ahazred8ta's comments

On: "Kai su, teknon" Caesar last words were probably a curse, not a farewell (2018)

[ahazred8ta]

He may have been saying Quaeso Te, Non! -- plain vanilla latin for "I beg you, no!"

On: Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch

[ahazred8ta]

March 1926 to October 1957 -- It only took us 31 years to get to orbit. And 5 more years to get to Venus.

On: Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV

[ahazred8ta]

If only ST:TAS hadn't given us the Holodeck... IMHO TNG would have been better without the holodeck episodes.

On: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined

[ahazred8ta]

Ditto the 1982 Lenell Geter case -- he was sent to prison based on a faulty witness ID. https://www.LenellGeter.com/Content/About/ -- https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/4406

On: Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition

[ahazred8ta]

In different states, police use cognitive aptitude tests such as the Wonderlic -- https://jobdescriptionandresumeexamples.com/10-important-fac... -- https://www.practice4me.com/lst-police-exam/ -- these are not strictly 'IQ' tests, but they're very similar.

[tptacek → ahazred8ta]

The Wonderlic might as well be an IQ test (I'm using the term "general cognitive test").

The LST isn't; it's a domain-specific occupational exam.

If you find a place that (1) uses the Wonderlic and (2) has recently (like, not all the way back in 2000) claimed there was a high-end cut-off for applicants, you'll have disproven my claim. I don't think giving general cognitive tests to prospective police officers is common; this is why there are things like the LST, the PELLETB, and the POST.

On: The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of Bovadium

[ahazred8ta]

> The Automobile makes cities less pleasant to live in

In 1900, there was a major manure crisis in all large european and north american cities. The swarms of flies were inescapable.

Although certainly the new roads required by increased population caused disruption.

On: AI-generated passwords aren't random, it just looks that way

[ahazred8ta]

Dilbert's take on 'random' number generators: https://www.random.org/analysis/dilbert.jpg

On: Let's Get Physical

[ahazred8ta]

There's an outfit in DC that social engineers government buildings. "Who are you, and what are you doing here?" ... "We've got chocolate cake!" "Oooo!!!"

On: Sewage-filled Potomac river risks ruining America's birthday

[ahazred8ta]

Pete Seeger - "We're filling up the seas with garbage (garbage, garbage, garbage)"

On: Four Decades of Inquiry into the Genetic Bases of Specific Reading Disability

[ahazred8ta]

TL;DR -- No obvious genetic differences associated with reading disability / dyslexia.