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by zamfi 6y ago
Sure, and we’ve had race riots in the past too. But when was the last time we had this level of protest in support of a minority group? The million man march? And that required how much organization in comparison? No one is arguing that it’
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by zamfi 6y ago
> it claims more significance for this mechanism than, you know, masses of people marching on the streets, because that's the vantage point of the author and it's relative importance to him I mean, the masses of people marching
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by zamfi 6y ago
4 miles per kWh is what Tesla's Model 3 does (and similar EVs). ICE cars lose a lot of the energy stored in gasoline to waste heat, especially in city driving. That's to say nothing of the challenge of generating gasoline from sol
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by zamfi 6y ago
I think this is the right approach. However one big problem with deploying systems using this approach today is that it happens to be very hard to do this with enough nines that your car isn't slowing down or emergency braking for
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Your own house isn't an investment because you always need to live somewhere Ehhh, yes and no. Plenty of people who bought nice-ish houses in the Bay Area in the '70s and '80s sold them in 2014-2018 and retired outside t
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by zamfi 6y ago
Can we get dates, e.g., (Feb 3) for posts about coronavirus? Sometimes even days matter, but this is months, and -- regardless of whether this study was in fact flawed -- we now have strong evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted by people wi
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by zamfi 6y ago
> I expect to be surrounded by people who are curious, who value learning, who are building up the skills and knowledge to excel in their chosen fields. Do you truly believe you can measure this with a single standardized exam? I’m not e
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by zamfi 6y ago
*baffled
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by zamfi 6y ago
Epidemiologists are battled today too! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/politics/coronavirus-t...
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by zamfi 6y ago
> If rich people who know less have higher SAT scores than poor people who know more This considers only academic knowledge, and specifically only that knowledge that can be assessed in a standardized way. Such knowledge makes up a very
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by zamfi 6y ago
MIT explicitly transitioned in this way with former admissions director Marilee Jones, who moved away from "just admit the geniuses" to "let's get some of the well-rounded kids too".
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by zamfi 6y ago
> I watched a lot of students that to be honest were just average get into very good schools "Average" on what criteria? I think I was unclear about research experience and similar -- it's not that having these experiences
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by zamfi 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. > But school quality being linked to wealth is a much bigger problem than standardized testing. Agreed. The UCs can't solve this problem on their own, though. The UCs have different admissions criteria
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by zamfi 6y ago
I didn't say "use criteria that don't correlate with wealth". I'm just saying that wealth can be used to boost SAT scores. Selective colleges are looking for students who (a) meet a baseline for academic success the
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by zamfi 6y ago
> The relevant question is, do SAT scores correlate with wealth more or less than whatever [...] Well, no, because the SAT correlates with wealth while plausibly having claim on being an objective measure. When little Johnny gets an inte
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by zamfi 6y ago
> The truth is, having a good GPA or resume is more likely to get you in, and some of the more impressive/rare “accomplishments” that students like to tout in their activity summaries and essays are simply unavailable to lower incom
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by zamfi 6y ago
> However it has been my experience that whenever an explicit test or hierarchy is removed another shadow one builds up that is more subjective, more biased, and more subject to abuse. Many people seem to take as given that college admis
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by zamfi 6y ago
> I spent a grand total of $28 and managed to get a 99th percentile score on the SAT. To claim it’s impossible to score high on that test without money is absolutely false. No one is claiming it's "impossible", and I don&#
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by zamfi 6y ago
I don't think it's the animations in cities: skylines that makes it a CPU-hog, I think it's the actual simulation of the various agents pathfinding, etc.
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by zamfi 6y ago
In other news, people also think they’re better drivers than their neighbors, have smarter children then their neighbors, and are better looking than their neighbors. It’s a well-known bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by zamfi 6y ago
This is looking at population-wide measures of Vitamin D deficiency from before COVID-19, so...maybe the argument you're making is that these populations with lower Vitamin D were already sick and thus more prone to COVID-19? Because t
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by zamfi 6y ago
Huh? The authors of this (flawed) study are making the claim that Vitamin D deficiency correlates with negative outcomes from COVID-19. They are doing this by using public measures of country-wide serum-based Vitamin D deficiency rates and
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by zamfi 6y ago
> it feels unscientific to always quibble over experiment design after the results show no effect. Respectfully, this is exactly what science is . The process of finding potential confounding variables and controlling for them in a new
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by zamfi 6y ago
Don’t know about python, but Snap Camera lets you develop your own filters, and takes care of all the virtual device stuff for you.
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by zamfi 6y ago
> remained undetected for a few weeks This is precisely the problem. Why, when the virus had circulating for weeks, did we only have 7 confirmed cases? Because the CDC massively messed up the testing regime on several levels: only testin
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by zamfi 6y ago
> So you can assume (probably with good certainty) that you've got the correct password, but you can't be sure. That's assuming no other constraints. If the constraints on the password are strong enough (for example, must
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by zamfi 6y ago
> The best way to get people who show up for work on time, don't steal from the register and don't call out sick is to pay them enough to have a life that isn't sent into a stress spiral by an electricity bill thats 10% hi
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Hell, we even have preliminary human studies dealing with just that: clinical outcome for patients admitted in intensive care unit, with or without a single mega-dose of vitamin D: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
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by zamfi 6y ago
For this to be true, you’d want the 3rd party delivery apps to be wildly profitable. Are they?
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by zamfi 7y ago
> There is a lot of education when you become a mechanic, an electrician, a factory worker, a firefighter, etc. That is not academic. You learn on the job. This is true for every profession. Is there any job where you pop out of school r

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