There is obvious survivorship bias in the analysis throughout this article. You could reframe it as startups that succeed done have these problems - well, duh!
Edit: actually the more i go through it, it sounds like chatgpt prose, especially by the end.
Readit Newshnhg commented on The Forgotten Roman Ruins of the ‘Pompeii of the Middle East’ news.artnet.com/art-world... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Also noteworthy in Algeria:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timgad
(I think I read somewhere that Algeria has the most Roman ruins outside of Italy, although I could be mistaken)
hnhg commented on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost nbcnews.com/politics/poli... · Posted by u/jnord
> The median grade at Harvard is an A
It’s been 20 years or so since my knowledge was up-to-date, but Oxbridge undergrads used to bitterly complain that their 2:2 (grade C I guess?) wasn’t seen as equivalent to getting a 1st(A?) or 2:1(B) from other good UK unis by graduate schemes and large employers.
Oxbridge workload seemed to be significantly higher for most undergrad degrees than it was at other unis, and the feeling was that an essay a week was required that would have been equivalent to a term’s work at other unis. I only ever heard the Oxbridge side of this, however.
I've worked a lot with Oxbridge and Ivy League folks and there is nothing particularly special about them. An Oxbridge degrees bestows an out-of-the-box premium personal brand, as you've demonstrated, as well as the social network, but not superior ability, in my experience
hnhg commented on Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) britneyspears.ac/lasers.h... · Posted by u/lachlan_gray
I love the idea of this but the mention of Hedy Lamarr could be confused as parody too when she was in fact an incredibly intelligent engineer and physicist.
Anyway it reminds me of the deep fake of Kim K and Nicki Minaj explaining subnetting: https://youtu.be/KcgyGYTnk4M?feature=shared
Has anyone made a ranked list of the most mentioned people or historical facts on HN. Hedy must be on there somewhere:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hedy+lamarr
I'll respond by quoting the authors themselves:
> "The test performance of the Black/Black adoptees [in the study] was not different from that of ordinary Black children reared by their own families in the same area of the country. My colleagues and I reported the data accurately and as fully as possible, and then tried to make the results palatable to environmentally committed colleagues. In retrospect, this was a mistake. The results of the transracial adoption study can be used to support either a genetic difference hypothesis or an environmental difference one (because the children have visible African ancestry). We should have been agnostic on the conclusions."
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It gets back to the main issue here. You can't expect an open and good faith discussion on this topic when any one can suffer major career and other consequences for not adopting the politically correct view. And indeed extremely compelling evidence to the contrary of such is immediately met with a mixture of logically flawed arguments (e.g. - various groups have suffered tremendous discrimination with no apparent impact on IQ or later achievement, Jews being the obvious example) and ad hominem.
The study results are obviously not what the author's expected to find, which left them in a very difficult place. I think that is also why this was the last effort to try to experimentally prove that genetics don't matter. This is also likely why they continue to insist that the almost exactly ~20% of the mixed race individuals were misclassified by accident. Had they shown an environmentally favorable argument, I suspect it would have been revealed as a rather cleverly concocted control group. As is, it's extremely difficult to explain this (the mixed race individuals believed they were black and appeared as such, yet tested in accordance with their genetics) with a typical environmental argument.
I know very little about this but just an observer your reply did little to refute any of the points made. You should loosen up a bit and keep an open mind about those points raised because it feels like you’re dismissing them.
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hnhg commented on Why does Swiss cheese have holes? usdairy.com/news-articles... · Posted by u/QueensGambit
If you can only find wonderbread I am surprised.
Example of great bread: https://www.ibfoods.com/search.php?search_query=Bread
You've proven their point for them.
This isn't meant as a criticism of you personally, but rather of the general tendency to label all petroglyphs and pictographs as "(rock) art." There's no evidence that these were viewed that way by their creators, and using that term can bias how we interpret them
You’re right, it’s not art until the artist has shown at a reputable gallery and sold their first piece to a collector.
hnhg commented on Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble? tomtunguz.com/nvidia_nort... · Posted by u/miltava
Worse when you find out there’s a couple dozen of the same moderators running nearly all the top 500 subreddits.
That makes some sense. Are they paid for this?
It's the result of stochastic hill climbing of a vast reservoir of talented people, industry, and science. Each pushing the frontiers year by year, building the infra, building the connective tissue.
We built the collection of requirements that enabled it through human curiosity, random capitalistic process, boredom, etc. It was gaming GPUs for goodness sake that enabled the scale up of the algorithms. You can't get more serendipitous than that. (Perhaps some of the post-WWII/cold war tech even better qualifies for random hill climbing luck. Microwave ovens, MRI machines, etc. etc.)
Machine learning is inevitable in a civilization that has evolved intelligence, industrialization, and computation.
We've passed all the hard steps to this point. Let's see what's next. Hopefully not the great filter.