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> there are students whose performance on such assessments is not a good signal of their intellectual ability

Is there a form of assessment that is a good signal of the intellectual ability of all students?

> Probably 80% of the recent PhD grads I know are looking to leave academia, despite the fact that they went into it to pursue a career in academia

Has this changed recently?

For most taxes you expect higher earners to pay more but this is not the case with student loans because high earners pay of their loans quickly whereas lower earners end up paying far more in interest.

An actual graduate tax would be far less regressive than the current system

> so either none of the current competitors are doping or all of them are

The drafting effect in cycling means that a clean cyclist can finish very closely behind a doped cyclist

https://pypi.org/project/formulas/ might help with this without needing the OpenAI part

> It seems like ClosedAI wants their system to follow the desires of some people and not others, but without describing which ones or why

If the problem is "unaligned AI will destroy humanity" then I'd take a system aligned with the desires of some people but not others over the unaligned alternative

> What might be seen as exponential progress could actually be the accumulation of a few tremendous leaps

This is what exponential progress is as long as the leaps continue happening

Thank you for the link to the paper; very interesting!

One construction of the natural numbers that I've seen is

1. There exists an element 0 that is a natural number

2. For every natural number there is a "sucessor" that is also a natural number. (i.e. if n is a natural number then n+1 is a natural number)

This construction means there can't be an upper bound N because then step 2 couldn't be applied to N.

Maybe there are other constructions that could workaround this? I'm guessing not because you'd still struggle to define the usual rules of addition for all numbers in a bounded set

I think that at a networking event 1-2 minute conversations are normal so this isn't a sign you are doing something wrong

Don't you just end up on a "meaning treadmill" instead?

> There’s a huge difference between being there from day one vs day 2,555. Between being a founder and an employee who joined later on

This is true but there is also a huge difference between 97% and 3%

Just saying "36000 die" by itself doesn't tell me very much about how dangerous it is - expressing that as a percentage gives much more information I think.

As another person points out 0.03% is 3 times the risk of dying in traffic which, before looking at the numbers, I would have guessed to be the most dangerous aspect of a trip like this.

You seem to think I am being trite and using a "dry presentation" of statistics to minimise the risks of being murdered by a cartel but I actually find this presentation brings the (large) risk of it home to me much more clearly than with a contextless number like 36,000.

E.g. for the UK the numbers are 0.001% murders and 0.003% for traffic

36000 Mexicans is 0.03%

For more context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... has the risk of death by traffic in Mexico as 0.01%

> some of them talk about their gorgeous cars for the sake of talking about their cars

> My coffee machine is all mine (Gaggia Babila)

Do a search and the websites that rank at the top are the optimised ones

    so I took out a few Google Ads on companies in the same space

This is considered an aggressive move. My guess is their CEO thinks he is responding in kind

The long slow SAAS ramp of death

I am very surprised by this.

I suppose somewhere like Ben Nevis maybe 90% of the people you meet won't have a map and it is possible that places like this will represent a large proportion of the total people you meet when doing a round. So maybe it does make sense that you frequently encounter people without a map doing Munros just because most of the people you encounter are on Munros like Ben Nevis

But the restriction to "non-obvious" Munros doesn't match with my experience

Ridiculous!

It would take longer to get to the moon and back if you walked there. There is no place on Earth that you couldn't get to quicker if your budget was the same

It has been a long time since I've studied this; can you link me to something more about the reals being consistent and complete? Or write a quick explanation in a comment?

I thought there were undecidable propositions in the reals (e.g. cardinality)

I took his point to be that things like "feels readable" and "feels fast" and to do with feelings rather than actual quantifiable things that could reasonably be compared between languages.

So it isn't that those things aren't important; just that they are subjective

It is a signal the the person isn't top talent. Because if they were they wouldn't be desperate

What is crippleware? Does it mean it doesn't work?

You need a whole industry of people telling your customers that these things do work.

I think it is quite difficult to accomplish entirely by yourself

Newish Polar bands (H10, maybe H7) send data on each beat. There are apps that use this to track heart rate variability (the variance in the gap between heart beats) which can be used as a measure of "readiness" in athletes

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio... says you only need a data protection officer in some circumstances. You don't say what your startup does, but unless you are processing a lot of data or sensitive data you probably don't need one.

I'm also not sure that your DPO needs to be European or based in Europe

I don't understand? Are you talking about days in winter where the sun doesn't rise at all?

Not qualified to speak on this myself, but I asked a similar question to a friend and he said something like:

Part of good software development is knowing where and when to create abstractions. Category theory has a collection of interesting and very general abstractions - if you can spot these patterns in your software development then they will be good candidates for abstraction/generalisation

I do some data science type work for a charity. This is only part time but I'd imagine larger charities could employ someone full time at this.

The work is not cutting edge data science at all but I do find it meaningful.

Happy to answer questions on here or email me at my gmail (in profile) if you want more thoughts from me.