Look up the income statistics. There are very few low income students at Harvard and similar "holistic" universities. It's a school for rich people. MIT cares more about scores and STEM and MIT actually has around the…
What "other goals" and "expectations"? It conveniently falls in line with racial diversity goals but it is unclear what other goals it accomplishes. The reasonable assumption is that any soft skill goals or measures…
Don't admission officers actually come from worse educational backgrounds than alumni? I think many AO never reach educational or career heights that would help them appreciate the accomplishments of applicants while…
Those admissions processes are actually seen as very fair processes in those countries. IIRC, there is very high economic diversity in the top colleges in China and India which can't be said about the Ivy League schools.
Uniqueness and well-roundedness are traits of privilege. The activities typically used to signal "uniqueness" for college admissions like philanthropy and political activism have roots in privilege. If you're not from a…
It seems unlikely to be unintentional. Since Harvard is grading personality on a USA-centric scale, it would most likely accentuate the traits of the current USA leaders and executives who are overwhelmingly white. We…
> Clark had just turned 27 and left behind an estate valued at more than $4 million. He got to keep the money even though he got convicted for wire fraud?
> Spacex: we can go to Mars, but haven't even launched a Mars rocket. Google: AI is here, and the product? Waymo, logs millions of miles, is just sunny conditions? I don't think that is their literal message and goal.…
> optional things people choose (having children) Note that having children is something that only women choose. Men and women choose to have sex. Women choose to abort or have a child.
Will it? Women who have made public, unproven accusations of sexual harassment seem to be doing just fine
Have you guys applied these more technical/scientific details of the brain to your life?
> A great school and teacher obviously can change the lives of children in poverty but it's astonishingly difficult and requires immense talent to achieve. Teaching children in poverty is a specialization. Teachers can…
The most important methodology of the school: > Like many charter schools in New York City, the Promise Academy has an extended school day and year, with coordinated after-school tutoring and additional classes on…
> mastering an arbitrary test If the test is based on the standard middle/high school curriculum (if there is one), then it can be a fairly good predictor. Otherwise, even if it is an arbitrary test, it takes study…
> it outcompetes payment systems from American tech companies Does it? I think American payment systems are winning outside of China/USA. Of course it won the Chinese market because China makes it extremely difficult…
> The GDPR is about 68 to 90 pages depending on which language you're reading it in. It is trying to be futureproof by leaving measures defined in terms of 'current state of technology', 'reasonable security considering…
That's a solid 50 hours of engineering and QA. At a $75/hr contracting rate, that is $3,750 (50 * $75/hr). And that's just the engineering work. The website owner cannot know whether or not the engineering work and…
> Most of these companies do what they can not to pay taxes This applies to all companies, everywhere. The problem is that the EU don't close their loopholes.
If the biased models replace human decision making, then it just has to be shown that the models are less biased than humans which may not be that high of a bar to pass.
The politicization of bias in this realm is unproductive. We know where it leads. There will be 'committees' of people who are not trained in statistical thinking, who haven't even taken a statistics class, who are not…
What's the chances of retroactively lowering pensions? 1. Progressively lower pensions. Skim off the top earners. 2. Create projects for the community and declare that the saved money will be used for those projects for…
Technically users are entering their credit card information somewhere down the line after an ad click, many times on a website "shadier" than Facebook because sane advertisers make more money than they spend.
> In fact, I think the author is underestimating the impact, right here: "Of course, making this change will have a dramatic impact on your revenue for single-visit traffic, because you basically have to design your ad…
I don't read news but I'm sure that GDPR would hurt the smaller, independent news websites or aggregators that people find reputable more than CNN, Fox News and sinclair group. The latter at least have TV advertising.…
I don't think the legislators understand the technical complexity it would take to comply with GDPR nor the benefits of tracking for the internet. Tracking makes markets more efficient. 1. Advertisers can tune their…
Look up the income statistics. There are very few low income students at Harvard and similar "holistic" universities. It's a school for rich people. MIT cares more about scores and STEM and MIT actually has around the…
What "other goals" and "expectations"? It conveniently falls in line with racial diversity goals but it is unclear what other goals it accomplishes. The reasonable assumption is that any soft skill goals or measures…
Don't admission officers actually come from worse educational backgrounds than alumni? I think many AO never reach educational or career heights that would help them appreciate the accomplishments of applicants while…
Those admissions processes are actually seen as very fair processes in those countries. IIRC, there is very high economic diversity in the top colleges in China and India which can't be said about the Ivy League schools.
Uniqueness and well-roundedness are traits of privilege. The activities typically used to signal "uniqueness" for college admissions like philanthropy and political activism have roots in privilege. If you're not from a…
It seems unlikely to be unintentional. Since Harvard is grading personality on a USA-centric scale, it would most likely accentuate the traits of the current USA leaders and executives who are overwhelmingly white. We…
> Clark had just turned 27 and left behind an estate valued at more than $4 million. He got to keep the money even though he got convicted for wire fraud?
> Spacex: we can go to Mars, but haven't even launched a Mars rocket. Google: AI is here, and the product? Waymo, logs millions of miles, is just sunny conditions? I don't think that is their literal message and goal.…
> optional things people choose (having children) Note that having children is something that only women choose. Men and women choose to have sex. Women choose to abort or have a child.
Will it? Women who have made public, unproven accusations of sexual harassment seem to be doing just fine
Have you guys applied these more technical/scientific details of the brain to your life?
> A great school and teacher obviously can change the lives of children in poverty but it's astonishingly difficult and requires immense talent to achieve. Teaching children in poverty is a specialization. Teachers can…
The most important methodology of the school: > Like many charter schools in New York City, the Promise Academy has an extended school day and year, with coordinated after-school tutoring and additional classes on…
> mastering an arbitrary test If the test is based on the standard middle/high school curriculum (if there is one), then it can be a fairly good predictor. Otherwise, even if it is an arbitrary test, it takes study…
> it outcompetes payment systems from American tech companies Does it? I think American payment systems are winning outside of China/USA. Of course it won the Chinese market because China makes it extremely difficult…
> The GDPR is about 68 to 90 pages depending on which language you're reading it in. It is trying to be futureproof by leaving measures defined in terms of 'current state of technology', 'reasonable security considering…
That's a solid 50 hours of engineering and QA. At a $75/hr contracting rate, that is $3,750 (50 * $75/hr). And that's just the engineering work. The website owner cannot know whether or not the engineering work and…
> Most of these companies do what they can not to pay taxes This applies to all companies, everywhere. The problem is that the EU don't close their loopholes.
If the biased models replace human decision making, then it just has to be shown that the models are less biased than humans which may not be that high of a bar to pass.
The politicization of bias in this realm is unproductive. We know where it leads. There will be 'committees' of people who are not trained in statistical thinking, who haven't even taken a statistics class, who are not…
What's the chances of retroactively lowering pensions? 1. Progressively lower pensions. Skim off the top earners. 2. Create projects for the community and declare that the saved money will be used for those projects for…
Technically users are entering their credit card information somewhere down the line after an ad click, many times on a website "shadier" than Facebook because sane advertisers make more money than they spend.
> In fact, I think the author is underestimating the impact, right here: "Of course, making this change will have a dramatic impact on your revenue for single-visit traffic, because you basically have to design your ad…
I don't read news but I'm sure that GDPR would hurt the smaller, independent news websites or aggregators that people find reputable more than CNN, Fox News and sinclair group. The latter at least have TV advertising.…
I don't think the legislators understand the technical complexity it would take to comply with GDPR nor the benefits of tracking for the internet. Tracking makes markets more efficient. 1. Advertisers can tune their…