normality

The point here is normality. Fix alphabet A having b letters.

HN seems to harbor a great breadth and depth of knowledge and I don't think it represents normality in our industry. Failing fast is nice, but a more measured approach might result in less of it.

Ive had the experience of trying to talk some normality into a suicidal person. Its like two kids on a carnival ride and one is queasy and hates it and wants to get off.

They were at the top end of the distribution all their life, but now practically define normality. Most will look around them and realize it could be much worse - they could be running a laundromat.

Today's 'justice' being used to convict yesterdays normality.

Your desires, goals and interests drift away from normality, and thus you will eventually find yourself in a state of loneliness because there's noone else like you. I think that's what it's about.

You're either being disingenuous or your perception of reality and normality is really skewed.

A stressful year, then when everything went back to normality, I was simply left smashed. I was annoyed because I finally reached the "life is good again" state, but my body simply said: "you gave me a hard time for a year, now I need to rest".

This means all mistakes are accounted for and balanced back to normality. Also worth noting that banks love to process debits before they process credits so you could have 100 units of money in yoru account with another 200 going in and 200 going out.

These were extremely temporary and timely measures, and normality resumed quickly.

It's tragically ironic that the very thing Microsoft would have been very happy to do -- lock down windows and control all apps on it -- is what is taken for normality everywhere else but windows. I'm not trying to defend Microsoft.

Within the circus of intellectual greatness, normality isn't interesting. In fact, I'd suggest the opposite of your proposal.

Once you get used to simplicity, the complex normality others have becomes the audacious thing. However, don't get upset when someone calls him on his anti-ownership bullshit.

Although things are returning to normality Mexamerica saw many of the bloodiest battles in the Drug war. Once the richest of the Nations, its economic supremacy it's being contested by Metromex and New Spain.

When you are insulating yourself from nearly every aspect of day-to-day normality just to be able to concentrate without distraction there is a problem and it's likely you are working to much. I'm all up for travelling but this just seems like an easy way to remove yourself from the world to get more done.

"Creeping normality" also known as "death by a thousand cuts" or in the context of the "boiling frog" story - the war of attrition, lobbyists generally excel at this. Most of us are too busy to notice and/or are underestimating the negative impact of a large sum of little policies.

However a great amount of future progress is going to come from wrestling with more challenging distributions, and paying more attention to when assumptions of normality need to be questioned. Of course one of the challenges of this is that the normal distribution is baked into a very large number of our existing statistical tools.

Creeping normality refers to the way a major change can be accepted as the normal situation if it happens slowly, in unnoticed increments, when it would be regarded as objectionable if it took place in a single step or short period. Examples would be a change in job responsibilities or a change in a medical condition.

Or Ted Williams, the famous baseball player, whose mother worried about the normality of his running all the way home from school every day to practice until nightfall relentlessly pitching baseballs through a hole in a backboard? It is the same story repeatedly in the biographies of the world's truly exceptional performers in every field.

I read this piece as using the "what if the DSM was a novel" part mostly as a jumping-off point to satirize how we treat the idea of happiness and normality, rather than being explicitly a criticism of the manual itself as a diagnostic tool. A "weak interpretation" of the DSM where it's a collection of clustered symptoms, together with some advice about what treatments appear to have worked or not worked in the past for them, wouldn't really run into that.

It's in the section defining cultural racism: Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label people of color as other, different, less than, or render them invisible. Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as great writers or composers.