primed

The upside is that people are primed to be surprised by what you can do. Try to view that as an advantage.

Only if you're primed by your culture to blanch at transhumanism. > What if some students can afford tDCS kits, but others cant?

Of course, there were competing standards, and who primed which varies, but I don't think Motorola primed any of them.

The blogger then writes their own story the way they see it, but they are primed to write the article the company wanted. At least that's the rumor I've heard about how it works.

People are already primed to judge them on it, because the industy's own advertising has taught them to. Stupid stupid.

So after you have been primed about the subject, what is preventing their wide spread usage? Durability.

Set it up that way and they're primed to give critical feedback. If they can help you articulate what's problematic about the interface, they end up being the hero.

I was all primed to disagree with this article, but it's a pretty well placed piece. I think an interesting pivot occurs when your start hitting the limits of working memory.

But it'll get you in front of potential users, and those users will be primed to try out your product. The trick is in identifying the existing solution, finding people who use it, and getting some of their time.

With a metabolism primed for burning fat for energy and not subject to a blood sugar roller coaster, going a couple days without food is more of a mental challenge than physical hunger. 1.

Maybe the story around it primed my reaction, but the terseness struck me a little differently." Every minute I spend writing this email is another minute you will spend waiting for the response, and a minute less you will have with your friend."

When those variations correspond to effects that a subject or researcher has been primed to expect, the subject or researcher is more likely to notice that effect. This is simple confirmation bias.

These women are "primed" with their stereotypes and it dramatically influences performance. Even asking people to think about being a professor increases their performance!

Nurses get paid as much as programmers I was all primed with a fiery response about how good programmers in hot markets should be pulling more than 200k, lousy markets at least 100k, and anyone who wasn't is either a lousy negotiator or not good, but then I remembered where I was. The crme de la crme.

The release is in noticing that those inductive engines can be primed on the very tiniest actions—and those tiny actions are all you, the implementer, are responsible for. When writing your inductive step consider only the things that are novel about this case.

You get no notoriety, the target is primed for it already and is protected by their own anonymity. Trolling on 4chan has been elevated to such an art-form that it takes more energy to successfully troll than basically anywhere else on the internet.

If a reporter regurgitates the meme as fact, readers are warned about the reporter's lack of general knowledge about the subject and will be primed to read the rest of the article with a more critical eye.

Just to add another variable to consider, studies show* that men and women perform considerably better or worse at stereotypically masculine and feminine tasks depending on how their identity is primed. Considering individual variance and societal influence, making assumptions about an individual's capabilities based solely on their sex seems foolish and even harmful.

A society where justice is widely perceived to be available only to the most powerful and well-connected is one that is primed to fall prey to any number of severe and most likely violent pathologies. The legitimacy of the legal system is the result of centuries of work by jurists, judges, legal scholars, politicians and others; each of whom added their effort to making it so that not only they believed the law had dealt fairly with those who came before it but also that it had appeared to be fair to the rest of society.

More bluntly, we seem primed to confidently see history as an inevitable march toward a theory-predicted global conflict with an alien united them determined to oppose our core symbolic values, making infeasible overly-risky overconfident plans to oppose them. We seem primed to neglect the value and prospect of trillions of quirky future creatures not fundamentally that different from us, focused on their simple day-to-day pleasures, mostly getting along peacefully in vastly-varied uncoordinated and hard-to-predict local cultures and life-styles.

I often just write a little bit of code to get my brain primed, with no intention to keep even one byte of that code in my final program. It may even be utterly wrong, but that doesn't matter--it helps me get started. Or, I might just stare at the wall for ten minutes until inspiration hits me. Or I may decide to go do something else entirely and let my subconscious mind work on the problem. Then the answer often just comes to me in the middle of something else. Sometimes the answer comes to me, literally, while I am sleeping. When you would ask me how I came to the answer, I wouldn't be able to tell you: I primed my brain and then eventually a lightbulb turned on.