Share Give a gift subscription The Dark Triad encompasses three personality traits: Narcissism (grandiosity, self-importance, entitlement) Psychopathy (callousness, cynicism, impulsivity) Machiavellianism (strategically exploitative, duplicitous, manipulative) The Light Triad is a constellation of three prosocial traits: Humanism (appreciation of the successes … Read more
This post is a response to Do people IRL know you have a blog? A short while before I came across bacardi55’s call to conversation, I asked my wife if she wanted to see something cool. She said yeah. I … Read more
It is 50 years since I first began translating Andrey Platonov. Wondering how to set about this article, I realised that I am grateful to him, above all, for the many different people—both real and fictional—whom he has brought into … Read more
13th July 2024 If you have a project, an idea, a product feature, or anything else that you want other people to understand and have conversations about… give them something to link to! Two illustrative examples are ChatGPT Code Interpreter … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 200 people have been charged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care fraud schemes with false claims topping $2.7 billion, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges against doctors, … Read more
2024-06-17 NOTE: This is based on, but completely rewritten, from a Twitter post: https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1802645945642799423 TL;DR It makes Go feel too “functional” rather than being an unabashed imperative language. I recently saw a post on Twitter showing the upcoming Go iterator … Read more
Alice Mao Burnout can make one feel helpless, incompetent, emotionally exhausted, isolated and cynical. Yale faculty provided insight into the neurobiological basis behind symptoms of burnout — and what can be done to reverse it. Professor of neuroscience and psychology … Read more
I once worked at a company that priced everything with a .95 ending. The bestselling software package was $999.95. Add-on products were $9.95, or $19.95, or $49.95. Everything ended with a .95. It had been this way for more than … Read more
We often assume young people are smarter, or at least quicker, than older people. For example, we’ve all heard that scientists, and even more so mathematicians, carry out their most important work when they’re comparatively young. But my new research, … Read more
The technical term would be “motion graphics” or “motion design”. Its whats behind the over engineered, ever growing, attention manipulating, graphical effects you see in Movie title sequences, or News Channels or Sports broadcasts, that the chimp troupe, with their … Read more