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So it seems. From Wikipedia:
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From xkcd.
It's very hard to be completely immune to these kinds of biases. I might not discriminate negatively towards smelly male undergrads, but i might, unconsciously, discriminate positively towards a pleasant looking female grad student. I try not to, of course.
My beers this month are paid by the government. Already spent about 50k from my 150k... Produce at the local market, and beer.
#1023049 for context
I don't have any good experience with thinking models for the stuff I routinely use them for. It just creates super long and general-purpose scripts even when I just need it to make a simple figure using matplotlib. They love using argparse, adding plenty of edge cases, etc. What I would do with 20 lines of code, it does with 100. It works, but it's a waste.
When I relogged into Nostr yesterday, I think I stumbled on a tool that would let me curate a list of people to follow centered around a theme. Don't remember what it was.
The problem is that many same people end up in different lists. It's the same pool of btc/freedom maximalists mixed with some opinionated people about seed oil and the carnivore diet.
Still, it was useful, as before that I think I was only following 2 or 3 people.
Yeah, it's for sure not an exact science. Either party can parse the numbers any way they want. I wonder sometimes, as an economist, how one makes sure not to let personal ideology cloud one's objective interpretation of the numbers? Must be a constant internal battle for truth.
I've read both your answers with great interest. Although you guys have quite opposing viewpoints, you both sound quite convincing to me. Probably because I have no background in economics, I can't make up my mind who is right. Probably adding to that, ideologically, I am somewhere else on the spectrum, so it's even harder to see clearly.
I could ask for numbers to back up your claims, but it's probably easy to find numbers to defend either one of your viewpoints. So I guess I guess I'll just have to see what the future holds~~
Kinda like when I read Arthur Hayes. It's entertaining, but I have no way to assess if his doomporn is rooted in reality or not.
EDIT: Good to see you again on SN, @didiplaywell, I think it has been a while since I've read you here.
Yo pienso también que Google Translate ha mejorado mucho. A veces el nivel depende de el idioma, pero es muy práctico, claro~~
Was it Charlie Kirk?
Not sure if he mentioned attending the BTC conference...
impacts of tariffs will be felt with a long lag
Yeah, making it even harder to disentangle it from other factors affecting the economy.
Pretty cool! Good little cliff-hanger at the end.
In Spanish it has 542 words according to Word and 540 in English
So, you wrote it in Spanish and then translated it into English yourself/using a tool? Just curious.
I've tried that once, write a story in my mother tongue. My native friends loved it. Perfect rythm, use of sarcasm, etc. A few years later, I decided to translate it into English. I got destroyed by the internet. Telling me how bad it was, that my storytelling sucked, that it sounded like a 10-year-old trying to sound smart, etc... I think the only compliment I got was: "listen guys, he's obviously not a native speaker, let's give him kudos for trying". They were right, of course, I also could feel that much was lost in ESL translation.
I wonder if I'd get better reception if I were to translate the original version back into English, but using some tool to help me this time.
I told my wife I didn't want to put my kids in Kumon
Ha, we had a Kumon teacher coming once a week last year, and my son was supposed to do the homework daily for math, English, and Hangeul. We quickly stopped. They use really archaic methods. Even though he had already mastered counting, they still wanted him to write hundreds of sheets of the same numbers every week. He started seeing Kumon as a chore. He's only 5 now.
We then found Wink School. Also based on self-learning, but much more entertaining, and using a more modern mindset. Still he learns a lot and asks himself when we forget to give him his daily 15 minutes of classes...
Yet, I'd rather he didn't have to do either and could just focus on school stuff at school, maybe some homework, and get to play with friends or by himself, when outside of school.
And, especially if this person is your elder that you're supposed to show respect to (Asian culture here.)
I've talked to many people who struggle with that in Korea. Especially foreigners married into a Korean family. It's already hard for the younger generation of Koreans to deal with the stubborn older generation who expects respect because of the age. That's why many woman do not want to visit their elders anymore during Chuseok and Seollal, they just can't deal with those old ajeossis.
What I've learned, you can't change people. On the off-chance you can make them change their minds, it's usually because they've come to the conclusion themselves. It requires a lot of patience, discussions, etc to open their minds to a different way of thinking... probably only worth doing so if those are people you interact with often.
I'm lucky to be in academia, with a boss who accepts when I tell him he's wrong. In industry, you can almost never tell your boss he's wrong in front of others. You need to let him think he's had the idea by himself.
Well, not really useful advice, you probably already know all of this~~