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To me the real question is why a new grad would have lower unemployment to begin with compared to the average worker. Presumably the average worker has more on-the-job experience, …

Reminds me of a quiz tournament that I participated in once, where the answer was “Apollo 11” (eleven), but the host thought the answer read “Apollo Two” and told us we were incorr…

Is their WER graph just completely made up? It’s comically bad

Given how little the US invests in public education, probably never

At one point, apparently it was fashionable amongst teens to type characters by using pinyin and always selecting the first character in the list of options, regardless of the inte…

I once rode a bus from Boston to NYC in the middle of a winter storm at night. The bus got lost and the trip ended up taking close to 7 hours. These buses had TVs for showing video…

This is a paper describing the pharmacokinetics (the rates of various phases of entering the blood and clearing out of the body) for various formulations of the drug, and their hyp…

This workflow is exactly what Descript does. Transcript-based editing, filler word removal, noise reduction, volume normalization, Overdub spoken word correction using the speaker’…

San Francisco has Golden Gate Park, Mt Sutro, Lands End, and the Presidio as forests. I think park maintenance in those places is less to ensure trees thrive and more to keep up tr…

Vermeer made only low dozens of paintings as opposed to, say, Monet, who made thousands, so likely they just mean something like “including one of Vermeer’s paintings, which are ra…

Jenkins was a fork of Hudson. No one talks about Hudson anymore

My expectations for people to take ethical responsibility generally scales with rank/level. It’s hard to fault a junior engineer for doing what they’re told; they might not even kn…

> But if we don’t do our job right, people don’t get paid right, and while that may not have the same immediate impact as a doctor mistake, it’s... very much a real human impact. A…

Maybe they should just RTFA

It’s still a habit OF dying, just not a habit that IS dying

Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does …

Hilariously, you can set multiple timers on the Apple Watch, where screen real estate and battery are even more constrained.

Because most questions are not bad questions. In isolation, if you have good teammates, ideas and questions are good. It’s just that you have to say “No” in the broader context, be…

From second-hand knowledge, the Stanford GSE is really bad at understanding equity and minorities, and routinely, minorities in STEP (the teacher training program) get less support…

Honestly, it doesn’t really work without the parents. The issue is that the biggest problems with schooling discrepancies are poverty. Kids can’t eat, need to take care of siblings…

Except phylogeny generally was used to categorize how hereditarily related things were. Whether sequence alignment or physical taxonomy are better determinants is perhaps an open q…

At least for Kaiser Permanente in the SF Bay Area, which is one of the biggest healthcare providers, they are notoriously bad at covering and providing mental health services

In SF, a similar problem in the public school district (the majority of the budget goes to administration, not teachers or schools) is in part due to tort-happy parents and a huge …

> we shouldn’t be the ones making that call So you believe that your company shouldn’t be constrained by morality? This is why I look skeptically at hiring any engineering and prod…

Neither OT/CRDT nor Paxos/Raft are meant to resist rogue actors. They are not Byzantine fault tolerant.