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  1. Dilbert on Ask Slashdot: Which Expert Bloggers Do You Read? · · Score: 1

    Why read the rest when you can laugh with the best? Seriously experts are wrong most of the time, just take a look at what they wrote a while ago. There are plenty of books on the subject of experts like:Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us - and How to Know When NOT to trust them. In economics the "experts" usually are those who had a lucky streak. Yes there are experts out there in mathematics, physics and other things who know specific stuff but they usually do not write about it in blogs, they publish peer reviewed articles.

  2. There is a book: Talent is Overrated on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    I recommend it. No I do not think that 20 years of hard work will make me into a new Beethoven. However hard work and very good training are what is needed to produce success. Here is an example of how it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... her father as an experiment got her and her sister to the chess world. Nearly every sports super star you read about works much harder then his peers. Ditto for most people who succeed in research and hi tech. We should be promoting hard work and stop deluding our selves that we can pick winners because they where a little better in the beginning, which is what I think talent is.

  3. Re:Like Music, News and other dinosaurs. on Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online · · Score: 1

    You will meet lots of people from many countries on line when taking on-line courses; if the courses are set up right. I am not for abandoning universities I am for making them adjust. Unfortunately like all normal organizations they are clinging to the money they made the old way..

  4. Like Music, News and other dinosaurs. on Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is about time the universities go the way of the book, music, news, encyclopedia and information industries in which the Internet has brought down prices significantly. There is no justification to the huge amounts of money the universities charge for the education they provide and for the learning materials. This course is a live demonstration of how it can be done for pennies. The only thing that should cost more then a few dollars is final testing of a course which can be done for about $50.00 per course. Beyond that if remote testing is used it will be very hard for any one to get a whole degree by cheating on the total amount of courses needed to graduate. A few random tests on key subjects where you have to be present physically are more then enough to put an end to any shenanigans. The only reason it has not happened yet is psychological, people (those who study and those who hire) being conservative by nature want a degree from "a well known establishment". (Yes some courses need labs and cadavers but they are a small minority)

  5. Other names Apple cannot use: on Apple Sued Over Use of iCloud Name · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rainbow Cloud (RCloud) Jessy Jackson will sue them. Singing Cloud (SCloud ) Music Cloud (MCloud . ) McLoud public schools will sue them FCloud (FriendCloud) GCloud No Cloud (NCloud) I hereby copyright all permutations on non used [a-zA-Z0-9]*Cloud.

  6. Re:Mubarak leaving soon, Demoracy in Eygpy :) on Tens of Thousands Protest In Cairo, Twitter Blocked · · Score: 2

    Sure Egypt will have a real democracy in a day or two. Like the Hamas in Gaza. I am no supporter of the Arab regimes but it is much more likely that we will end up with some kind of Muslim dictatorship.

  7. Re:First to Invent on Tandberg Attempts To Patent Open Source Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The open source person should file a complaint regarding theft of IP with the FBI and the state general attorney (if he lives in the US). There is nothing companies like less then dealing with government lawyers.