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You can't really assess someone's capability of becoming a president/CEO/famous author based on their achievements before age 18. It's also really hard to determine whether people achieved those things because they went to Harvard. For example, getting access to the Harvard network massively increases your chances of getting a business funded, being successful in politics, etc. Finally - Harvard's prestige in the sciences is mostly due to graduate students/professors, not undergraduates.

> The content of the curriculum is largely the same as other colleges.

Maybe in some departments, but Harvard's math curriculum is not the same as most other colleges in the US, for example.
Sure, I still think the consequence qualifies as cutting the nose to spite the face.

Although I don't get why you think you're entitled to come up with a hypothetical scenario but balk at entertaining any questions clarifying it or related hypotheticals. But anyway, agree to disagree.
2 minutes is 1/10 the throughput. If someone is looking for 300 pizzas per hour, like a stadium with occasional games, this probably makes sense.
Similar to https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules
Wasn't that the whole idea of affirmative action?
Maybe it's a scheme to drum up attention for his new upcoming line of "Rule 30 Wearable Cellular Automata Clothing and Fashion Accessories".

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fbz/knityak-custom-math...

They make great tattoos too:

http://i.imgur.com/mct1AFX.jpg

https://geekytattoos.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/wolfram-2-stat...

That one is actually quite controversial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%27s_2-state_3-symbol_T...
Sure. Same applies to CPUs and rdrand... yet here we are.
So, Bill gates, Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Larry Page etc etc did not bring their amla mater's any extra fame?

Is your bar just "do not besmirch the good name of this institution"? Then I guess nobody should care for or covet International olympiad winners.
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People pushing that argument tend to pretend there's not a significant interlinking between race and class in America.
In general I think the community I grew up in (a fairly large community of Asian immigrants) over-emphasizes the role that "getting into Harvard" plays in the trajectory of your life. For most people, the thing that determines long term success isn't getting into Harvard, it's having the internal drive to work hard for it over the course of years. The latter translates into sustained career momentum.

Also, some number of years out of college, I think the test scores aren't actually worth much except as a broad way of bucketing applicants. They are a poor proxy of key qualities like resilience and self-awareness, which, in my experience as both a job interviewer and alumni interviewer, show up much more in the work history/extracurriculars and the way they write/talk.
These are not like for like, because they ignore the relative value of different market segments and of comparative advantage.

Germany produces high-value consumer and industrial engineering products, and financial services. Greece produces tourism and olive oil. Should Greece somehow be forced to produce lifts, yachts, and high-status cars, or is that actually an unworkable - not to mention unhelpful - idea?

This is a major flaw with the current set-up of the EU. Euro adoption has made it very hard for countries to balance imports and exports. Germany has a huge current account surplus, while Southern Europe has an equivalent deficit.

These are structural issues and nothing to do with working hours or even with bad management.

A completely homogenised EU - or international - economy would be a monster. There's no reason why countries should compete directly on GDP when they have such different products and services to offer. But there's nothing in current GDP accounting that supports diverse economic activity without attempting to penalise it.

The ideal would be wealth redistribution between countries. The EU does some of that, but in a slightly random way that seems to lack a coherent EU-wide long-term development strategy.

Edit: it would be interesting to break out the US figures on a state by state basis. I suspect we'd see some very large disparities between the most and least productive states.
It's not at all obvious to me that colonization of another planet, if we're ever in a position to actually undertake it, will involve "plenty of unskilled labor".
Well these seems like an excellent marketing move with no chance of blow back.
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We have the Civil Rights Act which is supposed to prevent this sort of discrimination.

Walmart, for example, couldn't refuse to serve black customers and then claim, "nobody is entitled to shop here."
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Time for unpopular facts: Harvard is more proximate to Europe. Conversely, the UC system favors Asian international students over all others. One could argue Harvard is at least pro-US by comparison. Which is ironic considering they're a private institution, while the UC system is state-funded.

What's especially interesting to me is, based on Asian-American population demographics, those who feel most slighted by Harvard are probably on the West Coast.
This is apparently a segment from the long running futurist BBC programme Tomorrow's World.

https://www.twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/946365140642889728

How many others were reminded of the wonderful Up series which started a couple of years earlier?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series)
That's wild statement, shunted into a category based on skin color? Nobody is shunted anywhere, you are asked on the application what race are you, or if you are biracial, or if you identify as anything else. It's your choice what to put on the application. Everything is determined from your responses. Nobody is "shunted" anywhere.
The government and thus US law.
But many sorting algorithms work in-place, so they don't require extra memory beyond a small O(1) or O(log n) amount for bookkeeping.

When algorithms do require extra memory, they state this requirement as the space complexity.
> . I am honestly quite surprised that we have reached this point with so little opposition from the institutions.

Over here, institutions (primarily academic, though also some government administrations) have been the ones leading the charge.

2004 at a university was the first time I'd heard that you can't be racist against a white person in America, and at the time, it was reasonable to debate that position. Now, if you don't agree with it, you stay quiet unless you want to be labelled a conservative bigot who is too simple to understand these things, both in universities and often in public as well.

Just recently, the city of Portland decided to remove urinals from and make all bathrooms on several floors of a remodelled government building any-gendered. I suspect that people will end up avoiding those and going to other floors for now, but by the sound of it, they want to eventually remove all gendered bathrooms. My favorite quote from the Chief Administrative Officer was "I am convinced that this is the right way to ensure success as your employer"
Jews were kicked out of numerous Western European countries throughout the Middle Ages and early modern era. I hardly think Eastern Europe has a monopoly on anti-Semitism.
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If cars had to be made "fresh", I have a feeling you could say the same thing.

There's already robots that can make frozen pizza at thousands of pizzas per hour...
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This. This. This.

Everyone thinks they can interpret their tests perfectly. Ultimately, the candidates are likely better off. The coded message here is not that they didn't use obvious design patterns but that they didn't code in the way the employer wanted. Which...I suppose is a perfectly fine reason to pass on a candidate.
My understanding was that affirmative action was supposed to correct the under-representation of minorities by eliminating the over-representation of non-jewish whites. Not that it was designed to under-represent them.
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The third link is a dead link, but it looks like it's up here now: http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~andywu/gdca.html

The PDF is here: http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~andywu/downloads/papers/global_dy...
Perhaps because those groups were not subject to the institutional effects of slavery? If I told you that a people were discriminated against for hundreds of years would you be surprised to learn that they statistically under-perform their peers on certain measures? It's like asking why aren't there more Jews in Spain.
The "master key" is just the empty password which means that the effective key is all padding. This is documented in section 7.6.3.3 of ISO 32000-1:2008 (available for free from Adobe's website). There was never any real attempt to keep it secret.
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It's not really new. Industrial pick and place robots have existed for decades.
Sure, but there are at least 4 other colleges that are about as prestigious and selective as Harvard for STEM. Back in my day I think it was something like 1000 kids a year got perfect scores between the two standardized tests, and the class sizes at all of these places is about 1600 (except Caltech which was like 250).

I agree it is about more than grades and test scores, and I did have other stuff too, but that's beside the point. Arguing about that is missing the point of what I intended - what I meant is that if you are one of the better applicants, which I do think I was quantitatively (obviously not good enough lol), you don't need to go to Harvard. Whereas for some of the people getting in who might not have without affirmative action, getting into Harvard is actually life changing.
5.56x45mm? Aka .223 Remington?

7.62x51mm? Aka .308 Winchester?

Only two of the most common NATO standards.
There are also frequently sites that only work in Chrome.

Because they’re now functionally IE
I hope it is ruled unconstitutional. As a citizen of the US I was discriminated against based on the color of my skin while others due to race or gender received tens of thousands of dollars in free money.
I highly recommend James Burke's Connections (the original series if this kind of thing interests you) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XetplHcM7aQ
> not so much between asians and whites.

What are you even talking about? https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

Basically all post-slavery discrimination against blacks happened to Asians. Can you please cite anything that can support the opposite claim? It's typically better to argue with facts than making shit up, or worse, misrepresenting the facts due to a systematic removal of history from history books.

> your own admission if Asian American's "basically own the United States" -- do they actually need help?

Yes. Asians owned a significant portion of the Western United States before they were put in internment too. Simply having ownership of various assets means nothing if the government is not representative of the population -- after all, it is the threat of government force that maintains every individual's property rights. The fact is that Asians may have money, but have little political power.
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the both of them sound like psychos
Honestly not sure why this is being downvoted. UC and Harvard are practically opposites in terms of the character they are looking for. One has alumni interviews for every serious applicant, the other has a gpa cutoff to filter out most students and then still just goes off numbers. Replace the words 'college' with 'job', and this whole thing looks silly.
There's nothing inherently wrong with a linear fit and a linear model is often more accurate than a more ostensibly correct-looking polynomial or complex function which overfits the observed data.

Perhaps you mean that drawing any kind of fit though this data is misleading, when lacking confidence statistics and R2 score - although you could have all those and still do poorly on held-out data, or you could even do well on held-out data and still be victim to confounders or misunderstanding the direction of causation...

I see a line through data as nothing more than a hypothesis, which needs to be backed up with rigor. If it's backed up, there's nothing outrageous about it.
I'd be curious to meet or read about those Harvard students with the lowest SAT scores of their cohort (assuming the minimum is not 1600), since they must be extraordinary in some other ways.
Right. By admitting mainly legacies and the old-rich, Harvard is just doing its patriotic duty.
Ah didn't realize you weren't OP. I think any programmer that operates in the realms of microseconds probably would understand the overhead of both the hash function overhead as well as the coherency issue. I'm not a lua programmer but I remember studying the LuaJIT source pretty extensively.
There are so many studies on this if you're actually interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

Regardless of whether family wealth is lost over time, non-black families still hold more wealth than black families by several multiples.
The US Jewish population is 90-95% Ashkenazim. It's unfortunate that Americans sometimes forget about the minority of Sephardim and Mizrahim, but for the most part the assumption that Jewish American == Ashkenazi holds true.
Who’s actually doing this? In a way that is actually documented? Most evidence I’ve seen of this happening has been hearsay.

Note: Trying to make the applicant pool more diverse is not the same as hiring someone solely because of diversity.
I'm just sharing my experience as it relates to the article, no need to be inflammatory. Take home assignments are a pretty common assessment tool and many candidates prefer it to getting grilled on DS/Algos on a whiteboard.
i'm interested if wealth is an omitted variable here. how does a 10k increase in household income effect probability of acceptance.
Amazing. Would be really cool if this got integrated with Three.js, which last I checked doesn't really have a global illumination story.
Yup, I've given up ages ago. When confirmation bias has hit supercritical level like it has here, there's nothing anyone can say anymore that will change the minds of those holding the consensus opinion.
Found a few passages in Free as in Freedom (https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/faif-2.0.pdf):

>A December, 2001, Wired magazine article titled “The Geek Syndrome” paints the portrait of several scientifically gifted children diagnosed with high-functioning autism or Asperger Syndrome. In many ways, the parental recollections recorded in the Wired article are eerily similar to the ones offered by Lippman. Stallman also speculates about this. In the interview for a 2000 profile for the TorontoStar, Stallman said he wondered if he were “borderline autistic.”

>In recent years, Lippman says she has taken to reading books about autism and believes that such episodes were more than coincidental. “I do feel that Richard had some of the qualities of an autistic child,” she says. “I regret that so little was known about autism back then. ”Over time, however, Lippman says her son learned to adjust. By age seven, she says, her son had become fond of standing at the front window of subway trains, mapping out and memorizing the labyrinthian system of railroad tracks underneath the city.

>Watch the Stallman gaze for an extended period of time, and you will begin to notice a subtle change. What appears at first to be an attempt to intimidate or hypnotize reveals itself upon second and third viewing as a frustrated attempt to build and main-tain contact. If his personality has a touch or “shadow” of autism or Asperger’s Syndrome, a possibility that Stallman has entertained from time to time, his eyes certainly confirm the diagnosis. Even at their most high-beam level of intensity, they have a tendency to grow cloudy and distant, like the eyes of a wounded animal preparing to give up the ghost. My own first encounter
So, the Linux kernel can't just persist 32 little random bytes? That shouldn't be hard. Even giving a seed for the first boot (or when booting a VM image) shouldn't be hard. Heck, we don't even need to collect entropy. Like, ever. Just use Chacha20 with fast key erasure and be done with it.

If your system is too small to be able to persist 32 bytes, it's probably too small to perform any amount of meaningful cryptography anyway.
It's a personal rating not a personable rating.
Sort of. They certainly could take a class that had only perfect scores, and they also certainly select based on other criteria, but selecting on these other criteria seriously impact the typical scores of admits. I think Caltech students do noticeably better on every quantitative metric, both in terms of means and medians.
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The comment is illustrative of the fact that a portion of the people counted as remediation for American slavery and discrimination are not only not the descendants of American slaves, but actively parrot bigoted attitudes against them.
I'm sure there are plenty of dipshit kids who got admitted based on their family's history and donations to the school. I'm also sure that if a couple people meet at Harvard and have a kid, that kid has a way-better-than-average chance of being really smart - smart enough to get into Harvard anyway. The genetic lottery creates a big self-selection bias here. I'd be interested in seeing more stats that could help illuminate what percent of this group (alum, athletes) are dipshits vs genetic lottery winners who are legitimately worthy.