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I stumbled upon a statistic cited by the New York Times and other high-profile sources about how many people in Brazil are vegetarian. I traced it back to its source and find that in reality, the share of vegetarians is probably an order of magnitude smaller than claimed on Wikipedia and elsewhere.

+1, I noticed and fixed a few erroneous dates that would have presumably been difficult to surface otherwise

Kind of a funny day to post this (WMATA just released data showing crime rates at a 25-year low)

I have tried fairly persistently to make Apple Photos my primary photo management tool and I finally gave up recently. The app crashes repeatedly when I have it open—only occasionally until this year but the frequency has increased to the point that it no longer feels usable. A real shame. I’d rather stay in the ecosystem if I had the choice.

Wow the way this renders on mobile is dizzying

It's been my understanding since GPT-3 that tools that claim to identify LLM authorship of arbitrary text are basically unreliable.

This apparently is not true anymore: Pangram has a false positive rate below 0.5% and is robust to various adversarial techniques.

Great tool. I recognize at least three names in my neighborhood who received money for a new single member LLC