Diagnostics even in the clinical stage is not often very well founded, unless you have a broken leg or something to that effect. Psychological disorders are really, really difficult to diagnose with decent accuracy, and therefore should never be treated a preclinical stage.
Please, rephrase that headline "Genes About a Quarter of the Secret To Staying Smart" to represent the more meaningful summary's text "quarter of the differences" so that they mean the same thing.
The headline is grossly misleading.
Moreover, while I haven't read the article I actually suspect is says a quarter of the variation somewhere...
Here is the abstract of an article, "Power-Law distributions in empirical data" by Clauset et al (2009):
"Power-law distributions occur in many situations of scientific interest and have significant consequences for our understanding of natural and man-made phenomena. Unfortunately, the detection and characterization of power laws is complicated by the large fluctuations that occur in the tail of the distribution—the part of the distribution representing large but rare events— and by the difficulty of identifying the range over which power-law behavior holds. Commonly used methods for analyzing power-law data, such as least-squares fitting, can produce substantially inaccurate estimates of parameters for power-law distributions, and even in cases where such methods return accurate answers they are still unsatisfactory because they give no indication of whether the data obey a power law at all. Here we present a principled statistical framework for discerning and quantifying power-law behavior in empirical data. Our approach combines maximum-likelihood fitting methods with goodness-of-fit tests based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic and likelihood ratios. We evaluate the effectiveness of the approach with tests on synthetic data and give critical comparisons to previous approaches. We also apply the proposed methods to twenty-four real-world data sets from a range of different disciplines, each of which has been conjectured to follow a powerlaw distribution. In some cases we find these conjectures to be consistent with the data while in others the power law is ruled out."
Or, which I'm more inclined to believe, it is just a risk some governments are willing to take, with their underlying sentiment "A few retards born every now and won't hurt the polls too much."
"Sweden is by no means struggling to attract tourists. Foreign visitors made almost 8 million overnight stays in 2010, up 28% from 2002. Stockholm in particular has gained from the success of Stieg Larsson's multimillion selling Millennium books, which are partly set in the city. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has just been made into a Hollywood movie, taking more than $107m (£70m) worldwide since its release in December. Fans are already flocking to Sweden to sign up for tours of the film's key locations."
How do they advertise for it?
"Get murdered in Sweden!" "Does your wife have a new life insurance? Welcome to Sweden" "Get a new scar, in an unexpected place" "Sweden - Lethally fun" "Get it done right, in Sweden" "Get raped in Sweden" "Absolut, Boobs, Blondes, and Assassins"
This will keep the pace at the analogue level and minimize cheating.
I could think of the benefits a decision like this would have on the stock market!
More people employed, slower decisions, worldwide, annual reports, sub-minute transactions not allowed. No electronic gadgets, like the computer machine allowed, cardigans and hot tea. Hmmm...
Can you image what the Anonymous, the fat brats from North Korea, nepotists in Florida, communists in Belorussia, and any other decisive part of the world could do with an electronic version, even smoother.
Pen and paper ballots or any other variant thereof. At least there are something tangible there.
There is a correlation between galaxy arms and possible habitable planets. The idea is not only does the planet have to be the right size, correct distance from the star etc, but also that its location in the galaxy matters!
Apparently passing through arms of a spiral galaxy is not good for sustaining life. I guess the density of the stars and solar systems must account for that.
" Microsoft owns the patents based on years of R&D (Microsoft Research is the largest R&D center on the industry) and they legally ask for companies to pay to use their patented technology."
How do you know they own the patent? Because LG paid? That is not an argument.
"Microsoft owns the patents based on years of R&D (Microsoft Research is the largest R&D center on the industry) and they legally ask for companies to pay to use their patented technology."
If they disclose it would be easier to cope with. Maybe one can remove any offending code, but one is not given the chance to do that...
This is why their tactics are bad.
Maybe someone came up with the idea, without consulting their R&D's ideas. Regardless of how many billions Microsoft poured into it.
That is only one reason why Microsoft sucks and why it approaches extortion.
Can you name one thing, which is not dependent on DirectX, like games? Games have been locked in because of DirectX, as was the intention of Microsoft.
Give one reason why Linux is bad, without being a naïve Ballmer xxxx-sucking fanboi;)
Other than that, Linux is the way to go. Moreover, the advent of LibreOffice has made Kinect the only relevant product sold by Microsoft. Isn't it about time they skip all their other products and focus on Kinect, only?
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Intel, AMD and nVidia need the competition, from the outside.
Especially Intels complacency in the CPU space is worrisome.
The GPU hardware arena still is outpacing anyone's expecations, so it is really really good with this open-source initiative.
Kudos!!!
That is not endoscopy, by my ass. Shit, even Goatse comes closer to that.
The preclinical diagnostic power suck.
That is why this is not a good route.
Diagnostics even in the clinical stage is not often very well founded, unless you have a broken leg or something to that effect. Psychological disorders are really, really difficult to diagnose with decent accuracy, and therefore should never be treated a preclinical stage.
A can of worms or a jar of pills?
Exactly!
"but I've argued with people who think that intelligence is not heritable, but support evolution"
Have we met the same people?! :D
Why "anti-Semitic and racist"?
Why not only racist? Are _they_ racist? Are some forms of racism worse?
Chimpanzee IQ Human IQ
Evolution proves why you are wrong, even if it was meant to be a joke.
Please, rephrase that headline "Genes About a Quarter of the Secret To Staying Smart" to represent the more meaningful summary's text "quarter of the differences" so that they mean the same thing.
The headline is grossly misleading.
Moreover, while I haven't read the article I actually suspect is says a quarter of the variation somewhere...
Why release it outside the US military, at all?
Sure there are some ordinary people in the various branches of the military.
Makes no sense.
Here is the abstract of an article, "Power-Law distributions in empirical data" by Clauset et al (2009):
"Power-law distributions occur in many situations of scientific interest and have significant consequences for our understanding of natural and man-made phenomena. Unfortunately, the detection and characterization of power laws is complicated by the large fluctuations that occur in the tail of the distribution—the part of the distribution representing large but rare events— and by the difficulty of identifying the range over which power-law behavior holds. Commonly used methods for analyzing power-law data, such as least-squares fitting, can produce substantially inaccurate estimates of parameters for power-law distributions, and even in cases where such methods return accurate answers they are still unsatisfactory because they give no indication of whether the data obey a power law at all. Here we present a principled statistical framework for discerning and quantifying power-law behavior in empirical data. Our approach combines maximum-likelihood fitting methods with goodness-of-fit tests based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic and likelihood ratios. We evaluate the effectiveness of the approach with tests on synthetic data and give critical comparisons to previous approaches. We also apply the proposed methods to twenty-four real-world data sets from a range of different disciplines, each of which has been conjectured to follow a powerlaw distribution. In some cases we find these conjectures to be consistent with the data while in others the power law is ruled out."
So, I would recheck this guy's analysis.
Just so that you know that it is really, really large.
Because radiation is not THAT dangerous?
Or, which I'm more inclined to believe, it is just a risk some governments are willing to take, with their underlying sentiment "A few retards born every now and won't hurt the polls too much."
Cynicism.
I would call it a microphone, but maybe that wouldn't prick up many ears.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Sheep
From the article:
"Sweden is by no means struggling to attract tourists. Foreign visitors made almost 8 million overnight stays in 2010, up 28% from 2002. Stockholm in particular has gained from the success of Stieg Larsson's multimillion selling Millennium books, which are partly set in the city. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has just been made into a Hollywood movie, taking more than $107m (£70m) worldwide since its release in December. Fans are already flocking to Sweden to sign up for tours of the film's key locations."
How do they advertise for it?
"Get murdered in Sweden!"
"Does your wife have a new life insurance? Welcome to Sweden"
"Get a new scar, in an unexpected place"
"Sweden - Lethally fun"
"Get it done right, in Sweden"
"Get raped in Sweden"
"Absolut, Boobs, Blondes, and Assassins"
How easy would it be for EU to forbid Windows? Would it be a long process or just a quick decision?
Pen and paper ballots. Thanks for keeping them!
This will keep the pace at the analogue level and minimize cheating.
I could think of the benefits a decision like this would have on the stock market!
More people employed, slower decisions, worldwide, annual reports, sub-minute transactions not allowed. No electronic gadgets, like the computer machine allowed, cardigans and hot tea. Hmmm...
Can you image what the Anonymous, the fat brats from North Korea, nepotists in Florida, communists in Belorussia, and any other decisive part of the world could do with an electronic version, even smoother.
Pen and paper ballots or any other variant thereof. At least there are something tangible there.
Intelligent Life, Paris Hilton, and Kim Kardashian. In the same message!
Ok, i get it. You also referred to "Man no longer at the center", "figurative sense", and "superheated"... Wait, no.
That beats me.
There is a correlation between galaxy arms and possible habitable planets. The idea is not only does the planet have to be the right size, correct distance from the star etc, but also that its location in the galaxy matters!
Apparently passing through arms of a spiral galaxy is not good for sustaining life. I guess the density of the stars and solar systems must account for that.
For a starter, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis#The_galactic_habitable_zone
" Microsoft owns the patents based on years of R&D (Microsoft Research is the largest R&D center on the industry) and they legally ask for companies to pay to use their patented technology."
How do you know they own the patent? Because LG paid? That is not an argument.
"Microsoft owns the patents based on years of R&D (Microsoft Research is the largest R&D center on the industry) and they legally ask for companies to pay to use their patented technology."
If they disclose it would be easier to cope with. Maybe one can remove any offending code, but one is not given the chance to do that...
This is why their tactics are bad.
Maybe someone came up with the idea, without consulting their R&D's ideas. Regardless of how many billions Microsoft poured into it.
That is only one reason why Microsoft sucks and why it approaches extortion.
Sorry, I missed that you actually had some arguments.
>Its not more powerful ( Power for a computer to me means what it can do. More programs means more power. Less programs mean less power.)
It IS more powerful as in More programs, except games
>Its not easier to learn.
It is AS easy.
>Its not easier to use.
It is AS easy
>And free isn't a good selling point if all you get what you paid for.
It IS free, but not free as in Pirate Bay
Why do you think Linux is bad?
Can you name one thing, which is not dependent on DirectX, like games? Games have been locked in because of DirectX, as was the intention of Microsoft.
Give one reason why Linux is bad, without being a naïve Ballmer xxxx-sucking fanboi ;)
Who is paying for Mozilla products?
Do they have any paying customers in Europe or Asia?
The few things I like about Microsoft include:
Excel
Kinect
Other than that, Linux is the way to go. Moreover, the advent of LibreOffice has made Kinect the only relevant product sold by Microsoft. Isn't it about time they skip all their other products and focus on Kinect, only?
"that "500 percent" metric is pointless"
Agreed!
"500 percent" may sound more "scientific" than "five times".
I guess they just wanted to sound learned, yet failed. :)
Tiny kamikaze drones!
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/tiny-kamikaze-drone/