What's more, as English speakers we don't feel the language barrier pains that others do. This is a very big deal for much of the world!
10.02.2026 23:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@dggoldst.bsky.social
Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
What's more, as English speakers we don't feel the language barrier pains that others do. This is a very big deal for much of the world!
10.02.2026 23:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Perhaps people having the ability to understand the language anywhere in the world offsets an exam proctoring challenge that will take months to overcome
10.02.2026 22:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Imagine going anywhere on earth and being able to understand the language
www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/g...
I went to an airport somewhere that had a "recombobulation area" after security
07.02.2026 17:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Remember when people talked about the Winter Olympics and the opening ceremony was a big deal?
It was yesterday btw
You rarely hear the word glottal outside the context of stops
07.02.2026 12:20 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Who can I contact about getting a block list?
29.01.2026 22:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You clearly can't be trusted with that information Jeff!
28.01.2026 23:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's so cold that soap bubbles freeze then burst, leaving behind frozen skeletons
24.01.2026 15:42 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: DeKay, M. L. (in press). Risky-choice framing effects persist when option descriptions are matched and complete: A replication and extension of DeKay and Dou (2024). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. osf.io/preprints/ps...
09.01.2026 19:20 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 2 π 1Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Dietvorst, B. J. (in press). Understanding people's preferences for predictions: People prioritize being right over minimizing how wrong they are in expectation. Management Science. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...
08.01.2026 13:32 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1What's more, the type of person who would decide to become a film critic is the type of person who wouldn't like this movie. The people who would like it are not film critics so they are not included in the tomatometer score.
07.01.2026 14:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yes!
06.01.2026 20:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0About a year ago I stumbled across one of the best teaching examples of selection effects ever
06.01.2026 16:52 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0So glad you made use of it!
I will transfer it over the the blue site!
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Inflation has me constantly thinking "ha ha funny!" before realizing it's not an error
05.01.2026 22:46 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I'm suddenly inspired to launch a suburban mall flower shop called Fleurs du Mall. Who wants in?
05.01.2026 14:02 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0fun(?) little webapp to plot daylight length D(t) and D'(t) for anywhere on the globe at any time (t) in the year
lalten.org/daylight
sanity checks:
- reproduce solstices as D'(t) crossing y=0
- equator has flat D(t), D'(t)
[cc @dggoldst.bsky.social who frequently posts about D''(t) ]
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This is great!
28.12.2025 20:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From an industry POV there is a desire to see proof that this machinery pays the rent when applied to real problems.
28.12.2025 12:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My kids and I made a cube out of paper and hot glue because it seemed like a very Saturday December 20th thing to do
20.12.2025 19:55 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Which vowel?
19.12.2025 12:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Either Binghamton or New London I reckon
19.12.2025 01:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We need to build proctoring centers all over the world. Could be another income stream for universities!
19.12.2025 01:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0They make planes so big nowadays
19.12.2025 01:14 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You just doubled profits!
18.12.2025 15:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"We got the squish" T-shirt line. Target market: everybody.
18.12.2025 15:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0mturk was great while it was still humans!
18.12.2025 14:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0