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CharlesTBetz / gist:dc025a812dd3129ebf0d7c44d6e2e963
Last active April 4, 2025 21:53
Humans don't get exponential.

Prompt: Humans and animals don't intuitively understand exponential dynamics. Discuss, support/contradict. I know I have seen scientific-sounding statements to this effect.

ChatGPT said: The claim that humans and animals don't intuitively understand exponential dynamics is broadly supported by research in psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral economics.

Supporting Evidence: Evolutionary Argument: Humans evolved in environments where most threats and opportunities were linear or immediate. Natural selection favored intuitive reasoning about linear, spatial, or simple additive phenomena—such as estimating distances, speeds, and quantities. Exponential growth was rarely encountered directly in ancestral environments, so cognitive mechanisms evolved accordingly.

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CharlesTBetz / gist:e93d48d96d379122f69f4d542d6dad8a
Last active March 14, 2021 17:29
Rich chocolate noatmeal - cronometer import
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CharlesTBetz / install-packer.sh
Last active March 29, 2020 02:31
#!/bin/bash
# tightly coupled to current packer version, update as necessary
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.5.4/packer_1.5.4_linux_amd64.zip
unzip packer_1.5.4_linux_amd64.zip
mkdir -p ~/bin
mv -f packer ~/bin
rm packer_1.5.4_linux_amd64.zip
echo "either add ~/bin to your path or run as ~/bin/packer"
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CharlesTBetz / phoenixStudy.adoc
Last active October 25, 2023 00:53
Phoenix Project discussion questions

Phoenix Project discussion questions

Trying gist as the channel here, rather than a full repo which seems too heavyweight (but I don’t want to roll these into an existing repo).

Will be updated as the semester progresses.

Note on syllabus. Phoenix Project works well as a semester long read, with 3 chapters per week, assuming 12 active class weeks (semesters are typically 14 weeks, including intro & final).

For full context, the primary text for this class (SEIS664, IT Delivery, Graduate Programs in Software at University of St. Thomas, Minnesota) is the Digital Practitioner Body of Knowledge (https://pubs.opengroup.org/dpbok/standard/DPBoK.html). The class is "flipped" and class sessions are primarily lab (not lecture), with a strong hands-on emphasis (Linux, containers, cloud, infracode, etc).

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CharlesTBetz / gist:c68e0bddd9217ebcc8a113649fc093b5
Last active July 30, 2019 18:12
Song for Britannia (Reap the Fruits)
I wrote this song in 1993, in response to a round of UK handwringing about its historical decline
(now laughably minor in contrast to Brexit.)
It has a bit of a reggae beat. If someone is interested I could share chords & melody.
Tears from across the sea
Cry the kingdom that used to be
Your sun is going down forevermore
Losing faith and losing heart
Traditions sacred torn apart