Besides which, all the "skills" and "requirements" HR has are bullshit. There's a century of research on it, thousands of studies. The only things that matter in predicting job performance are:
1. IQ
2. integrity (adds about 25% to IQ predictive validity)

-both easily, quickly and cheaply testable. Adding other requirements adds very little, and then only for work sample and "structured interviews" (which are nothing like regular interviews, it amounts to administering certain IQ tests in person) and these cost much more than simple tests.

Resume, education, references, job knowledge tests, peer ratings, even job tryouts combined all are less predictive of performance than IQ alone.

In particular: experience, education and interviews add practically nothing to IQ score alone in predicting job performance. Age adds slightly less than nothing.

Hunter and Schmidt, 1998: The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 85 Years of Research Findings (Cited by 4548)

Everything about how hiring is done now is totally wrong, and it costs literally tens of trillions in lost wealth - worse, it costs several percent a year in GDP growth rate. Most of the people with high-paid, powerful or creative jobs today need to be replaced, and most of the smart people today are in jobs far below what they should have.

Being an HR "pro" is a very, very bad thing.

"Perhaps there's an equal rights argument to be made for HR departments not being such irrepressible dicks."

That's inaccurate - HR doesn't act like dicks, they act like cunts. HR is over 90% women and tech job applicants are ~90% men. The reason HR treats applicants like that - entitled, flaky, narcissistic and entirely lacking self-insight - is because women treat men like that. They have evolved to do so because eggs are billions of times scarcer than sperm. Western culture was designed to balance that advantage by giving the more productive sex (men) compensating advantages in the workplace, but that went out of fashion in the 1960s when consuming rather than producing became the basis of the economy. Women control 80% of all spending while getting 40% of all wages for 20% of all workplace productivity, so they are the rulers of the consumer economy. Treating female applicants better than male applicants is the opposite of the answer.

The documentation of the COSMOS wiring database was the bigger issue in that case, IIRC. Same basic deal, though, got it through dumpster diving, could have been bought officially for a few bucks. That database lets you do the really fun stuff like assign lines to accounts. OTOH using it is pretty much its own punishment (e.g. working out the 3 letter wire-center code from the exchange key = 1st 3 of 7 digit phone #) and in later years the official documentation was basically nonexistent (oral tradition and a few 5th generation photocopies on cubicle walls, basically).
-ex-BS MMT

PassMark - CPU Mark Single Thread Performance
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ @ 2.25 GHz / rel. October 1, 2002 / Score: 627
Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.70GHz (4.7GHz turbo) / rel. October 5, 2017 / Score: 2708 (highest-scoring processor for single thread performance as of June 5, 2018)

Single thread performance ratio: 4.01

**Single thread performance doubling time: 7.5 years**

Note: it's not clear what the best-performing processor was in the early 2000s, the performance doubling time may be even greater.

Moore's law ceased to hold for computing performance quite a while back. Lots of cores doesn't speed up sequential computing tasks (Amdahl's Law).

The really fundamental advances take a long time to be fully explored. There is little significant that doesn't build upon earlier work.

Check out Conformal Geometric Algebra, which is the basis for the company Geomerics' Enighten software for real-time global radiosity lighting for games. (Now part of ARM / Silicon Studio).

See the lectures linked from the first link, in particular lecture 7 on CGA. These are by Chris Doran, one of the founders of Geomerics, a member of the Cambridge GA group. Also see Leo Dorst's GAviewer CGA tutorial for interactive visualization and a better idea how this can be used in computer graphics. GA is also a lingua franca for physics and simulation that subsumes vector algebra, imaginary numbers, homogeneous coordinates, quaternions and a zillion ad-hoc hacks that have made graphics far more complicated than it needs to be. The papers in the field are nearly all written to be understood and require little background knowledge.

Thanks, that is not so much a treat as a whole candy shop.

That's just your fantasy. Blacks commit violent crimes against Whites at over *25 times* the per-capita rate that Whites do against Blacks. That's from yearly random surveys of victimization carried out by the DOJ.

The fundamental principal of all possible systems of ethics is to favor the better over the worse, to favor the better to the extent it is better and to disdain the worse to the extent it is worse. People are not equal, not in any way and to treat them as if they were is unjust. One cannot infer that just because one person or group is favored that that is unjust to those who are not favored; in fact it may be that by their merits the favored group should be favored more than they are.

Only inferior people advocate equality, and they do so to take what is not their due from their betters.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
    -James Klass

Quite true. One major class of uncomfortable truths:
any fact that that falsifies their religious belief in equality, or their resulting dogma that differences in groups' success are due to privilege and discrimination.

Yep. The NSA has tap rooms that are super-secret (or were). But the FBI has rooms that are only kinda secret, over which they have complete control, with no logs, no oversight, and complete access to the whole network which can do targeted monitoring rather than the NSA's trying to get everything, which is exponentially less efficient.

Alcohol, at least with heavy, chronic consumption lowers testosterone, so maybe that is the mechanism here. It wasn't that they were civilized that made them less masculine in looks, rather that they were sots.

The standard deviation for IQ tests is 15, not 10. While the tests become less reliable at a rate proportional to the rarity of the score, nearly all the inaccuracy is in underestimating IQ, and this is a problem with the specific tests, not the concept of general intelligence. If someone has a score of 150IQ, they are nearly certainly that smart. If they have tested twice at that level, they are almost certainly substantially above 150IQ. Due to the 0.65-0.7 correlation of the tests, getting a second 1 in 1000 score on a different IQ test with just a 150 "real" IQ and 1 prior 150 IQ score will only happen about 15% of the time.

The IQ scale compresses vast differences in ability into the highest scores. There is literally more variation in the top 1% than in the 1st-99th percentiles. Nearly all the ideas that really change things come from that top 1%. No number of merely bright 120IQ people can take the place of one person with 160IQ for really hard new thoughts.

I think the different forms of the Otis-Lennon have an age break at about that age. It would be a perfectly good place for an age break, just after the "corner" in the graph of raw scores with age. The additional mental development is negligible between 13 and 16, equivalent in Rasch CSS measure to 6 months increase at age 6.