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Check out Theranos on Glassdoor starting on page 4. The insider scoop seems to be that it's a horror show.

The more serious problem with these studies is that the definition of sexual assault is often unclear and constantly changing. What's classified as sexual assault by some definitions would be considered by others to be "boys being a bit too pushy because they don't know any better".

Certainly that's the case in crowded industries like personal electronics manufacturing, but there's plenty of room for companies with new technologies or new markets (e.g. DJI with drones or Magic Leap with VR Tech)

I'm surprised by the dearth of companies with manufactured products, especially since this is an international list. All I see are the 6 listed as "hardware" + SpaceX.

Edit: plus Trendy and Theranos and probably a few more from the other categories.

Yes, but I also worry about a bunch of theorists writing substandard code that is unreadable and unmaintainable.

It's also used heavily within Google.

I think that a lot of companies used to have internal tools like IPython, but now IPython/Jupyter has surpassed them all. Hooray for OSS.

Can anyone comment on current pros and cons of Havok vs PhysX (which was open-sourced recently by NVIDIA)?

I think the majority of men in my demographic like to do it. And in my experience, about half of the girls are into it, the other half are indifferent.

I find American porn to be crude and artificial. Russian porn is much better; it just shows attractive people having sex with each other and enjoying it. Wonder what that says about our respective cultures.

The first myth addressed by makelovenotporn.com (mentioned in the article) regards "facials". I wonder how much men's desire to do this comes from watching porn. Any grecian urns with men "dropping loads"?

Google's stock doesn't seem to be reacting too badly to the ad-blocking developments, so maybe investors know something OP doesn't.

Peter Thiel in Zero to One: "Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school"

Interesting point regarding gender ratios. It's a good thing prostitution is legal and widespread in Germany.

Uber and other companies (including Google) have been hiring a lot of robotics faculty as well as newly-minted PhDs. This is a good thing for robotics research.

There's generally a shortage of tenure-track jobs relative to the number of qualified PhDs, so when companies poach faculty, it improves everyone's career options. This is one of the reasons why CS PhDs have a much higher chance of getting good tenure-track faculty jobs than, say, physics PhDs.

Of course, when there's a faculty exodus it causes a temporary leadership vacuum--e.g. this has been the situation at Stanford for the last couple years, where most of the AI faculty has left to start companies. But most of the students at Stanford seem to do fine, and universities can usually fill the void in a few years and hire some new enthusiastic faculty.

Something's gotta go to free up some cash for Intel's $300M diversity initiative.

I've only read the abstract, but it looks like the actual effect isn't huge.

People with 10 hospitalizations scored lower by .37 SD = 6 iq points.

True, but whether someone self-identifies as Jewish depends on exactly how you ask him. To compare the Jewish representation in the US population, college X, and college Y, it's important that the same definition was used.

Feynman (mentioned in Unz's article) famously objected to being labeled as a Jew or Jewish scientist, since he was unreligious and didn't like the speculations about race and ability.

I'm skeptical of the Jewish statistics, which are allegedly based on Hillel documents.

Is Harvard really 25% Jewish? Or is that the fraction of domestic students who have some (possibly small) Jewish ancestry?

And what's the source that Caltech is 5.5% Jewish? Could that mean 5.5% are actually practicing?

Did Hillel actually perform a serious survey/study in these schools, or are these numbers based on some student's guess?

Admittedly, I haven't looked through his citations and supporting material, which looks pretty extensive.

Julia is an extremely ambitious project -- more so than most other languages being developed now, due to the number of things they're trying to do, and the novelty of Julia relative to previous projects. I used Julia for a couple of toy projects, but I then started running into various odd bugs in the language and libraries, so I stopped using it.

It's great news for me that they're starting a company, and the core developers will have the opportunity to step up development as part of their livelihood. I hope they hire some full-time developers to iron out all of the kinks.

I think the idea is that the lower n-1 rows each have height (n-1)ε (by spreading them out horizontally), and at the top there's a big triangle with side length 1+(n-1)ε

Not surprising to me. I've participated in admissions committees (for a graduate program) and hiring committees (for new faculty) at a top US STEM program, and women do get a significant boost. This preference is usually explicit -- to look for "diversity hires", and so forth.