of course E[a|chosen]>1/2; E[b|unchosen] Why are they (journalist/…

Does someone have a good explanation/intuition for why you cannot exploit quantum entanglement to send information faster than light? If me observing the particle in Australia alte…

People are commenting that the FB's bureaucratic system is idiotic and unsustainable. I don't understand why: bureaucracies are a brilliant response by oversized institutions/busin…

No bad assumption here: people say that productivity growth and wage growth ought be the same. If this was not the case, then in the long run 100% of value added would go to capita…

CEO wage depends on company size: big companies are willing to pay A LOT for a CEO which screws up with 1% less chance. Other jobs (be it janitor, software engineer) don't scale up…

great comment -- you may like this https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.30.2.53

Great comment: more in general, dual licensing favors (or at least, does not stand against) the development of proprietary software -- so it may be ok for current users of the GPL …

Agreed. I'd be inclined to blame the coverage rather than the researchers for the 'coarse' interpretation (after all, the original title talks about a 'neural correlate' of conscio…

I do not understand why this is about consciousness. My take of this study is that they establish that there are two type of neurons: (i) those recording whether there is a signal …