Dan Goldstein

Nordic policies (childcare, parental leave, etc) support two adults working and Nordic expensiveness motivates it

Love it

I feel pretty safe in saying that Canada would win under any reasonable approach. It's two to five times longer than the next country under a couple different measurement schemes.

Wikipedia even leads with that

You might be surprised to learn that Canada is the country with the most coastline but this picture should fix that

Please don't say "from Duckworth," that's not how it works :)

Relevant? arxiv.org/abs/2502.02880

My bank texted me a code and then rejected it as incorrect and I was like look I'm just trying to be helpful and if you know the code then why are you asking me?

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!

Perhaps people having the ability to understand the language anywhere in the world offsets an exam proctoring challenge that will take months to overcome

AI-powered glasses offer real-time subtitles of Korean lectures - The Korea Times At Pusan National University (PNU) in the southeastern port city of Busan, an American student sits in a Korean literature class wearing what appea...

Imagine 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

Remember 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

Who can I contact about getting a block list?

You clearly can't be trusted with that information Jeff!

It's so cold that soap bubbles freeze then burst, leaving behind frozen skeletons

Today'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...

Today'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...

What'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.

yes!

About a year ago I stumbled across one of the best teaching examples of selection effects ever

So 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

I'm suddenly inspired to launch a suburban mall flower shop called Fleurs du Mall. Who wants in?

fun(?) 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!

From an industry POV there is a desire to see proof that this machinery pays the rent when applied to real problems.