Andreas Vlach
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Andreas Vlach
@vlach
Es ist wichtig zu verstehen, dass aufgrund des Placebo-Effekts jede Art von Therapie zu einer deutlichen Besserung des Gesundheitszustands führt – so esoterisch diese Therapien auch sein mögen (wie etwa die Rückführungstherapie, die Edelstein- bzw. Kristalltherapie, die Astrologie, Wallfahrten, Wasser aus den Quellen von Lourdes). Die Tatsache,
... See moreIt took him forty years to formulate, but in the 1960s, Richardson finally found a model for this uncertainty; a paradox that neatly summarises the existential problem of computational thinking. While working on the ‘Statistics of Deadly Quarrels’, an early attempt at the scientific analysis of conflict, he set out to find a correlation between the
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Education and
van Gogh
Optimization alone can't get you novelty or interestingness.
In fact, if you look at the entirety of the twentieth century, the most important developments in mass, one-to-many communications clock in at the same social innovation rate with an eerie regularity. Call it the 10/10 rule: a decade to build the new platform, and a decade for it to find a mass audience.
When you switch between tasks, errors that wouldn’t have happened otherwise start to creep in, because – Earl explained – ‘your brain is error-prone. When you switch from task to task, your brain has to backtrack a little bit and pick up and figure out where it left off’ – and it can’t do that perfectly. Glitches start to occur. ‘Instead of
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