tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4583715334768970727..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Why didn't Steve Jobs try to close The Gap?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29172068926904917772011-10-11T16:09:53.574-07:002011-10-11T16:09:53.574-07:00There's a really obvious reason no one founds ...<i>There's a really obvious reason no one founds schools anymore. The last great private school-founding era was the 70s. These schools were founded in response to bussing. They were founded by the very last groups of educated upper class American women with no careers. No one with the ability to pull something like this off has the leisure anymore to do it.</i><br /><br />Yes, they are. They are called home schools, university model schools, coops etc. Easily more educated women of means are involved than during the 70's. In my city there are more than 20 homeschool coops and literally hundreds of tutors and tutoring agencies catering to this group and there are about 2 million students in home schools in the US. <br /><br />More continue to be founded. The 90's and 00's saw huge expansion in this private schooling movement. And yeah, they tend to often be the traditional type of families.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53442035733907965742011-10-11T12:51:54.687-07:002011-10-11T12:51:54.687-07:00Consider Patrick Henry College (2000) and New Sain...<i>Consider Patrick Henry College (2000) and New Saint Andrews (1994). These are academically selective rising stars catering to the same WASP students that most great American colleges were founded to educate.</i><br /><br />Right, two conservative colleges drawing on the last subcultures that retain traditional sex roles is a complete rebuttal of my point. What the fuck is wrong with you?<br /><br />Anyway we're talking about K-12.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81272504246061534662011-10-11T09:19:08.803-07:002011-10-11T09:19:08.803-07:00"Because you child can do unit of geometry in..."Because you child can do unit of geometry in the software does not mean that he can get a good grade in the geometry that his teacher is teaching right now."<br /><br />I've had trouble myself using the teacher's preferred problem solving method, usually the only one allowed. What helped me was getting old textbooks on the same level as the course I was taking. Surprisingly, you could find as many as three ways to solve the same kind of math problem - at least one of which I could grasp easily. This eventually made it possible for me to do it/understand it the teacher's way.<br /><br />Sounds like a lot of work but really you only have to compare short chapters across books. Don't know if you can do the same with software nowadays but those old textbooks were cheap (and heavy).triffidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21843503970356162072011-10-10T17:03:44.371-07:002011-10-10T17:03:44.371-07:00Sorry, was. RiP.Sorry, was. RiP.Londonernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91459209255232894212011-10-10T16:18:38.497-07:002011-10-10T16:18:38.497-07:00Probably because he knew it isn't possible. He...Probably because he knew it isn't possible. He's a hard-nosed manwithgoldchains, not a lily-livered nicewhiteliberal like Gates.Londonernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4243975155294662682011-10-10T14:16:52.643-07:002011-10-10T14:16:52.643-07:00There's a really obvious reason no one founds ...<i>There's a really obvious reason no one founds schools anymore. The last great private school-founding era was the 70s. These schools were founded in response to bussing. They were founded by the very last groups of educated upper class American women with no careers. No one with the ability to pull something like this off has the leisure anymore to do it.</i><br /><br />This is not true. <br /><br />Consider Patrick Henry College (2000) and New Saint Andrews (1994). These are academically selective rising stars catering to the same WASP students that most great American colleges were founded to educate.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Saint_Andrews_College<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Henry_CollegeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38989954746532937852011-10-10T13:13:19.668-07:002011-10-10T13:13:19.668-07:00For a software company to get big in this area it ...For a software company to get big in this area it needs to be able to first appeal to parents. The companies need to show that their software will help your child get a better grade math/English/science but one of the problems is that many teachers teach different things at different times and use different terms and students forget. Because you child can do unit of geometry in the software does not mean that he can get a good grade in the geometry that his teacher is teaching right now. This is because school is more about testing for intelligence than teaching and this makes it difficult for software developers. <br /><br />A separation of education and testing might help.JWOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85345723477304005402011-10-10T11:50:03.657-07:002011-10-10T11:50:03.657-07:00Anon @2:41 said "Note: Apple does not have a ...Anon @2:41 said "Note: Apple does not have a single Indian in upper management - kinda rare for a tech company. And it's been doing pretty friggin' well."<br /><br />Perot Systems (among others) does not either. They tend to make very good engineers (strivers) but are incredibly political and often quite comfortable with a "s**t rolls down hill" management style. I've worked with seven and for one and am 0-8 in terms of finding one I'd trust as far as I could throw him.Otis McWrongnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87062508864025327272011-10-10T10:24:54.074-07:002011-10-10T10:24:54.074-07:00I interviewed for a position in Cupertino two year...I interviewed for a position in Cupertino two years ago, but decided to stay on the east coast. My take is that Apple is a conservative company with a thin veneer of "free to be you and me" sloganeering.<br /><br />The reverence for the company's products and history and for the founders do however go against the anonymous corporate governence that dominates everywhere.<br /><br />Not that different than working for Ford let's say 50 years ago. Except Steve fills the Henry Ford role.Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310129929636104611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78252236777200626212011-10-10T05:45:14.031-07:002011-10-10T05:45:14.031-07:00"Very simple: if you recognize a flashcard, y..."Very simple: if you recognize a flashcard, you'll get to see it after a longer interval than before. If you don't recognize a flashcard, you'll get to see it sooner."<br /><br />In old tech you'd simply make a smaller pile of the flashcards you still weren't recognizing easily and review this group more often than the larger pile of mastered material. Physically writing out the term and meaning may make memorizing the material easier and faster, sorta gets etched into the brain as you make the shapes of the letters.ur not so smahtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86711168356840085362011-10-10T03:23:57.963-07:002011-10-10T03:23:57.963-07:00When he found Mona Simpson, who had grown up in en...<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/12/magazine/creating-jobs.html?pagewanted=11&src=pm" rel="nofollow">When he found Mona Simpson, who had grown up in entirely different circumstances, Jobs felt as if they had been part of some genetics experiment. He was struck by the similarity in their intensity, traits and appearance. As he was growing close to Simpson, he was also getting to know his daughter Lisa, whose early years were spent apart from Jobs, and watching his two younger children grow up. "I used to be way over on the nurture side, but I've swung way over to the nature side," he says. "And it's because of Mona and having kids. My daughter is 14 months old, and it's already pretty clear what her personality is."</a>ehnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50697747525317086882011-10-10T01:33:09.052-07:002011-10-10T01:33:09.052-07:00Apple products are hugely popular among women and ...Apple products are hugely popular among women and gays. Those are their target demographics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85124250075586813322011-10-09T23:38:43.569-07:002011-10-09T23:38:43.569-07:00People into computer programming tend to be extrem...<i>People into computer programming tend to be extremists. Several of the lone gunman nuts in the last few years have been computer programmers. I have heard other computer programmers tell me the same thing: "Did you ever notice that computer programmers are all really extreme about politics?" Leftwing, rightwing, libertarian, whatever, programmers are hardcore.</i><br /><br />They have Asperger's, dummy, so 1) they can't follow social norms in terms of communicating their beliefs and 2) when they find a likeminded group of people who will accept them and provide them with any kind of social life they have no moderation because they're so lonely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12223134803438919382011-10-09T23:12:06.673-07:002011-10-09T23:12:06.673-07:00It is traditional for tech titans to give money to...It is traditional for tech titans to give money to the university they attended, and get a building or program named after them. <br /><br />Tech usually deals with abstractions, and not so much real world institutions and the people who fill them. Close contact with ugly reality with a few muggings mixed in tends to make conservatives out of people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70690599808811462682011-10-09T22:59:42.860-07:002011-10-09T22:59:42.860-07:00"Last January I discovered Anki."
OK, I..."Last January I discovered Anki."<br /><br />OK, I can second that. Anki has helped me learn a lot of things. It'd flashcards, only smarter. Very simple: if you recognize a flashcard, you'll get to see it after a longer interval than before. If you don't recognize a flashcard, you'll get to see it sooner. The program is free, and you can make your own flashcards about any topic you want, or you can download other people's decks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74944040849308208322011-10-09T19:57:37.409-07:002011-10-09T19:57:37.409-07:00A few comments:
People into computer programming ...A few comments:<br /><br />People into computer programming tend to be extremists. Several of the lone gunman nuts in the last few years have been computer programmers. I have heard other computer programmers tell me the same thing: "Did you ever notice that computer programmers are all really extreme about politics?" Leftwing, rightwing, libertarian, whatever, programmers are hardcore.<br /><br />Last January I discovered Anki. It is a free open source flashcard program that you can use to study anything, but its most popular subject is probably Japanese. I learned more Kanji and have progressed further using this software than I have in the last 10 years of study. When my kid is old enough to start using it for fact based subjects I suspect it will be a huge benefit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37552199389854356682011-10-09T19:51:01.701-07:002011-10-09T19:51:01.701-07:00"but also as Steve (our steve) points out, fo..."but also as Steve (our steve) points out, for most history creators were generally 'conservative' or have what we would recognize as conservative values (national and ethnic loyalty for example, was a given - read dicken's reaction to the indian mutinty for example)"<br /><br />Sailer covers this topic periodically. Most creative types seem to be more do as I say not as I do liberals. Though I've never seen a conspiracy in the multiplicity of boomer Steves, I have wondered that the liberal speak out of successful people with somewhat traditional lifestyles wasn't a trick to cull the herd or something like.smarter than mitchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20955354423013913602011-10-09T19:46:25.552-07:002011-10-09T19:46:25.552-07:00Larry Ellison does not exactly donate to charity, ...Larry Ellison does not exactly donate to charity, but spends billions on the America's Cup. There are a lot of guys like him.<br /><br />As for lack of software: www.khanacademy.org . That is all.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78122096245993584872011-10-09T19:27:07.375-07:002011-10-09T19:27:07.375-07:00"yes but why are the parents of both just hum...<b>"yes but why are the parents of both just hum drum?"</b><br /><br />Both biological mother and father earned graduate degrees; his father earned a Ph.D. at a fairly young. The father seems shiftless, in both his familial and career obligations. He taught poli sci at several colleges and is now, at 80, a VP at a small casino in Reno. His shiftlessness could be a sign of failure, or a sign of boredom. He has no plans to retire. His father, Steve's bio-granddad, <a href="http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2011011891545" rel="nofollow">was apparently <br />a very wealthy man in Syria</a>.<br /><br />As for the genetic contributions of his mother: smart women don't generally achieve greatness - they bare sons who do. That's just nature.<br /><br />One fact of interest: when they put the unborn Steve up for adoption in 1955 he was first going to go to a professional couple who wanted a girl. The blue collar Jobs's got him instead, with the stipulation they had to send him to college. Steve's bio-parents were definitely thinking ahead.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62615323899776095622011-10-09T19:26:27.044-07:002011-10-09T19:26:27.044-07:00Steve Jobs came to India as a teenager in search o...<i>Steve Jobs came to India as a teenager in search of enlightenment. He returned disappointed, following a brush with lice, scabies, dysentery and a near mob thrashing after he protested at being sold watered-down buffalo milk."</i><br />as far as visiting to India goes, he got off easy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60195085027385551192011-10-09T19:05:06.047-07:002011-10-09T19:05:06.047-07:00"It's possible that neither of his adopti..."It's possible that neither of his adoptive parents had a college degree. His adoptive father is described as a machinist."<br /><br />Jobs adoptive father didn't graduate from high school and his adoptive mom only had a high school diploma. His biological mom wouldn't sign the adoption papers unless they promised to send Jobs to college. As we all know he spent 6 months at college and dropped out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42749029113851181172011-10-09T19:02:06.498-07:002011-10-09T19:02:06.498-07:00As a Computer Programmer for over 10 years I perso...As a Computer Programmer for over 10 years I personally am very skeptical of computers in the classroom. If I have to write a particularly complex algorithm I still have to write it down on paper and work it out before coding. I definitely think there is some psycho-neural benefit of writing versus using a keypad. Maybe it just wasn't money...maybe Jobs didn't think it was good for kids. Even though I code for a living I definitely think kids are being done a disservice by all the pushing of computers in classrooms. New Jersey is even ending the learning of writing in script which is a travesty. Anyway, Jobs also wouldn't allow porn apps for Apple products and he certainly gave up billions of dollars by that decision. For me, he was the Thomas Edison of our age.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78393303421048780672011-10-09T18:02:58.073-07:002011-10-09T18:02:58.073-07:00Marlowe, that's the most revealing thing I'...Marlowe, that's the most revealing thing I've heard about Jobs since all the rush of coverage started. You're quoted <a href="http://ex-army.blogspot.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-on-education.html" rel="nofollow"> by Ex-Army HERE.</a>Baloohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245765878554696634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28704744026006900102011-10-09T17:54:57.937-07:002011-10-09T17:54:57.937-07:00Nanonymous: Funny - it reads exactly like what Ste...Nanonymous: <i>Funny - it reads exactly like what Steve Sailer would write.</i><br /><br />I had a similar reaction. Perhaps all Steves who grew up during the 60s & 70s and who worked in IT during the 80s think alike? Or did Jobs' father get about?Marlowenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10049776331078593272011-10-09T17:31:18.715-07:002011-10-09T17:31:18.715-07:00Maybe Gates and Zuckerberg do it as a recruiting t...Maybe Gates and Zuckerberg do it as a recruiting tool. Most smart people are liberals(and many are Jews), and so their companies need the right cred to attract the best-smartest people who happen to be liberal. So, why not pretend to do good work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com