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by zharknado 3y ago
Schrödinger’s clam.
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by zharknado 3y ago
This guy Chestertons!
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by zharknado 3y ago
Looks truly stunning, love the idea of exposing the mechanics to the audience. I suspect it sounds like garbage compared to a concert grand.
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by zharknado 3y ago
In grad school we got to visit a children’s museum and learn about how they designed the exhibits. One of my favorite takeaways was that almost everything that’s reasonably possible for a child to touch/reach/climb is fair game. C
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by zharknado 3y ago
At first blush a freemium model seems incompatible with framing a product as a commodity. Curious if others have seen examples of that. I’ve never seen “free unlimited bacon,” but I have seen a lot of free samples (trials). Seems really tri
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by zharknado 3y ago
As I understand it, that’s why they’ve been using the little Steamboat Willie clip at the beginning of films for the last several years—to make it a trademark, which never expires while in use.
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by zharknado 3y ago
Given that “kite” is the lowest and “Honda civic” is the highest, I’m assuming the bar chart shows % of people who classified it as a violation, regardless of color. For me, the last three are red, and they are also the only ones above 50%.
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by zharknado 3y ago
Well put. The socio-technical system gets so much neater if you take all the socio bits out of it.
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by zharknado 4y ago
Reminds me of a talk arguing that drawing the number line in equal increments is counterintuitive coming from the context of the natural world. The example: knowing whether there’s one or two lions in the bushes is a lot more important than
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by zharknado 4y ago
Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction is a solid, relatively easy-to-understand framework for getting better at helping people learn. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Principles_of_Instruct... For extra credit
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by zharknado 4y ago
But it provides a strong backstop against the consequences of liability. E.g. if your house and your car aren’t assets of the corporation, they can’t be seized and liquidated to satisfy debts or settle litigation.
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by zharknado 4y ago
Also alleged are a vast array of offshore shell companies that are secretly controlled by insiders, making undisclosed transactions to wash money, shore up balance sheets, juice revenue numbers, and generally create massive financial interd
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by zharknado 4y ago
My charitable reading is that “y” roughly corresponds to “oo” in some languages, so there’s a world in which this spelling makes sense. But yeah it’s Jupyter. Like Jupiter but for Python.
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by zharknado 4y ago
Yeah the article linked above seems like a quick, unattributed personal recollection of this Ira Glass piece.
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by zharknado 4y ago
“Disruptive innovation” and “growth mindset” are my two favorite ones. Or least favorite ones. The ones I get the most frustrated about people misunderstanding.
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by zharknado 4y ago
I think it’s valid to question US-centrism broadly in datasets like this, but presumably that choice was made in selecting the Reddit sample, which is dominated by North American English. A model is more useful if it approximates the speake
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by zharknado 4y ago
Music major and vocalist here. Seems like the problem is framed as “mapping dots to pitches,” which is a pretty good reduction of what notation does but glosses over some things I value in standard notation. C4 and C5 are not the same. Sing
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by zharknado 4y ago
Thanks for writing! Really valuable rebuttal imo. I’m not a statistician but I do have some basic training in psychometrics. It might be interesting/helpful to point out that your priors about self-assessment seem more reasonable gener
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by zharknado 5y ago
This is sort of like saying “which metabolic process is most efficient?” across organisms. If you’re sufficiently reductive you can answer it, but only by stripping the emergent phenomenon out of the evolutionary context in which it emerged