And yet SpaceX has a 57% success rate (4/7), while the Delta family of rockets has had a 97.5%+ success rate (80/82, from 2000-2011, with the other 2 being only partial failures). According to my spreadsheet…
I don't understand this - did the journalist misunderstand Musk? He's saying cost growth is going to come from a system that has been in place for years already. Why would costs spiral upwards without a change in…
Why should they? I think these courses are great, but how is Stanford benefiting from them? If Stanford has to expend all this effort without realizing a benefit of some sort, why should they continue? I'm worried…
Are these classes sustainable? Once a class has been run, how much labor is required of Stanford staffers? My concern is that Stanford will hold these classes, realize no payoffs besides goodwill, and then quit. It may…
Does this mean self-absorbed hipsters cum wannabe food critics are worth something? The end is near. Yelp does a great service though. But half the reviewers are just intolerable attention whores. Found this hilarious…
I noticed something similar, though not as a programmer. I tested videogames one summer, where it was my job to locate and report bugs. It was soon apparent that there was huge variation in productivity: some people…
"Featured Stops Starbucks (Coffee Shop) In-N-Out Burger (Burgers) Chevron (Gas Station / Garage) McDonald's (Fast Food) Jack in the Box (Fast Food) Los Pinos Mexican Restaurant (Mexican) Six Flags Magic Mountain (Theme…
Novel claims require evidence. Here is another link: http://discovermagazine.com/2005/oct/sex There are more genes related to intelligence on the X chromosome than on just the X and Y chromosomes. There are still 22…
This article doesn't tell us what we think it does. In America, the relationship between drug use and high IQ is small or non-existent: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament... (Someone else…
A Scottish study found that IQ is stable, over a 66 year period. http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/ijdeary/papers/SMS32_98.pdf Also, just because one can game the test, or make its result less accurate, it doesn't mean the…
"IQ is heritable, but the catch is that it may, in fact, only be heritable through the mother's half of the genes contributed to the child [1]." Do you have a source for this that isn't, um, from the Simpsons?…
"IQ is also correlated with revenue (probably because that's what it actually measures: socio-economic class)" False. Charles Murray compared brothers of the same household of different intelligence levels, and found…
I know a fair amount about IQ, having studied it a bit, and I'm surprised. IQ correlates pretty strongly, with law abiding behavior, at the very least, not going to jail. High IQ people are less socially dysfunctional…
And yet SpaceX has a 57% success rate (4/7), while the Delta family of rockets has had a 97.5%+ success rate (80/82, from 2000-2011, with the other 2 being only partial failures). According to my spreadsheet…
I don't understand this - did the journalist misunderstand Musk? He's saying cost growth is going to come from a system that has been in place for years already. Why would costs spiral upwards without a change in…
Why should they? I think these courses are great, but how is Stanford benefiting from them? If Stanford has to expend all this effort without realizing a benefit of some sort, why should they continue? I'm worried…
Are these classes sustainable? Once a class has been run, how much labor is required of Stanford staffers? My concern is that Stanford will hold these classes, realize no payoffs besides goodwill, and then quit. It may…
Does this mean self-absorbed hipsters cum wannabe food critics are worth something? The end is near. Yelp does a great service though. But half the reviewers are just intolerable attention whores. Found this hilarious…
I noticed something similar, though not as a programmer. I tested videogames one summer, where it was my job to locate and report bugs. It was soon apparent that there was huge variation in productivity: some people…
"Featured Stops Starbucks (Coffee Shop) In-N-Out Burger (Burgers) Chevron (Gas Station / Garage) McDonald's (Fast Food) Jack in the Box (Fast Food) Los Pinos Mexican Restaurant (Mexican) Six Flags Magic Mountain (Theme…
Novel claims require evidence. Here is another link: http://discovermagazine.com/2005/oct/sex There are more genes related to intelligence on the X chromosome than on just the X and Y chromosomes. There are still 22…
This article doesn't tell us what we think it does. In America, the relationship between drug use and high IQ is small or non-existent: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament... (Someone else…
A Scottish study found that IQ is stable, over a 66 year period. http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/ijdeary/papers/SMS32_98.pdf Also, just because one can game the test, or make its result less accurate, it doesn't mean the…
"IQ is heritable, but the catch is that it may, in fact, only be heritable through the mother's half of the genes contributed to the child [1]." Do you have a source for this that isn't, um, from the Simpsons?…
"IQ is also correlated with revenue (probably because that's what it actually measures: socio-economic class)" False. Charles Murray compared brothers of the same household of different intelligence levels, and found…
I know a fair amount about IQ, having studied it a bit, and I'm surprised. IQ correlates pretty strongly, with law abiding behavior, at the very least, not going to jail. High IQ people are less socially dysfunctional…