intriguing and thought-provoking writeup.

Even though it is about one idea of compression, it is getting applied in so many diverse contexts that my mind is numb in a good way. So I may be off track here.

First, it is not that the only benefit of compression is coordination, it does bring incremental insight. If we agree with 'I write to know what I am thinking' we have to agree that we don't have a good sense of our thoughts and experiences if we don't compress them, and in some cases, condense them into metrics.

In general, by compressing an idea or experience, we gain wisdom, and when we uncompress a number or a thing we may get incremental wisdom that we didn't get while compressing it. So both are necessary and both are great.

It is a cycle.

On KPIs for a company: I agree with both perspectives and don't view it as a dichotomy. One person suggests condensing company goals into meaningful metrics, while another, after careful consideration, chooses not to. In many cases, the process of debating and creating metrics provides insights and wisdom, It is not about following it dogmatically

Similar thoughts on Inflation. I don't take it as measuring inflation with a single number is 'wrong', I take it as it is not the best way to track it now, and it is due for a change.

I guess the conversation on this thread is in line with my feedback.

I had it bookmarked to look at when I had time.

A quick thought, I feel like we should have basic data like # of posts or # of comments. this gives an idea of how noisy or reliable the calculated metrics per post are. Alternatively, we could have an error bar.

Extending the same thought again, I am not sure whether you have taken the outlier out for your analysis. A couple of highly successful posts may make a territory rank high. This post #450871 by @davidw reminded me of outlier posts.

There is a 'truth' to it, but I would have put it differently.

Hello, this is kumar speaking!

I don't like 'Devi' being listed there, but for a different reason. I take it as a lack of domain knowledge.

I don't like it because I don't consider 'Devi' as a last name or surname, although technically it is.

In India, when you know a girl is married and a little old, you don't want to call her by her first name, you add devi after her first name to show respect. Though in big cities people don't follow it.

I suspect the data might show 'Devi' as the most common last name because, when married women from villages registered for an Aadhar card (similar to a Social Security Number) over the last 20 years, the person assisting them invariably added 'Devi' as a last name.

Footnote:

'Devi' means Goddess. Kumar is also not 'technically' a last name

Vision is still evolving. the first goal is to be top x% in understanding Bitcoin and Bitcoin adjacent data.

On the mobile version, thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks! I'm looking forward to creating more useful analysis and work!

It is a good idea.

@megalithic, let me know if you would like to add additional node attributes to show in your page. I'm create a lot of attributes based on capacity/channel and LN graph.

I've started work on grouping nodes based on type - exchange, routing, LSP. let me know if you would like to share notes there

here it is:

I'll say that inflation is not the only driver for high BTC prices; it may be an insignificant factor. Other factors are in play. I can conjure up a theory on why the behavior may be different for Argentina vs Venezuela, but frankly, I would like to hear from folks who follow South America more closely

Here is one with the legend. Have a lot of data on inflation as a tooltip by the way.

wise words.

More or less, it makes sense and feels intuitive.

Okay, here's something to think about:

You have to respect the red-liners the most. They are the self-aware guys. They have achieved balance with the force.

Is it counterintuitive that physics and music guys have a level of balance that no one else has? Both fields, at the surface, are poles apart.

yes. I was looking for a theory like you have here.

It depends on how much we want to read from the data. Just for fun, I'll say Afghanistan started doing well once the USA left

Why? Is there any theory?

As I am learning more about schools here in the USA. Thanks to Libs of TikTok and a couple of families in the neighborhood. We have also started considering home-schooling for our toddler. luckily we have a couple of years.

I find the rise of homeschooling sad. To me, it points to a decline in trust in public institutions.

I don't think homeschooling is sustainable. Simply cuz it is too much work.

Or, good chance that homeschoolers will join hands with families sharing similar values to educate kids. They will also hire professionals or utilize professional tools ( yet to be built) to educate kids. but at that time, do we call it homeschool or a 'new kind' of school?

on data interpretation:

BTW, the 6% number seemed too high for me, and I didn't believe it. So far we may have met ~50 families in the park, and only 1 is home-schooling their kid. But, then I realized they had 6 kids. The higher the number of kids, the more sense it makes for parents to homeschool.

So it is 6% of kids, but my hunch is it would be not more than 2-3% of families who home-school.

sure