- Feb 2023
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eprints.soton.ac.uk eprints.soton.ac.uk
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This paper is relevant to understanding
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Learning
- it introduces me to a number of new useful concepts
- cognitive advantage
- cultural network analysis
- more detailed understanding of memetics
- cultural epidemiology
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- Dec 2022
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To determine how to win, an organization must decide what will enable itto create unique value and sustainably deliver that value to customers in away that is distinct from the firm’s competitors. Michael Porter called itcompetitive advantage—the specific way a firm utilizes its advantages tocreate superior value for a consumer or a customer and in turn, superiorreturns for the firm.
How to win requires a competitive advantage: unique value proposition + deliver it
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- Aug 2022
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Ball, P. (2022, February 26). Will we get a single, variant-proof vaccine for Covid? The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/26/will-we-get-a-single-variant-proof-vaccine-for-covid
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plus.tagesspiegel.de plus.tagesspiegel.de
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Karberg, S., & Friebe, R. (2022, January 18). Virologe Drosten im Interview: „Wie lange geht diese Quälerei noch weiter?“. https://plus.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/virologe-drosten-im-interview-wie-lange-geht-diese-qualerei-noch-weiter-361636.html
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- Apr 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. (2021, November 1). RT @HJWesteneng: Growth advantage and extrapolation of AY.4.2 based on Sanger Institute data in the UK (multilevel multinomial model). Base… [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1455467011509731332
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the brain stores social information differently thanit stores information that is non-social. Social memories are encoded in a distinctregion of the brain. What’s more, we remember social information moreaccurately, a phenomenon that psychologists call the “social encodingadvantage.” If findings like this feel unexpected, that’s because our culturelargely excludes social interaction from the realm of the intellect. Socialexchanges with others might be enjoyable or entertaining, this attitude holds, butthey’re no more than a diversion, what we do around the edges of school orwork. Serious thinking, real thinking, is done on one’s own, sequestered fromothers.
"Social encoding advantage" is what psychologists refer to as the phenomenon of people remembering social information more accurately than other types.
Reference to read: “social encoding advantage”: Matthew D. Lieberman, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect (New York: Crown, 2013), 284.
It's likely that the social acts of learning and information exchange in oral societies had an additional stickiness over and beyond the additional mnemonic methods they would have used as a base.
The Western cultural tradition doesn't value the social coding advantage because it "excludes social interaction from the realm of the intellect" (Paul, 2021). Instead it provides advantage and status to the individual thinking on their own. We greatly prefer the idea of the "lone genius" toiling on their own, when this is hardly ever the case. Our availability bias often leads us to believe it is the case because we can pull out so many famous examples, though in almost all cases these geniuses were riding on the shoulders of giants.
Reference to read: remember social information more accurately: Jason P. Mitchell, C. Neil Macrae, and Mahzarin R. Banaji, “Encoding-Specific Effects of Social Cognition on the Neural Correlates of Subsequent Memory,” Journal of Neuroscience 24 (May 2004): 4912–17
Reference to read: the brain stores social information: Jason P. Mitchell et al., “Thinking About Others: The Neural Substrates of Social Cognition,” in Social Neuroscience: People Thinking About Thinking People, ed. Karen T. Litfin (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006), 63–82.
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a phenomenon that psychologists call “thecaricature advantage”: the fact that we recognize a caricatured face even morereadily than we recognize a true-to-life depiction. While a caricature does distortits subject’s actual appearance, it does so in a systematic way, exaggerating whatis unique or distinctive about that individual—thereby making him or her evenmore instantly identifiable.
Exaggerating the features of people and objects in systematic ways helps people to more easily assimilate both knowledge about them as well as the ability to distinguish between them in an effect which psychologists call the "caricature advantage."
Link this to using caricature as a mnemonic technique for strengthening one's memory of objects and people.
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- Mar 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Jens von Bergmann. (2021, December 14). Every time a new variant with a selective advantage is making the rounds, but especially this time. Https://t.co/fDEq54nHCl [Tweet]. @vb_jens. https://twitter.com/vb_jens/status/1470604121640030214
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- Feb 2022
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www.brookings.edu www.brookings.edu
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Schellekens, P., & Indermit, G. (2021, May 27). COVID-19 is a developing country pandemic. Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/05/27/covid-19-is-a-developing-country-pandemic/
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- Jan 2022
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Devlin, H., Davis, N., & correspondents, N. D. S. (2022, January 14). Expect another Omicron wave in early summer, Sage says. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/14/expect-another-covid-omicron-wave-in-early-summer-sage-says
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Pagel, C. (2021, October 26). Why the UK was so vulnerable to another Covid outbreak. Prospect Magazine. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/why-the-uk-was-so-vulnerable-to-another-covid-19-outbreak-coronavirus
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- mask mandate
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- Dec 2021
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Theo Sanderson. (2021, December 8). SGTF Regional data to Dec 6 from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1039470/Omicron_SGTF_case_update.pdf (Last data point would be expected to be incomplete based on the dates and so to slightly understate growth. And also will already have moved substantially from the midpoint of that last week on 3rd Dec.) https://t.co/1L6tM0sXIZ [Tweet]. @theosanderson. https://twitter.com/theosanderson/status/1468648673668128775
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- Nov 2021
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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In both instances, people used these unregulated forms of “justice” to pursue personal grudges or gain professional advantage.
Rather than provide actual justice, unregulated extrajudicial bodies can be (and are often) used to pursue personal grudges or gain profession advantages.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Henk-Jan Westeneng on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved November 2, 2021, from https://twitter.com/HJWesteneng/status/1455304431038308352 i
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- Aug 2021
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
- Mar 2021
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www.sitepoint.com www.sitepoint.com
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The elimination of what is arguably the biggest monoculture in the history of software development would mean that we, the community, could finally take charge of both languages and run-times, and start to iterate and grow these independently of browser/server platforms, vendors, and organizations, all pulling in different directions, struggling for control of standards, and (perhaps most importantly) freeing the entire community of developers from the group pressure of One Language To Rule Them All.
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JavaScript needs to fly from its comfy nest, and learn to survive on its own, on equal terms with other languages and run-times. It’s time to grow up, kid.
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If JavaScript were detached from the client and server platforms, the pressure of being a monoculture would be lifted — the next iteration of the JavaScript language or run-time would no longer have to please every developer in the world, but instead could focus on pleasing a much smaller audience of developers who love JavaScript and thrive with it, while enabling others to move to alternative languages or run-times.
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- one size fits all mentality
- programming languages
- good idea
- related but independent projects that can be developed independently
- runtime environment
- neutral ground
- avoid giving partiality/advantage/bias to any specific option
- programming languages: choosing the best language for the job
- level playing field
- independent release cycles among peer dependencies
- JavaScript: as a process VM
- neutral/unbiased/agnostic
- software freedom
- separation of concerns
- competition in open-source software
- single responsibility
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- Feb 2021
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nationalseedproject.org nationalseedproject.org
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Some people "get" the idea of systemic privilege and ask "But what can I do?" My answer is, you can use unearned advantage to weaken systems of unearned advantage. I see white privilege as a bank account that I did not ask for, but that I can choose to spend. People with privilege have far more power than we have been taught to realize, within the myth of meritocracy. Participants can brainstorm about how to use unearned assets to share power; these may include time, money, energy, literacy, mobility, leisure, connections, spaces, housing, travel opportunities. Using these assets may lead to key changes in other behaviors as well, such as paying attention, making associations, intervening, speaking up, asserting and deferring, being alert, taking initiative, doing ally and advocacy work, lobbying, campaigning, protesting, organizing, and recognizing and acting against both the external and internalized forms of oppression and privilege.
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nplusonemag.com nplusonemag.com
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cultural capital
Introduced by Pierre Bourdieu in the 1970s, the concept has been utilized across a wide spectrum of contemporary sociological research. Cultural capital refers to ‘knowledge’ or ‘skills’ in the broadest sense. Thus, on the production side, cultural capital consists of knowledge about comportment (e.g., what are considered to be the right kinds of professional dress and attitude) and knowledge associated with educational achievement (e.g., rhetorical ability). On the consumption side, cultural capital consists of capacities for discernment or ‘taste’, e.g., the ability to appreciate fine art or fine wine—here, in other words, cultural capital refers to ‘social status acquired through the ability to make cultural distinctions,’ to the ability to recognize and discriminate between the often-subtle categories and signifiers of a highly articulated cultural code. I'm quoting here from (and also heavily paraphrasing) Scott Lash, ‘Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural Economy and Social Change’, in this reader.
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- Jan 2021
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linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io
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Although it is open-source, Snap on the other hand, only works with the Ubuntu Store. Nobody knows how to make a Snap Store and nobody can. The Snap client is designed to work with only one source, following a protocol which isn’t open, and using only one authentication system. Snapd is nothing on its own, it can only work with the Ubuntu Store.
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- Snap
- proprietary software/service seeking broad support/integration/acceptance in/by other software/platforms/vendors
- importance of open-source
- monopoly
- proprietary protocol
- proprietary hosted services as a competitive advantage
- use of proprietary hosted services
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www.theregister.com www.theregister.com
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What we didn't want it to be was for Canonical to control the distribution of software between distributions and 3rd party editors, to prevent direct distribution from editors, to make it so software worked better in Ubuntu than anywhere else and to make its store a requirement,"
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- Oct 2020
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medium.com medium.com
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Svelte takes advantage from its position as compiler to make reactivity a language feature
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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This allows the shooter to relax and concentrate on the intended target at which they are shooting.
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covid-19.iza.org covid-19.iza.org
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COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved October 10, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13595/
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covid-19.iza.org covid-19.iza.org
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COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved October 10, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13578/
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- Sep 2020
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github.com github.com
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Because of that, it's easy to end up in a situation where the styles for a given piece of markup are defined far away (in terms of number of lines) from the markup itself, which reduces the advantage of having styles and markup co-located in the first place.
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www.homeexchange.fr www.homeexchange.fr
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A park with children's games is located 3 minutes walk from the house:)
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The shops nearby allow you to do all your shopping on foot, especially thanks to a nearby minimarket.
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Our house is in a quiet area, 5 minutes by car from the city center of Reims, 15 minutes by bike (15 minutes by tram)
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- Aug 2020
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McCarrick, D. J., Bilalic, M., Neave, N., & Wolfson, S. (2020, August 11). Home Advantage during the COVID-19 Pandemic in European football. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2gkht
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- Jul 2020
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www.houstonchronicle.com www.houstonchronicle.com
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Ackerman, T. (2020, July 4). Evidence growing that Houston’s main coronavirus strain is more contagious than original. HoustonChronicle.Com. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/coronavirus-evidence-growing-houston-strain-mutant-15386157.php
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- mutation
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osf.io osf.io
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Grow, A., Perrotta, D., Del Fava, E., Cimentada, J., Rampazzo, F., Gil-Clavel, S., & Zagheni, E. (2020). Addressing Public Health Emergencies via Facebook Surveys: Advantages, Challenges, and Practical Considerations [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ez9pb
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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Is Remote Work Here To Stay? (n.d.). NPR.Org. Retrieved July 4, 2020, from https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/06/30/882834590/is-remote-work-here-to-stay
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- May 2020
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Google charges a lot for their translation tool. It is fairly difficult to build something similar without running up against their free API limits or having the user create an API key.
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That’s because the Google Translate extension uses some internal Google-only APIs (Mozilla also does the same thing).
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github.com github.com
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Apparently Firefox does have translation built-in, it's just not enabled due to lack of usage agreement / API keys. https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a3eb8e502006
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- Apr 2020
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accessmedicine.mhmedical.com accessmedicine.mhmedical.com
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This approach allows treatment with patient-specific factors at an apparently physiologic ratio of growth factor concentrations.
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- Oct 2018
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The genius of The Power is that it conveys how entirely the world is built on male power and male privilege, to the extent that societal structures topple as soon as women are given the advantage.
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