We are bad at estimating a single value. But at least we know deep in our hearts that we're bad at it. But who can claim to choose their estimates such that on many repetitions a given confidence level is reached?

That is why we need to calibrate our estimates.

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What‘s a Community of Practice? Hint: it‘s not the monthly PowerPoint. #CoP #communityofpractice

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Selling SBOM fragments to companies? I know, most maintainers probably wouldn‘t want to do all that licensing stuff, but I could see companies biting, if it‘s low-thershold enough. #sbom #opensource

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Man muß Klassiker ab und an mal erneut lesen. Und dann auch gleich bloggen: www.thomas-huehn.com/2024/03/triu...

Despite frequent remonstrations, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

Inside an Ananas. I have a feeling this has been photoshopped.

Totally not unrelated: the term "thought leader" is already stupid. But for the love of God, don't call yourself thought leader in your web site bio!

Is it because one of the original researchers who coined the term saw a way to commercialize the concept and himself became the original consultant for this niche, paving the way and ensuring some quality?

Compare with the snide remarks in the competence literature where researchers make quite clear that they think what HR departments do is bullshit (only phrased more politely). Yes, they may envy the consultants salaries, but still.

It seems to me that the concept "Community of Practice" has survived the transfer from academia to company implementation much better than other concepts.

While we probably all know instances where CoP means "monthly Powerpoint presentation", by and large they seem to fare well.

Delighted to learn that @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social did an entire podcast episode structured around explaining two words—“morphosyntactic alignment”—in one of my comics (xkcd.com/2421)

I described these estimates last week in my intro lecture for the human evolution core course at my institute. Surprises a lot of ppl. And odd for a primate to be ~half mammal biomass, given how insignificant other primates are. More bat biomass than non-human primate. Humans are weed monkeys.

Encyclopedias that really exist and that I need to flick through someday:

* New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
* New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
* Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
* Encyclopedia of Historical Treaties and Alliances

My first attempt at a CustomGPT thingy: you tell it what you want to learn, and it generates a plan what to do. It's... not much, but it's mine. :-)
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Merlin Mann's Wisdom project has some nice nuggets.

"Organizing your email is like alphabetizing your recycling."

Guilty as charged.

I have lots of fun with DALL•E and Bing Image Creator. Here is our cat, Fast and Furious style.

And wouldn't it be great if those surveys habe you the data not in SPSS or Stata formats, but as an SQLite database?

JASP looks approachable, but is strange in ways I cannot put into words, and SPSS (I've got a license via the university) is a sprawling monster. I guess as a programmer learning R will be quicker.

I am currently evaluating a possible Bachelor's thesis, and oh my God. PISA and TIMMS datasets are complex as hell, and statistics is simply frightening. Hopefully I can get something plausible to compute with @rmcelreath.bsky.social's book soon. So I'm learning R on the side.