In the break, or as a 25 minute project (“reply to/categorise all new emails”).
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At the risk of being annoying by repeating myself on this point: Outside the US, UK and Tokyo (and more recently some parts of China), there is no such thing as “public schools with good gifted programs”.
To add to the other countries people have mentioned, Australia has them too.
(Link to How Not To Sort By Average Rating.)
Something of interest: Jeffery’s interval. Using the lower bound of a credible interval based on that distribution (which is the same as yours) will probably give better results than just using the mean: it handles small sample sizes more gracefully. (I think, but I’m certainly willing to be corrected.)
But I fear that it would cause irreparable damage if the world settles on this solution.
This is probably vastly exaggerating the possible consequences; it’s just a method of sorting, and either the Wilson’s interval method and a Bayesian method are definitely far better than the naive methods.
I don’t have anything specific to offer, but (in theory) hard choices matter less. And if you literally can’t decide between them, you can try flipping a coin to make the decision and as it is in the air, see which way you hope it will end up, and that should be your choice.
Kurzweil has joined Google as Director of Engineering. (Discussion on Hacker News.)
Option 1: Close the borders. It’s unfortunate that the best sort might be kept out, while its guaranteed the rest will be kept out. The best can found / join other sites, and LW can establish immigration policies after a while.
This isn’t so ridiculous in short bursts. I know that Hacker News disables registration if/when they get large media attention to avoid a swathe of new only-mildly-interested users. A similar thing could happen here. (It might be enough to have an admin switch that just puts a
display: hiddeninto the CSS for the “register” button; trivial inconveniences and all.)
Just for reference, the minimum wage is only $15.96, so this fast food place is actually desperate for workers.
There is some interesting discussion at Hacker News about this article.
Only 80%?
In the USA, about 30% of adults have a bachelor’s degree or higher, and about 44% of those have done a degree where I can slightly conceive that they might possibly meet Bayes’ theorem (those in the science & engineering and science- & engineering-related categories (includes economics), p. 3), i.e. as a very loose bound 13% of US adults may have met Bayes’ theorem.
Even bumping the 30% up to the 56% who have “some college” and using the 44% for a estimate of the true ratio of possible-Bayes’-knowledge, that’s only just 25% of the US adult population.
(I’ve no idea how this extends to the rest of the world, the US data was easiest to find.)
R> hpmor <- lw[as.character(lw$Referrals) == "Referred by Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality",] R> hpmor <- lw[as.character(lw$Referrals) != "Referred by Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality",]Is this a typo? Or some text that was lost in the copy-paste?
Silver: The Signal and the Noise
Ehrman: The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
Cowen: Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
Hayes: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
(For the
[text](url)link syntax to work, you need the full URL, i.e. including the http:// bit at the start: http://comptop.stanford.edu/preprints/heads.pdf)
I think you missed some duplicates in
for_public.csv: Rows 26, 30, 761 and 847 are identical to their preceding one.
(“Lord Martin Rees is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004. He was President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010”. For anyone like me who didn’t know.)
They’re trying to seed the subreddit. If there’s no content, no one will be interested, and if there’s no one subscribed there’ll be no content… this technique is a common way to kick start the community.
(It might be worth posting fewer links though, otherwise any discussion that does happen will get lost quickly.)
If you wrap text in a pair of back ticks (`) then it gets displayed as “code” so left unmodified by the markdown parser.
(E.g.
[this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias_(comics\)))