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>shouldn't students have the right to get the exam grades they actually deserve?

Look, nothing I've seen here changes the base fact that if you were a good students getting good grades, you are going to be OK.

It also doesn't change the base fact that mark inflation exits. That some schools will grade higher than others for the same academic performance.

So no, you don't have a 'right' to a mark you haven't earned. If you had weak course marks in a school that inflates marks, you don't get to the spot of another student that worked hard during the term and was in a school that did not inflate marks.

I have yet to see a good argument that this model is bad (and it may be), or percentage of students have gotten a grade that is out of line with expectations. Also, I do support an appeals process for the cases where the algorithm just got it completely wrong.

>I was at best average in secondary school and I had to kick it up a few notch for the national exams (Portuguese A-level equivalent)

If you were a bad students, or a student on some margin, you were always going to rely on luck to get through. What if the the set of questions on the standardized test just so happen to coincide with areas you were weak in? I was in situations where I had a weak grasp on course material, but the exam just so happened to have questions in areas that I was strong in and I got a higher mark than I probably deserved. It happens. But again, things just average themselves out over time and students will end up where they 'deserve' to be.

>Under your "meh" style, I'd have lost at least a year before I'd be able to enroll in un

I'll play along. Let's say you had weak course marks and you were hoping to use the test to boost your final score to get into the school of your choice. Then covid happened and you weren't able to. Well... take that as important life lesson. Don't slack off until the end and hope that you can make up your grades with the exams.
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You can define an expose a C interface to Nim libraries, as you can with C++. See https://github.com/c-blake/lc/ and the extensions/lcNim.nim, for example. lc happens to load it from Nim, but the produced shared lib could also be dlopen()d from C.
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How does one get started with building a rendering engine? I would love to get some guides on this. I agree that there are inherent problems with css with how complex it is now
If you work at google you can go find those studies yourself, they are public internally. At least you could when I worked there.
The difference is that Nvidia would be a customer and the owner of ARM at the same time. An Nvidia controlled ARM will primarily exist to make Nvidia happy at the expense of all other ARM customers.
> It's good to quantify and ballpark that damage instead of leaving it as an intuitive guess. If public policy demands the trading of lives, at least it shouldn't be done by way of blind poker.

Yes, except that once the COVID situation is under control (assuming it can be controlled; some might say that's a big assumption), lots of people will be monumentally pissed off if this kind of study is used to justify ongoing restrictions on attending sporting events, concerts, etc.

Everything in life is a risk. What I am painfully aware of at the moment is that whilst everyone I know is willing to follow government guidance related to COVID and to continue doing so for as long as is necessary, we are all craving a return to normality, and are unlikely to be tolerant of tenuous justifications for continuing restrictions after the crisis has passed.
I'm in Southeastern VA. We had our first hurricane this year in early August, which is very unusual for for region. July was unusually hot with no rain, and now August is nothing but rain every day. What's most interesting to me, however, is that it seems that weather prediction models have literally stopped working all together. I use Windy.com (incredible weather site if you haven't tried it) and you can look at the ECMWF (aka European model), NAM, GFS and Meteoblue models. ECMWF is the most accurate model we have, and it has always been very reliable in my experience. Starting this spring, it seems the model has become wildly inaccurate. It can't even predict the weather anywhere close to accurately even the same day. Highs and lows are often off by 10 degrees F, and rain...forget it.

I don't know the exact source of these inaccuracies, but I would be willing to bet climate change has broken some of the assumptions that these models rely on to make their predictions. Those factors may be in a state of flux so that the model can't even be corrected at this point.

I would be very interested to hear from anyone else who is familiar with ECMWF and has (or hasn't) noticed the same problems.
Sorry, I meant "right now". Apologies
They got $450M per year.
What happened to the missing ~$200M?
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This comment is dismissive and doesn't seem to be relevant. Of course insane weather in location X may not be insane in location Y.
NYC is absolutely seeing the same. Many people went to homes upstate and will not come back. Rents are falling even if some of it is masked with hidden rebates (no broker fee, free months).

It is going to be starkest probably in San Francisco though because 1. Rents were actually higher there to begin with (though they had begun to deteriorate) 2. The employers there are weighted more heavily toward companies able and willing to embrace remote work (that is, tech companies).
Yes, basically my response was about how the parent's issues are solvable and don't make things a non-starter.
Everything is packages in RPM, so simple dnf install on bare metal or in container is enough.
I have a hard time believing this study. Anecdotally - I have about 10 years experience in assisted living homes (read early stages for dementia and Alzheimer's) and I can't think of a single dementia resident that wasn't thin as a rail. I also can't recall a single overweight resident that had dementia. Grain of salt and all that.
Ooh, I didn't realize Status (the company behind Nimbus) is financially supporting the Nim team now.
Well the entire linked article and this entire thread (and all the others) could be boiled down to "Just learn [kubernetes,docker,whatever] then?" but that's not super helpful.
> All things considered, spending 50-100 hours of your free time solving problems on a free website at your leisure is really a small price to pay.

The problem is - it's not 50-100 hours for most candidates to pass. I've done well past 400 hours of interview prep and never received an offer from Big N. I tried the consistent 1-hour or so a day for months thing - it isn't guaranteed either. Want to emphasize this point to - it isn't like I can't do the problems. I've solved most any problem I'm given - it's that it just doesn't fucking matter. Whatever bias the person has is what they will evaluate on - the problem solving is merely a formality.
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What would you keep ? :)
You've used the seniority-based discontinuity in the tax basis among SF rental properties (ratcheted by Prop 13) to argue that property taxes don't matter for rental prices in general. Just because some landlords end up being privileged and pay negligible property tax, doesn't mean that the tax doesn't affect the system as a whole. New landlords who want to rent out their properties still factor it into their calculus and compare that against investing their money elsewhere, which affects supply.
This paper describes a sunshade launched from a large expendable rocket of current technology

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/16878140177192...

The $60T is my number based on the guess that the Long March 5 costs about the same as similar western rockets.
Having done both, I'm not sure I can say there was any equivalent feeling. That said, there is something like that when you have your team fully empowered, executing well, and feeling unblocked and confident in their roles and abilities.
Is that sarcasm?

That technology is nuclear power plant.
This is the correct answer for 99% of brownfield projects, especially those that didn't begin life on a cloud provider.
Yes! I think the "mine" character should be switched for the dollar sign.

BTW, the dead key could be from german, for writing their U:s.
> Personally, I've never met anyone who was good at Leetcode yet produced bad code in production.

It's all anecdotal evidence. I've worked with some brilliant people at most places I've been and I can't think of 1 person who even had LeetCode account. Producing great production code is more about experience and knowledge of the domain than knowing how to bang out algorithms.
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Do you think it's suitable as a game scripting language?

How hard is to write bindings for micropython?

I've looked into cython but I'm not sure it's what I really need.
> Eh, the USA is working okay all things considered.

For many people, it probably is—the key to its longevity (and it's very young on the global stage) is working well enough for enough people enough of the time—but there are plenty of people for whom it's not working—me and plenty of other people in the US, but also the global victims of the international policies of the US. (Before the whataboutism comes in, this is not to say that other countries don't also have dissatisfied residents or bad international policies. I was responding specifically to a comment whose wording could be read as saying that the US, rather than any other country one might want to discuss, had found the right answer to government.)

> There's not one right answer here.

I agree, and that's why I was urging against wording that seemed to imply that the US's answer was the answer to 'correct' government.
Independant schools (private schools) received 4.7% more A/A* grades than they did in 2019. The most common type of non-private school, Secondary Comprehensive, received only 2% more A/A* grades than in 2019.

The algorithm didn't keep the gap between paid and unpaid education, it expanded it.

(Source for these numbers and more in my first comment.)

I was lucky enough to not only go to two private schools, but the second one was ranked #1 in England for exam ranks 2 of the 3 years I was there (and helped me get good grades despite being extremely unmotivated and lazy). But at least my privilege was to be given a good education that made learning / passing exams (the latter more) easy, not that the government decided my school deserved an artificial grades boost compared to state schools.
That’s definitely not true at companies without incentive systems.
What was your prep strategy?
Right. A levels were not written so a statistical model was created to approximate A level results based on prior performance of applicants correlated with their school and course marks. Yeah, I get all that. It changes nothing about my argument.
How ironic you claim that the paper overstates it, when you very carefully leave out every single qualifier about BPEs and how GPT-3's arithmetic improves massively when numbers are reformatted to avoid BPE problems. Pot, kettle.
We knew hand-crafted program in limited domains can work for NLP, computer vision and voice recognition long time ago. The challenge is always, that the limited domain can be extremely limited, and to get anything practically interesting requires a lot of human involvement to encode the world (expert system).

Statistical methods traded that. With data, some labelled, some unlabelled and some weakly-labelled, we can generate these models with much more efficient human involvement (refine the statistical models and labelling data).

I honestly don't see the frustration. Yes, current NLP model may not be the "intelligent agent" everyone looking for yet to any extent. But claiming it is all faffing and no better than 1960s is quite a stretch.
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I have had both. Maschine is awesome.

I used to use an MPC and I got to try a Maschine for a bit. I fell in love instantly. It takes the technical power of a full production studio and makes it feel like you’re playing with a toy you’ve had since childhood.

Between that and the synths Native Instruments makes, go with Maschine.
So... something that's very different from what's already out there isn't a new category, because it's using an old name. But something that is just like what's out there already but has a new name isn't a new category either.

New products and new markets are popping up all the time. They don't come into existence fully formed like Athena, and they may keep the name of what they evolved from, but they are very different. My "smart phone" isn't a phone, it's a handheld computer that includes a phone as a minor function. I use my "phone" as a phone about as often as I use my "computer" for computation.
yup, san francisco, the city proper, is very walkable, although some neighborhoods have fewer businesses and services that cater to locals than others. between when i lived there and my return visits, i've probably walked or biked nearly the whole city by now.

there's no need to qualify its walkability either. for most destinations, you can avoid steep hills and don't particularly need to be either young nor fit.
I'd be interested in knowing how much bigger Python has gotten since 3.4 time frame. If course it's not unthinkable that it could always get smaller if there's a lot of refactoring going on, but that might be wishful thinking.
Couldn't the UK just have a regular exam, just with the social distancing measures implemented? The exams were held in many European countries with these measures and nothing bad happened and the children has received a fair examination for the University
How would the UK governments influence be beneficial in any way? The governments influence will be the agenda of individual politicians, who know nothing of chip design or care about it.

In the US that’s the type of thinking that’s given us the SLS, an $20B launch system that will cost more than twenty times as much as commercial alternatives, and is required by law to use obsolete 50 year old components from key congressional districts.
Except home prices are rocketing up rather than down ATM. If people are moving out, you’d think more of them would be selling their houses.
If you think "5G" will replace medium and long haul DWDM fiber networks, as a backbone, you have some very great misperceptions about what real internet infrastructure looks like.
Not wearing masks is not as partisan as the artist thinks.
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that if it was Google they wouldn’t have that opinion, eh?
Small classes are excluded, so as you say, biased towards private schools. My niece was hit by this but luckily still did well enough to get a place. She was attending a large school in a deprived area. Her coursework was A*, given predicted AAA but was downgraded to ABB.

The minister of education's reason for downgrading the grades was so that pupils did not end up in jobs they were not capable of doing. Delicious irony.
Of course it matters. Intellectual honesty is important.

AI systems could affect large aspects of society. We should be clear about their limitations, and not be swept away by hype.

https://twitter.com/rctatman/status/1292911729240727554
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Right, and what was the previous yoy disparity?

If the previous YoY was also 5%/2%, then it is just repeating the trend.

It isnt the job of statisticians to "fix" social inequality by BSing some grades. Its their job to estimate likely exam results based on previous performance.

There's absolutely no grounds on which to assume that growth in A*/A across these demographics would be the same; and of course, very many reasons to presume they'd be different.
Qubes OS, which requires VT-d, works flawlessly on my Librem 15, so virtualization is there.
You can curve the scores on a meaningless exam and give the impression that some have learned and some have not, or I guess, you can skip the exam entirely and go to the end product.

Pirsig would have something to say here.
How do I maintain flow? I end up extremely depressed and disillusioned if I get stuck on a problem - that’s really what’s stopped me from doing consistent prep.
Explorer not only appears to be heavy on the "Windows Classic" APIs, somehow to this day, but it also does a bunch of stuff ower file compared to let's say ls.

In fact, if you use Total Commander, in the settings you will find option regarding things like "getting correct icons for files", with the option for "display icons for all files" explicitly marked as "SLOW".

Explorer always gets the icons, and possibly other metadata.
"In Scotland the accusations of unfairness prompted a switch to using teachers' predicted grades. These predictions were collected in England too - but were discounted as being the deciding factor, because they were so generous that it would have meant a huge increase in top grades, up to 38%. There were also doubts about the consistency and fairness of predictions and whether the cautious and realistic could have lost out to the ambitiously optimistic."

As always, the question when using an algorithm or test is, 'compared to what?'
We share a bed, we just each have a set of blankets.

This is probably only feasible because we sleep on the floor, which means the blankets don't tend to wander in the night.

Lots of covers stealing other blanket shenanigans have been avoided in the past year though from that change.
How does that work? toUpper() can't possibly know that the string is a day or month name.
In a sense every experiment starts as a thought experiment.
we have a kid, and are moving, for what it's worth.
If you are in the bay just because of work, and you have a kid, that means your kid is not seeing family very much due to travel restrictions and the overall covid situation.
So rather than it being a blocker, it's really an extra incentive to move.
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Gmail consolidation is happening not because of some evil plan, it's happening because of the economics.

In fact it's exactly the same reason why Mozilla is increasingly not sustainable. Email hosting is simply not a lucrative business. That's why it's all run by large portals like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, etc. which use them not to make money but to collect information about people, and monetize through ads or other indirect methods. Of course, this only becomes profitable at scale, and there are not that many companies at that scale.
>The Scottish government SQA has already backed down on its "adjustment" and agreed to use estimated marks from teachers and mock exams.

And you think that's more fair? Because to me that is a way worse method of ranking. Mark inflation exists and vary by school. That's a fact. Schools will low academic performance are more guilty of this because all schools and teachers will inevitably grade on a scale relative to other students in that school.

Listen, you can do whatever you want. The reality is that there are more applicants than there are seats at the universities. You can give everyone an 'A' and it won't change the fact that the same amount of students are going to get those spots. The method adopted by the Scottish government punishes students for going to schools and having teachers that don't inflate their marks.
I manage a team of 10 people in San Francisco and confirm a similar pattern. 8 of them have moved out of their SF apartments either to move somewhere else more spacious or in with their parents outside of the Bay Area.

Other people I know at my company have renegotiated rents. Most but not all are open to the idea of moving back depending on how things play out over the next 6-12 months.

I think their is still a big career advantage to being in the Bay Area due to the big tech companies having offices here and face time being important for career advancement.

I would expect somewhat of a swing back away from
remote work when we get a vaccine. That being said, I think the wild card is city/state taxes in the aftermath of all this.
The sun rising in the morning will never make the news, and that's the problem with Debian marketing; an operating system that's so stable and reliable users tend to forget about it, how is that ever going to grab headlines?

Although I'm on Devuan for obvious reasons, Debian still sets the bar of what a Free operating system should aspire to be.

Congratulations and a heartfelt thanks to all Debian developers and contributors; whatever your motivations, you made the world a better place.
Thank you, I stand corrected about the older history.

How I was taught, and how I saw the term used, seemed vastly more useful than it is now, post-Lowe.

Also, I'm not sure I agree with those dictionary company lexicographers abdicating responsibility. If they argue they're not taking a dump in language, then they're gold-plating someone else's dump.
I downloaded this and tried it out, but it seems to hide all the implementation details. What if we need to make some changes to index.html? For example, I want to make a game like Untrusted (https://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/) but to do so I need to be able to create a textbox for code editing next to the game canvas.

Is this possible to do under ct.js?
Is reading enough to understand the real world without direct experience of the real world? Is there any research that tries to answer this question?
Probably do vs does.
Anonymity/privacy is only on the vote content, everything else needs to be traceable (who voted, where, when etc.)

And no, losing transactions is a big deal. Not receiving your house sale transfer when the sending bank emited the operation is a big deal, and you won’t solve it with a phone call. It can be repaired with money by the bank, but the system is heavily built to prevent it from happening.

Actually if the last mile issue is to have a paper in a box, you could connect a physical printer to a central secured voting machine.

To compare, election votes error margin is not small either, and those errors are mostly ignored as of now. I don’t see the status quo as some perfect state that should be preserve ad vitam eternam, and it is more and more preventing some people to vote.
That’s what I thought also, but there is a lot of pressure to wear a mask where I am if you even walk out the door.
You can already be compelled to do that with your cell phone. People take pictures/videos of their ballots all the time (making it illegal doesn’t stop it).

Someone else mentioned a real/mask vote solution with blockchain so that issue could be solved by electronic voting.
NVidia isn’t going to intentionally destroy a $32B acquisition to throw that money down the drain. They are likely to fully support every customer, to protect their investment, and fund it do new things strategically important to NVidia.

If the UK owns ARM, over time every investment decision they made will be required to benefit the party in charge, it’s supporters and their districts. That will certainly destroy ARM.
I think that's what these leetcode type questions are good at. You're either naturally adept enough to do well, or internally motivated enough to memorize/learn them. Either way, it's a decent signal for a company that needs someone to learn their internal, proprietary techstack
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“Not quite python” is a subtle point many people miss and indeed can be an issue. Third party library support is also huge, does micropython support the cpython library ecosystem? In this case the plethora of lua libraries readily available via luarocks is a huge advantage.