drBonkers

How would you recommend they learn to ask well-formed questions?

Your description feels very apt. I was great in a classroom but I've done poorly learning alone outside of it. Do you have any recommendations on how to pick up new subjects and material after college?

Does this work with human bodies?

> What you see from the outside is mostly marketing. Most labs are really neither and instead are publication-first.

I've never heard it put so succinctly. Superb prose.

I can’t get around the paywall.

Needs drop in voice rooms a la Discord or Slack's Huddle

Would she consider taking on someone interested in learning COBOL to support her and the team?

Do you have any readings you recommend to start thinking in terms of non-deterministic algorithms and cheap verifiers?

Hey, I notice this kind of thing all the time. People use "data" to tell the story they want to -- similar to how it seems humans make a decision subconsciously then weave a rational decision to back it up afterwards.

Do you have principles on how to tackle this? I feel stuck between the irrationality of anecdata and the irrationality of lying with numbers. As if the only useful statistic is one I collect and calculate myself. And, even then, I could be lying to myself.

I don't care about internet service, long distance phone calls, or TVs. I care about shelter, groceries, healthcare, and education. I can forego the former, I must buy the latter.

This is a concise statement of what I've tried to articulate by analogizing it to railroad infra buildout.

What applications do you think make the most sense so far?

> They also found that, if inflation adjusted, you get could, in most categories, the same or better quality for the same price.

I argue you must evaluate against median purchasing power; it accounts for inflation and (lack of) wage increases.

Comments from your linked video:

> The problem with the “adjusted for inflation” argument is that it does not factor in buying power. The increase in wages has risen at out half the rate of inflation, so sure; $20 in 1975 would be $124 today, but the minimum wage in 1975 was $2.10 an hour as opposed to $7.25 today, giving you half the buying power you had 50 years ago.

> healthcare, housing, and education ... have increased by an insane margin leaving people with less money once that has been paid for (if at all).

> It's even worse when you consider that people are paying 45-55% of their monthly income on a house that cost 20x more than it would have in 1975. Your buying power is fucked from all sides.

What’s better than AirPods and AirTags? I want them

Who do you follow for news on the Ukraine-Russian war? I use to follow combat footage to see what was going on, but I had to stop after seeing too many minefield and drones bombing humans videos.