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Louie Helm Louie Helm is a Machine Learning Engineer

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Greatness Awaits

August 24 - Louie Helm

Who are you to deny greatness? If you would deny it to yourself, you would deny it to the entire world. And we will not be denied. Does anyone know of videos more inspiring…

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Is it true that “not everyone can be a programmer”?

August 23 - Louie Helm

All teachers of programming find that their results display a ‘double hump’. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent…

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Crazy risk aversion: Study finds subjects routinely pass up a 15% chance at $1,000,000 in exchange for $500

August 22 - Louie Helm

In the group that performed poorly on the cognitive reflection test, only 40% of men and 25% of women said they would take a 15% chance of $1,000,000 over a sure $500. In the…

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The science of how to get lucky

August 21 - Louie Helm

I read quite a few non-fiction books and read some reviews as well. Most of them are describing what the book is about. However, sometimes I wonder what people got out of it, did…

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How One Quick Click Could Inspire You to Change Your Life.

August 21 - Louie Helm

I recently ran across a reference to the internet site DeathClock.com. I clicked over to it, and entered a few simple facts about myself—birthday, gender, temperament, BMI, smoker/non-smoker—and the site spat out a projected…

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6 reasons the Myers Briggs test is not useful in picking a career

August 19 - Louie Helm

While investigating how to give good careers advice, we asked ourselves whether the Myers Briggs test, the world’s most widely used personality test, might be useful. We’ve concluded that it probably isn’t. The Myers…

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The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ

August 18 - Louie Helm

Are the current high levels of unemployment being caused by advances in Artificial Intelligence automating away human jobs? Conventional economic theory says this shouldn’t happen. AI, Robots, and Automation aren’t taking our jobs. Or rather,…

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Luke Muehlhauser to speak at Quixey Tuesday, Aug. 20th

August 17 - Louie Helm

This coming Tuesday, MIRI’s Executive Director Luke Muehlhauser will give a talk at Quixey titled Effective Altruism and the End of the World. If you’re in or near the South Bay, you should come! Come…

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Nasa Uses Sanskrit To Program Artificial Intelligence

August 16 - Louie Helm

The extraordinary thing about Sanskrit is that it offers direct accessibility to anyone to that elevated plane where the two — mathematics and music, brain and heart, analytical and intuitive, scientific and spiritual— become…

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Four New Tools for Brain Workouts

August 15 - Louie Helm

Just as football players lift weights, knowledge workers need to train their core systems to perform. 1. Quantified Mind is a really good way to measure and improve your cognition. 2. Nudger apps are…

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Nick Beckstead To Deliver Online Lecture On Ethics of Far Future 15 August | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute

August 14 - Louie Helm

On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future Thursday 15 August, 16:00 GMT (9:00 Los Angeles, 12:00 New York, 17:00 London) To be held online via Skype. RSVP required by email to Seth…

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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

August 13 - Louie Helm

The new PBSOffBook video takes us on a tour of the rise of artificial intelligence. Robin Hanson and Gary Marcus summarizing the intertwined promise and peril of the inevitable development of AI.

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9 Solid Productivity Techniques

August 12 - Louie Helm

Huge boosts in productivity and happiness await those willing to try: Workflowy Checklists Todo lists Beeminder Reflection Pomodoro Calendar Time Logging Catch Morning Checklists, Catch, Beeminder, Google Calendar, and Pomodoros. Why am I using…

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Scientists say it’s possible to blow up the Sun. On purpose.

August 11 - Louie Helm

According to Alexander Bolonkin and Joseph Friedlander, it may be possible to produce “self-supporting detonating thermonuclear reactions that spread to the full solar volume” — a similar process to the triggering mechanisms in a thermonuclear bomb. CAUSE…

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Just how rich are you?

August 10 - Louie Helm

Sure, you might not feel all that rich compared to the mansions and millionaires around you, but what if you compared yourself to the global poor?Peter Hurford explores the new data behind our ‘How…

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Do you ever think your phone is vibrating when it’s not?

August 10 - Louie Helm

Sensing phantom phone vibrations is a strangely common experience. Around 80% of us have imagined a phone vibrating in our pockets when it’s actually completely still. Almost 30% of us have also heard non-existent ringing. Are…

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Where to buy smart drugs?

August 9 - Louie Helm

A smart drug or Nootropics as they are known are cognitive supplements that are used to boost cognitive functions, intelligence and attention. Modafinil is a commonly used cognitive enhancer which was initially used to…

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A world without mosquitoes

August 8 - Louie Helm

Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems — wouldn’t it? Not when it comes to mosquitoes. Malaria infects some 247 million people worldwide each year, and kills nearly one million. Mosquitoes cause…

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Buy Soylent with Bitcoin

August 7 - Louie Helm

Just as Soylent is disrupting the traditional food industry, Bitcoin is revolutionizing the way value is transferred between individuals and businesses. A completely decentralized online currency,… I’m glad to see “food” and “money” are…

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The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

August 6 - Louie Helm

Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice. An article in the May-June issue…

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