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The price you pay for arriving to class on time

This is a linkpost for http://raginrayguns.tumblr.com/post/156656105652/recently-i-went-to-a-class-and-showed-up-late-i

Applications of logical uncertainty

Lately I've been reading a lot about the problem of logical uncertainty. The problem is that there are logical consequences of your beliefs

Logical uncertainty reading list

This was originally part of a post I wrote on logical uncertainty, but it turned out to be post-sized itself, so I'm splitting it off. Dan

A Limited But Better Than Nothing Way To Assign Probabilities to Statements of Logic, Arithmetic, etc.

If we want to reason with probability theory, we seem to be stuck if we want to reason about mathematics. You can skip this pararaph and t

Does anchoring on deadlines cause procrastination?

The phenomenon of anchoring seems to predict that deadlines will cause you to start a project near the deadline. In more detail: Any num

Influence of scientific research

I'm an undergraduate studying molecular biology, and I am thinking of going into science. In Timothy Gower's "The Importance of Mathematics"