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by tqi 2y ago
Interesting, this effect sounds very similar to how the words used to describe wine cause you to taste those notes.
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1. I'm not sure why having two charts side by side helps? 2. Indexed charts are also not a panacea - depending on what point on the x axis you choose as your starting point, it is easy to make it seem like one series is rapidly outpaci
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For one, correlation is not causation. For another, these numbers ("3.5% of the whole population", "53% of the time compared to 26% for the violent protests") all seems incredibly precise for something as messy as real w
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> but it's very rare for everything to go wrong all of the time. I think in reality the inputs to these models are a lot less independent than they would like. Even in the example at the start of the article, I suspect that for most
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Just to clarify, in this scenario where the state is harvesting organs for transplantation (a complicated medical procedure), you are saying that the methodology employed was to do it en-masse outdoors with guns (with cameras present), as o
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Because conceding the one data point that you present but doubling down on the conclusion screams confirmation bias. There have been numerous articles debunking this narrative. If you google "how many homes in america are owned by corp
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This response tells me you arrived at your conclusion well before you saw any data.
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Thinking that you alone know "the right thing", that you are surrounded by "idiots", that people "call you rude or disrespectful, simply because you don't smile when you talk" and not because they (correct
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> brand is built on investor money (not profits) and then later profits are achieved by cashing out the brand value. Well for one, every new business is initially built on investor money, not profits, and "cashing out" is in th
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It's possible both of you are right...
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What do you think "enshittification" means, exactly?
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Let's imagine these features are extremely effective and widely adopted, and the advertising market evaporates. What do people think is going to happen to the content ecosystem - suddenly all the low quality ad sponsored clickbait will
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Holding other countries to your standards is colonialism.
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The journalists at NPR seem appalled that a member of their staff would "violate everyone’s trust" by speaking publicly about this, which is odd since so much of their profession relies on people breaking confidentiality and trust
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Videos are not as information dense as text - both because people talk slower than they read and because authors are forced to spend more time planning and editing. The difference between Loom and Tiktok is Looms don't have to compete
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I absolutely LOATH it when people post a video instead of a document or deck (except in cases when they need to demo something) because they essentially offload the work onto the audience. Obviously there are exceptions, but in general writ
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I think this is a unique circumstance. Market at 15th is not really a good area IMO - while it is close to Duboce Triangle (which is very nice), the road noise from Market combined with proximity to the sketch part of SOMA[1] make it fairly
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> AI is coming for higher education As long as hiring managers continue to give more weight to resumes with name brand colleges, these universities will never be threatened.
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I'll be curious to see how vertical specific platforms will compete/coexist with more general platforms like Patreon. I wonder if eventually we'll see something like The Match Group emerge...
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For a substack called "memoirs & rambles", I think writing in a style that conveys a bit of the writer's own personality is fine, even if it comes at the expense of clarity. Not everything has to be an Argument Paper.
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> There's no good reason to believe there's a tight correlation there. You don't think there is a strong correlation between how people spend their time and what they talk about?
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> really only Americans who obsessively talk about or reference TV shows and movies in their small talk For one, it doesnt seem like americans are significant outliers in tv consumption[1] or smartphone usage[2]. For another, yeah if you
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> We all know how easy it is to manipulate users... aka Cambridge Analytica. There is little to no evidence that CA was able to manipulate anyone other than gullible campaign managers. And frankly the idea that a list of pages someone li
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> We all know how easy it is to manipulate users... aka Cambridge Analytica. There is little to no evidence that CA was able to manipulate anyone other than gullible campaign managers. And frankly the idea that a list of pages someone li
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I don't think any of the common problems[1] are relevant for this specific application (understanding the importance of serial position). Like I said, I'd be curious to understand the motivation behind their methodology choice. [1
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> The participants described the first few individuals quite positively, using an average of 6.2 positive words each. But as they progressed through the sequence, their descriptions became significantly more negative, dipping to an avera
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> Ultra processed foods might contain the same nutrients as fresh fruits or vegetables, but they’re clearly not the same. How do they differ?
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My objection is less to the broad generalizations (though I'm curious what the line between a generalization and stereotype these days) and more that the conclusion the author comes to[1] is exceptionally reductive, and is completely l
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> I know I have my biases, cultural and otherwise, so I shouldn't say that one way is right and another is wrong, but... I think the point of acknowledging biases is to correct them, not give carte blanche to lean into them.
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I'm honestly still not clear on the distinction. > Agreeing to use an algorithm is an agreement. In algorithmic collusion, a pricing algorithm combines competitor data and spits out the suggested “maximized” rent for a unit given lo

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