LaurieWired @lauriewired · 13h
A crazy mental trick is to map complex concepts onto regions the brain is "primed" for (Chernoff).
The most hilarious example I've seen is…multivariate portfolio data on cartoon fish.
Analysts would thus look for the "weird fish" in the aquarium.
[Image left: "Characteristics Legend / ...ctor Information" diagram labeled "Detailed Chernoff Fish" showing a fish-shaped glyph encoding Region (Americas/Asia/EU/Africa & Middle East), Style (Value/Core/Growth), Performance, Market cap categories via fin/body shape. Image right: two example cartoon fish pairs labeled "Long" (blue) and "Short" (orange) with varying fin heights and body sizes representing different data values.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A data-visualization curiosity about "Chernoff fish" — a Chernoff-faces-style technique encoding multivariate financial portfolio data as cartoon fish shapes so analysts can visually spot outliers. General data-viz/cognitive-science interest tweet, not directly AI-safety related.
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