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Re:Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Mar... by foobar10000 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @12:22AM (#43376921)
Personally know of 1 from Ghana and 1 from Nigeria - both engineers in HFT - both emigrated to the US post-college - so not that rare. Is it proportional to population? Of course not. Clearly there's going to be an english-speaking bias and an education availability bias and whatever bias du jour one wants to bake in. I don't think it is controversial to say that being born into poverty hurts - as naively as just accounting for malnutrition, for example, and going from there...
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Re:Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Mar... by fireburning on Monday March 17, 2025 @01:51PM (#43391002)
idk to me bottom 20% is a household thing more so than geographic if you live in Ghana or Nigeria but grew up driving a Maybach or BMW that would't apply if you grew up homeless in the US it would

perhaps ancedotal but the bottom 20% more or less stay the same across generations no matter how welcoming an organization is or no matter if an individual is bright or has a good idea

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