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I wonder if, setting quality aside, the kinds of tricks (is "tricks" right?) that skaters do becomes more similar with technology. That is, skater X was going to do some random tri…

Your comment is a bit ironic in the sense that I can tell you didn't read the article because you reproduce conclusions from the article. That's okay! Obviously you didn't need to …

For the title, I did say "At Harvard" and not "In Harvard" or "By Harvard". I think the student newspaper is indeed at Harvard. I'm also pretty clear about what text I'm looking at…

One nice thing about getting feedback is learning all of the additional stuff I should have included in the blog post. I did look at number of articles per year, and it fluctuates,…

I had a similar intuition and graphed unique words per year while writing this. I found, surprisingly, that actually the reverse was true. Unique words per year go up, even as dive…

I suppose "old fashioned" is much more of a subjective measurement than an objective one. At first I was going to rate "snail" as not at all old fashioned, since we still use the w…

Thanks so much. You've really gone above and beyond with this comment. I very much appreciate it. I've made a couple tweaks that may resolve the issue. If you have a chance to take…

Thanks for letting me know and the details. I will look into it and correct it if I am able.

Hmm. That is odd, and not behavior I see in either Firefox or Chrome. I'm afraid my knowledge of CSS is insufficient to explain why that might be happening. What OS are you using? …

I was just trying to glibly acknowledge that some tweets are in a different language. I didn't filter those out. I do expect it will hinder the user's ability to tell which is offe…

Were the images loading by default for you? I intended to set it up so that the images showed up as links for you to click if you wanted to or not - and there is a warning above th…

I'm not surprised that it works poorly. I am surprised that it seems to work randomly though. I would understand if every Tweet that had a curse word in it was marked offensive, an…

The order of the questions is random per user, so not everyone will have the same 3rd set of Tweets. I'm not sure if Twitter's algorithm is detecting a political bias and that dete…

I think it depends on how you mean that. One way to imagine the phrase is to think about people with cloistered views in politics, religion, social views, etc. These people could g…

The frustrations for honest webpage developers and users are but another casualty from the aggressive advertising industry.

I've seen tweets that are nothing but innocuous gifs get marked as offensive. Several examples in there are people responding to k-pop Tweets with identical statements (e.g. "I lik…

An earlier idea I had for this was to put two tweets side by side and ask the user to say which tweet was more offensive. Then, I figured I could use the ELO rating system to come …

Hmm, that's unfortunate. I had considered loading the tweets as images instead of actually embedding them. I hadn't realized ad/tracking protectors might block the tweets, or else …

I think if you could genuinely identify offensive tweets then you could hide them from people who prefer that. It would make the user experience more pleasant. Few people want to b…

That's true, but the end result, no matter how complicated their algorithm is, is that they don't seem to be doing a very good job of distinguishing offensive from inoffensive twee…

Two possibilities. Someone else mentioned that their ad/tracking protection was causing a problem. I can only guess that this is blocking my attempt to embed tweets in the quiz. If…

That's true. I could have added a "Neither is offensive" button, but my goal was just to show that you can't really tell the difference between what Twitter is doing and random cha…

You had to disable enhanced tracking to get the quiz to work? That's surprising to me. Were the tweets not loading in the quiz without it? I'm using Twitter's JS library to embed t…

One problem is that it's hard to see how decentralizing work for profit could ever be more efficient than centralizing it. In the decentralizing case you must do the additional wor…