I am a little surprised that this article by Amy Chua was even published, because it sounds completely crazy to me.
UPDATE : Still bad, but not as bad as it read?
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
A corrected plot of Time For First Team To Find The Coin versus Year
Robbie made some corrections to his earlier plot:
Perhaps they read my complaints
Perhaps the IEEE read my earlier complaints:
Although it does have that “winner of contest holding a giant check” look to it…
History of Mystery Hunt Lengths
Via Robert Buckingham, a graph of the length of the MIT Mystery Hunt:
I always quote 60 hours to shock people about how long it is, but that seems a little extreme.
Norbert Wiener was a man of constant sorrow
He was hitting the haterade pretty hard:
The vacuum tube was first used to replace previously existing components of long-distance telephone circuits and wireless telegraphy. It was not long, however, before it became clear that the radio-telephone had achieved the stature of the radio-telegraph, and that broadcasting was possible. Let not the fact that this great triumph of invention has largely been given over to the soap-opera and the hillbilly singer blind one to the excellent work that was done in developing it, and to the great civilizing possibilities which have been perverted into a national medicine-show.
