My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

Lot of people should read this exhaustive list of life improvements from the 90s: gwern.net/improvement

Wow that's almost "whoops, we lied to our investors" levels of bad!

YouTube video by Its Always Sunny Recaps Solving the gas crisis

I feel like I have this conversation at work once a month... (And the pivot to "I'll blow fireballs surrounded by gasoline" part happens once a quarter)

youtube.com/shorts/DqveJ...

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What kind of psycho decides to have their 5'11" (read: probably barely 5'10 after going through the Willy Wonka taffy stretching machine) rookie QB throw **over 50 times**?

What is wrong with these people!

Unironically a reason to get `{rix}`-pilled

Bruno even calls out rJava in the first vignette. That's a man who knows his audience!

docs.ropensci.org/rix/articles...

4 word horror story for an R user:

"has a Java dependency"

I can commit crimes like ruining Led Zeppelin songs with impunity!

(I had to check: 2009!?! Oh noooooooooo)

Ah, yes, Ubuntu.

Or as I call it "the only Linux distro that exists" because I *refuse* to fall into that vortex, knowing I might well be torn limb from limb in the maelstrom of forbidden knowledge.

a man with glasses says " what were they thinking ?? " ALT: a man with glasses says " what were they thinking ?? "

>a great many voices were raised against the consequences of Chisholm v. Georgia

Sorry! That's what I meant to suggest by saying it wasn't without controversy. It was splashy!

The 12th was a yawner. 1800 election was a mess. Really makes you wonder wtf they were originally thinking.

When James Madison -- the dude who wrote most of it -- was elected President in 1809 it had been 20 years already.

By 1804 there had been two Amendments, with only the 11th being controversial. The 12th fixed an obvious defect in the original document RE: a presidential "ticket"

Once you learn something it's hard to rebuild the previous state of ignorance, I know exactly what you mean!

Jake Gyllenhaal didn't deserve that

any econometricians seeing this know of recent-ish papers comparing out-of-sample predictive performance of discrete choice models? particularly interested in anything getting at choice data that can't be rationalized with the variables available

Update: my girls have named him... Sunny.

Lol

a woman in a bathrobe is covering her eyes with a stack of money . ALT: a woman in a bathrobe is covering her eyes with a stack of money .

Always always always ask if your simple solutions work first.

It's not sexy, but I'm not paid for sexy.

Recently an important binary classification model drifted for a "subclass" of the data (performance was correlated with a set of features).

After many hours spent talking about expensive retraining and potential downtime costs I was pulled in. We recalibrated it in ~ 30 min to hold us over.

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This black squirrel is my new favorite little guy. I could do without the attempts to plant black walnut trees in my yard / flowerbeds, but these are tradeoffs I'm willing to make.

Keynes had thoughts on Jews, too 😐

The social sciences have, uh, baggage...

"There is only one social science and we are its practitioners" - Stigler

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account." - Hayek

Inside every economist there are two wolves...

a man with a mullet smiles and says " yeah you wanna see crazy " ALT: a man with a mullet smiles and says " yeah you wanna see crazy "

*Badger* holes.

They're insane when they want to be. "Defend family from black bear"-crazy.

And they're adorable to boot!

It's not harassment, he's just Italian!

So we have Sliwa and Cuomo with the correct opinion on this, while Mamdani was mostly there already but has backpedalled a little ("I'll appoint a blue ribbon panel!" is the refuge of a coward).

Interesting, I guess.

A humanoid robot isn't a good design for war fighting, but I fear your broader point is obviously and inevitably true.

I for one love a little dissolves glue in my cocktail

A link for those interested (I didn't know this!)

www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...

The issue has always been defining what a "political issue" is.

Do we want to open the door to taxing environmental advocacy because it's political, but not when you advocate for certain regulatory policy because it's a "business interest"?

This mostly feels *incredibly naive*, not like a sinister Elon thing. (She didn't troll herself into accidentally spending billions on a social media site like he did with Twitter / there's no declared intent to purge half the headcount)

The responses I'm seeing to it don't all feel warranted, tbh

Good analogy. "Gotta gather everything, can't have another <insert bad thing that happened here>", except it's for e-drama among the worst people we have.