luksfarris

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Show threadluksfarris11h ago
@aesthr counterintuitively (and I may be 100% wrong about this) I think what made it so utterly popular is giving people artificial connections in times when real connections are diminishing
luksfarris14h ago
Sometimes I take for granted that the problems of language translation, access to information, and navigation are pretty much solved. Not in a small part thanks to Google researchers, but also to brilliant people in the last decades. I think we're pretty much closing the gap of language-based cognition, which solves a whole cluster of other problems.
Remember to be grateful, before criticizing
Show threadluksfarrisMar 26
@sundogplanets in Portuguese, when a person is a cheapskate, we call them "cow-fisted" or "cow hands"
Show threadluksfarrisFeb 28
@ghalfacree I personally sincerely appreciate it. Thank you!!
Show threadluksfarrisFeb 28
@ghalfacree you've added pictures 🤩
Show threadluksfarrisFeb 17
@flashesofpanic that's very similar to my personal experience!! I found that practicing guitar is satisfying (it literally brings me joy), challenging (plus I can measure progress), and I have zero regret for the time spent practicing!
luksfarrisFeb 17

In my quest to become an excellent data scientist, I've suffocated all my other talents and hobbies. Drawing, guitar, sports, foreign languages.

I thought I couldn't have these because they consumed too much space in my mind. Turns out I was wrong. I just didn't know enough about practicing those skills.

A few months ago I restarted guitar practice, with modest success. Recently I restarted learning Polish. Next will be pen and ink, and lastly baseball.

On my way to become who I want to be.

luksfarrisFeb 16

My office provides two brands of coffee to employees of two different qualities (which I will label "expensive" and "cheap").

So my colleagues did a double blind study to find which one is best. They found out not only there was not a statistical difference in preference, people also couldn't tell which one they were drinking.

luksfarrisFeb 4
I ran across the blog of a great writer recently. And it was clear how, compared to theirs, my own writing is terrible. Mostly chaotic, but often lazy.
This person writes well not only in books, but papers, talks, even here on Mastodon. I'm very inspired to work harder on what I write from now on.
Show threadluksfarrisFeb 2
@mjd I agree, that makes a lot of sense!!!