Getting Logitech G502 to work on Linux Mint 18.1
So, Logitech software only works for Windows. Unfortunately, the sensitivity is extremely high by default, making the mouse much less useful. The extra buttons also have no function, which is…
Race and exam pass rates (data dump)
In the SSC subreddit, someone reposted that data showing the strong race bias in the admission process for medicine. I reposted it on Twitter with some snark, to the usual…
There’s a lot more to the Mendelians
There's a highly interesting new paper out: The Genetic Basis of Mendelian Phenotypes: Discoveries, Challenges, and Opportunities (Mendelians are also known as monogenic disorders because they are inherited in patterns…
Regression Modeling Strategies (2nd ed.) – Frank Harrell (review)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10753824-regression-modeling-strategies I heard some good things about this book, and some of it is good. Surely, the general approach outlined in the introduction is pretty sound. He sets up the…
New paper out: Admixture in Argentina (with John Fuerst)
We have a new big paper out: Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2017). Admixture in Argentina. Mankind Quarterly, 57(4). Retrieved from http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/57-4/4 Abstract Analyses of the relationships between…
Against CFAR
Note: snarky, critical. Happy to be proven wrong. Edit: after writing this, I found some more evidence, but it's not particularly convincing either. CFAR, The Center for Applied Rationality, is…
LessWrong, MIRI etc. meltdown
What happens if you take a bunch of socially inept, above average intelligence, and mentally ill people and have them try to do stuff together? Sounds like a disaster. Well...…
The race and intelligence question is solvable
In reply to: http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/what-both-the-left-and-right-get-wrong-about-race http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/origin-of-race-differences-in-intelligence-is-not-a-scientific-question/ There's a new kind of 'environmentalist' (rather, anti-hereditarian) defense in town, or at least, one that's not commonly seen. It goes like this: This is…
Top influential books – 2017 edition
Along with some other people, I was asked to produce a list of the top 5 books that had the largest influence on me. https://twitter.com/BenWinegard/status/871773406110154753 Note that this is not…
Science and politics: USA edition
One can find quite a lot of popular articles on the topic: https://newrepublic.com/article/139700/democrats-party-science-not-really http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/07/15/are-republicans-or-democrats-more-anti-s https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/28/can-the-republican-party-solve-its-science-denial-problem http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/the-politics-of-climate/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-republicans-still-reject-the-science-of-global-warming-w448023 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/democrats-have-a-problem-with-science-too-107270 https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/left-science-gmo-vaccines with wildly diverging conclusions. So what is true? It at…