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Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has dismissed suggestions that the concept of “failure” should be removed from school in favour of “deferred success.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4697461.stm
So I guess MIT’s first semester will now be Pass/Deferred Success, eh?
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While our hearts go out to the victims of the terrorist bombings in London, our minds inevitably turn to one question: After nearly four years, why hasn’t al Qaeda returned to attack America again?
There are two possible answers. One is that terror networks have been hit so hard by our military overseas and our defenses are so improved that they can’t come back to prey upon our homeland. Another, more troubling possibility is that al Qaeda has deliberately chosen a strategy of striking elsewhere and that it will turn its sights on us when it is ready.
Both answers must be considered, but the first explanation falls apart quickly when we look at al Qaeda’s actions in the past few years.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/10/INGRADJFBF1.DTL
Tonight’s RSI lecture was by David Rensin… here’s a summary.
1. You will experience no-win situations
Oftentimes this will happen b/c of jealousy/spiteful
When you face those situations: change the rules
When asked a trick question, answer an answerable question
Someone is just trying to screw with your head.
2. Try hard to pick up something from ‘mainstream culture’
(e.g. People, Entertainment Weekly) and read it so as to be vaguely
in touch with society.
3. When you say something, know precisely what you are saying.
Use only words whose meaning you know.
Never ever be afraid of the words you use IF you are speaking the truth.
Don’t not present a theory because you think someone might ridicule you.
Everyone who did everything with their lives started out being ridiculed.
4. Whenever you hear a sentence that starts with “conventional wisdom
is…” you are guaranteed that everything afterwards is
bullshit/unproven. The term is originally derogatory (first
appeared in an economics paper).
5. Answer little questions. They lead to big answers.
The shorter the question, the more important the answer.
e.g. Is there a God?
e.g. Why are we here?
6. When you see a large group of people acting in a way you feel is
illogical, you just don’t understand their internal logic. They
may or may not be wrong, but you do not understand them.
7. The n of 1 problem… The n of too small…
What you like, your peers, your friends family like … does not
necessarily qualify to be what the rest of the world likes.
Beware a sample size that is too small.
8. Normal distribution. Power curve. Financial markets aren’t
normally distributed; they’re power curves. Get a good
distribution function and tread lightly if it even looks a tiny bit
not like a normal distribution.
There are two great jumps in mathematics where people get lost.
discrete->non-discrete
continuous->statistics
If scientists are so smart and business people so dumb, why are the
business people so rich and the scientists so poor.
Take basic economics and management courses in college.
Good business people and good scientists are very valuable.
People who can explain science to business people and business to
science people are orders of magnitude more valuable.
Everything you do in your life is a business. Get used to it, it
is the way the works.
You don’t have to like it, but know the rules.
9. You are gifted.
You are ambitious.
Having the power to choose means you have the obligation to choose.
Ambivalence isn’t an option.
Make sure you have facts to support your opinion. Take a stand.
Say something. Express an opinion. Influence.
10. Develop thick skin.
The older you get, the more jealous people will be of you.
It only gets worse.
The more successful you are, the more intelligent you are, the more
subject to ridicule you will be.
The nuclear option to use on someone who is teasing you:
Option 1: Smack a bully on the nose before they hit you.
Option 2: “It’s okay. I know why you tease me, because this is as
good as it’s going to get for you. You’re going to grow up, get
married and probably married and have some kids you may or not see
again. You’ll go to work and won’t be able to wait until 5 o’clock
to get off work. You’re not going to be this strong, this fast or
this popular again. And you know what? People like you are going
to work for me. So go ahead and tease. Enjoy it while you can; I
don’t care. Go ahead, knock my books down — it’s just a
demonstration of the law of gravity and I already knew it worked
anyway.”
Reading List
1. The Wordly Philosophers
2. The Screwtape Letters
3. Freakeconomics
Also:
You will need faith in your life. Faith is something that cannot be
proved or disproved. A prime example of where you must have faith is in
existence of God. You must come to a decision one way or the other
and believe in it, else you will not be able to use faith in life.
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A culture cannot be converted. Only individuals can be converted. God knows how to reach each individual; every conversion is an inside job. We cooperate by listening attentively for God’s directions and speaking the right word at the right moment, doing a kind deed, bearing Christ’s light and being His fragrance in the lives of people we know. This is the level where things change, one individual at a time, as one coal gives light to another. When enough people change, the culture follows–though, again, the hope of ever having a perfect culture is futile. Our effectiveness as witnesses is not tested on the public stage, but by our private daily conduct. If we are not being healed at those levels, all we do for public display will be garbage. But only acquire the Holy Spirit and you will save a thousand around you (St. Seraphim of Sarov, died 1833).
What kinds of questions are worthless?
Ironic, smart-aleck questions; questions designed to reinforce a self-image of being a rebel and questioner; rhetorical questions; questions designed to trap or humiliate another person.
What kinds of questions are worthwhile?
Questions that open to yourself your own vast ignorance; questions that reveal your smallness and weakness; questions that cast you down in awe; questions that raise you up in worship.
What is the most important question?
“Who do you say that I am?”
Several interesting and well-written essays, ranging on topics from faith, to law, to politics are here:
http://www.frederica.com/
I’d recommend:
http://www.frederica.com/general/gnotquit.html
Other interesting reads are:
http://www.frederica.com/pro-life/more_teen_pregnancy.html
http://www.frederica.com/pro-life/debate_over.html
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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Resigned today.
Dear President Bush:
This is to inform you of my decision to retire from my position as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, effective upon the nomination and confirmation of my successor.
It has been a great privilege, indeed, to have served as a member of the Court for 24 terms.
I will leave it with enormous respect for the integrity of the Court and its role under our constitutional structure.
Sincerely,
Sandra Day O’Connor [link]
Hopefully this will result in the nomination of an intelligent, civil liberties defending, pro-life, conservative nominee. :)
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Wow, these do a lot of what I’m looking for the new dominik.net. Hard to justify coding something from scratch with robust toolkits like these freely available. I’ll have to look them in more detail later, but initial impressions are positive.
Of course there’s still the argument that homebrewing a CMS is a good academic exercise… but nothing is preventing me from examining what’s out there to get a better idea how to go about building Framework 2.0.
