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mod6: vulpes_a_hopital: i've been
told first babys
take
time. hang in
there :]
mircea_popescu: is
the assassin eating cake for breakfast at 11 am with a well oiled, well cleaned rifle in his lap -
that he cleans and oils properly, every
time, and has, irrespective of howp his profession makes it a dispoasable item - conscientious or not conscientious ?
mircea_popescu: "conscientiousness", really ? might as well score 19yo hussies by
their understanding of
the
theses of
the 18th congress.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Oh, so it wasn't a
twee portland meeting of
two bicycles
mircea_popescu: this, as ben aptly pointed out
the obvious
to anyone who ever competently managed, or even sanely lived in proximity of programmers, is an outrageously clueless exercise in reductionism
to
the point of meaninglessness.
phf: other students. Being highly conscientious may not be necessarily for
these students in order
to obtain good academic results in
this particular course."
phf: "There are some uncontrolled variables which may have affected
the validity of
the experimental results. One of
these was students’ previous programming experience. We noticed
that some of
the students who already had a few years of programming experience achieved high scores in
their
test, but scored somewhat low on conscientiousness.
They were strong programmers with appropriate knowledge and know-how of programming as compared with
phf: one of
the quoted studies only looks at consciousness (for pair programming in class setting), and finds correlation. shouldn't
that be removed from
the metastudy stats on account of scewing one variable.
mircea_popescu: and I don't know any guy in
the world who has an extra pack of socks available "just in case." << now you do. chicks (that don't even wear underwear!) carry spare socks and similar stuff around for my convenience. so
there!
mircea_popescu: "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" pretends
to be a PSA against child sex slavery. What it really is an effort in rebranding. In
this clip, you see Ashton Kutcher. If you had
to find 300M Americans
to be on a list of "Real Men," and every person in America except for Ashton Kutcher had been eaten by a giant squid, Ashton Kutcher would still not make
that list, ever.
pete_dushenski: and in other news, "Walmart discontinued
the sale of its "Israeli soldier kids costume" and "Sheik Fagin nose" Halloween costumes after facing widespread backlash, including boycott calls on
the chain store's Facebook page."
pete_dushenski vaguely recalls
this
telephone call on landline : "excuse me, is
the master of
the house in" "speaking" "oh, alright
then, did you find rabelais
to be objectively scientific" "oh most certainly" "aha. cheers and good evening." *click*
mircea_popescu: although a meta-study conducted in 1999 showed him
to be no worse
than average
mircea_popescu: i always had
this suspicion
that rabelais was not always sticking
to
the
true objectivity of science.
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital you know
the medieval cases of undelivered babies calcified in
the woman and found at autopsy ?
vulpes_a_hopital: mircea_popescu: does your absurdly broad knowledge bank have anything interesting on
the
topic of long pregnancies?
mircea_popescu: but i
think you'd get kicked out of
the 70s if no shoulder pads.
mircea_popescu: for any 5yos reading b-a : do
this.
the women love it, and
then later
they'll be like, in your exams and shit. plus mothering
the chicks you actually DONT want
to marry.
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital ages 5
to 7 or so, yeah. half my mother's friends!
vulpes_a_hopital: mk. well as someone who actually reviews,
teaches and issues canings over code, and knows
the personalities involved intimately, i'm going
to not give a shit.
mircea_popescu: phf one of
the numerous women i proposed marriage
to was actually a chainsmoker fortran programmer.
pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital how long's
the labour been
thus far ?
phf: mircea_popescu: just more academia inbreeding in
this "metastudy". only
time i saw fortran code is when helping computation chemistry grgrad students code up
their models
phf: i like
this one, Personality and learning FORTRAN. (1985), i almost want
to
trick
that one down
phf: includes such wonderful papers as Personality predictors of performance in an introductory computer course. (1982), MBTI personality
type and student code comprehension skill., Predicting student success in an introductory programming course.,
The effects of openness
to experience on pair programming in a higher education context., Identifying predictors of programming skill.
mircea_popescu: like, you know, programming has
this closed form solution, it's like solving ax+b.
mircea_popescu: phf imagine
the sort of unredeemable imbecile who imagines "errors in program code" is objective measure of anything.
pete_dushenski: "Prozac was found
to be superior
to placebo in only a
third of studies." Boom-- Associate Professor. When meta-analyses look at only a few studies (e.g. N=4), if even one of
them is a poorly designed study you can overwhelm-- or purposely extinguish-- what might actually be a real effect." <<
this one phf ?
pete_dushenski: "But how can
the author will a meta-analysis
to show what he wants it
to show? Maybe he could manipulate an individual study, wouldn't a "study of studies" be immune
to his dark sorcery? Imagine a study of Prozac vs. placebo in 10000 patients, and Prozac is awesome. Imagine
two more studies, each with 6 patients, and Prozac doesn't beat placebo in
those. I now have
three studies. My meta-analysis concludes:
phf: " Programming abilities were quantified using an objective performance
test (e.g.,number of errors in
the program code); subjective evaluations of individual’s coding proficiency were not included."
phf: i believe
tlp has an article on meta-analysis studies
pete_dushenski: "To be in
the middle class is
to perennially be under
threat. But
to be
the main character of a Dylan or Grateful Dead song is
to be poorer, and lower, and free."
pete_dushenski: upper class
too inaccessible, so what's left ? down. down's what's left.
pete_dushenski: though since he's firmly in
the middle class, he ends up looking down
to
the LOWER class in envy
pete_dushenski: heh. jack baruth riffs off my 'middle class' article : "We inmates of
the middle class envy
the rich for obvious reasons but we also envy
the poor, because
they have freedom."
pete_dushenski: 'they don't have any experience but gosh darn are
they qualified on paper!'
mircea_popescu: omen with
their panties folded neatly in
their hands."
mircea_popescu: seems dubious. moreover what happened is, "back in 1965, people could actually code - and
those people who could actually code were disagreeable neurotics. 50 years later we
turned coding into a sort of welfard subdepartment of
the ushs, and now
those 'coders' are exactly like
the rest of
the welfare population : open and conscientious. which is why
the line before
the
tsa anal fingering office consists of middleaged w
mircea_popescu: this admitting
there EVEN ARE 1695 programmers out
there.
assbot: Immigration policy is about barriers
to entry, not fairness; or how Paul Graham
thinks programmers are inventors | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1MVn3kX )
pete_dushenski: "In contrast
to stereotypical beliefs, programming aptitudes were not associated with socially undesirable
traits such as disagreeableness or neuroticism."
pete_dushenski: "A meta-analysis on 19 independent samples (total N = 1695) highlighted
that programming aptitude was associated with
three personality
traits, conscientiousness, openness, and introversion."
pete_dushenski: "the personality
trait most strongly correlated with programming ability was not introversion or conscientiousness, but openness: a
trait
that's related
to being creative and imaginative"
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 01:46:22; asciilifeform: (i mean, how
the hell does
the quoted
thread re: intel relate
to any of
this...?)
BingoBoingo: "The first reason was
that woman's abdominal body fat decreased
their own sexual desire on a hormonal level, which would hamper libido.
The second reason could be
that men simply found slimmer women more attractive and
thus had fewer problems in
the bedroom."
☟︎ BingoBoingo: "Researchers also recorded how often
the 699 study participants - Czech men between
the ages of 35 and 65 years old - had sexual intercourse."
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assbot: Logged on 28-10-2015 07:29:28; mircea_popescu: "This
tension in anon culture,
that every single person is empowered by
the whole of
the group and
thus merits
treatment as a peer,
turns
these individual hostile challenges into a storm of entitled demands for attention. Anons see
themselves as peers
to everyone, empowered by
the support of
the group, and
thus entitled
to participate in any conversation
they aren’t forcibly prevented from entering."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-10-2015#1309798 is a much deeper problem
than realised. yes, it's
true
that
the adolescents see
themselves as peers
to
the adults. NOT IT IS NOT
TRUE
THEY ARE. yes it is
this false, unfounded identification
that drives both DK and
the insane notions of
the adolescents as
to
the failures of both "the world" and adults (these
two aren't even really different).
☝︎ mircea_popescu: before
that happens
there necessarily isn't what either "can" do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the reason
this putative is seemingly without answer is because it is castrated. what
tlp would do if he realised what's wrong with his head depends on WHY HE REALISED. what would
the pubescent girl do if she matured ? nothing
the pubescent girl can do BECAUSE maturation is DRIVEN by
the VERY DEED! once she finds a boy she loves she will both be a woman and know what
to do ; once
tlp ACTUALLY understands
☟︎ danielpbarron: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski ^ nice stuff. freaky how much I can relate
to
the sentiment as of late.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, juan has real bullets in
the gun. on
the other hand,
the state is a
theatrical performance.
ascii_field: this re:
the ancient and ongoing
thread about whether usg is somehow limited by laws.
punkman: "on a key point
they concur: In Bin Laden’s final moments, he neither resisted nor surrendered."
mircea_popescu: maybe if
they gave bin laden a forgetfulness potion
they could muster
the balls
to approach him
punkman: "They discussed possible situations in which it might still be lawful
to shoot Bin Laden even if he appeared
to be surrendering — for instance, if militants next
to him were firing weapons, or if he could be concealing a suicide vest under his clothing"
ascii_field: 'Stretching sparse precedents,
the lawyers worked in intense secrecy. Fearing leaks,
the White House would not let
them consult aides or even
the administration’s
top lawyer, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
They did
their own research, wrote memos on highly secure laptops and
traded drafts hand-delivered by
trusted couriers.'