Jyrki Alakuijala

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    Jul 17

    1 second slower pages → -5% reader engagement on : .. and even beyond webperf, a must watch talk on optimizing user engagement. Send this to your PMs and directors.

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    Jul 17

    Just up on arXiv "A Parsimonious Dynamical Model for Structural Learning in the Human Brain" led by Zhixin Lu blending chaos theory, network science, & recurrent neural networks to understand how we deduce structure underlying temporal sequences of stimuli

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    Jul 16

    Natural Selection in Modern Humans (UK; N ≈ 500,000) Traits currently favoured by selection: Younger age at first birth in ♀️; higher BMI in ♂️ Traits being selected against: Intelligence; educational achievement (!) Figure:

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    IQ predicts all things good. Interventions to boost IQ could greatly enhance human wellbeing. Flipside of the same coin: IQ-phobia could do real harm, by stalling the development of IQ-boosting interventions.

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    Jul 13

    In 1981, Yoshio Koide discovered this unexplained empirical equation relating the masses of the electron, muon and tau

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    Jul 12

    Vincent Figgins' Telugu type, 1802. Hard not to be charmed by the exhuberant size of the postscripts and deep bowl of the –ra.

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    Jul 12

    I just published “The impact of blocksize on Persistent Disk performance”

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    Jul 12

    How does your brain decide what to do in a threatening situation? A fascinating pice of work from lab

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    Jul 11

    12 Common Logical Fallacies Illustrated with Robots

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    Jul 2

    If only free speech advocates had warned you over and over again constantly all the time.

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    Jul 10

    Per a new study, marriage confers no causal wage premium for men. Instead, men w/ earning potential are more likely to marry--& exacerbate the social class gap in marriage. The results are convincing, using fixed effects to model wage growth rather than levels. HT

    NEW! Ludwig and Brüderl: No evidence of "marital wage premium" for men once selection into marriage of those with future higher earning trajectories is accounted for
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    Jul 10

    Education-linked gene variants predict life success, even controlling for parental SES "Parents' genetics influence the environments that give children their start in life, while children's own genetics influence their social mobility across adult life."

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    Jul 10

    One of my favourite studies of the last few years: Universal IQ screening boosts numbers of poor and minority students in gifted education Figure:

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    software decoding is sped up to 1 GB/s on a desktop CPU

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    Jul 8

    What are radiological deep learning models actually learning? When they're looking for pneumonia outside the lungs, we should all be asking this question.

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    Jul 8

    Experimental evidence that, just as natural selection can shape morphological features such as eyes and wings, so too it can shape behaviour

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    Jul 6

    I've decided "being in your prime" means being any age that's a prime number. So, about 25% of the time until you're 100: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89 and 97.

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    Jul 6

    This seriously might be my favorite typeface of all time. Not to mention their badass landing page. Hack | A typeface designed for source code

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    Jul 6

    A big development and a great achievement; whole brain DCM (with some caveats)!

    Final version of our paper "A generative model of whole-brain effective connectivity" is now online Code will be released in TAPAS beginning of August. Joint work with colleagues from , and .
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    Jul 6

    Meta-Analysis: No significant sex differences in life satisfaction (N = 1,001,802) or job satisfaction (N = 341,949)

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