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It's taken me years to find a #Python setup for data analysis that feels *just right*. Using VSCode to send commands from a .py script file on one side to an interactive window on the other -- with a variables browser beneath them -- is finally what I was looking for https://t.co/P4sz7kHzyA
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In a capitalist economy, managers are able to make clear-cut decisions about cost-effectiveness only because they are allowed to ignore all of the non-economic costs of their decisions, which include destroying communities, immiserating workers, depleting non-renewable resources, and filling the world with garbage. Economically rational decisions at the level of the firm add up to an increasingly irrational society.
How to Make a Pencil
logicmag.io
But if starting from scratch isn’t an option, we might draw on work from computational biology and complex systems in order to re-envision our social media experience in a more productive, content-agnostic way. We might re-evaluate how platforms connect their users or how factors that determine what platform recommenders and curation algorithms push into field-of-view, considering a combination of structure (network), substance (rhetoric, or emotional connotation) and incentives that shape information cascades.
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds | NOEMA
Renée DiResta
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