Are the developers at Outlook happy with their search function?

Man, this is a good idea. Every state should have a central database of developer permits that shows how long it takes, so that we can see exactly who and where are the bad actor bureaucrats dragging their feet to please NIMBY special interests.

LaurieWired Even if we WERE selecting for V (not MLAT), we should just pick Math/CS. Note that the V of a Math/CS major is nearly as high as that of a Humanities major) ... and no contest everywhere else. The accurate thing to say is "Recruit high-RAPM from the IOL/NACLO" , which people do

It’s cute that economists think they’re actual scientists

Brief thread on human capital, education, and skilled immigration. The major source of human capital is on-the-job experience; the main function of education is getting your foot in the door for your first job.

Miles Davis composed the Elevator to the Gallows (1958) score in a single session while watching the film. After noting a rough cut, he gathered 4 musicians without rehearsal & recorded it in one take, creating a landmark in improvised film scoring.

fracking quietly it made the US into the world's largest oil producer in a very short time at least some people stopped talking about it because we'd be a lot poorer and more beholden to Strange Countries if we didn't develop the tech

It’s crazy that “peak oil” was about the most wrong prediction possible. So dumb question: Is there just like…limitless oil? Like can we forever just drill deeper & deeper b/c there’s 4 billion yrs of dead organic material beneath the dirt that gives us oil forever?

Phenomenal work. One thing it shows super clearly: Women who know they will never have biological children nonetheless don't pursue different careers, don't get very much more education, don't marry at lower rates! Consistent with NO selection effect on fertility!

Live-Evil Mos Stef Speak the truth and shame the devil. Those are all music execs who made a fortune from exploiting black folks and finding ample minstrels to claim it as their culture. I don't think Bryan Turner and Doug Morris are Jewish but Jerry Heller and Clive Davis sure are. They can own

This is an important point: identical twins are not identical! The process of unfolding a genome into a person is noisy. In most twin study designs, any impact this has on the measured trait will count as “non-shared environment”, the most misleading term in social science.

"unnatural hair colour predicts mental illness with a moderately large effect size, β = -0.33, and there is also a notable effect size for vegetarianism, β = -0.31. … Having tattoos is comparatively a much weaker signal"

Just listened to “Ibtihaj” by Rapsody featuring GZA and D’Angelo Song is 6yrs old but this is hip hop. It’s a shame how uneducated, uncivilized, low vibrational people dominated the genre by placing regional representation about artistry.

Fracking is a perfect case of American exceptionalism -- an innovation that happened here because we have vast natural resources (we have everything we need within our borders, with the exception of coffee), a business environment with extensive financing and legal structures

transformer math: "what if we do big rectangle matrix multiply in a new order" graph nn math: "so anyways, I generalized the convolution operation to arbitrary neighborhood structures and had to reinvent backpropagation in the process. also you need to use complex analysis to

a secret that people don't like is that a lot of the time you can still study things (and even make progress, however small, in them) even if someone else was smarter than you

Westerners are a bit naive in a retarded way. They tend to believe in the goodness of people unless proven otherwise. So you can basically just act nice, and then scam the shit out of them- as long as you don't leave evidence behind that proves you're an asshole, they'll never

Feynman’s second wife, Mary Louise Bell, divorced him because she could not stand his obsession with calculus and physics. She claimed that he was constantly working on mathematical problems in his head, even while driving, sitting, or lying in bed. She also said that he was

MAGA is looking like a psyop. Are you having buyers remorse yet? You should be. The debt is 38T. Government employees are either furloughed or working without pay. High level government officials are moving their families to military bases. Troops dispatched to major cities.

Collectively, humans are more capable than ever. Individually, humans are less capable than ever.