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Comment · 12 years ago
Better: quote the actual authors.

> We therefore tested whether the mindfulness trait predicted a reduction of grammatically congruent preferences ... Mindfulness was shown to correlate negatively with grammatically congruent responses

> Mindfulness was measured using the Dutch version (de Bruin, Topper, Muskens, Bogels, & Kamphuis, 2012) of the 39 item Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ, Baer et al. (2006)).

> Working memory (WM) performance over sessions was analyzed with repeated-measures ANOVA. WM performance (LEVENSHTEIN) was indexed by mean Levenshtein distance between target sequence and remembered sequence ... Low Levenshtein distances therefore represent good WM performance, and high Levenshtein distance poor WM performance.

The WM variable represents mean distance between target sequences subjects were exposed to before they were told there was a pattern, and the sequences they generated attempting to recall them after being told there was a pattern.

The phrase, "grammatically congruent responses" appears only in the abstract, but it probably refers to the same thing as WM.

Sometimes, it's best to let your pattern matcher do its thing. Label your axes, kids.

Comment · 12 years ago
Is there an argument to be made why $HELL is not a problem for the human race?
Comment · 12 years ago
Deploying a rails app to a VPS (e.g. digital ocean or linode) isn't that much harder than setting up a development rails server on your work machine. If you have some time in the next few days for a screenshare I'll walk you through it - johnnybrown<%= prime_numbers[3] %>@gmail.com
Comment · 12 years ago
If you liked this comment, you will most likely enjoy the prince. It's a pretty faithful homage to Macchiavelli's argumentation style
Comment · 12 years ago
I believe the 0 m/s refers to the boost stage's speed after a successful landing.
Comment · 12 years ago
bandwidth is the derivative of transfer over time. It has the same relationship to transfer as speed has to distance.

bandwidth = d(transfer) / dt

Comment · 12 years ago
I've been emailing one of your colleagues about working at cognitect - any chance you could help me get inducted into that software illuminati?
Comment · 12 years ago
Actually my first thought was also, "well, it is targeted toward gamers". But Starcraft? Was your handle "uglyblacklesbianexxonexecutive"? I play starcraft II almost every day and I find the community very polite. The worst I ever see is occasional gloating after a victory or accusations of cheating in defeat. Most matches the only chat is "glhf" and "gg".
Comment · 12 years ago
> we’re getting roughly 80% less activity from Asia than we should in the absence of language constraints

Bit of an assumption here: absent language constraints, Chinese and anglophone developers would use Stackoverflow at the same rate. I'd say it's pretty likely that China has a popular programming QA site of its own.

Comment · 12 years ago
I believe you are speaking past my point. [repeats point]
Comment · 13 years ago
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Comment · 13 years ago
> ... nearly all agree that we need to move with great deliberation when altering the ecosystem of the ocean.

It's been quite a while since Humanity applied anything like deliberation to our ongoing alterations of ocean ecosystems.

Comment · 13 years ago
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Bioinformatics software developer, experience with the numpy/pandas/scikit world, analyzing FASTA data, flourescence images from microfluidic arrays, and reliability information from lab processes (SPC). I've worked on software that dealt directly with experimental data, and also custom lab management dashboards. I've worked in environments requiring HIPAA compliance.

Additionally, I have plenty of web development experience, with django, javascript, clojure[script], and d3.js.

Get in touch with [email protected] and let's see how we can help each other.

Comment · 13 years ago
It's also interesting that whenever the subject of losethos is brought up, the discussions take a strangely reliable turn. Someone (or several someones) makes a comment that includes the words "mental illness", racist/racism, religous/religion, medication.

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