And it is subject to the Flynn effect. So saying "It can be measured" hardly invalidates the idea that a better model of intelligence for aged brains will incorporate the various other things that are affecting the measurement.

Because scientists, unlike media, have a method for indicating precision of results, and order of magnitude is an intrinsically fuzzy term, whereas about ten times is not.

Which it isn't. The past 20 years haven't been at a standstill. Predicting future product releases based on not having released the product would always give you an infinite horizon. It's not a useful metric.

Welcome to the future?

You mean like this, right?

$1000 pays off in a year, two at most. So unless you are suggesting that there will always be an inverse relationship between the labour cost and the module cost (which you'd really need to justify), there's really no case for saying labour cost is an issue.

Given that both my parents and my significant other are all teachers, and several of my friends have had great success with alternative learning styles, I am going to go ahead and ignore this paper, which says only that there aren't many studies which meet their specific preferred experiment design. Differentiated instruction does accomplish what "traditional" learning doesn't - it provides a means of understanding material in several different ways and activates several different mental "nodes". So while the specific studies on the topic may not be perfect, the practical effect is engagement, which even the authors of the paper acknowledge. Engagement with material is a not-insignificant effect on someone undertaking learning for their own purposes.

Different people learn differently. Consider the possibility that you are simply not using the learning style best suited to you. There are tools to help with this.

The sleep thing as well, obviously. But consider that you may not have a fruitful approach to learning in general.

A degree matters only insofar as you try to meet people who are interesting and interested in what you want to do. Research your professors. Join the CS club. Join the math club. Join the Fine Arts faculty for whatever social events they hold, because some of those people can do your site design, or your art, or help you understand how visual thinking works. Meet people. You need to behave as if you are interested in what you are doing. If you are interested, and if you apply yourself to those interests, then you will find that your degree benefits you.

If you're doing a program online, then you need to engage with people a different way - look at the teams behind tools you like, and reach out to them via forums. Participate in communities that cater to your field. Meet people who are launching web startups nearby.

Find people. Meet them. Engage with them. This is the work you will be doing for a long time, so get started on it.

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The problem with choosing the number $5k is that $5k is nothing. Spending a quarter mill to save a million down the road makes sense, but you just try making the case to the business some time.

1. If it was good enough for Einstein, it's good enough for you. Spend a little time reading patents. Maybe you'll change the world

2. Congratulations to Spolsky and Atwood, because damn

I don't know what you're seeing in that graph, but I'm seeing significantly higher temperatures than normal after the melting point, which is exactly what TFA mentioned. The average temperature may be below melting, but that doesn't mean the temperature everywhere is below melting. A higher average temperature means more melt. If you look at years before and after about 1980 on that page, you see that the curve has in general been showing higher temperatures most years after the general melting point.

He's made a lot of cogent points about the course he took. Maybe you should respond to those instead of resorting to character assassination. Instructors who actually care about the classroom are the right people to judge course material. Students have too many other concerns to evaluate objectively.

To paraphrase a great man, I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Proof that it is not better: Many people have died who have nothing to do with the conflict. This continues to happen. Ethically speaking, this is worse. Ergo, it is not better. It may have a different balance of rights and wrongs. But it has wrongs that would not exist the other way, so it is not better.