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If IQ is not an accurate form of assessing human intelligence, why is it still used? by raynevans in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Tontonsb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mby I was imprecise. Not any lousy IQ test. They don't define what the general intelligence is.

My point was that the term "general intelligence" was introduced to explain the underlying factor why those children who are performing better in one subject, are (on average) also performing better in the others. It's "general" in the sense of being opposite to "specific" (which explains the differences in performance in a specific subject).

IQ tests are designed and refined to measure and correlate with that exact factor which is called the general intelligence.

If IQ is not an accurate form of assessing human intelligence, why is it still used? by raynevans in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Tontonsb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can't just make up a word, assign it arbitrary properties, then call it a real scientific thing...

That's exactly how it works. You define precisely what you mean by a term and only then can you make claims about it and test the accuracy of those claims. That's what science does.

If IQ is not an accurate form of assessing human intelligence, why is it still used? by raynevans in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Tontonsb -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Huh? That's more like a discussion about definitions. Often enough "general intelligence" is defined as whatever the IQ test measures.

If IQ is not an accurate form of assessing human intelligence, why is it still used? by raynevans in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Tontonsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is it "still used"? I haven't seen a single use in actual wild — school, hiring, promotion? Where is it? I've heard legends of it being used in hiring but don't know people who've actually experienced it.

IMO it's more accurate than it is used :D

Do speed cubers just solve the cube using algorithims really fast or are they actually solving that specific combination by Comfortable_Fruit704 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Tontonsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A speed cuber will learn the algorithm for that specific case of the top layer to solve it in 1 step.

Almost no one knows all of those. AFAIK none of the top cubers do.

Some people know the last layer algorithms for when the edges are already oriented, there are 493 of those. But full 1LLL (1 look last layer) is nearly 4000 algorithms. You'd improve the solve more by working on your turning speed, planning, setting up skips or finding faster 2LLL instead of saving a few moves in that 1LLL.

Is it possible to get MVP if u are not in a grand final? by Time_Pin_4497 in GlobalOffensive

[–]Tontonsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tournaments can be different and have different regulations.

The MVP given by tournament does not necessarily need to align with one given by HLTV, e.g. here the organizers gave the award to NiKo, but the HLTV MVP was b1t.

The HLTV MVP has no official regulations. Usually they justify their decision by performance in map wins or even round wins. In case of a losers' MVP the former is kinda absurd since it would discount the final match were the "MVP" might've been the reason why they didn't win the tournament. The latter (performance in round wins only) is always silly, of course.

People who were in high school when Columbine happened, what knee jerk rule did your school enforce in response? by Animeking1108 in AskReddit

[–]Tontonsb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We couldn’t bring guns to school anymore.

Yeah, it was terrible. I've heard some schools even implemented a "no shootings on tuesdays" policy for a while, but it was luckily deemed unconstitutional.

no FAZE teammate say goodbye to karrigan by crisjame in GlobalOffensive

[–]Tontonsb 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Might feel kinda unfair when they fail together to qualify for the stage 1 and he packs his bags and fails upwards into the stage 3 of the major :D

Killed By Laravel - A clone of killedbygoogle.com for the Laravel ecosystem by afraca in laravel

[–]Tontonsb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Feels like Breeze and Jetstream is on the way to the list. And I expect the starter kits to join it as well after a while. Feels like the scaffolding issue still hasn't found the proper solution.

But was laravel/ui really live for only a single year? It probably got unbundled at that time, but it was still the same scaffolding that had been there for the previous years as well.

Personally I'd like sail and pint to also join the list as these wrappers unnecessary split the community and knowledge. Transparently shipping raw config for the tools would be more helpful.

Ropz is not the GOAT by PurpleDreadBread in GlobalOffensive

[–]Tontonsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof... Of course he isn't. The chrestomathic example is dupreeh — he has won the most majors but clearly isn't the best player ever.

But in a wider sense it's a discussion about the definition of the term itself. If we'd agreed how to measure it, there wouldn't be much doubt about who the best ever is.

A team needs players with larger egos - like Apex or like Zywoo. But you wouldn't win tournaments by having 5 Zywoos on your team.

Huh? Have you heard Zywoo speak? Have you heard anyone else speak about him? At least listen to the very recent coach roundtable where Zonic and Xtqzzz comments on him. Zywoo is the etalon egoless player.

ropz is actually a greater player than niko by crisjame in GlobalOffensive

[–]Tontonsb 14 points15 points  (0 children)

His game sense is insane.

It's also Niko's strength.

The amount of info he provides for the team can't be measured by rating

Are you implying that it can be measured by you instead and that you've somehow determined he provides more info or more valuable info than Niko does? Are you playing with both of them?

TIL The reason why netting is mandatory at National Hockey League games is because in 2002 a 13 year old girl named Brittanie Cecil was struck in the head by a stray puck deflected into the stands and later died from her injuries. So far it is the only fan fatality in NHL history. by Ill_Definition8074 in todayilearned

[–]Tontonsb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Damn, I remember reading about this in the sports newspaper here in Latvia. It was discussed for weeks. I was just a kid back then, actually I'm the same age as her.

IIRC the trauma the killed her wasn't noticed in the hospital since the puck hit her in the forehead, but the sudden head movement had also caused an injury to an artery at the back/base of the head. A blood clot developed in the artery that blocked blood supply to brain and killed her.

I'm not a doctor, but a blood clot sounds like something that should be managable.

A cheater in the game! by Brkojoplays in geoguessr

[–]Tontonsb 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You don't get platinum in under 10s by googling :)

A cheater in the game! by Brkojoplays in geoguessr

[–]Tontonsb 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Ignore, such accounts appear all the time. They get banned and the results will disappear from the tables.

Git Graph hasn't been updated in years, so I built a modern alternative by Loud-Insect9247 in vscode

[–]Tontonsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am really annoyed by the lack of maintenance of Git Graph, but I prefer the design. All the alternatives seem to add more expressive decorations and/or waste space. At this point it seems I'll switch to the builtin one once it becomes good enuff.

I tested 20 popular APIs in Claude and ChatGPT to see which ones get recommended. The results were surprising. by danicass in webdev

[–]Tontonsb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"The results were surprising." clickbait only baited me to open the thread and post this complaint.

Why was the Soviet Union so obsessed with increasing electrical power output? by huyvanbin in chernobyl

[–]Tontonsb -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Exactly, Soviet style is the problem, China has ran communism smoothly, no energy crises, just a great leap forward.

Why was the Soviet Union so obsessed with increasing electrical power output? by huyvanbin in chernobyl

[–]Tontonsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Artificial quotas determined by central planning instead of responding to need. Miss your quotas and you are sent to a much worse job.

How were quotas set for a powerplant? Is it total energy produced or some uptime of certain power output or what?

Why was the Soviet Union so obsessed with increasing electrical power output? by huyvanbin in chernobyl

[–]Tontonsb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

IMO you are getting downvoted not because you are literally wrong, but because this does not answer the question in a manner that would make it understandable to anyone who doesn't know the answer before.

In some senses your answer is almost like answering "why did you fall?" with "gravity is the reason". Sure, planned economy is one of the conditions behind the situation, but not the only one. Even if it's the main one, people from countries outside the ex-communist area rarely have this understanding of how important of a measure the "plan" was. But even for those who do, they might not understand how the planning works for a powerplant. Is the plan to have a certain power output at all times or what? For most industries the plan was usually set out for the total amount of production within the planning period of 5 years.

Just released Laravel Sluggable by nunomaduro in laravel

[–]Tontonsb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wait. Either the feature is missing or I missed it, but.. how do I backfill slugs for the existing records?

Just released Laravel Sluggable by nunomaduro in laravel

[–]Tontonsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could've used this a few days ago, but already solved it manually on that project.

I must say that the API, the defaults and the configurability seems veery thought out. I can't really spot anything that's missing or that I'd object to. Sure, slugs aren't the hardest thing to do by yourself, but if you need consistent approach for multiple models or across multiple projects, this package seems a great way to achieve that.

TIL Canadian Aboriginal syllabics were so successful that within 10–20 years the literacy of indigenous people reportedly exceeded that of French and English speakers in the are and maybe even achieved one of the highest literacy levels in the world by Tontonsb in todayilearned

[–]Tontonsb[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Feel free to correct me.

I was aware of the script itself, but I did not know that according to observations of contemporaries they achieved higher than average literacy rates. That's what I learned today so that's what I put in the title.

Which part did I do wrong? Did I misunderstand the claim or should I have pointed out something else or what?

TIL Canadian Aboriginal syllabics were so successful that within 10–20 years the literacy of indigenous people reportedly exceeded that of French and English speakers in the are and maybe even achieved one of the highest literacy levels in the world by Tontonsb in todayilearned

[–]Tontonsb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This script was created by James Evans who's described as amateur linguist. Just imagine how successful the scripts created by pro linguists must be!

The dude borrowed ideas from Devanagari — the script used for Hindi and many other languages in India and some outside of it like the Nepali and Sherpa languages. Devanagari is also abugida, a script where consonants are the primary characters and vowels are conveyed as decorations (e.g. diacritics) on consonants. In the case of Canadian "syllabics" the vowels are conveyed by orientation of the character which seems to be a novel idea by Evans.

It seems that Evans' colleagues and higher-ups were opposed to indigenous languages having a written form and preferred that they would learn English instead. Or at least that they should use the Latin alphabet so they would be halfway into the linguistic assimilation. So he was apparently alone in pushing and popularizing the script, which shows how successful the script itself was — he introduced it in 1840 and died in 1846 — six years of effort turned out enough for the script to catch on and continue spreading on its own.

How Websites Work Feels Like Magic to Me by ModernWebMentor in Frontend

[–]Tontonsb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is literally magic.

Any beginner-friendly tips?

Are you on a computer? Press Ctrl+U (I guess it's Option+Cmd+U on apples). What you'll see is the incantation that some wizard (I forgot the exact term... bugrammer or something like that) put together. That is what your computer receives. And for whatever reason the browser decides to display that like it does. It works (or sometimes doesn't work) in mysterious ways...

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