They missed by far the most important one:

I just wanted to confirm from our meeting just now, did you want me to (some crazy shit that could cause problems)?

(and DO NOT do any of the crazy shit until you have the email confirming it)

Interesting information and accurate but this is not what’s useful for playing Scrabble

Actually useful things for every Scrabble player to memorize:

• The full list of 2-letter words
• The full list of words that have “Q” but not “U”
• Have some familiarity with common bingos (7-letter words)

If you wanted to proceed from there, you could study the 3-letter words, and expand your study of the bingos and expand it to 8-letter words.

It’s honestly most akin to an AI model over optimizing for the trained outcome even when it turns out it was misaligned from the good outcome we wanted.

They certainly don’t want their grandchildren to inhabit a barely-livable hellscape instead of the paradise world they were born into, but they’ve been optimizing for money for so long that it’s baked in now, and it’s so so easy to just say, well it’s probably not a big deal, or I don’t think the science is really all that dire in its predictions, or oh well someone else will probably figure it out. And so, every year, we keep setting records for “production”.

Greta Thunberg talks about it in her book - if the bathtub is overflowing in your house and water is spilling across the floor everywhere, step 1 for most people is to turn off the water. Yes sure it is fine to look for towels and buckets to try to contain the damage (and I don’t even disagree with you that it’ll be needed), but that also assumes that they’ll work and there will be political support to deploy them at scale, instead of mustering up the political support to turn the fucking taps down since at this point that’s clearly needed and is relatively speaking much much easier.

“The LuxTouch tile is ideal as a wall or a bathroom floor tile”

That one looks right to me (or, “right” meaning consistently using period LEB) - it’s a little hard to compare because of the difference in granularity but it shows about a 20-year drop for WW2 which is what I would expect.

I edited my comment above; I think what’s happening is that the OP article is mixing different metrics for different parts of the chart. I think this one you’re sending is consistently using period LEB which is why the size of the dips is different.

I am suspicious of this

So Russia’s death rate was pretty much unchanged from 1930 to 1935 to 1945, and then things got way better in 1950?

Maybe I could see, they are counting only Russia (not the USSR), so the holomodor is largely absent from 1930, and then Russia advances in living standards meant that there was a huge underlying boost that masked the unprecedented deaths during WW2, and then after WW2 the apparent life expectancy shot up because a lot of the vulnerable or old people were already dead. But I don’t buy it. Idk what’s going on with their data, but China looks fine and Russia looks simply wrong; it is missing some big dips that it should have.

Edit: Hm, I guess there is a 6-year divot in 1932… I guess I just expected the Holomodor to show up bigger and less spread out over surrounding years. But yeah maybe it is showing up.

Edit 2: Okay, I looked more and I am confident that this isn’t exactly right. It says “the remaining average lifespan for a hypothetical group of people, if they experienced the same age-specific death rates throughout the rest of their lives as the age-specific death rates seen in that particular year.” There’s no possible way that extrapolating out the death rates people were experiencing in the middle of a famine or war would lead to these gentle dips and small divots.

I suspect that by combining data from different sources, they wound up using cohort LEB for the distant past and period LEB for the more recent past. That would explain why e.g. the dip in Russian life expectancy because of the Ukraine war shows as the same size as the dip for WW2. If they were doing the calculations the same for both, the WW2 dip would take away half the chart or more. So maybe it’s not really wrong per se but just mismatching their metrics in a way that makes it hard to draw anything of precision from the chart beyond “things getting better”.

Plus several points for like half the output arrows leading to Python instead of trying to achieve some kind of false "both sides"ism on which language to pick starting out

Minus several points for the fairly bizarre list of out-of-date languages down below which are fairly poorly mapped onto characters

• C is clearly Gandalf; older than time, wise and powerful, but for God’s sake know what you’re doing before you start fuckin with it
• Java is Saruman; superficially similar, but has fallen to the dark side, still trusted in some circles but the wise have realized that nothing good is coming from it nowadays
• C++ is Gondor. It can get shit done and you may be in a position where its power is all that’s between you and ruin, but beware, parts of it have become corrupted
• Javascript is clearly Gollum. You may need to travel with it, it has a part to play and still some good inside, but you won’t like it and it won’t like you.
• Python is Merry and Pippin. Yeah they’re friendly, they steal mushrooms and they like to sleep late, but in a crush they can absolutely come through.

And so on

Might be worth reaching out to the addon authors. Hard to say whether the page or the addon is at fault, but they might be interested to know it even if it’s the page’s fault.

It’s set to fade in from 0 opacity, for some sort of unnecessary “ooh look it’s fancy” effect. My guess is that if you check the console you’ll find that it hit some exception before it completed its little fade-in effect.

I think there are individual spots that are bright or dim for no reason because of random noise, up in the no-particular-pattern wilderness

I think that’s the overlap between the dense region of PINs that start with 11, 12, or 13 (similar to the dense regions that start with 21, 22, 23, 31, etc), and the dense square region of month+day dates.