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In my opinion this is one of the worst aspects of the bay area and california in general. It is my understanding that it is very easy to get land set aside for environmental reason in california and that is used to stop development. Then I read about minimum lot sizes in places like San Jose and locals getting together to block new construction.
I think that San Francisco should look like Tokyo at this point with high density sprawl that takes an hour to cross on a bullet train. Keep in mind they get earthquakes over there as well.
I know it is unlikely but this is the kind of thing that I could see causing a "Detroit Type" situation to emerge with US tech. Other countries figure out the software thing and we get hit with global competition that we can not respond to quickly enough. Rather than pointing our fingers at the autoworker unions we will point it at the nimby types that kept San Fran from reaching its full potential.
"It actually _is_ of value to have consistency between multiple sections of introductory classes and as preparation for follow on classes in the same sequences (e.g Calc 1, 2 3 having similar structures in class organization)"

Apparently, learning the material better is more important to future success than consistency: the students in his classes did better in the following classes by .17 grade points than students from other (presumably more consistent) classes.
Very well written. It reminded me of the writing style of Paulo Coelho, though I am not his big fan. But this article/story I like.
> Some places suffer from excessive advertising, other places are energized by it, and the actual contents, presentation, placement, and other details, all of which are intimately tied in with the local culture, matter a great deal as well.

São Paulo was very much like that. Billboards were all over, some were captivating and cool and there were even innovative moving billboards people talked about. Small businesses got creative with theirs and changed their façades in ways that were immediately recognizable. Brazilians are very connected to advertising, so much so that it seeps its way into popular lexicon and shape colloquial language.

Yet, no one misses them now. No one has asked for them to come back. No one will.

Ads are much less an intrinsic cultural phenomenon than you think. We think they matter to culture simply because they exist, but their absence has no important effect on it.
If you have a fixed mindset, it is probably difficult to have fun with something you want to learn if it just constantly makes you think you are unintelligent.
Veering a bit off-topic: I used to get video games when I was younger, and played them obsessively, but around the age of 18, I almost completely lost interest. I occasionally will play online games with friends nowadays, but I do that more for the "hanging out with friends" enjoyment. The game is just a vehicle for that.

I can't play a single-player game for more than 5 minutes without losing interest.
Law pretty much requires you at least be comfortable with some douchey stuff. It's very classist. Some of them look like you just murdered a baby if you got mcdonalds for lunch. Their version of nerd is pretentious yuppie.

It's not far off from working in tech and not being a nerd. Maybe even worse since nerds don't actively look down on regular people the way lawyers do.

I suspect the reason why women find the nerd culture more off putting is because being nerd is sort of bad. So thinking tech is nerdy means tech is embarrassing and undesirable. Not that they won't fit in. They don't want to fit in.

Either way, the solution is to encourage some women to do tech and they can trail blaze. Then future women can see that you don't have to be a nerd to do tech.
First, if success is defined by profit, then where do advocacy for justice, safety, and protecting the commons fit in? They are just as important for government to hear about as profit-generating business interests.

Second, that argument sounds like Laissez-Faire economics, where those who succeed are enabled to succeed more. In practice, it leads to imbalances and winner-take-all problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire#Critiques

On the other hand, excessive regulation can suffocate innovation. So you need a balance. The debate comes when you try to figure out what the balance should be. In academia, that balance includes disclosure, peer-review, and openness. It's far from perfect, but we're working on it.

But this article is mostly about government and policy that is informed by research, and the serious imbalances, information asymmetries, and lack of voice of non-business interests.
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If what he Dr. Coward says is true, and I have no reason to doubt him, this makes me sad as a Berkeley alum. I remember taking Math 53 with an awful professor who could barely speak English and refused to cover the material, asking us to just read the material ourselves and ask him questions. This professor had been there for many years despite repeatedly getting in trouble for failing too many students (that he neglected to teach). This is unfortunately the state of universities now, teaching is nothing, research is everything. Lecturers are treated like crap and barely scraping by. I wonder when the devaluation of teaching will catch up to us; maybe another country that values teachers will be able to attract more of the best students in the world.
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Let me rephrase what I said for clarity: the biggest issue now seems to be men not speaking up against their detractors for fear of being ostracized, of being labelled a member of a group with negative connotations, of facing a large internet backlash.
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Thanks for your post, sounds familiar. We have (http://keepwomen.com/) talked to lots of women, who left or were thinking about leaving tech, and many of them mentioned how hard it is to "fit in". Many of whom ended up changing jobs eventually found a better cultural fit in another tech company and enjoyed their job more.
1. This comment does not at all address the actual article, which includes a decision in which individual investors and the mutual fund companies that sell them products both have "an actual stake", and yet only one of these has the organizational infrastructure to commission a study that aims to

2. . . . "vote[s] themselves a full stomach" by preventing regulation requiring them to act in the best interests of the people who they are giving financial advice to.

3. This comment then notes that the US is "explicitly designed" so that those with more money have more power. I suppose this historical note is meant to convince the reader that this is a good thing, but that seems pretty bizarre.
True, it's a bit idealistic. I absolutely agree there is serious potential for mis-use here.

However, I think the benefits of life longevity are very serious, and if we can overcome some of the issues they cause, we should do everything in our power to find new ways to extend life longer and longer (or at least provide it as an option for people).

In the next 100+ years when this starts looking a little more feasible, hopefully people will have better perspective and insight into these issues, and will establish ways of allowing society to progress and not be anchored by a group of early-immortal voters, legislators, or perhaps tyrants.
"<snip> then it should be possible to program that model across platforms and software and still yield consistent results with different sources of random input data."

This hits too close to home for me not to comment on. I do basically exactly this - redevelop models into production-quality code for broader deployment. I do this for 'closed' models as well (code that researchers do not have available for download from a website, for whatever reasons - mostly because they don't care, which is fine). Models being 'closed' this way does not make them 'black boxes' or 'not reproducible' - whatever the code does, needs to be described in the paper(s) anyway (the concepts, not the implementation details).

The way to do a baseline verification of the implementation of models is by having minimal synthetic data sets and doing unit tests on them. Usually people develop their model based on their full 20000-observation or whatever data set, with numbers with 15 digits etc. - the only way to spot mistakes in such an implementation is if they are several orders of magnitude off.

I once found a calculation in some Fortran code that mistook kilometers for meters (or the other way around, can't remember; either way, the result was that one component of the model was off by a factor 1000). This hadn't been discovered in 10+ years, by many users, some of whom (much to my horror) actually used this model to advise on subsidies for certain sectors. Now, it's not that the results where completely unreasonable, because someone would have noticed; it's the small mistakes that are the worst, especially when they are non-linear. Despite that and many examples like it that I have encountered, it proves to be nigh impossible to change software development hygiene of most researchers.
I assume by grade point he means GPA (i.e. out of 4.0). So 0.17 is actually fairly significant.
> they would make ugly comments about clearly not having a life that they were posting there outside of work hours.

How is this a "small linguistic detail"? It has nothing whatsoever to do with using 'he' as a gender-neutral pronoun; it's on a completely different level.
The math department here traditionally doesn't hire long-term lecturers, as mentioned in one of the email chains Coward attached.
Palantir is named after an item in Lord of the Rings. From what I've heard from friends working there, they have an internal conference called HobbitCon, meetings rooms named after LotR, and refer to their office as "the shire".
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Not the only skeleton in the UC Berkeley Mathematics closet - see the story of Jenny Harrison [0] for another example.

[0] - http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-02/magazine/tm-30007_1_j...
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Student evaluations are heavily influenced by perception of the professor's personality. Look on Ninja Courses and you'll see what I'm talking about. Coward has a cult of influence that makes him seem like a close friend to his students, and this no doubt skews his ratings and potentially distorts students' perception of the professor's performance as a teacher (rather than his personality).

There are professors whose teaching quality is actually proficient and sometimes excellent, but whose student evaluations are marred by the fact that they can't speak English well, they have social deficiencies (e.g. Asperger's syndrome), etc. Student evaluations are flawed in the same way intelligence tests are flawed; student evaluations favor professors who speak and communicate most closely to the popular consciousness of students at the time in the same way intelligence tests are biased against non-native test-takers (some questions posed on intelligence tests may use culturally native objects).
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I'm not really qualified to be talking about psychology, but I'm a reductionist and a bit of a loud-mouth so let's get started...

Icanhackit suggested that these present traits are "extrovert" in nature, however there are traits that are feminine that are extrovert as well - communication, team-building, etc.

I'd argue that if a male or female can have good communication or team building skills, we should really do away with any gender connotations and just focus on the fact that it's an extroverted skill. I've worked for a female who possessed what you might call masculine behavioral traits, but from what I know about her she'd been that way her whole life.

I suspect that because she and I both lived and grew up in a secular environment there wasn't as much of an emphasis placed on gender roles. Now with that massive sample size of 1 person we can, perhaps haphazardly, deduce that some gender roles aren't innate to a persons gender. Of course men and women are different and do react differently to various forms of stress and stimuli, but a good portion of behavior stems from culture.

So what do we gain by not forcing gender-specificity upon certain behaviors? We can see people as independent from their appearance and treat them in a way that doesn't pigeonhole them with certain expectations.
First question is, did anyone claim their models would have predictive power, and what sort of uncertainty margins did they set. Economics and other social science modeling is not 'R square > 0.9, let's go to the pub!' (apart from the fact that a regression model is not even a model as it applies to most processes from these fields, but that's a different discussion...).
I've been known to waste some time on a midsized MC server and the solution there was volunteer moderators and a willingness to ban misbehaving users. Watching chat also helps, since the dong-builders are also likely the ones being inappropriate in chat.?
I have a triple major from Cal with math among them. All I can say is that Berkeley math classes were the most brutal, boring, and demotivating classes that I've ever encountered. For the longest time I tried to suck it up and blame myself. Luckily, since then I've had enough great classes and mentors to realize it really was the department and its professors that made me miserable, and I overcame the massive GPA drop and near-suicidal tendencies that Berkeley Math drove me to.
The Bible, which is the voice of God, tell us to actively seek out immortality, and to raise the dead, and to preserve vital information inside of us until the resurrection. The Bible tells us that God's ultimate goal is to defeat death, and that he has prepared us to defeat death for him. Our powers of reasoning are the tool God gave us to defeat death for him.

The Bible tell us that the righteous will live forever on earth, but that the righteous will comprise only a small fraction of humanity. The righteous are those who 1) help to raise the dead; 2) preserve vital information inside themselves even while dead, until jesus returns; and 3) actively seek out immortality through deeds....those who sow immortality will reap it. God helps those who help themselves.

More here:
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> (Also compare a system like s6-rc or serel where dependency graphs are compiled from manifests and consistency checked before being applied. The graph is persistent configuration and not an ephemeral artifact.)

I agree with that point. This would ensure it can start with the last known-good configuration (though there is a chicken-and-egg problem here). As a user of XMonad, it's nice to know that I can mess up my "configuration file" (which is just Haskell code) without worries (unlike with what a WM like Awesome), which is probably the only thing about having Turing-complete configuration language I like.
Except that this isn't just petty political infighting among the faculty over office space and such. It affects students' educations, which are pretty high stakes (the main purpose of the university, some might even say).
There should be more research in meta-learning. How to learn things that eludes you far too much. Rewire your views deeply. And how to perceive 'progress' while interacting with blind spots.
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> Why not help both men and women? Why does one need to be first?

Because whenever there are limited resources available to help people, there's going to be a need-off to decide who takes priority.

A lot of politics flows from this. This is why you will often find lots of jockeying for position and heartstring-pulling from nonprofits and NGOs. If you don't do well enough in the need-off, you might not get any resources.
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I agree, it is hard to talk of free-market solutions when there are so many government restrictions and regulations already in place. You can't make more houses if there is not enough area on a give plot, unless you build up, which is not easy to do safely, and inexpensively in a seismic zone. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and lived in Manhattan later. I had no problem seeking a life outside of NYC when I couldn't afford it. My father moved out of the apartment he was in for over 40 years, and found a new place for a bit more, that has given him a new life and social circle. It's not always a bad scenario. You find your way or place.
> they design a model... pump random data into it and see how different changes effect the model

?!?!

This is such an odd way to demonstrate results about a model. For hypothesis testing or preliminary research, sure. But as a result?

> If we've defined a mathematical model

...then the way that we establish properties about the model is by writing a proof.

What am I missing?
The article tries to present Stanford as relatively unique in this light — which is great for Stanford but potentially bad for the overall ecosystem. It shores that up with the vacuous statement about how it is "unclear if Stanford is the only major U.S. university [...]".

A few minutes of online research (or perhaps an hour(s) of calls to registrars) would have resolved that. Then she could have made a concrete informative statement like "[?All] of the top 10 ranked schools (via US News and World Report) have seen a significant increase in female computer science majors." and/or "MIT & [...] also reported that CS is the most popular major for women."
I'm only half-joking here -- I wonder if the n value is too small for statistical significance?
Computational, and also how much does it add to the 'fun' in the gameplay? City builders aren't about modeling how real cities work, they're about providing a fun gameplay experience. Which is fine, but orthogonal to the question of whether modeling agents in the way mentioned is the 'best' way to model a urban system (to which the answer is a solid 'maybe sometimes', but that's a different discussion...)
Beer seems more in-line with bro culture than nerd culture. This particular article seems more against corporate nerd culture than against corporate bro culture, but I've definitely seem articles speaking out against brogramming culture. Bros and nerds are quite different things (even though it seems like there are a lot of hybrids in Silicon Valley), but it seems to me that the only way to not alienate anyone is to have zero corporate culture.
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The window etchings are definitely the worst. Thanks for making the window basically unusable, taggers.

edit: here's an example of an nyc subway car from the 70s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City...
> Thus as a girl, you're forced to act more masculine to achieve business goals. But it's hard to suppress your natural state of being. Additionally girls are still expected to (and want to) act feminine in their personal relationships so women "who want to have it all" have to toggle back and forth between being masculine and feminine. It can be exhausting.

It's exhausting for men too to switch from exact equals professionally, and then being dominant romantically. Sheryl Sandberg says more women should ask out men, given that equality in romance carries over into the workplace, but that seems pretty low on feminist concerns.
I think the stakes are quite high. If he is truly a superior lecturer, at stake is the calculus education of over 800 students per year at one of the top schools in the nation, many of whom will be future scientists and engineers.
If he's this good sounds like it would make sense to build him an online platform for offering his classes over the Internet to the world rather than letting him suffer in that toxic environment. Let's set him free!
Funny enough, this is a recent feature that I value significantly. I've fallen behind on culling my following list, so I frequently see things in the "while you have been away" list that I value but which I would have otherwise missed. I hope it never replaces the strictly chronological feed, but as long as it's there and clearly marked, I'm quite happy.
You've voiced my own feelings exactly.
You are right in this. New people will pay more property tax when purchasing their property, and thus pay a bigger share for the new infrastructure. The people who lived there before hand will be still paying around the rate that they moved in at.
> It's complicated. But monocultures are certainly terrible teamwork oriented groups of people—I think we can all agree with that.

I don't know. That thought sounds kind of monocultural.

So -- first, empathy. I've felt cultural shock. I've lived places and done things where many people around me lived lives that made no sense to me.

Second -- that's not just a snarky one-liner. I'm suggesting that your notions, as explained, constitute a different kind of monoculture. You've gone up a meta-level. Instead of everyone having the same interests, you now expect everyone to have the same general attitudes.

Don't you want people with different attitudes around? If you encounter someone with different attitudes, isn't that an opportunity to expand your mind and come to understand a different perspective?
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> I've read about a lot of evidence that more diverse groups make decisions significantly better.

You have to be careful with this one. It only applies to certain kinds of diversity and certain kinds of decisions, and even then only over a sizable number of decisions. It's not as simple as diversity makes things better, full stop.

And this is without weighing costs!
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The issue is that if wealth inequality were to come about (e.g. due to health issues, war, etc.), a rebalancing of sort would take place in order to address it.
The existence of people who do jobs like that does not imply that $50K sunk into an academic degree on a related subject is a good investment, unless Temple somehow has much better outcomes than other art / design related programs.

Regardless of the payoff, the weird thing is that stories in this genre really disproportionately mention people with degrees in some art / design field, like MFA-in-puppetry guy.

http://www.thenation.com/article/audacity-occupy-wall-street...