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What is the easiest, cheapest, most basic daily meal plan that would provide everything an average human being needs to maintain health? Andrew Ross Long, I eat food every day. 133 votes I was A2A. Great question! Modern man, now enjoying a cornucopia of dietary choice, is faced with something relatively new in his evolutionary history: the question of "w... Read More » As a 22-year-old Bay Area software engineer, how can I make enough money to buy a nice house in the next 5 years? Andrew Hamada, lived in SF briefly in 2010 818 votes Here's a pretty basic way to do it, while still living in reasonable comfort for the five years. Income assumptions You're employed as a software developer...  Read More » What are some tips for not-so-streetsmart people? Amanda Tendler, Traveler. Teacher. Thinker. 471 votes This will save your life. If someone tries to attack you never shout help. People won't come out to look. They don't want to get involved or risk harm to themselves or th... Read More » Is it true that many physicists are abandoning the String Theory? David Simmons-Duffin, Physicist 277 votes I just wrote and deleted a very different answer. Instead let me tell you the story of Lubos Motl's desk. When I started graduate school at Harvard, I needed a desk for m... Read More » When actors are portraying characters from books, is it better to read the original book first and then read the screenplay? Cameron Monaghan, Actor, Shameless 118 votes I think it’s always great to read the book first if you have a chance. As an actor, you get a greater understanding of a character’s motivations and ideas because it’s told... Read More » What was the lowest probability event happening in your life? Niklas Wijkander 58 votes When i was about ten, i went skiing in a small swiss resort called klosters. I accidentally took someone else's ski boots at the airport (our ski boots had the same branded... Read More » What are the most basic mathematical proofs or facts that the majority of people would benefit from? Holden Lee, Cambridge maths student 643 votes Simpson's Paradox is a common situation arising in statistics that is counter-intuitive and cause many people to misinterpret data. Suppose we are trying to measure the ef... Read More » How do I believe that the shade of blue (or any other color) I see would be the same shade seen by someone else? Robert Frost, engineer/instructor at NASA 556 votes Let me start with a bit of semantics that it isn't really a question of whether the shades you see are the same or different. It's a question of the actual colors. Shades... Read More » Why do people often think of quantum mechanics as weird? Igor Markov, EECS Professor at Michigan - currentl... 59 votes Because we do not directly observe basic quantum-mechanical phenomena in everyday life, the rules of QM are very different from what we have learned from experience. For ex... Read More » Who are some of the best PhD advisors in the field of machine learning? Andrew Cropper, Imperial PhD student, Oxford alumnus,... 52 votes Michael I. Jordan is a professor at Berkeley. Here is a small sample of whom he has supervised: David Blei, Associate Professor, Princeton University Zoubin Ghahramani, Pr... Read More »