Or, sticking with religion, I feel like maybe the Catholic church vs. the Orthodox church might be the Christian version of "US vs Canada", since I get the impression that the Orthodox church is similarly hierarchical with highly formal rituals, but the hierarchy and rituals are slightly different (they even do their holidays at slightly different times).
Is there an equivalent comparison for Sunni vs. Shia? Or is it more like asking people to compare "People from Canada" with "People from the US", where there are a bunch of small differences, and Canadians in particular don't like being mistaken for Americans, but there's no overarching theme to the differences, it's just slightly diverging cultures.
It seems to me that Catholics and Protestants are fairly easy to compare, with the most broad-brush explanation of the differences being that Catholicism has a strongly hierarchical arrangement of religious authority while most Protestant denominations have more decentralized authority. They disagree on a bunch of minor bits of doctrine that probably most people don't care about, the big differences are around the culture of religious authority and the degree to which rituals are formalized.
I feel like every time someone is asked to explain the difference between Sunni and Shia, people give the same incredibly unsatisfying answer about the schism arising from a disagreement about who Mohammed's designated successor was.
No one ever seems to answer with the thing that people actually want to know, which is "What are the differences between these two groups *today*?" I'm not even sure I know the high points of the differences.
@ciphergoth @metaweta When I tried going to the link last night it was extremely slow, so you may have just been experiencing mass migration-related growing pains.
@jefftk I don't think it's impossible but this is definitely a hard problem. If you want to enable people to do stuff like use ML recommendation systems, you either need to give them plenty of compute (which they can then use to mine bitcoin) or give them a way to make requests (which can be abused in a number of ways).
People *do* run services that allow arbitrary server-side code execution, but my impression is they have to be kinda carefully designed.
@jefftk Well, my point is that for mobile I actually like the existing native clients better than existing web clients. Right now my choice of client on the two devices is uncorrelated. If I have to fork a client to add my own capabilities, I need to choose a compromise client that is acceptable in both form factors or fork two clients.
Neither is insurmountable, but it's not ideal.
@jefftk Another way to accomplish this would be with a custom fediverse server (e.g. make your own instance). Any existing clients would be able to use it just fine, but then you have to run your own instance and you can't join an existing instance.
It would be nice if Mastodon had a system for user-supplied plugins, but allowing users of an instance to execute arbitrary server-side code requires a high trust relationship, unfortunately.
In the end, custom clients might be most practical.
@jefftk I have considered making something similar to this myself, but I am not clear what the best level is to inject my own "feed agent". The downside of a custom client means that you cannot take advantage of existing feature-rich clients — even if you fork an existing web client, you'd need to maintain a separate mobile app if you use different mobile and web clients (as I do).
zebrask
boosted
I looked at 325 psychology study replication results today, and the best simple rule I found for telling if a study would replicate is this:
When the original study's p-value was at most 0.01, about 72% of the papers replicated.
Whereas when p>0.01, only 48% replicated.
Others have found similar results.
For instance, @uebernerd has suggested p=0.005 as a cutoff:
zebrask
boosted
I made an open source mastodon web client with a user-controlled algorithmic feed and threaded posts. It's not done yet, and has some rough edges, but it's to the point where I'm using it as my main feed reader. https://www.jefftk.com/p/introducing-shrubgrazer
@phil_lol_ogist Tried that one year and somehow the flaming wheels set my tree on fire?
zebrask
boosted
If artistic *style* gets copyright-level protections, most of the styles will be owned by corporations within a generation, and there's a decent chance you'll end up needing to pay a licensing fee or something equally absurd to publish your own art.
Just, like, before you go driving that direction.
@jefftk This feels like the kind of thing that was chosen arbitrarily, so I suspect no one has any particular ego tangled up in keeping it. Maybe I'm too optimistic, but this seems like something you could get changed with a word to the right person. Happy to send an email or make a phone call if you know who that person might be...
zebrask
boosted
The phrase "attention passengers" makes sense for auditory announcements, but not for textual signs. https://www.jefftk.com/p/attention-passengers-not-for-signs
@niplav I can't tell if my actual emotions are covered by this. I live in the US because it has many attractive features , but it's a kind of golden handcuffs situation. I would prefer for everywhere else to be as successful and pleasant to live in so that I felt that there were more viable options.
@niplav Yeah, the US government bailing this out seems like it would be *horrible* moral hazard.
@niplav Is there any danger of this? Who is "they"? I got the impression that the reactions to the FTX implosion have ranged from schadenfreude to outrage, not much in the way of compassion.
The pickup truck was a horrible mistake, but I think that was specific to the lemon I bought and not to the idea of owning a pickup truck.
When I moved to Texas, I bought a pickup truck. Now, three months into living in Somerville I'm actively shopping for cargo bikes.
I may be easily swayed by the prevailing culture 😅
- Site
- https://rask.z24.us
- Location
- Somerville, MA
Joined Nov 2022
