callingbull

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by callingbull 1y ago
Not a gamer, but it seems "highly rated" is a matter of attention and status, and the number would increase with the population not with the overall number of games.
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by callingbull 2y ago
There is still the reputational risk of using selection methods with widely known disparate outcomes. Other methods also have disparate outcomes, but most of the criticism is directed at IQ tests. I've heard "IQ tests are cultur
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by callingbull 2y ago
There are real risks for companies without deep pockets (for settlements or public relations). People I know, responsible for hiring, have told me they won't use IQ tests because of how it would come across, so the concern at least exi
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by callingbull 2y ago
Possibly legal and reputational risks, considering some groups do badly on IQ tests.
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by callingbull 2y ago
Schmidt et al., 2016 The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 100 Years of Research Findings
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by callingbull 2y ago
Nothing works well but IQ tests predict job performance better than anything else.
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by callingbull 2y ago
The actual answer is that congress has already authorized the president to set tariffs by executive order.
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by callingbull 2y ago
Trying the proof with a < b, with the b square from the bottom-right as in the diagram, I get a region to the top and left, and moving a piece (differently to the diagram) I get (a + b)(b - a) as a positive area for that region, and then
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by callingbull 2y ago
> just swap the names Then you've just skipped the case when a^2 - b^2 is negative. The diagram does not prove that case and swapping the names still doesn't prove it.
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by callingbull 2y ago
I've seen the same suggested of Sergey Karjakin, and he made it to the top (and I've seen it suggested that it helped him get to the top, that being a GM sooner got him more access to top trainers sooner).
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by callingbull 2y ago
They could have CC0 licensed the code or they could have said they would not enforce their copyright. They did neither. SQLite is closed source. The "dedication" (which has no legal effect, what does it even mean?) encourages wide
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by callingbull 2y ago
> Those two branches do live among Americans. If you were not referring to extinct branches I don't know why you thought "they would likely represent two clusters" if they did not already in the clustering given. > Af
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by callingbull 2y ago
> We already know by now, that before going out of Africa at least two major genetic branches developed in addition to early Eurasians. Nice of you to acknowledge genetics. > At K=4 and clustering by genetic distance, they would lik
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by callingbull 2y ago
> The tragedy of American slavery is that it erased any links of slaves to Africa, so modern black Americans have barely any relationship to Africa, still carrying the pain but losing any cultural or ancestral connections . I don&#x
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by callingbull 2y ago
Races are also based on objective criteria: physical characteristics, which convey information about ancestry and genetics. I don't know why you're talking about "culture"?
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by callingbull 2y ago
> They explicitly state, "Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute the original SQLite code, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by
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by callingbull 2y ago
> It's Public Domain. Is it though? The website does say "All of the code and documentation in SQLite has been dedicated to the public domain by the authors" but copyright law has no exception for "dedications" t
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by callingbull 2y ago
> Races do not exist, it is a scientific fact. Races do not exist in the same sense that the periodic table does not exist. Both are constructs over reality, and they are both informative (i.e. science).
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by callingbull 2y ago
> Copyright, at least in the U.S., is automatic. It is now, but back then a work was public domain if released without a valid copyright notice. Charade, a 1963 film, entered the public domain immediately on release. https://e
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by callingbull 2y ago
> Is the wiki entry entirely wrong? Yes. The reference it cites contradicts it: "The first algorithm intended to be executed by a computer was designed by Ada Lovelace" with a link to https://www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F
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by callingbull 2y ago
> The first algorithm intended to be executed by a computer was designed by Ada Lovelace who was a pioneer in the field. Babbage designed the first programs for the analytical engine. > Grace Hopper was the first person to design a co