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Exactly. I took all of the AP equivalents of the SAT2s senior year before starting at MIT. It seemed pointless. And my parents paid for each one.

Edit: I meant I took the SAT subject tests along with their AP equivalents.
The post is a little misleading. MIT will still require SAT or ACT, just not the subject tests.
OP called it "quite flawed".

But it is most definitely evidence.
Hmm, I hadn't fully grokked the facet of the problem domain.
I guess you could give users a spoofing mode, that allowed them to fake any ballot / action. Or possibly, if there was a window of time in which they could change their ballot freely.

Maybe making such features both secure and accessible would be nearly impossible though.
> it's politically undesirable to many people who benefit from dead tree voting

Who supposedly benefits?
>NASA helped start the OpenStack...

Does anyone still uses OpenStack? It seems to have been super hyped and then disappeared.
Where is 4K a 2 euro per month difference?
Of course, companies should save to face possible hard circumstances. In ideal world.

In real world, conservative company that save large portion of their income will loose competition with a company that does not have this kind of infinite game thinking.

The events that really test and reward companies with infinite thinking are rare and far between, allowing those without that kind of constraint to flourish inbetween.

Now, it depends what is thought to be public good. It might be in public (US) good to give aid to those companies to keep being competitive against foreign powers. Even though you may not like the fact and you may think it is not fair to reward short term thinking it might still be in your good interest to pony up.

I don't have knowledge and mental model to decide whether this is in fact good or not. Somebody should probably do some kind of estimation of possible effects to figure out what is the right course here.
I wonder if this has something to do with the pandemic.
One should definitely do some research before buying anything expensive. On the other hand I think some models are extremely reliable and despite (or because of ;)) the fancy design far most robust than most PC laptops.

128 GB is really ridiculous, on the other hand it's possible to upgrade that. I think the higher price tag is reasonable for a laptop that lasts so many years. Also for anything compute intensive I think it's anyway more practical to rent out a VPS somewhere...
You can pre-pay and print Fedex labels on their site and then just drop the package at the nearest Fedex box of which there are typically many around major cities. Zero reason to wait in any kind of line.
It also enhances auditability since you can keep a record of all changes in code and run the tooling to see if resources are changing outside of how they were configured. Without those tools, you'd have to develop your own to meaningful ensure infrastructure is setup correctly (it's not practical to hand inspect hundreds or thousands of small components)
Fair point.

Maybe it can better be phrased as,

"what if online marketplaces published their data in an open format allowing the end client to display them however the user prefers"?
There were a lot of evolutionary design algorithms in the 1990's with similar results. This is fun - but I don't think it is going to go anywhere.
BU?
It's crazy when you strat thinking how easy these things are really, just need a motivated person to fuck shit up and youre there
What’s the point in taking SAT Math 2, SAT Chem, and SAT Physics if you’re already sending scores for AP Calc/Stats/Comp Sci, AP Chem, and 3 different AP Physics lmao?

I actually feel silly now for having done that.
> people who talk about things they know nothing about convincingly enough for those who also know nothing about the topic.

Exactly. This is what a room full of smooth talkers looks like: two top journalists agreeing on national TV that 500 million divided by 327 million is greater than 1 million.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/06/msnbcs_br...
That's exactly what the headline says.
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Cheaper for us means cheaper for attackers too. Sometimes inconvenience and inefficiency are features.
It's not unheard of and some work has been done to study if this would be beneficial (with promising results)[1]:

But I offer as evidence two papers[2] in 2005, one in Nature and one in Science. They both did mathematical modeling with influenza, to see whether saturation with just Tamiflu of an area around a case of influenza could stop the outbreak. And in both cases, it worked.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-bril...

[2] Journal references: Nature (DOI: 10.1038/nature04017) and Science (DOI:10.1126/science1115717)
I was pretty sure you're Romanian based on the app's name :)
Sales tax is on top of course, but social security and state provided pension is included in the 40% to 52% here (the percentage depends on total yearly income)

We pay between 0 and 100 euro per month for health insurance, which covers basically everything with a very low co-pay amount (like 150 euros per year max)

Student loans are also much much lower. We pay 1600 euros per year tuition, the rest is government paid.

So the 40% may sound very high, but if you look at what is included compared to what the middle class in the US spends on student loans and healthcare I think we're not much worse off over here.
It's a difficult decision to be made. On one hand, short term strong measure will guarantee unemployment and bankruptcies and potentially long term economic impact (talk about another the Great Depression). On the other hand, inaction will inevitably cause millions of deaths including young people. It's a chilling effect to see that "the point of no return" date was already past last week for NY. Very very disturbing. I live in NYC metro and has never been so frightened and furious in my life of 40 years, knowing that in a few weeks/months myself, myself, my family or my friends and colleague could potentially die, all due to 2 months of Federal Government's inaction.
We have started a virtual friday bar through a slack group call. Drink beers and chat about whatever. Nobody is going anywhere anyway, so why not?
Hm everything is looking good so far. We'll switch to a more powerful machine anyway soon ;)
This claims to use bluetooth proximity sensing of other people with the app, in order to be able to trace corona viruts bearers more quickly.

Interesting to contrast to the US approach of "give us blanket gps and cell tower info".
Honestly welcome change. The SAT Subject tests (at least for people around me in HS) were always considered as a much easier test you'd take after the AP for that very same subject. I just equated it to another way for collegeboard to get money especially since the questions were way more straightforward than AP. I am slightly concerned about what this means for schools where AP classes are not offered (I imagine SAT Subject tests presented the most accessible opportunity for these students to demonstrate their aptitude in a subject).

EDIT: changed wording in response to child comment.
> In fact, most of history the etymology of words wasn't a huge topic because everyone would pronounce the words in their language similarly and thus language wouldn't evolve nearly as rapidly--the phoneme is as important as the lexeme when it comes to language.

Uh, what? How do you think we got more than one language in the first place? How do you think we have entire language families with mutually-unintelligable members? Or what about dialectal continuums? If anything, I would posit that we are closer to your statement now than at any other time, because the printing press calcified spelling -- which could vary quite a bit in the time of scribes. And radio and TV and the Internet have started spreading linguistic innovation faster.
On a fully time division multiplexed (read: no IP packets; just end-to-end multiplexed serial streams) call, it should be no more than ~40 milliseconds of latency from one side of the United States to the next, or no more than quantization delay from the g.711 codec (0.125 milliseconds) when simply traversing the bus of the local switch.

Thankfully, there's discounts stashed here and there for landline phones. Some are easier to get than others, though, and it definitely doesn't help that like with anything else from a telco, the price keeps getting jacked up.
The majority of comments in this thread are an abject demonstration of a failure in reading comprehension.

If only we had a test for that...
Just in case, here is our Medium blog: https://medium.com/emvi
I understand you will like this if you like command line interfaces.
Supply is not an issue:
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/new-commitments-mylan-an...

We need testing that the medical community will accept.
Likewise, there are many skills you can't demonstrate on the SAT such as Spanish language proficiency. For whatever reason I took the French subject test but no AP test, perhaps there are other schools that do this.

The math score might say a little about the other sciences, but the blmultilingual students are going to be disadvantaged by this it seems to me.
Windows now has native Linux: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10, https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18534687/microsoft-windows...

Personally I just recently switched back to a Lenovo Yoga from a MBP and am much happier.
Here's an expert discussing that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpQmMkPj-mE&t=3m8s

I get the impression that it's BS to say "look at South Korea and China, they're beating the outbreak and will soon be able to relax because they have lots of testing and transmission tracing". I haven't heard a single expert suggest that a "second wave" is avoidable at this point. It might have been avoidable if the whole world had reacted quickly and decisively in the early stages, but that ship has sailed.

The CDC also suggested that China was reporting falsified data in January (not surprising). Why should we trust their numbers now?
Just treat it as harmless hobbyism, which is what it is. When engineers are nervous, they build things. That is natural!

Will these open source designs save many lives? I doubt it. Large scale manufacturers working with existing vent makers will do a much better job. But... if it gets thousands of people thinking about artificial ventilation, we might get a lot of interesting new ideas that we can use in the decades to come.
It seems like you disagree with my implication that use of something (in this case, chloroquine to treat covid-19, the use of which seems to be increasing daily) implies its efficacy.

Why? I'm modeling the doctors and health officials who are making these decisions as agents which are presumably continuously evaluating their decisions. So basically:

A lot of experts are taking this action -> assume the action has a desirable outcome -> believe what the experts are saying (in this case both their words and their actions seem to agree with each other, and point to the idea that chloroquine is an effective treatment of covid-19).

I am genuinely at a loss as to why this stance (my stance) is anything other than completely obvious.
This is absolutely stunning.

As they say in ML, representation first -- and this is one of the most natural and elegant ways to represent 3D scenes and subjective viewpoints. Great that it works into a rendering environment such that it's E2E differentiable.

This is the first leap toward true high-quality real-time ML-based rendering. I'm blown away.
It sounds like music for a computer game from the 80ies, early 90ies the latest.
You probably think technology requires science. Not always
And a lot families living with parents, grandparents et Al.
Aren't the AP tests far more difficult than the SAT subject tests? That's what I remember at least for chemistry (maybe?) back when I took both exams.
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I suppose maybe he hasn't gone as far as "fighting with" the President over coronavirus. They've had "fights" in the past on other issues but you're right in that Newsom was very California-focussed recently.

I think Newsom has realized that the federal government was caught with its pants down and will be useless for the rest of this crisis. He needed to step up and he did. Calling California a "Nation State" was a deliberate way of saying "we're on our own and we should be ready for that". It's a dig at the President but maybe not fighting words. It struck me as surprisingly anti-federalist, states-rights positive thing for a Democrat governor to be saying though. If the leader of a southern state was using those words, I'd be relatively upset (we fought a war over this in the 1800s).

The fighting will no doubt resume when this is all over.
I guess not. For most landlords 1 or 2 months without any income is just bad luck.

If we have recession and travel restrictions for a few quarters prices will fall but still, it is just temporary.

You can expect bubble to pop only if there is some change. For example Work From Home becomes a standard and in results there is systematic outflow from urban centers. Or there is long period of inflation and the capital finds better returns elsewhere. Or 25% of population dies.

So I would say there is a chance of housing bubble popping up
but it is not a base scenario.
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Wow, I think I found a new genre of music I love!
Outside of the "cult of Mac", people aren't really convinced on a $1000 laptop-ish device, on which apps are only allowed to run after passing an anal probe from the app store review team.

Which is why Apple stopped reporting unit sales on devices
You can take the AP test without taking an AP course.
Yes, they are accepted on the application. Many of the undergrads at MIT qualified for the AIME. A substantial number qualified for the USAMO or IMO as well - just look at the Putnam results every year.

Frankly, in order to stand out among MIT applicants by demonstrating some sort of mathematical ability on these exams, the minimum is probably USAMO qualification (top 270 of ~200k AMC takers). Otherwise it's a nice thing to have but not particularly unique. Even then I know a reasonable number of USAMO qualifiers who have been rejected.

Source: was a MIT undergrad < 5 years ago
So you still have to submit it, but they won't consider it? I'm confused.
Likewise an Alum here. Wound up doing EE + CS in College and gravitating to AI, and now doing a PhD in robotics! (FIRST wasn't the only factor, but probably the earlier to set me on that path)
Non-invasive alternatives to "breathing for someone whose lung function has fallen below life-sustaining levels" sounds like [deadly] bullshit.

I'm not sure coughing in the shower is going to do it for someone about to die from hypoxemia?
Basically we need a timeout to recover from and reassess a month of negligent inaction. The time to institute a "smart plan of attack" relying on easy testing/public temperature checks/physical distancing was three weeks ago, when we still had headroom to weather the results.
The time buying is to stop the exponential.
My React project with no added dependencies (besides what create-react-app comes with) has a 307MB big node_modules.
The AMR wideband codec is G.722.2 - it's separate from the ADPCM implementation standardized as G.722. The two sound quite different.

Everyone's ears are different, but I can't say I've been crazy about AMR wideband. Linear predictive coding in general has that characteristic underwater sound.
> Luck (of birth) got us into this mess, and luck could get us out.

I'm all in favor of adding some kind of RNG to this process. The overpreparation of the wealthy in all kinds of aspects of admissions gives them a big advantage over those who don't. RNG evens it out.
>while Republicans want to not pay for it

Fixed that for you.
To quote an earlier comment of mine:

So there are four main ways for breathing machines to be powered:
1) By compressed air from a wall port (majority of ICU machines)

2) With bellows (anesthesia machines)

3) Turbine, either dynamic or constant speed with a proportional valve (home use or patient transport)

4) Piston

Let's assume that we use a pneumatic device driven by centrally purified air as that is simplest. The parts then are:

-Gas blending to mix O2 and HP air. In many designs this is done using two solenoid valves.

-A fast, precise, and accurate proportional solenoid valve. This turns the constant pressure into the desired waveform

-another valve for controlling exhalation pressure. Can be another proportional solenoid, alternatively a manually adjustable valve to ensure constant minimum end exhalation pressure (PEEP)

-Flow sensor (range of options, typically variable orifice or hot wire anemometer but other type exist)

-Pressure sensor (silicon waver transducer)

-Overpressure valve

-O2 sensor (highly desirable, arguably you can estimate from O2 blending settings but that will work better on a very well characterised design which this would not be. Anyway O2 sensors are widely used so this will never be a constraint.

-Piping to connect it all together

-A control and alarm system to drive desired waveform based on user settings and sensors

-Patient circuit: Humidifier / heat exchanger, patient valve (one time use), viral filters for intake and exhalation air (one time use), ET tubes (one time use)
Probably the limiting factor as far as parts go are the valves since this is a niche application.
Here's the problem: as a civilisation, if we had to make a hundred million vents by the end of the year it would be easy. Expensive, sure, but not that hard in an emergency.
It is much harder to make an extra 50,000 in a few weeks because it just takes time to turn the machinery of mass production in a different direction.

Let me know if you want me to send my list of ventilator reading. I'm not an expert either, just trying to soothe my Corona-madness by thinking about building things.
Actually, the biggest problem for a very long time has been people downplaying the risks and dangers of this pandemic, questioning the numbers, wondering whether it’s really that bad, and castigating any amount of preparation as “panic”, a word which has become meaningless in its overuse.
So what if it was Ebola? Should we still allow air travel? Cruise ships? etc. People will self regulate to a certain extent but the idea that we kill a bunch of people so we can engage in more or less meaningful activities is pretty dumb.
Given that there may be no SAT or ACT tests administered from March until ????, how will colleges deal with the class of 2021?
from what dr fauci said, they wanted to be sure there weren’t any adverse affects for people who already have covid. But that they know it’s safe under normal circumstances
Wikipedia is misquoting WHO.

> The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health-care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost–effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for safe and cost-effective treatment.

WHO is saying "this medication is the safest medication available to treat malaria". It's definitely not saying "this medication is safe".

For chloroquine they say "* For use only for the treatment of P.vivax infection", so they're not even saying "this is the safest med for malaria", they're saying "for this one type of malaria this is the safest med".
>I know, not a fair comparison, USA is way bigger, less experienced in handling disease outbreaks, different governments, etc, etc. But aren't there smarter ways we can handle this than just blanket isolation & lock downs?

Not if you don't have as advanced infrastructure, quick government, and decisive politicians like Korea, and 1/4th of the country is in third world conditions regarding access to healthcare, or even shelter, etc.
Perhaps. But in this case we are just trying to get around the saturation of medical facilities.
You mean like CSS Zen Garden?
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Since one isn't provided this is the top google result containing the quote [1].

The context of the linked article is that Crowley now works for an admission prep company IvyWise and this quote may not directly reference MIT but his broader experience in this more recent role.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/college-cheating-scanda...
Wow, I just learned something new. These look legit and well-matched to the actual work. It does seem hard to make a "standard" decision test though, it seems each would have to be tuned to the job it was made for.
they also don’t want to spread it to their parents or grandparents and kill them
Just so we're clear: IQ does correlate with income, for obvious reasons.
Considering it’s been less than a month and there are already half trillion dollar plans to help Americans out being proposed, it seems like the answer is probably yes.
In the late 19th century New York City used to send people with serious infectious diseases to a Sanitarium. Unless they could afford to be under a doctor/hospitals care. Most didn't come back.
I'm not denying any of that. What I'm saying is that when you randomly give a person a weak cocktail of random alkaloids and then ask them if they feel better, you're going to get a very unscientific mix of placebo and outright false information.

When you repeat such an experiment on large sample sizes with no control over the other myriad of environmental influences on the subjects, even after attempting to control for confounding factors you're still going to end up with extremely noisy data made effectively useless by just as many contradicting studies which find no effect. You see it all over the place - eggs and cholesterol, coffee harm/benefit, wine harm/benefit. These studies are all intimately highly flawed because they are empirical soft sciences with very little control over the large number of chaotic interactions among and within their subjects.

So when people say things like "drink coffee and eat lettuce to control inflammation during COVID infection" without a disclaimer, they're being [unknowingly] irresponsible, to say the least. Especially considering the dose of active compound in something like lettuce is likely to be totally insignificant.
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Yes, I’m sure lots of people in Italy, Paris and Madrid wishes they had spent more time/energy challenging the notion that ventilators are important as they are letting hundreds of people die every day because of the lack of ventilators.
/s
If only we could take the pressure off the need for a prestige college admission to guarantee that you won't suffer for decades...
While I'm not familiar with any of the people involved, it's very puzzling to me to see some people actively oppose removing such blatant personal insults. Surely changing one string in a package shouldn't be a challenge to Debian maintainers?
If you're not in a Node.js context, the Canvas API does a decent job of rasterizing SVGs nowadays. Once rasterized, you can call canvas.toDataURL() to get a download link. Here's a demo:

https://codepen.io/hypothete/pen/WNvKLEE
So if these open source ventilators are needed in any number, it's going to be dependent on the RC hobby servo motor supply chain?
I think it's the testing that's the problem, more so than the standardization (although standardization can definitely be taken too far to the point that it's unhelpful). You can of course have a standardized curriculum without any testing at all. Countries like Finland put far less emphasis on test results, and a lot more emphasis on teacher's assessment of their pupils. It seems like a much healthier system to me.
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