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Louie Helm Louie Helm is a Machine Learning Engineer

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Grounding Morality in Morality

June 25 - Louie Helm

Is it possible to ground ethics in terms of itself without falling into circular reasoning or infinite regress? Scott Aaronson explains how MIT graduate student Tyler Singer-Clark is taking the first steps towards researching…

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Spin For Good

June 24 - Louie Helm

Effective Altruist Opportunity: Spin For Good is running a $1000 money added online blackjack tournament this week that’s 100% for charity. I’m currently one of the leaders but I’d definitely welcome some friendly competition….

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Ally vs. Everbank vs. Discover vs. Schwab

June 22 - Louie Helm

Created with Compare Ninja Almost everyone should use Ally as their primary bank. Their 100% ATM fee reimbursements and 0.87% savings rates will both earn you extra cash on the margin and no other…

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Michigan Now Bragging About Their Students Dropping Out

June 21 - Louie Helm

UM has been reduced to (1) desperately trying to take credit for how great one of their engineering students is (since he got a Thiel Fellowship), while (2) simultaneously trying to avoid admitting that…

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The Lac Diet

June 20 - Louie Helm

If you could design the ideal way to lose weight, it would probably look a lot like pumping fat and calories directly out of your body. And for some of us, nature has made…

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Insider Trading Rates Reach 25%

June 19 - Louie Helm

Researchers find evidence that insider trading occurs in roughly 25% of mergers and acquisitions. That seems really low. Insider trading is one of the only profitable activities you can engage in as an investor….

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A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito

June 18 - Louie Helm

Researchers have discovered and tested a new technique to engender a heritable shutdown of male mosquitoes ability to sire female offspring. This could be a much more efficient and rapid way to engineer the…

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How to Automatically Track Anything With Beeminder

June 17 - Louie Helm

Want to track your goals? And make sure you don’t fail at the “forget to track your goals” stage? If so, check out my new guest post over at CFAR’s blog. It will teach…

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Rationality As Habit

June 11 - Louie Helm

tl;dr: You probably need to practice rationality ahead of time in order to have it in the kinds of situations where you need it the most.

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Google To Support Native Email Encryption

June 10 - Louie Helm

Google is set to support full native PGP encryption of emails so they can make it through all internet hubs without being snooped through. They’re in the final stages of paying bounties to hackers…

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Effective Altruism Survey

June 6 - Louie Helm

You might be interested in taking this effective altruism survey. There’s an effort to circulate as widely as possible, with the creator giving $250 of his own money to one participant. The results should…

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First Derm: A Good Direction For Medicine

June 1 - Louie Helm

I’m a big fan of new online medical services like First Derm. Instead of trying to schedule a doctors appointment when you have a skin problem, you just snap a photo with your iPhone…

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Arm Tutorial

May 30 - Louie Helm

Pretty much what I expect from the average YouTube tutorial these days.

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Current Proposals For The Regulation Of Synthetic Biology Are Simplistic And Weak

May 29 - Louie Helm

Most attempts at regulatory policy for emerging technology are pretty bad. Which is a shame, since there are a few extremely dangerous research fields that could use better regulation. For example, a group of…

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Protect Your Money With BillGuard

May 27 - Louie Helm

Sick of reviewing your credit card statements every month? Check out BillGuard for iOS (or Android). It verifies all your charges with you on your smartphone and points out ones it suspects are fraudulent….

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All Math Isn’t Equally Worthwhile

May 26 - Louie Helm

As a mathamatician, I’m glad to see folks like Andrew Lih at Edge.org agreeing with me that calculus isn’t that important. It’s easily the least applicable technical prereq distracting people from mastering the most…

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Volumes Rising For Penny Stocks

May 25 - Louie Helm

Need an investment strategy that’s more high-variance than buying and selling volatile cryptocurrencies? Maybe you should join the ranks of investors trying to outsmart the penny stock market. Recent 40% increases in over the…

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25% Off Rockstar Energy Drinks

May 24 - Louie Helm

No tax or shipping charges either. Offer valid until Monday May 26, 2014 at 11:59 pm. No promo code needed. Discount will be automatically applied at checkout.

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Help Move $1MM To More Effective Charities

May 23 - Louie Helm

Google is granting $3.5MM to 10 Bay Area charities. But they’re using public voting to determine which 4 charities receive $500,000 instead of $250,000. If you want to help move $1MM from less effective…

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Seventeen or Bust Client Update

May 19 - Louie Helm

Want to make history by finding the final 6 primes required to settle the Sierpinski Problem? Now there’s a new version of the SB client (v27.9) available to help with that. Download it and…

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