FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

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There's a phenomenon that's plaguing news, that also is at the core of finance/market bullshit, as well as lying with statistics, that I call "chasing higher and higher derivatives".

Basically, rather than looking at whether something is up/down, good/bad, whatever, looking at whether it's increasing/decreasing. But then that's not enough. Whether the rate of change is increasing or decreasing. Repeat.

Somebody should invent a very small AI which was carefully nurtured to grow within the limited space of a single PC and name it Bonsai Buddy

Declaration of friendship

I found this conversation amusing. we've been friends for multiple years at this point lol

SHELVE YOUR LONGSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE ENNUI. AND YOU WILL WIN.

don't follow people who spend all their time sneering at people and concepts they don't like, it's not good for you

mr president how open are you to taking the voigt-kompf test

Dear young people:
Facebook started the practice of people using their real names on social media.

This is why you don't know that the Internet was generally like this before the age of social media. The Internet has returned to normal in this one regard.

Us old farts are used to insane screen names.

seriously can websites stop trying to claim "we respect your privacy"

if your website does any of the following, you do not respect my privacy:

1. have a cookie banner
2. require more than one click to reject all non-essential cookies
3. call personalized advertising a "feature"
4. call telemetry "help improve our site"
5. have a "do not sell my personal information" link anywhere
6. require the person to live in california to use that link

Be mindful.

@Nifflas sorry, as a signal processing person, I have yet to see anything that can beat "lombscargle"

The bathtub curve, but for tech literacy

is "just making things up" coming for your job?