Summarized Differences Between iPhone and Android
The graph’s x-axis shows the GSS WORDSUM score, which is a vocabulary-based intelligence proxy (correlated at .71). The y-axis …
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Shallow on Purpose
There is often spirited discussion and debate about the differences between Programmers, Hackers, and Developers. Most descriptions I’ve seen are …
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Existing Bookstores Should Become Front-ends for Amazon
People tend to love Starbucks despite their coffee tasting like it was brewed for three weeks in the center of …
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The Zero-Control Argument Against Free Will
Gamification is a trend in technology right now where people are given micro rewards for accomplishing discrete tasks, such as …
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Searching Google Bookmarks from Chrome’s Omnibox
I had an idea the other day about life achievement: if you currently have no plans to be worthy of …
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Huxley vs. Orwell: Whose Dystopia is Winning?
Gene Expression recently put up a brilliant post showing data on the GSS‘s WORDSUM scores correlated to various demographic data …
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Hitler, The Christian Warrior
Sam Harris’s book on free will came out today and I read it during dinner (it’s a short read). Here’s …
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We Have It Backwards: Liberal Arts Should Guide Science and Technology
Before going into my qualms with Daniel Dennett’s capability/evitibility-based free will, I want to point out that most supporters of …
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The Simple Truth About Religion That Liberals Ignore
When open allocation is in play, projects compete for engineers, and the result is better projects. When closed allocation is …
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The Decline of Reddit, Hacker News, and the United States
For those not aware, Hacker Dojos are local groups found in high-tech areas that get many people together and have …
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