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"1. Enhanced structured assessments with cognitive testing"
This is basically "racism with a side of logic puzzles"
"Over the past 12 months, we have tested structured assessments for cultural alignment and technical skills, and validated these were predictive of performance at Coinbase"
Measuring performance is itself a can of worms and racism magnet. In order words: garbage in, garbage out. They're validating that they get what they measure, but if both are biased in the same way, well, probably they aren't learning what they think they are.
"We believe having a minimum bar on these assessments will drive consistency in evaluation, reduce bias, and foster a meritocracy."
Consistency? Probably. Consistency of goose turds.
Reduce bias? Certainly the opposite. They're literally creating bias via cultural alignment. That's the whole fucking point of cultural alignment: it's intentional bias.
Oh, did they mean reducing discrimination against protected classes? LOL. also no. Probably they never learned that IQ tests are racist, and what they're doing is probably worse.
"Foster a meritocracy" what is this, a parody of 2005 libertarian tech start-ups? … … oh right, griftocurrency.
Apparently they were sick the day that their grade school teacher presented why meritocracy is a myth
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy

A Topologically Enriched Probability Monad on the Cartesian Closed Category of CGWH Spaces
Peter Kristel, Benedikt Peterseim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08430

A Topologically Enriched Probability Monad on the Cartesian Closed Category of CGWH Spaces
Probability monads on categories of topological spaces are classical objects of study in the categorical approach to probability theory. We construct a probability monad on the category of compactly generated weakly Hausdorff (CGWH) spaces, a (if not the) standard choice of convenient category of topological spaces. Because a novel version of the Riesz representation theorem plays a fundamental role in our construction, we name it the Riesz probability monad. We show that the Riesz probability …

Is this big? I think this is big.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/new-wisconsin-district-…

Wisconsin Picks New Legislative Maps That Would End Years of GOP Gerrymandering
Under legal pressure to address Wisconsin’s “Swiss cheese” and oddly shaped districts, the Legislature approved redrawn maps that promise to create a new dynamic in a state known for its pivotal role in national politics.

Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-tim-dunn-wilks-brothers-vouchers-courtney-gore

Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education
The largesse from billionaires Tim Dunn and brothers Farris and Dan Wilks has made its way into local politics across Texas. Courtney Gore, a Republican school board member in Granbury, says it’s part of their strategy to build support for vouchers.

You probably don't need #GraphQL
https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/graphql/

Finite-sample expansions for the optimal error probability in asymmetric binary hypothesis testing
Valentinian Lungu, Ioannis Kontoyiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09605

Finite-sample expansions for the optimal error probability in asymmetric binary hypothesis testing
The problem of binary hypothesis testing between two probability measures is considered. New sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable error probability of such tests based on independent and identically distributed observations. Specifically, the asymmetric version of the problem is examined, where different requirements are placed on the two error probabilities. Accurate nonasymptotic expansions with explicit constants are obtained for the error probability, using tools from large devi…

Bij Florida heb ik een beeld van een subtropisch Nederland zonder dijken. https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/112252878611992853

A Framework for Safe Probabilistic Invariance Verification of Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Taoran Wu, Yiqing Yu, Bican Xia, Ji Wang, Bai Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09007

A Framework for Safe Probabilistic Invariance Verification of Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Ensuring safety through set invariance has proven to be a valuable method in various robotics and control applications. This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for the safe probabilistic invariance verification of both discrete- and continuous-time stochastic dynamical systems over an infinite time horizon. The objective is to ascertain the lower and upper bounds of the liveness probability for a given safe set and set of initial states. This probability signifies the likelihood of the …

Once a community becomes a hot spot for these pollutants, it’s nearly impossible to clean it up for good.
In fact, ProPublica found, such a success story is virtually unheard of.
In 2021, we published a cutting-edge national map of more than 1,000 communities that had become what are known as “#sacrifice #zones

The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, Kentucky, remains polluted. The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.

Once a community becomes a hot spot for these pollutants, it’s nearly impossible to clean it up for good.
In fact, ProPublica found, such a success story is virtually unheard of.
In 2021, we published a cutting-edge national map of more than 1,000 communities that had become what are known as “#sacrifice #zones

The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, Kentucky, remains polluted. The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.