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> Since there are meaningful zeroes for speed or flexibility or throw distance, it must also be meaningful to discuss doubling the effect of fitness on them.

I feel like something's gotten switched around here. We can measure reaction time with cardinal numbers. Check.

This makes it meaningful to talk about doubling or halving reaction time. Check.

We could attribute part of reaction time performance to the general factor of intelligence. OK... but this will be variable.

It's not obvious to me that if we allot responsibility for someone's reaction time scores among several factors, perform an intervention, get improved reaction times, perform the same allocation, and calculate that the contribution from g has doubled, that we can then conclude that the subject's g has itself doubled.

We want to measure that g has doubled, and we have no numbers for that.
Yup, I'm a dual US/UK citizen. I equate council tax with property tax, the major difference being renters are liable for council tax as well, and in the states the property tax is usually built into the cost of rent. The property tax in the states is also based on the valuation of the home, updated by an assessor every 10 years or so. Interest rates are still universal for mortgages AFAIK.
> Stay away from most of the IDE tooling. You don't need to be fighting the tooling when starting. The repl and "ghcid" should be all you need.

I'm honestly not sure I'm interested in learning haskell if this is considered an acceptable situation.
Sure but parent mentioned things that are virtually un-prosecutable.
You're right the question isn't entirely complete. It was more of a fun discussion type of question in my opinion.
I have not read the book or watched the show, though I want to. Should I watch first then read the book?
I've been playing music since 4 yrs old, and I've become quite a good musician. I really struggled with rigorous practice routines. I had a teacher once validate that my active listening to music was just as good practice as sitting down at the piano. That was a really important affirmation for me, since a lot of parents and teachers force practicing to a punitive degree, to the point where its possible to develop shame and negative self image around "not practicing enough".

Very interesting article!

Here's an analogy: say you get a discount on your health insurance if you visit a fitness center regularly. Except that going to fitness centers got you excited. You don't get anything out of them. But you do like biking, going on long hikes and you do a lot of physical activity in your work. So just because you don't go to the gym, should you give up on your fitness? Heck no! Lean into what energizes you to stay healthy.
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The article talks about music ability defined by them to be rhythm, melody, and pitch discrimination. Not the memorization of a musical piece.
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> Do we need to start linking famous peoples tweets to show that your position is false?

Yes, obviously
The (jurisdictions will have their own phrasing) 'demand' placed upon lawyers is that they are competent at the work they're doing.

The magnitude of knowledge needed to push a company to become public or undergo a merger, to litigate a divorce with children in custody, to defend an individual in a murder trial, or to litigate an aboriginal rights claim is substantial and there is very little overlap between them.

The issue isn't the regulatory requirement for competence - it's that the fields of specialization require years to become decent in.
"Employers that irrationally refuse to hire marijuana users will be out-competed by those who do hire them."

Maybe eventually, in some ideal marketplace.

In the meantime, without such legislation real people will be suffering real consequences, such as getting fired or having difficulty in getting hired because of what's otherwise legal activity they perform outside of work.

Your argument of non-interference could also be applied to all sorts of other laws against discrimination, such as laws that prevent companies from discriminating against people because of their disabilities or because of the color of their skin. We've seen how well "non-interference" in those cases have worked out.
Since one of the Ethereum developers/coordinators had a lot of Ethereum in the DAO they had a bit more pull with the Ethereum code ... :-)
And, perhaps, cause and effect are reversed: people who are gifted see increase of satisfaction (but necessarily skill) when practicing. Then they report that practice is crucial.
What is more wrong -

a parent physically abusing their child when they feel like it (bear in mind the parent is also taking care of said child)?

a parent bound by society reduced to moaning at their child (think kids under 10) hoping to control them?

I know which is more perverse.
They're not at all conflicting unless you choose to interpret them in that way. I think the premise here is very well understood, and it's whether or not any amount of practice can make up for what some would argue is an innate lack of musical talent. The benefits of practice thereafter are incontrovertible.
Practice makes permanent, right?
I think it's more that "fake news" is a subset of propaganda.

Propaganda can be fake news. But it can also be actual facts.
what's with these obviously false journal titles? "Food is a luxury: caloric intake not necessary for survival." yeah, sure.
I have the same conclusion for opposite reasoning; I think marijuana use is a clear and obvious red flag, and employers should be free to compete by hiring better people. Ultimately, I want to be proved right or wrong by forces of market, not by the government saying yay or nay.
The owner will, if they would like the car to be legal to drive with updated license plates. It is a minor but important distinction. I can't speak directly that no states in the US operate differently. but as far as I know, you don't become a wanted person for parking tickets.
> Music ability was measured using the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test (SMDT)

> The SMDT consists of three
subtests — pitch, melody, and rhythm discrimination

The test is of fundamental primitives - not about the ability to play a tune. The study doesn't show that practice does not make better music. For example a deaf person who scores 0 on all the tests, can still visually memorize and practice timings and strokes to produce nice songs.
This article defines 'musical ability' very very narrowly. In discriminatory tasks related to rhythm, melody, and pitch there was a strong heritable component. Keep practicing.
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> Just because a narrative is biased and skewed doesn't disqualify it from being better than other narratives.

It makes it far worse. Very few people take Breitbart seriously but many will take CNN or NYT seriously. The mainstream media is far too powerful to ignore when they push a narrative. Smaller outfits on the far left/right don't pose the same existential threat to our society.
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Is the grammarly ToS more than a CYA? I think they may do it that way to protect themselves from being sued after retaining your work. But I don't like the possibility of them owning your work.
Isn't that solved by RSA? Printer broadcasts its public key saying "hey, printer here, send me the wifi password please". Your phone uses the printer's public key to encrypt the wifi password and send it out. The attacker cannot snoop on the key, because it doesn't have the printer's private key necessary to decrypt the message.
They aren't opposite. You need the practice to learn the music, but it doesn't help (apparently) you determine pitch , or pick out rhythmical differences (which is what it actually tested). It doesn't necessarily mean you play, but it will probably affect your ability to self regulate and learn by ear.
Laughably bad, actually, esp. if you cut your teeth growing up on Neuromancer, Snowcrash, etc. I honestly thought it was written by a teenager, the scene with the Ai's playing poker was when it went off the cliff for me.

Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams, however, is worthwhile and a nice bookend to the new season of Black Mirror.
The long term solution is automate as much as possible and subsidize/invest in education. A robot in china more or less costs the same as a robot in the US. We are never going to be able to compete with the Chinese or other southeast asian countries with human labor costs. The next part of the solution is education and re-education of the labor force. If there is any place where deficit spending can make a real impact it is education. Student loan forgiveness, universal basic income for people going to school (university/vocational/community/etc), monetary incentives for going into highly skilled professions, increased teacher pay, etc. The key is transitioning the workforce to a knowledge based economy. Trying to resurrect the manufacturing jobs of yore is a sure-fire way to slow economic decay.
The utilitarian approach would be to identify the worst n% of the population and pre-emptively kill or imprison them. There would be mistakes for sure though.
I re-read the book a few weeks ago in anticipation of the series. The inconsistencies that you notice are real and present in the source material. I didn't notice them so much the first time I read the book 10+ years ago. The relentless action was fresh the first time around and helped paper over weaknesses in the logic of the world. Also I've apparently become less able to overlook internal inconsistencies with time.

The vast majority of SF uses technologies as cool set props for minor variations on familiar kinds of stories and social dynamics. Star Trek was/is terrible about this too. It's hard for a creator to model the higher-order effects that would be introduced from (e.g.) starships, teleporters, AI, or what-have-you. Do that hard work too well and most of the audience won't be able to understand what's going on without lengthy infodumps. The only current show I can think of that tries to show how technologies could drastically change societies is Black Mirror. Almost everything else is "familiar social dynamics, Amazing Gizmos are just props for the adventure." The proportion of internally consistent works is somewhat higher in written SF, but I'd say over half still follows the Amazing Gizmos Somehow Leave Society Basically Familiar template.
I'm not in any way a supporter of "party" liberalism and would never vote for most mainstream Democratic candidates. And, the world is changing and anointed media outlets providing official agenda and biased spin as truth is apparently over as far as being effective.

(Now that's out of the way): My father in law is a big conservative "fake news" fan. He also watches championship wrestling. I'm not on facebook and don't visit sites of the alt-right persuasion (or really any political persuasion) and so hadn't been exposed to what was happening. And I didn't think anyone really believed far fetched claims. Until we went up for a visit a year or so back and he proceeded to sit with his laptop at dinner proclaiming "Obama is going to jail! it's been proved. He is using someone else's social security number and it's this guy XXX!'. Oh and there was a lot more too! Things I would have believed a rational person of any political persuasion would have questioned. Quite an eye opening experience.

Now, my father in law is not going to be acing medical entrance exams any time soon but he isn't stupid. So I wondered about this phenomenon for a long time. And here's what I concluded. People will willingly suspend rational belief if the payload is something they want to believe or confirms the world of wishes they have built. Smart people, dumb people, all kinds of people.
I don't think there is any possible way someone of even a modicum of intelligence could believe championship wrestling is anything but a falsified show for instance. But he watches it. And he pretends it's real. Because he wants to.

So for all the "smart people" thinking "Oh, I knew it! Only dumb people believe in fake news! And that's how Trump got elected!", different manifestation, same phenomenon. Trying to overcome this tendency is a step towards predictive power but whatever makes a person happy I suppose.
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Ocaml tooling has actually gotten substantially better over the past year or two.

VSCode as an editor that just works.

Opam for package management

JBuilder for managing builds.

Stdlib situation is still kind of a mess, but I think Base (which is just a stripped down Core) solves a lot of the current issues.
This is easy to falsify by having someone else evaluate whether a musician's performance improves with practice. This is very easy to double-blind: just record "before" and "after" performances and don't tell the evaluator which is which. I would be willing to bet that the effects of practice on a musical performance are very easily measurable.
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This is Bad!Science of the worst kind. We have found previouslly undernoticed causal relation A->B. Therefore the sage wisdom of C->B must be wrong, wrong, wrong!!! No matter how many generations of actual practicioners of B have found C to be useful.

Alternative Hypotesis: The problem is that Perfect Practice Makes Perfect. Defective Practice, on the other hand, Entrenches Bad Habits. Since both twins share the same parents, they'll share the quality of practice that they will get. Therefore, the lazy twin of a Perfect!Practice family will still benefit from it, though to a lesser degree than his more dilligent sibling. In a Defective!Practice familly, on the other hand, the dilligent sibling will benefit from his dilligence, and as a matter of fact the lazy twin would theoretically be in a better position to undo the damage if he were to find a better mentor later in life.
Before anyone gets too excited about the headline, the "music ability" test they apply is strictly listening (no playing). It's disappointing that they don't appear to measure/estimate how much of subjects' practice time was spent specifically on ear training.
The problem is that they become worse in prison. I’d be for a policy where once you went to jail you were never let out into the general population — you’d have to go live on an island with ex-prisoners.
How is Ocaml tooling worse than rust? Merlin is very powerful and it gives me everything i want from an editor integration.

I still can't get point-at type to work in emacs/vim for rust reliably(macros make it even worse).

Haskell tooling is good enough(i haven't worked on big projects, so maybe it doesn't scale) now with intero if you use emacs.
I have no idea how to configure vscode, but stack is really simple. This will get you started.

stack new my-project
cd my-project
stack ghci
> main

http://seanhess.github.io/2015/08/04/practical-haskell-getti...

Haskell’s community evolved very differently from JS and the rest of open source. What seems simple to many isn’t necessarily what seems simple to the rest of us. Much of what this community considers simplicity is just convention and familiarity.

But so many people from our world are using it now that things are slowly becoming more “intuitive”!

I understand your frustration. It took me a lot of effort to get over the learning curve. Well worth it. But trust me, it’s easier than ever and getting better
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For the Folding@home project we would love to have GPU compute access widely available from the browser.
Just fine? Hold on.

If you're making $50k a year you net $3,350/mo. 10% of that is $335. So each month you're paying $335 against the $1500 in interest that your $250k loan demands. How is this in any way helping? At the end of the 25 years[0] your balance is written off, right? But then it may become _taxable income_[1]. So suddenly you're writing off $1,000,000 plus your salary, and that hits you with a $487,000 tax bill[2]. Hopefully you've been doing a great job with your savings, because if you can't pay that tax bill the IRS charges interest daily on your outstanding tax bill and associated penalties[4], not to mention they'll demand that you sell off any meaningful assets[3]. Then, of course, this causes another economic crises because 25 years from now, we suddenly have a whole slew of people who are 50 and no longer have their life savings, and may not have their house, depending on how the IRS is operating 25 years from now.

It looks to me like PAY-E is _exactly_ like a student loan in the first place -- a great vehicle for pushing your debt responsibilities into the future with the hopes that some other program will save you. And in this scenario, how are you supposed to attract a mate, have a family, a home, or any sort of hope for the future? Sure, you made a screwed-up decision when you were young and you should be punished for it, I totally agree. My question is, does the punishment fit the crime?

[0]https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
[1]https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
[2]https://pocketsense.com/taxes-1-million-dollars-8063543.html
[3]https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/tax-payments/what-is-th...
[4]https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Maybe we should figure out why they are "psychopaths", rather than locking them up and throwing away the key?
In practice, it is an acceptable (as in, not great, but sufficient) solution.

It is annoying to not have the high quality of IDE tooling you'd enjoy with Java, but in contrast to Java you can be very productive in Haskell even without advanced IDEs (though you would be even more productive with them).

There will be IDE tooling eventually.
Active listening seems to me to have the sams essential for deliberate practice. Is is where you put your attention an awareness.

A punitive practice will not force someone's awareness on the practice. Though someone might be bored and put their attention on the practice.

That has been my experience with music growing up and martial arts later. And software programming.
But if practice is necessary for high-level musical performance, then that implies it has a causal effect on it. This paradox seems to be resolved by noting that where the paper uses 'music ability' it means scoring well in certain traits (rhythm, melody, and pitch discrimination), not being able to perform well.
If I recall correctly, simply by checking only public methods, and assuming protected / private / package private were internals.
> But do you want to invest or do you want to trade?

This is a false dichotomy.

First, just semantically speaking: investors "invest" in hedge funds that engage in speculation via trading strategies across a continuum of risk profiles. Hedge funds take their capital from "investors"; they typically have "Chief Investment Officers", and their traders execute trades in order to fulfill investment goals for clients according to fund-specific "investment mandates."

Second, by actual meaning: investing does not refer only to "value investing", which is substantially what you're referring to. Investors are, in the abstract, people who seek a positive return on their capital relative to another benchmark, where that benchmark is typically parameterized by risk, percentage return and liquidity. Trading is an activity in the service of investing, and a trading strategy is the execution of an investment thesis. The principles that allow for positive returns in value-based investing and index investing broadly generalize to other areas of investing, and essentially map to the concepts of arbitrage and (mis)priced assets in the abstract. Just as you can get invest your capital in real estate or young startups, you can invest your capital in trading strategies.

Whether or not it's wise to pursue a self-managed trading strategy (or seek others to manage one for you) is a completely separate topic; my point here is to emphasize that we're doing a conceptual disservice in education (and an abuse of well-accepted terminology) if we act as though trading and investing are different concepts. A much better way to frame your point here is to use terminology such as "passive investing" versus "active investing."
There are many parts of the world, even parts of America, where for a single woman or married couple to choose to remain childless in the pursuit of wealth would lower their social value more than the extra wealth would increase it.
> Since there are meaningful zeroes for speed or flexibility or throw distance, it must also be meaningful to discuss doubling the effect of fitness on them.

If the effect of fitness on speed is small (as a fraction of absolute speed), then doubling the effect has little to do with doubling speed. If it's large (order unity), then we don't generically expect to be able to double the effect while staying in the regime where intelligence is well defined. These two notions of double are just completely different --
one is a derivative, one is a magnitude -- and it's a mistake to link them.
That's a difficult case, because it's a dedicated device and not a general-purpose computer. Adding a screen reader to such a device could be costly. Of course, these days, even a lot of "embedded" projects use Linux, some embedded flavor of Windows (previously CE, now Windows IoT Core), or even Android. Still, the device would need audio output. And to really cover the bases, for deaf-blind people, it would need to connect to a braille device via USB or Bluetooth.

In my ideal world, all user interfaces would run on the user's main portable computer (currently a smartphone), controlling devices remotely over Bluetooth, NFC, or the like. Embedded UIs would then be a thing of the past, and accessibility would simply be a matter of following the recommended practices for mainstream general-purpose platforms.
There is editor tooling, you can look at intero or dante for that. It works. My point is as a beginner, it is added friction when the focus should be on learning how to use the repl and the language. If you absolutely require an IDE, Haskell is probably not going to be your favorite language.
> How is this "doubtful" advice? Whatsapp and Signal are literally the state of the art of encrypted messaging apps. There simply are no better options. What would you recommend instead?

Custom XMPP server running as a Tor hidden service with OMEMO enabled (https://conversations.im/omemo/). Signal and Whatsapp require a phone number which may or may not be good based on one's threat model.
But this only applies to premeditated crimes, where the system is a factor that goes into deciding whether to commit the crime.

Crimes of passion (i.e. many violent crimes, especially) don't take the system and its deterrents into account.
The consumption habits of people proof this statement wrong. Tabloid newspapers have higher circulation than anything else. In some countries a majority of people receive their news from facebook or other social media feeds. Television channels like fox news draw more viewers than cspan.

The mainstream media is not that mainstream at all. The principle of 'the big lie' still works very well.
> This paradox seems to be resolved by noting that the paper uses 'music ability' it means scoring well in certain traits (rhythm, melody, and pitch discrimination), not being able to perform well.

Exactly. I think the paper is trying to establish that there is some kind of inborn talent that is not affected by practice, even if other things (like performing ability) are.
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