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by divan 3y ago
I don't see any contradiction here. Merit trophies do increase motivation, but only for small subset of people, and decrease for the rest. It's also important to note that we're talking about statistical nature of things here
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by divan 3y ago
Thanks for sharing! Didn't know human voice can do this.
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by divan 3y ago
Well, it's not my hypothesis at all :) The link I posted is a review of the literature on the topic. I think the real problem with "participation trophies" is that it has very low competence signal. Not negative. But very low
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by divan 3y ago
I think you are right. While I'm interested in sports governance/economics/history as a whole, I'm mainly dealing with figure skating, so biased towards the problems of this sport. Boxing rankings are fun, by the way. As
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by divan 3y ago
Well, in the 6.0 system, however subjective and imperfect, the judges assessed the overall skater's level. One judge might have preferred complex jumps, while others might be more inclined toward edge control and skating skills. And th
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by divan 3y ago
Great comment. I see you use rankings and ratings as synonyms, but there's a crucial difference here. Knowing that your level is 500 or 1200 (rating) is useful feedback for seeing yourself improve. Knowing that you're on the 10th
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by divan 3y ago
That's perfectly fine, except something more is happening with figure skating. You see, rotating your body in the air and using your body for locomotion on the ice are two very different skills. What's happening now with figure sk
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by divan 3y ago
Great comment, thank you. I would just add that the russia thing is a direct consequence of the judge's system change (where russian officials are very much involved). The reason why russia was dominating medal standings for women (and
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by divan 3y ago
Thank you for the insightful comment! Is there any good read on the subject? Re: petere, it's not about Romans, rather the original meaning that provides insight into the pure form of competition. There is a great book called "Tru
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by divan 3y ago
It's awesome that you have this experience. So, to be clear, competition – with rewards, prizes, and medals – is a form of extrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivation is often very powerful (gun at your head – also an extrinsic motivato
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by divan 3y ago
Yes, and we're talking about statistically measurable things. There is plenty of room to experiment with different reward systems in competitions. For example, in Finland, there is an alternative figure skating judging system for kids&
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by divan 3y ago
True. Traditional (and still popular) beliefs that sports talents can be identified early are questioned a lot within the sports science community. [1] Canada has implemented a scientifically-based LTD (Long-Term Development) model of sport
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by divan 3y ago
Yes, and it's not just in schools. Drawing from SDT (self-determination theory), one of the main predictors for motivation is a psychological need called 'competence' (perception of whether your actions lead to the feeling of
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by divan 3y ago
And then 3000 Japanese fans outvote everyone else :) I’m looking into Eurovision judging as a curious example (half votes come from public and half from judges) :)
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by divan 3y ago
Absolutely. Competition is just an incentive structure for athletes. Even the word "competition" stems from the Latin words "com" and "petere" and means "strive with". Not "strive against".
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There is a deeper and largely overlooked problem with sports judging, especially in the sports with artistic component (like gymnastics or figure skating) – Goodhart's effects. Goodhart's effect stands for "when the metric be
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by divan 3y ago
Warp is amazing if you're ok with closed-source and mandatory Github login. Surprisingly, one of the features I use a lot is built-in AI assistant. Became a habit to just type in a sidebar of the terminal stuff like "how do I sort
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Ask HN: What talks do you consider real gems?
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Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?
800 points by divan 3y ago|237 comments
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Two last words from the title could be omitted :)
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One of the most insightful articles on Go in years. Great educational stuff!
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Some hope on Colapse OS [1] perhaps? [1] http://collapseos.org
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One of the best articles on this subject - Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think by Common Cog. Good overview of Goodhart's effects and particulary effective practice of fighting it at Amazon from "Working Ba
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You might enjoy reading this article: https://kamilkazani.substack.com/p/avocado-economy-why-russi...
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Linguistic choices aside, the nature of power acquision is very different in russia and western countries. One of the best explainers is on Kamil Galeev's twitter/substack. Highly recommended read: https://kamilkazani.s
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by divan 3y ago
Web pages can still be in HTML. It's a bad choice for UI apps. (With current state of web ecosystem it's hard to tell the difference between what is page and what is an app, of course. But imagine we had a real choice on the outse
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When browsers finally have full and first-class WASM ecosystem integrated (and ecosystem developed), we'll be looking back on this "pretend-that-HTML-is-an-UI-framework" thing with genuine horror.
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I see "How to complain about Go" (2015) [1] needs an update. [1] https://medium.com/@divan/how-to-complain-about-go-349013e06...
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by divan 3y ago
I had the same pain with NeoVim infrastructure, but AstroNvim/astrocommunity kinda solved it for me.
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In some countries that's the default mode of interaction between human drivers and human pedestrians.

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