Wait hold the fuck on, is your header the same map that Less Wrong uses for its image?? https://www.lesswrong.com/
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Replying to @ChanaMessinger @mpershan and
No but (a) it's the same idea and (b) that's a really lovely bit of book design
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It's the central visual metaphor of the site now :) Which is why I get annoyed when people say rationalists don't care about aesthetics!
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Replying to @thinkagainer @ChanaMessinger and
It's a beautiful cartographic technique for charting changes in a riverbed's location over time.
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Replying to @ChanaMessinger @alexqgb and
maps are just so good more things should be like maps so good at displaying dense data with good hierarchy
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Replying to @thinkagainer @alexqgb and
If you are not familiar, today is your lucky dayhttps://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/1930824130 …
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Replying to @ChanaMessinger @thinkagainer and
Was searching for the 'how do i read a table' book, that may be it
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Replying to @etthhss @ChanaMessinger and
i think my favorite was plotting the route of napolean's army on a map while also showing how many were dying an deserting by proportionally narrowing the thickness of the line as distance and time progressed. there's a lot of good stuff in there.
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the books are good but I would recommend against the actual lectures
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