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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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At least you learn something from reading these sorts of sites. Heroin doesn't do that...then again I may just be justifying an addiction.

Some neuroscientists would argue that addiction is a form of "learning".

Were their experiments be recreated and properly peer-reviewed? Some reviewers argue that neuroscience experiments are mostly not worth the candle.

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/21/what-has-happened-down-he...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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I remember that list, because I said then what I'll say now - posting a list like that on a site like this is akin to handing out bags of heroin at a school :P . But I guess it's what the OP asked for.

At least you learn something from reading these sorts of sites. Heroin doesn't do that...then again I may just be justifying an addiction.

I don't think I have ever learned anything from some such sites. Distilled, prepared wisdom of people with limited scope and understanding. Who is your source? It this source trustworthy? What are his/her biases and prejudices?

At least with a good book you get an expanded argument, for or against which you can argue yourself. These feel-good pages, as I call them, are as good as a fart against the wind.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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There seems to be some misunderstanding what is meant by "subsequent encounter" in this context. These are codes for office visits. "Subsequent encounter" means that a patient is not seeing a physician for the first time about their injury. There are also codes for "initial encounter."

So initial vs subsequent encounter are completely different codes? Wouldn't this approach double the number of codes? Why wouldn't this be some other field of data associated with the form instead of mixing it up in the diagnostic 'topic'. I know nothing about medical diagnosis codes.

An initial consultation is more in-depth, as the doctor is gathering information and diagnosing, whereas subsequent consultations are more about monitoring and fine-tuning the issue. Usually they're also shorter.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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post #225

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Some neuroscientists would argue that addiction is a form of "learning".

Were their experiments be recreated and properly peer-reviewed? Some reviewers argue that neuroscience experiments are mostly not worth the candle. http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/21/what-has-happened-down-he...

The replication crisis definitely leaves a lot of room for questioning. However, even if all the studies we have were properly replicated we still wouldn't understand addiction perfectly. We still have a lot to learn, just look at how vague definitions of addiction are still http://www.dsm5.org/documents/substance%20use%20disorder%20f... But both addiction and learning involve the brain's dopamine circuitry; ironically when responding to your point I can't read the relevant articles I found because they are behind paywalls. This article has some interesting commentary but the sources are paywalled: https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.10... Most likely there is a connection, but anyone who claims to understand it entirely at this point is overconfident.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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post #78

One of the earliest www rabbit holes I remember visiting: https://www.chroniclesofgeorge.com/ Surprised MF has not been mentioned, yet. http://www.metafilter.com/

Wow, it has been years since I've been to this site. Thank you! I used to customize this ticketing system. It was Peregrine Service Center before HP bought it. And we had a George too. Ah... the memories

Sorry—we used Remedy Action Request System at the George job. Source: I'm the webmaster and I was there :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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John Baez, this weeks finds in mathematical physics [1]. He started blogging this in 1993! there's so much stuff there now. I keep finding amazing things in the TWF's, and not wanting to close my browser tabs because it's so precious. And you wouldn't believe what he can do with a bit of ascii art. Truly he is one of the heroes of the internet. (He doesn't do TWF's anymore, but there's a bunch of other places where h…

> He doesn't do TWF's anymore, but there's a bunch of other places where he posts stuff.

Now conveniently announced all in one place: https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez . (See https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2016/09/twitter.html for the announcement.)

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