Marshmallow tests are more a test of the child’s priors about adult reliability.
If the child has reliable parents they tend to pass the test. The children of reliable parents do better in life, which is obvious.
The test also fails to account for a temperate child that doesn’t actually want more than one in the first place and isn’t playing the researchers game.
Our Man in Havana is a very good book about the topic.
Secrets are a dark illiquid market where there’s high demand for things that don’t exist. So naturally there’s a lot of supply for that information. The fact that is almost all bogus is irrelevant.
Might not be the same, but reading computer code and Ancient Greek or Latin are remarkably similar skills.
I could be convinced that parsing a language at that resolution isn’t how language processing works for general use, but that’s like saying diagraming a sentence isn’t speaking a language. Technically true but missing the point.
Agree, something i noticed also, is that people who make PLs, like Guido van Rossum (Python), Rich Hickey (Clojure), Guy Steele (Common Lisp), Stroustrup (C++) and many others, they use natural language expertly.
They express their thoughts in a simple way yet accurate, they are not getting confused, they do not use a million "you know" and "like" hand waiving and getting lost in the weeds.
Stating that PLs are not absolutely the same as natural languages is true, but no association at all? Or very little association? Difficult to believe.
Browsers need to start using default search engine other than Google to try to get people away from Google. And remove Google search from list of searches in settings. I know it’s futile, especially because most people use chrome. But we’ve got to do something to spread the word that Google is not the only search engine out there.
Why would anyone want that? Everyone would just quote a lot wider to make up for the potential volatility of the next minute, probably leading to worse trades for retail orders.
It is a little curious that the skin was applied with consent, but not removed with it.
I was lead to believe that Harvard was where smart people were. The simple thing to do would be to remove the book from circulation, not destroy the thing that made it interesting.
I err towards saying that this isn't quite the full story, and the people involved are reasonable and sensitive to issues we aren't privy to.
If not, then it seems that academia has jumped the shark. It was fine, in their own worlds, for academics to turn themselves into reverent peal-clutching guests of the King, pathologically afraid of disputation, insult and offence (or, how extreme: challenging students).
jwie has the argument slightly wrong. Taxes are a side benefit of money laundering, which makes it unnecessary to report drug income directly for taxes. Money laundering's purpose is to fabricate proof of legal income, to divert suspicion from the observable existence of wealth that has no legal explanation.
The Dead Internet Theory was only slightly ahead of its time.
Used to be real people pretended to be girls on the internet. These days I can’t even get an honest real fake person pretending to be an attractive female on LinkedIn.
This has the same pattern as the Vivendi deal with Blizzard back in 2007.
In both instances, the game end of the deal had peaked already, and there was nowhere to go but down. Nothing a few billion dollars can’t fix, maybe some “new content,” says the business guys.
Meanwhile their product becomes worse by the month. The magic is fading. All the people who made it great move on, not wanting to deal with the business parasites who showed up to squeeze a buck. Repeat.
Take a look at how The Mandalorian (a Disney production) was filmed. Epic Games’ software played a large part.
It goes beyond just film & television. They offer solutions for the automotive industry, aviation simulation industry, mining sims, trucking sims, medical sims, architecture, live broadcast, …
I never expected a dystopian megacorp to start from a cartoon or videogame company. As a kid I figured it would kick off with walmart buying lockmart and just calling itself Mart.
If the child has reliable parents they tend to pass the test. The children of reliable parents do better in life, which is obvious.
The test also fails to account for a temperate child that doesn’t actually want more than one in the first place and isn’t playing the researchers game.