i've only seen his ted talk, but in it he was kind of hesitant in advocating the single-choice "solution". the logical solution to me is a sort of "purchasing collective" as a replacement for brand identity. rather than choosing among brands for every purchase, the customer would sign up for a "lifestyle club" (for lack of a better term) which would do research into the best products for its members and negotiate volume discounts (while taking a slice off the top of course).
their schtick is annoying but totally ignorable. i get their emails into a designated folder and daily just scan it (by eye) for businesses i would have gone to anyway (the business names are always in the subject line without any of their "clever" flavor text); if so, click and print. i make a groupon transaction maybe once every three months. i guess i'm not saving very much, but it is fun to get clothes or good food for half-off.
i think they meant something like "applies some level of analysis," as opposed to pure macguffin/special effects. Minority Report, at least charitably, achieved this; the plot revolves around a plausible hack of the precogs' abilities. imho MR is pretty damn good for hollywood science fiction; maybe that's why people hate it so much, a kind of uncanny valley effect.
when i think about it, the MR movie is sort of like a very lite version of _The Demolished Man_. (i've never read the original Minority Report story)
i'm not sure i follow your first two sentences which appear contradictory to me. are you saying that today, as opposed to historically, the ratio of "artists" differs? if so could you expound a bit? are there more artists in academia, or less outside, or what?
i agree as far as the person in the story, although time only will tell... i've known a few uber-achieving technical mathematicians (probably more than i should), and imho it mostly makes you a _much better_ academic, _if_ you become one. it's definitely neither necessary nor sufficient for becoming one in the first place (with the possible exception of the top-rated pure math departments, for which it is necessary but still not sufficient)...
so genuine discrimination is the kind that you yourself personally notice, or what? isn't being required to use a form of service which depends on a faculty one does not have, but is not intrinsic to the service itself, a form of discrimination?
it seems sort of like a continuum to me, and since you're not making a pure libertarian argument that private parties should be free to discriminate, i'm just wondering where you draw the line.
still, plastic amounts to only 5% of petroleum usage (in US). once plastic has enough relative petroleum-share to really matter, we'll probably be well on our way to alternative fuels as well.
could be helpful in the long run. since plastics account for ~5% of petroleum consumption, the market is driven by petroleum-as-fuel. once the market responds to that, there may be very little left for plastics. there are fuel alternatives in development, so it should be just as important to develop alternative feedstocks for plastic (something we're, at least, behind in, leaving aside whether it is even possible in all cases).
it depends on what the ads get you. i'm seriously considering hulu plus for $8/mo. just for their complete Criterion Collection (which is now exclusive to them). yeah, exclusives are lame and annoying, but still...
that also plays a part, but keep in mind that not everyone gets a university education in science or engineering. also, the merely moderately above-average are subject to market pressures almost as much as the average.
admittedly, there is a sort of cultural decay (in the US at least) where hard work appears to be optional and thus awful; real money is perceived to come out of ruthlessness coupled with a mystical (i mean that in the worst possible way) "cleverness". now, if real success hinges on this mystical component anyway, why work?
still, yes, i think there is a weird adaptation taking place as humanity looks for new horizons, and most of us are just catastrophically ill-suited for it. the future lies in abstraction and generalizable metaphors. for one example, if you look at the Putnam exams from the 1960s, they were challenging (to me) but totally reasonable "shadow of the flagpole"-type problems. nowadays, they are much more abstract and esoteric, to say the least; even the 90th-percentile needs to train specifically for them in order to have a real chance.
it may be more economically efficient (and thus advance humanity further) to celebrate geniuses of this sort. we are getting to the point where the aggregate value of fairly, but not very, intelligent people is diminishing quickly. the next labor movement might be of rank-and-file scientists and engineers.
i mostly agree with this, but in your original post you suggested that editors could learn from this example and add third-party sources which, in this case, they couldn't have... it's also arguable that they aren't really third-party sources at all; they are more like second-party sources since they are essentially being commissioned by wikipedia itself...
the wrinkle is that the deletion controversy is what inspired some of those third-party sources to be written. in fact, one of them was amusingly titled "The Remarkable Notability of Old Man Murray."
you mean "reveal codes"? that was awesome! they simply admitted that the formatting would have bugs and/or get too complicated, and they let you bypass it if you had the chops to edit it directly.
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well, it's probably two different publics, with little overlap...
no, they just make for entertaining counterexamples/stories for their classes/clients.
it's 38 under par, so ~34 shots, and with five holes-in-one claimed.
i've only seen his ted talk, but in it he was kind of hesitant in advocating the single-choice "solution". the logical solution to me is a sort of "purchasing collective" as a replacement for brand identity. rather than choosing among brands for every purchase, the customer would sign up for a "lifestyle club" (for lack of a better term) which would do research into the best products for its members and negotiate volume discounts (while taking a slice off the top of course).
and here is that inevitable moment: when an inflammatory but somewhat interesting poster reveals himself to be a total kook.
that is why, if certain people are to be believed, they remove them first.
i agree completely.
their schtick is annoying but totally ignorable. i get their emails into a designated folder and daily just scan it (by eye) for businesses i would have gone to anyway (the business names are always in the subject line without any of their "clever" flavor text); if so, click and print. i make a groupon transaction maybe once every three months. i guess i'm not saving very much, but it is fun to get clothes or good food for half-off.
i think they meant something like "applies some level of analysis," as opposed to pure macguffin/special effects. Minority Report, at least charitably, achieved this; the plot revolves around a plausible hack of the precogs' abilities. imho MR is pretty damn good for hollywood science fiction; maybe that's why people hate it so much, a kind of uncanny valley effect.
when i think about it, the MR movie is sort of like a very lite version of _The Demolished Man_. (i've never read the original Minority Report story)
i'm not sure i follow your first two sentences which appear contradictory to me. are you saying that today, as opposed to historically, the ratio of "artists" differs? if so could you expound a bit? are there more artists in academia, or less outside, or what?
i agree as far as the person in the story, although time only will tell... i've known a few uber-achieving technical mathematicians (probably more than i should), and imho it mostly makes you a _much better_ academic, _if_ you become one. it's definitely neither necessary nor sufficient for becoming one in the first place (with the possible exception of the top-rated pure math departments, for which it is necessary but still not sufficient)...
yes, absolutely. more accurate would have been for me to say "mystical belief in `cleverness'."
very nice SMBC, right on the money; thanks. then again there are very few "grasshoppers" relative to the ants, which is easy to forget.
so genuine discrimination is the kind that you yourself personally notice, or what? isn't being required to use a form of service which depends on a faculty one does not have, but is not intrinsic to the service itself, a form of discrimination?
it seems sort of like a continuum to me, and since you're not making a pure libertarian argument that private parties should be free to discriminate, i'm just wondering where you draw the line.
this is almost a jevons paradox.
still, plastic amounts to only 5% of petroleum usage (in US). once plastic has enough relative petroleum-share to really matter, we'll probably be well on our way to alternative fuels as well.
could be helpful in the long run. since plastics account for ~5% of petroleum consumption, the market is driven by petroleum-as-fuel. once the market responds to that, there may be very little left for plastics. there are fuel alternatives in development, so it should be just as important to develop alternative feedstocks for plastic (something we're, at least, behind in, leaving aside whether it is even possible in all cases).
are you kidding me? FOSS can't even come up with decent UIs for the sighted...
it depends on what the ads get you. i'm seriously considering hulu plus for $8/mo. just for their complete Criterion Collection (which is now exclusive to them). yeah, exclusives are lame and annoying, but still...
that also plays a part, but keep in mind that not everyone gets a university education in science or engineering. also, the merely moderately above-average are subject to market pressures almost as much as the average.
admittedly, there is a sort of cultural decay (in the US at least) where hard work appears to be optional and thus awful; real money is perceived to come out of ruthlessness coupled with a mystical (i mean that in the worst possible way) "cleverness". now, if real success hinges on this mystical component anyway, why work?
still, yes, i think there is a weird adaptation taking place as humanity looks for new horizons, and most of us are just catastrophically ill-suited for it. the future lies in abstraction and generalizable metaphors. for one example, if you look at the Putnam exams from the 1960s, they were challenging (to me) but totally reasonable "shadow of the flagpole"-type problems. nowadays, they are much more abstract and esoteric, to say the least; even the 90th-percentile needs to train specifically for them in order to have a real chance.
it may be more economically efficient (and thus advance humanity further) to celebrate geniuses of this sort. we are getting to the point where the aggregate value of fairly, but not very, intelligent people is diminishing quickly. the next labor movement might be of rank-and-file scientists and engineers.
are you sure, or do you just disagree with their conclusion about the cost-benefit analysis?
i mostly agree with this, but in your original post you suggested that editors could learn from this example and add third-party sources which, in this case, they couldn't have... it's also arguable that they aren't really third-party sources at all; they are more like second-party sources since they are essentially being commissioned by wikipedia itself...
the wrinkle is that the deletion controversy is what inspired some of those third-party sources to be written. in fact, one of them was amusingly titled "The Remarkable Notability of Old Man Murray."
megabonus. thanks!
totally. even not counting how he jumps in and out of a corporate limo with his skateboard... :P
it is "kbps"; i just misremembered it and thought they got it wrong.
the criticism is mostly just the way they say it. the weird emphasis on B! P! S! makes it obvious they're reading a script.
you mean "reveal codes"? that was awesome! they simply admitted that the formatting would have bugs and/or get too complicated, and they let you bypass it if you had the chops to edit it directly.