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That series was what first got me onto ACOUP. For a, uh, not fun but well laid out and grim reminder of what war is, look at his breakdown of army marches + pillaging complete with the math on how many calories are required per person, and how those calories are now not available to the surviving farmers of the settlement the army just went through.
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I actually re-read some parts of the Space Trilogy this year. It is absolutely insane, but if you're willing to accept its wacky premise, it's a lot of fun. The third book is probably the preachiest, but it's more the anti-industrialist/anti-capitalist (with a huge asterisk, obviously) type of preachy than the High Church Anglican preachy. Definitely happy I was into Lewis as a child instead of Harry Potter, lol.
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I find it extremely funny that tolkien writes a book and then after the fact thinks "hmm my characters might be doing a bad thing in hindsight when they personally murder hundreds of people, I need to change the ontological basis of reality in order to fix this"
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OwlFancier posted:I find it extremely funny that tolkien writes a book and then after the fact thinks "hmm my characters might be doing a bad thing in hindsight when they personally murder hundreds of people, I need to change the ontological basis of reality in order to fix this" As has been noted, this is the most Catholic possible way of doing things.
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ikanreed posted:CS lewis also famously got so owned by woman in a debate about naturalism that he almost stopped writing entirely. One: fascinating! Thanks for mentioning that, looks interesting. Two: the woman herself said she thought the later accounts of his reaction were kind of overblown: G.E.M. Anscombe, that very same Wikipedia page posted:I am inclined to construe the odd accounts of the matter by some of his friends – who seem not to have been interested in the actual arguments or the subject matter – as an interesting example of the phenomenon called "projection". Paladinus posted:I actually re-read some parts of the Space Trilogy this year. It is absolutely insane, but if you're willing to accept its wacky premise, it's a lot of fun. The third book is probably the preachiest, but it's more the anti-industrialist/anti-capitalist (with a huge asterisk, obviously) type of preachy than the High Church Anglican preachy. Definitely happy I was into Lewis as a child instead of Harry Potter, lol. Agreed on Harry Potter. My dad tried to recommend it to me at the time (I was about the right age) and I rejected it immediately because a one-sentence description sounded like a ripoff of The Dark Is Rising (and, at that age, I considered this both obvious and a grave offense).
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The best bit in Perelandra is that angels flicker because they have to project themselves onto a planet that is, from their point of view, spinning rapidly and zipping around the sun.
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is the unit on the x axis truly "amount" as in a bunch of them have a mere 2? i think the dataset might be flawed even if it works out proportionally irl
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Ironic that the character “Ace” fucks more than almost anyone
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40 min rant about awful plots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0QMKFzW9fw&t=835s
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Vashro posted:40 min rant about awful plots i agree that the symmetry of violin plots is unnecessary, and the complaint about how yonic they are, and how that places women in STEM in uncomfortable positions where they have to roll with the "joke" about it, is absolutely true. which means i generally buy the argument of the rest of the video. it's at best a choice to add redundancy for aesthetic reasons, and definitely makes it harder to compare values since the baseline is implicit and in the center of the glyph. i've heard only one even somewhat compelling defense of that symmetry, in this paper where they argue that the lack of baseline in the symmetrical glyph makes people focus on shape/area rather than value, which you might want if your task is to compare gestalt distributions rather than have people anchor on specific values, but that seems like a pretty narrow and contingent situation. i likewise agree that using a continuous encoding like a kde for discrete data (like the gay marriage laws example in the video) is bad, although i'd argue that that cuts both ways, and using discrete encodings for continuous data is also potentially misleading (i guess this is usually framed as a violation of expressiveness). but i mean smoothing is not inherently bad, lots of reasons to use a kde rather than a discrete histogram (esp. if you want to, you know, show people an estimate of a continuous distribution). and poor binning in histograms based on just mindlessly accepting defaults in plotting tools is also a similar sort of problem to mindlessly accepting kde defaults. and box plots are no great shakes either, beyond the "making unimodal and bimodal data look the same" issue. although i disagree that kdes are mostly for "wonky" data where the box plot would be inappropriate: i think showing that, yeah, the data are nicely guassian or whatever is a good way of adding trust in the boxplot, and proof that you didn't mindlessly plot central tendencies without checking the distribution first. i think that's also why you'd juxtapose a histogram and raw data as in stuff like bean plots (although i agree that when there's only a few points, the KDE doesn't add much, and I'd rather just have the raw data and a mean or something): it's giving you evidence of the appropriateness of the aggregation strategy, and also has different affordances like picking out outliers/tailedness/etc. boxplots also have the issue that there's ambiguity about what the whiskers are meant to represent (they are labeled as min and max in the video, and that's a common convention, but when tukey proposed them he meant for the whiskers to be the "hinges" that are the farthest data points within 1.5 IQR of the median, and that's also still common, and even more common to plot just +/- 1.5 IQR directly). i'm less annoyed by the "some rando combines existing things and names it and wants cites for it" thing since that is, i'd say, pretty much 95% of science at this point. the proposed overlapping histograms or kdes (like in 10:26) are often totally unreadable even with just a few categories (they've been called "one of the worst graphs for comparing groups of data" in the lit since the 90s or so), since they rely on alpha-based color blending (that can generate false or ambiguous colors, produce lots of visual noise from intersection areas, etc.). ridgeline plots have similar issues with occlusion and comparability as well (like the example at 21:20, imagine if the data were less smooth: the occluded areas would hide lots of presumably important data). anyway i think combining multiple visualizations of a distribution is fine. there's stuff like half eye plots that i think are useful for showing inferential + distributional info, and raincloud plots that i'd say are more for data checking/error detection than comparison but also have their uses.
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Who let the engineering students near a pie graph???
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Goddamn.
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I'd love to see a zoomed out version so I can shame whoever made this
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Honestly 15% of your "skilled" workers being in engineering seems kinda high.
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ikanreed posted:Honestly 15% of your "skilled" workers being in engineering seems kinda high. As of 2019, only about half of engineering graduates ended up working as engineers. I don't know how many of them stick with it long term but it's certainly not everyone.
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I wonder if that includes all the companies that use "engineer" as the title for a maintenance person that also knows the basics of hvac/electrical
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Yeah, there's two "engineers" - the ones who run the machine (think engineer on a train) and the ones who design the machine. Not a lot of overlap in skill sets there, but it lets guys who monitor the dials on a reactor on a carrier call themselves "nuclear engineers".
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Sentient Data posted:I wonder if that includes all the companies that use "engineer" as the title for a maintenance person that also knows the basics of hvac/electrical ultrafilter posted:As of 2019, only about half of engineering graduates ended up working as engineers. I don't know how many of them stick with it long term but it's certainly not everyone. The remainder is largely management which confirms that engineering has fully finished a transformation into "business school but with calculus" over the past 20 years of STEMmania so it is a very popular default program for advisors to slam students in and wait for them to fail out and get the patented money reaping 8 year undergrad marketing degree. zedprime has a new favorite as of 15:11 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Sentient Data posted:I wonder if that includes all the companies that use "engineer" as the title for a maintenance person that also knows the basics of hvac/electrical My job title says Engineer even though I am not one. Pretty dumb, really.
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Sentient Data posted:I wonder if that includes all the companies that use "engineer" as the title for a maintenance person that also knows the basics of hvac/electrical Almost certainly this and also people who write lovely JavaScript web apps.
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All the technicians at my company have engineer in their official job title, apparently it was originally used as an excuse to pay them salary so they wouldn't receive overtime.
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Where I work, everyone with the term manager or specialist is an engineer. Everyone with the term engineer in their job title is not an engineer. I've never met anyone in those jobs that would disagree. I don't think official job title is a great indicator of whether or not someone is an engineer.
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The only job title enhancer faker than “engineer” is “vice president”.
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I don't even have a job title.
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i think my official title is information technology coworker, lol
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People remember their job titles? What a loving waste of brain cells.
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I'm technically a "head of section" though I barely head my own desk except in a locomotory sense
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I once won an end of year award for "best worker in department" or some such. As the organisation was reshuffling stuff at the time, I was technically the only person in that department that year. I wasn't even a manager. Fun times.
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Antigravitas posted:I don't even have a job title. ...do you have s hereditary title, then?
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Not even that. I am an exceptionally average boring person. The website lists me as working in the "IT Group".
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I have two job titles. The reason for two was never explained to me, and it's never come up because my actual work has little to do with the titles. One of them is "Innovation Engineer" which I tell my friends half-braggingly but would be embarrassed to say to someone professionally.
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Antigravitas posted:Not even that. I am an exceptionally average boring person. I think that makes your job title "Pennywise".
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I believe here in Canada, "engineer" is a protected word you can't use in your job title unless you're actually a P.Eng. Which I'm sure has absolutely no teeth whatsoever but maybe it does, I dunno. I'm an engineering technologist but I usually call myself a "drafter/designer" because, I dunno, the former makes me feel like people think I'm trying to call myself an engineer to big myself up. Which I'd never do. I technically work for myself so if I wanted to do that I'd call myself President/CEO/Founder of (whatever I'm calling my one-man shitshow this week, legally my company name is just my own name).
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Diet Poison posted:I believe here in Canada, "engineer" is a protected word you can't use in your job title unless you're actually a P.Eng. Which I'm sure has absolutely no teeth whatsoever but maybe it does, I dunno. I'm an engineering technologist but I usually call myself a "drafter/designer" because, I dunno, the former makes me feel like people think I'm trying to call myself an engineer to big myself up. Which I'd never do. I technically work for myself so if I wanted to do that I'd call myself President/CEO/Founder of (whatever I'm calling my one-man shitshow this week, legally my company name is just my own name). PEO sued Microsoft and won over the E in MCSE, but I see tons of companies use the term anyway. I guess until you're Microsoft-sized, you're too small to be worth the trouble.
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