believability

Some of the best writing on the show yet, even if still completely defies logic and believability. Really great acting from some of the cast too.

And that's the beauty of the best trolls, they border on insanity but keep it just within the realms of believability.

It responds to an article that made HN last week, saying that font choice affects the believability of a claim. I've love to learn more about how to do this kind of analysis, so feel free to tear my post apart.

It's also the part that goes from pushing the boundaries of believability and bursts full on into being obvious fiction.

So each denial means less and less, and tips believability towards Snowden even where the proof is inconclusive in some cases.

Even basic haptics has a huge impact on the believability of the motion interaction.

PS: But believability really is important. I always hated the moment in late-game of civ when conquering cities of advanced civilization with nothing in them but a temple.

It's the believability of the physics of the video game world and the behavior of its inhabitants. Play any 3D video game on the market and it's almost guaranteed that you'll see blatantly unphysical things happening.

Their portraits of characters dealing with these were still almost unrivaled in their vulnerability and believability when I listened as a teenager in the 90's.

Adjusting data in this fashion is extremely dangerous, and climate scientists are certainly not immune from the "tendency to weight the believability of the evidence".

This is sad, because, just like Mike Daisey's story, there's plenty of value in what really transpired, and by exaggerating it, it loses its believability. By becoming overly sentimental, bordering on mawkish, it loses the impact that a frank, thoughtful reflection on the actual event could have had.

A much more interesting question is the believability. For older folks there seems to be a great willingness to trust what is written on official looking blogs, whereas my kids naturally distrust such blogs, and yet if the folks they are following are all in favor of some trend there is a tendency to see validity in the trend.

While a bunch of Americans taking a hike on the Iraq-Iran border is one of the dumbest things to happen in recent history, It isn't beyond the realm of believability. Einstein once said that human ignorance is the only thing that is known for sure to be eternal; this incident was merely another example of this principle.

That approach tends to care neither about biological accuracy, nor believability in a Turing-test sense. Rather, it cares about whether its decisions are correct based on evidence available to the decision-maker.

He's not asking us to take his word that these are happening, and he's not hanging the believability of these charges on his honor, which is already being smeared across the media far and wide. He's answering questions as to why, not what, which is great, since it gives people a more balanced view of who the man is behind these things, and serves as a counterbalance to the "omg high school dropout with a stripper girlfriend" smear stories that have been plastered all over the news lately.

It's unfortunate too that people are uncomfortable to ask questions, and just assuming things they hear about someone are true, especially when it's in a bad light, ask to confirm or hear the 'other' side of the story - and gauge for themselves believability of both parties.

I'll admit, I didn't write the comment with the expectation that it would be attacked on believability, but I'll try to give a satisfactory response: The definition of metaprogramming is "the writing of computer programs that with the ability to treat programs as their data", which #defines can certainly do, and which decorators in a slightly different sense also do. I hate to just drop Wikipedia links, but it says it far better than I could, and contains an example of using C style macros to do templated metaprogramming.

The potential few extra victims they might profit from by using impeccable language/appearance probably doesn't compare favourably to the cost of extra time/effort dragging along smarter people for a longer time, that are probably just going to bail later on with high certainty at a stage where appearance is no longer the key factor for believability.