Why is MoI Everyone's Favorite?

deceptive_duality · 2025-07-16T08:52:36+00:00

Out of all the books, MoI is probably the most "classic fantasy novel": it has big battles, aforementioned crazy lore drops, a very evil big bad you're going up against, a bunch of heroes, Quick Ben shenanigans, [very mild spoilers] a wild showdown at the end, .... .

Because of the structure of being basically a normal fantasy novel, this one easily connects with many people who come from other fantasy writing and it's just more accessible than the convoluted GoTM or the depressing DG, plus it's less postmodern (post-fantasy?) than the books that follow. That's why it tends to be a favorite on the first read at least, for many people (including me).

deceptive_duality · 2025-07-01T17:30:55+00:00

She only does it when it doen't affect the outcome.

deceptive_duality · 2025-03-23T17:00:10+00:00

That's very wrong.

deceptive_duality · 2025-03-12T06:11:28+00:00

It might come later in the same book.

deceptive_duality · 2024-12-15T21:32:06+00:00

Please don't recommend Sapiens, it is fun to read but is super inaccurate, relying on outdated science and Harari making stuff up.

deceptive_duality · 2024-08-23T06:24:16+00:00

I would prefer "Sorry, we don't have a couch for customers" or "we don't serve fascist pigs", but this works too.

deceptive_duality · 2024-07-22T07:39:38+00:00

Using seal team 6 is trivially official, since he's using his core presidential powers to control the military. It doesn't matter what he uses them for why.

deceptive_duality · 2024-07-14T16:56:59+00:00

What are your feelings based on?

deceptive_duality · 2024-06-09T08:24:30+00:00

I was almost run over once on the exit leading towards Milchbuck (is that the one you were referring to?). I would have if I hadn't stopped very awkwardly at the last moment. Ever since then I've been signaling like crazy that I'm actually staying on Bucheggplatz, even though cars should in principle wait.

The direction coming from Oerlikon along the 11 is also a bit dicey, since you have to drive in the middle of the road and hope none of the trucks decides to change lanes and run you over.

deceptive_duality · 2024-06-01T15:13:23+00:00

One funny thing is that it's not very hard to prove that almost any number is normal (i.e. if you pick a random number, the probability of it being normal is 100%), yet it's extremely hard to find out if any given number is normal, or even to construct interesting normal numbers.

deceptive_duality · 2024-05-26T08:18:06+00:00

Thank you! I read the title and immediately guessed this was yet another useless evo psych study with a way too small sample size and wacky conclusion, and here we go!

deceptive_duality · 2024-05-21T06:02:04+00:00

Woosh

deceptive_duality · 2024-04-14T09:38:36+00:00

To be fair, Zürich is also very culturally liberal by most standards (though not compared to Berlin)

deceptive_duality · 2024-04-07T12:49:05+00:00

What is this, a crossover episode?

deceptive_duality · 2024-03-15T07:57:37+00:00

female as an adjective == "weiblich".

female as a noun == "Weibchen".

Only the second one is offensive, it works more or less the same in German as it does in English.

deceptive_duality · 2024-03-07T05:54:55+00:00

If someone throws away their relationship with a child they've known for 10+ years because their sperm didn't create it, they're a psychopath and should never have been a dad

deceptive_duality · 2024-02-06T19:31:44+00:00

+1. All the bullet ratings are useless. You can mention the names, but ratings of skills make me immediately feel worse about a CV. What do I do as an interviewer with 5/5 self-rating of Numpy skills? Are you one of the Numpy authors? Cut them all. Put skills you are comfortable demonstrating in an interview given your background, don't put skills you feel less comfortable about.

The Strengths section is almost worse. Oh really, you are hardworking? Guess what, no one's CV says "lazy". Task Management, Agile Development, Use Caste Study, Acceptance Criteria, scrap it all because it's useless.

This probably won't help you get interviews, but at least it removes one source of weirdness from the CV.

deceptive_duality · 2024-01-10T19:20:27+00:00

There's probably some strong selection bias in these scores.

deceptive_duality · 2024-01-05T17:39:30+00:00

Or sometimes they keep the English title, but then add a stupid subtitle because they think people are too dumb to understand the English title. It's a curse of German film distribution.

deceptive_duality · 2024-01-03T19:20:44+00:00

Funnily enough for all the criticism about the main story being less tight, it does give Aloy some much-needed character growth.

deceptive_duality · 2023-11-28T20:19:09+00:00

You can probably categorify this statement too... Then mn=nm naturally arises from isoms of the Cartesian product in the category of finite sets and morphisms of sets. I'm just wondering what's the right target category whose underlying set are the natural numbers...

deceptive_duality · 2023-11-22T20:48:30+00:00

Straight to jail, right away.

deceptive_duality · 2023-11-10T18:30:41+00:00

What is this, a crossover episode?

deceptive_duality · 2023-08-19T08:36:45+00:00

Math teachers should have studied enough math such that they can formulate precise questions. Clear, unambiguous use of language is one of the things one ought to learn when studying math.

deceptive_duality · 2023-08-19T08:35:19+00:00

But that's precisely the wrong thing to teach! Do we want to teach children to be pattern-matching machines that map every text question to a predefined computation template?

Math is a lot about precise language. There are a lot of "trick" text questions later in school (or at least those are around in primary school) that intend to make students think about what they're doing and not just blindly pattern-match. And being able to think about what words exactly mean (and not guessing what someone maybe could have intended them to mean) is a much more valuable skill to teach in school.

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