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DragQueenofAngmar posted:...what? is this story actually just “pictograms can communicate information” or am I being dumb? 1. most newspapers tried to keep their writing to a sixth grade level 2. business "people" go to their own schools to learn which are well known to be extremely grade inflated and basic compared to any humanities or STEM education 3. financial newspapers are writing for business majors who don't want to read things that are too difficult 4. money can be exchanged for goods and services
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Dec 18, 2020 09:53
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T-man posted:1. most newspapers tried to keep their writing to a sixth grade level This checks out, my company produces weekly newsletters for its executive customers and at our business-wide end of year review the pub division's big takeaway was that stories in said newsletters were too long and complicated for our readers. The examples of good, popular stories wouldn't have looked out of place in Highlights for Children. Execs want to say they subscribe to [whatever] as a class signifier, otherwise they're functionally illiterate.
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Dec 18, 2020 12:52
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:Quitting my job to become a netrunner. https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1339669287846506496
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Dec 18, 2020 14:25
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Marzzle posted:particularly embarrassing because the media is like "THIS IS STATE LEVEL ACTOR CYBERWAR" and it's actually just someone guessing their lovely password as if you'd need billions poured into R+D to do that. like drat, solarwinds couldn't even use public/private keys or anything? just a 13 character password protecting our critical national CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE? Inceltown posted:If my email is secured better than your critical infrastructure you have a huge problem.
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Dec 18, 2020 15:06
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GWBBQ posted:Elon Musk's kid would make a better password. I had to google what you meant.. gently caress me!! A bit/lot weirder than the average celebrity name, are these people in a race to see how hosed up they can make their kids by the age of 10 or something?
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Dec 18, 2020 15:42
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They're going to have to homeschool because there's no way they'll be able to wind a school system whose student database will accept that as a valid input.
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Dec 18, 2020 17:36
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Dec 18, 2020 18:00
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paul_soccer12 posted:Israel If it is, this story will be memory-holed pretty quickly. If you keep reading about it, it was probably the Chinese.
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Dec 18, 2020 18:01
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paul_soccer12 posted:Israel https://twitter.com/WASBAPPIN/status/1339709783201304577 that's bappin
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Dec 18, 2020 18:11
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GWBBQ posted:They're going to have to homeschool because there's no way they'll be able to wind a school system whose student database will accept that as a valid input. I unironically support billionaires naming their kids badly because it’s the only thing that might push corporations and the government to support non-Anglo names.
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Dec 18, 2020 18:29
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changing my name to "O(N!) ⚙ DLL" on my college application so they'll think i'm a billionaire's son
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Dec 18, 2020 18:58
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Thus of old: Jared, who plays lacrosse Thus now: X Æ A-12 🥍
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Dec 18, 2020 19:06
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T-man posted:1. most newspapers tried to keep their writing to a sixth grade level Isn't the real reason newspapers "are at a sixth grade level" because that they're supposed to be readily understandable expository information that fits readily into the constrained space of a newspaper column
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Dec 18, 2020 21:02
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Milo and POTUS posted:Isn't the real reason newspapers "are at a sixth grade level" because that they're supposed to be readily understandable expository information that fits readily into the constrained space of a newspaper column that was the excuse my jornalism degree friends went for, yes. functionally any time i let an actual nuanced take go to print we'd get a slew of Dr. Dipshits sending in rambling rebuttals that were obviously furiously typed out after reading the first paragraph. and my EIC didn't let me filter them, so you could always tell when we ran a thinkpiece on abortion by the fedoralords on the letters to the editor page.
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Dec 18, 2020 21:16
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:...what? is this story actually just “pictograms can communicate information” or am I being dumb? Eh. Old news. "?" "!" Actual exchange between Victor Hugo (or Oscar Wilde) and his publisher about sales of his new book.
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Dec 18, 2020 21:36
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Milo and POTUS posted:Isn't the real reason newspapers "are at a sixth grade level" because that they're supposed to be readily understandable expository information that fits readily into the constrained space of a newspaper column Not a journalist, but when bureaucrats talk about "x grade level" my agency tends to use Flesch–Kincaid scores, which are...not really that meaningful as a level of sophistication or whatever. It's basically a score based on "how long are words and how long are sentences," which is basically "how many letters between spaces and how many spaces between periods." You can make sentences that have very low grade levels but are opaque as hell, and you can make sentences that are very clear at pretty high grade levels. The kind of most noteworthy thing is that direct, strong sentences tend to produce very low levels, while lots of caveats and asides produces higher ones. Like here's a silly little chart  I don't think it really tells us that much that Jane Austen gets scored around 5th grade while Michael Crichton gets scored closer to 9th.
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Dec 18, 2020 22:09
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Tulip posted:Like here's a silly little chart Pounded In The Butt By Charts
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Dec 18, 2020 22:26
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T-man posted:1. most newspapers tried to keep their writing to a sixth grade level I'm glad that reading ability hasn't declined so far that the author actually could have gotten away with a few emojis instead of having to describe them in a circuitous way though it's still incredibly facile. he's happy after a business deal went through? you don't say
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Dec 18, 2020 22:27
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New from our stupid cyberpunk dystopia lab: internet connected cameras in your garbage can that shame you for not recycling properly https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/12/18/tech/compology-artificial-intelligence/index.html.
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Dec 18, 2020 22:31
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Tulip posted:
ah yes, thomas pynchon, far easier to comprehend than tom clancy or jk rowling's later books
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Dec 18, 2020 23:35
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im too busy rereading the affordable care act while playing chess with Joseph Michelli
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Dec 19, 2020 01:55
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Marzzle posted:particularly embarrassing because the media is like "THIS IS STATE LEVEL ACTOR CYBERWAR" and it's actually just someone guessing their lovely password as if you'd need billions poured into R+D to do that. like drat, solarwinds couldn't even use public/private keys or anything? just a 13 character password protecting our critical national CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE? The
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Dec 19, 2020 04:04
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Tulip posted:Not a journalist, but when bureaucrats talk about "x grade level" my agency tends to use Flesch–Kincaid scores, which are...not really that meaningful as a level of sophistication or whatever. It's basically a score based on "how long are words and how long are sentences," which is basically "how many letters between spaces and how many spaces between periods." You can make sentences that have very low grade levels but are opaque as hell, and you can make sentences that are very clear at pretty high grade levels. The kind of most noteworthy thing is that direct, strong sentences tend to produce very low levels, while lots of caveats and asides produces higher ones. Oh and I get in trouble when I make 5th graders read Cormac McCarthy!
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Dec 19, 2020 04:12
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quote:According to an email sent by a chief resident to other residents, Stanford's leaders explained that an algorithm was used to assign its first allotment of the vaccine. The algorithm was said to have prioritized those health care workers at highest risk for COVID infections, along with factors like age and the location or unit where they work in the hospital. Residents apparently did not have an assigned location, and along with their typically young age, they were dropped low on the priority list. https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...l-medical-resid
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Dec 19, 2020 04:20
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Milo and POTUS posted:Isn't the real reason newspapers "are at a sixth grade level" because that they're supposed to be readily understandable expository information that fits readily into the constrained space of a newspaper column Specifically in the case of USA Today, sticking to simple coverage and writing at a lower (I think 3rd-4th grade level English) gets the paper delivered to hotels en masse because almost nobody is going to complain about bias and it's easy to read for people who speak English as a second language. ESL is a big selling point for major cities wherever you are.
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Dec 19, 2020 04:31
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:Oh and I get in trouble when I make 5th graders read Cormac McCarthy! Hahaha oh man I thought you were joking
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Dec 19, 2020 04:31
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God loving drat that's some blame shifting. Absolutely amazing how the algorithm gave it to the exact same people you'd expect to get it if the management team didn't give the slightest gently caress about anyone but themselves.
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Dec 19, 2020 05:39
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 Advertising machines force us to feign politeness to them. At least I can tell salesmen to gently caress off.
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Dec 19, 2020 06:26
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https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1340091749595815936?s=21
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Dec 19, 2020 13:46
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The Oldest Man posted:New from our stupid cyberpunk dystopia lab: internet connected cameras in your garbage can that shame you for not recycling properly i'm reminded of that short story where all low wage workers are controlled by this management AI that whispers in their ears (via bluetooth headphones) what they should be doing at all times in the day. there are cameras and sensors everywhere, but no managers just an AI calculating the best action for you to take at every second of every day
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Dec 19, 2020 14:00
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That’s Marshall Brain’s “Manna”.
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Dec 19, 2020 15:32
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https://twitter.com/verge/status/1340286032667930624?s=21 looking forward to getting run over by the walmart delivery droid
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Dec 19, 2020 16:44
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Crusader posted:https://twitter.com/verge/status/1340286032667930624?s=21 always a good sign when the self-drivimg truck company has to explicitly assure people that the trucks are in fact capable of turning left quote:Like other autonomous vehicle companies, Gatik uses the full sensor suite for sensor fusion-based perception. The autonomous box trucks have six LiDARs, six radars (two long range, four medium range), 14 cameras and GPS.
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Dec 19, 2020 17:03
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Dec 19, 2020 17:21
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Rutibex posted:i'm reminded of that short story where all low wage workers are controlled by this management AI that whispers in their ears (via bluetooth headphones) what they should be doing at all times in the day. there are cameras and sensors everywhere, but no managers just an AI calculating the best action for you to take at every second of every day That sounds nice, I'm really tired of having to think and make decisions all the time 
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Dec 19, 2020 20:01
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Crusader posted:https://twitter.com/verge/status/1340286032667930624?s=21 I'll believe it when I see it
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Dec 19, 2020 20:02
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Platystemon posted:That’s Marshall Brain’s “Manna”. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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Dec 19, 2020 20:11
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you know i feel like self driving trains would be a way better starting point for the tech rather than cars. maybe a self driving boat that can do trans atlantic trips
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Dec 19, 2020 20:36
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Crusader posted:https://twitter.com/verge/status/1340286032667930624?s=21 thank god the liability for mowing down pedestrians can now be abstracted even further. also lol 2021 is a real optimistic timeline hahaha self driving cars don’t work ya rubes. Though, if they are on specific routes that don’t change and can be preprogrammed, they have a much better chance of pulling it off.
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