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JoshTko··on Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
That would be great. And given that Ivys use a wide range of other criteria, mostly subjective, means that the wealthy kids have a massive advantage. SATs are probably the least differentiating criteria for Ivys as everyone is already at 1450+.
JoshTko··on Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
I'm referring to admission. Athletic achievement, high impact volunteer work, high impact internships, high SAT score, number of AP, essay writing, all of these require $$$ to be compete at the top level. A poor kid that has to work summers and part time during the school year cannot compete.
JoshTko··on Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
Private colleges fundamentally drive inequality. Access to elite university is essentially pay to play because all admission criteria advantage the wealthy.
JoshTko··on Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
Research papers seem to be fundamentally flawed in that the person who has most to gain, is essentially the person measuring the results - classic conflict of interest problem. The peer review is clearly ineffective against a highly motivated nefarious individuals.
JoshTko··on Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam
Funding follows founders that consistently execute in scaling a solution. The big bet is that these same founders will be able to figure out profitability along the way. The challenge is that there are many "business" that can scale but are fundamentally not profitable, i.e. Groupon.

This used to be fine as IPO process used to filter these bad models out. SPACs however made this IPO filter much less effective and should not be allowed.

JoshTko··on Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm
This will not end well.
JoshTko··on S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’
Google will optimize minimizing deaths/accidents vs maximizing trips/revenue. So it seems that buzzing closer to people is optimal for Google.
JoshTko··on Use clean energy charging on your iPhone
At Apple's scale the effort building this feature is certainly worth the co2 impact. edit: impact would be approx. the same as powering 300k US homes to only use clean energy.
JoshTko··on Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk
Is this a fair test? If you are a person with average person resources and don't expect you can impact what gets built why would you jeopardize your livelihood to make no impact?
JoshTko··on Irregularities found during FDA inspection of Intas Pharmaceuticals
This would be excellent.
JoshTko··on Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables
We should keep both, Solar flares, space junk, etc. can knock out satellites
JoshTko··on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs
Assuming Ford and GM are not inept and their adoption of NACS is driven by necessity rather than choice. This implies a significant lead by Tesla in charging technology. Essentially like Android adopting lightning connectors. Huge, long term positive impact to Tesla as market leader.
JoshTko··on Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
Language is essentially compression. And studies show humans automatically compress data relative to chimps. So there are likely biological structures that help humans compress concepts. Compression could also be an emergent property of having more layers in a NN.
JoshTko··on What if we’re thinking about inflation all wrong?
1. As mentioned, I'm saying no price controls for new treatments. 2. The fact that insulin pricing spiked in US proves our version of capitalism is broken, especially for inelastic products.
JoshTko··on What if we’re thinking about inflation all wrong?
We needed this yesterday for Housing and healthcare. In fact all necessities should have strict price controls. For healthcare that would be for any established medicines, (i.e. insulin) and not apply to brand new treatments.
JoshTko··on Apple Vision
They can sell two orders more the number of court side seats for virtual season tickets
JoshTko··on Weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate
This. The wealthy will always have loudest voice in a zero regulation speech environment.
JoshTko··on Industry docs reveal makers of 'forever chemicals' covered up health dangers
This isn't enough, any executive involved in cover up should be civilly and criminally liable per person injured.
JoshTko··on Industry docs reveal makers of 'forever chemicals' covered up health dangers
It should be obvious by now that we should ban all chemicals that don't have extensive, long term 3rd party safety testing/history.
JoshTko··on Rodney Brooks on GPT-4
Language is the compression of our entire human experience into words, so I'd argue language captures the majority of the thinking aspect of the human experience.
JoshTko··on ‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints
Evaluating Tesla's situation is difficult without context. With 3 million cars on the road, about 0.1% of owners have lodged complaints, which doesn't seem alarming initially. Unintended acceleration issues, typically attributed to user error barring some floormat incidents, are common across the industry. Without comparison to the overall auto industry's complaint rate, Tesla's situation isn't notably concerning.
JoshTko··on TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)
I've started to use chatGPT4 as a major part of my routine healthcare. I can comfortably ask question I want at my pace to really probe each symptom and likely cause, tailored to me. Easily better than most general practitioners I've had.
JoshTko··on Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases
Curious as well as to what worked for you. I might have a milder version of what you have. Very similar in that it’s mainly during 5-8pm
JoshTko··on Rodney Brooks on GPT-4
I can switch from word generation and evaluation. I saw the score of 1st draft was below my target. And I used the insights from the eval of the 1st draft to inform the 2nd draft.
JoshTko··on Rodney Brooks on GPT-4
Yes. This was my second draft. I reviewed my first draft which became an input in my second draft which gained more clarify after reviewing the first draft.
JoshTko··on Rodney Brooks on GPT-4
The more I think about it the more I'm convinced I am basically just predicting/saying my next word whenever I speak.
JoshTko··on Students are increasingly refusing to go to school
Hard to see how much value add k-12 has vs ChatGPT4 (aside from Social interaction)
JoshTko··on Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
I'm mostly concerned on how this made it to Hacker news front page.
JoshTko··on Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake
Having experienced several dozen healthcare providers I'd say it's more like 50/50. Half clearly have a profit as a primary motive.
JoshTko··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
Given that the energy needed to change ocean temp is massive and the current momentum, no tech solution will be able to prevent ocean ecosystem collapse of 90% ocean lifeform death. We're probably past the point of no return already.
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