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glial
·6 dagen geleden·discuss
> This is just the WSJ-reading "haves" justifying

The WSJ has had a string of such apologetics lately. I know because family members keep sending them to me.

Another example:

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/european-soccer-fans-marvel-at-t...
glial
·18 dagen geleden·discuss
Paper reviews are traditionally blinded, so the reviewer doesn't know the authorship of the paper they're reading.
glial
·vorige maand·discuss
My own preference would be to build educational experiences on three pillars:

1. experiences. Intuition comes from experiences, and IMO an under-appreciated amount of 'education' is building strong intuitions. Experiences can include project work (including struggling!), travel & reading (what it's like to be someone else), sports and music (what it's like to build skills over time and work as a team).

2. practice. So much of what we can do - from language to mathematics - is a composition of rote behaviors, responses, and habits. It's impossible to become skilled without practice.

3. building habits of mind. This includes scientific thinking, applying mental models (I like this list here: https://fs.blog/mental-models/), pro-social behavior (listening, conversing). Much of science & math is having an available set of mental models, understanding how/where to apply them, and recognizing when a new one is needed.

My preference would be for traditional subjects to be taught with these firmly in mind: when thinking about biology, for example, what are the rote skills that must be learned? What intuitions should students achieve, and what experiences will enable them? What habits of mind produce an orientation, attitude, or set of thought processes conducive to practicing the science and art of biology?

I think this doesn't contradict the author.
glial
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
That faith and ethics can be so easily conflated points to a failure of Western post-enlightenment intellectual leadership.

On the other hand, perhaps this is just responsibility laundering on behalf of the tech orgs.
glial
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I think this agrees with the parent's point. How do you know when to refactor?
glial
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm not convinced. There is already an 'Auto' and 'P/A/S' setting option on most of these cameras. P/A/S is great for those who want control. I wish Auto was better for those who don't care and just want good photos.

In other words, no camera exists that has great computational photography and a lens bigger than your thumbnail. Why?
glial
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
The use of energy certainly equates directly to a higher standard of living. Oil seems like an implementation detail, with benefits as well as costs. Why not consider other implementation options?
glial
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
How so?
glial
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I wish "real" camera companies were more aggressive about offering computational photography post-processing, at least as an option. I've gotten spoiled by an iPhone. Despite my Sony and Fuji having huge wonderful lenses, I am pretty disappointed when using a dedicated camera and interior lighting leads to slight blur, or a cloudy day produces washed-out skies.
glial
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Definitely, but the first 3 issues are also created by human co-workers.
glial
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Send it to a significant other, then discuss your differences. Will provide you with a new in-joke.
glial
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Well, for one thing, critical thinking and communication skills seem to be in short supply.
glial
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I learned to play guitar this way -- listening to CDs and scrubbing back and forth, writing down what I heard. It's great, but it only gets you so far. Learning pentatonic scales was a step-change for me.
glial
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Broadly speaking, gambling is just making decisions without knowing the future. It's everywhere.
glial
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
The SPRT is probably already making your life better: it's used to decrease the cost of medical trails, optimize classifications in high-stakes examinations (i.e. for medical certifications), detect defective manufacturing processes, etc. It sounds like this paper extends the method to groups of hypotheses, whereas the basic version is limited to a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis.
glial
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
While possible, there are also many bodily processes that are finely tuned through eons of evolution, and destabilizing pressure leads to disorder. Sometimes it's difficult to know which are which (or at least I don't know).
glial
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm partial to "culture is shared expectations".

Which can, of course, be random, self-reinforcing, etc.
glial
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
> lacking many core values to guide them

This is a fundamental problem and one reason we're mired in this culture war. Social friction is caused by jostling based on group membership, and there's no common values-based scaffolding we can use to collaborate in building a better way.

I used to scoff when told to say the pledge of allegiance as a young person. Now, the closing words "liberty and justice for all" sound quite aspirational.
glial
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Here's a recent write-up by a local: https://wburdine.substack.com/p/letter-from-an-occupied-minn...
glial
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Agree, targeted advertising in particular is a trojan horse for many other internet-fueled social ills.