Sock, Horror—Mystery of Missing Socks Is Solved! Scientists Reveal Why Socks Go Missing in the Wash and How Likely It Is to Happen
On Having Enough Socks
https://x.com/Jimityjam/status/1087101958152892416
2019-01-20-gs-socks.csv
2019-01-21-eric-socksurvey.ods
2019-01-21-eric-socksurvey.csv
brms: an R package for Bayesian generalized multivariate non-linear multilevel models using Stan
Estimating Monotonic Effects With Brms
Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping)
How Complex Systems Fail: Being a Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is Evaluated; How Failure is Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the Resulting New Understanding of Patient Safety
The Explosion of No. 5 Blast Furnace, Corus UK Ltd, Port Talbot (2001)
Miscellaneous § November 2016 Data Loss Postmortem
‘leaky pipelines’ directory
‘Slack and the Sabbath’, Zvi
Decision-Making Competence: External Validation through an Individual-Differences Approach
2007-bruinedebruin.pdf
Don't Shave That Yak!
Yak Shaving
Hal Replacing a Light Bulb
Good and Bad Procrastination
Are Sunk Costs Fallacies?
https://wiki.c2.com/?PushDownGoalStack
1986-hamming#the-importance-of-importance
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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PBRWb2Em5SNeWYwwB/humans-are-not-automatically-strategic
Chapter 5—Eliminating Toil
Invent More, Toil Less
Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement
Automation
https://xkcd.com/1205/
When Falsification is the Only Path to Truth
https://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MercierSperberWhydohumansreason.pdf
Chess Masters’ Hypothesis Testing
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Mimetic Traps
Stress That Doesn’t Pay: The Commuting Paradox
An Introduction to Mathematics
Posterior Sampling for Large Scale Reinforcement Learning
The Checklist: If Something so Simple Can Transform Intensive Care, What Else Can It Do?
David Rockefeller and His Rolodex of Index Cards
Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning
Do Life Hacks Ever Reach Fixation?
about#writing-checklist
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markdown-lint.sh
https://x.com/DRMacIver/status/1808905058542666027
Local Optima & Greedy Choices
How Often Does Correlation=Causality?
Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do
2005-quinn.pdf
Self-Blinded Mineral Water Taste Test
tea#ku-ki
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https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.pdf
Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Market
Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets
Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab
The Explore-Exploit Dilemma in Media Consumption
‘small groups’ directory
Ordinary Incompetence
Site Reliability Engineering
One Week of Bugs
Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs
Does temporal discounting explain unhealthy behavior? A systematic review and reinforcement learning perspective
In Support of Yak Shaving
The Simple Genius of Checklists, from B-17 to the Apollo Missions
Manual Work Is a Bug
Do-Nothing Scripting: the Key to Gradual Automation
Manual Until It Hurts
Buy More Copies
The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
Things You'Re Allowed to Do
Applying the Universal Scalability Law to Organisations
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Socks of Karl Broman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJTLSncEV4
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/what-cost-varietyhtml
https://slate.com/business/2012/06/southwest-airlines-profitability-how-the-company-uses-operations-theory-to-fuel-its-success.html
Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium
The Maintenance Race
Buying Duplicate Items
https://blog.codinghorror.com/meta-is-murder/
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/aj0xi7/poll_do_you_have_enough_socks/
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/bzz8mx/on_having_enough_socks/
On Having Enough Socks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812525