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by czr80 12y ago
Indeed. Since we can so easily measure empathy, perseverance, innovativeness, drive and confidence (to name just a few more) with simple numerical scales, it does seem strange that intelligence is this weird exception. I blame political cor
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by czr80 12y ago
On a per capita basis the US is currently 10th (Qatar, Luxembourg and Singapore are the top 3).
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by czr80 12y ago
Height is highly heritable. North and South Koreans are genetically the same. The average South Korean is six inches taller than the average North Korean. What does the assertion that intelligence is heritable mean to you?
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by czr80 12y ago
Vivid beats valid.
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The Unknown Start-up That Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by czr80 12y ago|1 comments
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by czr80 12y ago
No. Peer reviewers get: early access to articles of interest, the feeling of contributing to the community they belong to, the ability to demonstrate their knowledge, the ability to reciprocate other people for reviewing their own articles,
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by czr80 12y ago
> But when the wavefunction is understood as encoding probabilities, then it's not something physical, and its collapse is no more mysterious than the probability of the Giants winning the World Series "collapsing" to 100%
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In New Structure, Google CEO Page Aims for 'Faster, Better Decisions'(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by czr80 12y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 12y ago
The Yes side on this comes across as trying to elevate important but minor elaborations into major disagreements, seemingly just to raise the status of their work.
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by czr80 12y ago
Some context here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/10/201...
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by czr80 12y ago
> It's objectively true that increasing the cost of energy amounts to something like a regressive tax. No, this is not (automatically) true, it matters how the increase is implemented. See, for example: http://www.theguar
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by czr80 12y ago
Local hidden variable theories are ruled out by Bell's theorem (which has been experimentally verified).
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Understanding substitutes(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by czr80 12y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 12y ago
When I get a cold I pray to Zeus. It always clears up in a few days. Can't think of any other reason for it getting better, therefore by your 3 criteria I'm justified in thinking Zeus cures my colds. Actually, to establish causati
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by czr80 12y ago
What if the book doesn't sell? Who absorbs the loss on the upfront costs?
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“Why In Fact Publishing Will Not Go Away Anytime Soon”(whatever.scalzi.com)
2 points by czr80 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Probability in Quantum Mechanics is Given by the Wave Function Squared(preposterousuniverse.com)
2 points by czr80 12y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 12y ago
Geography, accidents of history and positive feedback loops?
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by czr80 12y ago
They're widgets without: - the need to install something explicitly (separate from the app) - the need to name them "widgets" (to the user they're just a fancier icon), which reduces the apparent complexity to the user -
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To understand Beats you need to understand Lady Gaga(medium.com)
9 points by czr80 12y ago|1 comments
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by czr80 12y ago
> Can you imagine any other industry where the people doing most of the work aren't compensated financially and conglomerates make most of the profit. Every online company relying on user generated content?
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by czr80 12y ago
Yes. Basically, a stock split changes nothing about the value of the stock. However, it might lead to a slight rise in the stock price since small investors will now find it easier to buy, and so total demand for the stock might be a bit hi
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by czr80 12y ago
The hypothesis that lead exposure affects early childhood development, and that this leads to higher crime rates does lead to testable predictions - it predicts, for example, that different regions that removed lead at different times would
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by czr80 12y ago
You could I guess define Science as only applying to areas where you can do controlled experiments - but you would thereby eliminate all observational sciences - evolutionary biology, astrophysics, cosmology, etc. I suspect most people woul
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by czr80 12y ago
So the thesis is that technological progress relies on us incentivizing people with the hope of extreme wealth? Seems unlikely - for one counter-example, a large part of progress in society rests on investment in basic research, and most of
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by czr80 12y ago
This is my theory, just idle speculation: I don't think Google is desperate. I think Google is a personal playground for Larry and Sergey to invest in whatever takes their fancy - they have the money, and they don't answer to shar
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by czr80 12y ago
>This essay was written in 1958, before the 'Invisible Hand' was replaced by the Coase theorem which actually explains why externalities don't happen in free markets as often as you would think they would I'm struggli
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by czr80 13y ago
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are riding the train in Scotland. The engineer looks out the window and spots a black sheep. "Look", he says, "Scottish sheep are black". "No, no", says the physicis
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On the future of Google. Part 2(asymco.com)
3 points by czr80 13y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Block_chain "Integral to Bitcoin is a sequential record of all transactions known as the block chain. There is only one block chain, and it records bitcoin ownership bot

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