tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post387646686335742045..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: One hundred thousand brainsSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-85495336126123457342011-05-28T15:50:34.492-04:002011-05-28T15:50:34.492-04:00I made that comment just one hour after your last ...I made that comment just one hour after your last post, so wasn't finished for sometime. I do not have anything to add since there is never nothing to add to such kind of discussions. I politely asked you to finish your replies to a troll like MtMoru (was not obvius it was just a loss of time?), so save your rudeness.Víctor Sánchezhttp://profiles.google.com/heliumm.dpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-25524722653239360702011-05-27T21:11:47.202-04:002011-05-27T21:11:47.202-04:00It's been finished. Unless you have something ...It's been finished. Unless you have something substantial to add, you are just adding to the substantial fluff already contributed by "mtmoru". NicolasBourbakinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-67215193315996278132011-05-27T19:27:40.843-04:002011-05-27T19:27:40.843-04:00This discussion leads to nowhere. Please finish it...This discussion leads to nowhere. Please finish it.Víctor Sánchezhttp://profiles.google.com/heliumm.dpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-7966978438389851402011-05-27T18:12:13.573-04:002011-05-27T18:12:13.573-04:00You don't have to b e a VIP to fax anyone the ...You don't have to b e a VIP to fax anyone the GRE report. If you really wanted to prove it (and as we both know, you cannot) you would email a photocopy to a impartial third party (perhaps the blog writer, Hsu) but as we both know and everyone following this so far can see, your claims are, how shall we say, not credible. Your refusal to do so constitute prima facie proof of your lying to NicolasBourbakinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-82514228138494049392011-05-27T08:26:07.963-04:002011-05-27T08:26:07.963-04:00If you were a VIP Nick I'd be happy to fax you...If you were a VIP Nick I'd be happy to fax you my GREs.<br /><br />All of the specific pseudoproblems you listed would take some time and length for me to "explain", but this doesn't mean they're not easy to explain. Hardly.<br /><br />I will say on anaomolous monism and other mind-body problem ideas that the problem with the mind body-problem is that there is no problem. MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-81020942632802255602011-05-27T02:31:04.398-04:002011-05-27T02:31:04.398-04:00So even though it was a banner year for MIT, Calte...So even though it was a banner year for MIT, Caltech still beat them in the team competition and outperformed on a per-capita basis. It looks like among the top 20 scorers 7 were from MIT and 4 were from Caltech. Adjusting for the sizes of the schools we get something roughly consistent with the historical result that Caltech has 2x as many top performers (e.g., Putnam Fellows) per capita as MIT.steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-48774300069293295512011-05-27T02:17:53.630-04:002011-05-27T02:17:53.630-04:00http://math.caltech.edu/2010PutnamResults.pdfhttp://math.caltech.edu/2010PutnamResults.pdfEdwinhttp://pulse.yahoo.com/_2YGYHXR67X4NL6D6SSBFYCJUZMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-35959013816349220642011-05-27T02:16:05.908-04:002011-05-27T02:16:05.908-04:00Here is a link to last year's Putnam exam Resu...Here is a link to last year's Putnam exam Results<br />Defence lawyers condemned the charges yesterday, saying it was impossible to predict earthquakes. Seismologists have long concurred, saying no big earthquake has been foretold.Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/italian-scientists-arrested-over-deadly-quake-20110526-1f6ec.html#ixzz1NQck9N5aEdwinhttp://pulse.yahoo.com/_2YGYHXR67X4NL6D6SSBFYCJUZMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-12512029273680865402011-05-26T02:47:54.579-04:002011-05-26T02:47:54.579-04:00 the ceiling on math for the GRE is barely +1 SD..... the ceiling on math for the GRE is barely +1 SD...Jonathan Inbalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-22065316763733673292011-05-25T20:27:21.650-04:002011-05-25T20:27:21.650-04:00"Nope"
This sounds like a blind denial ..."Nope"<br /><br />This sounds like a blind denial to me. BTW, have you wikied 'David Lewis' yet? I hope you at least now know who he is. His philosophical ideas of course, may take a little longer to get familiar with but with your perfect GRE score (*wink*), I suspect you will certainly master them far better than even Lewis himself. <br /><br />"You're too stupid to NicolasBourbakinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-15946761907120416512011-05-25T20:19:50.939-04:002011-05-25T20:19:50.939-04:00I see that the "anecdotal" wasn't on...I see that the "anecdotal" wasn't on your GRE prep test. For someone that got "800" on the Verbal of the GRE (good one!), you sure do seem to have difficulties with words far easier than those found on the GRE.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence<br />The expression anecdotal evidence refers both to evidence that is factually unreliable, as well as NicolasBourbakinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-65164280366175413812011-05-25T01:39:48.588-04:002011-05-25T01:39:48.588-04:00BTW Nick, you don't know what "anecdotal&...BTW Nick, you don't know what "anecdotal" means.MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-43557461761414254452011-05-25T01:36:26.863-04:002011-05-25T01:36:26.863-04:00"how shall we say, bluff and bullshit"
..."how shall we say, bluff and bullshit"<br /><br />Nope.<br /><br />"Professional philosophers" make their living by teaching. Their students have no future except to try to become teachers themselves. Yet amazingly some "professional philosophers" specialize in ethics.<br /><br />"contemporary philosophers on who the most important philosopher of the last 200 MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-57024958502161437812011-05-24T22:37:45.441-04:002011-05-24T22:37:45.441-04:00I don't deny there should be adjustments. Ther...I don't deny there should be adjustments. There are biology majors at Caltech as well, though :-) I think the biggest factor is that MIT's math department is better than Caltech's, which really biases the Putnam numbers, but in the opposite direction than the effects you pointed out.steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-17375413207912903842011-05-24T22:17:25.209-04:002011-05-24T22:17:25.209-04:00Another thing is that unlike Caltech, MIT has a su...Another thing is that unlike Caltech, MIT has a substantial group of people who major in things like business or biology, and these people would not be expected to take or do particularly well on something like the Putnam. So one should probably use a number smaller than 5x when comparing the two population sizes.asdfhttp://twitter.com/asdf110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-65227301823104515752011-05-24T01:18:06.046-04:002011-05-24T01:18:06.046-04:00Yes he is considered a fraud by analytic philosoph...Yes he is considered a fraud by analytic philosophers. By their standards he is. 20th century French philosophy is a fraud for sure. I have come to regard him as closer to a fraud than I did 10 years ago, but as he said "intelligibility is the death of philosophy". One of the problems with analytic philosophers is that they insist without knowing it that truth must always come in the MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-47629088309455654062011-05-23T15:57:09.676-04:002011-05-23T15:57:09.676-04:00 I have my serious doubts that you or any non spec... I have my serious doubts that you or any non specialist could understand without serious study much of the literature on contemporary debates of many issues. But the topic is about the cognitive abilities between certain technical disciplines compared with philosophy. I think the evidence from the GRE I have presented is serious enough to warrant consideration that professional philosophers are NicolasBourbakinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-18628853194381553672011-05-23T05:46:33.865-04:002011-05-23T05:46:33.865-04:00You've misunderstood me NB. My fault.
Anglo-A...You've misunderstood me NB. My fault.<br /><br />Anglo-American philosophy is VERY easy to understand. It is sickening because Anglo-American philosphers are so, how shall I put it politely, "not that smart". The same is true of continental philosophers but with deliberate obscuration or perhaps more charitably their believing they are saying something when they are saying nothing.<MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-5860515708236307182011-05-23T00:31:49.931-04:002011-05-23T00:31:49.931-04:00I talked to the scholarships people at Caltech dur...I talked to the scholarships people at Caltech during my last visit. I was shocked to learn about the Axlines and complained about it! I told them they should use the Hsu Scholarship to recruit super bright applicants... unfortunately it can only fund 1 per year.steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-69524924476268931752011-05-23T00:24:53.604-04:002011-05-23T00:24:53.604-04:00You are probably right about the Putnam fellows pe...You are probably right about the Putnam fellows per capita. However, I think if you look at where the Intel science talent search winners go, MIT and Harvard both dominate Caltech. Additionally, for IMO team members, the only year I could find info for was 2008: http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e9-imo/e9-1-imoarchive/2008-ia/2008imoteamannounce.shtml with 4 MIT, 1 Harvard.<br /><br />I think one asdfhttp://twitter.com/asdf110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-54925000398010509342011-05-22T22:45:13.737-04:002011-05-22T22:45:13.737-04:00Not sure why you think the top 1% at MIT (10 kids?...Not sure why you think the top 1% at MIT (10 kids?) are better than the top 1% at Caltech (2 kids?). For example, the current Caltech senior class has a 3x Putnam Fellow. Are there 5 3x Putnam Fellows at MIT?steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-3696947192378311512011-05-22T20:08:53.994-04:002011-05-22T20:08:53.994-04:00Yeah, this MIT curse is pretty well known. For in...Yeah, this MIT curse is pretty well known. For instance, on the most recent Putnam, MIT destroyed Caltech, but the actual winner is Caltech! They picked their team correctly, MIT picked horribly wrong. This has happened numerous times over the past decade.asdfhttp://twitter.com/asdf110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-46228020606403285552011-05-22T20:07:59.667-04:002011-05-22T20:07:59.667-04:00My assessment as a current MIT student of the diff...My assessment as a current MIT student of the difference is that Caltech's average is higher, but MIT's top tail is higher. I would say that it is easier to be say top 20% at MIT than at Caltech, but harder to be top 1% at MIT than at Caltech. I suspect that current Caltech students will agree with me on this. Of course, the situation may have been different in your time.asdfhttp://twitter.com/asdf110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-29254951600178565722011-05-22T15:33:10.576-04:002011-05-22T15:33:10.576-04:00Modern day analytic (or "anglo-american"...Modern day analytic (or "anglo-american") philosophers tend to write with other philosophers in mind and many of them tend to be quite good writers. It is true that some prose may have technical jargon (as with any technical field) but there is a distinction between difficult reading due from technicality and from being unclear or confused. I don't expect layman to just pickup a NicolasBourbakinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-72449028980910114852011-05-22T15:22:34.272-04:002011-05-22T15:22:34.272-04:00 Yes, I saw them but I have suspicions that they a... Yes, I saw them but I have suspicions that they are representative of theorists and experimentalists in general. NicolasBourbakinoreply@blogger.com