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aerobatic · 3392 days ago · link · · parent · post: Should you take Tylenol, Advil, or aspirin for pain? Here's what the evidence says.

After listening to this:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/use-only-as-directed

I'm a lot more wary of acetaminophen.

aerobatic · 3392 days ago · link · · parent · post: Boston Dynamics: ATLAS bipedal robot

There is actually a lot of value to creating bipedal humanoid robots, but it may take a while to be realized.

Since many things are designed for us to use, having a humanoid robot may enable the robot to learn human affordances. This may make it easier for the robot to "understand" humans and optimize its behavior.

aerobatic · 3392 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can You Keep Perfect Time? Take This Test And Find Out!

Don't worry about getting 1000. USB keyboard response times have a standard deviation of 2.5-10ms, so anything above 900 is about as perfect as the computer can measure.

There is also some timing variation inherent by measuring with javascript, though I'm not sure how much.

EDIT: Got curious and looked into it some more - even 1000Hz gaming mice have a 1.8ms SD. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4374455/

I'm using SD rather than mean response time since it is more relevant to rhythm.