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Counterpoint: https://vimeo.com/44807536

https://www.metafilter.com/117357/Lawsuit-waiting-to-happen#...

The bank of course has much greater incentive to get their siting estimate right—but it’s hard for me to see how the bank-local REAS feedback loop would work in practice. There’s no ability to test a counterfactual, and local branch performance only becomes apparent years after the siting decision, and with many confounders.

In contrast if the professor’s paper a) actually gets noticed and b) the study conclusions are actually sensitive to the details of the distance estimation methodology, there’s a possibility (not guarantee) of someone writing a rebuttal in six months, which is embarrassing. B is important—spherical cows are frequently good enough!

Fundamentally, we shouldn’t be surprised that the methods appropriate for “decide where to spend $20M on a building” and “spend <$100k of researcher time to perform population-level analysis” should differ.

Fwiw to this reader it read as distracting snark and peripheral to your overall point.

Edit: if you simply wanted to flag “food desert” as a term of art, enclosing it in quotes would have been best. Your “so-called” implies that you are casting doubt on their existence.

I once walked through a park on a fine spring day and saw an EMT team playing whiffleball using their stretcher as a backstop. Great way to wait for a call if you ask me.

Just as there is bias in hiring, there can be bias in firing. Effective leaders recognize this and put systems in place to minimize them. Being attentive to those dynamics is especially important in times of stressful decisionmaking, when it’s tempting to take cognitive shortcuts.

Claiming it means “only fire white people” is not accurate.

“ The automatic mind creates causal stories out of dubious raw material. When Kahneman studied the records of managers at one investment firm, over 25 years, he found there was zero link between managers earning an above-market return one year and repeating that kind of performance the next — although, of course, pay was pegged to annual returns and managers with good years were richly rewarded. Unsurprisingly, the firm’s executives refused to believe that variation in performance was random. “I’ve done very well for the firm and no one can take that away from me,” one told Kahneman. “I took it away from you this morning,” Kahneman recalls thinking.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/thinking-...

But Artemis does not, in fact, reuse them.

Or the original whistleblower was offed by Big Recipe.

Moreover, the chart of 2021 ad revenue shows Facebook at $114B, Apple at $4B. The article text says Facebook worries Apple’s changes could cost them $10B, less than 10% of their 2021 ad revenue and more than double Apple’s total.

The narrative doesn’t match the numbers.

In fairness, lots of brilliant PhDs have spent their careers working on string theory: that doesn’t mean it’s real.

I interpret it as meaning that the statement referred to is not falsifiable: it is thus beyond the reach of science.

A related academic work is “Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas” by Natasha Schull.

Most of the theorizing about this episode gets the history wrong. The user outcry was because News Feed on rollout suddenly broadcast widely communication that had been previously been reasonably private. Suddenly pokes and wall posts between two friends were pushed to your entire network.

Users weren’t wrong to dislike this! Facebook violated their assumptions, just as if you learned someone was live-streaming your conversation with them at a bar. In response, Facebook provided more granular privacy controls—but more importantly, users changed their behavior to adapt to the assumptions of the new platform.

(The outcry also highlighted the potential for virality in feed-like platforms, which was great for growth but of course also has negative consequences…)

Even the first part is not confirmed.

Key takeaway for me when thinking about other remote sensing companies is this:

> Our investors wanted us to be a SaaS company with SaaS metrics and SaaS growth. We simply were not. We should have structured our entire business around being a high-end consulting company.

I thought “It’s Time to Build” was hypocritical at the time, but I didn’t expect such clear confirmation!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913262

At least currently, switching to “latest posts” sorting still removes most of the cruft.

“First in time, first in right.” https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-drought-imper...

We have more ideas for telescopes than money to build them. So to get funded, a new telescope needs to be a substantial improvement over what already exists: 10x or more, typically.

There’s typically only a chance to build a flagship every ten years or so.

The tone of this comment is unduly negative, but I agree that they should be hiring folks with relevant experience. Ag mechanization is a well established degree, combine harvesters and augers exist, etc.

If you control for income, though, out-of-wedlock birth rates for black and white mothers are now very similar, though. “Our Kids” by Robert Putnam is a good summary.

I use pinboard a lot but have my bookmarks defaulted to private so I don’t have to deal with the mental friction of whether someone would judge me for it.

Ironically my Twitter faves are likely much more useful in building a profile of me.

Man, I love his writing.

> It helped in this process that I was in Japan, since I could do most work at night while my US/European customers slept or wept into their phones or whatever it is people do at night nowadays.

14k bookmarks in Pinboard for me! Major use case is helping me close tabs, but I search for old stuff with some frequency.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ claims it hit a low of $0.97.

Five days ago: “Celsius continues to process withdrawals without delay.” https://blog.celsius.network/damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-a...

“The Right Stuff” book evokes this atmosphere nicely.

There are open positions for software engineers working with these teams:

https://b612foundation.org/open-positions/ https://www.lsstcorporation.org/lincc/job_opportunities

In many cases the new asteroid discoveries can then be used to identify other apparitions of the same object that were previously not recognized as being asteroids. That enables further orbit refinement.