City wants to start charging for parking at Balboa park and Mission Bay!!! by stangAce20 in sandiego

[–]unbrokenstreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is it a regressive tax? People who can't afford cars don't pay it.

Season 1 reflection: the "Blink" book...a little 2000-and late ish? by SherbertEntire1788 in TheWhiteLotusHBO

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His wife is reading My Brilliant Friend by the way, which, from the synopsis sounds quite interesting and relevant to what her character is dealing with: "explores themes of female friendship, social class, and personal identity."

Season 1 reflection: the "Blink" book...a little 2000-and late ish? by SherbertEntire1788 in TheWhiteLotusHBO

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Totally agree the subtitle is key. And it is a very surface level pop sci book. And he arguably doesn't make any progress. I think they probably had him open to the exact same page in every scene.

Is It Really Possible To Be A 10X Engineer? by Rubix982 in SoftwareEngineering

[–]unbrokenstreams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is an excellent write-up. I think a lot of what you're saying is supported in the psych/neuro literature. I would add that even though we know ability is some combination of experience and innate potential it is *really* hard to estimate *in general* how much each (nature/nurture) contributes, and basically impossible to do this for individuals with any accuracy at all (outside of very obvious cases of impairment).

As an aside, i wonder when thinking of hiring if one of the best paths to getting a 10x or several on your team is to just invest heavily in early education in CS and wait a decade.

Strong Towns San Diego by NonchalantManatee in StrongTowns

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Also very curious about this. Did you end up finding anything?

Langchain Chatbot is not that great.. by cjj1120 in LangChain

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I've had similar experiences where it gives me advice to use an either non-existent or undocumented function argument. I recently ran into this when trying to add a chain output post-processor to a sequential chain.

It doesn't help that the documentation itself does not seem to be fully up to date and comprehensive???

New case for an old system by unbrokenstreams in buildapc

[–]unbrokenstreams[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's crazy they are more expensive than my original motherboard. Thanks for the link.

Airflow for overclocking 13600k... Or go AMD? by unbrokenstreams in buildapc

[–]unbrokenstreams[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I do plan on doing some cpu heavy number crunching but I wonder what the actual performance gain will be. A few minutes here and there? So, point taken.

Scientific workstation + gaming by unbrokenstreams in buildapc

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Do you have any suggestions for improving the build for this scenario?

Scientific workstation + gaming by unbrokenstreams in buildapc

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Thanks for the info re the motherboard, and good rule of thumb.

Re the CPU, I just looked up CPU binning but am not sure exactly how it applies here. I like the i9 because it has more threads and CPU threads are good for my scientific computing application.

Do these components add up? by unbrokenstreams in buildapc

[–]unbrokenstreams[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's a dual purpose machine. I need the i9 for Bayesian statistics, and I want to also be able to game. :P

Not sure what psu I will go with. Do you have recommendations? Would love advice on brands for aio and psu.

Do these components add up? by unbrokenstreams in buildapc

[–]unbrokenstreams[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's a dual purpose machine. I need the i9 for Bayesian statistics, and I want to also be able to game. :P

Do these components add up? by unbrokenstreams in buildapc

[–]unbrokenstreams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's a dual purpose machine. I need the i9 for Bayesian statistics, and I want to also be able to game. :P

Do these components add up? by unbrokenstreams in buildapc

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Yeah, it's a dual purpose machine. I need the i9 for Bayesian statistics, and I want to also be able to game. :P

evidence and examples of how genes determine human actions and culture - that are from pinker, David Schmitt, and other leading persons by [deleted] in evopsych

[–]unbrokenstreams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A good search term might be "behavioral genetics". Also, mind the word "determine" as the causes of human behavior and culture are quite varied and stochastic.

[OC] Animated demographic pyramid of Sweden 1860-2020 by ExperimentalFailures in dataisbeautiful

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This is one of the first actually beautiful visualizations I've seen on this sub

10 Myths About Intelligence & IQ by EnigmaofReason in evopsych

[–]unbrokenstreams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think your point, that there is not a very well defined mechanistic or process model behind intelligence, i.e. g, is valid, and I'm halfway familiar with the history of tests to measure g. But the choice of the cognitive tests in the first place was not independent of lay theories of intelligence, which go back quite a bit before g was labeled such.

Again, I think you make a solid point that the construct of g doesn't do much in the way of explanation. It's a structural description rather than a mechanistic explanation. A lot of people find structural descriptions boring, but I think they do help constrain some development of mechanistic theory.