A glance at political contributions of Twitter employees at 99.7% to one party gives you a very strong prior in what the political leaning of random Twitter employees to be.
Interesting! Glancing at the board, there is a clear makeup of highly educated, decorated, democratic, liberal-ish people. I would be hard pressed to call this setup one that focuses on "wildly diverse viewpoints".
Wonder what bubble you're in, I've been seeing a Facebook attack article easily 3-4 times a month for the last three years. I want to see Bytedance's CEO in front of Congress.
Whereas anti TikTok is a recent (and much needed) development. That app is fast tracking through every single pitfall Facebook hit, starting with making users' attention spans less than five seconds, filtering out content based on beauty, giving schoolchildren tics, and all the trust and safety issues.
The more basic explanation is that she has been served ads for puzzles like that for a while, based on previous history and maybe retargeting from the company and you guys only notice the ad because it's more salient after sending a message with the puzzle in it.
There's no reason you'd have noticed an ad about the puzzle in the wash of content and other types of ads.
As if the history of the dollars used is relevant. Chase money far enough and 90% of US bills have some trace of cocaine. Should we avoid any and all donations because it's drug money?
It's actually really interesting that you mentioned physics and math - I used to typeset my lecture notes in LaTeX and I found it more effective to do it for exactly the same reasons you mentioned. The time it took to typeset equations forced me to figure out what those equations were saying.
I suspect it's time to digest the concepts and when it's slower to handwrite versus type that results in better comprehension.
There are studies (I don’t know how good - this is a second hand account of a conference talk) that suggested using difficult to read typefaces or deliberately degrading texts by photocopying multiple times helped retention. Perhaps writing in awkward forms is a similar effect.
Daniel Oppenheimer et al.: Fortune Favors the Bold (and the Italicized): Effects of Disfluency on Educational Outcomes (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2010), https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wd1s7hj
"Study 1 found that harder to read fonts led to increased retention in a controlled laboratory setting. Study 2 extended this finding to real-world classroom environments."
I'm not an expert on this topic, so I don't know whether this result was replicated since. If it indeed works, then kudos to my university's physics department for making use of this effect - they had a habit of handing out physics cheat sheets and various MATLAB code snippets that have been photocopied for 15+ years from one copy to another.
Yeah, interestingly I tend to pause and think rather than taking notes, and I’ve often found that’s more effective for me because I can spend more time thinking, and less time an the mechanics of writing.
And the pendulum has swung so far back I can recall reading "diversity" advocates trying to remove them in the last few years for being insufficiently equitable.
Yep. Toronto eliminated all skill-based admission requirements for specialized arts, athletics, science and math programs and turned them into a lottery process for admission because it's more equitable.
> A typical orchestral audition might end up attracting dozens of people who are essentially indistinguishable in their musicianship and technique.
Then raise the bar. Why are we content that more people can achieve the top tier of any field? If leaders of a field cannot find ways to evaluate newcomers, then replace them with new leaders and techniques that can. What a lazy excuse.
Yes, and E2EE was rolled out in 2016 to Messenger, and then was planned to be the default until regulators and NCMEC started screaming about CSAM, and rightly so. It's lose lose.
This is what happens when you encourage high achievement and select for it. It's not a model that's going to work everywhere.
It certainly helps that he develops an accelerated program but the effect of that program versus the selection process is the most important question of all.
