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nilstycho commented on A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data ourworldindata.org/new-in... · Posted by u/alphabetatango

CGMthrowaway · 12 days ago

I find the plots of distribution of global income here very illuminating - https://www.gapminder.org/income-mountains-dataset-v2/

Because the nicely shaped bell curves used in TFA are not at all what the distribution actually looks like. There is a significant right-skew. Don't miss the log-scale on x-axis in the first few graphs as well.

nilstycho · 12 days ago

The distributions in TFA are accurate. Compare with the shape of the 2015 distribution here: https://ourworldindata.org/the-history-of-global-economic-in...

nilstycho commented on A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data ourworldindata.org/new-in... · Posted by u/alphabetatango

datax2 · 12 days ago

I am not a fan of their initial "Global Income Distribution" curve. if you take the actual data at the bottom of the article and plot it; it does not make anything the resembles a standard distribution as portrayed. It could be an infographic, it could be different axis, who knows, but portraying a standard distribution is wrong if you have an outlying skew in your distribution. Everything under $40 is a standard distribution, but above $40 represents the same volume of people as the average skewing any sort of plotting.

For 2025 only

Global People | Dollars

1,183,873,832 | above $40

389,144,677 | $30-$40

681,087,495 | $20-$30

1,647,364,177 | $10-$20

1,134,291,724 | $7-$10

1,170,170,455 | $5-$7

1,185,828,184 | $3-$5

700,440,541 | $1-$3

107,765,635 | <$1

nilstycho · 12 days ago

The x-axis isn't "income", it's "log income".

nilstycho commented on Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions assemblingamerica.substac... · Posted by u/namlem

biomcgary · a month ago

There is an interesting example of random selection of leadership from the Bible when the apostles replaced Judas. The criteria were agreed upon and then lots drawn.

Acts 1:21-26 Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.” So they nominated two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.” Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.

Can you imagine this practice replacing the Papal conclave? Or, pastor selection at your favorite Protestant group?

nilstycho · a month ago

My partner, who was raised conservative Mennonite, tells me this is exactly how pastors are chosen today. About three men are nominated, then they draw lots.

nilstycho commented on Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order cpb.org/pressroom/Corpora... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

nilstycho · 4 months ago

Was it this? On August 27, 2020, Natalie Escobar for Code Switch interviewed Vicky Osterweil about her book In Defense Of Looting. The segment was titled "One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting'", and was subsequently retitled "One Author's Controversial View: 'In Defense Of Looting'".

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178...

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-...

nilstycho · 4 months ago

Here's a link to the diff between first publication and today: https://www.diffchecker.com/CJz1Bn51/

nilstycho commented on Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order cpb.org/pressroom/Corpora... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

next_xibalba · 4 months ago

To wit, during the BLM riots of 2020, NPR published a piece on how looting was a legitimate form of protest. I mark that as the moment they lost both my trust and my attention. A very sad, eye opening moment for me.

nilstycho · 4 months ago

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178...

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-...

nilstycho commented on Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize pritzkerprize.com/laureat... · Posted by u/pseudolus

vonneumannstan · 5 months ago

Maoist Apartment blocks and hideous concrete monstrosities win you Architecture Prizes? Wtf is wrong with out society. Complete disdain for actual beauty that can add to human flourishing...

nilstycho · 5 months ago

The Pritzker Prize leans modernist. If you prefer classical architecture, check out the Driehaus Prize [1]. The 2025 laureate is Liam O'Connor.

[1] https://driehausprize.nd.edu

nilstycho commented on Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus

thom · 6 months ago

Delighted to discover this kind of breakthrough is based on a gnarly regular expression:

https://github.com/Svensson-Lab/pro-hormone-predictor/blob/m...

nilstycho · 6 months ago

I got lost at (?R). IIUC, this is a feature of the "regex" module that "tries to match the entire regex recursively". Fun.

Posted by u/nilstycho 7 months ago

Solve Surnames with Union Names nothingismere.com/2013/11...

nilstycho commented on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more blog.plover.com/lang/etym... · Posted by u/JNRowe

matsemann · 7 months ago

When thinking about names: in Norway it's quite common to take both parents' names now. So I'm MKS (initials), where Mats is my first name, K is my middle name being mother's surname, and S my dad's surname. I think it's great to have a connection to both families, and that my mother and dad combines instead of one having to "give up" some of their identity

But what happens next generation? When a partner named ABC with two surnames should be combined with my name. Should a kid then be named DBCKS? And then it doubles every generation? Or should both parents pick one and pass on? And then which one? The father line as always?

nilstycho · 7 months ago

I like the idea of union names [1].

If you're AC and your partner is BD, then on marriage you choose a new name X. You become AXC and your partner BXD. Your child is EX. Then each child has equal connection to both parents. The cost is that you lose the deep history of names, but that history only existed for a single lineage anyway, so it's not as important as it seemed.

(1) https://nothingismere.com/2013/11/12/solve-surnames-with-uni...

nilstycho commented on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' techcrunch.com/2025/01/06... · Posted by u/magicalhippo

loudmax · 8 months ago

Going by the specs, this pretty much blows Tinybox out of the water.

For $40,000, a Tinybox pro is advertised as offering 1.36 petaflops processing and 192 GB VRAM.

For about $6,000 a pair of Nvidia Project Digits offer about a combined 2 petaflops processing and 256 GB VRAM.

The market segment for Tinybox always seemed to be people that were somewhat price-insensitive, but unless Nvidia completely fumbles on execution, I struggle to think of any benefits of a Tinygrad Tinybox over an Nvidia Digits. Maybe if you absolutely, positively, need to run your OS on x86.

I'd love to see if AMD or Intel has a response to these. I'm not holding my breath.

nilstycho · 8 months ago

> For about $6,000 a pair of Nvidia Project Digits offer about a combined 2 petaflops processing and 256 GB VRAM.

2 PFLOPS at FP4.

256 GB RAM, not VRAM. I think they haven't specified the memory bandwidth.

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