lusus_naturae

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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Friendly advice, if you’re looking for a co-founder, please don’t start with a depressive laundry list of your baggage while suggesting a risky venture. We’re all human, and have our issues. But your post does not make you come off as a pro
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Because of anti-DEI sentiments, the perception is that minorities are getting everything easily, so the minorities do more to prove themselves
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Someone would hate that I’d say this, but it really depends if you’re white vs. a minority. Minorities need more education AND experience to justify their employment.
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
I read through this person’s post and the related, recent presentation which was rejected. I don’t understand why they’re bringing up this topic in hacker circles, in particular. Do they have evidence that these traits are more prevalent in
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Perhaps a pithy statement, but it’s almost always MBAs as CEOs or leadership who seem to set a wayward course for tech companies
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
I am unsure what to trust about the knowledge of this essayist if they don’t even mention Le Rat or Jesuit missionary work in the New world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondiaronk Apologies if I missed these refere
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
> The question has therefore been which subsets of the elite would break Republican. In tech, this is now clear: where Obama’s allies in the industry were social media platform moguls, Trump’s are crypto, AI, and biotech investors eager
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Nope, plenty of mediocre people doing great based on nothing but virtue of where they were born or their parents. It’s all luck. Don’t believe me? Imagine what your life would be like if you didn’t get the key moments in your life which def
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Is there a study which has shown a decrease in Dunning-Kruger effect with varying competence over time? If the effect is real, then you’d see more accurate self-assessments with increasing competence. I also think these self-assessment vs a
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Consider that there are probably geniuses dying in rice fields, Gaza, or crushed to effective death due to poverty anywhere. Consider also that given enough resources and attention, any donkey can be made to believe that it’s a prized steed
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
If SV techies want to succeed in Europe, then they should be okay with valuing what Europeans value. Europeans are not stupid, they prioritized different things, including market socialism in different countries. The Americans also need to
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
A simple project is implementing a FIR filter using a HDL like Verilog. The Altera university FPGAs are cheap enough.
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
European researchers in many fields are better or comparable to their U.S. counterparts. The main difference I find between these groups of researchers is access to funding, which is lacking for Europeans.
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
It would make an interesting case study to examine him neuropsychologically. I am not willing to believe such claims at face value, but there are people with interesting physiological capabilities, like the woman who can smell cancer. Study
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Consider working as a SWE for a small shop working in a niche industry, or trying to solve a niche problem. I wouldn’t recommend early stage startups based on what you’re describing.
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by lusus_naturae 2y ago
Myth and folklore has always been used as an instrument for defining culture and reinforcing it. Nothing is a better example of this than the myriad of Bibles produced during Charlemagne's rein, and these manuscripts are the progenitor
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> I'm a nonbeliever myself I don't want to be part of any of those religions. But all of them have healthy, modern interpretations, and Dawkins really ought to at least put in some effort to look into it. As it is, he makes ath
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
He’s basically saying the brown people are scary
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
You may be getting fired soon, just fyi
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Aging is fine, it’s people’s attitude towards it that sucks on average. On average it’s seems many get stuck in some existential crisis by realizing they don’t have enough time left to self actualize according to some previously realized id
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
This isn’t new, the common folk have been doing it for ages. Some religions like Islam and Mormonism have it built into them. In the U.S., we had the free love era of the 60s and 70s. Also, the common folk are plenty into what they’ve collo
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Maybe, but there are nuances to this. Emergent properties of various factors (biological or otherwise) make this somewhat useless.
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> A tip comes in about someone who frequents church X organizing a terrorist attack. Do you do a background check on church goers, look for suspicious activity, or sit back and twiddle your thumbs because this is “unfair targeting”? Obvi
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Your logic is the same as the kind one expects from Twitter posts about having one poison M&M in a bowl of M&Ms, so let’s throw out the entire bowl. Here’s why it’s stupid to think like that: 1) People are not borgs or hive mind enj
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
There’s no need to fluff anything up, focus on what makes you great—your technical skills and achievements. I am not sure anyone is rejecting you based on awkwardness or autism masking. My advice is not to worry about this or think about it
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
I think the term is still useful for giving words to a phenomenon people experience. I guess a less charitable and more presumptuous term of such behavior would be calling the person displaying it narcissistic.
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> So people aren't necessarily being shoddy or doing bad work, they're just not using good systems. Agreed. I think there isn’t an incentive to do this because reproducibility takes a back seat to so many other concerns. Unless
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
All anyone can do is try to use that research in their own work, and see if their work supports findings from prior work. Sometimes it doesn’t, I am not sure if that means someone lied on purpose. It’s possible they were bad at interpreting
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> Anyone who's advised students or asked even presenting researchers such questions know that often people will literally not know what happened to all their data. I am sorry that’s been your experience, maybe it varies by field and
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> The point of doing "reproducible science" is not that I write a paper, you email me asking how did I come up with my number, and I email you back an explanation. No! The important details should be in the paper already. This

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