Not the US government. The American people. As a whole, the American people have no interest in achieving things instead preferring to believe the free market will magically do everything for them. As a hole, the American people have a consumer mentality and don't want to make stuff - a bottomless hole.
Given that 418's purpose was to make fun of the sheer amount of bad proposals, it's actually a good idea for it to remain to remind people to actually think more about their crappy proposals. Those crappy proposals, because they weren't jokes, would have actually needed to be supported with development effort. Sometimes shame and ridicule goes a long way than some rule book no one reads.
Do you know what would fix this? Less regulation. Why, if they could do such a thing with laws making this illegal, why they'll be sure to behave much better if allowed to regulate themselves!
There are other things about Tesla cars that makes them worth the extra money. How about the incredible safety ratings when you're NOT driving like an idiot? If you're not driving like an idiot, and you crash, you stand a far greater chance of surviving than you would in a lot of other cars. The trick is to not drive like an idiot.
Historical game data makes up a tiny percentage of the games Alpha Go trained with. By last year, most of its training was playing millions of games against modified versions of itself.
I personally don't conclude that 'genius' implies accomplishment, just ability that is a number of standard deviations away from the norm.
Everyone who has been historically considered a genius had notable achievements to their name. Achievements, and peer recogntion, are undeniable criteria for being considered a genius.
I'm not sure how jettisoning Western religions would help. The thing about genius is that geniuses can believe the wrong things. Einstein disbelieved quantum mechanics, and Godel believed he was in danger of being poisoned. Abolishing people's tendencies to believe the wrong things would also abolish the very thing that can make someone a genius.
It's funny how no intelligence tests makes falsifiable predictions about who shows the signs of genius yet so many people assume they're scientific.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
According to you and sjbe, this child is more of a genius than Einstein. I bet none of you would actually call this child a genius until she does something that you would recognize as genius.
It depends on how you define genius. Approximately 2.2% of the population has an IQ above 140 which is the cutoff for MENSA membership.
UnluckiIy for you, IQ doesn't test for genius, and neither does MENSA membership. For one thing, you can practice for IQ tests. No different from all the high performing students who get amazingly high marks but fail to produce results in the real world.
Like it or not, genius has a large "peer review" component and is one of those "we know it when we see it" type things.
It's simply easier to become homeless than be a genius.
That is an assumption not an evidence based fact.
Really? And you have examples of people who were of average intelligence and skill suddenly found themselves on the top tier in a matter of weeks or months through no fault of their own? You can miss a few weeks rent and become a genius?
See the data above which seems to disagree with you.
Yeah. Cherry picked meaningless data on the IQ/MENSA front. You may as well not have bothered. Making up meaningless metrics is worse than acknowledging that there is no good measure.
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The no-profit thing has nothing to do with piracy. It's to do with screwing people on their contracts.
I blame your inability to read simple sentences. Nowhere did I blame the free market.
Not the US government. The American people. As a whole, the American people have no interest in achieving things instead preferring to believe the free market will magically do everything for them. As a hole, the American people have a consumer mentality and don't want to make stuff - a bottomless hole.
Or the proof itself is undecidable.
Your evidence isn't separated from the rest of Slashdot noise.
Given that 418's purpose was to make fun of the sheer amount of bad proposals, it's actually a good idea for it to remain to remind people to actually think more about their crappy proposals. Those crappy proposals, because they weren't jokes, would have actually needed to be supported with development effort. Sometimes shame and ridicule goes a long way than some rule book no one reads.
Where's your evidence that it's reducing productivity?
You sound exactly like what's going to happen to you.
Still no. People still have a difficult time finding all those studies that claimed global cooling.
It's why I prefer header only libraries.
Capitalism at work.
Who is John Gall?
So when will the UK financially compensate Europe for starting a destabilizing war leading to these mass migrations into Europe?
Another good indicator is how many so called "geeks" on Slashdot vehemently oppose teaching computer science before university or even high school.
Do you know what would fix this? Less regulation. Why, if they could do such a thing with laws making this illegal, why they'll be sure to behave much better if allowed to regulate themselves!
If you buy things believing in the impossible, you are also dumb.
There are other things about Tesla cars that makes them worth the extra money. How about the incredible safety ratings when you're NOT driving like an idiot? If you're not driving like an idiot, and you crash, you stand a far greater chance of surviving than you would in a lot of other cars. The trick is to not drive like an idiot.
So why is it Tesla's fault it can't handle something no other car can handle?
Driving while tired is also a decision. If you make that decision, you are also dumb.
I doubt a human will ever be wise. We're still searching, and every guru or prophet has been disappointing so far.
and much more historical game data was available.
Historical game data makes up a tiny percentage of the games Alpha Go trained with. By last year, most of its training was playing millions of games against modified versions of itself.
I personally don't conclude that 'genius' implies accomplishment, just ability that is a number of standard deviations away from the norm.
Everyone who has been historically considered a genius had notable achievements to their name. Achievements, and peer recogntion, are undeniable criteria for being considered a genius.
I'm not sure how jettisoning Western religions would help. The thing about genius is that geniuses can believe the wrong things. Einstein disbelieved quantum mechanics, and Godel believed he was in danger of being poisoned. Abolishing people's tendencies to believe the wrong things would also abolish the very thing that can make someone a genius.
It's funny how no intelligence tests makes falsifiable predictions about who shows the signs of genius yet so many people assume they're scientific. http://www.independent.co.uk/n... According to you and sjbe, this child is more of a genius than Einstein. I bet none of you would actually call this child a genius until she does something that you would recognize as genius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How many of these people would you or sjbe actually admit are/were geniuses?
It depends on how you define genius. Approximately 2.2% of the population has an IQ above 140 which is the cutoff for MENSA membership.
UnluckiIy for you, IQ doesn't test for genius, and neither does MENSA membership. For one thing, you can practice for IQ tests. No different from all the high performing students who get amazingly high marks but fail to produce results in the real world. Like it or not, genius has a large "peer review" component and is one of those "we know it when we see it" type things.
It's simply easier to become homeless than be a genius.
That is an assumption not an evidence based fact.
Really? And you have examples of people who were of average intelligence and skill suddenly found themselves on the top tier in a matter of weeks or months through no fault of their own? You can miss a few weeks rent and become a genius?
See the data above which seems to disagree with you.
Yeah. Cherry picked meaningless data on the IQ/MENSA front. You may as well not have bothered. Making up meaningless metrics is worse than acknowledging that there is no good measure.