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nunya213··on Middle name initials enhance evaluations of intellectual performance (2014)
To be fair P hacking is rampant across Academia and certainly not only in Psychology.
nunya213··on Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
Shouldn't you be in management by now?
nunya213··on A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions
"Various kinds of Models"... uh huh.

QM is the most rigorously tested and most accurate scientific theory in the whole of human history and nothing even comes remotely close. You seem to think you have insights that the greatest minds in history have missed, then please by all means enlighten us plebs and take your Nobel Prize.

nunya213··on Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
Obviously, but I was specifically referring to the typical algorithm oriented whiteboard questions found at major tech company interviews. Working a real world problem on a whiteboard I see no issue with.
nunya213··on Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
Google has already shown that those types of questions have 0 correlation to developer success.
nunya213··on Data Science Is America’s Hottest Job
Maybe but once you are in you have the golden ticket. Source: am a current DS with an MS and like the guy in the article I get contacted by recruiters weekly.
nunya213··on Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
This is so wrong that it actually hurts my brain. Albert Einstein, a certifiable genius probably could not tell you how to invert a binary tree, this has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with how many HackerRank problems you have memorized.
nunya213··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
Never understood this logic, "We do it so why should we care when other people do it to us." Total insanity.
nunya213··on AI and Compute
I'm not a MechE but I don't see why it would be hard to show that past a certain size steel can no longer support the structure of a ship.
nunya213··on AI and Compute
But you can easily calculate why its impossible to build a battleship beyond a certain size and understand why that trend is silly. I challenge you to do something similar with compute and AI. Not that I necessarily disagree with your thesis of better computer != better AI.
nunya213··on Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
Do you know why there is a difference between Manslaughter and Murder in the legal code? For the same reason that your statement is absurd. If you don't understand that then we have nothing else to discuss.
nunya213··on Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
That's not what I said, that's what you are saying, without evidence to back it up I might add. I doubt you are privy to military briefings where they make these decisions. Your argument is quite childlike.
nunya213··on Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?
I'll second this idea having survived a Physics BS doing just this. I'd also strongly recommend a series of books called Schaum's Outlines, they vary in quality but cover many advanced topics and have hundreds of solved problems in them.
nunya213··on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
You mean what Google is already doing? You know how they make their money right?
nunya213··on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
Ironic, considering the rain of downvotes on posts that disagree with the resignations.
nunya213··on Interviews vs. auditions
I agree with the sentiment but almost no other profession does this. Could you imagine a Surgeon being forced to "Audition" for his job? "Here perform heart surgery on this guy for us, if he lives you get the job."
nunya213··on The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10B of Bitcoin in Bunkers
You are implying that the wealthy aren't already doing hoarding currency instead of spending? Seems like a strange statement to make.
nunya213··on The rise of the pointless job
Pretty simple, return to a 90% top tax rate and give the proceeds out as Basic Income. This shit situation we are in is not sustainable, we have levels of inequality in the US not seen since the roaring 20s and we all know how that ended.
nunya213··on In UK universities there is a daily erosion of integrity
Indeed, I'm only pointing out the absurdity of the US system.
nunya213··on In UK universities there is a daily erosion of integrity
Honestly that's just kind of cute. Good private schools in the US regularly cost over $40,000 per year.
nunya213··on Tech company career ladders
Change the way you think about it. Gamify conversation. Don't try to learn intuition about conversation flow, teach yourself through observation which I'm sure you are probably very good at.
nunya213··on Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US
OpenAI, Allen Institute for AI, MIRI, etc. are quite successful in the AI industry. Those are all in the US and pay competitive salaries though. It seems to me that Salary is a primary driver here, why stay at Cambridge for 40k gbp/yr when you could do the same research at Google Brain for $200k+ but if those two numbers aren't so out of wack I think it becomes a much more difficult choice.
nunya213··on Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
For someone as deeply entrenched in Tech as Thiel you would think the "in practice" part would be quite clear to him.
nunya213··on Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
Thiel is an exercise in contradiction. "In his view, the best way to avoid such scenarios in the future would be to provide the government the most cutting-edge technology possible and build in policing systems to make sure investigators use it lawfully."

Prevent the police state by building the police state.

nunya213··on Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?
Thoughts on David Dewane's Eudaimonia Machine concept?

https://medium.com/@jsmathison/i-cant-stop-dreaming-of-eudai...

nunya213··on You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
It's just more Gatekeeping BS. I'm sure they said the same thing about software i.e. "you have to code in command line to be a real programmer"
nunya213··on Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress
No you aren't obligated to give her a platform. But if you go stage a protest so unruly that you block her from speaking at a College Campus for instance you have effectively negated her right to free speech. Are you really so infantile that hearing her words will ruin your life? Are they really so dangerous that you can't engage in a debate instead? I am a staunch liberal and the arguments about this coming from the left are truly mind boggling and very troublesome.
nunya213··on Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress
Maybe not actively peddling hate speech but the left is certainly active in interfering with free speech.
nunya213··on OpenAI Charter
Seems very unclear if you could "instruct" true AGI to do something.

So you are claiming that by making this statement you are not assuming that it is impossible to control an AGI?

nunya213··on OpenAI Charter
I see no conflict.
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