The memo is referring to neuroticism as it is used in the Big Five personality assessment. I hate the connotation of that word (I'm a man but score very high on the neuroticism scale), but it is unfortunately used in real psychological research.
(The link in the non-stripped version of the memo makes it clear that's what he's talking about - I'm not sure if it's there in all distributed versions of the memo. Even though neuroticism has a distinct meaning in psychology, it was stupid to use that word in the memo because it is so easily misunderstood. Not everyone is familiar with the big five personality test or will follow the links in a highly controversial memo, so it is very likely that some will latch onto a word like that with the results you outlined. Choosing the proper words is particularly important when jargon overlaps with commonly used language.)
Go makes a nice test bed because the rules are well defined, it's easy to judge success, and nobody get hurt if you screw up. But playing games is not their ultimate goal.
Thanks for linking real research, but your studies don't support your claim.
The McCollough and Reedy papers showed that diet does make a difference in life expectancy, but they said that adherence to any of a number of different healthy dietary guidelines had nearly the same effect. The diets tested were high in "fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and legumes," but they also permitted moderate amounts of meat and low fat dairy. (In fact, the only kind of meats the dietary guidelines avoided were red and processed meats.)
The Fraser study used Seventh Day Adventists as the study group. Some Adventists are vegan, but others are lacto-ova vegetarians. All are supposed to eat a balanced diet and avoid gluttony.
The conclusion of the Martinez-Gonzalez study states, "Among omnivorous subjects at high cardiovascular risk, better conformity with an FP (food pattern) that emphasized plant-derived foods was associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality." There's nothing vegan about this study; it suggests eating more plant based foods has a positive correlation with mortality even for those who don't want to become strict vegetarians.
Now maybe there is some research to support a vegan diet, but these studies don't do that. They do suggest that making fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and legumes the core of a well-balanced diet is important.
The Korean drama Misaeng / Incomplete Life does a great job of capturing some of the pressures of Korean office culture. I was drawn into it because the main character was once an aspiring Go professional and there are frequent references to the game throughout the show, but the office drama is really the centerpiece of the show.
A lot of the comments seem to be defending the necessity of the "chaff." That seems to miss the point of the article. The authors aren't criticizing the extra code (much of which IS necessary to make the code functional, readable, and maintainable), they're suggesting that recognizing that only a small subset of the code defines the core functionality can be used in interesting ways. Programmers already take advantage of this in a variety of ways: we have auto-complete in our IDEs, we use web frameworks that write a lot of glue code so we can focus on the problem at hand, and we (sometimes) use newer languages that remove the need for a lot of scaffolding code.
Their application section gives an idea of what they really have in mind: natural language programming for simple tasks, search for common tasks across diverse code bases, and summarizing code functionality using auto-generated "minsets." There are probably a lot of other tasks we could accomplish if we were reliably able to distill a large block of code to its semantic core.
Your anecdote actually proves the point of the article - if there is already a high concentration of delinquent behavior, kids introduced into that environment are likely to behave poorly themselves. The question is whether it works the other way: would you have a better chance of reforming the behavior of an individual problem student if you placed him with the honors class?
There is some free software I've been wanting to run that only works under windows... this might finally give me a reason to install Parallels on my Macbook.
I thought the same until I went to switch cell phone providers.
The company I wanted to switch to required an obscene deposit if you had no credit history. If you had some credit, there was no deposit. That's when I found out that credit was also about trust. What you've done with your money in the past is a good predictor of what you will do with your money in the future.
I used a credit card for a little while (buy something, pay off that month) to build up some credit. Now I still have the card, but I never use it. (I've actually been meaning to cancel the card for a while.) I have absolutely zero debt at the moment, and I don't plan on acquiring any anytime soon. But I DO have some credit, and I'm sure that will serve me well at some point in the future.
I suppose that this is one of the side effects of a global / national scale economy. It used to be that you could earn the trust of people you did business with because they knew you. As more and more things move outside of the local scale, there needs to be some other measure of whether or not they should do business with you. For better or for worse, it seems your credit rating has become that measure.
While you posted with a sarcastic tone, that a very real argument that some artists make, and there are laws in some countries that implement some version of this. From my understanding, they basically say that if you resell a piece of art for far greater than you purchased it, the artist gets a (usually small) cut. In France, the rule is known as Droit de Suite, though that's not the only country with such a law in place.
It's not something I support, though it's interesting to see how different cultures feel about the same problem. It's also occasionally disturbing to see how "content creators," or any group, will support a law just because it benefits them without thinking of the greater ramifications.
I found out about the law on this post of The Online Photographer blog. There are some links you can follow from there to learn more about it, and I'm sure a bunch of information can be found elsewhere.
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Try playing with an Aerobie on a large field next to a busy road on a slightly windy day. Then your life will quickly begin to resemble Frogger.
Reading the actual article, it doesn't sound like a case of punishment to me. It sounds like they're just going with Apple's marketing strategy on this joint venture.
"The first thing you're seeing here is a merger of two different industries with different ideas of launching products," Ron Garriques, president of Motorola's mobile phone division told analysts and reporters at a news conference at the CTIA U.S. wireless show in New Orleans.
"Steve's perspective is that you launch a product on Sunday and sell it on Monday." he added.
So they're marketing it as an iPod, not a cell phone. Which do you think carries more branding power right now?
If anyone could get around an NDA with one degree of misdirection by telling a journalist and be confident that they can not be revealed, it doesn't hold much weight. So it is, in some ways, about the enforcability of an NDA.
The issue of how to treat web based journalists is important, though. It sounds like the California law names a specific subset of journalists that it protects, so since it is the judge's duty to interpret the law he probably made the right decision. But future laws of this nature need to be written in a way that takes web based journalism into account. Even if it's as simple as, "If you are operating on a business license and that business is based around reporting information, then you are a journalist." While not all bloggers can be considered journalists, some are and that needs to be reflected in the law.
I'm not sure about the Shuffle, but the regular iPod does increment the time the song was last played for use in smart playlists when syncing with iTunes. I would assume the Shuffle does this too.
While I recognize the tone of your comment was meant to be funny, I don't understand the many comments that seem to suggest this type of power management will cause a drop in performance. From my understanding, Intel's Pentium M processor has been using this technology for some time and often performs better than a similarly clocked Pentium 4. Most people simply don't use the full capabilities of their processor most of the time. An architecture that takes advantage of this in order to comsume less energy and run more quietly just makes sense, and there is no reason to believe demanding consumers will take a performance hit.
I invited someone with a hotmail address about a week ago, and they accepted with no problem. So unless they've suddenly changed their policy after the first several thousand invites went out, this is an isolated email problem reported on one person's weblog. Spam filters moving the invite into a bulk mail folder is to be expected - it is an automatically generated email sent out in bulk, after all.
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The memo is referring to neuroticism as it is used in the Big Five personality assessment. I hate the connotation of that word (I'm a man but score very high on the neuroticism scale), but it is unfortunately used in real psychological research.
(The link in the non-stripped version of the memo makes it clear that's what he's talking about - I'm not sure if it's there in all distributed versions of the memo. Even though neuroticism has a distinct meaning in psychology, it was stupid to use that word in the memo because it is so easily misunderstood. Not everyone is familiar with the big five personality test or will follow the links in a highly controversial memo, so it is very likely that some will latch onto a word like that with the results you outlined. Choosing the proper words is particularly important when jargon overlaps with commonly used language.)
They have been applying technology to real world problems. They used the exact same method to reduce their data center cooling bill by 40%.. They're also using it to assist doctors in quick, accurate diagnosis.
Go makes a nice test bed because the rules are well defined, it's easy to judge success, and nobody get hurt if you screw up. But playing games is not their ultimate goal.
Thanks for linking real research, but your studies don't support your claim.
The McCollough and Reedy papers showed that diet does make a difference in life expectancy, but they said that adherence to any of a number of different healthy dietary guidelines had nearly the same effect. The diets tested were high in "fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and legumes," but they also permitted moderate amounts of meat and low fat dairy. (In fact, the only kind of meats the dietary guidelines avoided were red and processed meats.)
The Fraser study used Seventh Day Adventists as the study group. Some Adventists are vegan, but others are lacto-ova vegetarians. All are supposed to eat a balanced diet and avoid gluttony.
The conclusion of the Martinez-Gonzalez study states, "Among omnivorous subjects at high cardiovascular risk, better conformity with an FP (food pattern) that emphasized plant-derived foods was associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality." There's nothing vegan about this study; it suggests eating more plant based foods has a positive correlation with mortality even for those who don't want to become strict vegetarians.
Now maybe there is some research to support a vegan diet, but these studies don't do that. They do suggest that making fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and legumes the core of a well-balanced diet is important.
The Korean drama Misaeng / Incomplete Life does a great job of capturing some of the pressures of Korean office culture. I was drawn into it because the main character was once an aspiring Go professional and there are frequent references to the game throughout the show, but the office drama is really the centerpiece of the show.
A lot of the comments seem to be defending the necessity of the "chaff." That seems to miss the point of the article. The authors aren't criticizing the extra code (much of which IS necessary to make the code functional, readable, and maintainable), they're suggesting that recognizing that only a small subset of the code defines the core functionality can be used in interesting ways. Programmers already take advantage of this in a variety of ways: we have auto-complete in our IDEs, we use web frameworks that write a lot of glue code so we can focus on the problem at hand, and we (sometimes) use newer languages that remove the need for a lot of scaffolding code.
Their application section gives an idea of what they really have in mind: natural language programming for simple tasks, search for common tasks across diverse code bases, and summarizing code functionality using auto-generated "minsets." There are probably a lot of other tasks we could accomplish if we were reliably able to distill a large block of code to its semantic core.
Your anecdote actually proves the point of the article - if there is already a high concentration of delinquent behavior, kids introduced into that environment are likely to behave poorly themselves. The question is whether it works the other way: would you have a better chance of reforming the behavior of an individual problem student if you placed him with the honors class?
There is some free software I've been wanting to run that only works under windows... this might finally give me a reason to install Parallels on my Macbook.
I thought the same until I went to switch cell phone providers.
The company I wanted to switch to required an obscene deposit if you had no credit history. If you had some credit, there was no deposit. That's when I found out that credit was also about trust. What you've done with your money in the past is a good predictor of what you will do with your money in the future.
I used a credit card for a little while (buy something, pay off that month) to build up some credit. Now I still have the card, but I never use it. (I've actually been meaning to cancel the card for a while.) I have absolutely zero debt at the moment, and I don't plan on acquiring any anytime soon. But I DO have some credit, and I'm sure that will serve me well at some point in the future.
I suppose that this is one of the side effects of a global / national scale economy. It used to be that you could earn the trust of people you did business with because they knew you. As more and more things move outside of the local scale, there needs to be some other measure of whether or not they should do business with you. For better or for worse, it seems your credit rating has become that measure.
While you posted with a sarcastic tone, that a very real argument that some artists make, and there are laws in some countries that implement some version of this. From my understanding, they basically say that if you resell a piece of art for far greater than you purchased it, the artist gets a (usually small) cut. In France, the rule is known as Droit de Suite, though that's not the only country with such a law in place.
It's not something I support, though it's interesting to see how different cultures feel about the same problem. It's also occasionally disturbing to see how "content creators," or any group, will support a law just because it benefits them without thinking of the greater ramifications.
I found out about the law on this post of The Online Photographer blog. There are some links you can follow from there to learn more about it, and I'm sure a bunch of information can be found elsewhere.
Try playing with an Aerobie on a large field next to a busy road on a slightly windy day. Then your life will quickly begin to resemble Frogger.
"The first thing you're seeing here is a merger of two different industries with different ideas of launching products," Ron Garriques, president of Motorola's mobile phone division told analysts and reporters at a news conference at the CTIA U.S. wireless show in New Orleans.
"Steve's perspective is that you launch a product on Sunday and sell it on Monday." he added.
So they're marketing it as an iPod, not a cell phone. Which do you think carries more branding power right now?
The issue of how to treat web based journalists is important, though. It sounds like the California law names a specific subset of journalists that it protects, so since it is the judge's duty to interpret the law he probably made the right decision. But future laws of this nature need to be written in a way that takes web based journalism into account. Even if it's as simple as, "If you are operating on a business license and that business is based around reporting information, then you are a journalist." While not all bloggers can be considered journalists, some are and that needs to be reflected in the law.
I'm not sure about the Shuffle, but the regular iPod does increment the time the song was last played for use in smart playlists when syncing with iTunes. I would assume the Shuffle does this too.
While I recognize the tone of your comment was meant to be funny, I don't understand the many comments that seem to suggest this type of power management will cause a drop in performance. From my understanding, Intel's Pentium M processor has been using this technology for some time and often performs better than a similarly clocked Pentium 4. Most people simply don't use the full capabilities of their processor most of the time. An architecture that takes advantage of this in order to comsume less energy and run more quietly just makes sense, and there is no reason to believe demanding consumers will take a performance hit.
I invited someone with a hotmail address about a week ago, and they accepted with no problem. So unless they've suddenly changed their policy after the first several thousand invites went out, this is an isolated email problem reported on one person's weblog. Spam filters moving the invite into a bulk mail folder is to be expected - it is an automatically generated email sent out in bulk, after all.