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Low-hanging in the following sense: the premise - I tell you what I like, you tell me what else I might like - is compelling for the consumer, therefore, input is not the limiting factor. Moreover, recommender systems at such massive companies must be particularly amenable to A/B testing to help profile their customers more accurately. Finally, performance metrics are straightforward and easy to calculate.


Code phonology (vocalization of code) might be a good place to start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16554865


Two comments:

- Lay people seem to have a very good intuition about the actual heritability of intelligence (taken to assess the genetic and environmental determinants of intelligence). [0]

- If you'd like to read an up-to-date and thorough literature review on human intelligence, I highly recommend "Intelligence: All That Matters" by Stuart Ritchie.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468694


Better to link the final version - http://sci-hub.la/10.1126/science.aam9309


She is great. Check out MIA seminar series [0] featuring like-minded researchers.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14647070


and it's even local to me. cheers!


They specifically cite that JAMA analysis among others, present the prevailing scientific theory in dietary science and heart disease epidemiology at the time, and challenge their narrative.


I suppose what I had in mind was akin to the following practical example, say a technical question asked on Stack Overflow. When the submitter can't reliably or efficiently anonymize the accompanying data [which would risk reveal the submitter's anonymity and compromise data], the submitter does not have any choice but anonymizes both the identity _and_ the data, which probably results in a sub-optimal exchange.

Imagine that you can effectively anonymize the dataset, I think one can think of circumstances where this could lead to a more effective communication as to provide further information (e.g., submitter's domain familiarity, language experience, resource constraints) and context (e.g., is this a standard practice) instead of fishing for more clarification in an iterative, and therefore less efficient, fashion.


Shared environment is probably not created equal though. While the family environment is constant, parents are likely to vary (deliberately and/or not) in their resource allocation (e.g., attention and care) among their kids. An interesting recent paper shows that the non-inherited genetic material of the parents may _still_ have an influence on the kid. [0] What exactly accounts for that influence remains to be elusive, and it would be quiet astonishing if the majority of the influence can be explained by well-established (or rather, exhaustively studied) behavior patterns in psychology. For example: birth order, number of same-sex siblings etc.

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/14/219261


> An interesting recent paper shows that the non-inherited genetic material of the parents may _still_ have an influence on the kid. [0]

Yes, but that comes out of the heritability component, not the non-sharedenvironment component.

> For example: birth order, number of same-sex siblings etc.

Birth order, by definition, can't explain any of the variance in fraternal vs identical twins, and there's a lot of doubt about whether it exists at all and for which traits. Likewise, I haven't seen much credible research on sibling effects - most such sociological research doesn't even bother to try to control or quantify any of the relevant genetics, and is 100% useless.


Have you checked out scikit-allel? It is fairly comprehensive in terms of calculating basic population stats, and the developer is highly active.

scikit-allel: http://scikit-allel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

scikit-allel example: http://alimanfoo.github.io/2015/09/21/estimating-fst.html

zarr: https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr


While I think the abstract alone is succinct, the authors present their theory a bit more in detail on their website: https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/theargumentativeth...


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