noirdujour

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by noirdujour 5mo ago
I found the part about monitoring call center employees' stress levels and then showing them montages of their family to calm them down to be particularly interesting as a solution. https://www.americanbanker.com/news&#
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by noirdujour 6mo ago
Engineers, creatives, and other product focused roles tend to be well suited for these types of flexible schedules. Customer or sales focused less so, especially if the team or customers all have a similar preferred working hour. If everyon
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by noirdujour 2y ago
The article does a decent job of explaining of how Chinese characters work, but it falls short of explaining why. The reason why Chinese continues to use a logographic writing system is due to both tradition and practicality. English has gr
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by noirdujour 3y ago
I'm not aware of any experiments, formal or informal that tries to seek if negative content is promoted more. The article states one experiment with bots saw how quickly the feed would become saturated with majority negative content. B
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by noirdujour 4y ago
This touches a little on philosophical difference, but I have found that one major difference is the quantification of uncertainty. Bayesian models, being based naturally around modeling a probability distribution, easily enables the resear
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by noirdujour 4y ago
> MUTCD designs streets similarly to rural highways, and this can create conditions where people speed when they need to be driving slowly, because the design of the street doesn't reflect the speed the sign says you need to be driv
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by noirdujour 4y ago
I think that it's interesting that it's BS that's the focus. Are there many fields where you can thrive on non-BS alone? You could be a great sports player, but without some amount of BS you might not get noticed or believed.
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by noirdujour 4y ago
I find it pretty shocking that Teman can advertise its law-circumventing tech so blatantly. No one really objects from cameras in hallways, but jumping from using them as more of an auditing and security tool to actively monitoring and assu