Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

"The panic over faster boarding and the guarantee of an overhead compartment isn’t a bug for the airlines. It’s a feature. Sure, airlines could make boarding better for everyone. But what’s better for the airlines is to make boarding better only for some people. The people who want to give them even more money."

Obviously mathematicians have been optimizing on the wrong metric when it comes to board algorithms.

If Tesla effectively casts or 3d-prints the entire body of a car in one piece, what will that mean for repairability? So far as I know, body repairs and upgrades can't be OTA updates. https://qz.com/tesla-is-experimenting-with-3d-printing-its-car-bodies-1850841660

@timbray What if Jill Lepore had written it? Are you saying that no matter who wrote it, what take it had, what theories it offered, the universe could not tempt you to reading it?

Crystal clear, eh?

I asked Bard, what is the difference between lessons and learnings? Response:

The main difference between lessons and learnings is that lessons are more specific and measurable, while learnings are more general and abstract.

Lessons are the specific things that we learn from our experiences, both positive and negative. They are often concrete and can be easily identified and articulated. For example, a lesson learned from a failed project might be "Don't underestimate the importance of user testing."

Learnings are the broader insights that we gain from our experiences. They are often more qualitative and difficult to quantify. For example, a learning from the same failed project might be "It's important to be flexible and adaptable when things don't go according to plan."

Another way to think about the difference is that lessons are about what we did, while learnings are about why we did it.

not a fan of football, but hard to pass up a nice spurious correlation

@SamYourEyes Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai https://hwfo.substack.com/p/talkin-about-hunga-tonga

@Adam_Cadmon1 We wuz robbed.

@danluu "that which does not kill me makes me weaker" -- NotNietzsche

@carnage4life One of the advantages of reinventing operating systems and effectively having a monopoly on .Net culture is limiting talent interchange.

@mimsical After the steam engine was invented, strong man contests and weightlifting ended forever as a sports.

Wasted away, RIP

There's a uptick (increase of occurrence) of this phenomenon: stories or rumors that, when you search for the story, you find a refutation of the story.

@w7voa Did he find time to get to Benghazi and get to the bottom of his longstanding investigation?

@governa Still there?

@codinghorror https://tech.hindustantimes.com/mobile/news/huaweis-mystery-phone-rallies-china-in-fight-against-us-curbs-71693379535426.html

@carnage4life Like art and music, the goal is to find the secret to high quality and success, formulate that so that no mysterious creative process remains, and effectively kill the fun.

@mimsical This could be a great opportunity for the Bilderberg Group and the Illuminati to quietly make their move.

"Ramaswamy, by then biotech’s most famous millennial not named Martin Shkreli"

portrait of an anomaly