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Science and Technology links (March 30, 2017)

5 thoughts on “Science and Technology links (March 30, 2017)”

  1. Joe Duarte says:

    Daniel, I’m a social psychologist and I think your comment about psychology not being a viable scientific discipline is… right.

    For now. Maybe in 20 years we’ll have a real science, but academic fields are structured in such a way that makes self-correction difficult so who knows. Right now, social psychology almost certainly generates more false than true claims about human psychology.

  2. Olio says:

    Im quite lightweight as well, (181cm, 64kg), but found that intermittent fasting actually helps me gain lean mass. The way it worked for me was by eating nutritious and energy dense foods (like egg yolks and cheese) within the feeding window.

  3. Franta Polach says:

    Academic publishing has many problems. One is the fake statistics in many papers, another is missing good ranking of individual papers. There are many opportunities for startups. But who exactly would be the customer?

  4. Mike Stiber says:

    Those of us who do computer-based or assisted research, and who are knowledgeable about software development, know that all reasonably complex software has bugs. Some of us take extra care to gain confidence that the bugs don’t affect our results, though we can never be sure. But most researchers who use non-trivial software probably give no thought to this.

    1. Yes. The goal is not perfection but fault management.