kestreloats

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   by kestreloats 7y ago

   Why Taleb? I hate that piece because most of what he's referring to has been dealt with for decades. It's like "narcissist who knows nothing about a field doesn't bother to learn anything about it and as a result takes d
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   by kestreloats 7y ago

   So I agree with you about SAT <-> IQ, and IQ <-> SES. However ... IQ isn't the only correlate of success. I think if you look at it all, there's a large dose of conscientiousness (which standardized testing companies
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   by kestreloats 7y ago

   Somehow the idea that this is all caused by people applying to more places doesn't cut it to me. It might account for some of it, but not all of it. A lot of this is probably fairly chaotic and complex. For example, the GI bill probabl
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   by kestreloats 7y ago

   So... I've been programming in R for over 20 years. I've been ready for an alternative for performance reasons for about half that time. Julia seems like a promising alternative, that I wish I could use all the time instead of R b
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   by kestreloats 7y ago

   I think what a healthy diet is fairly individual-specific. I think there are probably general guidelines that are pretty good for most people, but the details depend on how different people metabolize different things, their taste preferenc
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   by kestreloats 7y ago

   I think the poster was just pointing to the parallels. It's salient to me as a professor. FWIW, I think the issues are definitely related though. There's lots of STEM hype in academics as well as in commerce which creates a labor