What minor thing grinds your gears atm?

[the-pi-guy]

When the speech to text understood me correctly the first time, but then it goes back and "fixes" it. 

[Legend]

When the speech to text understood me correctly the first time, but then it goes back and "fixes" it.

Oh it can be so bad.

"is there any comparison good for your hair" is absolutely not what I asked my ai the other day. It was correct but then once it heard hair instead of health, it replaced marathon with comparison and shifted the other words.

[the-pi-guy]

Oh it can be so bad.

"is there any comparison good for your hair" is absolutely not what I asked my ai the other day. It was correct but then once it heard hair instead of health, it replaced marathon with comparison and shifted the other words.

It's almost more irritating when it's correct before changing it.

I was asking YouTube to pull up a song called To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X. And I saw it type it completely correctly, only to change it something that was even more nonsensical. "2 Xanarkant Final Fantasy X"


(Which I get, that To Zanarkand is kind of a nonsense phrase without the game context, but it was 100% spelled correctly.)

[Legend]

My back. I picked up a couch and my back looked like a C.

[the-pi-guy]

I'm surprised I haven't complained about this like 15 times.

But a lot of people are convinced that statistics doesn't work.  

"Study polling 1 million shows that most Americans don't like anime"

"That only gives you an answer on those million, you can't extrapolate to all Americans."

Obviously you can't get the exact proportion, but practically the whole point of statistics is to extrapolate. How confident are we able to look at this sample and extrapolate about the larger group? 

If you're doing a good job randomly selecting and the sample size is relatively big (and it doesn't even need to be anywhere near as big as people think), you can be very confident about the overall sample. 



I'm not sure how to describe it, but I feel like it's one of the most common "smart people" misconceptions that I see.  I'm not sure if my phrasing there makes sense, but I'm struggling to articulate it better.  

[Legend]

I'm surprised I haven't complained about this like 15 times.

But a lot of people are convinced that statistics doesn't work. 

"Study polling 1 million shows that most Americans don't like anime"

"That only gives you an answer on those million, you can't extrapolate to all Americans."

Obviously you can't get the exact proportion, but practically the whole point of statistics is to extrapolate. How confident are we able to look at this sample and extrapolate about the larger group?

If you're doing a good job randomly selecting and the sample size is relatively big (and it doesn't even need to be anywhere near as big as people think), you can be very confident about the overall sample.



I'm not sure how to describe it, but I feel like it's one of the most common "smart people" misconceptions that I see.  I'm not sure if my phrasing there makes sense, but I'm struggling to articulate it better. 

Yeah good point about this being a "smart person" misconception.

It is really weird. Cause half the time people disagree with the sampling method, which of course is a legit potential flaw, while the other half it is exactly what you are complaining about.

And I have no idea if the former actually understands sampling methods or if they are just part of the later but learned a different way to complain about surveys.

[Legend]

People being drama queens with food safety/quality.

Expired food? It's fine if it tastes and looks fine.

Processed food? It's fine in moderation.

Tv dinners? They're good tasting most of the time you dork.

Canned meats? They taste great you dork.

Fast food? It tastes great and is not making you sick.

Etc.

[BananaKing]

People being drama queens with food safety/quality.

Expired food? It's fine if it tastes and looks fine.

Processed food? It's fine in moderation.

Tv dinners? They're good tasting most of the time you dork.

Canned meats? They taste great you dork.

Fast food? It tastes great and is not making you sick.

Etc.

Fast food is so unhealthy though. I mean don't get me wrong I freaking love it. But it's so bad for you

[Legend]

Fast food is so unhealthy though. I mean don't get me wrong I freaking love it. But it's so bad for you

I was meaning the diarrhea jokes. I'm not saying fast food is smart from a diet/nutrition perspective   

[the-pi-guy]

It grinds my gears when people talk about specific foods being unhealthy. 

I think it's much more meaningful to talk about diets being healthy/unhealthy, as opposed to foods being healthy/unhealthy.

Are bananas healthy? Is lettuce healthy? Not if they're literally the only thing you eat. 

"Unhealthy foods" are mostly unhealthy because one eats too much of them, and not enough of other things. 

A diet where you're eating a variety of things like a single fast food burger and a variety of fruits and vegetables, is far, far healthier than only having 4 servings of lettuce every single day.  (Heck, a diet where you're eating fast food 3x a day is healthier than eating 50 calories of only lettuce every day.)


Diets are what matter. If that fast food burger helps you get some good nutrients, that's good.

Spoiler for Hidden:

I kind of wanted to make this a meta-grind my gears.

[Legend]

Rate my diet Pi.

Breakfast: egg, ham, potato, cheese scramble. Orange "juice"

Second breakfast: beyond hamburger patty.

Lunch: steak and mashed potatoes.

Second lunch: grilled chicken

Dinner: chicken curry

[kitler53]

i dunno Pi,.. some food are just straight up unhealthy.   

a burger isn't amazing for you if it is the only thing you ever eat but meat has protein which is something your body needs.    that said there are much healthy foods that also provide protein and it is useful to make sure people know that.

soda (for instance) has no redeeming value whatsoever.  yes you can have unhealthy food in moderation and overall not be an unhealthy person but some foods are just straight up unhealthy and should be labeled as such.


so like,.. i teach my kids both what a healthy food is but also what a healthy diet is.   you're not wrong that discussion about a healthy diet is important.  but you are wrong to try and ignore conversations about unhealthy foods.   and ranking a food health factor isn't a binary choice either.   one of the foods i talk about with my kids is chocolate.   chocolate in moderation can be good for you.  but also dark chocolate has all of those benefits with far less of the sugar found in milk chocolate and thus is a healthier option.


your example is pretty ridiculous by the way.   fine,.. 3x fast food meals a day is more healthy then being anorexic to the point you don't eat any food whatsoever and die of starvation.   good job there on your strawman argument..

[the-pi-guy]

i dunno Pi,.. some food are just straight up unhealthy.   

a burger isn't amazing for you if it is the only thing you ever eat but meat has protein which is something your body needs.    that said there are much healthy foods that also provide protein and it is useful to make sure people know that.

soda (for instance) has no redeeming value whatsoever.  yes you can have unhealthy food in moderation and overall not be an unhealthy person but some foods are just straight up unhealthy and should be labeled as such.


so like,.. i teach my kids both what a healthy food is but also what a healthy diet is.  you're not wrong that discussion about a healthy diet is important.  but you are wrong to try and ignore conversations about unhealthy food. 


your example is pretty ridiculous by the way.  fine,.. 3x fast food meals a day is more healthy then being anorexic to the point you don't eat any food whatsoever and die of starvation.  good job there on your strawman argument..

Looking at diets as a whole covers all of that though, it pushes you to talk about what nutrients that different foods provide.  

It tells you that drinking a giant soda isn't good for you, just like it pushes you to have more nuance on what actual food you're eating.  

There are plenty of "healthy foods" that would be destructive for you, even if you were eating enough calories of them. There are plenty of vitamins and nutrients that become toxic if you have too much of them.  

(I'm also not saying "Soda is healthy", I think that is probably an important framing for kids and the like to help them understand that they shouldn't have too much of those things.)

But the diet framing also also gets away from having judgment on food choices. If someone is autistic and they struggle with certain food choices, you have more ability to help them figure out a healthy diet based on what they are able to have.

[the-pi-guy]

People really struggle with specific vs general - something that can be true in general or most of the time, but be false in specific instances.  

Something can be a problem 80% of the time, but that doesn't mean you should assume that it's the problem. 

Men not helping out with household things is a common issue that leads to tension. That doesn't mean you should assume that an individual person isn't helping, just because there's tension.  

[Legend]

Madonna. I don't give a fudge about her yet I keep getting phone notifications about her 🤮

People really struggle with specific vs general - something that can be true in general or most of the time, but be false in specific instances. 

Something can be a problem 80% of the time, but that doesn't mean you should assume that it's the problem.

Men not helping out with household things is a common issue that leads to tension. That doesn't mean you should assume that an individual person isn't helping, just because there's tension. 

The inverse also is lame. Do something wrong once and the other 80% of the time doesn't matter.