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> You didn't really address the examples which mschuster91 provided and that's important to understanding the problem: On the contrary, I addressed it entirely. mschuster91 seems t…

>> Why they do this, I have no idea. > I'm not saying there aren't any valid reasons for doing it. > I'm just saying the there's a "meta-lesson" there that has to be corrected. And…

> The fallacy with using tests of the kids as a marker for the quality of the teachers is that you just can't do that and get reliable results. Which is not what is being proposed …

Test motivation differs from person to person, so if you don't encourage everyone to at least try every question and guess, you'll get differences in scores which don't reflect the…

Looks like one'd describe him as an insurance adjuster: > Kafka was rapidly promoted and his duties included processing and investigating compensation claims, writing reports, and …

> This was a favorite zinger that my evolutionary biology teach liked to spring on unsuspecting students that tried to argue that they could demonstrate that low iq among AAs was d…

You can download your genotype SNP data as a backup. I don't know about the health reports (are they so voluminous that you cannot open up each in a tab and then save them all as a…

> The desire to believe in equality is weird sometimes. It's not that weird. If you look back in the HN archives, you can find one or two submissions from transsexual authors who a…

> The point remains the article specifically cites a situation where the adoption process fails No, it doesn't. The article vaguely alludes to a third-hand description of the failu…

"adopting each other" is meaningless and the citation is vague. Some googling of The Advocate's website suggests this is probably a reference to Baker and McConnell, where the regu…

> This is completely fine if you're tooling around in a research lab or industrial lab, but even a 1% loss is probably too much for a human brain to bear and remain the same as bef…

It also sounds like a motivating example for machine-checked proofs: if one could feed Mochizuki's proof into Coq or something and be assured that it was correct, even if only in a…

That doesn't matter if they're doing paired comparisons, as they are. 2 comparisons of a few hundred images yields far more reliable results than a few hundred comparisons of 2 ima…

That the Russians have been doing it for years and it's been so slow to catch on suggests the opposite , for the same reason that the increasing spread of autonomous cars is not a …

> That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million people out of poverty over the last 30 ye…

https://www.academia.edu/15399080/Hearing_Voices_in_differen...

This doesn't explain the history of `find`. Saying 'a specification made us do it' is not an explanation, it is passing the buck.

"Doesn't strike me as a huge sample" Based on what criteria, exactly? 606 comparisons is more than enough to rule out large differences, especially considering that the testers wer…

Then use reproducible builds. You inspect the source code, and if it does what it's supposed to, compile it reproducibly, and compare the binary with the official one which has a s…

"I discovered that at least one person in Europe in the 1730s not only knew about Buddhism but had studied Buddhist philosophy for years. His name was Ippolito Desideri, and he had…

> ALCOR does claim that the patient care trust will be enough to cover revival So you understand exactly how it's supposed to work and what I was talking about, and you were playin…

> Which ALCOR etc don't attempt to cover. Maybe you should reread my comment.

> Is it likely to happen? It's hard to estimate, but nonprofits in the West have OK long-term track records and the cryonics double-organization model has worked well since it was …

> that your estate will be able to afford the procedure -- before the company you've entrusted your brain to either makes a mistake or collapses You've misunderstood the business s…