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by jstx1 5y ago
Freakonomics have a great episode on this - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/
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by jstx1 5y ago
If I heard this, I would think that those words are coming either from a sociopath or from a very socially inept person who read a self-help book. There are probably cultural differences in how it's perceived but it sounds so fake, for
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by jstx1 5y ago
It's good to point out that it works with bad habits too - if you repeat behaviours that you don't want every day, you're making your life worse in a very reliable way.
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by jstx1 5y ago
Newspapers use (used?) an inverted pyramid structure because the bottom of the article can often be cut in editing so everything fits correctly on the page. As a newspaper journalist, this is out of your control so you need to make sure tha
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by jstx1 5y ago
Your purchasing power for the goods in the index changed by that much over a year. It didn't "just" happen. And you aren't necessarily affected to the tune of 5.4% - could be more or less depending on how you use your mo
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by jstx1 5y ago
- The contents of the article are less important than you're implying, most people are here for the discussion. Yes, sometimes not reading the article is a problem but many other times it isn't and this can be clarified in the cou
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by jstx1 5y ago
> There is no reason to use R when Excel can do the jobs. It is when Excel can’t handle the task at hand, R shines. I think the problem is more nuanced because Excel can do a lot . There is a large set of use cases and tasks that are
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by jstx1 5y ago
I would recommend the opposite - pick stuff from tidyverse (mostly dplyr and ggplot2) only if you need them. Knowing base R goes a long way on its own.
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by jstx1 5y ago
You’re implying that it’s either AGI or nothing and I can’t agree. There are plenty of applications and use cases for ML out there. Should that be called “AI”? I don’t care too much personally. Is it overhyped? Sure. But there is enough use
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by jstx1 5y ago
The Veritasium video talks about research and how the evidence doesn't support the learning styles theory. On the other hand, psychology theory into personality has a lot of evidence to show that people vary a lot on their extraversion
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by jstx1 5y ago
> Why should we cater to the lowest common denominator? The options aren't just complete beginner vs math PhD though. Imagine an experienced software developer who has written these kinds of algorithms in other languages and has nev
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by jstx1 5y ago
It's not about math notation on its own or about mathematical education. I'm very comfortable with mathematical notation in textbooks and papers and I still think that using it in code is a mistake.
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by jstx1 5y ago
> I think that means this code in particular is not catering to the lowest common denominator of people using the algorithm Maybe the title should have been 'Algorithms that look concise and beautiful to people who already know them
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by jstx1 5y ago
> When you read math, do you need to describe the letters and symbols with English phrases in your head..? I don't need to only if I already know what they mean. How does your brain process a character that you can't pronounce
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by jstx1 5y ago
- one-letter variable names - Greek letters - glyphs with obscure latex codes The last one in particular - how do you read this in your mind if you don't already know the name of the character? - "Hmm, that's a curly handwrit
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by jstx1 5y ago
> Wouldn't a switch to four-day working week just mean a 25% pay increase for those employees? No, those are the same industries and jobs in which people are paid by the hour. And even if they weren't, it's naive to assume
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by jstx1 5y ago
Make the REPL ergonomic enough and it will crush any notebook interface. I think that's one reason why R users barely use Jupyter at all - RStudio's REPL is better than most of the out-of-the-box Python REPLs so R users don't
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by jstx1 5y ago
The usual progression is from doing guided meditation as a beginner to eventually using the app as a simple timer with no guidance at all.
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by jstx1 5y ago
Oak. It's only on iOS but it has no subscription and it's by far my favorite meditation app.
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by jstx1 5y ago
An obvious difference is that Dropbox was very early in its niche while at this point we already have many great meditation apps.
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by jstx1 5y ago
You can't write a bot to do this because most of that work happens in private repositories or on entirely separate enterprise instances.
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by jstx1 5y ago
The portfolio/social signalling reason is a tiny part of actual Github/Gitlab use. Most people and companies use these platforms to do their actual work and write software. So no - they're not even close to being a fad. If th