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BeerBrarian
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BeerBrarian is a personal blog at beerbrarian.blogspot.com about culture. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments do not discuss the writing. They concern Google's use of GPA in hiring and Google de-ranking news articles, so the linked posts seem to cover those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Libraries. Beer. DC. ISSN 2328-5656
What Hacker News says?
There's a big (and common) error in statistical reasoning Google is making with the decision to down-weight GPA based on their data: That GPAs do not predict performance among those it hired does not imply that Google should not use GPA when hiring any more. Rather, it means that Google used GPA to exactly the right extent among those it hired under its old policy - there was no information left in GPA they didn't u…
Comment linking /2013/11/the-subtle-joys-of-selecting-on.html
on “How to Get a Job at Google”Submitted The End of "The End of Libraries" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf fact checking were a thing CNN wouldn't have been used as an example of "left-leaning" media. CNN is fairly mainstream, which isn't to say their reporting lately isn't garbage. The reputable polar opposites are Fox News and MSNBC with everyone else somewhere in the middle. You can legitimately tell that someone listens to conservative media if they consider CNN left wing. This is the general problem. You've got g…
Comment linking /2016/12/librarians-in-age-of-trump-media-bias.html
on “Google will ‘de-rank’ RT articles to make them harder to find – Eric Schmidt”