Nate Strauch

A practicing engineer of wide repute associated with the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, Los Angels, California.

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

@iowahawkblog With the Dutch angles, Dave! Very avant garde.

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

@flovom Mr. Lovo, it would be entirely appropriate to dedicate and rename the press box or some other portion of Folsom Field in honor of Adam. He has been the most consistent feature of CU Football for two decades.

[Chapter House @ChHouseBooks]

Reading aloud teaches the rhythm and music of good prose.

A child who has heard hundreds of hours of well-written English read aloud has internalized sentence patterns in ways no grammar workbook can replicate.

They have heard how a complex sentence breathes.

https://t.co/vuo7Cme4yk

[Brendan Hogan @brendanh0gan]

introducing: Loophole - an agentic system that translates your natural language moral beliefs into codified laws, and then runs adversarial agents that try to come up with legal scenarios that break your laws - either a scenario that is immoral and legal, or vice versa - a judge agent fixes the law if it can do so consistently, but if there is an inconsistency you as the user must decide what is best.

you can work with the system until your legal framework can't be broken by the agents - and you get as output a legal system that is aligned with your moral code

more details and code below

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Absolute banger of an article. So many US building codes are a reaction to an event, rent seeking or an effort to encumber desperately needed housing.

When we look at the trade offs, many of these codes do far more harm than good.

[Grǣġhama @grahamscheper]

There’s a cool feature in Latin, the gerundive, which is a verbal adjective implying that something should/must happen. A few of them survive into English words:

If someone should be revered, they are “reverend”.

If something must be cut away, it is a “dividend”.

My favorite: if a story is so good that it simply must be read by everyone, it is “legend”!

Latin reverendus/a, dividendum, and legenda. Pretty cool that what is sometimes a difficult concept for Latin learners is actually present in English, albeit rarely. Do let me know if there are any good ones I’ve missed.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘rapidly’, more than once, or continuously. So originally, to ramble is to roam on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, to jiggle is to dance a jig quickly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

You can model a lightning strike by letting it solve a maze.

If there is no connection, nothing happens. The air simply resists.

If there is a connection, that path becomes the easiest route, so the discharge snaps through it.

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

@jonatanpallesen Anyone who's ever played Civilization understands this intuitively.

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

I love this story

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

@anup_malani This take coming from the "chief economist" for Medicaid has gotta be a bit.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Libertarianism means seeing humans as we really are—fallible, inconsistent, selfish, biased, and highly dependent—and advocating a system that accounts for this. Decentralization helps us learn from others, coordinate, and cooperate, while centralization amplifies our weaknesses.

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

@ihavemadflavor The fact that Deion credits his coaches when good things happen but blames his players when bad things happen is probably his biggest red flag . I can't think of a single successful coach who does that. Imagine thinking Travis Hunter is a pro WR because of Jason Phillips.

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

Five schools have produced a U.S. president and a Super Bowl-winning QB.

- Delaware: Biden/Flacco
- Miami (OH): Harrison/Big Ben
- Michigan: Ford/Brady
- Stanford: Hoover/Elway/Plunkett
- Navy: Carter/Staubach

If Drake Maye wins this year, UNC will be the sixth (James K. Polk).

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

@ScottProcter_ I found that money he's missing!

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

My perspective on this changed when I learned one key fact about driver behavior. Traffic engineers studied it carefully and discovered that drivers are, in general, very good at choosing the maximum speed that is safe for current driving conditions.

This is consistent with other indicators that what drivers actually do is choose a level of acceptable risk and then calibrate their behavior to that. Make seatbelts and airbags mandatory, they start doing chancier things. Remove all stop signs and traffic signals, they start driving very carefully and accident rates actually go down. (Yes, this experiment has been done in Europe.)

So it's not so much that Americans think driving over the speed limit is a god-given right. It's that we're basically incapable of seeing speeding as a malum in se. Contrast driving drunk.

Matters aren't helped by the fact that speed limits are widely perceived to be dishonest ways for the police and local government to raise revenue via fines. This conduces to a lack of respect for them.

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

@iowahawkblog

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

Hey @iowahawkblog, could you use your acumen to help us try and date this photo of awful MCM cladding being installed to cover the historic facades in Sherman, Texas? #DavesCarIDService @TracesofTexas

[Nate Strauch @NateStrauch]

@TracesofTexas Amazing story that I had not heard before. Thomas Shannon is the man responsible for locating Sherman at its present location, and his daughter Julia named the original city streets - half after heroes of the Texas Revolution, and half after tree species. Thanks for posting!

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"Despite the disadvantages of country living, despite the fact people are leaving the country in droves, people are happier in the country...People in the country are more likely to be very happy and less likely to be not too happy than people in the city"