To give you one short example, "Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of humanities and social sciences lean left (about 95%), which creates enormous confirmation bias, changes what’s being studied, and maintains myths like social constructionism and the gender wage gap", which I think you'll agree contains the implied statement [the gender gap is a myth]. In the footnote it says that the well known numbers are a result of bad averaging, but "For the same work though, women get paid just as much as men".

However, there is widely accepted research that even compensating for variables to avoid other factors, there is still a (smaller) pay gap. Not just the "left leaning social sciences" but also the US government, and that's why Google can be sued for such a thing.

So we could leave that at "the essay has a mistake", which probably can happen to anyone writing an essay or a line of code as in your example. But what are the consequences of this specific mistake:
  * It denies the existence of the very thing Google is claiming in court to be trying to address
  * It denies and actual known problem that affects ~30% of the employees of Google. That denial is alienating to that people affected by the problem (as a short sighted person I would feel alienating to hear someone saying "medical insurance shouldn't cover prescription glasses, short sightedness is a myth").
  * Getting public, it alienates also a huge segment of the public (including potential hires)

So, he made a wrong statement, that fuels legal problems to his employer, causes bad PR, and alienates a large percentage of his coworkers making it harder to put it on a team. It would have been surprising if they didn't fire him.

There are actually many other incorrect reasonings in the essay (including taking known correlations which are true data, and giving them causality and meaning that are not known science, and using those to justify applying practices that promote equality.

This happens, placebo effect works as good with alcohol as with other drugs. Not just that, different cultures have different behaviours associated to alcohol intake, and placebo drunk people tend to take the behaviours from their culture, which appears to imply that many (although not all) of the effects of alcohol are cultural.

For a second I read the "Android" in the headline as talking of a humanoid robot instead of the smartphone OS, and it was a really good base for a sci-fi story

I found a solution this weekend: just disable CSS. Pages are readable again, besides the catastrophic breakdown of design, but articles... man, articles are text and images again. And space/PgDown scrollable.

Back in high school, I thought I was the most badass programmer on this planet. Could hand assemble code and hyper-optimize my programs counting clock cycles everywhere. I got into college. There was a book on algorithms in the small library the computer room had. I learned about asymptotic behavior. So I realized that my cleverly optimized O(n^2) sorting assembly program was going to eventually lose badly to a straightforward interpreted implementation of quicksort. Clearly I had to become good at this. I started reading all books I could find on the topic and very quickly I noticed that they all included a sentence meaning "If you want to understand the subtle underpinnings of this, see TAOCP." So I got a copy of volumes 1 & 3. It was expensive (I was not in USA and books were VERY expensive because of currency exchange issues). Mom & Dad chipped in and I still thank them for that. I borrowed volume 2 from a friend.

I decided to go though the book solving all exercises up to level 30. Saturday was my TAOCP day. I cannot say I read ALL of the text nor that I solved ALL problems of difficulty below 30, but I solved all that I tried and they were way more than a few. I even solve some in the 35 level, whenever I considered them interesting.

FF to the beginning my PhD studies at a good school in the USA: When taking the grad level Algorithms class, I was doing VERY well. The professor, a scary smart guy (now full professor at Stanford) asked me how may courses on algorithms and information theory I had taken. The answer was none. My undergrad degree was in Systems Engineering, from a crappy school in South America. I was never formally taught what a big-Oh was. That professor become my thesis advisor. He used to joke saying I was a walking encyclopedia of algorithms.

Will it work for everybody? Probably not. If you want to do theoretical CS, as I did, you will have to handle that math and some more anyways. CLR is more up to date and time efficient for learning. If you want to be a software engineer, chances are you are not going to be doing the heavy math, you will be using off the shelf algorithms.

Still TAOCP is a hell of a reference. Funny thing is, after finishing my PhD, I browsed through it. It looked simple, not very formal at all. I guess PhD does mean "permanently head damaged" :-)

You should install a firewall in your router, enable the few ports you want to use from the outside, and log every other connection attempt. That way you'll have an idea how often ports are scanned daily. For me is at least 100 times per hour in a single IP, most of them trying the telnet port, because a lot of surveillance cameras and other I(di)oT stuff still use telnet.

Sorry for the summary. I sent this yesterday and sunday looked more like "next week"

I can provide you with this english link. This has not been reported in english speaking media yet, sorry for not having something better but this is breaking news yet. https://gist.githubusercontent...

Just FTR, the group organizing this election is the government of the city of Buenos Aires. which is not run by the Kirchner but one of the opposition parties

Here you have one.

http://www.glensideccc.com/coc...

I meant... helium