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by lliiffee 18y ago
You are mischaracterizing what I said. Of course, stating the conclusion is fine. My point is that he never gave an argument for the conclusion that the article is bullshit. There is not a single statement in the article whose truth ha
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by lliiffee 18y ago
My objection is that he does not provide the evidence! He gives a bunch of sensible reasons that Dvorak might be better, but never once addresses anything the article says. You don't get the right to call something "bullshit" with out giv
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by lliiffee 18y ago
You weaken an otherwise useful post by using words like "bullshit". The problem with "bullshit" isn't that you are cursing. It is a way to dismiss an article with out actually engaging in any of the arguments made by the article. At the
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Hrmmm! I wonder if the same would hold up comparing, say, 170 IQ individuals to 135. I am basing my opinions on personal experience with people who are probably near or above 135. The other possibility is that I am completely wrong...
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by lliiffee 18y ago
"potential" is a dangerous word. What I was trying to say is that what holds most people back isn't IQ. There are huge numbers of people with high IQs who accomplish little. The really rare people who accomplish amazing things are distin
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I think you make a good point. In saying the threshold is low, I am probably biased by my peer group. Although... it is so hard to separate "smartness" from "passion". Particularly as people get older, someone who is passionate and kee
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by lliiffee 18y ago
"Smart" isn't something you are , it is what you do . People who accomplish amazing things do so almost completely because of passion, hard work, time management, good taste, determination, working on the right problems, etc. In CS grad
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I don't think he is saying pointers et al. aren't important . Consider the Whitehead quote: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." Even so, I imagine that
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Frankly, you are also forgetting about the actual paper and cost of distributing it! I can believe your kind of calculations only in the context of a plausible accounting for all NYT expenses. With out factoring management, lawyers, plane
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by lliiffee 18y ago
You seriously believe that 98% of the NYT expenses are consumed by movie reviews, the crossword guy, and David Brooks? Anyway, the fact is, Seth pulled that number out of his ass, and that is irresponsibly sloppy at best. (And, ironically
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by lliiffee 18y ago
It is oversimplistic to say that papers add nothing of value. Surely you admit that the NYT, Wash. Post, and WSJ do original investigative research? Others papers sometimes do this also, although this seems to be decreasing. Everytime I
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by lliiffee 18y ago
2% seems to me laughably low. I would think it is something like 50%. It might take up 2% of the space of a paper, but the reasons we will miss it is because no one else appears ready to do it. Why not? Expense.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Absolutely, and that is great for students. It could be that universities will become more relevant in a digital age. In the past, a student sitting in a gigantic lecture hall didn't have too much advantage over one just reading a book
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by lliiffee 18y ago
There can be great value in personal interaction. I agree that big lectures like described should and will die off. However, the fastest way to learn anything is to have a series of conversations with an expert. (I guess that could still
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by lliiffee 18y ago
The argument of the article is that if everyone who felt stupid did that, no one would be left.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
"I can tell from your comment that you've never used OCR"
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In order to decide, we need quantitative estimates of how much prices will be reduced, and how much natural beauty will be harmed. It seems to me that even someone with your attitude will probably find the trade-off does not favor deve
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Thanks. It was really that "guy in the early 20th century" part that was really confusing to me. Anyway, I guess we agree. I find it plausible that Dvorak would be more efficient (I've even switched briefly before), but don't think ther
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by lliiffee 18y ago
> And quite a bit of evidence that suggests that the "myth" arguments are recycled propaganda from a guy in the early twentieth century who had an axe to grind. Really? Where? (I'm not being sarcastic-- you are being specific enough t
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by lliiffee 18y ago
There is quite a bit of evidence that Dvorak superiority is a myth: http://www.reason.com/news/show/29944.html http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/221/was-the-qwerty-...
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Criticism is great, but it should be done appropriately. Instead of telling someone how much X sucks, tell them that, in your opinion, X they might be able to make X much better by doing A, B, and C. This is difficult to do appropriately,
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Nigeria, Libya. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071031-classmate-pc-o... P.S. Thanks for making a reasonable request for information rather than cursing!
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I thought it was obvious that I was saying that third world governments (the ones paying for the machines) were demanding windows. It is doubtful that children who have never seen a computer have strong feelings about operating systems.
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The OLPC people were not enthusiastic in the slightest about going for windows. Unfortunately, they found that in their target markets, people cared basically zero about the software being open source and in principle modifiable, and they
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by lliiffee 18y ago
without a warrant . Certainly I want to police to be able to search people's homes if they are likely to commit serious crimes. However, I don't want the police to be able to search my home with out some sort of evidence that I have done
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by lliiffee 18y ago
There are also certain public libraries (I believe the NY public library is one) that have access to these databases, and allow residents from anywhere in the country of world to get a library card. (You may have to get the library card in
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by lliiffee 18y ago
My feeling is that, at the moment , there are a huge number of academic bioinformatics jobs available. (More than machine learning.) Be aware, however, that these academic jobs are probably not attainable with an MS, and the market ten
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by lliiffee 18y ago
It basically isn't, which I suspect is a huge collective waste of effort. I have several times had what I thought was a reasonably obvious idea that was "sure to work" which I was baffled that I couldn't find in the literature. Then, af
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Its an excellent question. Aside from the points already mentioned, the app store for the iPhone conveniently hooks into the payment scheme you have for the phone. No need to fool around with credit card numbers, trust issues, etc. (Basi
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by lliiffee 18y ago
> Also, I don't know that it will ever be as efficient to ship to individual homes as it is to ship to large retail locations. So, I don't think Amazon will ever win out on price. Maybe not, but that seems like the wrong comparison. Th

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