Philosophy PhD student at the University of Waikato (working on how regular people figure out when to trust experts) but I mainly joke about tech and cats. Former telco product manager, data guy and financial crime analyst.
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André "Normal" Alessi
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It's always tempting to try to quantify things that we value when we do work at scale, but problems arise where people with diverging values treat the metric itself as a thing to be argued over, instead of the underlying things it's meant to represent.
Sorry Your Holiness. (And Pope Leo I guess.)
A really concise and critical evaluation of the term "social cohesion" by Nicholas Lewis here. I've been skeptical of its value as anything other than hand-wavey vibes, and this piece does a good job of explaining how that plays out in practice.
'CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT'
Yes, YA novels exist to satisfy an adolescent mindset.
Happy group chats day
When my supervisor asks me how the thesis is going:
No one wants you to know what the other side of the MGM logo looks like
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history
When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
Another thing about Court's bullshit here is that he argues ACT's values pledge nonsense is a good way to stop what we see happening in the UK, where they have a values pledge, from happening here.
