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"An engine, not a camera" is a great book about this effect in financial markets. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engine-not-camera

If someone knowingly uses bad data, aren't the claims supported by it false?

> No experiment could ever possibly hurt scientific knowledge what about one with a falsified result? fwiw I think convexity and understanding are relatively orthogonal, but how co…

Productivity is a poor metric for actually improving your quality of life, solving hard problems, or doing much of anything other than running in circles at speed.

The history of reserve currencies suggests a ~100 year arc of dominance, and the US is at the end of that line. https://azizonomics.com/2012/01/04/a-history-of-reserve-curr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_contro... Brouwer's career suffered as a consequence of his disagreements with Hilbert. EDIT (with links to the political aspe…

I've come to think of machine learning as an engineering approach for building more scalable statistical systems. Computational neuroscience seems like it does more math modeling f…

How does this cater to the disabled more than any other remote job site? If it does, there should be a little blurb about it

reminds me of a recent article about how Messi walks more than other players https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/messi-walks-better-than...

Figma's Rust in production post was pretty good https://blog.figma.com/rust-in-production-at-figma-e10a0ec31...

Meaning is a process of its own creation, not a measuring stick. Often when people speak of meaning as though it were quantitative, they usually are referring to how much they help…

Alex Warth of HARC has a new Dynamicland-inspired repo called roomdb https://github.com/alexwarth/roomdb

Perhaps a more interesting question would be how your interests & goals change after a month of downtime?

https://distill.pub/journal/

There's a great GDC talk about level design for this game by its creator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2zmmcEryw