You got to have both if you are trying to succeed compared a very elite group (professional athletes, top research scientists). You have to have a great innate ability as well as top training and equipment and all the right environmental factors and some luck. If you are missing any of these you won't be at the top. That doesn't mean that measuring a single factor (IQ) doesn't give you some idea about how well someone might do in life.
There are well established positive correlations between IQ and nutrition, medical care (particularly prevention of infectious diseases), and decreased family size. These explain the Flynn effect pretty well, especially since it seems to have leveled off in developed nations. Of course intelligence in these studies is measured by IQ tests so you could argue that it is circular logic, but it is clear that IQ tests are measuring something, and whatever that something can be affected by lots of other factors that have changed since 1930 (and are continuing to change in developing nations). Other measures of mental function (tests for semantic and episodic memory) have similar correlations. I see no reason to doubt that IQ is meaningful. The only problem is that "intelligence" is such a loaded word and we don't really know what it means. AI suffers from the same semantic issues.
Why would it have it come back to earth to upload data? Sure it's a challenge to send a signal over 20 light-years from a small probe, but far less of a challenge (and far faster) than building a probe that can make the journey both ways. The probe just needs a high-power transmitter and either a nuclear reactor with a long life-span or a massive solar array (once it gets to the target star it will have the light to power the solar array).
Beef and dairy production is a major cause of greenhouse gases because of cow farts - apparently they fart a lot and methane is worse than CO2. I don't think chickens would be as bad - you'd get some because they metabolize and breath out CO2, and you get some methane from the decay of manure (which can be captured and used), but it's less impact. And chickens have a much better input:output ratio caloric than cows.
But the main point is if the fat is being wasted anyway it's better to turn it into fuel. Anytime we can re-purpose part of the waste stream into something useful that's a good thing, provided we aren't deliberately creating waste.
You can't move where ever you want because of immigration restrictions. This is why the free market rational behind outsourcing is bogus. Remove all immigration restrictions and then you have a truly free market. But I don't think many Americans would like the result - lots of people would move to America and other developed nations until pay more or less equalized all over the world (at a much lower rate). As long as there are immigration restrictions there needs to be restrictions on outsourcing.
Or 1.2% of the population of NYC. Or 0.03% or the US population. For one of the country's biggest newspapers I would not call that a success.
I'm surprised print circulation is so small - NYC population is 8.4M, so only about 10% buy the NY Times in any form (and maybe some just use it for their bird cages).
Windows, Macintosh and Linux have 'exactly the same' approach to computing
So I guess he would prefer that each manufacturer come up with a different approach for the WWW, so that Macs could not read documents created on Windows and vice versa?
So like cloud computing, a cloud girlfriend would let you access a shared pool of girlfriends for a fee. This model already exists, but is illegal in 49 states.
Insects are more resistant to radiation because they have simple bodies, short life cycles, and huge numbers of offspring. We're not likely to ever evolve radiation resistance. Or superpowers, unfortunately.
Better in fact - AquaEmacs is great - no X server needed, and it respects most of the standard OSX keyboard shortcuts and the standard Emacs keyboard shortcuts, since Macs use command as the shortcut prefix it doesn't conflict with the Emacs shortcuts.
He had both AC and DC chairs built, and yes it was part of a PR campaign to prove AC was dangerous. The DC version was used to torture animals but didn't kill them. The AC version was fatal.
This comes up every time rapid recharge cars are mentioned. The bottom line is you don't need to charge so fast at home. At home you can charge slowly overnight. At work you can slowly charge during the day in the parking lot (if they provide a connection). However if you are out on the road you might want a rapid recharge at a filling station - it's very useful in that context, but they only places that need the wiring for rapid recharge are the filling stations (i.e. "gas stations" but for electric).
I'm an American and I am wondering the same thing. Before their distasteful Super Bowl ad I had never even heard of them. And that ad certainly didn't make me want to start using their service. I can't imagine how they could be valued anywhere near what Google is worth.
At the place I worked, minorities, old people, and under 21 year olds were all avoided like the plague by the experienced servers.
I remember when I was in college and would go out with my friends I would get treated like shit by the servers. Maybe they assumed I would tip badly because I was 20 and looked like a hippie. Guess what? Treat me like shit and I'll tip you badly - self fulfilling prophecy. When we got good service we tipped really well.
Lots of programs have a default set of animated emoticons, it's not like you have to take a separate action to install them. And most people never change them, so it is a reasonable expectation that the person on the other end is seeing the same thing you are.
Can a meltdown be contained? TMI was a partial meltdown. The only full meltdown I know of was Chernobyl. It seems that critical molten uranium is eventually going to burn through the floor and eventually hit groundwater.
They may not be directly linked, but both are common in Japan - common meaning if you build a bunch of reactors all over Japan you would expect at least one of them to get hit by each of these phenomenon in 50 year lifespan - so they should be designed to not meltdown when it happens.
I'm really saying the same thing. By "withstand" I merely meant "not leak massive amount of radiation". And I agree that the Japanese reactors haven't done that yet... but just barely, and only because of a herculean effort and a bit of luck, and it is still too soon to tell that they won't. It does not seem the design was sufficient to avoid meltdown in the face of this disaster.
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What is intelligence? Can you define it or me? Can you think of any way to measure it?
You got to have both if you are trying to succeed compared a very elite group (professional athletes, top research scientists). You have to have a great innate ability as well as top training and equipment and all the right environmental factors and some luck. If you are missing any of these you won't be at the top. That doesn't mean that measuring a single factor (IQ) doesn't give you some idea about how well someone might do in life.
There are well established positive correlations between IQ and nutrition, medical care (particularly prevention of infectious diseases), and decreased family size. These explain the Flynn effect pretty well, especially since it seems to have leveled off in developed nations. Of course intelligence in these studies is measured by IQ tests so you could argue that it is circular logic, but it is clear that IQ tests are measuring something, and whatever that something can be affected by lots of other factors that have changed since 1930 (and are continuing to change in developing nations). Other measures of mental function (tests for semantic and episodic memory) have similar correlations. I see no reason to doubt that IQ is meaningful. The only problem is that "intelligence" is such a loaded word and we don't really know what it means. AI suffers from the same semantic issues.
Why would it have it come back to earth to upload data? Sure it's a challenge to send a signal over 20 light-years from a small probe, but far less of a challenge (and far faster) than building a probe that can make the journey both ways. The probe just needs a high-power transmitter and either a nuclear reactor with a long life-span or a massive solar array (once it gets to the target star it will have the light to power the solar array).
Beef and dairy production is a major cause of greenhouse gases because of cow farts - apparently they fart a lot and methane is worse than CO2. I don't think chickens would be as bad - you'd get some because they metabolize and breath out CO2, and you get some methane from the decay of manure (which can be captured and used), but it's less impact. And chickens have a much better input:output ratio caloric than cows.
But the main point is if the fat is being wasted anyway it's better to turn it into fuel. Anytime we can re-purpose part of the waste stream into something useful that's a good thing, provided we aren't deliberately creating waste.
You can't move where ever you want because of immigration restrictions. This is why the free market rational behind outsourcing is bogus. Remove all immigration restrictions and then you have a truly free market. But I don't think many Americans would like the result - lots of people would move to America and other developed nations until pay more or less equalized all over the world (at a much lower rate). As long as there are immigration restrictions there needs to be restrictions on outsourcing.
He said the hardest one took a week. I assume that one was WPA2 and probably a weak password, but not so weak that it would seem bad to most people.
who says their not both?
Or 1.2% of the population of NYC. Or 0.03% or the US population. For one of the country's biggest newspapers I would not call that a success.
I'm surprised print circulation is so small - NYC population is 8.4M, so only about 10% buy the NY Times in any form (and maybe some just use it for their bird cages).
Windows, Macintosh and Linux have 'exactly the same' approach to computing
So I guess he would prefer that each manufacturer come up with a different approach for the WWW, so that Macs could not read documents created on Windows and vice versa?
So like cloud computing, a cloud girlfriend would let you access a shared pool of girlfriends for a fee. This model already exists, but is illegal in 49 states.
Insects are more resistant to radiation because they have simple bodies, short life cycles, and huge numbers of offspring. We're not likely to ever evolve radiation resistance. Or superpowers, unfortunately.
It works even if the user can't speak. it would be extremely useful for someone like Stephen Hawking.
emacs runs just fine on OS X
Better in fact - AquaEmacs is great - no X server needed, and it respects most of the standard OSX keyboard shortcuts and the standard Emacs keyboard shortcuts, since Macs use command as the shortcut prefix it doesn't conflict with the Emacs shortcuts.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
He had both AC and DC chairs built, and yes it was part of a PR campaign to prove AC was dangerous. The DC version was used to torture animals but didn't kill them. The AC version was fatal.
Exactly. Edison invented the modern technology development corporation.
This comes up every time rapid recharge cars are mentioned. The bottom line is you don't need to charge so fast at home. At home you can charge slowly overnight. At work you can slowly charge during the day in the parking lot (if they provide a connection). However if you are out on the road you might want a rapid recharge at a filling station - it's very useful in that context, but they only places that need the wiring for rapid recharge are the filling stations (i.e. "gas stations" but for electric).
Truthfully both approaches are valuable, and we would be a poorer planet without either of these men. It's a shame they disliked each other so much.
Edison: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Edison contracted out all his perspiration. That's genius.
I'm an American and I am wondering the same thing. Before their distasteful Super Bowl ad I had never even heard of them. And that ad certainly didn't make me want to start using their service. I can't imagine how they could be valued anywhere near what Google is worth.
At the place I worked, minorities, old people, and under 21 year olds were all avoided like the plague by the experienced servers.
I remember when I was in college and would go out with my friends I would get treated like shit by the servers. Maybe they assumed I would tip badly because I was 20 and looked like a hippie. Guess what? Treat me like shit and I'll tip you badly - self fulfilling prophecy. When we got good service we tipped really well.
Lots of programs have a default set of animated emoticons, it's not like you have to take a separate action to install them. And most people never change them, so it is a reasonable expectation that the person on the other end is seeing the same thing you are.
Can a meltdown be contained? TMI was a partial meltdown. The only full meltdown I know of was Chernobyl. It seems that critical molten uranium is eventually going to burn through the floor and eventually hit groundwater.
They may not be directly linked, but both are common in Japan - common meaning if you build a bunch of reactors all over Japan you would expect at least one of them to get hit by each of these phenomenon in 50 year lifespan - so they should be designed to not meltdown when it happens.
I'm really saying the same thing. By "withstand" I merely meant "not leak massive amount of radiation". And I agree that the Japanese reactors haven't done that yet ... but just barely, and only because of a herculean effort and a bit of luck, and it is still too soon to tell that they won't. It does not seem the design was sufficient to avoid meltdown in the face of this disaster.