Starting Strength and only primarily targets the ability to lift heavy objects. On its own it does nothing to improve your cardio fitness and it doesn't directly help with postural problems or injury prevention. And if…
from the wiki article on nicotine: "no epidemiological evidence supports that nicotine alone acts as a carcinogen in the formation of human cancer "
" Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?" Why not?
The effect "could be large". Do you have any data to support this? Some forms of coaching "add over 100". Do you have data to support this? Poor black/hispanic kids don't have test prep programs in school. So they are…
The right way to do "education selection" is to pick the best students from your applicant pool. I don't see what would be wrong with that method.
In reality it is simply not possible to create such gains on average. SAT score is still a very good predictor of future academic performance. "Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT?…
It cannot be coached very easily. See http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/Briggs_Theeffectofadmissionst.... "Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT? For students that have taken the test…
There is no serious rebuttal or debunking of Mcintyre contained within that post. Even if we ignore the details of that specific controversy, it is still obvious that there are 1) big problems in the climate science…
This is not a credible source.
This article has a pretty bad smell. The author makes a lot of fairly extreme claims but these are mostly based on his own anecdotes or non public data sets. The claims that "you can separate all advanced math teachers…
What is the trend for the overall number rather than percentage of tenured college professors? Surely a large part of this is explained by the explosive growth of higher education as a consumer commodity. We should not…
I would be very sceptical about using weight training, and squatting and deadlifting in particular, as remedies for back pain. These exercises can bad for you if you have pre-existing issues, EVEN if performed with…
I think this view of things is a bit misguided. Most of the jobs available to those who should not go to college are not traditional trades. Effective vocational training has to be focused on service sector and…
Competition in action, reducing prices for consumers. I like it!
Should we ignore demographics? Why?
"A true rationalist" would be smart enough to recognise that there are many other variables that can effect the quality of education. The greater levels of unionisation in Finland compared to the USA tell us exactly…
welp, an argument you can't win! Time to insult people!
The Mismeasure of Man is notoriously awful trash. It's amazing that anyone would recommend it as a reference or guide to the subject when its poor quality is so widely recognized by actual experts in the field. Nobody…
How much modafinil do you take? Where do you get it from?
why did you use the word "iterate"[1] in this context? [1]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/iterate
Do immutable data structures data structures really let you scale out so easily? I thought that was something of a myth...
Out of interest, what is the attitude in Austria (and Germany) towards hiring programmers without degrees?
Do you really see any sort of market for providing operations that can be implemented very easily using python itself?
the "value" of a degree from a certain university in Britain correlates almost entirely with the difficulty of gaining entry to that institution. "Posh people" tend to do much better on average academically than the…
the author seems to be in the business of creating fairly simple internet apps, so I'm not sure why his interviews would ever need to deal with the implementation of hash tables...
Starting Strength and only primarily targets the ability to lift heavy objects. On its own it does nothing to improve your cardio fitness and it doesn't directly help with postural problems or injury prevention. And if…
from the wiki article on nicotine: "no epidemiological evidence supports that nicotine alone acts as a carcinogen in the formation of human cancer "
" Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?" Why not?
The effect "could be large". Do you have any data to support this? Some forms of coaching "add over 100". Do you have data to support this? Poor black/hispanic kids don't have test prep programs in school. So they are…
The right way to do "education selection" is to pick the best students from your applicant pool. I don't see what would be wrong with that method.
In reality it is simply not possible to create such gains on average. SAT score is still a very good predictor of future academic performance. "Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT?…
It cannot be coached very easily. See http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/Briggs_Theeffectofadmissionst.... "Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT? For students that have taken the test…
There is no serious rebuttal or debunking of Mcintyre contained within that post. Even if we ignore the details of that specific controversy, it is still obvious that there are 1) big problems in the climate science…
This is not a credible source.
This article has a pretty bad smell. The author makes a lot of fairly extreme claims but these are mostly based on his own anecdotes or non public data sets. The claims that "you can separate all advanced math teachers…
What is the trend for the overall number rather than percentage of tenured college professors? Surely a large part of this is explained by the explosive growth of higher education as a consumer commodity. We should not…
I would be very sceptical about using weight training, and squatting and deadlifting in particular, as remedies for back pain. These exercises can bad for you if you have pre-existing issues, EVEN if performed with…
I think this view of things is a bit misguided. Most of the jobs available to those who should not go to college are not traditional trades. Effective vocational training has to be focused on service sector and…
Competition in action, reducing prices for consumers. I like it!
Should we ignore demographics? Why?
"A true rationalist" would be smart enough to recognise that there are many other variables that can effect the quality of education. The greater levels of unionisation in Finland compared to the USA tell us exactly…
welp, an argument you can't win! Time to insult people!
The Mismeasure of Man is notoriously awful trash. It's amazing that anyone would recommend it as a reference or guide to the subject when its poor quality is so widely recognized by actual experts in the field. Nobody…
How much modafinil do you take? Where do you get it from?
why did you use the word "iterate"[1] in this context? [1]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/iterate
Do immutable data structures data structures really let you scale out so easily? I thought that was something of a myth...
Out of interest, what is the attitude in Austria (and Germany) towards hiring programmers without degrees?
Do you really see any sort of market for providing operations that can be implemented very easily using python itself?
the "value" of a degree from a certain university in Britain correlates almost entirely with the difficulty of gaining entry to that institution. "Posh people" tend to do much better on average academically than the…
the author seems to be in the business of creating fairly simple internet apps, so I'm not sure why his interviews would ever need to deal with the implementation of hash tables...