tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post5377096760732040636..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Project EinsteinSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-72893831427438395062013-11-15T15:52:38.713-05:002013-11-15T15:52:38.713-05:00Doing hard arithmetic operations does not complete...Doing hard arithmetic operations does not completely represent real math ability. There is obviously some correlation but real math ability is the capacity to work with abstractions and patterns rather than pure number crunching. <br /><br />I highly doubt triple integrals and eigenvalues are obscure topics, they´re pretty much what a 1st year (or highschooler!) knows but then we are talking Norkuatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-85734178890817537162013-11-09T21:20:43.862-05:002013-11-09T21:20:43.862-05:00and if i asked the smartest people i've known ...and if i asked the smartest people i've known to consider volunteering would their saliva be worth more than spit?Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-50863411747485293272013-11-09T21:10:48.556-05:002013-11-09T21:10:48.556-05:00"We might be impressed with a kid who could n..."We might be impressed with a kid who could name all the US Presidents in order."<br /><br /><br />bragging: when i was nine and suspected of "underachievement" i scored at the mean for 18 y olds on a test of "general knowledge", but the only person i've met who could name all the us presidents in order was a very handsome young man named "olivier" (hisDiogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59054217432184236942013-11-09T13:53:42.261-05:002013-11-09T13:53:42.261-05:00I taught statistics for a couple years. I develope...I taught statistics for a couple years. I developed a Schick about math ability. In the first class I would ask them if any of them were good at math. When someone worked up the courage to answer, I would ask him (it was always a he) "What's the 27th root of 192?" Or some other crazy set of numbers. Then I would show him that my cheap pocket calculator which didn't have the IQ Albertosaurusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-53507296151280090582013-11-04T13:29:18.946-05:002013-11-04T13:29:18.946-05:00Aha, found the article where I originally read abo...Aha, found the article where I originally read about the research, very in depth summary:<br /><br />http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/oct/25/how-to-inherit-iq-the-fetal-question/<br /><br /><br /><br />@Steve, what are your thoughts on the question of prenatal environment?ben_gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-81592840994200690382013-11-03T21:33:26.948-05:002013-11-03T21:33:26.948-05:00it wasn't erdos.it wasn't erdos.Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-90656522818715487872013-11-03T00:50:10.482-04:002013-11-03T00:50:10.482-04:00That's fascinating! I'll need to do a mor...That's fascinating! I'll need to do a more careful search of what's out there.Matthew Sternnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-18486119163766217332013-11-02T22:49:29.749-04:002013-11-02T22:49:29.749-04:00This idea has actually bee studied somewhat. E.g. ...This idea has actually bee studied somewhat. E.g. they've compared twins who do and don't share a placenta. There have even been studies done comparing cohorts of IVF babies raised in different wombs (one of these found that the inheritance of cigarette addiction was *not* caused by the mother smoking during pregnancy). I'm not incredibly familiar with the literature but the ben_gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-58378675806052799032013-11-02T00:07:41.858-04:002013-11-02T00:07:41.858-04:00the poor guy's probably short.
http://www.y...the poor guy's probably short.<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYihDAhVPkoDiogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-82575735651922188752013-11-01T21:58:22.105-04:002013-11-01T21:58:22.105-04:00no. almost all drugs target proteins and have no f...no. almost all drugs target proteins and have no function independent of this binding. 10,000 drugs might be required. steve's project is no more significant than orgy night at ron jeremy's sex club.Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-18898611947581057642013-11-01T21:49:14.778-04:002013-11-01T21:49:14.778-04:00(but, ironically, it might not lead us to overesti...(but, ironically, it might not lead us to overestimate the extent to which intellect is fixed by the time an IQ test can be administered)Matthew Sternnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87872547455719024792013-11-01T21:45:49.918-04:002013-11-01T21:45:49.918-04:00Also, my fiance does work on nutrition and cogniti...Also, my fiance does work on nutrition and cognitive development. From what I gather, nutrition can have a profound effect on learning and memory, and the seeds for these effects start with the mother's diet *pre-conception*. Of course, nutrition during pregnancy also matters (and breast feeding boosts IQ). This suggests that a significant source of non-genetic variation cannot be Matthew Sternnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-90884439430250233172013-11-01T21:36:31.513-04:002013-11-01T21:36:31.513-04:00This seems important to BGI and Project Einstein: ...This seems important to BGI and Project Einstein: <br /><br /><br />Mosaic Copy Number Variation in Human Neurons; http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/632<br />"Contrary to what we once thought, the genetic makeup of neurons in the brain aren't identical, but are made up of a patchwork of DNA," says corresponding author Fred Gage.http://medicalxpress.com/news/Matthew Sternnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-60042053108551649582013-11-01T15:06:55.933-04:002013-11-01T15:06:55.933-04:00I suppose this guy is real smart and successful, a...I suppose this guy is real smart and successful, and getting picked for his project is very flattering, but to modify a story about Von Neumann, I have absolutely no desire to meet whoever sells his shirts.jmctnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-71984051398955746582013-11-01T14:07:20.756-04:002013-11-01T14:07:20.756-04:00All thanks to Daniel MacArthur for chiming in with...All thanks to Daniel MacArthur for chiming in with his two cents.<br /><br /> “[T]he evidence for an association between the [MAOA] VNTR variant and antisocial behaviour is substantially more consistent than most of these associations. This may well be one of the rare cases of genuine associations.” --Daniel MacArthur on GNXP in 2009<br /><br />“By historical analogy, most if not all of this [nooffensebuthttp://theunsilencedscience.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-435621161795879602013-10-31T21:11:58.482-04:002013-10-31T21:11:58.482-04:00"(not halmos, but something -os)"
Paul ..."(not halmos, but something -os)"<br /><br />Paul Erdős<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91sdxie48noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-38930724782827485012013-10-31T03:18:20.315-04:002013-10-31T03:18:20.315-04:00Unravelling the genetic architecture of cognition ...Unravelling the genetic architecture of cognition seems a far ways off from merely predicting individual differences. Then again it might be that finding IQ genes helps point the way to finding nootropics and curing retardation.ben_gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-60381477137123933962013-10-31T02:44:44.487-04:002013-10-31T02:44:44.487-04:00Btw how is BGI doing ? I heard the progress is muc...Btw how is BGI doing ? I heard the progress is much less than expected and there was no statistically significant correlation found (not that I dont believe in the approach in principly but I did hope it would produce useful results)Max Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-75215782138800746272013-10-30T22:07:28.772-04:002013-10-30T22:07:28.772-04:00it's good to see steve admits the possibility ...it's good to see steve admits the possibility that intelligence and maths ability aren't the same thing.<br /><br /><br />even maths ability is not homogeneous. there was a hungarian mathematician (not halmos, but something -os) who remarked in his autobio on the difficulty he had with analysis and that northern europeans and east asians excelled at those areas requiring visualization andDiogenesnoreply@blogger.com