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Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on American College Admissions Doesn't Need to Be So Competitive · 2025-04-08T22:53:01.641Z · LW · GW

Further, the SAT used to be much harder. In 1991, only nine students scored a 1600, whereas people estimate that over 500 students achieve a perfect score today.

Those numbers don't support that claim because of:

  1. More intelligent students (Flynn effect)
  2. >50% more HS students
  3. Higher standardized test participation among HS students (test takers ~doubled with only >50% more students)
Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Will Jesus Christ return in an election year? · 2025-03-30T22:27:52.466Z · LW · GW

doesn't track the time value of money in the global economy

(Ignoring liquidity rewards) Therefore, other platform users have access to similar lucrative return rates (Polymarket and Manifold fund liquidity without meaningful revenue) as those fireselling, so best returns may be ignoring obvious longterm markets altogether:
https://manifold.markets/Nu%C3%B1oSempere/this-question-will-resolve-positive-4a418ad86de3#jdUj58EdDXBbF8ZNyXaT
 

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Will Jesus Christ return in an election year? · 2025-03-30T21:55:31.529Z · LW · GW

reflect true probabilities, especially for low-probability events

Polymarket could consider at least being explicit about that limitation and disallow wagers beyond 99% like Kalshi and Manifold currently do:

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Will Jesus Christ return in an election year? · 2025-03-30T21:37:57.727Z · LW · GW

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/29/nx-s1-5210800/6-million-banana-art-piece-eaten

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on The News is Never Neglected · 2025-02-12T19:06:54.089Z · LW · GW

More annual links:
https://hntoplinks.com/year
Magnum forums like this one:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/allPosts?timeframe=yearly
https://lesswrong.com/allPosts?timeframe=yearly
https://progressforum.org/allPosts?timeframe=yearly
https://forum.fastcommunity.org/allPosts?timeframe=yearly
and subreddits:
https://reddit.com/r/*/top/?t=year

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity · 2025-02-10T05:05:59.226Z · LW · GW

https://kyhealthnews.net/2022/02/14/a-healthier-diet-could-add-years-to-your-life-study-says-more-than-a-decade-in-your-20s-and-eight-or-nine-years-even-at-age-60

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Shortform · 2025-01-06T04:35:38.617Z · LW · GW

impressive LLM benchmark/test results seemingly overfit some datasets:
https://x.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Draining the swamp · 2024-11-13T19:09:49.659Z · LW · GW

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57906379-extra-life tackles similar questions and claims fertilizers, sanitation, and vaccines saved billions of lives each:

https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-01-25/20000-days-history-life-expectancy

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Eric Neyman's Shortform · 2024-06-25T20:43:26.446Z · LW · GW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect seems like a decent entry point to rabbit hole similar phenomenon

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on ChristianKl's Shortform · 2024-05-05T23:54:39.377Z · LW · GW

shut your phone off

Leave phones elsewhere, remove batteries, or faraday cage them if you're concerned about state-level actors:

https://slate.com/technology/2013/07/nsa-can-reportedly-track-cellphones-even-when-they-re-turned-off.html

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Notice When People Are Directionally Correct · 2024-01-16T01:18:35.586Z · LW · GW

Shipping piracy graphs over the decades:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266292/number-of-pirate-attacks-worldwide-since-2006/
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/19/maritime-piracy-is-on-the-decline-globally.html

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on leogao's Shortform · 2023-12-22T19:32:43.830Z · LW · GW

https://xkcd.com/386/

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Childhood Roundup #3 · 2023-10-11T21:44:25.801Z · LW · GW

Studies keep showing sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children.

I assume the sugar myth is because food dye causes hyperactivity:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32006369/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573786/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321798/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3441937/

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on AllAmericanBreakfast's Shortform · 2023-05-26T22:26:19.635Z · LW · GW

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Moving VPS Again · 2023-05-04T07:57:45.620Z · LW · GW

Free static page services offer previews:

https://jace.pro/post/2020-12-17-cloudflare-pages-netlify-zeit-github-pages-and-gitlab-pages-where-to-host/

https://github.com/rossjrw/pr-preview-action

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Olli Järviniemi's Shortform · 2023-04-30T21:35:24.115Z · LW · GW

Lots of related concepts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on AWS Has Raised Prices Before · 2023-04-03T18:11:26.422Z · LW · GW

https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes/blob/main/archive.md

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Pat Myron's Shortform · 2023-02-05T05:09:14.574Z · LW · GW

+1 to be able to check notifications, messages, and specific posts here without seeing newsfeeds:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Feature Request: Self-imposed Time Restrictions · 2023-02-04T23:27:18.413Z · LW · GW

opened Github issues to track / +1:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Pat Myron's Shortform · 2023-01-29T22:22:26.590Z · LW · GW

+1 for these forum logos to be added to FontAwesome:
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/19536

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on riceissa's Shortform · 2022-10-03T02:05:57.790Z · LW · GW

wackier stuff

mind elaborating? 

Comment by Pat Myron (pat-myron) on Welcome to Pittsburgh Rats [Edit With Your Details] · 2022-09-11T05:24:23.737Z · LW · GW

Only saw this event:
https://www.lesswrong.com/events/AhzqngXFmiSiC3wtw/pittsburgh-pa-acx-meetups-everywhere-2022

UPDATE: active Pittsburgh group: pghacx@gmail.com and discord