Comments on: ALDS Coverage: Dream Weaver

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:56:31 +0000

This kind of stuff is like farting to the cavalry charge of the William Tell overture and claiming it’s music.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:39:52 +0000

Without weighing in on Carson’s writing as a whole, I will say that the ‘ambiguous pronoun followed by parenthetical identification’ thing is totally unneccesary and, as a reader, just annoying.

By: Ken Arneson

Ken Arneson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:07:43 +0000

I’m a little late here, but:

The “try easier” issue is just another example of the differences in the declarative/procedural memory types.

Muscle memory is procedural memory. That means it’s an automatic, subconscious process. If you try to induce conscious control over those types of memories, you’re rerouting the process through the wrong memory system, and you’ll likely mess the process up.

The conscious part of the process has to come in advance, in tricking the procedural memory system to automatically do what you want it to do when the time comes.

That’s why there’s no such thing as clutch, but there is such a thing as choking. You can’t make an automatic process any better, but you can avoid “thinking too much”, ie sabotaging the automatic responses with improper routing.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:15:33 +0000

I enjoy these Carson. Keep it up!

By: ineedanap

ineedanap — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:52:56 +0000

Yeah, I kinda like the way he slowly wanders into an article. Plus, he lacks the snarky sans wit style that many articles on this site contain.

By: Doug Melvin

Doug Melvin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:26:23 +0000

And, judging by number of comments, a lot have.

The infamous ‘From the Department of Advanced Statistickery’: 151
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By: Matt L

Matt L — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:45:29 +0000

I’ll jump in with the guys refuting the grouches.

I enjoy the parable like stories, they make the article’s design memorable. You guys who don’t enjoy this style, and feel a need to whine and slight–that’s not too cool. Everything isn’t for everyone, take it easy.

By: Joe D.

Joe D. — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:22:58 +0000

I really enjoyed that. Carson, please ignore the haters and keep on Carsoning. That is to say, keep writing like Carson (i.e. with the fun and the tangents and such) as I enjoy your stuff immensely. I’ve read only one Carson article, but still.*

*Small sample sizes be damned!

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:13:19 +0000

It would be the morally responsible thing for him to do….

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:00:24 +0000

Carson doesn’t need to… you can stop reading his posts.