Viewing profile — fatdog

didn't notice them controlling for the overwhelming gender skew in HR and recruiting. The callback and phone screens imply that upper middle class women in law firm HR depts are fi…

I have, scored poorly. There is only a slight advantage to comp.sci ability, but with a significant downside risk. There is a tendency in STEM to solve the class of problem (e.g. a…

This talk is a rare example of what I would call beautiful thinking. If I interpreted that correctly, implementing a turing machine in CGoL that runs CGoL was delightful.

wait, so reading this over, there has not been a previous warning, and the implication is that this person is pretending to be a moderator, which would be totally nuts.

Your forum, your rules, but setting it up as principled seems a bit much. A slur requires a specific target, where I made an oblique statement about culture being a cause of less s…

People should hire the people they are most comfortable with, and when they succeed (or fail), they can be examples to their communities. I inherited a culture with the expectation…

Where is the line between assertiveness in an environment where people are so-called "equals," and harassment? People (men, women, etc) use leverage to achieve their goals, and mos…

Maybe they just take it more personally when they have chosen to victimize their identity? A lot of white guys in startups recognize racial nepotism and can't call it out, so inste…

How is women dealing with harassment different than men dealing with other men who are just assholes? I've been in a number of companies where I've had to call out the behavior of …

There could be a diversity effect in their data, given demographic changes as a consequence of immigration patterns, relationship to authority, and cultural attitudes toward alcoho…

Gladwell has written a predictable hatchet job of a perceived libertarian hero. Surprised that it was him, not surprised it was done in the NY-anything. More interesting question i…

Can't say for what/where, but, yes. Use it to super-scale work of human analysts who evaluate the quality of some stuff.

Work in software, key problem in my industry is a lack of leadership.

decision :: ([slides], hope, naivety, GSachsClient) -> greaterFool naivety = foldl hope slides map naivety GSachsClient ah who am I kidding, I could never get the hang of monads an…

Fascinating. Just reading about probabilistic data structures in general, and would like to know if there is an efficient general method for generating statistics about the FN rate…

Can we train up a sentiment analyzer on the delta between the stories and comments this week vs. all others, and then apply it to discovering "political discussion?"

What is hilarious about "general problem solving skills," is that when you actually master something with instruction, the person who teaches it to you tends to tell you the reason…

What kind of mobile filesystem wipers and SIM wipers are available? I use Signal for txts, and while I believe it does not store plaintext txts on the SIM card (haven't analyzed it…

It's important to discuss. There is a lot of stuff out there that screams snakeoil about MCT and coconut oil products, and it can have the effect of both discouraging legit researc…

not to reply to own thread on theme, but want to also add ketogenic diet was also used for treating "epilepsy," now known as a general class of seizure disorders, which are related…

There is related work on dementia as well, wish I could find it. Something to do with increasing dietary ketones (using oils) to make up for glucose processing issues in people who…

Left needed a new boogyman because the old ones were getting stale. "alt right" is a perfect candidate. If you believe people who agree with some of the alt-rightist views must be …

Great honeypot as well. If a malware analyst dumps one of their intelligence agency canary strings from one of their spyware packages, they can use it to track the discoverer. If I…