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I want to go back to my bed right now. I was up just 15 minutes late last night and I am sure it is just physiological but I feel like I have missed half my nights sleep. Like anyone when they are tired, I am finding concentrating and staying doing what I am supposed to be doing, rather than going off somewhere to look at pictures, much easier on the brain, or check my emails, disappointing as always, is incredibly difficult. I guess all of our brains prefer to do the easy option, it’s just we don’t give into it when we are awake and totally with it, getting tired just means we drop our guard. I really didn’t need any more proof, but the second I completed the last sentence I was off, no not to some other site, but off to the bathroom to use the mouthwash the doctor sent me, a clear case of my subconsciousness ruling my mind, I was at the living room door before it even clicked consciously that I was up and walking. That is something I noted a long time ago now, that I do a lot of things without conscious thought, well it’s either that or I am forgetting I have thought about it, I actually prefer the first option. I first started to notice it when I found myself heading to the kitchen without a clue why I was even standing, I used to think that it was a twist on the normal getting to a room then forgetting what I went there for, but there were occasions where I honestly don’t remember even thinking about anything, but there I was heading with clear determination of my destination, but not knowing why until I was there. Like just now, I was heading to the bathroom without a clue but the second I reached the sink and the medicine cabinet, I knew why I was there. That is where the difference is, I don’t get there and not know, it’s just when I am walking that I don’t know why at least with this one I don’t land up having to make the journey twice to complete my need.

I really don’t seem to be able to stay still today, if it’s not taken mystery trips, it’s because the TV suddenly drops in volume and I have to get the other control to turn it up, no, it doesn’t work from up here, I can change channel but not the volume. It is just another of those annoying things, like having to fetch glasses of coke, my breakfast and so on and they just aren’t grouping together as normal. I suppose that is another problem of tiredness, you fail to think things through and to work things out as normal. I know mine is to the extreme but one of the things I have always wondered is how do people still drive when they have MS? Because I can’t and never have driven I was able to claim from one of the European funds for taxis to take me back and forward to work, I was still reasonably fit other than a lot of trouble walking in those days, but I used to sit and watch the traffic and between my failing eyesight and spells of dizziness, I didn’t have the slightest doubt that I would have been deadly to me or more likely someone else if I had been behind the wheel. Just imagine what would happen if you suddenly had a spasm in either a leg or arm, don’t tell me that either of those couldn’t cause an accident. Legally in Britain MS doesn’t stop you driving, but I honestly think it should regardless of which form as none of us know when these things will happen. There are actually only a very few illnesses that stop people driving, but I just can’t personally see how many of them manage to remain alive. I remember when I was a child I had an uncle who had diabetes, he had three bad crashes as he had hypo’s, all of them he was lucky not hitting anyone or anything more dangerous than a garden wall, he wrote off his cars, but walked away, personally I don’t think he shouldn’t have been allowed to drive at all. Apparently, we are supposed to self-assess, to me that falls apart as we have millions of drivers out there who think they can drive whilst talking or even worse texting on their mobiles, I doubt if one of them would stop just because they are ill. I know it would cost, but I think the moment you are diagnosed with any long term debilitating condition that you should have to go through an assessment every year, plus your doctors or optician should be given the power to write to the DVLA and stop you driving at any point if they believe your condition would make you a danger on the road through illness or age. I can hear voices all over the place shouting, “but I need my car, without it I couldn’t cope”, yes you would, I have never had a car and I have always coped, trust me taxis are cheaper than the running cost of a car and a lot, lot safer.

It doesn’t matter if it is driving or work, I honestly believe that if we are doing anything that could put another person in danger, that once we are ill, it shouldn’t be left in our hands to decide if we are fit to continue. I didn’t do a job that that covers, but I wish now that my doctor were restricted to just telling me that I should give up work, but they had had the power to stop me working. I continued to work for several years after the first time I was told that my health would improve if I stopped, I couldn’t see it, how could being broke with nothing to do possibly be better for me, it just didn’t make sense. I hate to say it but they were almost right, I say almost as the truth was I could continue to work but I needed it to be from home, which was the what happened. My last three years of working was completed with an improving condition when it came to everyday life as a huge amount of stress was relieved. When I stopped completely again I felt better in myself, my actual condition has continued to go downhill, but I have remained more able to cope without the pressure that work puts on us all without us actually knowing it is. If I could turn back time, I would now, knowing what I know, have handled things very differently and paid far more attention to what I was being told, but that isn’t the real world.

I firmly believe that the truth is we don’t know what is best for us, we aren’t the right person to decide if we can drive or work, as all of us don’t want to admit that we are too ill to manage anything we have been doing for the majority of our lives. It’s so hard to accept that there is anything you can’t do and taking that step is a huge issue, someone saying to you that they “think it is time for you to consider giving up work”, really hurts. I know that when it was first said to me that I left determined to prove the doctor wrong, stupid I know. Every time I heard it, all that happened was I became more and more determined, I needed someone or something to stop me, I suspect the same is true for the majority of people. I can also imagine that doctors don’t want that power, so maybe there has to be a half way person we are referred to who can assess us and give a final verdict. Something needs to change as right now, it isn’t fit for purpose, self-assessment never works for anyone.

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>>>>> " " == Robert Love <> writes:

> CLONE_CRED. I suspect 90% of the cases retain the same
> credentials anyhow. Copy-on-write? :)

Making the credentials a monolithic block like you appear to be
doing just doesn't make sense. If you look at the way things like
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filesystems that care are making their own private copies.

It would be a lot more useful to split out fsuid/fsgid/groups[] as
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Erratum 97: 128-Bit Streaming Stores May Cause Coherency Failure

The Intel-optimized memcpy doesn't use the SSE registers, just regular
32-bit integer nontemporal stores (movnti). The reason is that the SSE
state save is too expensive to be worth it.

So it's not that. Also, considering that it was a single-bit error in all
the cases I saw, I wouldn't expect it to be a cache coherency problem,
which I'd expect to corrupt a whole cacheline or possibly at least a whole

That said, bit corruption can be just about anything. It's certainly not
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But my first guess would be slightly dodgy motherboard, possibly coupled
with a chipset that simply isn't very tolerant to any timing errors. If
the motherboard traces to the DDR aren't impedance-matched, or if the
traces don't have the same length, or if the capacitors that are supposed
to handle spikes in burst current aren't up to snuff, you'll just get
noisy lines.

And at some point, noisy lines means that you go from reliable operation
to "oh, that bit didn't make it correctly".

Lowering the front-side bus frequency or altering the memory timings can
help (ie doing things like running DDR-333 at DDR-266). Making sure that
your power supply isn't even close to its limits is good. And choosing a
motherboard and chipsets from a reliable manufacturer is more than a good

The reason why it's interesting that the errors seemed to happen in the
same byte-lane is that I think it's common policy to route data lines on
the same layer, and matching trace length per group is very important,
because you do signal clocking per-group, afaik. But on the other hand,
multiple layers on the board are expensive, so people try to minimize
them, and maybe you end up routing through a via to another layer - which
then makes timing and capacitance harder.

Or there aren't ground lines close enough, or the data lines are too close
to other lines and you get cross-talk etc etc.

No, I've not done board design, and I don't know what I'm talking about,
but look at the interesting zig-zagging the data (and address) lines often
do on the board. It often looks totally crazy ("why doesn't that line just
go straight?"), but the thing is that the groups all need to have the same
length, but the pins are all at different points, so you can't make the
lines straight, or some of them would be much shorter than others.

And if something is border-line, it may work all of the time - *until* you
hit specific patterns that cause lots of lines to wiggle around, and then
a capacitor won't handle the extra current draw from switching, or
cross-talk between lines hits you, and what used to work doesn't work any

I wish we all had ECC memory. That gets rid of a lot of worries.

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2017 travel diary 9: Sewol victims remembered at the Ansan Street Arts Festival

Ansan Street Arts Festival
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Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, 5 May 2017, 6:30pm. It is said that at the height of his efforts to build the Republic of Korea into an economic powerhouse, Park Chung-hee happened to be flying in a helicopter over western Gyeonggi-do. He looked out and saw what he considered to be a lot of under-utilised real estate, and decided that it should be designated for industrial production. Thus started the rapid growth of Ansan, a city which became known for its foreign migrant workers labouring in the factories. But as Korea has begun to be undercut by China in terms of production costs, Ansan has gone into something of a decline. The city, which since 2001 has been home to Seoul Institute of the Arts, has tried to combat this decline through artistic endeavours, and the Ansan Street Arts Festival is one of those regeneration initiatives.

The festival has been going since 2005, and its 2017 iteration had 76 acts from 14 different countries, including two troupes from the UK as part of the 2017-18 UK-Korea cultural exchange programme, in which Ansan has developed a commissioning partnership with Yorkshire’s Stockton International Riverside Festival. Over the three day Ansan festival, the Whalley Range All Stars performed Ye Gods and Company Chameleon performed Push and Hands Down.

Danwon High School
Danwon High School entrance (photo: LKL)

Ansan is also known for being the home of Danwon High School. 325 of the school’s junior class and twelve of its teachers were on the Sewol Ferry when it sank on 16 April 2014. As we were in the area, we paid the school a visit, little knowing how central the school’s tragic past was to be in the upcoming evening performance. We were not the only ones to have paid a pilgrimage to the school’s gates. A notice outside asked visitors to respect the school as a place of learning; visitors such as the press were requested not to enter the school precincts until after the school day had finished at 5pm.

The Ansan Stream
The Ansan Stream at the southernmost end of the performance area (photo: LKL)

The Street Arts Festival takes place in a huge kilometer-long public space which leads southwards from the city hall as far as Ansan Lake Park on the south side of the Ansan Stream which flows the short way out into the West Sea. I am always a little sceptical of the statistics for visitors at Korean festivals – according to the current Wikipedia entry more than the total population of South Korea managed to visit the 2008 festival – but on that first evening on 5 May I was amazed at the number of people happily thronging the squares and side streets: it could easily have been over a hundred thousand.

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Crowds at the 2016 festival (photo: NoCutNews)

We wandered through the performance area, standing on tiptoe to look over the crowds at the various performers: acrobats, musicians, mime artists and more. At the northernmost point of the festival precincts our path was barred by a few hundred students dressed in white, carrying white balloons. Chris said she had heard that there was going to be a Sewol-related parade or demonstration later on that evening. We turned around and headed back to the central area, where Chris said the main opening performance (involving half a dozen mechanical diggers) would start at around 8:30pm, wondering how, if at all, the two seemingly conflicting events would interact.

Sewol performers
Students waiting patiently to take part in the Sewol performance (photo: Chris Ryu)

At this point, a quick linguistic aside. The Korean for mechanical excavator is 포크레인 – a very strange word. Ask a Korean what it means and how it came to mean that, and you will probably be told that it is a Konglish word: a conflation of 포크 (for fork lift truck) and 크레인 (for crane), giving you something in between: a digger. But another more diligent Korean told me that 포크레인 is simply a transliteration of Poclain, the French company founded in 1927 and best known for its construction equipment.

Several 포크레인 in Ansan (photo: LKL)

We waited patiently for the official opening performance to begin, and we were rewarded with this:

A performance involving around 400 students, acrobats, half a dozen mechanical excavators, a live symphony orchestra, a deep sea diver suspended from a crane, and much more, in a seventy minute piece whose aim was to try to enable Ansan to come to terms with its grief following the loss of so many of its children in the Sewol Ferry disaster. While the performance was meticulously non-political and carefully avoided criticising the rescue efforts, it was probably something that could not have happened if President Park had still been in power.

At times there were tears, but the performance seemed to bring the audience to a feeling of hope and resolution, culminating in a cathartic fireworks display:

The crowds began to disperse at 10pm, but fortunately you could still find restaurants open, and sampgyeopsal with my favourite brand of soju was the perfect way to end the day (though the mixed martial arts showing on the wall-hung TV wasn’t quite in accordance with the mood of the evening).

The perfect end to the day
The perfect end to any day (photo: LKL)

At 11pm the roads are empty, and Chris kindly drives me back to my hotel in near Jogyesa before heading home herself.

The Ansan Street Arts Festival 2017 was held 5 – 7 May 2017 in downtown Ansan.

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New album "SIDE$HOW" is out now on Bandcamp (artist friendly) and other platforms! SIDE$HOW
"An incidental diversion or spectacle in addition of the main entertainment (as of a circus)"

A sidestep from Louis' more serious musical experiments
Loose and…

"Cubic Rubes" Official Video

Louis de Mieulle/Matt Garstka - Cubic Rubes (Official Video)

Visuals: Dave Whyte

Matt Garstka: Rhythmic concepts, drums
Louis de Mieulle: Melodic content, electric bass, keyboards, editing
Jussi Reijonen: Guitar

Alex Syner: Mix. Rich Morales: Mastering.

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Soundchaser reborn as Moonsüün

My old Parisian band SOUNDCHASER is reborn, under the name "MOONSÜÜN". Augustin d'Assignies (piano), Antoine Fournier (drums) and yours.

We started out in 2001 as a 70s-flavored electric jazz quintet with horns ("Chasin' The Sound", 2003, unreleased), then morphed into…

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"Outside The Square" EP video teasers

The new Louis de Mieulle/Matt Garstka collab EP is on its way!. "OUTSIDE THE SQUARE: the inner conflicts of an artist cyborg. Retrofuturistic synth prog experiment. Crypto-classical math fusion"

First reviews of DUAL

Reviews of DUAL, one of them by long-time supporter Roger Trenwith, another one by Dave Tremblay, who runs the great website "Can this even be called Music?". The third one by Rebecca Rothschild from "Divide & Conquer".

DUAL by Dave

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New EP "DUAL" released!

The collaborative project between Matt and I is finally out!

"Dual" is an adventurous set of through-composed tunes, mixing math-rock grooves and neoclassical polyphony.

Matt composed, developed and recorded (September '15 in Brooklyn) his drum concepts first. It involves polymeters…

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"Gemini #1" live at NUBLU JAZZ FEST

My band played at the recent NUBLU JAZZ FEST in New York City. We were blessed with the presence of percussionist TAREQ RANTISI. He played on "STARS, PLANTS & BUGS" but is rarely in NYC due to a busy schedule.

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Album release show video #5: Taurus Asleep

Fifth video from the Stars, Plants & Bugs night in Brooklyn!

"Passing from one world to another. The Taurus constellation doesn't glow anymore. Gemini Twins sing their sorrow and revolt against Nature's inexorable law..."

Matt Garstka (drums), Casimir Liberski (piano)…

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Album release show video #4: Nanobot

Fourth video from the Stars, Plants & Bugs night in Brooklyn!

"Underground, parasites and outcasts meet at The Nanobot, a shabby bar where roaches, spiders and tapeworms drown their sorrow in cheap lichen alcohol."

Matt Garstka (drums), Casimir Liberski (Rhodes)…

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Album release show video #3: Gemini part 1 "Castor/Yin"

Third video from the Stars, Plants & Bugs night in Brooklyn!

The Gemini constellation shines bright in the celestial vault, while Castor's song descends upon the Earth...

Matt Garstka (drums), Casimir Liberski (Rhodes), SharpEye (flute), Louison (Fender bass). Mixed and…

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Album release show video #2: Petrified Wood #1

Second video from the album release gig at Matt Garrison's Shapeshifter Lab.

"Petrified Wood #1"

On a warm summer night, at the outskirts of the mysterious teeming forest, Petrified Wood stumps tell their story…

Album release show video #1: Gemini part 2

A year ago we played that album release concert at The Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn.

Long-time partner Matt Garstka on the drums + KazLib on piano/Rhodes + SharpEye on the flute.

First video: Gemini part 2 "Pollux/Yang". Mixed and edited…

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This week, Monique and I have both photographed flowers not necessarily considered beautiful, not in the traditional sense anyway. Mine is of dandelion seeds, and although I snapped a number of more colourful flowers that day (see my Instagram feed), this was my favourite photo. I like the way the light highlights the white seeds. It also reminded me of my childhood and blowing the seeds until they’d all dispersed.

Monique’s photo is of an ageing flower, and as she describes it better than I can, I’ll use her words:

‘It’s easy to take photos of flowers when they are at their best. This flower reminds me of how we, as a society, tend to idolise youth and beauty, whatever that means to us. We overlook the ageing and the aged. This flower has a beauty of its own, even though the young, soft petals have dropped to the ground.’

Thanks, Monique, for showing me the beauty in an ageing flower.

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Posted on Friday, 22nd Sep 2017

Dear Love Mercy Friends:

Grace and peace be yours in abundance! Here we are in September 2017 after a very eventful year...

Dear Love Mercy Friends:

Grace and peace be yours in abundance! Here we are in September 2017 after a very eventful year for Love Mercy. My wife Mieke and I spent 5 weeks in Kenya in May and June. It has been our best trip so far. I preached twenty times on the Kingdom of God and I must say it was anointed. People would follow us from one preaching point to the next and were very encouraged and blessed.

The Love Mercy organization has many churches that have started with 2 or 3 people and have grown to hundreds. Twelve churches have joined under the Love Mercy banner this past year. We clothe, house and feed more than a thousand people a day. Over the last 3 years we have built 45 houses for the poorest of the poor widows and orphans. The book of Job records that he made the widows heart sing. We are experiencing that over and over again. Love Mercy also has drilling teams that have drilled over 300 water wells in the Kitale area.

One of our most successful venture has been the raising up of Shalom Christian School, which has over 550 students. I have had the priviledge of preaching Jesus and His Kingdom to them many times and it is quite a sight to stand before over 550 students and preach to them under the hot African sun. The schools feeding program costs $700 a month which is provided for by our generous donors. There are 17 dedicated christian teachers at the school and many of them teach without pay. The school has a current short fall each month of $500. They are doing a wonderful work, but they are in need of support. As you read this letter there may be some of you who could help us raise $500 a month for this worthy cause. Thank you for even considering this pressing current need.

Over the past 6 months our building team have been building many churches and houses . The work through Love Mercy is expanding rapidly. What a priviledge it is to provide bountifully for the poor! This is fulfiling the Gospel of the Kingdom mandate found in Isaiah 58 to clothe, house, feed and evangelise the poor. Our team returns to Kenya in October for another 5 weeks. Glory be to God and thank you for your ongoing generous support through the minisrty of Love Mercy.

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5 Most Popular Articles on Lowell’s First Look for December 2020

This past December ushered in a different sort of holiday season for Lowell. There were no visits with Santa on the Riverwalk, and many in the community held subdued family celebrations instead of large parties. The top articles of the month included a mix of history, holiday and city news. However, the most popular article was one that reminds us that Lowell’s greatest asset is its deep sense of community and support for one another.

Here’s a look at the most-read articles on Lowell’s First Look, based on website views, during December 2020.

5. 2020 Lowell Holiday Lighting Competition Winners Announced

Photo courtesy of Lowell Light & Power

We couldn’t hold our normal community Christmas events in 2020, but COVID-19 couldn’t stop holiday lights. Many people lit up their homes with Christmas lights, and 19 residents and businesses entered the Lowell Light & Power Holiday Lighting Contest. On behalf of entrants, the utility made a donation to the Lowell Rotary Club Youth Services Committee. Then, representatives of Lowell Light & Power and Rotary headed out to judge the competition. Our story announcing the winners was the fifth most-read article on Lowell’s First Look in December.

4. The ABCs of Lowell History: C is for Cherry Creek

The ABCs of Lowell History has been a popular feature since it debuted earlier in 2020. Written by staff of the Lowell Area Historical Museum, each week, we learn something new about Lowell’s long and rich history. The December article on Cherry Creek was especially well read and nabs the number four spot for the month.

One reader asked why the creek is referred to as Lee’s Creek on some maps, and we don’t have an answer for that. We wonder if maybe the Lee comes from the family of Dr. Solomon L. Lee. We also found a document from Trout Unlimited that lists Lee Creek as a tributary running through the Wittenbach/Wege Center and Cherry Creek as the name of the waterway as it winds through the city.

3. Shannon Witherell Named Lowell Area Fire Department Chief

Changes are afoot at the Lowell Area Fire Department as it looks to move from a fully paid on-call force to incorporating some full-time firefighters. Shannon Witherell, a longtime veteran of the department, was chosen as its first full-time fire chief, and he takes over from Ron van Overbeek who retired in the fall. As we head into the new year, Witherell says the challenges facing the department include hiring and retaining staff and continuing to work safely under the current conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. City Council Recap: Social Districts Discussed for Lowell

It’s been a tough year for area restaurants. They had to close their doors from much of the spring and when they reopened in the summer, it was at a reduced capacity. By mid-November, COVID-19 cases were on the rise, and the state put an end to indoor dining for the rest of the year.

To keep business flowing, restaurants have had to get creative. Flat River Grill, which normally closes its patio for the winter, has kept it open for outdoor dining, and New Union Brewery has added a popular outdoor seating and warming area. Now, Lowell City Council is looking to create a social district which is hoped to help other establishments by creating a common outdoor gathering space. This article outlining the council’s plans was the second most-read article of the month.

1. Community Invited to Rally Around Longtime Resident Rosie Fonger

When we interview people who are new to Lowell, one thing we hear time and time again is how impressed they are with the sense of community here. Everyone seems to look out for one another. So it’s no surprise that our top article in December was one that was all about showing support for one of our longtime residents.

At 92-years old, Rosie Fonger is battling cancer, and her family wanted to show her that Lowell was behind her all the way. They organized a Rally for Rosie event, and our article about it was the most-read article of the month. While the rally is over, residents can still show support for Rosie by sending her a card in the mail.

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Dear Polytechnicians!

On the day of Christmas, I wish you would not stop dreaming and under no circumstances lose faith.

It is often heard that the current weather, epidemiological situation, and various worries are not quite conducive for an all-out celebration. But all we need is already in our hearts. We can create festive mood by focusing on what is most important and most precious to us.

I rejoice with you in the birth of our Savior and the opportunity to gather in a family circle at a festive table with carols. I wish you and your families love and harmony, health and prosperity. May your heart and thoughts are filled with peace and goodness.

Christmas for Polytechnicians is always special. These days we traditionally gather to sing carol, and to exchange sincere greetings and wishes. I hope that everyone will be able to fully experience the joy of Christmas. I hope that soon we will all come together again to feel the joy of the meeting and have more than one celebration that will unite us in a large circle of the Polytechnic family.

Christ Is Born! Glorify Him!


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Exterior day render

This is my first real exterior render. The house is from a previous school project last year.

The image is also rendered in Renderstreet which is a render farm that supports both luxrender, yafaray, cycles and blender internal.

Modeling and texturing: Blender
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A Peek Inside

Mine is an ever changing neighborhood with old houses coming down one by one to be replaced by new ones more satisfactory to today’s lifestyle.  When there is opportunity to look at new construction, I like to take a peek inside to get a feel for what is currently  trending in architecture and design.

I’ve watched this house being built, so an open house lured me inside and I was charmed by the presentation.

Open spaces define the first floor.

With its bright white walls, wide plank oak floors and doors opening to the outside, the house has a light and airy feel.

Kitchens always get my attention, and this one has much to offer.  There’s plenty of work space, ample cabinets and an island featuring the waterfall detail which is a popular one these days.

Off the kitchen is a delightful space to enjoy morning coffee and, like the larger interior area, opens to the walled in courtyard which brings the outside in.

The lot on which the house is built is not large, but because the design maximizes views it feels like a much larger property.  The second floor study with three walls of windows is like being in a tree house.  I could imagine writing here or sitting and reading in one of those very comfortable chairs.

New construction seems always to have enormous master baths and closets, and this house is no exception.  In the bath, the tub is typical of the look often seen in current magazines, and while it is dramatic, I’m thinking getting in and out might be a challenge!

Wandering through this house was a pleasure thanks to the tasteful staging of the young woman* hosting the open house.  I liked several of the pieces and queried where they were from.  She revealed that most everything was from Restoration Hardware and High Fashion Home in Houston.  All in all, the house made a very good impression and by the end of the day there were several offers.  That’s what I call success!

*All photos are courtesy of Kastenna Parikh whose good work resulted in the sale.

i so appreciate your visit and the comments you leave behind

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  1. I love a peek inside a home! It is truly beautiful and obviously thought so since there were many offers. Thanks for letting me see inside!

  2. A beautiful house, perfectly staged. I see why it sold so quickly.

  3. This house was very interesting. I love the open airy feel and
    all the light!
    Your thoughts on the tub are mine too.

  4. LOVE the light fixtures!!!

  5. So gorgeous! My daughter is about to redo her 1950s rancher, and this open look is what she wants, I will share this with her, thanks Linda!

    1. I am currently working on our new home. It is a 59 Ranch… my site is http://www.my59ranch.com I just found this site through WordPress and always looking for tips and tricks to help along the way. Any other resources that you know of with real world examples?

      1. Oh awesome! I will have to watch your progress! Here’s the link to the company she’s using, lots of good photos and ideas http://drakehomes.net/

      2. What an adventure you have in front of you. The hubby and I remodeled our first house and did all the work but the sheetrock ourselves. I look back and wonder how we managed. There are lots of wonderful resources available and you will enjoy choosing from them.

      3. Awesome- we did a lot of things to our first home and hopefully we can use the proceeds from it to pay a contractor. Thanks for following and giving me some feedback- it is really exciting!

  6. Oh, Linda, I just LOVE this house. The glass all around is spectacular. It has a contemporary feel, which I like. I can see why there were several people itching to purchase it. It’s just the right size as well.

  7. Hello, Linda,
    Thank you so much for coming by that day and also taking the time to feature this house. I feel so lucky to have met you. I love your blog -it is so awesome you take time to do this! Can’t wait to see you again. Kasteena Parikh

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Luxury Yacht Charter New Caledonia

Yacht Charter in New Caledonia

New Caledonia is situated 1,500 km east of the coast of Australia, and is the third largest island in the Pacific, after Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. La Grand Terre, as the principal island is called, measures more than 500 kilometers from coast to coast, and is surrounded to the east by a number of smaller islands known as the Loyalty Islands. There is also an island to the south which is called Pine Island, or Iles des Pins. New Caledonia, which is a French overseas territory, is a hugely popular cruising destination, offering sailing enthusiasts endless possibilities to discover remote coves, snorkel or dive in clear blue waters and explore the mountainous regions of the main island.

Marinas in New Caledonia

Facilities for charter yachts throughout New Caledonia are excellent and include the following:

Port Moselle
Tel: +687 277197

Port du Sud Marina
Tel: +687 274777

Port Boulari
Tel: +687 439980

Nouville Plaisance
Tel: +687 265377

Marina du CNC
Tel: +687 262727

Marina de Oabido a Koumac
Tel: +687 425678

Marina de Hienghene
Tel: +687 424357

Marina de Touho
Tel: +687 428807

Marina de Lifou, in the Loyalty Islands
Tel: +687 451062

Weather in New Caledonia

The weather in New Caledonia is semi-tropical, and clearly marked by two seasons. The warm, humid season begins in October through to March, when temperatures peak at around 30C. The cooler drier season occurs between April and September, when temperatures are slightly lower. New Caledonia is known as the ‘land of eternal spring’, and its all-year sunshine makes it a wonderful sailing destination.

Top Five Things to do in New Caledonia:

  1. Play a memorable round of golf at the first-class Tina Golf Club. Tel: +687 428 283
  2. Hang out in Noumea, the cosmopolitan capital, which shares uncanny resemblance to the Cote d’Azur.
  3. Explore the Isle des Pins, a stunning place where time seems to have stayed still.
  4. Drop anchor off the north-east coast of Grand Terre, at Hienghene, a beautiful spot with cascading waterfalls, caves, lagoons and coral reefs.
  5. Sail to Amedee, a deserted island off Noumea which is quite simply heaven on earth.

Top 5 Restaurants in New Caledonia:

  1. Ouen Toro Restaurant at l’Escapade Island Resort – on Ilot Maitre Island – has to be one of the most romantic settings in the South Pacific. Tel: + 687 28 53 20
  2. Arguably the best French cuisine can be found at La Coupole, Noumea. Tel: +687 26 44 11
  3. For wonderful French home-cooked food head to Le Servigny, at the hotel of the same name, on Lifou Island. Tel: +687 45 12 44.
  4. The restaurant at the 4 star Ouré Hotel on the Ile des Pines enjoys a wonderful setting. Tel: +687 43 13 15.
  5. Chill out by the pool at the luxury hotel Le Paradis de Ouvéa, on the island of Ouvéa, before dining at its excellent restaurant. Tel: +687 45 54 00 .

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Ride The Freeway

I decided to ride the freeway back home instead of waiting through all of the many traffic lights on the boulevards. Keep an eye peeled aft as you never know when one of those idiots traveling one hundred miles per hour will blow by you. Nearly every time I go out for a drive, I see a driver do something both illegal and ignorant. Today, it was a moron making a left turn at a four-way stop intersection out of turn. Always drive defensively in Las Vegas my friends!

This is the 215 freeway northbound, in the northwest valley.

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  1. Wonderful skies, John. You’ll be delighted to know that bad drivers are a universal problem. Personally, I wouldn’t risk driving in Sicily – it’s terrifying. And over here, of course, we get the odd person on the wrong side of the road…

  2. It’s still the wild west out in these parts when it comes to driving. The people in cars with California plates who drive the speed limit, follow the traffic laws and blocking traffic out here drive me crazy. I’m one for as few speed limit signs as possible and follow the natural speed of the roads. Out here the marked speed limits are 10 to 15 mph below the natural speeds of the roads. It really causes traffic problems and road rage. If you want to know the natural speed of a road simply follow cops who’s not on the prowl. They always drive 10 to 15 mph over the speed limit out here.

    • I’ve followed LVMPD officers down the freeway here easily that much above legal, Timothy. California sucks on many levels, not always because of the people of course. Driving too slowly is as much a problem as speeding is in my view. These dolts basically cause other drivers who want to drive the actual speed limit a possible dangerous problem. I passed one of these jerks today. In today’s PC world, I suppose some are granted a DL based on skin colour?? Sick.

      • Then there are the people who get in the fast lane and drive slowly because they are environmental justice warriors trying to make other people use less gas or something. All they do is annoy other drivers to the point that some of them have been shot at or been shot because they were annoying crazed drivers with their stupid antics.

        • Is that why?

          Those folks need to be taken off the road before they kill someone by driving far too slow. Too slow is as bad as too fast in my view.

          Enviro-freaks. Trying desperately to save their god, mother earth. Sickos. Probably been brainwashed as a child in the publiK indoctrination system called publiK school system..

    • People are angry, tired, and stressed out. Covid, riots and more only add to the problems. Humans can’t get it right, can we…

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Writing That Provokes Comments

post by Raemon · 2017-10-04T02:48:58.563Z · LW · GW · 39 comments

  Things That Get People To Comment
    I've Noticed Myself Doing

Epistemic Effort: Thought about it for a year. Solicited feedback. Checked my last few posts' comment count to make sure I wasn't *obviously* wrong.

A thing that happens to me, and perhaps to you:

Someone writes a beautiful essay that I agree with, that sheds new light on something important.

I don't have anything really to say about it. I don't want to just say "I agree!". So instead of commenting, I give it an upvote and move on.

This feels bad for a few reasons:

I've been impressed with how much quality writing has been going on on LW2.0 so far. There has been some but not as much commenting as I'd like.

I've gotten a sense of what inspires interesting, meaty discussion.

Unfortunately, most of it seems... kinda bad?

Things That Get People To Comment

1. Be Wrong - It has been said: if google fails you, the fastest way to get a question answered is to post a wrong answer on reddit. This will result in a lot of flood of people explaining things to you.

2. Be Controversial - Even better, post something that some people think are wrong. Then you get a bunch of people commenting to correct you, and then other people who disagree correcting them! The arguments perpetuate themselves from there. You won't even have to do any commenting work yourself to keep it going!

[BTW, these are observations, not recommendations. This list is optimized to answer the question "what causes comments" not "how to make the world better."]

3. Write About Things People Feel Qualified to Have Opinions On - If you write a post on machine learning, and post it somewhere where nobody really understands machine learning, it doesn't matter if you're wrong or controversial! Nobody will understand enough to care, or feel confident enough to argue. Some considerations:

4. Invoke Social Reality - People pay more attention when you're talking about social norms, or about changing coalitions of people, or arguing that some people are Bad and Wrong. This is for two reasons:

5. Be So Inspiring That People Create Entire Fandoms of Your Work - This worked for Eliezer and arguably Scott. It can probably be broken down into smaller steps. It's pretty hard though. And a bunch of people trying but failing to do this can be annoying. (I've tried/failed to do this sometimes)

And then there's...

6. Leave People With An Unsolved Problem That They Care About - This is related to "they feel qualified to have opinions", with the followup step of "there is actual useful thinking they can contribute to, either to solve your problem, or to apply your idea to solve their problems."

Things I've Noticed Myself Doing

Since comments are socially validating, I've noticed a tendency for me to end up writing:

This doesn't all seem bad, necessarily. But I've noticed other people that seem to be doing similar things. I've also noticed some people who tried to get people to talk about important things, and failed, and gradually resorted to writing more provocative things to get people to pay attention (which succeeded!).

It seems like a rationality community warped by those incentives isn't going to accomplish the things it needs to.

So, some open problems I'm thinking about, which maybe are relevant to you:

That's all I got for now.

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comment by VipulNaik · 2017-10-04T16:45:17.312Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

In my experience, writing full-fledged, thoroughly researched material is pretty time-consuming, and if you push that out to the audience immediately, (1) you've sunk a lot of time and effort that the audience may not appreciate or care about, and (2) you might have too large an inferential gap with the audience for them to meaningfully engage.

The alternative I've been toying with is something like this: when I'm roughly halfway through an investigation, I publish a short post that describes my tentative conclusions, without fully rigorous backing, but with (a) clearly stated conclusions, and (b) enough citations and other signals that there's decent research backing my process. Then I ask people what they think of the thesis, which parts they are interested in, and what they are skeptical of. Then after I finish the rest of the investigation I push a polished writeup only for those parts (for the rest, it's just informal notes + general pointers).

For examples, see https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/ghBZDavgywxXeqWSe/wikipedia-pageviews-still-in-decline and http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1f9/the_aidsmalaria_puzzle_bleg/ (both are just the first respective steps for their projects).

I feel like this both makes comments more valuable to me and gives more incentive to commenters to share their thoughts, but the jury is still out.

comment by Matt Goldenberg (mr-hire) · 2017-10-05T19:59:30.373Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This is similar to the idea of an MVP in the startup world. It makes me think of a sentiment from Ryan Holiday's book on writing perrenial sellers: Ideas should become comments, comments should become conversations, conversations should become blog posts, blog posts should become books. Test your ideas at every stage to make sure you're writing something that will have an impact.

comment by Zvi · 2017-10-04T12:27:23.435Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This feels like a classic Goodhart's Law problem. More comments are good for multiple reasons (feedback, positive reinforcement, more ideas, keeping up the conversation, and so on). It would be good to generate more comments, and do things that do this (as long as we avoid obvious provocations like #1 and #2 above), but if we start maximizing comments with our posts, then if you're not very careful about it, that path goes south quickly.

One thing I think is both 'safe' and effective over time is to reliably engage with your commentators. If you establish a norm that you're going to clearly read most or all the comments on your own posts, and reply to them when there's something to say (comments on comments are reinforcement the same way comments are) that sends a clear signal that comments are welcome and valued. I think that worked well on my own blog, but it's hard to disentangle with many things including 'I kept writing and got less awful at it in other ways' or with 'I kept writing and people finally started reading.'

I'd also note that from my Magic writing I developed the heuristic of a 1000:1 page view to comment ratio as the default outcome, so compared to that we're doing astoundingly well. My few examples of my blog being linked to by Scott and Marginal Revolution tell me that the 1000:1 remains about right in those contexts.

comment by Raemon · 2017-10-04T18:37:23.654Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Huh. What do you think happens if you optimize to make sure there are between 20-50 comments?

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comment by richardbatty · 2017-10-04T23:59:40.189Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

What about asking your audience questions?

For example, you could ask questions:
* Seeking criticism, such as "I think section x is the weakest part, what are some alternative arguments?"
* Promoting understanding, such as "Can you think of 2 more examples of <concept I just introduced>?"
* Stimulating research, such as "I think this model can be applied to area y, does anyone have suggestions for how to do this?"

This might help get readers out of passive consumption mode, and into thinking about something they could comment about. It would also make the writing more useful.

comment by quanticle · 2017-10-13T00:08:08.912Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The situation you find yourself in is called Warnock's Dilemma, named after Bryan Warnock, one of the early Usenet pioneers. He said that silence can be interpreted in one of five different ways:

  1. The post is obviously correct, and so well researched that nothing more needs to be said.

  2. The post is complete and utter nonsense but no one wants to waste the time or energy to point it out.

  3. No one read the post.

  4. No one understood the post and thought it would be worth their time to ask for further clarification.

  5. No one cares about the post.

After reading Ryan Holiday's book, Trust Me I'm Lying, I'm not sure that it is possible to incentivize comments without falling into the Buzzfeed trap of writing content with high emotional valence in order to drive engagement. I think that the way to improve one's writing is to seek out people and ask them to give comments (and incentivize this, either through social means or even via financial means, if you can afford it). Relying on one's writing alone to draw commenters sets up an incentive gradient that leads straight to Buzzfeed, and I'm not sure that there's really any way out of it.

comment by alwhite · 2017-10-11T13:37:51.298Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

After reading this, I tried to figure out what the desired end goals were. I think we can all agree that commenting for the sake of commenting is meaningless, so I looked for what would fill in the blank "commenting for the sake of ______".

At the beginning of the post I saw:
1) I like getting comments (I see this as a bid for attention)
2) Staying in the public view (more comments = more staying power)
3) Learning on the side of the reader (commenting = engagement = better learning)

At the end of the post I saw:
4) Public attention incentivizes efforts to research and learn (I see this as attention as well)
5) People writing for comments write more engagingly
6) Learn how to comment better (what's the goal of a comment? To learn better?)
7) Engaging writing decreases the chance that good thoughts don't get lost (public view again)

With that, I'm seeing two main ideas: bids for attention and learning on behalf of the public. Bids for attention aren't bad and I think a community has to respond to them for the community to work well. If a community never tells its members that they are seen and noticed, the community isn't going to last very long. How does it change the writing and responding if we acknowledge these bids?

On public learning, I think it might help to look into the research on teaching. Additionally, the assertion of teacher and student will have to be addressed. The approach of "I have things you need to learn" is a bit off putting and likely to turn people away. However, this community seems to want to learn, so maybe a call for teachers on topics the community is interested in, and that can establish who is teacher and who is student.

On specifically the teaching/learning part, research in teaching shows that lecturing is very ineffective for learning. Many times, long written posts are simply data dumps that are similar to lectures. Effective teaching puts effort on the learner, tolerates and corrects mistakes, and encourages trying. The teacher may have the knowledge but doesn't give the knowledge and instead helps the learner find the knowledge. I have no idea how well this would work in a web forum.

I think there are more ways that writing and commenting can be used, but these were the themes I picked up from this post. Perhaps by bringing them forward like this, the other uses of writing can be drawn out.

comment by Raemon · 2017-10-11T17:57:54.323Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Upvoted for spelling out thinking in a goal-oriented way that functions a) as some useful insights, and b) a useful example of how other people could approach writing similar comments.

comment by clone of saturn · 2017-10-06T09:36:44.392Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Be Wrong - It has been said: if google fails you, the fastest way to get a question answered is to post a wrong answer on reddit. This will result in a lot of flood of people explaining things to you.

It strikes me, in light of Scott Alexander's recent post on predictive processing, that this might not be quite as "evil" as it seems. Maybe seeing a wrong answer triggers a prediction error which brings more relevant information into conscious awareness, actually making the original question easier to think about.

comment by Raemon · 2017-10-07T03:00:32.706Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Huh, that may be.

Worth noting: the strategy I end up using (post things that aren't fully thought out, label them as-such, and then I get to be wrong about some things without doing it *quite* on purpose), is something I think I mostly endorse, it's just that I don't want it to be the only kind of post that gets a lot of comments.

comment by Qiaochu_Yuan · 2018-01-09T07:28:25.564Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Scott Aaronson's gone on record as saying that he gets a lot of his research ideas from engaging with people he disagrees with and trying to explain carefully what his disagreement with, or something like that. I think there's some interesting room for periodically attempting to be Wrong on Purpose to see what reactions it inspires in other people.

comment by Said Achmiz (SaidAchmiz) · 2017-10-07T07:03:58.627Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Thinking about my experience, this actually does seem right to me (at least in some cases).

comment by adamzerner · 2017-10-04T17:55:57.770Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

What if there were different sections for different types of comments? Ex. a section for:

  1. "I agree"-type comments

  2. "Stupid question"-type comments

  3. Very low barrier "open thread/random" comments

  4. Typical high barrier "meaty" comments

Right now, I suspect that people with "I agree", "Stupid question" or "open thread/random" comments don't post them because they're "not good enough". But if there was a section explicitly asking for these types of comments, I suspect that people would be very willing to provide them.

Another benefit is that comment readers could skim for the types of comments they're interested in reading.

I'm not sure if the sections I proposed are the best ones to have, just thought a concrete example would make things easier to describe.

I don't think the UI for comment sections would make things overly complicated. Something like Bootstrap's nav tabs should do.

comment by Raemon · 2017-10-04T18:35:47.613Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Something similar, previously suggested in the meta-section was to allow for "short comments" that show up collapsed by default for everyone but the author, which'd include "thanks, I agree!" and "I noticed a typo" type comments.

I'd be worried about creating a distinction between stupid questions and "meaty" comments, since then people will be worried about "is my question meaty or stupid"?

comment by adamzerner · 2017-10-04T18:41:05.941Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I'd be worried about creating a distinction between stupid questions and "meaty" comments, since then people will be worried about "is my question meaty or stupid"?

Good point, I agree.

comment by cata · 2017-10-04T04:08:05.442Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Writing this comment to provide social validation!

Like you, I have this norm in my head that I should only comment if I have something concrete to add, rather than to just encourage or discourage. But I wonder if this comes from a different context? I don't remember how I learned this norm, but many places on the Internet get enough posts and comments at a low enough average quality that I don't really value having another marginal post or comment unless it's raising the average quality. By contrast, the marginal post or comment on LW is interesting to me even if it's not raising the average quality, because the average quality is pretty high and I literally run out of posts and comments to read. So maybe the norm is not serving its original purpose.

comment by adamzerner · 2017-10-04T19:31:14.376Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Social validation for the social validation! :)

comment by sarahconstantin · 2017-10-11T05:55:56.581Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

As a blogger, I found (a few years ago) I reliably got more comments on what I thought were my *worst* posts. Now that's more or less no longer true; I can write stuff that's reasonably "meaty" for a blog post and still spark debate, though I'll never get a ton of attention as long as I stay out of the Petty Bullshit Gravity Well. Full-fledged theories are bad for getting comments (and also more likely to be wrong in retrospect). Semi-formed ideas fleshed out with facts and references and imagery are better.

comment by Raemon · 2017-10-11T17:52:51.602Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

That's interesting.

Semi-formed ideas fleshed out with facts and references and imagery are better.

Was this the main thing you do now that you didn't do a few years ago? Anything else you can think of that's changed? (It does very much match my experience of the ingredient))

Full-fledged theories are bad for getting comments (and also more likely to be wrong in retrospect).

Interesting - this seems obviously usually-true in retrospect but I hadn't thought of these two facts at the same time. I think the things separating a full-fledged theory (that's wrong) from a something-less-than-a-full-fledged-wrong-theory, is something like:
  • if the author has this entire ontology that seems wrong and they've doubled down on it to flesh out an full-fledged-theory, my reaction is more like "I can't even", rather than "hey, that's not right."
  • Relatedly, I feel much worse telling something that their baby is bad than that their half-formed idea is bad.
  • Theories are just plain longer, which means I have to invest more and think about more things at once to figure out if it's bad
  • The sort of person doing this I think tends to just not be as good a writer. This seems weird and confusing, and maybe false, but it's the association I just formed. Or maybe "young writer trying to come up with a grand theory" is a clearly defined genre (even if it's not the majority of theories), that I recognize. When I see a grand-theory, my first impulse is to skim to the comments and see if commenters think it's worth my time to engage with.

Having had a week to think even more about this (after deliberately not having a dedicated conclusion when I posted this, for similar reasons), I think my thesis statement for "what good kinds of posts will get the attention and comments that we want", is something like:

Be slightly wrong, and leave people with unsolved problems, with "Semi-formed ideas fleshed out with facts and references and imagery" being a pretty good way to accomplish that.

comment by sarahconstantin · 2017-10-11T19:14:45.984Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The main difference between my blogging "back then" and now is that back then my goal was to write things that were absolutely true and absolutely uncontroversial. I didn't achieve this goal -- it was never realistic for the blogging medium. And sometimes I threw caution to the wind and wrote extremely controversial things. I'm now aiming for pretty true and not very controversial.

comment by AndHisHorse · 2017-10-04T12:58:15.671Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

You mention wanting to be incentivized to research things, and also that a particular danger to the community is writers optimizing for engagement at the expense of other things.

It seems like a possible partial remedy for this would be a mechanism for the readership to make their desires known in a centralized place. Right now, a hypothetical writer William, if they want to craft content the community wants, would be best served by doing a review of past posts in search of things which are consistently popular. If they are lucky and clever, they may even be able to infer a niche which hasn't been filled - a gap in some topic, or perhaps a missing topic altogether - that would be welcome. This is time-consuming and presumably error-prone. Perhaps more importantly, it seems likely to produce content which is similar to what has come before. (Disclaimer: I have never made a top-level post, so if there is a different, quicker, more accurate process, please let me know.)

If instead the community could vote to say "We would like more posts on Machine Learning" or "We want posts on what Dr. X's latest psychology research means about consciousness", this would create an easily visible incentive to research and an incentive to explore specific topics (which may steer writers away from optimizing for comments, although the comments will likely follow). It adds complexity to the site, but I think it may be worth an experiment.

comment by Screwtape · 2017-10-04T14:25:51.213Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

A visible community vote on what we would like to see more of might get a flurry of people to cross the lurker/poster divide, but when I picture myself seeing that feature I wind up thinking about it as a way I could ask ("vote") for something I wanted the particularly prolific or especially insightful writers here to talk about. Imagine ten thousand lurkers voting for a Project Hufflepuff update or something like that. A variation that might incentivize new writers might be an open vote, with what kind of posts each user wants placed somewhere notable on their profile. I ran across TheZvi's You're Good Enough post a few weeks ago, and that's likely to be the kick I needed to start blogging long form again. (Status: Two half-written ~3k word posts. If I don't have a blog I can point people at by the 15th of October, I will admit that it wasn't enough of a kick.)

On that post, TheZvi offered to read things that were written because of their post, and knowing I have at least one guaranteed reader makes writing a lot easier for me. Commenters often want engagement of some sort. Stating at the end of a post that you precommit to reading the first ten on-topic comments and responding to them all with a comment of your own or the first ten blog posts responding to your own post that people link you and commenting on those posts seems like it might incentivize people to write the kind of responses you want them to write. This would allow the people who write a lot and who large parts of the community read to steer the conversation more; whether this is good or bad is a reasonable question but the notion isn't obviously terrible. It would at least create a variety of topics budding writers could be directed at; a single outcome from a LessWrong topic vote might result in a dozen new posts about that one topic, while a different "this is the kind of content I want" statement from the widely read authors would be more likely to result in three or four posts on each of their topics.

I don't think this would require any technical changes, and I think it would also be a worthwhile experiment.

comment by adamzerner · 2017-10-04T18:52:43.977Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Interesting idea, I like it! Seems like something that could be tested by just having a Request for Articles post, and have people post + upvote requests via comments.

Personally, I'd like to see a post on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

comment by alwhite · 2017-10-11T20:17:27.352Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

What are you looking for on a post of CBT? I've got a bit of information on it.

comment by whales · 2017-10-05T19:48:26.053Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Venue also matters a lot through the social context it brings. Individual Wordpress blogs often feel like you're saying "this is where my writing lives; by commenting, you're coming into my house", which can be challenging to take lightly -- especially when you're talking about a neighborhood of individual blogs, few of which get regular comments. Meanwhile social media is a weird mix of jokes and personal content with discussion-oriented ideas, where there's an uncertain rudeness in potentially burying someone with attention or notifications by Starting Discourse. And in both of these, if it's not controversy or gossip or dilettantism, then posting the most makes you king.

So I was/am hopeful about posting more to LW 2.0 largely for the sake of better defaults around "this is for having a conversation" -- both "formally" in responding directly to or building on the OP, and more "socially" or indirectly by contributing thoughts on the same subject, and in a venue with moderation and karma where things can bubble up without the speculative/social/everyone's-an-expert elements (or sheer consistent quantity).

I find that my writing seems to actively repel comments compared to stuff that gets comparably received by other metrics. I do try to go out of my way to write mostly on the rare occasions I have something unambiguously sensible or useful to contribute; it earns me a high upvote/downvote ratio, but little sense of how people are engaging with what I have to say.

At the same time, maybe this makes me part of the problem of silence on the best writing. I'm also interested in learning to be a better commenter, but I'm not someone who thinks they can or should always have something to say. For my part, I think this mostly indicates that I should comment more with thoughtful questions, but I'm very interested in you or anyone else fleshing out your "being a better commenter" open problem -- I think this is potentially more important for success here than writing the right kinds of posts.

comment by John_Maxwell (John_Maxwell_IV) · 2017-10-05T17:45:18.401Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I wonder if it would be useful to have some kind of informal peer review for boring important posts.

comment by ozymandias · 2017-10-04T14:36:14.818Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

My solution is that I'm motivated by the process of writing, and so if anything am less likely to write high-comment-count articles, because it's stressful when lots of people disagree with me. (Although I end up writing a lot of social reality posts anyway because that is what I have opinions about.)

In fandom, people tend to leave comments that talk about particular emotions they had or lines they thought were particularly funny or insightful, so you get a lot of comments on widely read things even if there is nothing wrong with them. I find myself reluctant to leave such comments on lesswrong 2.0 because I don't want to clutter everyone's recent-comments feed.

comment by Ben Pace (Benito) · 2017-10-11T02:00:18.951Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Promoted to featured for writing up thoughts from over a long period, about an important problem for the community, and provoking great, helpful comments.

comment by Kaj_Sotala · 2017-10-05T11:49:41.764Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

1. Be Wrong - It has been said: if google fails you, the fastest way to get a question answered is to post a wrong answer on reddit. This will result in a lot of flood of people explaining things to you.

Reminds me of the old joke: if you want to find out how to do X in Linux, asking about it is useless. But going to the #linux IRC channel to say "Linux sucks because it doesn't even let me do X", will give you the answer of how to do X in no time.

comment by lahwran · 2017-10-04T16:06:45.978Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I am working on plans for a sequence that I think has a shot at being 6, though I worry about my writing quality. (edit clarification: I will probably be ready sometime early next year. I've been pondering how to do this for a while, and I'm starting practicing writing skill I'll need.)

comment by abramdemski · 2017-10-04T04:08:15.703Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This post has a good quality of meta. The advice mostly applies internally.

It would be nice if there was a magic number in the font attributes, supplementing size/color/etc, which modulated people's internal quality bar, ranging from "facebook" to "academic journal". A website could dynamically set this based on the difference between the ideal amount of engagement and the amount observed.

This seems to be a problem which crops up again and again in different forms: a discussion/location/thing gets good, and implicitly, the quality bar rises. Maybe it is because an audience showed up, or maybe it's just because you start worrying about ruining the quality of what has gone on so far. This takes away the original sense of freedom which often produced the quality in the first place. You start a tumblr to put writing that's not good enough for the blog. Your Twitter account gets popular and you retreat to an alt account, only to find that it gets popular, making you retreat to another alt... That's a bit different from what you're pointing at, but it seems related.

Realistically, how does one hang a little sign that says "community space, feel welcome to engage"? I suppose a sense that people know each other is important to this. It's part of the reason Facebook feels easy; you are talking to your friends.

comment by Raemon · 2017-10-04T05:43:27.041Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

> Realistically, how does one hang a little sign that says "community space, feel welcome to engage"

I think literally just saying that at the beginning (or end) is actually pretty decent. (See my opening note for Musings on Doublecrux, which [I think not-entirely-coincidentally] got 70 comments)

LW2.0 has vague plans for a "shortform/informal" section, which might help address the issue, but honestly even if that worked it'd still leave the problem for Posts on the Front Page, where I'd like more comments to be regardless.

[Edit] Musing....

Something that occurs to me re: comment quality, though, is that if the site scales, it's *fine* to raise the bar on what makes a "good enough comment." For example, Slatestarcodex gets hundreds of comments each post. I wish it got less, since that's too many to skim through. Slatestar posts on LW get... 3? (in part but I don't think entirely because people comment on the original)

I'd prefer if LW-crossposts of Scott Alexander essays ended up in the 20-50 comment range, and stayed there, and as the number of people following on LW increased, people's intuitive threshold for what's-worth-posting increased so that we kept the 20-50 range.

comment by Chris_Leong · 2017-10-04T04:21:40.472Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I suppose the size of the audience is very important here. If there is a large enough audience then good posts will still receive a reasonable number of comments even if they get less than posts which have more of the factors that you described. On the other hand, when the size of the audience falls below a critical mass this kicks off a Negative Feedback Loop where less commenters means less posters and hence less commenters and so on and so forth. I'll be curious to see whether LW2.0 had gotten us above this critical mass.

comment by Mary Chernyshenko (mary-chernyshenko) · 2019-11-24T13:12:59.486Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I wonder how much time one needs to recognize a higher-value comment irl. I mean, we could try each choose a post and come to the meetup to talk specifically about them. (Maybe not warn one another what it would be.) And then post the distillated hive-comments as responses... ...I also find it useful, but hard, to exit 'editorial mode' when commenting. Editorial-like comments are quick and mostly shallower than epistolary-like ones. It helps to imagine that you are actually mailing a letter to someone you give a damn about (and Lewis Carroll, of course, has advice on how to answer letters - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_or_Nine_Wise_Words_about_Letter-Writing )

comment by Dan B (dan-b) · 2018-03-12T04:50:15.504Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

There are a whole lot of social networks out there, each with its own rules and karma system. I wonder if anyone has done a survey of what works and what doesn't?

More specifically: for the past few years I've had an account at rpg.stackexchange.com. I've found that this site performs its function remarkably well. When I read questions on this site, I feel motivated to write clear, helpful, somewhat-researched answers.

There are lots of other social networks. Reddit comes immediately to mind. I think slashdot has put a lot of effort into their system. And of course there's facebook and twitter and tumblr. I don't know much about these sites, except that I find them sort of irritating, particularly in the comments section. But probably someone who uses those sites more would have more to say.

If we're really dedicated to figuring out how to do comments properly, it seems like we should start by doing a survey of what already exists.

comment by habryka (habryka4) · 2018-03-12T05:04:07.855Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I've definitely done a lot of personal case-studies of all the major platforms, but haven't gotten around to writing up my thoughts yet.

I've also been reading through this book, which is quite good and analyzes quite a few existing systems and paradigms: https://smile.amazon.com/Building-Successful-Online-Communities-Evidence-Based/dp/0262016575?sa-no-redirect=1

comment by johnswentworth · 2017-10-05T18:31:40.540Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Maybe part of the problem is that some topics lend themselves to short-form discussion, while other topics lend themselves to long-form discussion? There's lots of great posts I read where I don't feel the urge to comment, but do feel the urge to research a little and then write a long-form response - heck, that's how I feel about probably a third the stuff Scott writes. But the current standard interface encourages a long-form post followed by short-form comments.

Maybe one solution would be encourage "comments" which are links to a long-form response, along with a short summary? Maybe make such responses more discoverable in comment feeds?


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07:06 January 15, 2021

Unemployment shock
: Time to focus on deregulation to create jobs

South Korea saw nearly 220,000 jobs disappear last year, the largest loss since 1998 when the country was hit by the Asian financial crisis. The employment shock stemmed from the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Statistics Korea, the number of employed people stood at 24,904,000 in 2020, down 218,000 from the previous year. The number of unemployed people surged to 1.1 million, the largest since 2000, bringing the official unemployment rate to a 20-year high of 4 percent.

The gloomy figures show how difficult it has been to prevent mass job losses and offer more employment opportunities in the face of the devastating economic fallout from the coronavirus. It can be said that the setback was inevitable given the worldwide public health crisis; yet the question is whether the government and businesses did their best to minimize the fallout.

For starters, the Moon Jae-in administration has made efforts to keep people employed and avoid mass layoffs since the COVID-19 outbreak here last January. But the problem is that the liberal government has focused on increasing jobs in the public sector without encouraging the private sector to hire more people. Of course, the authorities have provided state support for businesses which maintain the employment of workers amid the crisis.

However, such efforts were insufficient to boost employment. Some critics have attacked the Moon administration for only increasing the number of public sector jobs by mobilizing taxpayers' money. They have argued that such a stopgap policy cannot help the country overcome the COVID-19 employment shock. As such, private businesses cannot shirk their responsibility for the shrinking job market. They should have played a more active role as the creator of jobs.

Against this backdrop, low-income earners have been most vulnerable to the coronavirus shock. According to the statistics office, 313,000 temporary workers and 101,000 day laborers lost jobs last year. By sector, workers in the services industry, including wholesale and retail, accommodation and eateries, suffered the most.

What's more worrisome is that the situation is expected to aggravate further, at least in January and February, in the aftermath of tightened social distancing rules and quarantine measures aimed at fighting the resurgent coronavirus.

As things stand now, the country cannot get out of its employment woes without taking more fundamental and comprehensive measures. Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki has promised to offer 830,000 public sector jobs in the first quarter of the year. He has also committed to providing more jobs for young people and women.

First, the government should expand the social security net to better protect the jobless. Then it must push for deregulation and create a better business and investment environment so that companies can hire more. As everyone knows, businesses, not governments, are the main actors in generating jobs. The Moon administration should also promote entrepreneurship and innovation to speed up an economic recovery which holds the key to increasing employment.

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