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maegul

@maegul@hachyderm.io

A little bit of computing and a little bit of neuroscience.

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aka_quant_noir , to random
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If Mastodon had a cultural model, I'd rather it have been Tumblr than Twitter. But unfortunately, at this point, it's Twitter. People seem to be just blasting what has been said before and barely engaging with anything unique or original being said here. And the more you follow, the more this is true.

maegul ,
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@samuteki @aka_quant_noir

I'm not sure it's just the barrier to entry. I think there are a few missing features that gear mastodon toward being a "suburban lunch with friends" kind place that start to break under the scale of twitter.

No algorithm or feed/notifications management, difficulties or absence of finding people through search / recommendations / following lists of users, incomplete replies, no threading.

Ultimately, I don't think masto is fit for purpose as a twitter substitute.

elduvelle , to random
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HAHAHAHA this is so true 😭

From: @jonny
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111538104053374775

maegul ,
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@elduvelle @jonny

So true it hurt to read. I started to read the thread out loud to a sci-partner and they asked me to stop it was a bit too real.

yaxu , to random
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I think it's worth remembering that while in-person events can be nice, online events are far more practical and accessible for most people.
I think a lot of people have been burned by bad online events (and terrible 'hybrid' ones) during the pandemic. Memories of those are fading and well organised online events (with a/v checks, decent technology and support, humane schedule etc) can happen again.

maegul ,
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@yaxu

my experience of online events during the pandemic was wholly positive …

and as someone that had tried to convince any academic who’d listen that we should do remote conferences rather than send everyone all over the world, my only thought has been “I knew this was a good idea”.

astrojuanlu , to random
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just started and the very first talk was about good practices around Jupyter notebooks: write functions, use git, don't deploy them to production, etc.

We've been on this theme for years, and we keep insisting. Aren't we missing some key usability issues around the workflows we propose?

For example, functions: %autoreload is known to be flaky https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/extensions/autoreload.html#caveats and yet there's no good solution for developing library code and notebooks together.

Screenshot of the face of a speaker on the bottom-right corner of the screen, with a slide titled "Notebook-to-Production" and several icons simbolising good practises

maegul ,
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@astrojuanlu

Wasn’t nbdev (made by fastai people) a dedicated attempt at handling these issues? I’ve never used it or know whether it has gained any traction, but their commitment to the idea of developing completely in the notebook seemed commendable.

maegul ,
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@astrojuanlu

All fair!

And FWIW, I stopped using notebooks a while ago because I got tired of the issues. The interactivity/feedback and code decomposition you get from cells is great, unquestionably, but you can get a good amount of that by dumping code from a file into a REPL and some basic editor tooling (which I mostly made myself).

Point being, notebooks IMO make most sense as an enhancement of text editing. And IMO Jupyter have struggled for years with this. /rant :)

maegul ,
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@astrojuanlu

Well I for one am ready to hear your rant!

What’s interesting to me is I tuned out of that space a few years ago and even so it appears to be ongoing. Seems like a tough time for the space with IDEs being a shifting space and so much going cloud.

maegul , (edited ) to random
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There was talk a while ago of hachyderm starting a sibling lemmy instance. I think it was decided to be too much or not worth it. Makes perfect sense.

The more I interact with what became the de facto tech lemmy instance the more I wish hachyderm had made a lemmy instance and tried to establish good/nice tech culture.

Every interaction I have with programming.dev feels like a frustrating conversation with a more juvenile version of hackernews.

omi_geek , to random Japanese
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I knew there was going to be a protocol bridging thing coming up at some point, but it's already gone to a good point. And it's great that you're thinking of the website as a mainstay.

https://bsky.app/profile/atproto.com/post/3kfqkkjdkic2e

maegul ,
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@omi_geek

So while this certainly interesting from a broad "fediverse" perspective in the way it seeks to create a kinda meta- or grand- fediverse across multiple protocols.

I can't help but wonder how bluesky view it strategically.

Presuming that they hope to pull a lot of users off of twitter when they open up, an effective bridge to mastodon would mean that no twitter user would have to consider mastodon or their friends there, they could just join bluesky and have the best of both worlds

18+ elduvelle , to random
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Wow… scary.

From: @feisty_lemming
https://mstdn.ca/@feisty_lemming/111524445742247353

18+ maegul ,
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@elduvelle @feisty_lemming

My partner and I have concluded we have some sort of long covid. One day, months after both of us had it we both said to each other that our lungs have a persistent problem. Nothing serious but enough to substantially reduce our fitness (like no more running). We didn’t attribute it to covid until we spoke about it and noticed that it started for both us after our infections.

Fire me as a sporadic asthmatic it’s like I’ve always got asthma now.

18+ maegul ,
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@feisty_lemming @elduvelle

Thank you for the concern! It really isn't that bad, just obviously noticeable. We can run, but there's an extra level of resistance or lung pain/stress that makes it (even more) unpleasant.

General point though is that long covid is probably everywhere. Like we didn't quite put 2 and 2 together for a while.

It will probably be (sadly) "interesting" to see how much of a clear medical story emerges for our generation(s).

hrefna , to random
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A theory on protocols.

A conversation from the other day got me thinking. What I look for in protocols is similar to what I look for in technical writing.

I want the protocol to be clear. I want to be able to understand what is being sent to me and know what I am looking at.

I want the protocol to be concise in that I want it to only have what I need.

I want the protocol to be precise in that I can easily tell what I am not looking at.

1/

maegul ,
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@jenniferplusplus @hrefna

I'm a layperson that probably shouldn't even be speaking about this ... buuuut ... this sounds like a bad protocol, or, a proof of concept at best.

18+ mike_honey_ , to auscovid19
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The Provisional Mortality statistics have been updated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), up to August 2023.

Here are the deaths where the underlying cause of death was certified by a doctor as COVID-19 (15,189 deaths). Each individual death is represented by a single point, spread out across the years of the pandemic.

August 2023 saw COVID-19 deaths drop to the lowest level since late 2021. However reported deaths soon started rising, with the EG.5.* "Eris" wave, so we can expect those to be reflected here once the ABS data is updated.

This visual is also available as a vertical scrolling page, which gives a more detailed perspective:
https://mike-honey.github.io/australia-covid-19-death-toll.html

@auscovid19

Interactive Australian covid stats dataviz, code, acknowledgements and more info here:
https://github.com/Mike-Honey/covid-19-au-vaccinations#death-toll-page

18+ maegul ,
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@mike_honey_ @auscovid19

That’s a great graph! Thanks. Really makes it clear what’s happening … I didn’t realise how much of a wave there was over winter.

18+ jordanlafordan , to random
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I'm trying not to let this get me down, especially after such a fun Disco-loving day on here, but I'm helping moderate a Trek fanworks gift exchange on Tumblr. One of the questions we ask when someone signs up is, "Which series are you comfortable making a fanwork for," and we list all the Trek series. So far, of the 19 folks who have signed up, only 3 have checked Discovery and 5 have checked Prodigy (including me).

We had 60ish people participate last year, and there were maybe 5ish Discovery things gifted, so there will likely be more of us. Oh, and of those 5, I'm now friends with 3 of them thanks to meeting due to the exchange.

But still. 16 of 19 Trekkies aren't willing to make a Discovery fanwork?

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

I’m over on startrek.website (trek lemmy instance, kinda cool!), and the mods there are somewhat “notorious” amongst disco haters for clamping down on hateful anti-disco stuff.

Nonetheless a number of discussions have been had there about the series (they permit anything thoughtful) and the clear picture that has settled in I think is that the majority of the fan base just haven’t clicked with series however much they might like parts.

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

Many see stuff to respect and enjoy, but on the whole something is missing for many.

And I think, once all the toxic fandom negativity passes (which will happen eventually) all the Disco fans will probably have to get used to being in the minority.

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

My personal opinion is of the series wanted to capture more fans S2 needed to be much different. And this might be controversial because many liked S2, but I think it sealed Disco’s fate.

No Pike/Spock/Enterprise. Be its own thing not a prequel. No time travel bootstrap stuff. No AI problems and the push to get disco in the future. Rely on the characters and have a single simple and good story

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

It might not have created as much buzz. But in the long run I think it would have been the approach that would have won more hearts.

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

Well at the risk of being disrespectful, all I can say is I know fans who really tried (have seen it all and will prob watch s5) but found “flaws” or a combo that have pushed them away to the point of writing it off. Fans of SNW and Lower Decks but that just lost some sort of patience with Disco. I’m kinda one of them too.

There’s something about Disco that has somehow split the fandom a bit and I think it’ll take time to work through.

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

And in that vein, a breakdown of how flaws are inconsistently tolerated could be really interesting.

Such a thing could help us understand each other I think.

Startrek.website would work well if you’re so inclined (happy to help with getting your head around lemmy if needed/wanted!)

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

> portion of the Trek fandom likes to pretend we don't exist

I’d say it gets worse … they’re happy to say you’re wrong, incorrect and not a fan of “star trek”

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

> couldn't finish Picard or who gave up on Strange New Worlds because of their flaws.

This is kinda me FWIW. I’m kinda dirty on nu-trek. Wasn’t always, but it happened over time. Which is interesting, because through that I come back to “defending” Disco (where there was a discussion over on lemmy where I bonded with some over how Disco S1 was peak and awesome nu-trek).

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

Yea. You could remind them of how TOS fans didn’t like TNG either.

18+ maegul ,
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@jordanlafordan

For example, this snippet from before TNG aired is quite illustrative and looks very dumb in hindsight:

https://lemmy.world/comment/5739248

(It was posted on lemmy a while ago)

carnage4life , to random
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I'm calling it now that this is going to be a bigger flop than The Marvels.

maegul ,
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@carnage4life

Feels like what Disney didn’t get about the MCU was that the part that made it successful was the “C”: “Cinematic”.

The more they’ve made it feel like marvel comics they more they’ve turned off all the people that don’t read comics anymore or never did, which was probably most of their “fan” base.

KenWalkerQB , to random
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Is there a / instance that focuses on recipes?

maegul ,
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@KenWalkerQB

Sounds like the sort of thing a lemmy/kbin community would be good for.

Got curious and searched and found these two in order of size:

https://lemmy.world/c/cooking

https://beehaw.org/c/food

You can follow them like users (though beware there may be a firehose, but if you put them in a list and exclude them from home feed it’s much better)

And you can post to them too by tagging them. See for a demo of how best to do it and what it looks like:

https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110483509521476095

thebishopgame , to random
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Well, this is fucking bleak.

maegul ,
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@Dave3307 @thebishopgame

They don’t remember their work in Severence.

This is about expanding work into your sleep.

WizardOfDocs , to random
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Last week I had to explain "breaking the fourth wall" to my dad, a university English professor who does community theater. Felt very weird that he didn't know it.

maegul ,
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@knack @WizardOfDocs

Yep. I was gonna say that for many it’s probably just floating around in the nerdy and into tv/film space.

I can’t remember when I learnt of it but it was pretty early and probably in relation to some comedy.

J12t , to random
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Q: Who are the biggest skeptics of the , and what are their arguments?

Anybody have any pointers?

maegul ,
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@J12t

From my brief foray onto bsky … the whole instances thing.

Picking one, being bound to one, viewing or suffering fights between them, not knowing what’s going on with replies, followers etc.

Basically it’s technical overload for doing what’s now a basic everyday task: connecting over social media.

More eloquently, @vicki said the Fedi puts independence over connectivity/engagement when people actually prioritise the other way (paraphrasing).

maegul , (edited )
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@J12t @vicki

I think Vicki was on the money. And interestingly, it casts a clearer light on the attractiveness of mobile identity.

On one hand, AP/Fedi might think it’s providing all the independence you could want with its decentralised instances.

O the other hand binding people to the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities and opacities of an instance is a rather severe form of dependence.

Mobile identity isn’t then about hyper-independence but managing the fraught user-admin relationship.

maegul ,
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@J12t @vicki

It was on Twitter.

maegul ,
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@benpate @J12t @vicki

So personally I’m with you.

But I’d say people just want an account and for everything else to be someone else’s problem. And I think that is more or less reasonable.

Single-user instances seem worse on this front than the whole instances thing.

Unless we’re talking about an architecture where everyone has effectively a single user instance under the hood but they only need to worry about it when they want to.

maegul ,
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@J12t @vicki

Got curious to see how easy it would be to find with search (very easy)

https://x.com/vboykis/status/1651236034628186113

Reading this again, and having read a lot of rumination about mastodon, I think Vicki nails it better than anything else I’ve seen.

In my harsh form: no one cares about your protocol or decentralisation. It’s a social network. Like a party, it doesn’t matter where it happens, so long as it happens. The protocol should be invisible.

briansimulator , to random
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We are finally on Mastodon, time for a little 👋 !

Brian is a simulator for biological , for research in and beyond. It makes it easy to go from a high-level model description in Python, based on mathematical equations and physical units, to a simulation running efficiently on the CPU or GPU.

We have a friendly community and extensive documentation, links to everything on our homepage: https://briansimulator.org

This account will mostly announce news (releases, other notable events), but we're also looking forward to discussing with y'all 💬

maegul ,
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@briansimulator

Welcome!!

Also, somewhat tangentially … your account reminds me … has the Python ecosystem basically stalled on building a presence on the Fedi?

I recall some talk about concerns over English language dominance or something but I haven’t been paying attention since then.

Uraael , to random
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Yeah, I'm out. I'll come back in a day or two when you might have gotten the venom out of your systems.

maegul ,
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@Uraael

I’m presuming this is the Kissinger thing?

maegul ,
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@Uraael

Yea it was revealing once you step back from it. I saw one person say they wish he had died while Twitter was still a thing … which basically meant they wish there could have been even more of a superficial death celebration.

For my me, it was sad in how superficial it was. He was “problematic”, but maybe take that seriously and treat his death as a moment to address his legacy seriously and informatively?

Dunno, it wasn’t the “tea and sandwiches” vibe people celebrate masto for.

ewan , to random
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One thing I really don't get is the whole sentiment of the ( in particular) being complicated according to those on .

Apparently, it’s commonly down to choice paralysis on the whole decentralisation thing, but Bluesky is the same?

maegul ,
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@ewan

They have a clear default host.

They have mobile identity so you can actually move your whole account (allegedly)

Core feed data is more centralised so boundaries between different hosts should be less visible

Many o BlueSky are actually rather worried that federation opening up will result in it becoming more like mastodon.

maegul ,
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@ewan

Well the interesting thing is that there’s a lot of energy there around the idea of doing a best of both worlds.

Federated with centralised services and options.

Billionaire proof but with a well funded core organisation.

Communities through feeds and an open protocol but properly independent and mobile accounts.

Distributed/decentralised but with fewer entities the more onerous the load (ie, few BGSs).

Intuitively it makes sense to me.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it works well.

maegul ,
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@ewan

Bsky you mean? Or the whole fediverse, or the whole anti Twitter alternative thing?

maegul ,
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@ewan

Yea I hear you. A lot of mastodon folk underestimate just how much many just want a fixed Twitter back.

mackuba , to random
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News from Twitter: Elon has gone even more insane

maegul ,
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@mackuba

Isn’t the point that he was always like this and just had better PR management in the past …

and had built a cultish following on the parts of his persona that resonated with certain types and the genuine/notable things he had done.

I know I was certainly speaking with people years ago about how cultivated his public image had to be.

jgkoomey , to random
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Smartly Intertwingled: A New, Broader, More Fundamental Case for Social Media Agent "Middleware" https://ucm.teleshuttle.com/2023/11/a-new-broader-more-fundamental-case-for.html

maegul ,
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@jgkoomey

Interesting!

I suspect those of us talking about how a fediverse that gives users more agency but also provides convenient centralised services are reaching for similar ideas and solutions. I know this resonates with me.

Interestingly, I wonder how well placed other protocols/systems are to develop architectures like this.

BlueSky/ATProto come to mind, SOLID too.

seachanger , to random
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coming to the conclusion that the problem with Homo sapiens is not our intelligence but our emotions. our more successful societies evolved social structures for managing our complex emotions, but without community-enforced emotional regulation, we self-destruct.

Colonizing and homogenizing the worlds diverse cultures erases tens of thousands of years of social technologies for managing human emotions, and leaves us all without effective community structures for regulating individual emotions

maegul ,
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@seachanger @divya

I’m definitely hearing people think similarly (though not more eloquently). And have heard thoughts at least adjacent for a while.

Basically anytime you’re thinking about processes and institutions, is not just about getting organised but about harnessing our non-emotional sides, right?

And in there is a big critique of social media I think. Essentially co-opting media for social behaviour, the former being good for information and education, the latter being emotional.

maegul ,
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@seachanger @divya

The whole critique of modern western society as one that slips from individualism to narcissism is basically a special case of what you’re talking about IMO.

nixCraft , to random
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This type of thinking is precisely why we can't have nice things. It's a terrible idea that only contributes to polluting the internet. It's nothing to be proud of but rather something to be ashamed of. I really hope Google removes all of his sites from the search.

maegul ,
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@funbaker @nixCraft

Great way of putting it!!

jeffcarlson , to random
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Big budget, male-dominated historical epic earns $78 million long-weekend first box office and is lauded as a success. But big-budget, female-dominated superhero action movie makes ~$124 million and deemed a spectacular failure. Sometimes I hate this reality.

https://apple.news/AF-iNI0ieQMK6VYVh4xHO9g

maegul ,
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@jeffcarlson

I mean, while the misogyny is probably a factor (and certainly amongst certain internet types), there’s also a real “theme park” Marvel vs historical drama factor that is worth celebrating to an extent.

This Marvels film is probably just badly timed to receive this treatment, which is mostly on Disney: released with no marketing because of the strike and at the peak of MCU fatigue. Why did the first all fem hero film have to wait this long with shitty Thor and TV coming first?

18+ liaizon , to random
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I still have a twitter account and sometimes I go look to see how much of a dead ghost town it is over there. I just checked and I have pages and pages of crytospam notifications. wasn't that the whole thing that that idiot was claiming they were trying to fix in the first place?

18+ maegul ,
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@liaizon

Funny enough whenever I check it honestly all looks pretty good.

I was never a serious Twitter person, only 1-200 following. But my feed tends to look fine, even interesting and sometimes more interesting than here.

I only check every few months or so and only for about 10 mins.

ecosdelfuturo , to random
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:quotesL: The point of this story is to illustrate that the effect has nothing to do with human psychology. It is a statistical artifact — an example of autocorrelation hiding in plain sight.

What’s interesting is how long it took for researchers to realize the flaw in Dunning and Kruger’s analysis. Dunning and Kruger published their results in 1999. But it took until 2016 for the mistake to be fully understood. :quotesR:

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

maegul , (edited )
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@ecosdelfuturo

I’m not sure this is convincing and can’t help but wonder if it’s in fact a demonstration of the effect itself, ironically.

Replicating the effect with random data seems perfectly consistent with the psychological claim. People don’t know how good they are (incl those who are good and bad) and so their guesses are either random, and so share an average, or tend to revert to the mean directly.

Random data would look the same as the former or lead to mean values same as latter.

housepanther , to random
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I'm watching the news and there is this push to fill up empty office spaces. Fucking why? People are happier and more productive working from home. I hate the control freak managers.

maegul ,
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@housepanther

One of the perverse aspects of this phenomenon that I don’t think gets enough recognition is that a major economic factor is that office real estate isn’t useful for anything else.

The buildings are design in such a way that you can’t use them as liveable or even legal residential properties.

The places where we are/were supposed to spend half our waking life weren’t even legally liveable.

Because they were optimised to be human chicken coops.

maegul ,
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@housepanther

The broad lesson here is that the office building is an idea that should probably die and all their landlords and developers with them.

Giant over-optimised property development to the point of being insufficiently inflexible for a dynamic economy. Huge costs there for the unusable land/buildings the idea has created.

Not to mention the inhumane ideology behind their design as mentioned by others in this thread. Chicken coops for “wage slavery”!

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