I was asked to comment on this Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/s1t2c/netsec_how_would_you_design_an_electronic_voting/ This post is written with the assumption that a bitcoin-like system is used. Nirvana / perfect solution fallacy…
I have long had an idea that one needs to be able to generate problems for IQ batteries automatically. Some things are very easy to generate. Digit spans just require…
From reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Khan/comments/1znhcx/khan_academy_gets_rare_partnership_to_close/ Me: Test prepping does not work very well, so it's a minor issue. SAT and ACT tests are mainly tests of g and one cannot train g.…
So you've just finished your hopefully good paper. Now comes the question. Where to send it to? Actually, normally you would start by looking at journals to send to before…
From reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/genetics/comments/1z1tli/design_your_own_baby_a_genetic_ethics_dilemma/cfqrlol Zorander22 writes: 1) I would wager a guess that most people are capable of far more than they're current employment situations might indicate. The idea that machines…
Murray (in Human Accomplishment) claims that knowledge of a field and judgement of the quality of items in that field follow each other. That's testable. What about this: -…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282085.Human_Accomplishment http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=735E143F5E5C9A49FD1188DA457E8287&open=0 This book was very interesting much of the time, somewhat interesting some of the time, and dumb at some time. However, the first part was much larger…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786753.Educability_And_Group_Differences http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=501f355b6e474bdc0b7f3130dc3bf9c0&open=0 Why read a book from 1973? 41 years old? Well, it was a good read indeed! It is interesting how much of the evidence for racial differences…
This book is fairly short and is mostly about sexual selection and sexual antagonism. While other EP lit. uses animal examples, this book is literally full of them. Lots of…