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by programjames 2y ago
It's generally safe to assume your child will be above the bottom quintile for anything they care about. I went to a decent public school, and gifted programs, AP courses and extracurricular activities are lacking. Most students do no
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by programjames 2y ago
The crazy thing is, the American populace is already paying ~15k per student for public education. Why are they not expelling kids who are fucking up that environment?
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by programjames 2y ago
*five minutes.
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by programjames 2y ago
This is horrible advice if you want to work on anything innovative. You don't have time to wait for things to bubble up. For example, physics textbooks from the early 1900s rarely use linear algebra, even if they're written well.
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by programjames 2y ago
Who is benefiting from the tilt? Are they the same people getting thumbed in your proposed solution? EDIT, I'd also like to add: Why do you believe this tilt exists? I find it plausible to exist (especially because lots of people seem
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by programjames 2y ago
How are the people without the jobs doing the tilting?
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by programjames 2y ago
Well, e^pi - pi = 20, is rational.
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by programjames 2y ago
It is somewhat surprising, because one of the most famous papers in chaos theory, "The Applicability of the Third Integral of Motion" (Henon & Heiles), basically starts by saying a similar assumption isn't true, that star
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by programjames 2y ago
The issue is, if you're looking for only one hire out of a thousand applicants, you need a 99.9% accurate AI. HR isn't that good, so it'll be mildly difficult to train an AI to be that good.
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by programjames 2y ago
Ah, now I know to do my spray and pray on week-old job listings ;)
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by programjames 2y ago
Isn't a better solution to create a reputation score just for email addresses? You start out very low, and sending emails further lowers your score. However, every email that is read (and not marked spam) increases it a little more.
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by programjames 2y ago
Isn't this Musk's solution to stopping Xitter spam? Promote subscribed accounts more, so it costs money to speak.
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by programjames 2y ago
There's two distinct reasons why more qualified candidates might get skipped over: 1) There is too much noise occluding their signal. 2) There is a form of gatekeeping going on. Gatekeeping only really works in exploitative systems (e.
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by programjames 2y ago
Is this also your opinion on credit scores used for loans?
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by programjames 2y ago
You also want colleges to signal to their applicants, not force them to also signal for their alumni. The two will naturally be correlated, but you can do better by specializing.
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by programjames 2y ago
That's a solution, but I'd prefer a system that, when ideal/efficient, is optimal.
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by programjames 2y ago
Credit scores seem to be pretty robust? Maybe this kind of system would work: 1. A third-party assigns everyone a hidden score, and gives them a cryptographic signing key. 2. They can sign off on one-time lookups to companies they apply to.
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by programjames 2y ago
A reputation score is only a blacklist if you target specific people to tank their reputations.
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by programjames 2y ago
The smaller scale in the past made it so managers either knew (at least by reputation) the person submitting the resume, or it was not too expensive to find out. Nowadays, jobs are getting 100x as many applications, most of which are far lo
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by programjames 2y ago
There's actually a solution around this: name and shame! Just like bad companies get called out on GlassDoor, companies should create a reputation system for prospective employees (e.g. a professional credit score). This already exists
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by programjames 2y ago
That's what I was thinking given it's America, it just makes no sense in relation to the rest of your comment. If you want to know how COVID effected students, the most natural grouping is by school policies with regard to COVID.
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by programjames 2y ago
Your comment is kind of confusing to me, because I don't understand how you're grouping kids. By school/district/city/county/state?
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by programjames 2y ago
Do Americans have the technical expertise for a higher curvature? The American primary/secondary schooling system sucks , and most of the top STEM students at university are not interested in working for the military.
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by programjames 2y ago
Something I've always been confused about is where are these Russian assets to seize? Are there just yachts sitting off the coast of Ukraine? Russian investments in businesses? Or, would it come after a peace deal where the Russian gov
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by programjames 2y ago
Quite the opposite. Consider ------ ------ \ / \ / \__/ versus ------ ------ | | | | |_| The second is higher on average. If you're turnin
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by programjames 2y ago
Isn't it better to have an economy based on debt than something people actually want or need? E.g. if we had a currency based on land, housing prices would soar even more than they already are at.
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by programjames 2y ago
I think what you're really getting at is that the more efficient a market it, the closer to the Pareto frontier it is, and things become competitive instead of cooperative there.
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by programjames 2y ago
Also, any inheritance money would come way too late to be useful in my life.
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by programjames 2y ago
> Functionality and Features > The Pi Board is an advanced automated chess system powered by a Raspberry Pi, utilizing an XY stepper motor mechanism and magnets to move chess pieces seamlessly across the board. The development process
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by programjames 2y ago
My guess: 1. `codec`: First, compress 16k samplerate audio into 8 samples per second with convolutions. Then, vector quantize to 128 bits (probably 8 floats) to get a codec. This is not nearly enough bits to actually represent the audio, it

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