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Inference Review is quite simply the most undeservedly under the radar journal online. And I hope it is not alway so.

"What keeps this going is that each VC thinks they're better than average. Most of them are wrong." Only some have this belief and only some of those are wrong, but it isn't what '…

"Different brain regions including external frontal cortex, cerebellar hemisphere, entorhinal cortex/hippocampus and choroid plexus contain fungal material, which is absent in brai…

I am an Everlane fan (wearing one of their tees right now, actually), but I find their low/no-markup marketing message to be a turn-off. For example, the shirt I'm wearing is $22, …

Thanks for posting — after reading Pierre Cartier's article in the Inference Review it is exactly the tour of Recoltes & Clef that I was hoping would appear in time. I had no idea …

I appreciate the vividness of your minestrone, pho and chocolate examples, but I can't seem to do what you describe. I can't imagine smells or tastes -- both are as foreign as the …

It's frustrating when people suggest I can visualize and just don't know it. The way one thinks is the most first-personally obvious thing in the world, and I've been sore about th…

FYI, the phenomenon you describe is an afterimage and happens to everybody ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage ). You are correct that the visual cortex is involved in both p…

It has been intermittently amazing to me that I not only get by but am even considered intelligent without what seems (to me) an absolute gift and superpower that most people posse…

Sounds wonderful. The odd thing is that I can imagine what it would be like to have the sort of visual imagination that would be helpful in calculus. Unfortunately it turns out tha…

I have never been able to consciously visualize (meaning: think in visual mental images). All of my conscious thought is in the auditory mode, though I know what it would be like t…

I had not seen the tweet injection as I tend to read less popular stuff. Having just looked at a nytimes article, would have to agree that it's quite abrasive.

I'm a big fan of this snapping, page down scroll style. It moves as fast as I can scan yet never halts in position that renders one (or two) entries unintelligible. Should I want t…

This app is phenomenal. Other readers (e.g. Flipboard) make too many sacrifices at the altar of design. I enjoy playing with them at first but the information density just isn't hi…

With his time. Always interpreted student questions charitably and took them seriously. Not something all professors do.

Took a course of his at Berkeley. A fantastic and generous man.

Who I'd be submitting my business idea to in confidence is not a detail.

Does anyone know the mechanics of how the ads are pushed to the Kindle? Does Amazon observe user behavior and content of the ad supported Kindles in ways they didn't with the Kindl…

I had the exact same thought.