It didn’t work for math, numbers, lists, or anything with less narrative than a textbook, but was fairly reliable for anything presented as paragraphs on a page. (My memory still exhibits notable skew in this fashion.)
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Cognitive Ability Decay: From Exceptional Memory to High School Normalcy
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(My ability here decayed to something more approaching “has an anomalously good memory” by approximately late high school. I was both sad but also happy because it eased some social difficulties.)
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Diverse Learning Minds: Memorization and Individual Cognitive Differences
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You know the general class of phenomena that is learning minds function in diverse ways? My most vivid experience with it was in seventh grade when a teacher explained memorization to me for the first time and, patiently, said that most people had to intentionally try to do it.
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Class Credentialing Institutions and Educational Gatekeeping Mechanisms
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I sometimes wonder if I am too cynical about our class credentialing institutions and their funding and gatekeeping mechanisms. Then, I remember they are our class credentialing institutions, and so the baseline level of cynicism should be high.
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Policy Design Benefits Elite, Harms Others: Known Side Effect
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“Wow this seems like a policy designed to work spectacularly well for the class that wrote it and blow up terribly for other people.” More of the first half of that; the second is a side effect. It’s a known side effect, in the literature, but was not considered a blocker.
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Building Exceptional Internet Value Without Shortcuts
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Nobody was bitten by a radioactive spider. Nobody was born into royalty. Nobody married a Kardashian. People just produced outstanding amounts of value on the Internet over a long period of time.
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Aircraft Seat Crushes Phone, Causes Lithium Battery Fire
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See generally: https://
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AI Seat Adjustment System Causes Lithium Battery Fire Risk
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Multiple events where people adjusted a seat to attempt to get at trapped electronics. The seats then applied substantial torque which via mechanical action punctured the seal of a lithium-ion battery, causing rapid combustion. Fire in midair is not wonderful, etc etc.
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Software Complexity: Poor State Machine Design Frustrates Users
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I am, factually, done. They know that I am done. This is as decidable as any problem is in a computer system. But that would be dozens of extra lines of code and so instead they hope the end user is an expert at navigating state machines.
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Email reveals poor product decision-making in AI products
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This email: such a short, eventful minefield of bad product decisionmaking.