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Carson C. Chow
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Carson C. Chow writes Scientific Clearing House, a personal blog at sciencehouse.wordpress.com about science and math. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Prisoner's Dilemma cooperation strategies (a strategy that could beat tit-for-tat) and a mathematical approach to obesity. Commenters only cite or link them, without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Carson C. Chow
Most-linked posts?
- /2012/09/04/a-new-strategy-for-the-iterated-prisoners-dilemma-game/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-03
What Hacker News says?
This can be explained without bringing in accusations of fraud or incompetence [1]. Basically, if you have a bazillion experiments running and only publish the results which are significant, you still have a huge predictability problem, because most of those statistically significant results will be due to chance alone. For example, assume that only 1% of cancer experiments produce something valid and interesting, a…
Comment linking /2009/05/08/why-most-published-results-are-false/
on “Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible”https://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/a-new-strategy...
Comment linking /2012/09/04/a-new-strategy-for-the-iterated-prisoners-dilemma-game/
on “Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (2009)”This is the obesity section of the author's website: http://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/category/medicine/obesity/ He links to the slides from that conference: http://sciencehouse.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/aaas122.pdf
Comment linking /category/medicine/obesity/
on “A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity”A strategy that could beat tit-for-tat consistently was discovered* but tit-for-tat is still fascinating because it is incredibly simple and is almost the optimal strategy. ( * I think it's this: https://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/a-new-strategy... )
Comment linking /2012/09/04/a-new-strategy-for-the-iterated-prisoners-dilemma-game/
on “Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma”(Please add (2009) to the title) See [1] for a much more recent discussion. Basically, Scott Aaronson showed that some rather mundane-seeming systems (like, say, an ASIC implementing some LDPC code, or even just a square grid of XOR gates) exhibit very high "information integration" \Phi under this definition, and so would have to be highly conscious according to the theory. Tononi agrees, and argues we have to chan…
Comment linking /2014/06/02/integrated-information-theory/
on “A “Complex” Theory of Consciousness”