Every baby born had random mutation, without natural selection killing off the vast majority of the inferior mutations you have a buildup of these. And of course the vast majority of of these mutations are bad; In fact it has been theorised that without stringent natural selection aka mass death, a species basically de-evolves (lose their attributes/increase of cancer rates/falls apart at the genetic, level as more and more bad mutations enter the gene pool and are not killed off).
Average climate temperatures effect on intelligence, is intelligence 101. It does not matter if you are talking about humans or birds, the one whose species developed in a cold climate will almost certainly have a higher IQ.
Take the doto, or millions of other island creatures. Sure they are perfectly adapted to their environment, but nothing stays the same for ever, and it takes a species like the racoon or the croc to survive those radical changes that all species eventually run into.
There island species are not adaptable at all, because they do not need to be. The doto, as a species, was far far older than humans, but it was not adaptable to change and never would of been, without the correct stimuli. It got the correct stimuli, but it was so unadaptable that it went extinct well before it would adapt to survive it.
"Natural selection simply leads to organisms being better suited to their environments. This is happening constantly, even in the absence of major climatic pressures." Natural selection is a mechanism brought about by mass death, without mass death you do not have natural selection, because there is no selection. Without it you simply have unguided evolution, the buildup of random mutation. A varied and intense climate is one very good way to bring complexity into an environment and encourage intelligence and adaptability, that said, normally it is the cold that normally inspires intelligence.
Well it all depends on what you consider positive and negative. Warming overall, I imagine,would probably increase life density, and the complexity of a global warning weather system is probably likely to inspire species to improve over time, after the short term mass death.
It will be horrible for human civilization, but that is good for the environment as well.
No that is completely different, that is a historic piece. The whole point of the 3D printed gun is that you can make one in your office. This gun is not historic or special, the technique is.
For the most part the professionals are not that great. A significant percentage of people are good musicians, and there is really no reason for most if not all professional musicians to be worth millions of dollars.
Less education was a conscious decision for the high school, and they are not having trouble adapting to this change. And honestly, if you were not going on to university, there probably was no reason for the 13th grade, so it sort of makes sense to be gone.
If the courses that university is still teaching first years have not adapted to a known change for like a decade, that is their fault, not the high schools. University knows what it is getting, it reviews every single student for proficiency, and the necessary pre-requisites. If the students are not ready for university, than either make some online course a necessity, that they can take over the summer, or change university to actually be compatible with 100% of their enrollees.
Perhaps it is both? Speed it all relative, you really only realise that energy if you apply the breaks of hit something. So it is really just potential energy. Going really fast is like being really high, you have easily accessible potential energy.
Addendum: So I guess what I am saying is. Sure, students today know less then they did 20 years ago. But that was a concious decision. If post-secondary education is not coping well with this change, that is their fault. As far as I am aware, kids today know the curriculum as well as they did 20 years ago, but the curriculum has changed.
If university is not set up to correctly teacher kids who all know at least what is mandated in the curriculum, and what the university itself calls for in their enrollment rules, that is the university's problem. And a failure of of its educational system.
I learned most of those things, but you are right, I do not think we got all of them.
I think the problem you see is caused by a few different things. First off, we have one less year now; which is huge. We lost the time to learn stuff like integrals. Which is actuality good for universities as they can charge for one more year of schooling, that the state used to provide. So of course many students have never even heard of a integral, that is not part of the curriculum, and that is the universities job to teach now.
Also highschool is set up differentially than Univ. Highschool is designed to improve everyones eduction, as much as possible. University will just dump the lazy and stupid. So you cannot necessarily differentiate, by grades alone at least, the stupid and the smart.
A lot more people go to university than they ever did in the past. This means that stupider people, and less dedicated people, are attending university. It is just the place you go after high school unless you are a complete idiot and your family is not dirt poor. And sure most of these people are not really academic, but then they just enroll in some Arts faculty.
I believe it was considered the best at what I was taking, but I also find it likely that any student satisfaction surveys probably would rank it pretty low. It would be pretty hard to have a worse university. And I guaranty you, that is is not even the best in the province, but it had a good reputation.
Having been to both highschool and university. I find it ironic that anyone at university would be complaining about the educational value of highschool. If you ignore some of the horrendous data points, like large swaths of the US, Highschool is pretty good.
Having attended the best university in my country, Waterloo, I can say with absolute certainty that university education is complete crap. They take your money, and need to give some small percentage who stick with it a diploma after 3 or 5 years. They don't really care what you do, how well they teach, or if you have the necessary resources in the interim. They really do not care if turn off all the geniuses, and only put out unprepared idiots, they already have your money.
OK, so it is a consumer use-case, because compiling is so fast that it is not worth using the companies machines, but it is slow enough to pay a few grand to half the compiling time? Why not just network to a central repository on a super fast, SSD carrying, mainframe.
OK, and if you are working with hundreds of files, then you are compiling on a cooperate mainframe. I never tried to say that SSDs do not have a user case for compiling, but that use case is not consumer. I am physically unable to create a project, by myself (or even in a small group), big enough to warrant an SSD.
And also what happens afterwards. Most drives will not fail under warranty, most should fail many many years afterwards. This does not tell us if the average SDD fails 1 week after its 2 year warranties runs out, or if the HDD lasts for 8 year longer on average.
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Every baby born had random mutation, without natural selection killing off the vast majority of the inferior mutations you have a buildup of these. And of course the vast majority of of these mutations are bad; In fact it has been theorised that without stringent natural selection aka mass death, a species basically de-evolves (lose their attributes/increase of cancer rates/falls apart at the genetic, level as more and more bad mutations enter the gene pool and are not killed off).
Average climate temperatures effect on intelligence, is intelligence 101. It does not matter if you are talking about humans or birds, the one whose species developed in a cold climate will almost certainly have a higher IQ.
Yes and no, and no.
Take the doto, or millions of other island creatures. Sure they are perfectly adapted to their environment, but nothing stays the same for ever, and it takes a species like the racoon or the croc to survive those radical changes that all species eventually run into.
There island species are not adaptable at all, because they do not need to be. The doto, as a species, was far far older than humans, but it was not adaptable to change and never would of been, without the correct stimuli. It got the correct stimuli, but it was so unadaptable that it went extinct well before it would adapt to survive it.
"Natural selection simply leads to organisms being better suited to their environments. This is happening constantly, even in the absence of major climatic pressures."
Natural selection is a mechanism brought about by mass death, without mass death you do not have natural selection, because there is no selection. Without it you simply have unguided evolution, the buildup of random mutation. A varied and intense climate is one very good way to bring complexity into an environment and encourage intelligence and adaptability, that said, normally it is the cold that normally inspires intelligence.
Well it all depends on what you consider positive and negative. Warming overall, I imagine,would probably increase life density, and the complexity of a global warning weather system is probably likely to inspire species to improve over time, after the short term mass death.
It will be horrible for human civilization, but that is good for the environment as well.
You can solve a problem without it being perfect, or complete. Racism existing does not counter the argument that the racism problem has been solved.
But I agree, government regulation does nothing to help racism.
So they are actually just displaying a hunk of plastic in the general shape of a gun? Wow, I would totally take time to go see that.
No that is completely different, that is a historic piece.
The whole point of the 3D printed gun is that you can make one in your office.
This gun is not historic or special, the technique is.
These are 3D printed guns. You cannot just display them, that is just useless, and stupid, and counter to any reason you would like them.
"3D printed guns, they make good wall hangers."
If you are interested in these 3D printed guns, then have a live demonstration or something. Show one being make, being fired, etc...
One for you; one for me.
For the most part the professionals are not that great. A significant percentage of people are good musicians, and there is really no reason for most if not all professional musicians to be worth millions of dollars.
You cannot compare America to 1st world countries. That is not a fair metric.
Less education was a conscious decision for the high school, and they are not having trouble adapting to this change. And honestly, if you were not going on to university, there probably was no reason for the 13th grade, so it sort of makes sense to be gone.
If the courses that university is still teaching first years have not adapted to a known change for like a decade, that is their fault, not the high schools. University knows what it is getting, it reviews every single student for proficiency, and the necessary pre-requisites. If the students are not ready for university, than either make some online course a necessity, that they can take over the summer, or change university to actually be compatible with 100% of their enrollees.
Perhaps it is both? Speed it all relative, you really only realise that energy if you apply the breaks of hit something. So it is really just potential energy.
Going really fast is like being really high, you have easily accessible potential energy.
Well test score will never improve overall, as they are all bell curved to be the same year after year.
Addendum:
So I guess what I am saying is. Sure, students today know less then they did 20 years ago. But that was a concious decision.
If post-secondary education is not coping well with this change, that is their fault. As far as I am aware, kids today know the curriculum as well as they did 20 years ago, but the curriculum has changed.
If university is not set up to correctly teacher kids who all know at least what is mandated in the curriculum, and what the university itself calls for in their enrollment rules, that is the university's problem. And a failure of of its educational system.
I learned most of those things, but you are right, I do not think we got all of them.
I think the problem you see is caused by a few different things. First off, we have one less year now; which is huge. We lost the time to learn stuff like integrals. Which is actuality good for universities as they can charge for one more year of schooling, that the state used to provide. So of course many students have never even heard of a integral, that is not part of the curriculum, and that is the universities job to teach now.
Also highschool is set up differentially than Univ. Highschool is designed to improve everyones eduction, as much as possible. University will just dump the lazy and stupid. So you cannot necessarily differentiate, by grades alone at least, the stupid and the smart.
A lot more people go to university than they ever did in the past. This means that stupider people, and less dedicated people, are attending university. It is just the place you go after high school unless you are a complete idiot and your family is not dirt poor. And sure most of these people are not really academic, but then they just enroll in some Arts faculty.
And were the students any better off after your class? Or was the next teacher lamenting their lacking education even more than you were?
I believe it was considered the best at what I was taking, but I also find it likely that any student satisfaction surveys probably would rank it pretty low.
It would be pretty hard to have a worse university. And I guaranty you, that is is not even the best in the province, but it had a good reputation.
Having been to both highschool and university. I find it ironic that anyone at university would be complaining about the educational value of highschool. If you ignore some of the horrendous data points, like large swaths of the US, Highschool is pretty good.
Having attended the best university in my country, Waterloo, I can say with absolute certainty that university education is complete crap. They take your money, and need to give some small percentage who stick with it a diploma after 3 or 5 years. They don't really care what you do, how well they teach, or if you have the necessary resources in the interim. They really do not care if turn off all the geniuses, and only put out unprepared idiots, they already have your money.
I have no idea which of my profs were tenured, But I do know which were not professors and which simply graduate students, or business professionals.
In my experience, almost universally, professors suck at teaching.
Of an educational study last week (on /.), I am glad to see at least someone knows the rudiments of conducting a decent study.
OK, so it is a consumer use-case, because compiling is so fast that it is not worth using the companies machines, but it is slow enough to pay a few grand to half the compiling time? Why not just network to a central repository on a super fast, SSD carrying, mainframe.
OK, and if you are working with hundreds of files, then you are compiling on a cooperate mainframe. I never tried to say that SSDs do not have a user case for compiling, but that use case is not consumer. I am physically unable to create a project, by myself (or even in a small group), big enough to warrant an SSD.
Wow, so you are saying I can save like 8 milliseconds on my compile time if I switch to SSDs?
Seriously, this is not the 1960s anymore.
SDDs and HDDs. There is a huge percentage that arrive dead, or die within a week. But I do not think SDDs fair any worse that HDDs.
And also what happens afterwards. Most drives will not fail under warranty, most should fail many many years afterwards.
This does not tell us if the average SDD fails 1 week after its 2 year warranties runs out, or if the HDD lasts for 8 year longer on average.