By R. W. Blickhan
Published Mar 2
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Information Theory
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Cooking & Culinary
191
Learning & Memory
2
Productivity Tools
21
Photography
22
Geography & Demography
14
Game Theory
8
Cultural Evolution
14
Queuing Theory
1
Prompt Engineering
25
Regex
21
Law & Politics
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Design
4
Combinatorics
11
Game Design
14
History
5
Philosophy
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Occultism
46
Software Engineering
167
Classical Physics
62
Quantum Mechanics
74
Religion & Philosophy
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Evolutionary Biology
77
Buddhism
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Linguistics
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What is Quinns' "stars and wishes" technique for RPGs?
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What are the properties of sateen sheets?
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What are the properties of percale sheets?
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What are percale sheets sometimes derisively referred to as?
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How are sateen sheets woven?
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How are percale sheets woven?
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What are the two major weaves for cotton sheets?
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What are local dimming zones in transmissive displays?
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What are the weaknesses of self-emissive displays?
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What are the weaknesses of transmissive displays?
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What is a self-emissive display?
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What is a transmissive display?
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What type of fundamental display are OLEDs?
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What type of fundamental display are LCDs?
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What are the two major fundamental display technologies today?
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What are the three legs of the Münchhausen Trilemma? Skepticism about a proof can only be dispelled by:
- A circular argument: the proof of a proposition presupposes its truth
- A regressive argument: the proof requires its own proof, ad infinitum
- A dogmatic argument: the proof is based on precepts that are asserted rather than defended
How do many farmers avoid hardware disease?
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What is hardware disease?
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What are the four factors of friendship?
- Proximity
- Similarity
- Reciprocal exchange
- Progressive disclosure
What is reef-safe(r) sunscreen?
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What is the generally-recommended minimum SPF?
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What is broad-spectrum sunscreen?
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How do chemical sunscreens work?
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How do mineral sunscreens work?
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What are the active ingredients in mineral sunscreen?
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What are the main categories of sunscreen?
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What does Brandon Sanderson mean by a "gorilla in the phonebooth"?
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What are the Five Confucian Classics (五经)?
- 诗经（Shījīng, Book of Odes)
- 书经（Shūjīng, Book of Documents)
- 礼记 (Lǐjì, Book of Rites)
- 易经 (Yìjīng, Book of Changes)
- 春秋 (Chūnqiū, Spring and Autumn Annals)
What are Zhu Xi's Four Books (四书)?
- Great Learning
- Doctrine of the Mean
- Analects
- Mengzi
What is subsidiarity?
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What are Junji Ito's three methods of idea generation?
- Using the converse of a "should"
- Combine ideas that normally wouldn't go together
- Refer to animal abilities and the structure of the natural world
What's the difference between brokers and dealers?
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What is grattage?
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What is soufflage?
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What is scumbling?
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What is sgraffito?
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What is decalcomania?
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What is Brandon Sanderson's framework for character motivation?
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What is Brandon Sanderson's framework for plotting?
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What's the distinction between open and closed bargaining?
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What are Weingarten rights?
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Roughly, why is the efficient edit distance algorithm’s runtime the product of the string lengths?
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What’s the runtime for the DP algorithm for edit distance?
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Roughly, how can we efficiently calculate the Levenshtein distance between strings?
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When was De rerum natura rediscovered in Europe?
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What's an example of deep play?
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What is Bentham's concept of "deep play"?
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In tennis, what is a volley?
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In tennis, what is a groundstroke?
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In tennis, where is the eastern backhand grip?
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Which tennis grip is on bevel 5?
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Which tennis grip is on bevel 4?
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Which tennis grip is on bevel 3?
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Which tennis grip is on bevel 2?
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In tennis, where is the full western grip?
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In tennis, what is the semi-western grip good for?
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In tennis, where is the semi-western grip?
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In tennis, what is the eastern forehand grip good for?
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In tennis, what is the continental grip good for?
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In tennis, where is the eastern forehand grip?
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In tennis, where is a continental grip?
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In tennis, where does bevel counting start?
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In MBTI, what are the characteristics of perceiving (P)?
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In MBTI, what are the characteristics of judging (J)?
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In MBTI, what are the characteristics of intuition (N)?
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In MBTI, what are the characteristics of sensing (S)?
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In MBTI, what is J vs P?
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In MBTI, what is T vs F?
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In MBTI, what is S vs N?
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In MBTI, what is E vs I?
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What's the common name for the learning curve law?
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What are the three key obstacles for high-modernist planning present in liberal-democratic societies, according to Seeing Like A State?
- Belief in a private sphere of activity
- Belief in a private economic sector too complex to be managed by a sovereign
- Existence of representative political institutions
Why was productivism popular on the left, according to Seeing Like A State?
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Why was productivism popular on the right, according to Seeing Like A State?
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What does Seeing Like A State claim are the two main traditions pulled on by "productivism"?
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What does Seeing Like A State claim is the birthplace of twentieth-century high modernism?
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What are some of the key features of high modernism, according to Seeing Like A State?
- Radical break with history and tradition
- Devaluation of politics
- Large-scale projects implying authoritarian / statist interventions
- Temporal focus on the future
What is rejection sampling?
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What is a cadastral map?
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What are examples of state simplification given in Seeing Like A State?
- Cadastral surveys for parceled land tenure
- Urban grid designs
- Creation of surnames
- Language standardization
- Hub-and-spoke traffic systems
What are the five most important characteristics of state simplifications according to Seeing Like A State?
- Of interest to officials
- Written and documentary
- Static
- Aggregate
- Standardized
What does Seeing Like A State use as an example of urban legibility via state control?
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Why shouldn't we use Markdown blockquotes for admonitions?
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What enabled the "metrical revolution" in France, according to Seeing Like A State?
- Growth of market exchange
- Popular sentiment against aristocrats
- Enforcement via Napoleonic statebuilding
What are the traits of traditional, local units of measure according to Seeing Like A State?
- Human scale
- Relational or “commensurable” — dependent on context
- Tied to particular activities
What does Seeing Like A State use as a metaphor for state legibility?
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What are the four conditions for social disaster according to Seeing Like A State?
- State legibility
- High-modernist ideology
- Authoritarianism
- Incapacitated civil society
What are the three main questions driving probabilistic models of cognition?
- "How does abstract knowledge guide learning and inference from sparse data?"
- "What forms does abstract knowledge take, across different domains and tasks?"
- "How is abstract knowledge itself acquired?"
How does Putnam define bridging social capital?
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How does Putnam define bonding social capital?
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What is the etymology of "gossip" in English?
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What is Naismith's rule for hiking time (metric units)?
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What is Naismith's rule for hiking time (imperial units)?
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What is sleeching?
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What are the four pre-modern methods of salt production?
- Seawater evaporation
- Sleeching
- Briny inland springs
- Salt mining
What is the generative approach to cognition?
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What are the major types of textiles?
- Linen
- Cotton
- Wool
- Silk
- Leather
- Synthetics (nylon, polyester, etc)
Define a generative model in cognition.
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What are the three levels of analysis of information-processing systems introduced in Marr’s Vision?
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