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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
What you are observing is basically just the fact that "rich and white" is extremely highly correlated with "well-educated" in this country. The other, related, correlation is extremely unfortunate. Hence the last paragr
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> But we're already measuring that variance directly. >> To add to this, they need not be wrong (and really should not be to make the argument), just significantly incomplete. From what I gathered from this thread, this was
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Unless those tests are NOT measuring performance in a meaningful way. Once we assert that those tests are not measuring performance, the claim that performance is "already being measured" is just wrong and we're back to squ
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> The article's methodology looks at academic achievement directly, so there is no need to use spending as a proxy. No, it doesn't. It looks at performance on one specific test. Which could very easily be uncorrelated or even
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If you want to build a school system around maximizing scores on a very particular type of standardized test then their methodology makes sense. Otherwise, it's just weighing one questionable feature more than another questionable feat
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> But spending is never a good measurement of achievement. Nobody said it was. > You think it is impossible to measure educational performance at all? Surely you don't believe something that silly. Obviously not. That's
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> Except that they already are measuring achievement They are measuring performance on standardized tests. If by "achievement" you mean "does well on multiple choice exams", then sure. I don't trust standarized
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It is for me. Why wouldn't you want a food truck parked outside the neighborhood park? Walk down to the park and pick up some dinner instead of hopping in a car and driving 10 minutes to apple/chilis/etc.
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> Why should you count expenditure as a positive? The only thing that ought to matter is achievement. Because achievement is hard to measure. > If you hold achievement constant, but spend more, that is objectively worse. Which aga
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> (PhD 1990) The title of the post is extremely misleading. The author of this post graduated from an undergraduate program in 2018. By "transitioned from academia", the author means "graduated with a B.S. (after a few
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> increasingly necessary to try and censor the internet? Most BBSs were moderated. Most IRC channels were moderated. Most PHPBB forums were moderated. This very comments section (and news article listing it's attached to) is moder
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
I think it's less "not wanting to help other people" and more "wanting to do what is valued". Value could manifest in many ways: * purely intrinsic ("doing cool work" vs. "de facto IT guy") * pur
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> Self driving cars will have their AI-winter time soon I don't see this happening any time soon. There might be a contraction in highly speculative investments (i.e., VC cash) aimed at autonomous driving systems. However, even if
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> Look at the proof - page after page of work showing how to encode and decode formal propositions using primitive recursive functions. Look at the game. Move after move of rooks moving in columns and rows and of bishops moving on the
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> People have been practicing formal mathematics long before Godel Right, this was pretty much my original point. > This seems to indicate me that GP comment is right that the inciting incident was understanding the correspondence
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> thinking about mathematical statements as mathematical objects... Lock yourself away in a room with nothing but pen and paper (no internet, not books) and try to reproduce Goedel's original proof. Then post the attempt here :) W
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Hyperlinking wouldn't provide much help. It's easy to prove this because academics have been hyperlinking for hundreds of years. A lay person finding the connection between [21,45,48,60] and the "trivial" step of theorem
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> If faculty bonuses Oy. Faculty don't get meaningful bonuses. Like, a $100 gift card to the university book store is a really nice gesture for someone who really went above and beyond. True story. Not only do they not get bon
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Right, that's why I said "the executive branch" rather than e.g. "Trump himself". I.e. if there's a clear chain of evidence from the adjudicator to the politicians, then SCOTUS would really have to pivot hard o
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
bobdole123456's point is that monopolies aren't illegal but abuse of monopoly power is illegal (you're being downvoted because you do not explicitly address that fact). But I actually think you raise an extremely interesting
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> Government complaining about bias: Civil rights laws. Equal Opportunity Employment. There's a large difference between political/religious bias and racial bias in employment/commerce. The former is explicitly constitut
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> With what he proposes, that’s simply not possible There's nothing special about the cache hierarchy. It's just one more thing that can be reasoned about using mathematics. If you care about cache locality, you can write dow
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> Well, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. While the Government cannot police google's speech, it can certainly break it up with anti-monopoly laws. Does the first amendment prevent the government from usin
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Any suggestions for how to combine end-to-end encryption with document storage in a way that still allows me to access documents on my phone/tablet/computer and also share documents with others? Unfortunately end-to-end encryption
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> Do you trust that these companies will never be hacked? I trust them more than I trust myself, unfortunately. I generally try to avoid uploading unnecessary/extra data. But email and remote document access aren't optional,
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Interestingly, I've always hated winter and pined for NorCal weather. But I'm really looking forward to the serenity of dark, cold, snowy streets this year. We'll see how I feel in February, of course...
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> In order to really make good use of your hardware you need to understand your hardware and code accordingly Understanding your hardware is only half the story. To use the hardware effectively, you also need to have mathemaitcal insig
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This was a great comment. The fact that new notations/representations (be that tests, simulations, formal methods, etc.) must justify their additional cognitive overhead is a great point. Aside from unit and integration tests, I think
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> So, is it really important to describe why a ball falls to the ground when I release it, or is it good enough to have a system that describes the interactions enough that I can apply it to problems?... does it really matter if I think
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> However, in (my version of) the real world, people will give you data that is invalid according to a canonical parser or the language standard, so sometimes you might as well use regexes anyway. This is very true, and I mention this

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