I get this is tongue in cheek, and it's true that everyone's brown, but a couple of points of note: 1. ISRO has reserved spots for Scheduled Castes / Tribes (historically under-represented castes and tribes), which is…
Oversimplifying for brevity (and there is definitely more nuance to this). This is basically the modeling approach: 1. Have a biological brain do a task, record neuronal data + task performance 2. Copy some of those…
yep. that's 100% a strategy.
i'm sure it's happened somewhere...I'm not sure but from what I've seen, incredibly hard to game recruitment. Even if you do, the kid won't survive long -- it's up or out every ~2 years. Seems like a lot of work for not…
Is it more or less difficult than counteracting Dunning-Kruger? (for the record...former salary, several years ago)
Not my experience over a decade or so, but sorry it was yours. Sounds awful.
These topics on HN (where I know the industry well) make me realize how stupid I must sound when I have strong opinions on things I have nothing but anecdotal experience with. It's humbling to realize that I must also…
Questioning is useful. Stereotypes also can be useful. But that doesn't preclude recognizing and calling out bias and correlation/causation issues. My views are: 1) Size of population, education and language are better…
I'm not defending Nepotism. I'm saying there is an obvious explanation of the effect the article is talking about (and several bad explanations that rely on cultural tropes)
This is a non-article as there's nothing shocking about a large population of people who are generally fluent in English and generally have undergraduate and graduate education doing well in knowledge work. But it won't…
I've lived here (Lower Manhattan, BK, and now Astoria) for the last 10 years and wouldn't move anywhere else. For reference, I lived in SF (Pac Heights) for ~4 years during and after grad school and a couple of other…
I get this is tongue in cheek, and it's true that everyone's brown, but a couple of points of note: 1. ISRO has reserved spots for Scheduled Castes / Tribes (historically under-represented castes and tribes), which is…
Oversimplifying for brevity (and there is definitely more nuance to this). This is basically the modeling approach: 1. Have a biological brain do a task, record neuronal data + task performance 2. Copy some of those…
yep. that's 100% a strategy.
i'm sure it's happened somewhere...I'm not sure but from what I've seen, incredibly hard to game recruitment. Even if you do, the kid won't survive long -- it's up or out every ~2 years. Seems like a lot of work for not…
Is it more or less difficult than counteracting Dunning-Kruger? (for the record...former salary, several years ago)
Not my experience over a decade or so, but sorry it was yours. Sounds awful.
These topics on HN (where I know the industry well) make me realize how stupid I must sound when I have strong opinions on things I have nothing but anecdotal experience with. It's humbling to realize that I must also…
Questioning is useful. Stereotypes also can be useful. But that doesn't preclude recognizing and calling out bias and correlation/causation issues. My views are: 1) Size of population, education and language are better…
I'm not defending Nepotism. I'm saying there is an obvious explanation of the effect the article is talking about (and several bad explanations that rely on cultural tropes)
This is a non-article as there's nothing shocking about a large population of people who are generally fluent in English and generally have undergraduate and graduate education doing well in knowledge work. But it won't…
I've lived here (Lower Manhattan, BK, and now Astoria) for the last 10 years and wouldn't move anywhere else. For reference, I lived in SF (Pac Heights) for ~4 years during and after grad school and a couple of other…