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by richmarr 11y ago
That's just the Daily Mail; and it's not "someone, anyone", it's immigrants.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Huge fan of that hiring post, by the way. I'm currently working with a roomful of cognitive scientists on ways to unpick some of the bias from recruitment. Be good to have a chat at some point if you're interested.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Not to be overly inflamattory, but whoever designed that passport (an inherently international object) without taking into account international date format deserves to be fired. Then re-hired. Then fired again.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Not at all, it's a valid bug that's indicitaive of a deeper problem, presenting uncertain and locale-specific conclusions as being certain. Even if you do language and locale-sniffing using n-grams you still have a certainty probl
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by richmarr 11y ago
I wouldn't even call it an incentive, it's more the balancing out of a strong negative incentive that already exists. Considering that Wikileaks exists to make conspiracies harder/smaller I think this totally fits with their
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by richmarr 11y ago
Makes sense. My take is that it's best to make the 'interview' as close to representative of the actual job as possible. It sounds like you're on the money there. I'm always wary of 'culture fit' though, i
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by richmarr 11y ago
What's your preferred solution?
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by richmarr 11y ago
That all sounds great, but then why is he so upset? It's impossible to reconcile your picture with his. So either (a) he's imagining things, or (b) you're painting over the cracks or can't see them, or (c) the real truth
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by richmarr 11y ago
As I've commented elsewhere, there are plenty of other studies. Eg. Moss-Racusin et al (2012) which found that female students applying for jobs were seen as less competent than male students with identical application materials.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Really interesting, thanks for sharing
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by richmarr 11y ago
Not saying your skepticism isn't valid, there's always value in a contrary opinion, but let's be clear, the research points to discrimination being a measurable effect. Studies on this topic support an opinion that descrimina
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by richmarr 11y ago
The context was fashion retial, so we used interest points & edges to match similar shapes, and histograms for colour similarity.
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by richmarr 11y ago
No idea what Pinterest are using, but I led a team building the same thing using (mostly) commodity search kit in 2008. Feature extraction was done with standard Java libs (proprietary algorithms though). Queries were initially performed us
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Why Companies in the Charity Sector Aren’t Evil(medium.com)
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by richmarr 11y ago
> only an issue for a subset of races and genders in certain industries Firstly there isn't one issue, there are many. Discussing them in aggregate isn't useful other than to highlight the extent of the problem. Secondly, only
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by richmarr 11y ago
It is not cool, it is just easy. No effort to understand a problem even less effort to understand is there really a problem... So people who talk on this topic aren't thoughtful? Sure some aren't, but that's the sa
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by richmarr 11y ago
> ...it does seem that a lot of girls in tech are making a career of painting > all other engineers as being inherently misogynistic, vacuous or malicious. Be very wary of hyperbole on topics like this. It's deeply divisive. If
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by richmarr 11y ago
The irony here is multi-layered and magnificent. Recommend not reading this article if you're susceptible to getting sucked into rediculous debates.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Not sure what your physical exercise options are like but I believe there's evidence to suggest that things like sport can improve confidence. If it's an option you should seriously consider it. Otherwise (and I have no idea what&
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by richmarr 11y ago
Most companies fail to compensate for confidence bias at the interview stage, which is what I'm guessing has bitten you here. It's not a problem which is going to go away soon, sadly. The way I see it you've got two options:
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by richmarr 11y ago
Sorry to hear you're having a bad time of it. From my experience with VCs I find them busy and skeptical rather than mean. They hear wild ambitions every day, so have a strong filter. I have to ask, what was the nature of the cruelty?
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by richmarr 11y ago
@rmxt may or may not be right, personally I think he is, but stating outright that segregation (within living memory) has "exactly nothing" to do with the current state of criminal justice is clearly a hasty statement... that give
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by richmarr 11y ago
> This kind of intellectual forgery is why the left (and it's prescriptions) are increasingly viewed with suspicion Tautology. "The left" isn't a thing, other than when viewed with suspicion by "the right".
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Take jazz music -- it takes a lot of listening, knowledge, and understanding to fully appreciate really great jazz It takes a lot of time and practice to fully appreciate drinking methylated spirits... that doesn't make it a good
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by richmarr 11y ago
> I think TED is unhealthy and actually corrosive and anti-intellectual. You could also say the same about framing an anecdote as an experiment. Just sayin.
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by richmarr 11y ago
I find a performance-based sales pitch much less appealing than one that told me the primary focuses were security and predictability of configuration. Too many hours spent pulling my hair out with Nginx config
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by richmarr 11y ago
Couldn't agree more, in fact I have an unpublished draft on Medium that makes similar points. Happy to share if you're interested.
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by richmarr 11y ago
I've lived in London for most of my life and have never heard that. Thanks. It does jibe somewhat with certain modern police practices, like 'kettling' peaceful protestors, and their insistence on calling it police 'forc
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by richmarr 12y ago
That's data on opinion, not data on success
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by richmarr 12y ago
I'd love to see a mature app written this way (and I mean that genuinely, without sarcasm) and look at their project timeline, war stories, etc. My gut feeling is that the 'frameworks are for prototypes, libraries are for producti

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