It's a shame when something is force-fed to you for so long that you start to loathe it 😐 doesn't seem like a good teaching metric to me.

by any reasonable metric I should be going to bed now, but I'm far too wired...

Every time I used their site in the past, it never showed anything anyone I was friends with posted & it was just a bunch of ads & spam that you had to block in order for it to stop appearing bc the "Not Interested" feature seems to act as an engagement metric that increases frequency 🤦

this is my favorite health metric. all i have to do is be typical. it’s good to know i am not over typical or under typical, i am just vibin with an ambiguous baseline

Sure, the metric is very high, and the metric is not exactly _bad_ per se, but still it feels like it is a wrong metric to optimize. We're optimizing a wrong target. And people are mad at that, even if they can't quite verbalize it.

Ana Alonso-Serrano, Guillermo A. Mena Marugan, Antonio Vicente-Becerril Analytic Primordial Power Spectrum in the Dressed Metric Approach to Loop Quantum Cosmology and Thermodynamics of Spacetime https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06813

Xianqiang Li, Xiaofang Luo Amenable Metric Mean Dimension and Amenable Mean Hausdorff Dimension of Product Sets and Metric Varying https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18914

If you’re a creator of any sort, “would I steal a helicopter to see this through” is not the worst metric for passion in your projects

RKrichardkadrey.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 12:32am

Kris Kristofferson once "borrowed" a helicopter from work, flew to Johnny Cash's house and landed on his front lawn. Cash told him to leave, but Kristofferson got him to listen to "Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down." Cash recorded it and Kristofferson won country songwriter of 1979. RIP, you badass.

Americans will measure with anything except the metric system... 😉

it's so rare that i ever get to call something "the classic blunder" but using number of lines of code as a metric surely qualifies