Tweets. Photos (Week 2022.15)
Tweets of the Week
More wheat stats.
My personal favorite Misleading Wheat Stat is "Ukraine/Russia grow 25% of world wheat exports."
Why's it misleading? It's technically true, but doesn't mean what people think!
Missing wheat from the war is actually less than 1% of global wheat crop!
The commentary on the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol games on Wikipedia is so much fun to read! This bit about AlphaGo's decision-making is very interesting:
A similar story I have heard is that chess engines will sometimes underpromote to a knight instead of a queen because a knight is easier to calculate, but human player see this as an insult.
Sometimes I think about how there are only a few machines on the planet that can make high-quality ball-point pen rollers.
We often underestimate how recent some technologies we think of as basic are
Another example of efficiency being overestimated when measured from the center.
David Galbraith @daveg
Read the thread for the bit about the SNCF metric.
If Apple can ship their $1000 computing tablet with no calculator because "they haven't figured it out yet" and still be worth $2.2 trillion dollars...
you can ship your shitty MVP you are still embarrassed about
Here's something about English that amazes me:
TH at the beginning of a word (typically) stands for one of two sounds: /θ/ as in 'thin' or /ð/ as in 'this'.
The difference works according to what type of word it is: lexical TH words start with /θ/, functional TH words with /ð/!