I think that genius is hard to detect at first sight, you have to know a person of genius level really well and at least to have some grasp of the amazing things they do, but believe me true geniuses are really very distant from average people or even regular smart people, they are simply in other plane. Also, in my experience these factors although important are not sufficient conditions for development of genius, there is always some innate part.
There is a well known rumor that keeping celibacy is a great source of creativity.
From Nikola Tesla's webpage:
"Tesla never married. He was celibate and claimed that his chastity was very helpful to his scientific abilities.[22] Nonetheless there have been numerous accounts of women vying for Tesla's affection, even some madly in love with him. Tesla, though polite, behaved rather ambivalently to these women in the romantic sense."
I am sure i could find some other intellectuals who were celibates, or at least didn't give so much importance to sex. Maybe the greats insights of these genius provided them with greater pleasure (and less ephemeral) as substitute for physical orgasms. Or it may be simply that they didn't have much time or didn't give the importance to it.
Doesn't seem like that requires any real computation - you just go through the data maintaining a count of each of the 256 possible values (an embarassingly parallel problem), then write it back out with 256 memsets (likewise trivially parallelisable).
I think most people have religion because emotional/psychological reasons. If the reason of the belief were 100% logical, i think there would be a more big number of atheist people, because obviously some of the claims made by religion sound completely illogical if you give some thought.
But when comfronted with such questions such as: What happens when i die? How can i be sure that what i am doing is right? How do i face tragedy? Does my life have a purpose? These are big questions that if you give some thought are handled in certain ways by religions and give (although maybe not very thoughtful) answers, and even when science may have some insights regarding these questions, these answers come a little dry and not having too much perspective about human nature.
I, for example, being a very logical person and atheist, have sometimes strugled having something to "replace" the insights and comforts given by most religions. I sometimes have felt very insecure regarding my future, and see that this is sometimes handled by the term of faith in some religions, to give you an example.
I think that if we start to think of spirituality as the wisdom to answer these kind of questions and also as an awareness of the beautifulness of life and the world, quitting all the nonsense and baggage of most religions, we could see that these two terms are not ultimately fought.
Trying to put a little objectivity to this comment i will add this:
Consider the science contests from high school called science olympiads, where big scientists like Grigori Perelman and Terence Tao have competed, contests where things like the ones you mentioned (innovation, creativity, etc.) play a huge part for the results, let's say the two most relevant subjects for computer science (informatics and mathematics):
Historic results for all countries on the IMO (mathematics):
As you can see, at least in these competitions, China DOES seem to be better than USA (than all countries in fact), while India seems a more mediocre country like you comment.
Yeah, i know that too, in my case i always get adverts in Facebook like "Do you want to have a girlfriend?" from online dating sites, so i have to say the marketing companies are doing a good job detecting my desperation.
I Albert Walter from Wisconsin, did something similar as you, several years ago, i stole private information from my company (Software Systems, Inc).
I, however, didn't make your mistake, i never told anyone or claimed to do it on the internet, because i knew i would be doomed if i did that.
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I think that genius is hard to detect at first sight, you have to know a person of genius level really well and at least to have some grasp of the amazing things they do, but believe me true geniuses are really very distant from average people or even regular smart people, they are simply in other plane. Also, in my experience these factors although important are not sufficient conditions for development of genius, there is always some innate part.
I saw some time ago this matrix about the requirements to be a good programmer, and i found it very enlightened. Here is the link: http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20competency%20matrix.htm
P.S. Be prepared for 2012.
If everyone had your attitude, we'd never have left the trees!
From Nikola Tesla's webpage:
"Tesla never married. He was celibate and claimed that his chastity was very helpful to his scientific abilities.[22] Nonetheless there have been numerous accounts of women vying for Tesla's affection, even some madly in love with him. Tesla, though polite, behaved rather ambivalently to these women in the romantic sense."
I am sure i could find some other intellectuals who were celibates, or at least didn't give so much importance to sex. Maybe the greats insights of these genius provided them with greater pleasure (and less ephemeral) as substitute for physical orgasms. Or it may be simply that they didn't have much time or didn't give the importance to it.
Sorry, i commited a mistake too, the right name is Counting Sort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sort).
Doesn't seem like that requires any real computation - you just go through the data maintaining a count of each of the 256 possible values (an embarassingly parallel problem), then write it back out with 256 memsets (likewise trivially parallelisable).
That technique is called bucked sort BTW.
This news arrives too late for two semi-famous uninformed girls ;).
"Let man fear woman when she hates: for man is at the bottom of his soul only wicked, but woman is base. " Friedrich Nietzsche
Just be happy that he didn't write Aristotle Medal.
Actually i have bought one of these computers, and at the moment i haven't had any prob
It makes us esmarter!
But when comfronted with such questions such as: What happens when i die? How can i be sure that what i am doing is right? How do i face tragedy? Does my life have a purpose? These are big questions that if you give some thought are handled in certain ways by religions and give (although maybe not very thoughtful) answers, and even when science may have some insights regarding these questions, these answers come a little dry and not having too much perspective about human nature.
I, for example, being a very logical person and atheist, have sometimes strugled having something to "replace" the insights and comforts given by most religions. I sometimes have felt very insecure regarding my future, and see that this is sometimes handled by the term of faith in some religions, to give you an example.
I think that if we start to think of spirituality as the wisdom to answer these kind of questions and also as an awareness of the beautifulness of life and the world, quitting all the nonsense and baggage of most religions, we could see that these two terms are not ultimately fought.
Imagine getting up and going outside for some fresh air but when you go outside it's very dark, humid, claustrophobic, and the air is stale.
Can you get me a job there?
Give them nothing, but take from them everything!!!
Shit! yet another failed try to have a comment be modded up as Funny! :(
Rasism comes from not being open and friendly to people you think are somehow different.
What does hate of ras has relevance here?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/17/1449219/Up-To-90-Percent-of-US-Money-Has-Traces-of-Cocaine?art_pos=8
Consider the science contests from high school called science olympiads, where big scientists like Grigori Perelman and Terence Tao have competed, contests where things like the ones you mentioned (innovation, creativity, etc.) play a huge part for the results, let's say the two most relevant subjects for computer science (informatics and mathematics):
Historic results for all countries on the IMO (mathematics):
http://imo-official.org/results.aspx
Last results for gold medal on the 2009 IOI (informatics):
http://www.ioi2009.org/index.jsp?id=414&ln=2
As you can see, at least in these competitions, China DOES seem to be better than USA (than all countries in fact), while India seems a more mediocre country like you comment.
Yeah, i know that too, in my case i always get adverts in Facebook like "Do you want to have a girlfriend?" from online dating sites, so i have to say the marketing companies are doing a good job detecting my desperation.
'The fear is that if you pursue computer science, you will be stuck in a basement, writing code. That is absolutely not the reality.'
Hey, THAT is my reality, you insensitive clod!
Finally i will be able to type http:///., to access my favorite page :).
You are right, i am trapped in an infinite loop of 2 links!!!
I Albert Walter from Wisconsin, did something similar as you, several years ago, i stole private information from my company (Software Systems, Inc). I, however, didn't make your mistake, i never told anyone or claimed to do it on the internet, because i knew i would be doomed if i did that.
My philosophical version: "Thus spoke a Slashdotter" :)