Astral Codex Ten

Grant

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Grant

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Grant is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between August 17, 2021 and April 01, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “week before the standardized test go into “ohmigod we’re supposed to be at the 1950s now fuck fuck fuck Grant Hayes Garfield Arthur Cleveland Harrison Cleveland McKinley”; “biographies about Grant, Roosevelt, and Truman”; “Contact: Grant”. It most often appears alongside Arkansas, Berkeley, Chicago.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 5
  • Issue count: 5
  • First seen: August 17, 2021
  • Last seen: April 01, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Kids Can Recover From Missing Even Quite A Lot Of School
August 17, 2021 · Original source
And Potochnik (2018) looks at immigrants who missed school (at least one grade level) during the immigration process. After adjusting for confounders, immigrants who miss a grade during primary school (ie below age ~11) do just as well on tenth-grade (ie age ~15) tests as immigrants who didn’t miss a grade. Immigrants who miss a grade during secondary school (ie after age ~11) do the same on reading, but worse on math, as other immigrants on tenth-grade tests. I interpret this to mean that effects from early school missing wash out after a few years, but that if you miss a grade close enough to when you’re being tested, it won’t have enough time to wash out before the test (especially with math). One caveat is that school-missing immigrants, even the ones who did academically just as well as everyone else, were more likely to drop out. This could potentially be either non-academic effects, or (more likely) undetected confounders.
Inline links: looks at immigrants
(my own experience with these standardized tests is that eg my school’s social studies courses would move leisurely through the Native American and colonial era, get distracted talking about How Bad Slavery Was, and then a week before the standardized test go into “ohmigod we’re supposed to be at the 1950s now fuck fuck fuck Grant Hayes Garfield Arthur Cleveland Harrison Cleveland McKinley World War One World War Two labor unions Japanese internment ok good luck!” mode. If the day you miss is during that period, I can definitely believe you do worse on test questions about the McKinley administration one week later.)
Maybe missing school is also like this? There seems to be some hint of this in the study on immigrant children, who were usually able to recover test scores over time, but still dropped out more even after their test scores were fine. This could also explain why the Argentine children in teacher strikes had decreased earnings years later; a lot of the studies linking educational effects to earnings find that connections aren’t mediated by test scores.
Your Book Review: The Outlier
July 08, 2022 · Original source
But I wondered what, if any, hidden depths lay within the peanut farmer. Also, I wanted to enter this contest, and I didn’t want to pick a book that I thought a bunch of other people might also review. So I turned to The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, by Kai Bird. Like Carter, this book seems to have been largely forgotten. It won a Pulitzer, but I had never heard of it until I googled “best book about Jimmy Carter.” It seems to have gotten a lot less attention than similar recent biographies about Grant, Roosevelt, and Truman, and it’s hard to imagine it ever becoming a TV show or a musical.
Inline links: The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Shortly after his escape from Iran to exile in Egypt, the Shah is diagnosed with cancer, and since he’s been a consistent American ally, lots of influential people think we should let him come to the U.S. where he can benefit from our best-in-class treatment. Carter is against the idea at first (in fact, he directly predicts that granting the Shah entry to the U.S. could lead to Americans in Iran getting taken hostage), but eventually he’s worn down by his advisors and gives in. Less than two weeks after the Shah arrives, Carter’s prediction come true: the American embassy in Iran is overrun and 52 citizens are taken hostage. Ironically, even the Shah ends up worse off, as he ultimately dies not from his cancer but from a series of avoidable medical errors made by his American doctors.
Meetups Everywhere Spring 2025: Times & Places
March 25, 2025 · Original source
Contact: Grant Contact Info: grantfellows18[a t]gmail[period]com Time: Saturday, April 19th, 3:30 PM Location: Address: Beering Hall of Liberal Arts (BRNG) Room 1268, 100 N University St, West Lafayette, IN 47907. BRNG 1268 is in the southwest corner of the building, and can be found after turning left at the south entrance. Please email me if you cannot find us. I will also place an ACX Meetup sign at the entrance to the room. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/86GMC3GM+4C Group Link: https://discord.gg/WpG [remove this bit] TW4htZm
Inline links: https://plus.codes/86GMC3GM+4C
Meetups Everywhere 2025: Times and Places
August 29, 2025 · Original source
Contact: Todd Contact Info: info[at]chicagorationality[dot]com Time: Saturday, September 27, 2:00 PM Location: Grant Park Coordinates: https://plus.codes/86HJV9FH+99 Group Link: https://chicagorationality.com/
Inline links: https://plus.codes/86HJV9FH+99
Contact: Grant Contact Info: grantfellows18[a t]gmail[period]com Time: Saturday, September 27th, 12:00 PM Location: Beering Hall of Liberal Arts (BRNG) Room 1268, 100 N University St, West Lafayette, IN 47907. BRNG 1268 is in the southwest corner of the building, and can be found after turning left at the south entrance. Please email me if you cannot find us. I will also place an ACX Meetup sign at the entrance to the room. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/86GMC3GM+4C Group Link: https://discord.gg/QCq [remove this bit] QBp6s59
Inline links: https://plus.codes/86GMC3GM+4C
Meetups Everywhere Spring 2026: Times & Places
April 01, 2026 · Original source
Contact: Grant Contact Info: grantfellows18[@]gmail[.]com Time: Saturday, April 4th, 3:00 PM Location: Beering Hall of Liberal Arts (BRNG) Room 1255, 100 N University St, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Please email me if you cannot find us. I will also place an ACX Meetup sign at the entrance to the room. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/86GMC3GM+6FH Group Link: https://discord.gg/QCq [remove this bit] QBp6s59
Inline links: https://plus.codes/86GMC3GM+6FH