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by inteoryx 5y ago
I wonder if, setting quality aside, the kinds of tricks (is "tricks" right?) that skaters do becomes more similar with technology. That is, skater X was going to do some random trick, until X learned that skaters Y and Z were doi
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by inteoryx 5y ago
Your comment is a bit ironic in the sense that I can tell you didn't read the article because you reproduce conclusions from the article. That's okay! Obviously you didn't need to read it to know what I would have said. :)
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by inteoryx 5y ago
For the title, I did say "At Harvard" and not "In Harvard" or "By Harvard". I think the student newspaper is indeed at Harvard. I'm also pretty clear about what text I'm looking at in the article.
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by inteoryx 5y ago
One nice thing about getting feedback is learning all of the additional stuff I should have included in the blog post. I did look at number of articles per year, and it fluctuates, but there isn't a huge change across the century, and
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I had a similar intuition and graphed unique words per year while writing this. I found, surprisingly, that actually the reverse was true. Unique words per year go up, even as diversity goes down. Another finding that may explain this is
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I suppose "old fashioned" is much more of a subjective measurement than an objective one. At first I was going to rate "snail" as not at all old fashioned, since we still use the word. But then, I thought of medieval s
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Language homogenization at Harvard(inteoryx.com)
105 points by inteoryx 5y ago|81 comments
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by inteoryx 5y ago
Thanks so much. You've really gone above and beyond with this comment. I very much appreciate it. I've made a couple tweaks that may resolve the issue. If you have a chance to take another look I'd love to know if it is or
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by inteoryx 5y ago
Thanks for letting me know and the details. I will look into it and correct it if I am able.
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by inteoryx 5y ago
Hmm. That is odd, and not behavior I see in either Firefox or Chrome. I'm afraid my knowledge of CSS is insufficient to explain why that might be happening. What OS are you using? What ad blocker?
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I was just trying to glibly acknowledge that some tweets are in a different language. I didn't filter those out. I do expect it will hinder the user's ability to tell which is offensive or not, but I don't think it will mak
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by inteoryx 5y ago
Were the images loading by default for you? I intended to set it up so that the images showed up as links for you to click if you wanted to or not - and there is a warning above the quiz about clicking the links. Although, granted, I coul
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I'm not surprised that it works poorly. I am surprised that it seems to work randomly though. I would understand if every Tweet that had a curse word in it was marked offensive, and that wouldn't be a very good filter, but it wo
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by inteoryx 5y ago
The order of the questions is random per user, so not everyone will have the same 3rd set of Tweets. I'm not sure if Twitter's algorithm is detecting a political bias and that detection is an input, or if Twitter marks Tweets as o
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I think it depends on how you mean that. One way to imagine the phrase is to think about people with cloistered views in politics, religion, social views, etc. These people could get "offended" by being exposed to more cosmopoli
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by inteoryx 5y ago
The frustrations for honest webpage developers and users are but another casualty from the aggressive advertising industry.
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I've seen tweets that are nothing but innocuous gifs get marked as offensive. Several examples in there are people responding to k-pop Tweets with identical statements (e.g. "I like so and so the best") and one will be marke
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by inteoryx 5y ago
An earlier idea I had for this was to put two tweets side by side and ask the user to say which tweet was more offensive. Then, I figured I could use the ELO rating system to come up with an "Offensive score" for each tweet. e.g
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by inteoryx 5y ago
Hmm, that's unfortunate. I had considered loading the tweets as images instead of actually embedding them. I hadn't realized ad/tracking protectors might block the tweets, or else that might have pushed me over the edge to
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I think if you could genuinely identify offensive tweets then you could hide them from people who prefer that. It would make the user experience more pleasant. Few people want to be offended! An ideal may be a customized algorithm per use
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by inteoryx 5y ago
That's true, but the end result, no matter how complicated their algorithm is, is that they don't seem to be doing a very good job of distinguishing offensive from inoffensive tweets.
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by inteoryx 5y ago
Two possibilities. Someone else mentioned that their ad/tracking protection was causing a problem. I can only guess that this is blocking my attempt to embed tweets in the quiz. If this is the case I'd expect none of the tweets
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by inteoryx 5y ago
That's true. I could have added a "Neither is offensive" button, but my goal was just to show that you can't really tell the difference between what Twitter is doing and random chance and I thought that "Neither&qu
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by inteoryx 5y ago
You had to disable enhanced tracking to get the quiz to work? That's surprising to me. Were the tweets not loading in the quiz without it? I'm using Twitter's JS library to embed the tweets, the only thing I can imagine is
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by inteoryx 5y ago
One problem is that it's hard to see how decentralizing work for profit could ever be more efficient than centralizing it. In the decentralizing case you must do the additional work of dividing the task into separate pieces, distribut
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Offensive Tweet Quiz(inteoryx.com)
37 points by inteoryx 5y ago|59 comments
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I'm impressed at how fast other people are. On my first playthrough I was ~40 percentile for speed. Even on my second I was only ~52 percentile and that was when I knew the answers! I finally just went through a third time and click
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by inteoryx 5y ago
I'd need to know more than I do about Ethereum in order to have a solid opinion. My current impression is that Ethereum tries to provide some value or innovation in the form of distributed computation, which is good, but also that the
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by inteoryx 5y ago
In this analogy I think that a law against is mugging is analogous to a law against financial scams like dogecoin. Of course the existence of the law won't prevent anyone from getting scammed or mugged, but it may reduce the frequency
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by inteoryx 5y ago
For what it's worth, I do feel the same way about bitcoin. I just feel like the argument is even more clear when discussing dogecoin. I also think that once you reach this conclusion on dogecoin it is easy to think "Well dogecoi

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