24 days ago
deusx : Extended Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Extended Mind refers to an emerging concept within the philosophy of mind that addresses the question as to the division point between the mind and the environment by promoting the view of active externalism. This view proposes that some objects
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2 month ago
Linkorama : If the CIA can collaborate with Web 2.0 tools, - Whatever information they have, no matter how sensitive, it’s definitely not as critical or as classified as the CIA. Tell your boss, “If the CIA can collaborate with Web 2.0 tools, so can we.”
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Linkorama : The Power Paradox - True power requires modesty and empathy, not force and coercion, argues Dacher Keltner. But what people want from leaders—social intelligence—is what is damaged by the experience of power.
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9 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids - Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: "More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life" interesting.. but not too surprising.
gleuschk : Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids - we should be so lucky
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Dave Snowden on Everything is Fragmented - His point of view is information models don’t apply to humans. We are pattern recognition devices. We recognize and act based on partial data sets.
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Sharing Gossip, er, Intelligence - On Intellipedia and A-space
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13 month ago
adamrg : Are We Failing Our Geniuses?
deusx : Are We Failing Our Geniuses? - TIME - "it can't make sense to spend 10 times as much to try to bring low-achieving students to mere proficiency as we do to nurture those with the greatest potential."
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13 month ago
adamrg : Study: It doesn't pay to be smart - IQ doesn't correlate with wealth, or financial distress. Damn.
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16 month ago
gleuschk : I Chat, Therefore I Am... | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine - kept seeing this linked all over. turns out it's way more interesting than I expected
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18 month ago
deusx : WIRED Blogs: Danger Room - "By taking out three spanners, Graham showed how you could isolate relatively homogeneous chunks of the network, rendering it stupider and less adaptive than before."
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18 month ago
gleuschk : NPR : Students' View of Intelligence Can Help Grades - if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids - The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids: "The Inverse Power of Praise"... a good article from New York Magazine
gleuschk : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine - fascinating
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Are you cleverer when you're hungry? - Given that most schools in the UK are currently focusing on making sure children have had a good breakfast in order to improve behaviour and concentration, it's an interesting and impactful argument to make...
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Linkorama : Open-Source Spying - del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry)
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Harnessing Collective Intelligence - With the help of our algorithms the community can outperform the market -- something most analysts can't do. That's not user-generated content, that's a cognitive community exhibiting super intelligent behavior.
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Catching bad guys legally - The traditional investigative, rather than profiling and filtering, was used to uncover the London terror plot. At less of a cost to civil liberties
Rod Begbie : Joho the Blog: How to catch very bad guys legally - Reminder: The British terror suspects weren't found through profiling and illegal mass-data-trawls, but by good community policing and focused, restrained intelligence operations. [via] #
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Eyes for Text - The first uses of Eyes for Text software engines will still leave humans to perform their magic of knowing what might be useful. However, now aided by machines that can pull out bits of information well enough to deliver them as the human searches or brow
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Sapphire Gems and Nuggets - Yet, I see a distinct leaning toward the themes of intelligence and knowledge processes above and even beyond the “systems of record.â€
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30 month ago
gleuschk : Damn Interesting » Unskilled and Unaware of It - metacognition is haaaard.
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Crowd vs. Niche Knowledge - Entrepreneurs need to realize that niche knowledge adds more value than crowd knowledge. Niche knowledge solves difficult problems. Crowd knowledge tells you about trends, but trends are fleeting. Niches are less about trends and more about vision - they
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33 month ago
jimray : Bush’s Snoopgate - "the president knew publication would cause him great embarrassment and trouble for the rest of his presidency. It was for that reason—and less out of genuine concern about national security—that George W. Bush tried so hard to kill the New
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Wet Ware - The pay isn't great, but you will get to see what the next generation of Web/human interfaces will look like. And also get a feel of how to create the next generation of buzz.
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34 month ago
Linkorama : When the Means Become the Ends - Organizations can easily do the wrong thing by mistaking the means for the ends. Following are a couple examples I ran across in the past few days.
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