Hack Ballet

Contemporary Ballet company directed by choreographer Briar Adams

[Veronica Obiefule @Ronnee17]

@VitalikButerin In Summary, don't be a selfish and greedy crypto CEO hiding in philanthropist clothing,

It never ends well for you and the industry.

[Chainleft @ChainLeftist]

@VitalikButerin "effective altruism" is an oxymoron. Much better to establish systems that don't require effective altruism.

[Bananaplanet🐌 @Bananaplanet2]

@0xWuFeng @VitalikButerin It's not a scam: it's just appealing to people who think they're clever and have cleverness built into every part of their life

you get to dance in your cleverness and feel the fruits of thinking/researching will be positively consequential

[Jake Flowers @jflowers515]

@LegacyApe @VitalikButerin He is. Referring to SBF wanting to “give away his fortune” but his fortune was locked up in a shit coin he printed himself which then lost all its value

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Accidentally convincing millions that the people who care about advancing and protecting humanity really do want to cut you up so they can equitably redistribute your organs is a far worse fate than allocating a bit of money wrongly.

[Dani Revord @DaniRevord]

I had a miscarriage last night and the first thing I had to do was Google if I broke a law.

I didn’t even know I was pregnant. I was 8 days late.

Just, uh, sit with that for a second.

[Dani Revord @DaniRevord]

If we cannot trust our doctors to protect our lives because state legislators have pushed through bills like this to intimidate medical practitioners, where do we go?

[Dani Revord @DaniRevord]

I woke up from my nap just in time to tell you all that mourning does not look the same in all people.

I can be sad and want to change something I know is harming others at the same time.

There is no normal reaction to trauma.

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen ...allowing for meanings in the uncertain grey area that may or may not be pinned down... like a confidence interval and assessing accuracy by asking the predictor to also assign a level of certainty in one's predictions

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen In arts/psychology/social science I would generally say it's super hard to come up with good hypotheses about a single factor that can be tested, and then to design good experiments that accurately reflect real world behaviour of the thing you're testing...

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen .. where several words or phrases could have been chosen ( or expressions in several languages) and meaning could be usefully extracted by recognising some % or multi-threaded method of collecting and enumerating/tokenising all the possible meanings as well as...

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen ... how are "loose" meanings enumerated? Like where a double entendre or pun is used, lets say in a joke... there is a literal "meaning" and one or more shadow meanings that are more or less apparent/obscured. Or where one word or phrase is used to describe a concept...

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen ... summary rather than verbosity and speculation; is speculation relying on heuristics important either for the speculations themselves or the meta focus on what happens inside a heuristic black box?

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen I noticed other commenters saying similar things; is this kind of generalised thinking without specific theoretical references useful to your thinking about the topic? I don't express myself succinctly in this environment and I'm noticing a tendency towards...

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen ... and where a subject area is funded at the entry level on the basis of popularity among school leavers who choose to pursue that subject area there will be fads to study the popular topics even if they are less rigourously reproducible? Some kind of #influencereffect

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen So it's maybe like " #quantumculture " ie when you observe/attempt to measure a cultural phenomenon it either was already evolving or your observation influenced it's evolution so your conclusions must be contextualised by prevailing values of participants/authors/society?

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen ... for why adopting the recommended practices might, for instance, undermine the manager's self image or empire-building (ie practices recommended to reduce corruption would be more likely to be resisted by corrupt managers!)

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen Ie who is the "customer" of the research and has it achieved product-market fit? If management research served the needs of real world managers they would (or could be) incentivised to adopt it's findings, unless there are underlying motivations...

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen If the research doesn't become "popular" and taken up by the community outside research it won't be impactful even if what it found was important, and also might not be a popular subject area to study by younger researchers entering the field

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen Erm... In management studies there's often an issue with "best practice" recommendations as advocated by researchers not being adopted in the real world perhaps because managers might be selected for reasons other than what the research measured... so like...

[Hack Ballet @HackBallet]

@michael_nielsen Plus so much of psychology research relies on participants telling you what they think! Freakonomics style data analysis I find more useful in examining revealed preferences...