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In the UK, you get roundabouts with traffic lights at the entrances, sometimes only operational at peak times, and off most of the time. Works well

You do, but that means there is no roundabout when you need it the most.

The problem occurs mostly when the dominant flow is given multiple lanes.

A fairly common solution/workaround is blocking the view of the approaching traffic, forcing it to slow down. But again, this doesn't work well on large roundabouts that allow people to speed up to of 30+ mph.


I’m in my 50s and a Brit from London . For me ‘cubt’ has always been the absolute nuclear option- probably used 2 or 3 times in my life

Really interesting article. Got me pondering the extent to which the peacock’s tail is an example of overfitting and Goodhart's

The female peacock is using the make peacock’s tail as a proxy for fitness - with beautiful consequences, but the males with the largest, showiest tails are clearly less fit, and more prone to predation.


That's the point. That they are alive shows that their innate fitness minus the tail is higher than that of another alive peacock who doesn't have a tail.

Or put another way: someone who wins the Olympic 100m sprint while hopping on one leg is a better runner that everyone else in the race by a wide margin.


Really interesting article. Got me pondering the extent to which the peacock’s tail is an example of overfitting and Goodhart's

The female peacock is using the make peacock’s tail as a proxy for fitness - with beautiful consequences, but the males with the largest, showiest tails are clearly less fit


There is research on costly signalling and evolution.

One of her last pieces of work was in the excellent BBC series The Detectorists, where she played a character who was mother to her real-life daughter

Oh I love that series!

As far as I know Apple’s first party tracking allows it to

1. Show ads for apps in AppStore

2. Show ads in the News app.

What else are you thinking of?


Yeh. And it’s very good imho

I have an LG - 2012ish - and still receiving software updates from LG. I let it connect to the internet, and with the right TV settings, I’ve never seen it show me ads

>2012 >never seen it show me ads

Probably thinks your broke, ha! I joke.


Sure, in a world with an excess of carbon-free energy, air-conditioning is not harmful to the planet.

In the current reality, where global CO2 emissions continue to rise, yes it is harmful.

The ideological framing of ostriches is all around us.


Have you had a crack at applying this approach to the effectively unforecastable - earthquakes, for example?


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