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When I cite such things, it's because "all models are wrong, but mine are useful" :) And yeah I think big five is useful in the above context, and also for things like this: https://arnoldkling.substack.com&#x2F
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The piece is written by a member of the posse [0] who can be, as I think the above quoted piece demonstrates, somewhat abrasive [0] https://medium.com/@OmnesRes/the-circle-of-data-thug-life-81...
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inter alia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515822
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I worked with Nick a few times in a previous job and he was a reviewer on a paper I wrote; he was really nice and professional, and his feedback was constructive and incisive. The movement he's part of is fundamentally disagreeable (in
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I’m currently nomadic and a gaming laptop would be over current carrying capacity; I much prefer Mac OS and Apple build quality; and gaming components are crazy expensive. I might get a PlayStation or an Xbox at some point though
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Really glad I didn’t buy any titles on the platform, which I presume will be non-transferable when this folds. The glory days of cloud gaming, for me, were when i was a beta subscriber to GeForce Now and I could play all my Steam and Blizza
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I am sensitive to claims that we know more than we do, it is true. A lot of this is pandemic-related; I see a lot of claims about what we know about the virus that seem totally uncalibrated to the strength of the evidence, and in that conte
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An article can be as high-bandwidth as it needs to be to communicate clearly... When I read > He turns 190 years old this year, making him the world’s oldest tortoise to ever live I don't hear an implicit "known" in that.
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> the company will go though a burst of "blog productivity" One of the most insightful comments I ever read on HN pointed out that marketing folks are good at selling things, period, and that includes selling things internally.
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The question of where liability should sit for our collective reliance on fossil fuels is interesting. One reckoning I want to see is with our collective delusion that plastics are fundamentally recyclable. Frankly I think a “truth and reco
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Can you wash off the bittering agent? The article does not specify and I want to know for…hypothetical reasons
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Prejudice Reduction: Progress and Challenges (2021)(sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)
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Just want to applaud whoever designed the graphics for this piece. Must have been a lot of fun :)
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I wonder what she would make of writing Python in Rstudio & to an Rmd? Rstudio is trying to get people on board with this e.g. https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023654474-I...
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Previous discussion of Axie Infinity & Bullshit jobs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29716900 (A bit surprised this article references David Graeber, but not PB's piece)
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This problem is one reason why I'm a little mystified by Juypter's widespread adoption. It's got a lot of neat features but the Rstudio/Rmarkdown combo solves the above problem, and for me at least, that's decisive.
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Something I just learned about age discrimination: people over 40 are a protected group in the US, but otherwise it's perfectly legal [0]: > The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people w
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> The internet is for end users: any change made to the web platform has the potential to affect vast numbers of people, and may have a profound impact on any person’s life. Love this. I have an iPhone SE 2020, and if I had my druthers I
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Coming home from Tokyo to New York in 2018 was depressing. You get so used to living in a dysfunctional society that you forget it's dysfunctional, but getting off the plane at JFK, I was reminded of Biden's comment that our airpo
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David Brooks gave it a 'Sidney Award' for best long-form journalism, which is how I came to read it: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/opinion/brooks-sidney-awa...
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A Series of Rooms Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell(granta.com)
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my pleasure, I believe I first learned about it from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534580 This particular conversion came out not so great but I think generally they are better
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obligatory arXiv-vanity conversion: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2106.14204/
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Code and data here https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-track... Really nice to see a 'legacy' publication embrace open source
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Lately, I have been reading the Wheel of Time series, so it’s probably upwards of 20. I do it as a way to avoid doomscrolling. For a long time, when I thought about reading midddlebrow stuff, I figured it was a waste of time and I should be
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It's also elsewhere, e.g. on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/rh81c0/mitch_letter... I am surprised it's blocked in the EU. My first guess is that this student newspaper doesn&#x
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This comes up in the movie Okja but I didn’t know it was based on a real thing
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This is a minor quibble, but this sentence: >Scripps’ automated system took the actual cost of sutures, imposed an apparently preset 675% markup and produced a billed amount that was orders of magnitude higher than the true price. was jo
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> 1. Music is not “inherently social” - it is just as often anti-social Or, as one of my favorite metal bands put it when asked about going on tour: "Our music is a solitary experience." From: https://www.invisibleor
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One of the epigraphs at the beginning of Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' is: > “Clark, who led last year’s expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, and UC Berkeley colleague Tim D. White, also said that a re-

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