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2:47 AM

Yeah...it's been a rough month.

Personally, I've been too busy at work to contribute much, but the job is giving me some questions at least. At this rate I'll probably have to put them together someday while off the clock...

16 hours later…

Artem Kaznatcheev

6:19 PM

@Seanny123 CS.SE is also a good place to turn.

3 hours later…

Artem Kaznatcheev

9:17 PM

@jonsca Okay, I tried to change the trend. Hopefully my question isn't too far off-topic:

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Q: Food sharing and mutual aid among the homeless

Since the time of Peter Kropotkin, it's been observed and theorized that cooperation and mutual aid are more common in austere environments. A classic biological example would be slime mold spore-making (Starssman & Queller, 2011), and anecdotal example would be people coming together to face a n...

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@ArtemKaznatcheev I think that's great! As usual, I'm just talking and not taking action, so thanks for putting that out there.

I would have preferred it if you had written "From my Sherlock Holmes-like network of homeless consultants..."

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca haha

I have to keep that network secret

How have things being going for you @jonsca?

Going pretty well. How about for you?

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca meh, life is life.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Science isn't all glamor and glitz like you see in the movies.

While I do lead a "Wolf of Wall Street"-type existence, every once in a while I need a break.

Artem Kaznatcheev

9:31 PM

@jonsca oh man, I watched that movie recently. It's very long.

It was way too long.

After a while, I was like "I get it, okay..."

Artem Kaznatcheev

However, I was pleasantly surprised by how funny DiCaprio was

I haven't read the book, but I imagine that it drones on for pages about nothing.

Yeah, no, he did a nice job with it. Jonah Hill was great, and he was hardly paid at all.

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca I assume they used real cocaine for the movie

instead of paying the actors

Pixie Stix, actually. Longer high.

Artem Kaznatcheev

9:36 PM

haha

I have a backlog of your blog entries to read.

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca mostly it's just been me whining about misuses of modeling. You aren't missing out on much.

time to check the question close vote queue

@ArtemKaznatcheev I have some of the CML ones from a few months back open to read. I finally was able to reduce my tabs down by like a third.

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca wow... you keep your tabs open for a long time!

I allocate some to a "learning" window that grows and grows lol

Artem Kaznatcheev

9:48 PM

thankfully my laptop is getting on in years

and crashes on me often enough

to keep my tabs in check

Hehe

Artem Kaznatcheev

Also, do you know why this question has so many close votes?

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Q: Psychologic or sociologic theories that explain Agile/Scrum

Agile and Scrum methodologies are well known and often studied and written about in software development. But these methodologies are about managing the activities and the workplace itself. Are there psychologic or sociologic theories (like those studied in Industrial and organizational psycholo...

social-psychology

"Just about time for a ..... yep, let's start again"

Artem Kaznatcheev

It seems like one of the better recent questions here...

I thought it was a bit too broad, otherwise it was a good question.

Artem Kaznatcheev

9:50 PM

He seems to be asking for a theoretical grounding for the agile/scrum methodology

Maybe I should edit his question?

do a Jeromy on it?

Break out the question paddles and hold on for dear life?

"C'mon, C'MON, breathe!"

Actually, that would probably attract a lot of views if it was posted somewhere

I'm not a big Hacker News guy at all, but that might do well there.

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca yeah, I might try reddit.

I don't know enough about Agile or Scrum, but from what I do know, there are a wide variety of steps, so making it more specific would be ideal. My favorites are the "sitting around the campfire" phase and the "going to IHOP" step.

and I think there's a lot of hugging that goes on.

Artem Kaznatcheev

Okay, I tried an edit of that question. Does it make more sense?

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Q: Theoretical grounding for Agile/Scrum methodologies in software development

Agile and Scrum methodologies are well known and often studied and written about in software development. But these methodologies are about managing the activities and the workplace itself. Are there psychologic or sociologic theories (like those studied in Industrial and organizational psycholo...

social-psychology io-psychology

There's a lot of stuff written about it on Programmers

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Q: Scrum: how to integrate work done by an overachieving developer out of band?

We have a "typical" SCRUM team and we commit to work for a sprint, and also maintain a backlog. Recently we have run into a problem of trying to integrate/handle the work of an overachieving developer doing out of band work (choosing to work outside of the normal working hours/sprint). To give a...

agile scrum team

Artem Kaznatcheev

9:58 PM

Do you want to have a go at it @jonsca?

@jonsca do you want to edit that in as a related question? I usually have a little "Related questions" header when it applies.

I would do it myself. but you found the link :P

I am worried about this user:

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A: What factors contribute to mixing up two different persons?

Many factors may contribute to such behavior. Anxiety, inattention and desire are the more probable. In your case it seems you have been a little bit anxious (and the causes for that can also be multiple). Maybe you have been thinking about the girl since the moment you first found her, maybe you...

also... why does nobody downvote anything?

everybody is so nice....

I feel like the big bad boogie boy

sorry, had to edit in the alliteration

@ArtemKaznatcheev I tossed a couple others in there as well

@ArtemKaznatcheev She gave another junky answer a couple of days ago, I think, which I think I did downvote

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca she seems to have a lot of them. There is also some other worrying coincidences

@jonsca because we always disagree on abnormal psychology... does drug addiction fall under abnormal psych?

I think it does, but if I am wrong then feel free to retag:

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Q: Does the Minnesota method really produce an effective change in the treatment of drugs addictions?

The Minnesota method intends to cure drug addiction, but doesn't deeply deal with the personality structure underlying addiction. We know today how addiction is a problem with an enormous range of factors causing it, being personality or/and psychopathology and coping strategies some of the most ...

abnormal-psychology personality psychiatry addiction

10:19 PM

I was just checking the TOCs for J. Abnormal Psych. and it seems like there is a lot of alcohol and smoking questions, but not a lot on drug abuse for some reason. I think it's probably okay, though

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca you are missing out on a lot of close-vote goodness

I guess you've been avoiding CogSci?

I haven't been totally avoiding it, but some of these past few days I just haven't even known where to begin.

We're back on the "what brain structures underlie picking your nose" train lol

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca it is a very important question. Is the relevant brain structure close to the nose and thus picking is a self-limiting process? Or is it far from the nose and thus not self limiting? Or is it actually a default behavior and the inhibition centres are close to the nose, so it is self-accelerating and likely fatal.

Either way, the Egyptians knew something about it that we don't know.

WRONG. It's the bioquantum effects of the olfactory bulb

Seth Lloyd told me so

;)

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca wait.. wait. Why are we bashing on Seth Lloyd? I actually kind of like the guy, although he isn't careful enough with his math at times, but he is a physicist and has to be excused for that.

10:26 PM

> The problem with this model is that olfactory receptors are not very specific: They can be unlocked by many different keys. This has led some researchers to propose that the receptors are sensitive not only to the shape of the odorant molecule, but to its vibrational frequencies—that is, its “sound.” The combination of shape and sound provides a unique signature for the molecule.

> For the vibrational theory of smell to hold, however, the underlying dynamics of the molecule in the receptor must be intrinsically quantum mechanical: The receptor must respond to individual phonons—quasi-particles of sound—generated by the molecule.

Oh yeah, I have no problem with him, really. Just seems a bit hard to confirm experimentally

pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2014/03/quantum-life

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca why? I thought the chemistry of these things was pretty well studied?

They did cool stuff with bird magnetoperception and photosynthesis stuff

I don't quite buy the phonon explanation just yet.

I'll have to look at the magnetoperception stuff again.

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca well, I think it is silly of them to use the word "sound" because now we will have a generation of quant-quacks talking about how we hear with our noses

but the 'quasi-particle with strange quantum properties' approach is actually relatively common

for instance, that is what happens in photosynthesis

with the 'exciton' serving as the quasi-particle

I'm going to run and eat, but I'll be back in a bit.

Artem Kaznatcheev

@jonsca have a good one! Send me an email sometime. I feel like we haven't chatted in a while

10:30 PM

Oh, I definitely believe in phonons, but I don't associate them with this application.

You too, it was fun chatting. Maybe I can turn this into an actual question! :)

(without turning it into another dirty tissue on the pile of fringe questions)

@ArtemKaznatcheev Yes, I definitely will

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11:38 PM

@ArtemKaznatcheev This is my method as well :D

@jonsca Hahaha...sounds about right!

@ArtemKaznatcheev I generally resist downvoting first posts, but otherwise, I'm starting to hesitate somewhat less...

> Salvaging Questions (though see below). I once wrote in chat that Jeromy leans over some bad questions like one would to a guy passed out on the subway and pounds on their chests screaming "LIVE DAMMIT". He is always willing to come in with an edit and neaten things up so we have some self-respect.

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A: Six Month Moderator Evaluation

I received the following feedback anonymously via my personal website: Feedback for Jeromy Anglim♦: + Expertise, although not required to be a mod, I'm glad Jeromy brings all of his knowledge of the discipline to the table. If he doesn't know the answer (and I swear he's got a database full...

@jonsca IMO, alcohol and smoking are drug ab/use issues, and legal status should not have much bearing on the demarcation of scientific domains. Drug use is definitely of clinical relevance, and can often cause abnormal neurological conditions, so it's probably harder to make the case that it's off-topic in abnormal psych.

True. I was just basing my opinion on what their flagship journal had covered.

I had to pull that quote out of the archives (I wish I'd written it a bit more cleanly) in response to your reply to my other comment.

Oh, also, I gotta admit, I hesitate to downvote answers because I'm still hoarding rep...but when an answer is really bad, yeah, I think I've established my policy in that case :) Here's my own corresponding meta reference: meta.cogsci.stackexchange.com/a/841/4086

@jonsca The bit about olfactory receptor sensitivity sounds like good question material. I don't think it's fringe at all! Curious as to why you'd think otherwise though...

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