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I just realized: Is porn called smut because it's "dirty?"

Is it your position that the surrogates are criminals, too, or that they're willing victims who are just too stupid to know what's good for them?

more growth -> higher salaries -> higher consumptions more investment -> more growth

Increased consumption is a consequence, not a cause, of growth. It's investment that drives growth.

Methods of Proof did not strike me (a programmer with many years of experience) as particularly relevant to software engineering. On the other hand, it's a very short course, I think about 1800 XP. Discrete math I think should be more relevant. You will definitely get questions about complexity analysis (Big-O) in interviews.

M4ML is a selection of the most ML-relevant lessons from the LA => MVC => Stats sequence. I think it covers about half of LA and stats, and a third of MVC. I chose to take M4ML first in order to benefit from the interleaving of topics, instead of doing the full sequence one subject at a time.

You can definitely do software engineering without all this math. I studied most of this in college and haven't really ever used it, except some concepts from discrete math. There are specific domains where it can be useful or even essential, but you can have a solid career and make a lot of money basically never using math. One of the best engineers I've ever met told me he almost failed out of college because he wasn't good at math.

I don't know much about how much math you need for ML, as I'm not an ML developer. I would start with discrete math and M4ML, just in case.

I finally finished Math Foundations 3 on Math Academy, a course north of 6 thousand xp

Interesting. It came to about 5k for me, possibly because it most of it was review for me, and I blew through it in under a month, consequently not getting many scheduled reviews.

I also finished Methods of Proof, which was interesting although it focused a lot more on integer factorization than I expected, and am now about 80% of the way though math for machine learning. The more complicated linear algebra material was a bit of a speed bump for me, as I had to go back and do some reviewing to get a better understanding of what was going on. I should be ready for their ML course when it comes out, and maybe even have time to finish up the parts of the LA => MVC => Stats sequence not covered in M4ML.

The Complete Works of Saki. Pen name of H. H. Munro, a bitchy gay early 20th century British writer. Mostly wrote short stories, which are delightful.

this study seems to show some convergence in educational outcomes with Hispanics (although it includes all kinds of Asians)

The problem with cross-sectional comparisons of different generations is that each generation is from a different wave of immigrants. This study was published in 1998, using data from students who were in eighth grade in 1988, meaning that the 3rd+ generation were from families that had been in the country since long before the 1965 reopening of the country to Asian immigrants. And 20% of 3rd+ generation were Pacific Islanders and 50% "other Asians"; who knows what that means?

Because the legacy Asians come from very different cultural and genetic backgrounds, you can't necessarily attribute to generational differences to assimilation.

Make more Jews, please. We're running out.

Might have to wait for third-gen. A lot of second-gens seem to spend their whole lives seething with resentment over white kids making fun of their lunches in elementary school.

Where are you from?

And meat. A little in ruminants; more in fish, pork, fowl, and eggs.

Canola oil is unusually low in LA for a seed oil. Also, it has about the same LA content as almond oil, and considerably more than whole almonds, which are only about 50% fat by weight.

Maybe? But there was only a 1.1-point difference in SNAQ score (range: 4-20), so I don't see how that could lead to such a large adjusted difference, nor does it explain the discrepancy between baseline, end value, and "change from baseline."

Right, that makes sense. I forgot what I had said in my original comment, so I misunderstood your response.

I was referring to his 1912 run for President with the Progressive Party, beating out Taft for second place, leading to the unfortunate election of Wilson with only 41% of the vote.

Technically that was a campaign for a non-consecutive third term, not second.

Edit: Oh, I see what you mean. I forgot that I had specified "after losing reelection once" in my first comment.

They have a challenge called "Squid Game," right?

I assumed the "pen" was short for "penis."

Real estate has appreciated over the recent past, but YIMBYs would argue it's just because local governments restrict good land use

I don't think so. Upzoning increases land value, because you can build more valuable structures on land zoned for higher density. The main reason housing has appreciated is a combination of high-skilled workers centralizing in a relative handful of cities, and falling interest rates driving up asset prices. When your asset purchases are highly leveraged (e.g. ten to one on a mortgage with 10% down), this can be extremely lucrative.

I wonder if there's a vicious cycle here, where low intelligence or conscientiousness makes people more prone to overeating initially, and obesity leads to further cognitive decline.

The Statista graph you linked doesn't show positive selection on educational attainment. The fact that the small minority of women with graduate degrees have slightly higher TFR than women with associate's or bachelor's degrees does not make up for the fact that they have lower fertility than the majority of women who have no college degree. It's still clearly the case that the majority of children are being born to women with below-average educational attainment.

But they're only higher-paying than average because they have unusually high disutility. So in terms of net utility gain to the model, it shouldn't be any different.

Nice. I've been in the top 0.5% in Japan for a couple years now, but that's bush league. It might not even put me in the top 5% in the US.

It's not just that it doesn't aggravate the injury. It makes it better.

What I meant by "for stability" is that you probably don't want to do heavy one-handed swings with a fresh back injury.

You can still get a lower premium with a high deductible, right?

Anything's possible, because laws aren't real, but the President has a constitutional mandate to "take care that the laws be executed faithfully," which includes making the expenditures specified in law. Anyone who's "harmed" by the reduction in spending (e.g. by getting laid off, or by not getting the benefit of the legally mandated spending) has standing to sue, and contrary to the histrionic claims of the left, I think the conservative majority on the Court actually cares about upholding the law.