All blog comments postedin the past three years (since I switched to dasBlog/blogx) have been deleted. In an abortive attempt to combat comment spammers, I ran a script that determined that 100% of my comments were spam, and the upgrade to captcha failed anyway. I have backups of everything, but I don’t have time to […]
Can a properly-designed video game be effective in treating some forms of depression? I say yes. I believe that this theory deserves a clinical trial or two, and am wondering how to locate and match researcher with funding. Researchers in the area will be familiar with the relevant prior research:
Clinical depression iscorrelated with decreased size, […]
People normally think their car is a lot cooler after they buy it than just before they buy it. Cognitive psychologists call this ?Selection Bias?. Mark Lucovsky, Google employee who was the brains behind Hailstorm at Microsoft, demonstrates selection bias in actionin his blog entry (link via Dare). He says, ?I deeply believed that Microsoft […]
Abu Hamidal-Ghazali was an important inflection point in human philosophy.Roughly 1000 years ago, he was instrumental in introducing Aristotle and Plato to the Islamic world. He made several improvements on the work of the previous philosophers and had a lasting impact on western philosophy. However, 500 years before the ?cult of reason? swept the west, […]
So much of what we know is built on the shoulders of previous generations, it’s almost a matter of faith that our collective knowledge is always better today than it was yesterday. But it is also a fact that society goes through cycles, manias, and societal structures can bias our knowledge in one way or […]