cgiles

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by cgiles 7y ago
> I learned how to be a good multiplier: how to help people out, help them grow, unblock procedural bottlenecks in a lasting way... So, here you perfectly describe a 10x middle manager. Or just a "good" middle manager, because
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by cgiles 7y ago
Because, at best, it is a very dubious and hamhanded way to solve a problem that is ill-defined. Is the problem advertising, or advertising to minors, of nicotine products? Then ban that. Is the problem that minors are able to buy vapes eve
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by cgiles 7y ago
What I mean is that he produces an amount and quality of work that is comparable to other people at his experience and title level. In some ways better, in other ways worse, but on average, he is producing at least as much as his peers are.
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by cgiles 7y ago
> Why are they not motivated enough by their work maybe? Are they not aware maybe how a higher than "normal" engaging in distracting activities will hinder their development and ultimately their career? Great point, and I think
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by cgiles 7y ago
This is actually a difficult problem, because there are two kinds of slackers: (1) the kind that work less but produce roughly the same as, or sometimes even more than, everyone else (i.e., smart but lazy), and (2) the kind that don't
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by cgiles 7y ago
I agree with your basic premise, but I think the complaint about ME3 was that it didn't reflect any previous decisions you made in the ending, not that the story failed to fork exponentially at every decision point. Indeed, IMO, ME3 di
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by cgiles 7y ago
> I wouldn't generalize about the Bay area from a few days in a particular corner of San Mateo County, though. I'm very wary about it too, but the persistent claims that SF/Bay Area has some peculiar kind of dysfunction, r
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by cgiles 7y ago
> Then you quite possibly didn't actually see any of the City and County of San Francisco. Very possible. I got a good sampling of a 5 mile radius around SFO and sporadic sampling elsewhere. I wouldn't claim to know 1/100t
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by cgiles 7y ago
I visited the Bay Area for the first time (as an adult) a few weeks ago and was astonished by the difference between what I was expecting based on HN comments, and reality. All I saw of the city made it seem like a giant suburb. BART statio
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by cgiles 7y ago
It is just like anything else, for example politics. Many politicians have strong convictions and care about the electorate and outcomes (I have several politician friends). But when push comes to shove, keeping their job and food on the ta
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by cgiles 7y ago
It is honestly hard to tell in these situations when they are lying by omission and when they are plain stupid. I think it is usually a form of apathy whereby what is produced is bullshit (in the technical meaning of the essay, "On Bul
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by cgiles 7y ago
Ha. I have a lot of those papers too, but none that are BS in such a high tier, congrats! (or "congrats") At this point I am cynical enough to believe people include analysts on their papers as an insurance policy to have the &quo
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by cgiles 7y ago
Funny, I'm a postdoc (in biomedical research), and I and my boss, a PI, had this exact debate last night. I took the side of 781, and he was justin66. My perspective is that you cannot take data, or a concept, that is fundamentally bro
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by cgiles 7y ago
But if you're trying to merge on, whether or not you have to stop before merging is not totally in your control. Specifically, if the right lane is packed, you may have to stop if there is no opening as you pull up. Then it will be har
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by cgiles 7y ago
As a slower-than-average driver, this is exactly what I do on any highway except an interstate. My logic is that if there are 3 or more lanes, the furthest right lane should be for getting on or off only, further left is for fast long-dista
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by cgiles 8y ago
> I'm not arguing that we can't address other societally-imposed disadvantages...<AA opponents> are arguing that one form of assistance is verboten. I didn't think you were. But, as a (weak) AA opponent, I would say
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by cgiles 8y ago
Of course. There is however a subtle but important distinction between talking about (race-based) "past discrimination" (RBPD) versus any "past disadvantage" (such as grandpa with polio). It is this limitation of focus t
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by cgiles 8y ago
> you're left with the mere observation that there are multiple factors that work against different groups of people. Perhaps we should account for more of those factors. But it doesn't follow logically that we should stop acco
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by cgiles 8y ago
I like this way of framing it, although I find it questionable whether SATs, grades, etc measure C exclusively. Because almost all candidates are the same age when applying, C also carries information about m, in the sense that the same equ
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by cgiles 8y ago
> I wonder to what extent it is possible to slow the damage. For instance, if you're bleeding, you may be able to slow it - but if you don't stop it completely, eventually you will bleed to death. Yes, exactly. Well, the simpli
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by cgiles 8y ago
Whether cancer is special in this regard depends on what you mean by aging. I work in this area and consider it to mean "damage (maladaptive changes) that accumulate over time, first degrading function and ultimately leading to catastr
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by cgiles 9y ago
Except for Mendelian diseases, not really. The sad fact is that for the so-called "complex diseases", we have very little idea what is going on inside the black box. I won't presume to guess whether we know less about them or
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by cgiles 9y ago
The typical path to determining causality for a variant is: Variant -> (Gene expression or some other molecular-level phenomenon) -> Phenotype. Actually, associating a variant with a phenotype is the easy part, determining what happen
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by cgiles 9y ago
I have no idea whether the overall pendulum is swinging back from "race is a purely social construct". I hope so, because it has always seemed absurd to me, for the very reasons the author cites, just as absurd as the idea that ra
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by cgiles 9y ago
I wasn't really attempting to express an opinion on how valid or likely this claim is, just to clarify what I took to be GP's point. But for fun, I'll try to address the question. I live in a conservative state and do some wo
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by cgiles 9y ago
I think the implication was that a very large fraction of police/national guard/US armed forces would at least refuse to enforce such a law, if not join the rebellion itself. Indeed, I've never met a more adamant group of 2nd
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by cgiles 9y ago
I agree. However, nothing much better is available. I loved reading work from the Santa Fe Institute and Stuart Kauffman and so on, but the reality is that despite their best efforts, they provided nothing better. General statements about t
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by cgiles 9y ago
It is solid probabilistic reasoning if you accept: - A publication bias term u that is pulled out of thin air for different scenarios. - A parameter R that reflects the unknowable proportion of true relationships/hypotheses in a fi
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by cgiles 9y ago
No doubt it is a target-rich environment. However, his arguments are so generic that they could apply to any field studying anything multifactorial or with high variance. Fundamentally, however, I don't believe, for example, that physi
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by cgiles 9y ago
I would use Andrew Gelman and John Ioannidis as prototypes for the Good Critic and Bad Critic, respectively. Gelman does real, solid work and confines his righteous takedowns to a side hobby. And his criticisms are directed at individual, s

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