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comonad-colaboy

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comonad-colaboy··on Launch HN: CSPA (YC S18) – SAT for Software Engineers
Was curious as to how tests like these guard against Goodhart's law (If goodheart's law is applicable here at all)?
comonad-colaboy··on The ‘Geno-Economists’ Say DNA Can Predict Our Chances of Success
Time to rewatch Gattaca I suppose
comonad-colaboy··on How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive
I think people were waiting for a reason to kill out cursive handwriting. It seems it was on the rise or being promoted in schools because of some weird myth that intelligent folks and cursive writing were a thing and established some causal relationship going from cursive writing to higher form of intelligence
comonad-colaboy··on The world is not an engineering problem
Science is about verifiable proofs (verifiable within reasonable time limits) which somewhat means the same thing as formal proofs in the grand scheme of things. Correct me if I am wrong

Edit: forgot to put in time limits

comonad-colaboy··on Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China
Hear hear
comonad-colaboy··on Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century?
You forgot it's lispy base
comonad-colaboy··on Intelligence as a Halting Oracle
Could it be that 'untrained' humans are NOT good halting oracles? the trained ones are good-enough halting oracles i.e on the scale of a fully focused Euler
comonad-colaboy··on Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker
Can anybody expand on the link between autonomous car driving vs autonomous truck driving in terms of challenges faced. If they are similar, not sure why there is this kind of forecasting seeing how autonomous car driving is pretty much far from over or even usable. If they are vastly different, I don't imagine trucking is any easier than cars (maybe it is?)