But, is it effective? It seems many of the the 'gig' companies are simply floating on Saudi (aka venture capital) money and have yet to turn a profit. And it's not like gig-workers are much better off than minimum-wage workers.
Selfish gene is a popular science book, not a text book. You want to learn something? Get a dense, highly-regarded text book with lots of problems and work through the problems. Supplement it with lectures, or more importantly, office hours at a prof or grad student who knows the subject cold. Maybe even get a mentor to give you a real problem and struggle through it for several years (aka go to graduate school). That's how its been done for centuries because it works. Why else do you think there are so few self-taught (real) engineers and (real) scientists out in the wild making an impact.
I wrote a PDF parser in golang a few years ago and it was an extremely unpleasant experience. No polymorphism means I essentially have to cast everything to void* aka interface{}. Rewrote it in C (the rewrite was quite easy actually) which at least made the lib accessible to other languages.
There's plenty of polymorphism in Go, that's what interfaces are for. In C you would typically use a struct stuffed with function pointers, how is that an improvement?
Its still a better C in many ways, strings and character sets is a big one.
I predict nothing will change. Flaws in p-values and confidence intervals have been apparent since almost their inception. Jaynes spoke out against it strongly from the 60's on (see, for example, his 1976 paper "Confidence Intervals vs Bayesian Intervals"). Although I can't find it right now, there was a similar statement about p-values from a medical research association in the late 90's. It's not just a problem of misunderstanding the exact meaning of p-values either. There are deep rooted problems like optional stopping which render it further useless.
The problem is that with all its problems, statistical significance provides one major advantage over more meaningful methods: it provides pre-canned tests and a number (.05, .01, etc) that you need to 'beat'. The pre-canned-ness/standardization provides benchmarks for publication.
I once worked in a computational genomics lab. We got a paper into PNAS by running fisher-exact test on huge (N=100000+) dataset, ranked the p-values, got the lowest p-values, and reported those as findings. There's so much wrong with that procedure its not even funny.
Hippocratic medicine lasted well into the 19th century, centuries after the scientific revolution. There'd been critics correctly calling it an intellectual fraud before then. You could've taken this as proof that no force on Earth could drag medicine into modernity, but it did sort of happen, as it became public, common knowledge that doctors were harming more people than they helped. They did start cleaning up their act (literally) though it took a long time and I think they're still collectively irrational about chronic conditions.
I hope we aren't worse at reform than they were in the 1800s.
It's the YIMBY developers that are destroying mobile home parks here, including the two closest to me right now (on El Camino near Poplar, and the former Blue Bonnet complex at Fair Oaks and Evelyn).
There are several large ones in Sunnyvale and San Jose, too. But even mobile homes are expensive in Silicon Valley by the standards of most other places; at this point, $150K would be a steal, and prices approaching $300K aren't uncommon -- and monthly land rental fees in the park can easily be more than the mortgage. (For instance, a listing I just pulled up on Zillow is a reasonable-ish $155K for a 3br/2ba manufactured home in Sunnyvale, for an estimated mortgage of just over $600 a month...and a rental fee of another $1600 a month.)
Yes, and harassers - including stalkers - take advantage of the fuzziness. Including by using terms like "just hitting on" for something which is much better described as "harassment".
Anything written by federal contractors, and anything written with state funds are not in the public domain. National labs flat out refuse to release some of their source code.
And there's the way around public domain, open data, and free citizen access and usage requirements.
The contractors don't have to be.
It's the same reason why most people stay out of federal jobs - you can't make more than the president. But if you're a consultant working for the gov't, you can get paid $$$$$.
