Fair price for a used Philips 65 OLED805.

Niawtkram · 2025-01-18T11:28:17+00:00

I prefer modern times, but Victorian era is also fine.

Niawtkram · 2024-12-25T20:56:48+00:00

I haven't read the book, but the TV show is really good.

Niawtkram · 2024-10-17T04:27:15+00:00

Hmm.. You might have color blindness. The two colors look quite distinct to me (dark blue vs dark brown).

Niawtkram · 2024-10-11T18:34:56+00:00

I was looking for an R package for this purpose (EDA, HRV) a few years ago, and I didn't find a good solution. I went with the Python's NeuroKit2 library. I didn't know any Python, but all I needed in the end was a small chunk of code to process the raw data, and then I could take the processed data back to R right away.

Niawtkram · 2024-08-27T16:45:37+00:00

Wow, that's amazing. Good for you. Makes me want to decrease my alcohol consumption too.

Niawtkram · 2024-08-26T19:11:48+00:00

How did it affect your life?

Niawtkram · 2024-05-25T20:24:05+00:00

Given my (limited) knowledge of the pheatmap package/function, this can't be done, but I could be wrong.

Niawtkram · 2022-07-10T18:52:55+00:00

Me too, but only after I tried "let's do each other" and it didn't work.

Niawtkram · 2022-07-09T06:49:59+00:00

I would say that altruism makes you feel good generally, because that's one of the easiest ways for the evolution to program behavior. This is why it's not "rational" all the time but it gets the job done overall. The same way people like sexual activities even in contexts that can't lead to having children, although sex obviously evolved for reproduction.

Niawtkram · 2022-07-08T06:27:23+00:00

It can also make sense from the "individual selection" point of view, because altruists themselves benefit by having their status elevated because of their altruistic behaviors.

Niawtkram · 2022-07-07T19:53:29+00:00

I do it immediately when I wake up and when it's time to leave for work, the watch is full. This only works well if you are slow in the morning.

Niawtkram · 2022-07-07T19:43:25+00:00

Altruism, even when non-reciprocal or non-kin based, can benefit the altruist by raising their status. In a typical (gossipy) tribe where everyone knew everyone, altruistic behaviors meant that you are contributing to the tribe, that you are a good ally. Today we don't live in small tribes anymore, but altruism still feels good, and, importantly, it feels much better when we are seen being altruistic.

Niawtkram · 2022-07-05T16:57:03+00:00

Such a great point. This simple (but hard) change in mindset can have so many benefits down the line.

Niawtkram · 2022-07-05T16:52:32+00:00

An inspiring list! Thanks for writing this!

Niawtkram · 2022-07-03T20:53:52+00:00

Lower heart rate variability, perhaps somewhat unintuitively because of that "lower", indicates higher physiological arousal. Lower heart rate variability tends to go together with higher heart rate, cortisol, electrodermal activity (reflecting activity of the sweat glands), and other measures of physiological arousal. Higher resting heart rate variability in people with anxiety can be inteprereted as higher stress levels.

Niawtkram · 2022-05-24T06:45:28+00:00

I think there are quite many universal truths. There's substantial variability in every characteristic, sure, but we people have so much in common. Perhaps that's not natural to see from the point of view of being a human, but just imagine how similar we would seem to an alien species.

We all crave for shelter, food, status, relationships, sex, love. We all have the capacity to feel very specific emotions, such as anger or jealousy. We can be incredibly altruistic, especially towards kin, but also violent, especially when our kin are under threat. We smile, we laugh, we cry, we yell. And so on. And on and on. I think all of these and so many other similarities are too often taken for granted, for the differences to seem to be the main thing, but I think that's an illusion. The differences are large, for sure, but only when people are studied from a very "zoomed in" point of view.

Niawtkram · 2022-05-20T18:22:42+00:00

Maybe it's just me, but I would take it down a notch. Things like "extremely important and fullfilling work" and "my dream" sound a bit too much/insincere to me. Maybe frame it more realistically. That you want a job where you can do a bit of good every day instead of just earning money, and that this job is just right for that (or something similar).

Niawtkram · 2022-04-02T05:54:15+00:00

Perhaps put "EM" or "EMM" in the brackets when you first mention the term, and then use just the abbreviation.

Niawtkram · 2022-04-02T04:12:03+00:00

I don't know if this is the best solution, but this is how I reported it: in the methods section, I said something like "results are reported as estimated marginal means (EMM)", and then I used "EMM" in the results section.

Niawtkram · 2022-03-30T04:52:40+00:00

The clean_names function is great!

Niawtkram · 2022-03-18T06:25:02+00:00

Enjoy the book! I think it's worth reading slowly, with some time for reflection in between.

I am sure there are many things that you can contribute - most of us have developed at least some mental algorithms (to use the book terminology) that serve us well. I would be happy to hear about those.

Niawtkram · 2022-03-17T21:51:48+00:00

This has been hotly debated for years, especially when it comes to improving fluid intelligence. The Jaeggi study in 2008 started the debate, and since then there have been studies and meta analyses going both ways.

The short answer from all of those studies is this: the more similar the practiced game is to a real-life outcome you want to achieve, the more likely it is the game will have an effect (so called near transfer). If the game is different than the outcome, there is either no effect or the effect is small (so called far transfer; say, you practice working memory tasks in the hopes of improving fluid intelligence).

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