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I found the part about monitoring call center employees' stress levels and then showing them montages of their family to calm them down to be particularly interesting as a solution…

Engineers, creatives, and other product focused roles tend to be well suited for these types of flexible schedules. Customer or sales focused less so, especially if the team or cus…

The article does a decent job of explaining of how Chinese characters work, but it falls short of explaining why. The reason why Chinese continues to use a logographic writing syst…

I'm not aware of any experiments, formal or informal that tries to seek if negative content is promoted more. The article states one experiment with bots saw how quickly the feed w…

This touches a little on philosophical difference, but I have found that one major difference is the quantification of uncertainty. Bayesian models, being based naturally around mo…

> MUTCD designs streets similarly to rural highways, and this can create conditions where people speed when they need to be driving slowly, because the design of the street doesn't…

I think that it's interesting that it's BS that's the focus. Are there many fields where you can thrive on non-BS alone? You could be a great sports player, but without some amount…

I find it pretty shocking that Teman can advertise its law-circumventing tech so blatantly. No one really objects from cameras in hallways, but jumping from using them as more of a…