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by usgroup 5y ago
I think this is not correct because many of our biggest and most successful companies stack rank. If there is a substantial productivity advantage to not doing it then the next company with a million person workforce has some low hanging fr
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by usgroup 5y ago
From personal experience, I think this is accurate. I think that at best interviews correlate with candidate performance but most of the information is gained at the earliest stages of the interview, and as you progress further, the process
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by usgroup 5y ago
Presumably they've identified that under performance is spread uniformly amongst managers with a large enough number of indirect reports. Presumably the target URA is arrived at via other independent measurements. Presumably they contr
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by usgroup 5y ago
I can't tell if you're trolling, but in case you're not and unless you think there's a mathematical certainty to your argument, you might do well to spread your bets.
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by usgroup 5y ago
I appreciate the romance, but those of us who have children leave behind much more than stone walls we built in our 20s. He’s a 72 year old Batchelor who’s once stepped foot outside a Welsh valley. If happiness is a lobotomy then credit to
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by usgroup 5y ago
"So the next time you're writing your boss an email during a meeting, remember that your cognitive capacity is being diminished to the point that you might as well let an 8-year-old write it for you." Another fine piece of sc
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by usgroup 5y ago
I wonder if I could make a model to accurately predict the number of HNers over 50 years old by the number of Lisp related posts...hmmmmmm :-)
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by usgroup 5y ago
You’re an awesome human. I’m in awe of your composure and wish I could do the same if it ever happened to me.
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by usgroup 5y ago
Unfortunately smoking doesn’t really do that either. I’d say it has close to no benefits from a day to day cognitive perspective anecdotally. I think it’s the same for coffee. Great for socialising though . Smokers have more fun at parties
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by usgroup 5y ago
I think PCA is a good reason to learn enough linear algebra to understand PCA. It means learning about basis, rank, rank approximation, orthogonality, eigenvectors, spectral decomposition, etc. There's a whole iceberg of concepts that
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by usgroup 5y ago
I think computers have been better at stuff then humans the whole time . And when they are better at all the particular things it still doesn’t result in common sense. That’s one of the fallacies.
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by usgroup 5y ago
As long as self awareness is an input at least in part independent of the rest of the world, if makes your outputs non deterministic if it’s not taken into account. Yet self awareness defies explanation at the moment. Ie there is no known w
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by usgroup 5y ago
I think decisions presupposing self-consciousness posit an input into the decision making process that doesn’t come from the outside. Surely correlated with the world but not determined by it.
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by usgroup 5y ago
I think self consciousness is the sticking point for a mechanical or probabilistic universe. It exists. It eludes quantifiable definition. It makes no sense in a mechanism. It is central to free will.
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by usgroup 5y ago
If you’re in the EU, you have the “right to be informed” according to the GDPR . So you can make a GDPR request to find out.
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by usgroup 5y ago
Wasn’t it the case that in their last exchange with the maintainer (that email that caused all the stir) they were accused of submitting patches that did nothing at all and wasting time in doing so? In this letter they claim these patches w
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by usgroup 6y ago
lichess is by far the finest piece of complex online software I’ve ever used. Desktop or mobile it works perfectly. There is no Silicon Valley, Spartan hiring processes, elite University filters: just open source contribution and a great qu
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by usgroup 6y ago
Please think of a way to make a board game that teaches folks the consequences of all the typical life decisions we have in common. I think it’d be a considerable service to society.
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by usgroup 6y ago
Sure maybe but I can't think of any precedent for what you're saying. Countries have typically gone from some advertising to even more advertising. An example in which convincing people to buy stuff got harder and people bought th
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by usgroup 6y ago
Frankly I’m not sure I see a world where Internet advertising is not targeted . Sure it drives profit for Google et al but it does so because it drives profit for a million other businesses. It’s non existence implies a substantial economic
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by usgroup 6y ago
> It is almost universally agreed that the persistence of extreme poverty in many parts of the world is a bad thing. It is less well-agreed, even among philosophers, what should be done about it and by who. Not even the philosophers agre
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by usgroup 6y ago
Logica compiles to SQL. It is semantically equivalent but not syntactically so the gain has to be in differences in the grammar. I see that one can create predicates (functions) with parameters as a means for code re-use. I could also see t
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Rasdaman – Array / Datacube Engine and Language(rasdaman.org)
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by usgroup 6y ago
It’s a fair question. I’d say that if/after you’ve made your millions you may soon find that your life is no less empty, and that internal substance - however intangible - is all there is. The exogenous manifestations of it are honour,
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by usgroup 6y ago
I should add that Von Neumann only started with maths at 39. He’s actually a self taught PHP programmer by background.
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by usgroup 6y ago
“Voraciously devoured” induces in me a mental image of some existential situation forcing you to physically eat a book for survival.
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by usgroup 6y ago
Von Neumann did it by watching loads of Khan Academy videos on YouTube, taking regular Vitamin D supplements, using Anki cards and practicing mindfulness meditation.
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by usgroup 6y ago
This is fun lots of fun, but Im surprised that this kind of thing could be published at all outside of philosophy.
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by usgroup 6y ago
> By very definition, we will never be able to prove or disprove the claim. I don't think thats necessarily true. Here is a neat example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl's_tile_argument To simulate cont
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by usgroup 6y ago
"I think" therefore "I'm not" is false because it is contradictory: thinking implies being. Unless it is just our logic coerced by the evil demon which makes it so.

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