One of the most difficult challenge for the Theory of Evolution is the emergence of altruism. (Eye? easily explained, if find someone claiming evolution can no explain eye or flagellum motor you just found a creationist).
How can evolution, that pits individuals of the species one against another foster anything other than selfishness? The seminal breakthrough came in 1970s and 1980s when it became possible to simulate in a computer model interactions. The well known iterated prisoner's dilemma problem, the tournament of strategies found nice strategies at the correct level of pay off, can create conditions that foster altruism. The most famous and most successful strategy was tit-for-tat (Dont be the first one to be nasty, always be nasty to nasty people and always be nice to nice people, don't be jealous when falling behind in point count, forgive historical slights instantly)
But tit-for-tat is not a evolutionarily stable strategy. Once it takes hold and drives out all the nasty people, it is no different from "always be nice" strategy. Without punishment and reprisals, mutant nasty players gain an advantage. That is what is happening here, in the West people are so used to being nice to one another, they are nice to even machines.
If you just use test scores, the percentage would be 30% or 40%. Limiting it to 19% means half of otherwise eligible ones are denied. And the goal of the colleges is to drive it down to 1%.
I'd love to see one shred of objective evidence to support that -- if you have one
Top colleges say they want a student body that looks like America, percentage of Asian Americans, Jews, Whites, Blacks and others in America and in their student bodies to be similar. That means less than 1% Indian Americans, is the desired level of admissions, because our population is around than 0.5%.
For a long time Hispanics and African Americans were complaining these tests are unfair to them. But for the universities insisted on using them.
Then came Y2K problem. India was about 30 years behind USA in IT and so it had a huge army of Cobol programmers. In the 1990s the Indian cobol programmers were imported at the rate of about 100,000 a year. The H1B visa was raised from 65,000 to 130,000 at that time. And most of it went to Indian Cobol programmers.
They came in, most of them immigrated, married, got children and the percentage of Indian Americans rose to some 0.5% of the population. All of them came with college degrees, a tradition of valuing education, and they personally bought a ticket of out poverty through college education. They doubled and tripled down on educating their children.
Cupertino, CA, and Edison NJ were the first to see the brunt of Indian version of Tiger Moms and their children who finish the entire syllabus of next year in summer vacation and spend the entire academic year filling up rest of their resume. Blackbelt in karate, debate team, spelling bees, chess championships... Indian Americans overperform by a factor of 10 to 20 academically. They form 5% to 10% of the top bracket in competitive examns.
I count Indian last names in Intel scholarships and other such data. I routinely find Indian American children forming 15% of the top echelons. Almost all Indian parents know their children need to score 150 points over Whites to get admission to elite colleges. My Chinese colleagues also say the same thing. Their kids need to do 100 to 150 points more than Whites. If the college admission process becomes totally based on test scores, 20 to 25% of the top 10 college admissions will go to Asian Americans. Asian Americans are not counted towards minority quota statistics, since they are not traditionally disadvantaged minorities.
Now the Whites are on the receiving end. Suddenly "test score is not everything. We are going to drop test scores" band wagon is gaining steam. The colleges want to limit Asian Americans to less than 1% of admissions. Finding the right legal way to do that is the long term project. Dropping test scores is the emergency action.
The yarr stands for yet another reviewer reviewer, modeled after yacc yet another compiler compiler.
It is meta reviewer site where we review the reviewer. Users look at all the reviews from many reviewers, yelp, trip advisor, google maps... Then compares the expected experience, expected price to actual price and actual experience.
Now the owner of yarr will become yaee, yet another exhorter exhorter.
We should give a subsidy to powerplants to help them store enough fuel to make electricity for six months. Any fuel, absolutely no discrimination. But it should keep the plant going for six months to handle unforeseen emergencies.
Please sit down and brace yourself, it might come in as a shock to you.
You St Ronald Reagan was a Democrat those days. He was a racist and he was a Democrat then. Then he became a Republican and brought his racist voters with him.
Democrats were the party of racists back then. All those racists, including Reagan switched their parties and made Republican party the home of racists, now.
Accepting bitcoin payment is similar to accepting payment in terms of commodities, frozen concentrated orange juice ("Sell 30 April at 142!") or pork bellies. Or, at best, a foreign currency with a very volatile exchange rate. So there is no surprise, nor real news in this announcement.
No, when a sunni/wahhabi commits a terrorism, you try to give shia an out. When shia does it, give sunni an out. Do not use terms that unites shias and sunnis. It takes time, and it takes discipline. But eventually the differential treatment would let one group join us and isolate the other. We don't care who joins us first. Keeping the enemy divided is lesson number one in the art of war.
It is one of the dangers of anthromorphism. We casually say,
".. but a report said that at least two people had indicated on an Intel newsgroup that the company knew about it earlier before[SIC]..."
But the company is not a monolith, with a single brain that is aware of all the reports from all the employees. Some parts of the company knew about the bug earlier. Other parts of the company who should have acted to fix it and disclose it did not do the right thing.
If we blame wholesale "Intel" then Intel will close ranks and perps will enjoy some amount of protection.
The same thing happens when we generally blame "Police Brutality" or "Islamic terrorism". If we choose terms that allows the organization to blame a few bad apples and maintain some dignity, and we improve the general reaction to make sure the blamed ones are the real "bad apples" and not some scapegoat, over the long run things would improve. For example we should say something like, "Sunni Terrorism" that will allow Shias not feel blamed, or even better "Wahhabi terrorism" to allow other Sunnis to distance themselves from the perps.
OK, the bug is big. Impact is going to be big. But who's gonna be punished by the market? Who can I short? Will users of Cloud services demand their processes to be hosted on exclusive servers not shared with others? Would it raise cloud costs? Would they punish Intel?
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It will have a port to plug in a Nintindo game controller, and all the cheat codes of GTA will be supported.
How can evolution, that pits individuals of the species one against another foster anything other than selfishness? The seminal breakthrough came in 1970s and 1980s when it became possible to simulate in a computer model interactions. The well known iterated prisoner's dilemma problem, the tournament of strategies found nice strategies at the correct level of pay off, can create conditions that foster altruism. The most famous and most successful strategy was tit-for-tat (Dont be the first one to be nasty, always be nasty to nasty people and always be nice to nice people, don't be jealous when falling behind in point count, forgive historical slights instantly)
But tit-for-tat is not a evolutionarily stable strategy. Once it takes hold and drives out all the nasty people, it is no different from "always be nice" strategy. Without punishment and reprisals, mutant nasty players gain an advantage. That is what is happening here, in the West people are so used to being nice to one another, they are nice to even machines.
You don't really think that they are dropping test requirements because hwites can't cut it?
Yes, that is what I am saying.
As long as test scores were beneficial to the Whites, they kept it.
Now Asian-Americans are beating them under those rules, they are changing the rules.
The H1B Quota was double in the Y2K frenzy to 130K per year.
First stop storing notes to self on phones.
Don't worry. India still does not want the Sea Turtles back. So there will be enough Indian Americans to keep America on top.
If you just use test scores, the percentage would be 30% or 40%. Limiting it to 19% means half of otherwise eligible ones are denied. And the goal of the colleges is to drive it down to 1%.
1990s comp sci dept and med schools were the leading edge, the parents coming in.
2000s it was high schools all across the country, spelling bees and debate competitions. These are the kids of your class mates
2010 onwards it is the elite top 10 colleges that see over representation of Indian Americans compared to their percentage in the total population.
I'd love to see one shred of objective evidence to support that -- if you have one
Top colleges say they want a student body that looks like America, percentage of Asian Americans, Jews, Whites, Blacks and others in America and in their student bodies to be similar. That means less than 1% Indian Americans, is the desired level of admissions, because our population is around than 0.5%.
Then came Y2K problem. India was about 30 years behind USA in IT and so it had a huge army of Cobol programmers. In the 1990s the Indian cobol programmers were imported at the rate of about 100,000 a year. The H1B visa was raised from 65,000 to 130,000 at that time. And most of it went to Indian Cobol programmers.
They came in, most of them immigrated, married, got children and the percentage of Indian Americans rose to some 0.5% of the population. All of them came with college degrees, a tradition of valuing education, and they personally bought a ticket of out poverty through college education. They doubled and tripled down on educating their children.
Cupertino, CA, and Edison NJ were the first to see the brunt of Indian version of Tiger Moms and their children who finish the entire syllabus of next year in summer vacation and spend the entire academic year filling up rest of their resume. Blackbelt in karate, debate team, spelling bees, chess championships... Indian Americans overperform by a factor of 10 to 20 academically. They form 5% to 10% of the top bracket in competitive examns.
I count Indian last names in Intel scholarships and other such data. I routinely find Indian American children forming 15% of the top echelons. Almost all Indian parents know their children need to score 150 points over Whites to get admission to elite colleges. My Chinese colleagues also say the same thing. Their kids need to do 100 to 150 points more than Whites. If the college admission process becomes totally based on test scores, 20 to 25% of the top 10 college admissions will go to Asian Americans. Asian Americans are not counted towards minority quota statistics, since they are not traditionally disadvantaged minorities.
Now the Whites are on the receiving end. Suddenly "test score is not everything. We are going to drop test scores" band wagon is gaining steam. The colleges want to limit Asian Americans to less than 1% of admissions. Finding the right legal way to do that is the long term project. Dropping test scores is the emergency action.
Unless the tracking data can be auto posted to facebook, twitter, snapchat, instagram and blogger it is useless.
The yarr stands for yet another reviewer reviewer, modeled after yacc yet another compiler compiler.
It is meta reviewer site where we review the reviewer. Users look at all the reviews from many reviewers, yelp, trip advisor, google maps... Then compares the expected experience, expected price to actual price and actual experience.
Now the owner of yarr will become yaee, yet another exhorter exhorter.
Q1 : Does it have an import feature? answer= A1
Q2: Does it have an export feature? answer= A2
if (A1 && !A2) {
return "yes, it is an EEE";
}
We should give a subsidy to powerplants to help them store enough fuel to make electricity for six months. Any fuel, absolutely no discrimination. But it should keep the plant going for six months to handle unforeseen emergencies.
You St Ronald Reagan was a Democrat those days. He was a racist and he was a Democrat then. Then he became a Republican and brought his racist voters with him.
Democrats were the party of racists back then. All those racists, including Reagan switched their parties and made Republican party the home of racists, now.
Accepting bitcoin payment is similar to accepting payment in terms of commodities, frozen concentrated orange juice ("Sell 30 April at 142!") or pork bellies. Or, at best, a foreign currency with a very volatile exchange rate. So there is no surprise, nor real news in this announcement.
What if all the brands unite together and there is no car without it?
Face it. Some of the creative types are such procrastinators they wont do anything unless there is a deadline.
No, when a sunni/wahhabi commits a terrorism, you try to give shia an out. When shia does it, give sunni an out. Do not use terms that unites shias and sunnis. It takes time, and it takes discipline. But eventually the differential treatment would let one group join us and isolate the other. We don't care who joins us first. Keeping the enemy divided is lesson number one in the art of war.
I thought some artist copyrighted blank canvas. But found this, saying, blank space is not copyrightable. https://www.copyright.gov/circ...
" .. but a report said that at least two people had indicated on an Intel newsgroup that the company knew about it earlier before[SIC]..."
But the company is not a monolith, with a single brain that is aware of all the reports from all the employees. Some parts of the company knew about the bug earlier. Other parts of the company who should have acted to fix it and disclose it did not do the right thing.
If we blame wholesale "Intel" then Intel will close ranks and perps will enjoy some amount of protection.
The same thing happens when we generally blame "Police Brutality" or "Islamic terrorism". If we choose terms that allows the organization to blame a few bad apples and maintain some dignity, and we improve the general reaction to make sure the blamed ones are the real "bad apples" and not some scapegoat, over the long run things would improve. For example we should say something like, "Sunni Terrorism" that will allow Shias not feel blamed, or even better "Wahhabi terrorism" to allow other Sunnis to distance themselves from the perps.
The monkey chase the intel
The monkey thought t`was all in fun
FOOF goes the intel
Every is seeing too much of bold fonts? Did someone forget a closing bold tag in some style sheet?
OK, the bug is big. Impact is going to be big. But who's gonna be punished by the market? Who can I short? Will users of Cloud services demand their processes to be hosted on exclusive servers not shared with others? Would it raise cloud costs? Would they punish Intel?