https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/public/ recent bookmarks from iiridayn 2026-07-05T21:42:40+00:00 https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/what-happens-when-the-poor-receive-a-stipend/ iiridayn Early-life stress and poverty correlated with a shrunken hippocampus and amygdala, brain regions important for memory and emotional well-being, respectively. Again, parental nurturing seemed to protect children somewhat. When it came to hippocampal volume in particular, parental warmth mattered more than material poverty. Children grew up healthier when cash showed up - and the earlier, the better. However in the community, more accidental deaths - possibly drinking and driving. More overweight gain for poorer children. The money having no uncertain end possibly helped a lot. (That could limit the effectiveness of attempted replications). Also important - half the total money went to addiction and healthcare (contaminates simple claims that "give money = better outcomes"). Also - self-determination. _But_ - improvements noted before the community benefits came online. So, _some_ evidence for cash even so.]]> poverty article parenting money https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:13f974ceb177/ 2026-07-01T22:34:21+00:00 https://www.infinitoteatrodelcosmo.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IgNobel-Rheology-of-cats.pdf iiridayn I propose here to check if the panda’s claim that the cats are liquid is solid, by using the tools of modern rheology]]> paper funny cats ignoble_prize https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:f4833f7a6495/ 2026-07-01T22:29:03+00:00 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/sic.1990.35.3.153 iiridayn paper cleaning ignoble_prize interesting https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:6d51df2c6dc4/ 2026-07-01T22:23:39+00:00 https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/147/8/2643/7664309 iiridayn paper placebos ignoble_prize https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:ab65668e1f68/ 2026-07-01T22:18:35+00:00 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027722000580 iiridayn suggest editing out problematic features of legal texts would be tractable and beneficial for society at-large. That complex center-embedded clauses overload working memory when reading which makes it inherently hard to read. I fix those in my writing; lawmakers should do the same. Passive voice too.]]> paper legal ignoble_prize law writing https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:9efab0ce05c5/ 2026-07-01T22:16:15+00:00 https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jssdj/45/5/45_KJ00001647367/_article/-char/ja/ iiridayn After a series of lab-based trials, a team of Japanese industrial designers arrived at the central conclusion that the bigger the knob, the more fingers required to turn it. 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tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence (I suspect this level of confidence is high compared to industry standards, but that could just be hubris). If I don’t typically make a kind of mistake (like setting the wrong variables in a constructor), I don’t test for it. ]]> programming article testing rails https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:5ec68de31dfa/ 2026-06-02T23:02:10+00:00 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835801/why-hasnt-functional-programming-taken-over-yet/2835936#2835936 iiridayn functional programming + https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:ce5de166730c/ 2026-06-02T22:51:47+00:00 https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePremium.html iiridayn So my primary guideline would be don't even consider microservices unless you have a system that's too complex to manage as a monolith. > So if you can keep your system simple enough to avoid the need for microservices: do.]]> article microservices + https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:a68652e77644/ 2026-06-02T22:50:24+00:00 https://blog.softwaremill.com/are-you-sure-youre-using-microservices-f8d4e912d014 iiridayn article programming microservices https://pinboard.in/u:iiridayn/b:3686c5e03281/