Communicators prefer polish notation, reading off the parse tree in their heads. Listeners prefer reverse polish (evaluate as you go, less stack required). More human languages are reverse polish (favor listener). More computer/math is polish (favor speaker).
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Let's spend less time arguing about stats and more time arguing about how averaging ordinal numbers is at best poorly defined (at worst complete nonsense) and plays a major part in nearly everyone's lives from GPAs to performance reviews!
Is A,A,D,A really the same as A,A,C,B?
Inductive arguments are *actually weaker* than more direct arguments. It means your result doesn't apply to non-well-founded objects, or to more heterogeneous structures (not built only out of the building blocks you allowed in your induction). This can easily matter in software.
Think what you will of the simulation hypothesis -- fiction is a biased sample, entirely favoring universes simulated at low fidelity and showing signs of a designer's hand.
Travel to a neighboring town. Treat it like a foreign country. Try to learn the language and customs. Make fast friends with the locals. Sample the food. Return home forever changed. Write a popular travel guide.
Paying more than a dollar in a dollar auction doesn't automatically make you irrational. Only if you'd predictable do so. This is a bit similar to the observation that waiting time distributions in no way have to reduce expected time left as you wait.
Excited to be alive in fifty years when someone finally works out why p vs np was a fundamentally difficult problem.
Prey evolve camouflage in an evolutionary arms race with predators, but does it have a side effect of making the world just really confusing for other animals?
Ecologists understand good and evil. Ethicists understand what's needed for a well-functioning collection of interacting organisms in an environment.