Surely it's easy to verify by simply doing Benchmark tests every 2 or 3 days but not publishing them so they can't be gamed, then releasing all at once?
This seems specific to western europe, so I'm curious how a country like Australia would fit into this study? Significantly higher immigration, but also lower Far-Right voting(I know, I know, PHON, but while they've always been around, they've never been as prominent as very recently, and it feels entirely inorganic. They're also not doing nearly as well as the AFD, Le Pen, or Reform).
I'd be far more curious about the correlation between consumption of various social media platforms and Far-Right voting...
Well, hopefully something changes in the App Store space. It's quite unusable for discovery, there's no ability to filter apps for free/pay once/no iAP/no recurring subscriptions/no adverts.
The lack of filters combined with allowing slop means for example, it's impossible to find a paint by numbers app because when you search in the app store, it's 100+ clones that all charge $5 weekly OR have the most obnoxious adverts imaginable making it unplayable for people who aren't very technical. I'd have paid a straight $10 or $15 depending on the app, but if there is one with a single payment it's impossible to find.
Combined, the app store is unusable unless you already know exactly what app you want to install.
They've also made it harder to go to content in that catalog. You used to be able to get to the sidebar relatively easily, even if you'd swiped right a dozen times, by just going up|down, then left. then you were at the menu and about 2 clicks away from search.
Now? Now the search bar is at the top. If you've scrolled down through categories while looking for something, then decided to just use search, or to just look in movies or shows, you now gotta scroll up & up & up.
It’s easy enough to get more than 1,500 people to answer your survey. But every pollster is plagued by the fact that people who voluntarily answer surveys are usually not representative of the broader population on the relevant issue.
Basically any method for sampling the population introduces bias. The sample of people who pick the phone, who respond to texts or emails, who come to the door for a stranger, are all subpopulations with their own biases. A pollster’s ability to correct for these biases is what separates the good from the bad.
For questions with only a handful of answers, it is indeed definitely enough, as long as it's actually a random sample without too much bias. Going to larger numbers but with the same bias in sampling of people won't give an better answer!
So the actual question is how they checked that their sample is representative and not too heavy on any demographic.
This is a counter intuitive result around surveying. Best way I’ve found to explain it is if you want to test if a soup is too salty, it’s about the size of the spoon, not the size of the pot.
1000 people is what they usually do for political polls. I was taught that a sample size of 1000 is sufficient for pretty much any purpose. At some point what becomes more significant is the differences between the poll-answering population and the general population. For eg if you call people at random on the phone, you're biased towards people who are likely to pick up the phone and talk to a pollster (eg retirees are home more often and not busy). Of course nobody is that naive nowadays, but that doesn't mean systemic error is completely eliminated.
If you have no connection with them, then you haven't signed anything indemnifying them for their actions with your data, so do you have grounds to sue for damages?
I came here to say almost the same thing. I've been learning rust in my free time because I don't do enough programming at work to scratch that itch any more, and I've been using the rust book as a reference.
Thanks for the rec for "rust for rustaceans" I'll have a look into it.
I've only been using chatgpt for points where i'd normally go ask another dev for another set of eyes to debug something, otherwise all my learning and doing has been mostly the rust book, crates, and blogs about rust, ecs, roguelikes etc etc. It's been so fun!
This article made me think of public bathrooms in the UK, which, despite having to pay to enter, are some of the most disgusting public bathrooms I've seen.
I like the idea of the throne public bathrooms. Not requiring payment, but identification instead. I wonder if you just enter your phone number, or if they text you a code you have to enter to verify that it's your phone number?
This also feels like the sort of problem the Chinese social credit system is meant to solve. With cameras everywhere & facial/gait recognition, they can identify people anywhere in public, and punish bad behaviour below the level of crime.
I also remember the UK years had a psychologist change the wording/structure of some tax forms to increase % of on time payments, and it worked so well they set up a department to do it in other areas of govt. I wonder what happened with that...
I use the Throne bathrooms all the time here in LA. They’re really conveniently placed next to a bunch of Metro stops and are pretty frequently used. I’d actually argue that for busier stations (North Hollywood) more should be added!
The way it works is that you text a phone number (facilitated by a QR code) which Throne you want to use and it automatically opens. These bathrooms play classical music and are touchless so you don’t have to touch any knobs or buttons, you just wave over a sensor to operate the sink or open the door. It’s overall super frictionless/convenient and I agree with the article on how well they’ve been treated (I haven’t seen any graffiti or vandalism yet) despite their frequent use.
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