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by troelsSteegin 3y ago
"The Skillful Teacher", by Saphier, Haley-Speca, and Gower, is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the craft of teaching. Like the commenter says, there's a lot going on, and so potentially a lot to juggle. https:&#x
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by troelsSteegin 3y ago
I read the article as asserting that all action must be economically observable in order to be action. That action requires concrete allocation of resources, and that in order to care, you have to do something. Otheriwse, I agree.
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by troelsSteegin 3y ago
"systematic ablation" - https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/380040/what-is-an-... . How do you ablate a black box? You work with the inputs. I agree that this article lacks rigor, but I don't m
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by troelsSteegin 3y ago
"So if he had to invent a different term for artificial intelligence, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics"
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by troelsSteegin 3y ago
This is an interview with the authors of "Data Science in Context", https://datascienceincontext.com/ , about their intentions behind the book, which I'll describe as a framework for applied data science. The
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by troelsSteegin 3y ago
This is from 2000. Off topic, but it would be interesting to a predict plausible "next posts" from a given HN user. When I see some interesting but random seeming post, like this Gelman paper, I often try to infer the context behi
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
From the early '80s, I have nostalgia for "talk" and "finger".
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
That suggests that companies could have designed layoffs as accelerated attrition. They could make a prediction about who likely would have left on their own. They could make a prediction (or observation) about whom they were managing out.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
"Beyond Measure" [0], by James Vincent, is a good well researched read on the history of metrology. He doesn't mention the Dombey story. He does conclude [p. 265] that the ultimate reason that the imperial system stuck in the
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Question: are they using "filters" as facets or what FAST called refiners? That's the impression I had on a read through. Endeca (now something inside Oracle) had some early success with faceted search for ecommerce.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
His post mentions "Bean Machine." https://ericlippert.com/2020/09/23/introducing-bean-machine/ https://beanmachine.org/
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
They are writing about re-inventing industrial research labs - what should a modern Bell Labs be? They advocate for application-inspired scientific research as the majority of a portfolio - but also leaving room for curiousity-driven work t
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Via https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03747-9 , "Extreme numbers get new names": The prefixes ronna and quetta represent 10^27 and 10^30, and ronto and quecto signify 10^−27 and 10^−30. Earth weighs a
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Across the executive mea culpas, there is this theme of "I over estimated demand". But, one could take the perspective that they correctly hired to extract value during peak demand, because on average each new resource is profitab
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
What if the code in question is a DSL? Something say that is syntactically python, but with a namespace defined through a narrow set of imports. This would be interesting to explore for end-user scripting.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
FYI, she's still in prison: https://people.com/sports/brittney-griner-releases-statement...
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
This is from the "Software Engineering at Google" book, https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book Goals-Signals-Metrics seems like a nice way to organize thinking about performance. Predictive signals or metrics a
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
The suggestion is that in the face of something overwhelmingly weird, you cling to whatever structure you've got.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Is “cofounder coaching" all that different from a service a management consultant might typically perform? In any event, getting in the same room together and listening without interrupting seems like a pretty fundamental part of impro
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
I would start here: https://djpardis.com/
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Would GOMS [0] be a useful framework for thinking about cognitive load in programming? GOMS is a framework for analyzing user workload in system interaction. Bad or gnarly code creates a much more complex interface for the programmer. A qui
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
I would include (5) the presentation of search results - document snippets or surrogates and affordances for query refinement like faceting. One salient acronym is SERP, for search engine results page. A different "information retrieva
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
I am not familiar with "holotypes" in the "content strategy" space. From context, it looks like "genre". Elsewhere [0] it looks like "exemplar". I am awaiting some future post on "holotype tips&q
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Vocab word of the day: "eucatastrophes": "a sudden turn of events in a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom.", via https://en.wi
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
The empty c-words content, culture, community, and creator all up to the fifth: empty consumption. Why do we keep clicking?
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Sesame Street feels like a important piece of American culture. "Mr Rogers", too. Like, if there was a National Film Archive for TV... What preserves these shows, what guarantees access to these shows? The shows are of course also
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
As a parent, you can be well very well informed on the issue, and still not be able to solve it in your kid. I'd venture that this kind of futility is more prevalent than ignorance.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
What reading the post suggests to me is that they are identifying high quality chunks of content as unique, and then ranking pages up or down in part according to what was seen to have published a given chunk first.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
This work reads to me like a neat smart hack. It's the kind of thing I miss reading about in more ambitious systems and learning papers. It "magically" reverses elements of a transformation. If I read it right, it follows a p
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Compiler "optimizations" aren't necessarily improvements. Optimization patterns, however, can be nicely enumerated. This is from 1971, Frances Allen and John Cocke. It looks like a classic paper. See previously https:/&

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