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  • It’s a heuristic that says ‘most often the simplest solution is the best solution’. It’s supposed to be used to shorten the path of finding a viable solution to a question or problem.

    Basically, you find the simplest possible solutions, the ones with the fewest variables to account for, and you test them. They usually take the least amount of time to test, and they usually yield a solution faster because of that.

    This heuristic is often misused by concluding that very simple answers are immediately correct without actually verifying. Its best application is for selecting possible solutions to test only.




  • Wouldn’t the word just be ‘defeminize’? It’s in the dictionary right their, either divestment or robbing of feminine qualities. Been around as a word since the late 1700s.

    EDIT: also as mentioned, emasculate originally meant ‘castrate’, and we’ve just used it as a figure of speech so much that it means the same as ‘feminize’.

    If we want a word for giving someone a penis, I’m sure I we can come up with it easily. we could make it sound old-fashioned like ‘enphallize’ or something, or we could be modern and worldly and use something like ‘futanize’



  • I’m a huge fan of Kid A, though I can also accept that experimental music isn’t everyone’s bag.

    Thom Yorke had something of a mental break and made Kid A, which was fueled by a feeling that rock ‘was dead’, just a formulaic and commodified product now.

    I still like Creep, it’s a great-sounding song. I do get why they don’t like it, based on their statements about why they want to leave it behind.

    Yorke told Rolling Stone in 1993: “It’s like it’s not our song any more … It feels like we’re doing a cover.”[13] During Radiohead’s first American tour, audience members would scream for “Creep”, then leave after it was performed.[7] Yorke said the success “gagged” them and almost caused them to break up; they felt they were being judged on a single song.