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by 13ren 18y ago
Thanks for your considered reply. I'll check those references, when I have access to a copy of the book. Why would you think that a book called "The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability" would only be about heritability? Because I read
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Reminds me of Gary Kildall (the guy IBM asked for a PC OS before Bill Gates). He loved coding for the joy of it, but became bitter, and died after a bar fight. This bit was new to me: When IBM called, Bill Gates told them that CP/M wasn't
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Those references don't seem to address my question about effort having an effect on intelligence. My question isn't about the heritability of intelligence, but whether effort (that is, training) can enhance one's intelligence. Let me explai
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Do you know of evidence that intelligence is not affected by effort?
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Yeah, you've got the flavour right.. although... he tends to not buy distressed assets so much as assets that the market thinks are distressed.... a solid business (i.e. non-distressed) is very important to him. Maybe I'm just playing with
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by 13ren 18y ago
Everybody just kind of goes along. And you look kind of silly if you disagree. It definitely is not easy to resist conformity, Buffett claims that his ability to do this is one of the main reasons for success (he's a contrarian)
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by 13ren 18y ago
Are you being sarcastic? Have a look at the link provided if you are not. EDIT oh, I see: you thought I was asking you a question, but my question was an introduction to the linked article.
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Great comment! Can persistent effort increase intelligence? http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-sm...
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As Clinton said on Letterman, all the people that bet against America lost. He's betting on America. (I love that attitude and I'm not even American)
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Except Warren doesn't sprinkle with fairy dust - or sell. He does however buy good businesses at discounts to their true long-term value.
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I agree. My personal experience is that complaining about the noise makes it more annoying by creating personal conflict - even when done extremely politely and respectfully (and, so far, it has never done any good). The best thing is to no
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by 13ren 18y ago
You're right, but you're asking a slightly different question from me. I agree with you about google etc, and that intuitiveness and simplicity benefit smart people as well as dumb people. Also, a smart person is sometimes a dumb person - w
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Buffett has said that he's looking for huge investments, and he's not as worried about getting great returns. That's the problem with having so much money to invest - he needs multi-billion dollar investments to make a dent, and there just
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by 13ren 18y ago
Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done. Effort and sacrifice is a big part of it, and there's also acknowledging the role that the unknown plays... luck... fortune, which favours the brave
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by 13ren 18y ago
so, assuming the declared fact "x = y", whenever you see "x" you could substitute "y" (and vice versa), and it would make no difference whatsoever? You don't have to worry about whether it is defined yet, or if it has been changed, or if it
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by 13ren 18y ago
I've heard, that for their honours year in an undergrad degree, people who get a 2A are more successful than people who get a first. One reason a 2A graduate gave is that it closes them out of the esoteric, idealistic academic life of cha
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by 13ren 18y ago
I agree there's much confusion about Erlang concurrency being related to it being a functional programming language, when in fact it's due to pure message passing. I think this misconception is because some functional programming features a
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by 13ren 18y ago
OK, I just went through their presentation at your request, and I have the same opinion. I'm not the only one, according to their own page here: http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/2007/12/24/how_dumb... I know something about public
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by 13ren 18y ago
I probably should have replied to that poster instead.
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I honestly thought that was a Douglas Adam-style parody (from one of the later books). Holding all your passwords in one place (no matter how secure) creates a single point of vulnerability. I do think that it's (theoretically) possible to
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by 13ren 18y ago
It's not about open vs. closed source: The 55-year-old New Yorker said that computer users should be keen to keep their information in their own hands, rather than hand it over to a third party.
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“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” - Dijkstra
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my login disappears
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http://www.hackerne.ws
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I'm not an expert in python, but this works. It looks like a multi-line lambda to me. print map( lambda word: len(word), 'no multiline lambdas, not nobody not nohow'.split() )
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Be the change you want to see in the world - Gandhi People often see public figures as deities, and abdicate their own center of action to these gods. Saying "the government/corporations/rich should do something" strengthens their power and
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The best is the enemy of the good - Voltaire Comparing someone's efforts with what they could have done is a way to deflate and discourage them. While I don't think Sergey will care about your attitude (or even be aware of it), I care. It
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Maybe I got it from the same source (POET?), because I describe GUI's as Fisher-Technic activity centres. But I mean it as a compliment: clear affordances and immediate feedback.
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The quality needed to operate without a manager above you is not competence. It's courage .
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What about advertising plain old conventional goods in-game? That would be a real shift. People still buy necessities in a recession (and pizza), and they still make buying choices about them. Would work better if localized. Also, fewer peo

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