endrebak

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Is Stereotype Threat Overcooked, Overstated, and Oversold?(heterodoxacademy.org)
4 points by endrebak 11y ago|0 comments
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by endrebak 11y ago
http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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by endrebak 11y ago
There was even a review paper on group differences in genetic markers for cognitive traits posted on HN. How do you get more controversial than that?
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by endrebak 11y ago
What you can't say: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html "Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think abou
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by endrebak 11y ago
I'm sorry for both not being aware of and breaking the rules. There is no excuse for either.
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by endrebak 11y ago
It is just a blog post. I hope someone will pick up the threads and see whether there is anything of interest there. If you want to read highbrow material, do not click on hacker news submissions with such impish titles :) (what lead me to
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Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'(theguardian.com)
26 points by endrebak 11y ago|14 comments
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by endrebak 11y ago
Actually, it looks almost exactly the same; you just add a cdef int or long to the fibonacci for example. And using the Python scientific stack (which would likely give you all the speedups you will ever need) _is_ Python and looks like Pyt
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by endrebak 11y ago
I did not know that white men controlled all firms. Are there even any statistics on tech companies owned by non-whites being more open to "non-gender conforming" people?
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by endrebak 11y ago
Which races should we emulate to get better at diversity?
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by endrebak 11y ago
According to the psychometrics books I have read structured interviews are as good as IQ-tests when it comes to predicting job-performance. All types of hiring tests/interviews had some predictive power (except handwriting analysis).
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Live coding in Python implemented as an Eclipse/Emacs plug in(github.com)
1 points by endrebak 11y ago|0 comments
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by endrebak 11y ago
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=4556 Tldr: rigorous twin studies find no such effect and an analysis of the meta-analyses suggests publication bias.
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by endrebak 11y ago
Oreilly has an excellent bioinfo data skills book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920030157.do
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Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us with Them(m.nautil.us)
2 points by endrebak 11y ago|0 comments
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Inverse weathervanes(westhunt.wordpress.com)
2 points by endrebak 11y ago|0 comments
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by endrebak 12y ago
I really liked some of the old-school command line stuff like reverse history search and Snoopy swearing (!$). However, I still prefer Fish to Bash and Zsh, even though those two things are not included. It gets the really important stuff j
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by endrebak 12y ago
Steve Hsu: http://infoproc.blogspot.com Example post title: "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing" Razib Khan: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/ Example post tit
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by endrebak 12y ago
You can also do "brew install emacs". I think that is the preferred option for Spacemacs.
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by endrebak 12y ago
This thing is really great. Been playing around with it for a few days and threw away my old .emacs. It's that good. One pro is that it will make plenty of excellent emacs packages easily discoverable.