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I strongly agree with the sentiment of this, and naturally gravitate towards avoiding any such loaded language. But writing posts like the ones he's referring to doesn't seem like …

My personal experience is that most people in the language learning community have trouble fitting SRS into their long term workflow because they don't stop to think much about the…

> In a free society, you penalize the people who can't act like responsible adults, not the people who can. If the ills of social media are, as you say, (and I also believe), cause…

I'd honestly have a hard time making a case that Fox News is less net bad for society than Facebook as of today. But Fox News feels like the "end-stage" version of whatever you'd c…

These are the same word games that got us tired arguments like "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Looking only at people as individuals limits you to seeing first-order …

A lot of good insights here, particularly on how Substack's network effects and incentives push authors towards a milquetoast homogeneity. But the author's self-admitted unfamiliar…

I imagine for popular posts, you'd get way too many low-value bumps: lots of leaves in the comment tree would be low-effort back and forth replies of uninteresting content (e.g. Re…

This appears to be a mediocre piece of undergrad "research", which is to say, the theoretical material is entirely plagiarized without citation. Even the applied analysis (Beethove…

> The other article has examples like "how do I get the subset of an array in JS". In my experience if I encounter this type of question it either means that I end up having to hac…

It's important to take this with a grain of salt. Looking at the fit of the model itself, it seems to be a bit overconfident/overfit to the current configuration of society: https:…

> There is no evidence that a person with an IQ of 170 is in any way more likely to achieve a greater impact in their field than a person with an IQ of 130. This feels disingenuous…

Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age. It's a history of electronic invention over the past 150 years. Not the…

Better yet, this iteratively deepening list of land-lake layers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_island#Islands_within_lak... This culminates in: The largest island in a lake on…

There are (extremely untrustworthy) rumors circulating around day traders' Twitters of a potential takeover by Microsoft. e.g. https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=amd%20msft

In my experience, the 'heads down; just let me code and go home' attitude is beaten into a lot of engineers by a series of bad experiences with management. Experiences in which the…

There's also this take on differentiating datatypes: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/algebra-and-calcu... Reading this makes a lot of the operations in colah's article f…

The water sitting around in the pipes is likely colder, so it might be more than just psychological 'coldness'. On the other hand, this brings my tap water closer to drinkability i…

If you haven't seen it already, start with Feynman's appendix to the report on the Challenger disaster: ( https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roge... ). Pretty …

Saying that correlation is usually accidental is a stretch. Basing that claim on that (admittedly amusing) website is even more of a stretch: the time series on that website are al…

Yes, it's a thing. But similarity is no reason for sadness. One could make a similar argument about design patterns. The important question to ask is, "what ways are there of makin…

This is an interesting observation, but it's poorly contextualized, and becomes rather trite in the context of modern trends in melodic construction. His attempts to contextualize …