Formula for Human Genius and Creativity High IQ in high demand Intelligence, creativity and genius are generally regarded as highly valuable assets of the human mind. As a strong positive correlation exists between IQ and the median earned income, most people would gladly boost their IQ, improve creativity or accept being called a genius. Exceptions to this rule are few and most revolve around a claim that intelligence may be an obstacle on the way towards universal happiness. Here are a few exemplary arguments against human intelligence listed by the detractors of genius: high intelligence reveals existential truths and as such is highly depressive high intelligence prevents atavistic enjoyment of relationships high intelligence is a source of envy and other bad feelings in others high intelligence leads to inhuman behaviors and most sophisticated forms of evil In this article, I will tacitly ignore the above claims and assume that you would gladly become more intelligent, creative or innovative. What is intelligence?
No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson's Law to Kick Procrastination's Ass I’ve recently made four lifestyle changes that have allowed me to get more done and put much more effort into everything I do, all while feeling great with very little stress. I sleep 8 hours a dayI work out for an hour every weekdayI hide all clocks while I’m workingI don’t do anything related to academics on Saturdays and past 5pm on weekdays My main focus of this post is the last two, but I’ll briefly address the first two because I think they’re very important. Sleep I read a lot of what tech entrepreneurs have to say, and I’ve noticed a trend. Working more hours in a day doesn’t necessarily correlate with getting more done. Exercise I also made a habit of going to the gym every day from 5-6pm. Parkinson’s Law But my real trick for getting more done with much less stress is in the things that I don’t do. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.— Cyril Northcote Parkinson Focus Scott H. Distractions Cover the clocks So I eliminate clocks whenever I’m working.
Open Source Matters: 6 Source Code Search Engines You Can Use For Programming Projects The Open source movement is playing a remarkable role in pushing technology and making it available to all. The success of Linux is also an example how open source can translate into a successful business model. Open source is pretty much mainstream now and in the coming years, it could have a major footprint across cutting edge educational technology and aerospace (think DIY drones). Open source projects need all the help they can get. If not with funding, then with volunteers contributing to open source programming and free tools they can brandish. Ohloh Ohloh Code says it is one of the largest and more comprehensive code search engines with more than 10+ billion lines of code indexed and updated FOSS software directories. Krugle Krugle is an open source search portal which taps into open source search repositories like Apache, JavaDocs, and SourceForge among others. SearchCode NerdyData NerdyData.com is a spic ‘n span source code search engine that just had a limited launch. Symbol Hound
polls - What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered THE BIG MODS: List them, stalk them and cuddle them! Post all major mods here. - Skyrim Mods original thread this from the Previous OP:My friend Winterhold Guard told me to post a new thread where it will be constantly updated, but i m not sure what Solitude Guard will say. NONETHELESS, HERE WE GO! Ulfric better give me a pay rise for this, perhaps promote me to legate. For easy browsing, stalking and exposure to the big Skyrim mods in development. ~if you know of a big mod that is not listed here, let me know. fully finished(or finished but adding more bugfixes and expansions) / some version released / almost at first release / hot in-progress / just starting / hiatus/dead/no news New lands+ big extensions to the vanilla world of skyrim(I think they all include quests and some include many more things) Babylon (dead) Beyond Death Mountain(waiting for status) FalskaarRELEASED! I Am the King! Mesogea ORCS!
language agnostic - What's your most controversial programming opinion “I Need Practice Programming”: 49 Ideas for Game Clones to Code So you know a little bit about programming (perhaps you've read the free book, "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python", a free programming book for beginners whose author shamelessly plugs at every chance) but you want to get better at coding. You can't seem to find any open source projects that are at your level or easy for new people to contribute to. You've gone through a few of the practice problems at Project Euler but you want to create something more substantial, or at least a cool thing you can show your friends. (Not that finding the 31337th prime number isn't cool.) Here's a list of game clone ideas for you to implement. Each has a short description of the game, links to videos of the game, and descriptions of what kind of algorithms you'll need to know in order to implement them. Orisinal Games: The Orisinal website has a great collection of Flash games with very simple mechanics that can be copied. 1. Download Source: dodger.zip 2. 3.
How To Reverse a Linked List (3 Different Ways) Introduction There are a couple of ways to reverse a linked list. One of them requires knowledge of pointers and one of them is pretty straight forward. Technique 1 In this way, a new linked list will be created and all the items of the first linked list will be added to the new linked list in reverse order. public void ReverseLinkedList (LinkedList linkedList) { LinkedList copyList = new LinkedList(); LinkedListNode start = linkedList.Tail; while (start ! This way is probably the most inefficient among the three. Technique 2 In this method, we will swap linked list node objects (references to the data). Assuming we have N nodes in the link list: Swap: 1st node’s object with Nth node’s object Swap: 2nd node’s object with (N-1)th node’s object Swap: 3rd node’s object with (N-2)th node’s object After swapping: Swapping goes on until the middle of the linked list is found. This way of reversing a linked list is pretty optimized and pretty fast. Technique 3 Conclusion
Tic Tac Toe An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence What is Tic Tac Toe? Tic Tac Toe is simply an awesome game. There is some debate on where this game originated; theories are ranging from ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire. The Stats One could assume that there are 9! 131,184 (1st player)77,904 (2nd player)46,080 (tie) This might seem like a lot but for a Computer this is a joke. There are 138 terminal positions after assuming symmetries. 91 (player 1)44 (player 2)3 (tie) A little bit of Game Theory Mathematics has a really interesting branch called Game Theory. So how is this important for Tic Tac Toe? Tic Tac Toe is something called a zero-sum game. Perfect Play To develop an AI for Tic Tac Toe it has to be able to decide what to do next. The famous Tic Tac Toe xkcd. (#832) Artificial Intelligence 101 What would a human do? When every single one of us plays Tic Tac Toe it is easy to say what goes on in our minds: We look at the board and try to predict the future. The Setup The Algorithm Minimax The Wrapper
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