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New comment by skribb in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

skribb — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:09:24 +0000

Could probably do an elo system and sample pairs. E.g.

1. Set the elo of all CVs to 1000 elo

2. Randomly pair up CVs and compare. Winners gain elo, losers lose elo.

3. Repeat #2 for a few iterations, then remove bottom X% of CVs.

4. Repeat 2-3 until the amount of remaining CVs is small enough to do an exhaustive comparison.

I don't have a mathematical proof, but I suspect that this is a decent cost-effective approximation of comparing every pair (depending on the parameters)

New comment by skribb in "Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?"

skribb — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:45:36 +0000

I believe there's also a Finnish vit-d study which showed very good results in afib protection

New comment by skribb in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

skribb — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:53:30 +0000

This has also been extended to evening events (dinners, balls, parties) in student towns. There “dk” stands for double quarter, so for example 18dk means that an event starts at 18:30, but you may show up from 18:00. And the time between 18:00-18:30 is used for mingling.

It’s a good convention.

New comment by skribb in "How to avoid P hacking"

skribb — Wed, 14 May 2025 06:55:51 +0000

I'm not great at stats so I don't understand this example. Wouldn't the sunlight affect both groups equally? How can an equal exposure to sunlight create a significant difference?

New comment by skribb in "Quake Brutalist Jam II"

skribb — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:56:12 +0000

You might also be interested in: https://noclip.website/ (not quake maps)

I also know https://www.halospawns.com/app used to have quake maps (dm6 at least), but can't find it now.