- "an AI system which, without any prior training, learned to play a series of Atari 2600 games to the point of out-performing humans. ... ‘without any prior training’ as the system was not ‘told’ anything about the games. It worked out how to play them, and how to win them, entirely on its own." http://mindhacks.com/2015/01/21/pwned-by-a-self-learning-ai/ 3 comments technews
- [Old] Artificial intelligence ‘sees’ visual illusion http://mindhacks.com/2007/10/04/artificial-intelligence-sees-visual-illusion/ 4 comments artificial
- The strange case of a man with “the desire to be injured by an automobile operated by a woman.” http://mindhacks.com/2010/12/28/road-kill-for-hot-lady-drivers/ 9 comments science
- Mind Hacks: Street football smarts http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/06/street_football_smar.html 3 comments soccer
- I feel what you mean http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/06/i_feel_what_you_mean.html 4 comments cogsci
- A man with virtually no serotonin or dopamine http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/03/a_man_with_virtually.html 24 comments cogsci
- We go with the flow http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/01/we_go_with_the_flow.html 4 comments web_design
- Do blind people hallucinate on LSD? Finally an answer! http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/11/do_blind_people_hall.html 27 comments science
- Men: Pain? What pain? http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/07/pain_what_pain.html 3 comments cogsci
- Mind Hacks: Blink outside the box http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/10/blink_outside_the_bo.html 3 comments cogsci
- Stunning brain scans of 500-year-old mummies http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/09/stunning_brain_scans.html 3 comments science
- How long is a severed head conscious for? http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/08/how_long_is_a_severe.html 124 comments science
- Mind Hacks: The psychology of being scammed http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/05/the_psychology_of_be.html 3 comments science
- The psychology of being scammed http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/05/the_psychology_of_be.html 6 comments cogsci
- This is a 10-year (1993-2002) retrospective review of self-inflicted gunshot wounds of the head, among which we culled and paid special attention to cases of Russian roulette, at the Medical Examiners’ Offices in Kentucky. http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/05/russian_roulette_in_.html 17 comments cogsci
- Multilingual Patients Can Show Different Levels of Psychosis Depending on the Language Being Spoken http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/06/language_specific_ma.html 22 comments science
- This Is Your Brain On God http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/05/on_a_wing_and_a_pray.html 4 comments cogsci
- Killing the veneration of unbending concentration http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/02/killing_the_venerati.html 6 comments cogsci
- Laughing gas increases imagination, suggestibility http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/01/laughing_gas_increas.html 4 comments cogsci
- Deodorants are placebos http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/01/deodorants_boost_sex.html 2 comments science
- 'Internet addiction' built on foundations of sand http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/12/internet_addiction.html 26 comments cogsci
- The beauty algorithm and coding for the brain http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/10/the_beauty_algorithm.html 9 comments cogsci
- "people [...] perceived a sausage roll labelled as vegetarian as far inferior to a 'meat' version, even though they ate the same sausage roll on both occasions." http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/07/values_taste_percep.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Payment tends to reduce people's productivity and enjoyment for the same work compared to when it's done for free http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/08/the_best_jobs_in_lif.html 5 comments cogsci
- Psychopharmaparenting http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/07/psychopharmaparentin.html 3 comments science
- Consciousness happens between the panels: How comics might explain consciousness http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/06/consciousness_happen.html 9 comments cogsci
- Bullshit baffles brains: experts cannot be distinguished from non-experts in conversation http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/what_do_you_need_to_.html 93 comments science
- Male body symmmetry leads to more female orgasms http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/male_body_symmmetry.html 77 comments science
- Classic: "Perhaps some of the finest moments in hiccup medicine have come from the small but determined literature on the use of digital rectal massage" http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/03/the_way_to_a_mans_h.html 2 comments science
- Doctors realized he wasn't depressed at all, he was just British http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/01/its_not_a_symptom_.html 2 comments science
- Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/10/the_relationship_bet.html 3 comments reddit.com
- This is NOT what happens when someone with schizophrenia paints cats over a period of years http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/09/the_false_progressio.html 59 comments reddit.com
- Labelling emotions reduces their impact http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/06/labelling_emotions_r.html 2 comments science
- Natalie Portman: Cognitive Neuropsychologist http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/06/natalie_portman_cog.html 36 comments reddit.com
- Power naps for better memory http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/04/power_naps_for_bette.html 4 comments science
- Freedom is slavery (we are NOT really the masters of our fate and captains of our soul) http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/01/freedom_is_slavery.html 2 comments reddit.com
- What caused Nietzsche's insanity and death? http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/12/what_caused_nietzsch.html 4 comments science
- We underestimate how good looking we are when compared to other members of the same sex http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/11/if_youve_got_it_fl.html 2 comments science
- Children with half a brain http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/06/children_with_half_a.html 5 comments reddit.com
- Mind Hacks: music, wine and will http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/02/music_wine_and_will.html 4 comments reddit.com
Linking pages
- The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain? | WIRED http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/neurosecurity/ 21 comments
- GitHub - torchhound/warren: Links to lose yourself in, curated from HN and other sources https://github.com/torchhound/warren 3 comments
- Websites like Lifehacker - How-To Sites Worth Bookmarking http://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/80-how-to-sites-worth-bookmarking.html 2 comments
- Thank you, Dr. Sagan – Ouroboros http://ouroboros.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/thank-you-dr-sagan/ 1 comment
- Ghost Stories: Visits from the Deceased - Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=ghost-stories-visits-from-the-deceased 1 comment
- Smart Twitter Follows http://www.businessinsider.com/smart-twitter-follows-2014-9 1 comment
- Placebo buttons, false affordances and habit-forming – architectures by Dan Lockton http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2008/10/01/placebo-buttons-false-affordances-and-habit-forming/ 0 comments
- The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain? | WIRED http://www.wired.com/2009/07/neurosecurity/ 0 comments
- An Emptied Flask Makes for Empty Promises | WIRED http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/vodkagoals/ 0 comments