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by ekm2 13y ago
Check Richard Lynn's Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations The top countries on that list are Japan(110),Hong Kong(107) and Taiwan(104).Germany and Singapore are tied at 103.
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by ekm2 13y ago
East asians have a higher average IQ,so it is not necessarily a straight iQ thing.
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by ekm2 13y ago
People do not go to the gym to increase their height.They are focused on things like increasing the size of their bicep,so the weak/strong analogy holds better.
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by ekm2 13y ago
Are you suggesting that if both weak and strong people go to the gym regularly then the differences between them will remain?
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by ekm2 13y ago
>Note that the article is not saying that intelligence is not heritable. And heritable does not mean it is unchangeable.
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Some US scientists consider moving overseas to continue their research(forbes.com)
25 points by ekm2 13y ago|26 comments
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by ekm2 13y ago
The last time I checked Combinatorics was all "just fucking counting" and I am sure you will agree that it is not stupid.
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by ekm2 13y ago
You are comparing a later development of mathematics to an ancient one and then calling the ancient one stupid.It is basically like studying string theory now and then calling Galileo's speculations idiotic because he used his pulse
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by ekm2 13y ago
There is probably a 'why' only that it may have been lost with the times.
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by ekm2 13y ago
Besides, if a trick works, but it isn't understood why it works, then the users of it lose the 'ingenious' tag, methinks. The fact that we think it is just a trick does not mean the Ethiopians did not understand it.
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by ekm2 13y ago
So I dare say we differ a lot from the Ethiopian shaman. Reality doesn't always conform to the PC narrative of how all civilizations are equal How did you generalize from an Ethiopian shaman's unique method of calculation to th
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by ekm2 13y ago
Because marrying well makes divorce unnecessary?
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by ekm2 13y ago
Just because people do one thing doesn't mean they don't do other things. You are good.He is only talking about people who only do one thing.
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by ekm2 13y ago
I've been told that a lot of Chinese and Japanese prefer to discuss technical or philosophical topics in English or using English vocab, supposedly because those languages tend to the concrete rather than the abstractions necessary.
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by ekm2 13y ago
While the variability of self-taught is higher than those with a CS degree, there are plenty of self-taught (without CS degree) software engineers who rise to the top of hard core software engineering companies (e.g. Microsoft, Facebook, V
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by ekm2 13y ago
The researchers asked nearly 300 students from Stanford University and the University of Washington to describe computer science students. Intelligent, technology-oriented, singularly focused on computers, socially awkward, interested in s
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by ekm2 13y ago
Any funding options?
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by ekm2 13y ago
Thank you! I have been trying to get this book online,but apparently only Microsoft's Project Tuva had a right to them.So one had to watch them on a Windows platform requiring software that cant seem to run on my machine
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by ekm2 13y ago
A good number theory course (even just plowing through Crandall and Pomerance, or Apostol) will definitely help with understanding/analysing asymmetric encryption I was hoping you would also recommend G.H Hardy's Theory of Num
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by ekm2 13y ago
I am amused by the comments on this post and even the story itself.Kenya's primary problem is not a lack of water.Around 70 percent of the land is rich with multiple rivers,which is why it is one of the leading producers of Tea and
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by ekm2 13y ago
Globally speaking, there is less poverty and warfare than there has ever been in human history I have always been curious how people come to this conclusion.
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NSA Spying: Are Americans Now the Enemy?(anewdomain.net)
124 points by ekm2 13y ago|20 comments
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by ekm2 13y ago
Mathematics improves your capacity for logical reasoning.
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Ask HN:Can you master AngularJS without prior Javascript experience?
4 points by ekm2 13y ago|4 comments
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by ekm2 13y ago
As Jesus said - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God It does not suggest poor people have it easier.After all,Jesus was technically a rich person doing an internship
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by ekm2 13y ago
The interesting thing is that there are multiple accents within American English.I have seen northerners make fun of southern accents and vice versa.And even in the south a Charleston accent is different from one from Atlanta.So which is th
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by ekm2 13y ago
>I find it regrettable that Snowden sought asylum. If he had stayed in the united states, faced trial by jury, and won his freedom, it would have set a precedent for other whistleblowers to follow You mean like Manning?
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by ekm2 13y ago
Math books are the hardest for me to read online,so I have hard copies.A pile of them.
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C programming examples(programmingsimplified.com)
1 points by ekm2 13y ago|1 comments
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Who Should Run Microsoft Next?(slate.com)
2 points by ekm2 13y ago|0 comments

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