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by clarkm 13y ago
I've never thought of using colors before, but I like it. It's a whole new type of "color coding".
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yeah, Richard Dawkins got in trouble for tweeting something very similar a couple months ago: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/365473573768400896
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by clarkm 13y ago
No they don't.
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by clarkm 13y ago
> am i reading this on hn? what are your sources? This type of incredulous response is one of the most annoying thing about HN. It's pretty obvious that you've never put any serious thought into the issue; yet, instead of inves
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Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption(hbr.org)
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by clarkm 13y ago
They attempt to measure the theoretical concept of generalized intelligence, known by psychometricians as g . They're obviously not perfect, but they're better than anything else we have.
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by clarkm 13y ago
You mean Ctrl + l?
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by clarkm 13y ago
You're missing the point entirely. Imagine if people thought the same way about height as they do intelligence. Neurotic parents would waste all their time trying to make their children taller. The nightly news would be filled with seg
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VC-istan 1: What is VC-istan?(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
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by clarkm 13y ago
It's useful in convincing parents to stop wasting their money on Baby Einstein CDs and other unscientific marketing ploys.
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Feds Arrest Alleged Top Silk Road Drug Seller(krebsonsecurity.com)
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Thru a PORTAL Darkly(grugq.github.io)
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by clarkm 13y ago
Stop spreading FUD -- they're definitely not "consequences of gerrymandering". The political science literature is pretty clear that gerrymandering doesn't have near the impact that many attribute to it. http:/&#x2
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Bitcoin Foundation Comments on the Shutdown of Silk Road(bitcoinfoundation.org)
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High-School Sports Aren't Killing Academics(theatlantic.com)
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What happens when stock markets die?(jpkoning.blogspot.com)
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The Silk Road To Federal Prosecution: The Charges Against Ross Ulbricht(popehat.com)
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by clarkm 13y ago
In the complaint filed in SDNY, the FBI spends a couple pages detailing the reasons that they believe Silk Road only had one owner, and why the "sale" was just an attempt to confuse people.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation. This has been something I've been thinking about for several months now: how would a p2p exchange possibly implement a time-price priority queue to ensure proper order execution? The more I think abo
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by clarkm 13y ago
You can keep saying stuff like that, but I hope you're not using it as a pretext for ignoring the latest scientific developments. Have you heard of GWAS? They've had some major breakthroughs over the past few years, and have recen
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by clarkm 13y ago
Well, I think I found the transaction in the blockchain. It's the right date and amount... http://blockchain.info/en/tx/4a0a5b6036c0da84c3eb9c2a884b6ad...
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by clarkm 13y ago
That's actually not true -- congenital deaf children average almost a standard dev below average on IQ tests. However, your overall point still stands, as non-deaf children of deaf parents do just fine.
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by clarkm 13y ago
> Except for that the Hart & Risley study measured the impact of genetics, and found it to be insignificant. Congratulations, you've outed yourself as someone who has based all of their conclusions on a couple of feel good pop-s
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by clarkm 13y ago
A better analogy is height. Given some minimal level of nutrition, a child's adult height can be extrapolated quite accurately from their parents' genomes. However, if a child grows up in abject poverty, all bets are off. See Judi
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by clarkm 13y ago
It's well-defined in the academic literature, though I'm guessing you haven't bothered to look.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Interesting how you never bothered to ask that while reading the fraudulent book itself. It's like skimming a poorly-researched paper on vaccines, taking it as gospel, proceeding to claim that they cause autism, and yet reflexively res
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by clarkm 13y ago
I can't remember where I read it, but I know that hunting and tracking skills don't correlate very well with g. Though surprisingly, marksmanship does.
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by clarkm 13y ago
You're right -- it feels true, which probably explains why it has so much staying power. Though the idea has been around for decades, it was really popularized by Hart and Risley in the 90s. However, it has been popping even more frequ
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by clarkm 13y ago
Sure, but that doesn't preclude it from being a useful metric for something like ad targeting.
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by clarkm 13y ago
An analogous problem is automatic language and country detection. It's convenient when it works transparently, but can be a huge hassle when it guesses wrong.

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