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by dcx 2mo ago
Fascinating. Do you have any suspicions as to what the cause might be instead?
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by dcx 2mo ago
Full disclosure, I worked briefly with Ello / Catalin some years back. They've done a lot of work on at least two dimensions: (1) handling the nonstandard sounds and habits of speech of very early readers, who might be as young as
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by dcx 2mo ago
The explanation I've heard is that the national curriculum switched away from phonics and to a teaching method called "balanced literacy", and this went terribly [1]. IIRC it involved teaching kids to recognize words by their
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by dcx 2mo ago
Full disclosure: I worked on a small project with Ello / Catalin a few years ago. At the time of writing, the sentiment in this post is that this is a terrible idea, and that kids need human tutors. The latter is 100% true. But also, y
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by dcx 7mo ago
It exists and is a great read – https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Goliath Check the archive.org link at the bottom!
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by dcx 8mo ago
Hello! I'm one of the main authors of the paper. Thanks for engaging with our work so thoughtfully – that's a very clear and valid question. We didn't get around to addressing this within the paper itself – 80 pages is a lot,
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by dcx 2y ago
This is very funny to me. It took about a decade for them to receive a scientific name – because people were too busy eating them the whole time! The "note on the Bathynomus fishery" really makes the circumstances of this "di
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by dcx 2y ago
I'm quite curious, what are people doing with AI-powered browser automation at the moment? This is such a new capability that I'm having a hard time getting a sense of interesting use cases. I'm quite sure this is more than j
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by dcx 2y ago
If the claim that the blogosphere is dying is true, does that imply the public intellectual commons is dying too? I suspect that while the cosyweb is more pleasant for most, this retreat might hinder vital testing and cross-pollination of i
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by dcx 2y ago
In your experience, are doctors generally willing to do this?
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by dcx 2y ago
Thanks, I'm certainly going to try that. I was more asking if anyone has experience getting tests done properly in light of their low accuracy. From what I understand, an antigen test is still a stool test, meaning they are only 50% ac
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by dcx 2y ago
Speaking as someone who went through this, running experiments with your diet is absolutely worth trying. It worked for me. There is actually a specific medical practice for this: look up "FODMAP". The idea is to temporarily cut o
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by dcx 2y ago
Oh wow, I have the first half of this situation. I went through a period where my digestion was so bad that it was affecting my ability to function from day to day. I didn't get anything useful from my gastro; I even had a negative cel
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by dcx 2y ago
I'd love to hear more about your experience with this platform. Is there any public information about this platform or research? How did you guys manage the bad behaviors that come with anonymity, like trolling? I'm currently feel
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by dcx 3y ago
That's very interesting - the Chinese "oi" has pretty much exactly the same usages, down to the little details! (I'm most familiar with the Cantonese 喂 wai2, though it's not my first language) I wonder if that sugge
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by dcx 3y ago
FYI OP is answering my question on what the historian's theory was! (They were downvoted) This route makes sense to me; I do think the deal has been getting worse and worse lately, and periodic renegotiation is required to keep things
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by dcx 3y ago
This is so insightful! What did they believe the main process was, that was causing things to break? My guesses - this is about (a) inequality reaching a breaking point, where non-elites are starting to reject the social contract, making el
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by dcx 3y ago
> On flights within the U.S., airlines are responsible for lost-luggage reimbursement up to $2,500 per person; on international flights, airlines owe you a mere $9.07 per pound, with a ceiling of $640. (That rate was set by an internatio
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by dcx 3y ago
I agree in the abstract, but people and companies operate under bounded rationality. Customers can't easily price the expectation of lost luggage. Companies are made of subunits with independent budgets, each optimizing for incentives
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by dcx 3y ago
I think OP is right but hasn't fully unrolled what they mean. This seems like it creates a moral hazard [1], because it reduces the penalty to airlines for losing luggage. If airlines were prepared to accept X in costs from lost luggag
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by dcx 3y ago
This seems unnecessarily reductive. Yes, like any tool, marketing can be used for evil. And people often associate marketing with scummy advertising or spin (which often actually fall under sales or PR ). But at its best marketing create
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by dcx 4y ago
I think we might still consider this counterculture as long as its norms are not mainstream culture. And I think it's fair to say the dominant culture of many cultural institutions in the US currently has a distinct leftward lean - Hol
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by dcx 4y ago
No, the counterculture is actually thriving. But many people just don't understand it yet, because of how, well, counter it is to their ideas about culture: its roots are now in conservatism. It currently seems to be cool and edgy amon
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Post-match interview with Magnus Carlsen on Hans Niemann(youtube.com)
2 points by dcx 4y ago|0 comments
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by dcx 4y ago
1. I did not use the word "normal" or "advanced" once in any comment, nor did I ever imply it. You are, in fact, continuing to make assumptions about me. 2. "Pretty much every culture worldwide that is prominent eco
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by dcx 4y ago
Sorry, but this is a discussion board, and I have no obligation to provide citations for every last sentence I write. Particularly given the low confidence I tagged these items with. Nor do you have any right to demand this standard of othe
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by dcx 4y ago
FYI, this is called "orientalism" [1]. Most people would also be surprised to learn that the Swiss eat more cats and dogs per capita than China, and that Norway kills more whales per year than Japan (although there are some valid
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by dcx 4y ago
I found the National Geographic piece interesting. But you've made a lot of unnecessarily condescending and incorrect assumptions about me: I was not raised in the West. I enjoy many of the foods on your list, and am also very familiar
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by dcx 4y ago
I can't help but feel that there's a very good reason that many of us have a deep, instinctive revulsion to eating insects. I am not familiar with the research, but my feeling is that this is probably an evolved builtin (I recall
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by dcx 4y ago
Is it just me, or does this article look like a textbook example of a press hit / submarine marketing (as described by pg [1]), for Hilton's recently-launched anti-AirBnB campaign [2]? I don't know if I can trust this. It&#x2

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