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- Comment on We Tried to Create a Diverse College Class Without Affirmative Action 8 months ago:
I like this article. This was a good read.
Strategy three (and therefore four) makes a lot of sense. Don’t compare all scores against the pool of every other score; but against other scores within the same context; to identify outliers within an environment. This controls for deviations between environments within the massive “took the sat” sample space.
This seems like a good idea, even if just from a statistical perspective.
If the demographics of the accepted population are different from the demographics of the sample space; then there must be something wrong / some bias within the acceptance process. Over-sampling the under-represented population never felt like the right solution to me. This seems much better.
- Comment on Current account recovery best practices? 10 months ago:
I use a very simple “hashing” algorithm that I can do mentally. If I want to log into a service, I “hash” its name, and that’s my password.
Every service I use has a different password, and I don’t have to remember any of them. I have no keyvault that can be stolen.
MFA is still an issue. You’ll need your recovery codes to be accessible, but encrypted.
- Comment on Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France 10 months ago:
From the HN comments, R&D includes the infrastructure / datacenter costs to support AWS.
Given the scale of AWS, even if only measured by how much of the internet breaks when us-east-1 goes down, I would say the numbers make sense.
- Comment on The Year Ahead in Movies 10 months ago:
This barely counts as an article, smells like an AI, and you can’t read more than a sentence at a time without closing an ad or a popup
- Comment on Your typesetting will look professional, they said 10 months ago:
Make sure to use the “important” modifier, the “Yes Really” modifier, and adjust character by character until you realize you’re missing yet another modifier 🙃