Massive amounts of spacial reasoning greatly depends on the over-arcing goal
Yes but this is a creativity and spacial ability test. Creativity is as much about defining the rules or breaking existing rules as it is working within them. I have found personally that I am more creative when I do define boundaries, arbitrary but still defined. Starting with two sticks and a string was the first boundary. There are many others but a creative person will define them as needed.
Being able to do this is one of the first skills you have to teach a child. Get some blocks or Legos or tinker toys. Have them come up with the rules "it has to be a robot" or "it has to be a building" and then start building. Without that rule they will often just sit and put pieces together with no plan no goal. You seed a vague goal and suddenly they will have a hundred ideas. The next step is to have them talk about what they are going to do before they do it. This forces them to visualize it. You can do this with other topics as well when the person is familiar enough with the components.
That's the problem with Firefox though. It gets backed up with user data which fills up RAM and eventually starts to leak out causing odd auto-immune reactions in the host OS. Google solved this problem in Chrome by passing that data through to their servers which have a much greater capacity to hold all your personal data.
Lack of leisure time is a serious issue. I end up trying to create late at night which is harder the older you get. Even worse is that without enough time to change gears its easy to opt for passive activities like reading or watching video of something rather than actually creating. Passive knowledge gathering is good and you can mentally model quite a lot of an idea but ultimately there is a limit to how far a mental model can go and you need to get direct feedback from an actualized model to move it forward.
Uh, no. Laziness accounts for the wheel, fire, steel, assembly line, powered flight and every form of transportation ever, computers in general, all of robotics, electricity, gps and satellite communications, the internet - pretty much all inventions which increase efficiency of any kind.
People want to sit around doing nothing all day but stuff keeps getting in the way - we need food, shelter, protection from people more lazy than our selves (who want to steal our food and shelter) and we need to not die from illness or natural disaster. Add in the procreative urge and everything else falls out as a result of an fitness algorithm that has been running for hundreds of thousands of years now (at least with a modern human brain running it).
Art has nothing to do with creativity. Design has nothing to do with it either.
Writers are creative. Musicians are creative. Engineers are creative. Even politicians are creative. Creativity is the act and process of making something new. It is composed of existing parts and pieces whether those are paint, words, ideas or bits but the arrangement is new and unique (until it is copied - which is not a creative act, unless the process of copying is itself new).
Wrong. The master skill is laziness. The desire to automate everything so you can sit back and read a good book or use spacial abilities to hack on your home automation Arduino kit, so you can sit back and read a good book.
Someone who is creative can take the sticks and string and make a variety of things or use them in a variety of ways.
Someone with spacial abilities doesn't need to actualize those things or uses, they can visualize them in memory and then describe them (assuming they have language to do so - which is typically where formal education enhances existing abilities).
Try it yourself. First get the supplies though. You may find that you are creative with them in your hands but may struggle to come up with ideas in memory. Children are especially better at handson creativity and struggle with spacial abilities.
Some ideas. Tools, toys, art, machines, instruments. Don't forget that sticks bend and can be broken. Also you could make a component of something more complex.
The big issue (or so i read in a recent analysis) was that they used a petroleum based water proofing shellac on the ship part of the airship. So when the hydrogen ignited it didn't just have a quick explosion it also set the cabin on fire.
Electricity Phone service Banking Accounting Credit card acceptance Water Gas Security / Alarm Internet service
No I'm not being facetious.
Look at that list. Which ones are not critical to your business operations. Having access to your data is just another item on the list and its likely that its not the most important.
There is no infrastructure currently to support what you are talking about much less ten years ago. Most businesses don't have servers and switching and storage. They use ISPs and data centers. Most individuals certainly don't have this stuff. Economies of scale are what makes it all affordable. This means you have to store data offsite and run your apps offsite. If it isn't Google it's Rackspace or Amazon web services or your local collocation hub sitting near a T3 backbone.
You are deluded to think that it can be different even in a future where servers are cheap and bandwidth is fast. Centrally managed by dedicated support staff will always win out over anything else in 80% of the use cases.
Look at your net traffic in a dev console. Google uses beacons. They are gifs and both start with utm_. Look at those request/response entries. You'll see exactly what is and is not sent. They do not track mouse events unless the website specifically is set up to do so and they are limited to a few tens of events per site, not enough for full coverage.
There are tools that track every input. Some are sampled like Clicktale. They record up to 10% of all sessions so you could be caught there but they also have pretty strict policies about that data. Some are 100% session recorders using packet sniffers plus JavaScript, like IBM Tealeaf. Neither is Free and cost buckets of money for popular websites (100k+ per year). Neither is widespread. Tealeaf stores all data for a limited time and is not centrally managed by IBM (it's hosted as an appliance by the website operator).
The real trackers are the ad networks, affiliate groups and social networks. They use iframes to share first party info with 3rd party domains so it can be accessed cross domain. Facebook is really bad as they track you on any site with a like button if you've ever logged in to FB (you don't have to be logged in you just have to have their cookie set).
There are times when this instinct to work together and sacrifice personal agenda and initiative is useful. Times of crisis, ins war zone or natural disaster for instance. Any other time and its counterproductive. You lose all the best qualities of people and merely suppress the worst.
Well defined boundaries are good for children until they are ready to explore beyond them. Mature adults have already been through this.
PAEs may generate even greater indirect costs by distorting incentives to innovate. Patents asserted against existing products raise the risk of patent hold-up, which can discourage investment in product development. Particularly in the high-tech sector, where patent notice is notoriously difficult, licensing fees are likely to reflect investments the implementer has made to bring a product to market, rather than the true economic value of the patent. And because licenses are always negotiated in the shadow of the law, the problems the Commission has previously identified with the framework for patent remedies – including the uncertainty associated with damage awards and the threat of an injunction or exclusion order – add to the risk of hold-up associated with PAE activities.
Which is more likely? A small guy invents something truly unique or a small guy invents something with a unique quality but incorporates lots of industry standard technology?
In the first case the small guy should have a clear patent that is not disputable.
In the second case one of three things can happen. He can file and be awarded an overly broad patent which is clearly just a rewrite of prior art at which point he sells it to a patent troll or he can file and be awarded a small patent on something unique but unfortunately can't do anything with it because a patent troll already laid claim to the industry standard stuff he built it on top of.
The third thing that could happen is that the guy realizes he's screwed and his idea will never make it past the startup phase - so he gives up and goes back to work to a corporate gig.
This third possibility is becoming more and more common. This is the chilling effect of patents and patent trolls. People are afraid to do anything new for fear of being sued, even when the new thing is a simple improvement on something that's been done for decades. Worse yet, companies are afraid to buy new stuff from small guys because they can be sued just for using the invention (no indemnity against IP lawsuits, no sale).
Retargeting is 5x more effective than context based ad targeting.
Here's why.
Imagine that you've just been shopping around for a new pair of shoes. You like Nike so you went to Nike.com. They set a remarketing cookie. You want to price compare and find more reviews, so off you go to Amazon. Then you get distracted by a book you want and forget about shoes.
The next day you hop online and go to a tech blog. They serve ads to pay the bills. Now the article you are reading has nothing to do with shoes ( its about online privacy and tracking tags) but look right there, an ad for Nike. Your memory kicks in and you recall shopping for shoes. You've already price compared and decided you're okay with Nikes prices and the reviews were good, so all that's left is to buy (that's internal dialogue). The Nike ad is right they so you click and then buy.
Was the retargeted ad helpful to you? Some would say yes. Was it invasive? Maybe. Did you buy a pair of shoes from the company that used retargeted ads, absolutely.
Analytics doesn't track you across websites. It really does very little beyond what server logs provide. The one advantage is a cookie that says you are a repeat visitor. Also it is a same domain cookie so no other sites can access it. Google does have access to the data but its not attached to a unique record so they can't build an individual profile for you.
Honest and direct: "This is not good enough. The logic is flawed and the code is sloppy. Go back and do it again".
Reply: "Why do you get to decide. I want another opinion. My logic is fine and the code is as good as what is already there. No, I think I'll just go around you and convince another maintainer that the code should be accepted as is."
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Massive amounts of spacial reasoning greatly depends on the over-arcing goal
Yes but this is a creativity and spacial ability test. Creativity is as much about defining the rules or breaking existing rules as it is working within them. I have found personally that I am more creative when I do define boundaries, arbitrary but still defined. Starting with two sticks and a string was the first boundary. There are many others but a creative person will define them as needed.
Being able to do this is one of the first skills you have to teach a child. Get some blocks or Legos or tinker toys. Have them come up with the rules "it has to be a robot" or "it has to be a building" and then start building. Without that rule they will often just sit and put pieces together with no plan no goal. You seed a vague goal and suddenly they will have a hundred ideas. The next step is to have them talk about what they are going to do before they do it. This forces them to visualize it. You can do this with other topics as well when the person is familiar enough with the components.
Watch out for open ended tests though. They are typically as much a psyche test as an aptitude test.
That's the problem with Firefox though. It gets backed up with user data which fills up RAM and eventually starts to leak out causing odd auto-immune reactions in the host OS. Google solved this problem in Chrome by passing that data through to their servers which have a much greater capacity to hold all your personal data.
Sure now that I've said it, it seems obvious.
Lack of leisure time is a serious issue. I end up trying to create late at night which is harder the older you get. Even worse is that without enough time to change gears its easy to opt for passive activities like reading or watching video of something rather than actually creating. Passive knowledge gathering is good and you can mentally model quite a lot of an idea but ultimately there is a limit to how far a mental model can go and you need to get direct feedback from an actualized model to move it forward.
Uh, no. Laziness accounts for the wheel, fire, steel, assembly line, powered flight and every form of transportation ever, computers in general, all of robotics, electricity, gps and satellite communications, the internet - pretty much all inventions which increase efficiency of any kind.
People want to sit around doing nothing all day but stuff keeps getting in the way - we need food, shelter, protection from people more lazy than our selves (who want to steal our food and shelter) and we need to not die from illness or natural disaster. Add in the procreative urge and everything else falls out as a result of an fitness algorithm that has been running for hundreds of thousands of years now (at least with a modern human brain running it).
Art has nothing to do with creativity. Design has nothing to do with it either.
Writers are creative. Musicians are creative. Engineers are creative. Even politicians are creative. Creativity is the act and process of making something new. It is composed of existing parts and pieces whether those are paint, words, ideas or bits but the arrangement is new and unique (until it is copied - which is not a creative act, unless the process of copying is itself new).
Wrong. The master skill is laziness. The desire to automate everything so you can sit back and read a good book or use spacial abilities to hack on your home automation Arduino kit, so you can sit back and read a good book.
I'll expand on this.
What can you do with two sticks and a string?
Someone who is creative can take the sticks and string and make a variety of things or use them in a variety of ways.
Someone with spacial abilities doesn't need to actualize those things or uses, they can visualize them in memory and then describe them (assuming they have language to do so - which is typically where formal education enhances existing abilities).
Try it yourself. First get the supplies though. You may find that you are creative with them in your hands but may struggle to come up with ideas in memory. Children are especially better at handson creativity and struggle with spacial abilities.
Some ideas.
Tools, toys, art, machines, instruments. Don't forget that sticks bend and can be broken. Also you could make a component of something more complex.
You can easily measure them. Getting people to agree on what the measurements mean in practical terms is where we fail.
The link to ny times should be
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/study-finds-early-signs-of-creativity-in-adults.html
In the land if the blind the one eyed man was king.
Woosh....
The big issue (or so i read in a recent analysis) was that they used a petroleum based water proofing shellac on the ship part of the airship. So when the hydrogen ignited it didn't just have a quick explosion it also set the cabin on fire.
Here's a list of things "in the cloud".
Electricity
Phone service
Banking
Accounting
Credit card acceptance
Water
Gas
Security / Alarm
Internet service
No I'm not being facetious.
Look at that list. Which ones are not critical to your business operations. Having access to your data is just another item on the list and its likely that its not the most important.
There is no infrastructure currently to support what you are talking about much less ten years ago. Most businesses don't have servers and switching and storage. They use ISPs and data centers. Most individuals certainly don't have this stuff. Economies of scale are what makes it all affordable. This means you have to store data offsite and run your apps offsite. If it isn't Google it's Rackspace or Amazon web services or your local collocation hub sitting near a T3 backbone.
You are deluded to think that it can be different even in a future where servers are cheap and bandwidth is fast. Centrally managed by dedicated support staff will always win out over anything else in 80% of the use cases.
Look at your net traffic in a dev console. Google uses beacons. They are gifs and both start with utm_. Look at those request/response entries. You'll see exactly what is and is not sent. They do not track mouse events unless the website specifically is set up to do so and they are limited to a few tens of events per site, not enough for full coverage.
There are tools that track every input. Some are sampled like Clicktale. They record up to 10% of all sessions so you could be caught there but they also have pretty strict policies about that data. Some are 100% session recorders using packet sniffers plus JavaScript, like IBM Tealeaf. Neither is Free and cost buckets of money for popular websites (100k+ per year). Neither is widespread. Tealeaf stores all data for a limited time and is not centrally managed by IBM (it's hosted as an appliance by the website operator).
The real trackers are the ad networks, affiliate groups and social networks. They use iframes to share first party info with 3rd party domains so it can be accessed cross domain. Facebook is really bad as they track you on any site with a like button if you've ever logged in to FB (you don't have to be logged in you just have to have their cookie set).
This sounds about right.
There are times when this instinct to work together and sacrifice personal agenda and initiative is useful. Times of crisis, ins war zone or natural disaster for instance. Any other time and its counterproductive. You lose all the best qualities of people and merely suppress the worst.
Well defined boundaries are good for children until they are ready to explore beyond them. Mature adults have already been through this.
Here's my favorite quote:
PAEs may generate even greater indirect costs by distorting incentives to innovate. Patents asserted against existing products raise the risk of patent hold-up, which can discourage investment in product development. Particularly in the high-tech sector, where patent notice is notoriously difficult, licensing fees are likely to reflect investments the implementer has made to bring a product to market, rather than the true economic value of the patent. And because licenses are always negotiated in the shadow of the law, the problems the Commission has previously identified with the framework for patent remedies – including the uncertainty associated with damage awards and the threat of an injunction or exclusion order – add to the risk of hold-up associated with PAE activities.
Which is more likely? A small guy invents something truly unique or a small guy invents something with a unique quality but incorporates lots of industry standard technology?
In the first case the small guy should have a clear patent that is not disputable.
In the second case one of three things can happen. He can file and be awarded an overly broad patent which is clearly just a rewrite of prior art at which point he sells it to a patent troll or he can file and be awarded a small patent on something unique but unfortunately can't do anything with it because a patent troll already laid claim to the industry standard stuff he built it on top of.
The third thing that could happen is that the guy realizes he's screwed and his idea will never make it past the startup phase - so he gives up and goes back to work to a corporate gig.
This third possibility is becoming more and more common. This is the chilling effect of patents and patent trolls. People are afraid to do anything new for fear of being sued, even when the new thing is a simple improvement on something that's been done for decades. Worse yet, companies are afraid to buy new stuff from small guys because they can be sued just for using the invention (no indemnity against IP lawsuits, no sale).
Retargeting is 5x more effective than context based ad targeting.
Here's why.
Imagine that you've just been shopping around for a new pair of shoes. You like Nike so you went to Nike.com. They set a remarketing cookie. You want to price compare and find more reviews, so off you go to Amazon. Then you get distracted by a book you want and forget about shoes.
The next day you hop online and go to a tech blog. They serve ads to pay the bills. Now the article you are reading has nothing to do with shoes ( its about online privacy and tracking tags) but look right there, an ad for Nike. Your memory kicks in and you recall shopping for shoes. You've already price compared and decided you're okay with Nikes prices and the reviews were good, so all that's left is to buy (that's internal dialogue). The Nike ad is right they so you click and then buy.
Was the retargeted ad helpful to you? Some would say yes. Was it invasive? Maybe. Did you buy a pair of shoes from the company that used retargeted ads, absolutely.
Analytics doesn't track you across websites. It really does very little beyond what server logs provide. The one advantage is a cookie that says you are a repeat visitor. Also it is a same domain cookie so no other sites can access it. Google does have access to the data but its not attached to a unique record so they can't build an individual profile for you.
The same is true for Coremetrics and Omniture.
Lots of deaths are caused by the wrong finger pulling the trigger on purpose.
20 years is not long enough? I doubt you've waited that long before picking up a new gun model (which is unproven).
This is why we have to make laws about this kind of thing. People will not adopt safety measures on their own.
re:
Honest and direct: "This is not good enough. The logic is flawed and the code is sloppy. Go back and do it again".
Reply: "Why do you get to decide. I want another opinion. My logic is fine and the code is as good as what is already there. No, I think I'll just go around you and convince another maintainer that the code should be accepted as is."
Nah it's "butthurt" which itself may already be butthurt.