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by jjk166 6mo ago
> tracks (remedial, regular, honors, “gifted”) The decrease is consistent across performance levels which should be a pretty decent proxy for tracks.
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by jjk166 6mo ago
> It's also not possible to carry around enough books with you to allow you to jump from one to another whenever you get bored It most certainly is.
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by jjk166 6mo ago
Except that's not what the data shows. The decrease is similar across performance levels.
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Except these are results for 2022, and they are significantly down from the levels in 2019. All kids in either cohort would have spent their entire school years with common core education.
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Score changes look about the same across performance percentiles and ethnicities. That suggests it's a systemic issue unrelated to population makeup. While I'd be interested to see regional and economic breakdowns, it's certa
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There was a major change to the SAT design right around the start of the period of interest which seems to have caused scores to jump.
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Who needs repairability when you can just print a new one?
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How does one get a job as a "let's give cocaine to this animal and see what happens" scientist?
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> The Booker was a perfect fit for the Army reqs, and filled a genuine need. But it didn't have a sponsor that was willing to pay for it. The Booker was overweight, meaning it couldn't be air dropped, which was the entire purpo
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by jjk166 6mo ago
> If you compare the F-35 to basically any plane worldwide with similar capabilities, it's very reasonably priced. If you compare corvettes to other sports cars, you'll find they are very reasonably priced. That doesn't m
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> Meanwhile, modern conflict, from Ukraine’s drone war to naval engagements in the Red Sea to Iran’s own mass missile and drone salvos, increasingly favors systems that can be produced at scale and replaced when lost. The F-35 is a maste
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by jjk166 6mo ago
In 2021 the average time from announcement to new CEO for S&P 500 companies was 3.5 months, so this seems reasonably normal. [0] https://www.spencerstuart.com/research-and-insight/2021-ceo-...
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by jjk166 6mo ago
What I described is anything but simple; it's just not related to language.
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There is a difference between perception and categorization. You perceive the difference between salmon and fuchsia regardless of whether you have a word for them or not. You might refer to either color as pink, not because you failed to pe
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> Your cone cells do not perceive anything whatsoever. They most certainly do. Your brain may apply meaning to the signals the cone cells send, but it is the cone cells which send a signal for one color and a different signal for another
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> And those fluent in languages that have additional distinct color names can differentiate subtle differences in the shades of colors that non-speakers cannot even differentiate. The ability to label more colors is not the ability to pe
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by jjk166 6mo ago
The Thought Emporium did a video detailing a lot of this a few months back, plus some some experiments on how the actual limits to insect size can be bypassed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0PjLvlBsWw
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by jjk166 6mo ago
The colors most certainly exist without the name. You may have described the fruit as being a weird shade of red, but if someone held up something red and said "so it was this color" you'd say no. Conversely if someone held u
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by jjk166 6mo ago
> On one hand, people say that you need to build to solve a problem. You find a problem in a niche, say accounting for plumbers, and build for that, then you just go and market to these people. On the other hand, I see people who advocat
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by jjk166 6mo ago
The name of the job posting is part of the wording of the job posting, and very likely not reviewed by the president.
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Who needs MDMA when you got UDMH?
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> Ffs aerospace engineering cannot be done remotely, and that too in a city with a nonexistent aerospace industry. Aerospace can be done remotely. I was working remotely as an aerospace engineer before the pandemic. Portland has a 1 mill
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by jjk166 6mo ago
Open roles != open positions. NASA probably has use for more than one aerospace engineer.
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I have a buddy at JPL who loves it. It's a reasonably fast paced atmosphere where you can have a lot of responsibility relatively early in your career. Unfortunately everything is mission centric so there's pretty much always a Sw
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by jjk166 6mo ago
I doubt the president of the united states is personally reviewing the wording of low level job postings.
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Earth erodes, fields are plowed, roots disturb the soil; if it's sitting on the surface now, it almost certainly was buried not long ago. It's the same reason paleontologists can go back to the same places every year and find new
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by jjk166 6mo ago
Yeah, abuse of privacy should be the crime, the same way theft is. How exactly the crime is committed shouldn't matter. Companies can have every right to make a compelling argument that what they did was not an abuse of privacy when th
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> It's that the people making enterprise software have terrible taste and can't even see (I am convinced) that the thing they built is ugly and hard-to-use. Generally the issue with enterprise is that its designed to appeal to
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> You'll get a competent UI with little effort but nothing truly unique or mind-blowing. 90+% of attempts at making a truly unique or mind-blowing UI produce a mind-blowingly bad UI. For 0.5 seconds of wow factor, you've added
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We sterilize plenty of other common tools like scalpels so that doesn't seem like a valid reason. Obviously the disposable design is not even an adequate solution to the risk of cross contamination. I would imagine if it were a real co

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