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Good Tweets

Shooters not white, not a Tea Partier, not Republican, not an NRA member, not Presbyterian, so this time, it's the gun's fault. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 3, 2015 This is what they teach in college now pic.twitter.com/gGkk61xjQn — str_thry (@StrThry) November 25, 2015 Yikes @reallucasneff is a shameless race baiter who uses human tragedy… Continue reading Good Tweets

On Not Letting Cognitive Capital Go To Waste

Using IQ tests to identify gifted students – because poor kids should get a good education, even if they're smart https://t.co/TXw4IouWms — SteveStewartWilliams (@SteveStuWill) November 29, 2015 America’s cognitive capital may be it’s important resource, and it should not be squandered, which is why we need more funding for gifted education. Or as some call… Continue reading On Not Letting Cognitive Capital Go To Waste

How to be a Superforecaster

There is some buzz over superforrcasting and superforecasters, related to a 2015 book by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner about superforecasters – people with an above average ability to forecast events and outcomes. Blurb from Wikipedia: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction is a book by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner released… Continue reading How to be a Superforecaster

Investing Recap for 2015: What worked and what didn’t

Time for an end year assessment of various investments and prognostications: The good: Consumer discretionary and large cap tech ETFs post large gains in an otherwise flat market, as I predicted. Emerging markets, energy, and commodity stocks fall, also agreement with my predictions. Web 2.0 valuations surge, with notable examples being Snapchat, Uber, and Air… Continue reading Investing Recap for 2015: What worked and what didn’t

Against the Ubermensch

In the past year or so, we’re seeing a re-branding or transformation of NRx…less Nietzsche’s ubermensch as embodied by John Galt (and the Californian ideology) and more like Oswald Spengler or Pat Buchanan. Maybe the old, pre-2014 NRx may have put too much emphasis on capitalism, individualism, and technology and not enough on culture and… Continue reading Against the Ubermensch

David Gelernter on Millennials and the State of Higher Education

From Isegoria America-Lite: I’m a teacher of college students. I’m lucky to be at one of the best colleges in the world, at Yale. Our students are as smart as any in the world. They work very hard to get here. They are eager, they’re likable. My generation is getting a chip on its shoulder,… Continue reading David Gelernter on Millennials and the State of Higher Education

The Hivemind, Immigration, and IQ

From ricochet.com, A Review of Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own From the reviews on Amazon: The book’s primary and most important contribution is to document the following empirical regularity: Suppose you could a) improve your own IQ by 10 points, or b) improve the IQs of your… Continue reading The Hivemind, Immigration, and IQ

Functional Stock Market Theory

The idea is that the stock market can be described through a functional that is constrained by endpoint conditions depending on characteristics of the stock or market, such as volume, duration, and geometric factors. The theory borrows some concepts of relativity, but is simpler because the stock market occupies a single spatial dimension instead of… Continue reading Functional Stock Market Theory

Media Outrage Fuels Trump Campaign

Trump mocks reporter’s chronic illness — and MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ cruelly laughs about it And Donald Trump’s various rude and offensive comments haven’t hurt him at all Trump’s strategy is to get the media to overreact, which brings the issue to the forefront of the National Debate. Even if there’s no definitive proof New Jersey… Continue reading Media Outrage Fuels Trump Campaign