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It's interesting to read this study... the degree of complexity of the analysis reminds me of a overcomplicated codebase. Would love to see completely independent analysis before trusting such a …

> what does the evidence say? Afaict, not much. That's only because we have no way to gather evidence, because almost everybody alive has microplastic exposure, so we don't have a contro…

I cannot for the life of me understand why SRE of all roles would be the one to attempt to use agents for. IMO it's one of the last roles that it would apply, long after core development. I mean …

You're not explicitly saying to dumb it down, but I'd be curious if this advice would scale to genuinely deep content. The cynical hypothesis is that people don't want to think about wh…

I agree. I do remember a study that people often think label their more popular friends as their "best" friends, but if you go ask THOSE friends, they label THEIR even more popular friends a…

This feels like such a speculative non-article, trying to read really deep into a shallow interview.

All companies except the most successful companies in the world maybe.

Seems like a cool premise. Though I guess people building things always want to convince you they are worth-it (sort of a conflict-of-interest), would like to read an unbiased 7-day migration to this.

This is fascinating. So it looks to me like the proposals is that our brain has a map from 6 -> "multiples of 6" and 8 -> "multiples of 8" and it triggers both nodes, and tha…

I was looking for the comment that simply said "This looks right, good work!" and since I couldn't find one, let it be me: This looks right. Good work!

I agree about the bullshit meter. 20 years ago it was people claiming they could hear the difference if they had a headphone cable with gold-plating. > it's just if there's no objective m…

I'm sure there's a systematic solution to that. If that's the problem, maybe require a $10 submission fee on each writing (or enough to pay for a basic sanity on writing quality). You c…

I read that article, but this article cleverly circumvents the challenges that article raised. By not needing measure the microbiome the testing pains are avoided. And though mouse models aren't…

I often wonder what percent of the people who write these types of things have any actual talent for management objectively. It'd be interesting if there was some abstract study or game to actual…

Fascinating article. Slightly-off-topic: This article presents the hard science as exceedingly difficult. I kinda suspect part of that is scientists have this attitude of acting completely blind to th…

>> The lady's claim was (allegedly) that she has a perfect ability to distinguish between the tea-milk orders I believe you added the word "perfect" which makes a substantive diff…

Maybe they are, I don't know what's taught in a CS major, but a shocking number of my coworkers don't seem to understand the basics of statistical sampling which makes me wonder if they…

> apprently it’s nearly 5 meters long, ??? 3 inches longer than a Camry

Anecdotally I'm having trouble finding certain small cars in stock (e.g. crown platinum) and suspect there is some self-interest in the dealership to explains this. I think car-buyers are often u…

To me when I first came across this in college it was fascinating. I think any stem field should be taught about these statistical methods. The power of being able to put an objective answer on any pe…

> Thus, if and only if the lady properly categorized all 8 cups was Fisher willing to reject the null hypothesis – effectively acknowledging the lady's ability at a 1.4% significance level (bu…

I think the idea that managers are professional liars are something boards need tackle head-on if they want to see stock prices rise. Throughout my career I've seen a lot of managers willfully fo…

Great, since the FDA won't do anything I can't for the day that whole foods to start selling non-PFA grade food.

If you want to expose kubernetes by a query language, why not expose an SQL interface?

I agree, at least the one FAANG company I worked at didn't hire like it want experienced, well-rounded people. Instead it hired a bunch of "brilliant in a vacuum" type people who procee…

This is the guy from serial. I vividly remember listening to this whole podcast as an amateur reporter retold the whole story, only to be shocked and horrified that I had wasted my time because he was…

In people with diabetes.

I looked into this a while back and think it's been pretty well established that most autoimmune conditions are increasing significantly in the developed world and no cause is established.

I'm referring to the significant percentage of the population who believed conspiracy theories around vaccines. And then what I saw was media personalities intentionally fanning the flames (e.g. …

Meh, I find this very hard to care about. I suppose to some degree there was some overreaction around covid, but I feel like some portion of the country being actively conspiratorial saps any faith I …