There can be multiple reasons for the same outcome in a complex system. Prevalence of social awkwardness at certain developmental stages due to variances in individual immutable developmental schedules should remain stable over short time frames. Unless you think the researchers/teachers are incompetent enough to have not accounted for the baseline levels of social awkwardness, then the fact that some people are awkward because genetics or whatever is an irrelevant point to make.

> Unless you think the researchers/teachers are incompetent

Well the original post said

> Recent reports from teachers indicate

I don't think teachers are incompetent but they aren't researchers.

Ah, you've encountered a non-logarithmically-scaled volume control in the wild. All too common I'm afraid. https://dcordero.me/posts/logarithmic_volume_control.html

Are there any open source tools/projects worth contributing to that don't need specialized infrastructure, proprietary data, or a PhD in the field to understand?

Almost certainly yes. For example, lots of things don't have tests and really should. But I'm not too sure about priorities, or about which projects would welcome that work.

Officially it's Google Chrome, but for practical purposes any Chromium-based browser seems to work fine, e.g. Brave, Edge.

Adobe already has a big AI research team and Shasta is already incorporating AI features. Check out http://shasta.adobe.com/enhance

You can use it right now if you make a free account: http://shasta.adobe.com/miccheck

Not mobile friendly yet though.

They only require a free account, no subscription necessary.

Shasta dev here. We're releasing an update soon to the enhance feature that does exactly this!

Anything with Dr. Eric Lander from MIT (e.g. https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...). Hands down the best lecturer I've ever encountered.

How is it that nobody seems to know that every major editor has either vim mode or a vim plugin. I love vim, but I almost never use it directly. I usually use JetBrains IDE with vim plugin. Best of both worlds.

I've used a great many editors/IDEs and within a day of installing any vim mode or plugin I find multiple inconsistencies or errors that make my life worse.

Exception being spacemacs/evil, which is why that's the only thing I prefer using over vim