caddemon

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   by caddemon 6y ago

   I don't disagree with your premise, I'm strongly against parents trying to game college admissions for their 13 year old. But getting into UVA is not easy at all. Especially out of state, the admit rate is like 15% - so while not
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   by caddemon 6y ago

   What is meant by physiologically the same? Because there is a lot of heterogeneity among neurons in the human brain, and there are definitely some macro-level differences between cortical regions that are innate (i.e. happen even with senso
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   by caddemon 6y ago

   I've always wondered about using multiple metrics, but instead of combining them prior to selection, bin the spots and for each bin consider a subset of metrics weighted in different ways. For something like a school ranking, instead o
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   by caddemon 6y ago

   A pretty large percentage of homeless people have severe mental illness [1]. Most people in that boat are not going to benefit much from being handed 50K without active support/guidance. But yeah it goes beyond "education", t
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   by caddemon 6y ago

   I will add they did this experiment partially in response to an academic study that found viewing happier posts on Facebook made people sadder (explained mostly by FOMO). FB was trying to refute that, and their study was more technically ri
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   by caddemon 6y ago

   I agree with your general point but take a look at the map on this page: https://admission.princeton.edu/how-apply/admission-statisti... Princeton definitely does (unintentionally) bias admissions towards major metro a
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   by caddemon 6y ago

   There are downsides to this too though. I wanted a second opinion on an EEG, and after some hassle getting the original office to mail a disk (the only way they can transfer it), the new doctor said they can't view it because they use
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   by caddemon 6y ago

   Isn't this complicated a bit by the way shorts work? Like when you buy $n of stock, it is impossible to lose more than $n. But with shorting you could lose unpredictable amounts if shit hits the fan. I agree it's not a good look f
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   by caddemon 6y ago

   "Learning styles" are a great example IMO of non-scientists taking an idea with some merit and running away with it, to the point that scientists stop investigating it pretty much altogether because it's been branded "ps
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    How many people that keep up with the news actually do a damn thing about it? The vast majority of people that check social media everyday also let "others do the dirty work". And who are the "people around you"? With th
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    To be fair, betting isn't about being right every time either. To really make bank on a site like DraftKings you need to be good at the meta strategy, not just good at predicting sports outcomes. Obviously it's not a good idea to
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    I feel like people are just talking past each other on this. Yes the protests were technically mostly peaceful, but if the loss from a violent protest is 15x the magnitude of the gain of a peaceful protest, the impact is no longer mostly pe
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    This is an interesting point, thanks. I definitely perceive an increasing lack of personal responsibility across the board honestly. A lot of the identity politics/victim one-upmanship stems from this IMO, but I'm glad you present
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    Seconding this, and also wanted to recommend the book "Make it Clear", which contains a lot of PHW's communication advice beyond just talks. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Clear-Speak-Persuade-Inform/dp&#x2F
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    There is a lot of evidence it is related, however that's not the same thing of course as being able to modulate symptoms via the microbiome (that one poop transplant study was extremely preliminary). I think the jury is still out on th
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    Yes exactly, I feel this could actually be further split to 3 mostly disjoint concepts: 1. Can I understand why person X would feel emotion Y in situation Z? People probably vary the most on this one when they themselves would not feel emot
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    Well there is precedence for firing people who criticize Google's diversity policies on mailing lists...
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    I used to think this way about gift cards but as I've gotten older I've had a bit of a change of heart - when I get cash (or a big shop gift card like Amazon) I often end up using it towards basic living expenses that I would have
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    Elite colleges also don't want the type of people that will spend 4 hours a day cramming for an uninteresting test.
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    Sure but the amount of time you have to spend on cram school starts to make it not worth the points gain. The top schools all reject a bunch of 1600 scorers every year. If all you have going for you are good grades + good SAT you probably a
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    by caddemon 6y ago

    Ivy league schools don't offer athletics scholarships, that's been a thing for ages and is part of the actual definition of "Ivy League".