Even if IQ was the best method doesn't mean that we should rely on it as a precise measurement of intelligence. Maybe intelligence is too variable, complex and human to be measured in a single number? Just because current weather forecast is the best we have, I'm not going to leave my water-sensitive stuff in the garden for weeks even if they don't predict rain, because I know that it's not that accurate.
You can come up with basically any test and intelligent people will get high scores on it. Intelligence means general problem-solving skills, and intelligent paople will perform better than average under any conditions. The problem with IQ is not that it gives low scores to intelligent people, but that it has a large number of false positives, and that is basically unreliable in accurately measuring average people.
Continents don't "drift" on the ocean like Wegener imagined, rather the motion of continents is caused by continental and oceanic plates engaging in tectonic events.
Oh, I get it, then. You are right the the current accepted way of dealing with drug addiction can't cope with this, which is one more sign that the old liberal approach doesn't work. Instead of playing cat and mouse with the distributors, we should try to catch the and users themselves. Instead of making certain substances illegal, anyone found in an altered state of consciusness under the influence of a chemical not cleared for human use should be sent to mandatory rehab.
And as you can't build anything near a space station, the area surrounding it will practically be a huge preservation, this project would actually protect the environment there.
True, but all of those were developed for static languages in mind. Using them for dynamic languages is uncomfortable. This project might become for Python and Lisp what those environments are for C and Java.
Where people are involved there's always room for development. The most important thing would be for patent offices to consist of much smarter and more educated staff, the kind that can actually understand the applications. Also, there are ways to effectively combat overly broad patents: prior art, used properly, could be one; pricing patents based on broadness could be another.
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You can only work while walking when you are a manager.
It used wind power, obviously.
than your average immigrant.
Still can't believe the mosquito survived without its wing being ripped off.
You can buy a 100 Mb/s connection for yourself if you really want to, this is not a huge cost for universities.
Most "material" that the broadband is used for is already saved on local servers.
Even if IQ was the best method doesn't mean that we should rely on it as a precise measurement of intelligence. Maybe intelligence is too variable, complex and human to be measured in a single number? Just because current weather forecast is the best we have, I'm not going to leave my water-sensitive stuff in the garden for weeks even if they don't predict rain, because I know that it's not that accurate.
You can come up with basically any test and intelligent people will get high scores on it. Intelligence means general problem-solving skills, and intelligent paople will perform better than average under any conditions. The problem with IQ is not that it gives low scores to intelligent people, but that it has a large number of false positives, and that is basically unreliable in accurately measuring average people.
Continents don't "drift" on the ocean like Wegener imagined, rather the motion of continents is caused by continental and oceanic plates engaging in tectonic events.
This technology could have quite a few peaceful uses as well.
Oh, I get it, then. You are right the the current accepted way of dealing with drug addiction can't cope with this, which is one more sign that the old liberal approach doesn't work. Instead of playing cat and mouse with the distributors, we should try to catch the and users themselves. Instead of making certain substances illegal, anyone found in an altered state of consciusness under the influence of a chemical not cleared for human use should be sent to mandatory rehab.
With dozens of chemicals put into every piece of food I eat I'm quite happy to live in Europe where this kind of stuff is closely regulated.
Doesn't every chemical have to go through thorough tests before deemed safe for human consumption?
You mean like this?
And as you can't build anything near a space station, the area surrounding it will practically be a huge preservation, this project would actually protect the environment there.
True, but all of those were developed for static languages in mind. Using them for dynamic languages is uncomfortable. This project might become for Python and Lisp what those environments are for C and Java.
Interesting read, but in this case they couldn't really measure password strength, only password uniqueness which isn't exactly the same.
Hopefully they did hash and salt the result before storing.
Wow, you can actually do this?
Did Yahoo give him its user password database or what?
Changing their address to google.google is a bit redundant.
Where people are involved there's always room for development. The most important thing would be for patent offices to consist of much smarter and more educated staff, the kind that can actually understand the applications. Also, there are ways to effectively combat overly broad patents: prior art, used properly, could be one; pricing patents based on broadness could be another.
Ideally, patents only give rights to an implementation of an idea.
Banks employ lots of mathematicians nowadays, especially in the insurance field, but most of them require an MS.