We learned in decision theory that when faced with a difficult decision, people tend to simplify. We also learned people tend to simplify irrationally. It is a foundational principle for advertising.
I've heard about the subject before, but I'd never been exposed to the original author's mention of death. I wonder if that is what it is all about? Our natural fear or aversion to death and dead bodies makes the uncanny valley happen. Given the stories of vampires, I'm not surprised the movement of a dead body evokes a steeper uncanny valley moment.
In the moment of crisis, they are a lifesaver pushing your software out moments before you piss off the customer. Of course, they are also often the reason you lost three weeks of development time chasing a bug in undocumented code that isn't in the repository and they don't remember writing.
"Perhaps made beds are passe, but so are many items and behaviours that we still maintain as a nod to our heritage." My grandmother had a buttons in her jewelry box. As a child, I wondered why. Then, I grew up and realized that her buttons were not molded from plastic in China. Now I wonder why a shirt with 3 cents of plastic and a seem in the middle is still "formal."
FYI, the Birmingham blob contains quite a lot of rural area. The Opelika/Auburn, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville areas are entirely unrepresented. In the 2000 census, Opelika ranked #32 in the country for percentage of local population with graduate degrees, Huntsville ranked #66, Tuscaloosa #79. It also appears as if the Mobile area is only partially represented. If you cut out those areas, then Alabama does indeed look incredibly dumb.
I'm looking at a map missing blobs for places I know to contain concentrations of highly educated populations in the south. I'm also looking at some blobs that, given local information you would expect to break the curve on the low end, doing relatively well. I'd be interested to know how the blobs were chosen, what the empty spots mean, and a filled map.
However when UAVs are approved and if this guy's decendants can carry a decent payload, regular unmanned transportation of goods with a price independant of idiots killing each other in the desert might be important to humanity even if it is slow.
Much of science is a lot of difficult work with relatively little reward with a big payoff in the end. Teaching kids there exists an interesting emotional reward for success if they push through the stuff they may not like isn't the whole battle, but it is an important part.
And science has sorted the great parts of their work from the crap. There are a number of folks, who at least talk like a religious person shouldn't be sorting journals for a real scientist because they might get bias on them. Do not hinder me from contributing to science because you have an irrational fear of one of the many awful biases that could ruin my work.
If my brain isn't chunking religous thought into the same chunk as scientific thought, then it is baffling to me how someone can think that someone would think how one chunk would corrupt the other. If my brain is chunking them both together it is baffling how a religious man ties his shoes in the morning. As posted somewhere in the mass of comments above (I'm not sure if even this thread), a number of scientists with foundational principles have been able to successfully arrange their thoughts in such a way as to accomodate religion. The scary part occurs when people make policy or scientific decisions by chunking religion with science and you can't detect that. However, there are a number of other subjects when chunked with science makes for results just as terrible, e.g. politics, e.g. money, e.g. fame.
They can but is that an awful thing? If someone has little proficiency for math and no interest is there any point in forcing them to sit through calculus? How about precalculus? Trig? Actually Alabama was similar when I finished high school, the people uninterested in academics got 11 years of math, rather than algebra 2 and trig they got personal finance and statistics. I can't say that is an awful thing for a mechanic, or a truckdriver, or even a non-techinical professional like my real estate agent. Particular uses for higher math in non-technical fields can be picked up with on the job training and processes to catch errors.
My personal issue was that limited space in Calculus meant those who didn't do well enough in 8th grade math didn't make it into Calculus their senior year. I could have skipped 3 semesters of College math if I'd had exposure.
We would have a country with more people who did not attend school. As long as education correlates to higher wages or better lives, there will be people who pursue education and foist it upon their offspring. My grandparents grew up dirt poor, nearly as poor as the recently freed slaves. My grandfather looked at education as a way to take his family from subsistance farming to a comfortable life. He never was able to attain his education goals, but he worked his whole life so his children and grandchildren could attend college.
Evangelistic aethistic scientists have a fundamental disagreement with the attitude that humans can segregate parts of their lives into different thought processes. They think that someone cannot perform rational thought in one area of their life with demonstratable proof that they have logical flaws in other areas. The problem IMO with this line of thought is that they are pretending the human approximation to logic is closer to how we should think than the evolutionary-designed heuristic processes that allow us to think. We think within a context of data chunks, between roughly 5 and 9 chunks of data at any one time. As we gain expertise, then our chunks grow to encompass wider concepts, but we are still limited to a processing blob that deals with reality in a very segmented context. That isn't to say there aren't places that a religious scientist needs to be careful, but it is quite as intellectually honest as any other method.
My father while working on a project to clean up old nerve agent informed me that a common nerve agent reacted with concrete to become inert after a short period of time. Sometimes it is important that your weapons do their job and then shut off to no longer pose any threat to your invading force.
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found serenity
But you can't take the sky from me .
Or maybe they can...
This generation sold as a "media hub" with the capability to play the video discs, play games, and serve apps because they were so expensive. It served a host of needs out of the box. If they drop discs then I can't play my existing media out of the box. I need to drop $500 for a new console and repurchase my media? That is going to cut into the sales figures at least a little.
I don't think his point was that they should always buy fancy, expensive entertainment. I think it was that self-rewarding is psychologically necessary for consistent, reliable productivity if your job environment is not rewarding in itself. Without consistent, reliable productivity you have no hope for promotion and likely no hope to keep your job.
Be very careful; when they were trying to sell me on co-oping in college they pointed to a number of people who never finished their CS degree because demand was so strong they dropped out of school to keep up with their work tasks. After I graduated there was a hiring slump and it was tough to find work for any IT job; those guys were working the bookstore register. When layoffs came, they started with the worthless people. Unable to fill the firing quota, they moved on to those who lacked the education requirements for their position.
Yes, but if I don't buy something then they don't force the local police to sit in the parking lot and check tickets, nor do they force Toyota to check my receipts before I put my purchases in my car.
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We learned in decision theory that when faced with a difficult decision, people tend to simplify. We also learned people tend to simplify irrationally. It is a foundational principle for advertising.
I've heard about the subject before, but I'd never been exposed to the original author's mention of death. I wonder if that is what it is all about? Our natural fear or aversion to death and dead bodies makes the uncanny valley happen. Given the stories of vampires, I'm not surprised the movement of a dead body evokes a steeper uncanny valley moment.
In the moment of crisis, they are a lifesaver pushing your software out moments before you piss off the customer. Of course, they are also often the reason you lost three weeks of development time chasing a bug in undocumented code that isn't in the repository and they don't remember writing.
"Perhaps made beds are passe, but so are many items and behaviours that we still maintain as a nod to our heritage." My grandmother had a buttons in her jewelry box. As a child, I wondered why. Then, I grew up and realized that her buttons were not molded from plastic in China. Now I wonder why a shirt with 3 cents of plastic and a seem in the middle is still "formal."
FYI, the Birmingham blob contains quite a lot of rural area. The Opelika/Auburn, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville areas are entirely unrepresented. In the 2000 census, Opelika ranked #32 in the country for percentage of local population with graduate degrees, Huntsville ranked #66, Tuscaloosa #79. It also appears as if the Mobile area is only partially represented. If you cut out those areas, then Alabama does indeed look incredibly dumb.
I'm looking at a map missing blobs for places I know to contain concentrations of highly educated populations in the south. I'm also looking at some blobs that, given local information you would expect to break the curve on the low end, doing relatively well. I'd be interested to know how the blobs were chosen, what the empty spots mean, and a filled map.
However when UAVs are approved and if this guy's decendants can carry a decent payload, regular unmanned transportation of goods with a price independant of idiots killing each other in the desert might be important to humanity even if it is slow.
Much of science is a lot of difficult work with relatively little reward with a big payoff in the end. Teaching kids there exists an interesting emotional reward for success if they push through the stuff they may not like isn't the whole battle, but it is an important part.
And science has sorted the great parts of their work from the crap. There are a number of folks, who at least talk like a religious person shouldn't be sorting journals for a real scientist because they might get bias on them. Do not hinder me from contributing to science because you have an irrational fear of one of the many awful biases that could ruin my work.
If my brain isn't chunking religous thought into the same chunk as scientific thought, then it is baffling to me how someone can think that someone would think how one chunk would corrupt the other. If my brain is chunking them both together it is baffling how a religious man ties his shoes in the morning. As posted somewhere in the mass of comments above (I'm not sure if even this thread), a number of scientists with foundational principles have been able to successfully arrange their thoughts in such a way as to accomodate religion. The scary part occurs when people make policy or scientific decisions by chunking religion with science and you can't detect that. However, there are a number of other subjects when chunked with science makes for results just as terrible, e.g. politics, e.g. money, e.g. fame.
They can but is that an awful thing? If someone has little proficiency for math and no interest is there any point in forcing them to sit through calculus? How about precalculus? Trig? Actually Alabama was similar when I finished high school, the people uninterested in academics got 11 years of math, rather than algebra 2 and trig they got personal finance and statistics. I can't say that is an awful thing for a mechanic, or a truckdriver, or even a non-techinical professional like my real estate agent. Particular uses for higher math in non-technical fields can be picked up with on the job training and processes to catch errors. My personal issue was that limited space in Calculus meant those who didn't do well enough in 8th grade math didn't make it into Calculus their senior year. I could have skipped 3 semesters of College math if I'd had exposure.
No, but enough angry idiots can influence policy in any government system.
We would have a country with more people who did not attend school. As long as education correlates to higher wages or better lives, there will be people who pursue education and foist it upon their offspring. My grandparents grew up dirt poor, nearly as poor as the recently freed slaves. My grandfather looked at education as a way to take his family from subsistance farming to a comfortable life. He never was able to attain his education goals, but he worked his whole life so his children and grandchildren could attend college.
Evangelistic aethistic scientists have a fundamental disagreement with the attitude that humans can segregate parts of their lives into different thought processes. They think that someone cannot perform rational thought in one area of their life with demonstratable proof that they have logical flaws in other areas. The problem IMO with this line of thought is that they are pretending the human approximation to logic is closer to how we should think than the evolutionary-designed heuristic processes that allow us to think. We think within a context of data chunks, between roughly 5 and 9 chunks of data at any one time. As we gain expertise, then our chunks grow to encompass wider concepts, but we are still limited to a processing blob that deals with reality in a very segmented context. That isn't to say there aren't places that a religious scientist needs to be careful, but it is quite as intellectually honest as any other method.
My father while working on a project to clean up old nerve agent informed me that a common nerve agent reacted with concrete to become inert after a short period of time. Sometimes it is important that your weapons do their job and then shut off to no longer pose any threat to your invading force.
On your work machine like the rest of Slashdot.
Statistics used to mean something, until I took statistics.
There is a solution to that too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4581871.stm
I wasn't talking about video games really. I was talking DVD and BLU-ray. The PS3 got a lot of traction early on for the movie disc player.
Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell 'em I ain't comin' back Burn the land and boil the sea You can't take the sky from me There's no place I can be Since I found serenity But you can't take the sky from me . Or maybe they can...
This generation sold as a "media hub" with the capability to play the video discs, play games, and serve apps because they were so expensive. It served a host of needs out of the box. If they drop discs then I can't play my existing media out of the box. I need to drop $500 for a new console and repurchase my media? That is going to cut into the sales figures at least a little.
I don't think his point was that they should always buy fancy, expensive entertainment. I think it was that self-rewarding is psychologically necessary for consistent, reliable productivity if your job environment is not rewarding in itself. Without consistent, reliable productivity you have no hope for promotion and likely no hope to keep your job.
I grew up middle class, but my interest in computers, programming, and simulation all stem directly from playing video games.
Be very careful; when they were trying to sell me on co-oping in college they pointed to a number of people who never finished their CS degree because demand was so strong they dropped out of school to keep up with their work tasks. After I graduated there was a hiring slump and it was tough to find work for any IT job; those guys were working the bookstore register. When layoffs came, they started with the worthless people. Unable to fill the firing quota, they moved on to those who lacked the education requirements for their position.
Yes, but if I don't buy something then they don't force the local police to sit in the parking lot and check tickets, nor do they force Toyota to check my receipts before I put my purchases in my car.