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The War on Admissions Testing: What’s Behind the Move to Drop ACT and SAT Scores(wsj.com)
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by poster123 8y ago
The book "A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition" by Devroye, Györfi and Lugosi is available from the site of Gyorfi at http://www.szit.bme.hu/~gyorfi/pbook.pdf .
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by poster123 8y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. Devroye wrote several books, and I assume the one being mentioned is "A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition".
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by poster123 8y ago
I love Coke. I wonder if someone could quantify how bad it is for you. If drinking a Coke a day for a year reduces my life expectancy by one day, or maybe even a week, I'd accept that.
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by poster123 8y ago
Particle physics is the most glamorous branch of physics, but I agree with the book author that little progress is being made. In what branches of theoretical physics could a brilliant young person have a good chance of making important con
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by poster123 8y ago
SF has high rents largely because it has lots of high-paying jobs. Rents are lower almost everywhere else, and people with high-paying jobs should live somewhere else.
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by poster123 8y ago
From the article: 'He once said, referring to homosexuals, “it’s their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease.”' The sexual practices of male homosexuals are the reason they have a much highe
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by poster123 8y ago
The author rightly objects to hiring interns based on their race or professed sexual orientation: "This time around, however, the LLVM foundation decided to pay for an internship themselves, and agreed a partnership with an organizatio
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by poster123 8y ago
The judge's logic is sound: 'Judge Alsup said that climate change was an issue of global importance but that the companies were not solely at fault. “Our industrial revolution and the development of our modern world has literally
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Federal Judge Dismisses Cities’ Suit Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change(nytimes.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|1 comments
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The End of Safe Gay Sex?(nytimes.com)
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Who’s Really to Blame at the Border?(city-journal.org)
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Confession of an Anti-GMO Activist(wsj.com)
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Robbers, Cellphones and the Law(wsj.com)
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by poster123 8y ago
It is possible that a ban on boss-employee relationships reduces the average utility of employees (excluding the utility of bosses), if the happiness of employees from good relationships outweighs the unhappiness from bad ones. Maybe one co
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by poster123 8y ago
It's a good thing if you are attracted to the boss. How do we know that the happiness such consensual relationships bring to employees does not outweigh the unhappiness of potential sexual harassment, averaged over all workers?
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by poster123 8y ago
What is the Intel non-fraternization policy? What romantic relationships are banned?
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Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets(arxiv.org)
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The Arms Race for Quants Comes to the World’s Biggest Asset Managers(wsj.com)
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Will the European Union ruin the internet?(marginalrevolution.com)
67 points by poster123 8y ago|128 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
The perpetrators of school shootings were often expelled before they went on their sprees. Wouldn't you want technology to recognize the faces of expelled students and other people who do not belong in a school?
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by poster123 8y ago
My wife tells me that growing up in India, people would come door to door to collect metal and paper to be recycled -- to make money. That's not practical in the U.S. because people's time is much more valuable. If recycling reall
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by poster123 8y ago
A sign of mental illness is having delusion, for example thinking you are Napoleon. A man who thinks he is really a woman despite physical evidence to the contrary is suffering from a mental illness.
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by poster123 8y ago
Since many wives with high-earning husbands want to work part-time or not at all when they have children, and since husbands with high-earning wives do not have the same preference, and since assortative mating by education is increasing, y
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by poster123 8y ago
Jobs in the private sector do not come with lifetime guarantees. If you have new jobs you could train them to do, great. Otherwise, give the people you will lay off notice and severance, and let them figure out what to do.
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by poster123 8y ago
Already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320360 .
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by poster123 8y ago
I don't think we should prejudge what the racial makeup of the country's future leadership should be and then use de facto racial quotas to match those assumptions.
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by poster123 8y ago
Studies have shown grades and test scores are predictive of college graduation rates and grades. Where is the research showing that subjective assessments of personality do so?
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by poster123 8y ago
There may be racial differences in personality, but it is implausible that as the proportion of Asians in the high-achieving student population rises, their personalities get just worse enough that the fraction of Asian students at Harvard
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Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit(nytimes.com)
102 points by poster123 8y ago|155 comments

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