Sunday, November 13, 2011

Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error | Business | Vanity Fair

Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error | Business | Vanity Fair

“... My line about old men is that they can see the forest, but that’s because they have lost the ability to see the trees.”

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Counterfactuals and person-hood

Judea Pearl Tribute Symposium: Causality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78EmmdfOcI8


The unbearable Automaticity of Being:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy423/dept/HomePage/Level_3_Social_Psych_files/Bargh%26Chartrand.pdf

Thursday, April 14, 2011

p talk

polynesians arrive at Hawaii after 400 years of watching bird movements
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/ike/moolelo/discovery_and_settlement.html

How preception of time is tied to space in terms of left/right and up/down
How having names for colors helps with reaction times for differentiating colors
How in australian aborigines culture greetings are in the form of "where are you going?" north-west etc

sleep, REM, dreams, antenna's etc