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During the 1898–99 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished fourth out of 10 clubs in the Scottish First Division.

Scottish First Division

Final League table

Scottish Cup

See also
List of Hibernian F.C. seasons

References

External links
Hibernian 1898/1899 results and fixtures, Soccerbase

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National Academy of Medicine Inducts Dartmouth Economist
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Douglas Staiger is the John French Professor in Economics. (Eli Burakian '00)
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We don't need no steeenking Proposition 209
The AP reports on the declining rates of admission to the University of California:
The low admission rate reflects UC regents' decision in January to reduce freshman enrollment by 2,300 students, or 6 percent. Enrollment will be cut at the Davis, Irvine, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz campuses; remain the same at Berkeley and UCLA; and grow at Merced.
The number of students applying for undergraduate admission for the fall 2009 term increased by nearly 5 percent to almost 127,000, up from 121,000 applications for fall 2008.
Admission offers to California residents increased 2 percent for African Americans, 4 percent for Latinos and 21 percent for American Indians. Offers remained relatively unchanged for Asian Americans and declined 6 percent for whites.
About 35 percent of admitted California students are Asian American, 33 percent are white, 22 percent are Latino, 4 percent are African American and 0.7 percent are American Indian.
By Steve Sailer on 4/08/2009 Labels: Affirmative action, Education
ac said...
I assume that the shrinking schools are dominated by whites and particulary Asians, and that the growing one is NAM dominated?
4/8/09, 11:55 AM
UCLA and Berkeley are the crown jewels of the California system, so they couldn't back there, but other than that I'd say that's exactly what it looks like.
I'd bet money that the Native American rate is increasing from affluent people gaming the system. I know a few people personally claiming AA benefits from ancestry as far back as the 3rd and 4th generation.
wake up said...
the wheels are coming off in california because demography is destiny. and if the masters of the universe have their way the federal bailout is going to become ongoing..........and permanent.
the current trend points to a 15-20% white state of california in the future.........and the new massive non-white california will need to be permanently supported with federal bailouts paid by white taxpayers in the rest of the country. that is a recipe for discontent to say the least.
I'd bet money that the Native American rate is increasing from affluent people gaming the system.
The second most common mixed race demographic in the US are Americans who claim both Indian and white ancestry according to the Census.
Don't you have to be registered with the BIA before you can get AA benefits? Granted, university admissions committees might not bother to check every claim, but if they do happen to check yours and you come up short, you've just screwed yourself royally.
Wishfully claiming to be part Native American has a long history in the US. Even in my high school a bunch of kids claimed to be part Indian. Though I did notice that none of them claimed to be related to any of the local tribes who were pretty down and out before gambling came along. Instead they claimed to be part of tribes like Apache or Cherokee but as far as I could see none of their families came from areas where Apache or Cherokee were prevalent.
The number of American Indians in the UC system is so tiny compared to other groups that even a modest increase shows up as a large jump in percentage. And for all its problems, California is still a net contributor, not drain, on the federal budget. The state is home to multiple industries-- from Silicon Valley to entertainment to agriculture-- that generate titanic amounts of wealth.
eh said...
You walk across the UC Berkeley campus and it's like you're in another country. An Asian country. I imagine UCLA is worse. It's sad. It's sad to see such a depiction of one facet of the demographic destruction of America.
Of course no one -- quite literally (well, almost) -- ever remarks on the dramatic overrepresentation of Asians, i.e. vis-a-vis their share of California's population. Least of all white parents, at whose childrens' expense it largely occurs. I imagine much of the equally dramatic overrepresentation of Latinos, i.e. vis-a-vis their generally poor academics, also comes at the expense of Whites. And regarding Latinos, given the sharpened admissions criteria at UC professional schools the data there are also rather stark, I would imagine.
rob said...
miles, why did you change your handle to wake up?
a thinker said...
Can't it be a good thing that many of the best students are having to go to their 2nd or 3rd choice schools? The unfairness of having a less qualified person take their slots aside, high IQ students at less prestigious universities could have the effect of decentralizing the influence held by a handful of notably liberal institutions. I imagine such students are frequently more eligible for scholarships when they choose to attend lesser known universities as well.
Isn't it already the case that certain less competitive universities are known for having excellent writing programs or law schools? I think you alums of schools like UCLA & Berkeley should look at the larger picture; there's some potential here for your pet anthropology theories to reemerge as mainstream for instance. I know you want your kid to get all he deserves but is the engineering department at CAL or the BBA at UCLA really the only one worthy of your child.
From my own experience of sacrificing the best education for me for brand loyalty, I think most students apply to college based on the school's image and the fact they have friends there without a clear understanding of what they want from their education. And I think high IQ students are just as susceptible to this herd mentality as the lower IQ bourgeois.
Of course this change can only be brought about through the influence of ambitious fathers of wunderkind like the frequenters of iSteve. Isn't grad school prestige what's really important after all?
old settler said...
"Wishfully claiming to be part Native American has a long history in the US." DJF
I've long given up on sorting out fact from fiction in family tales. So while my grandmother insists we are part Cherokee, I have no hard evidence that this is the case. She lost contact with her mother and other family members long before I was born; there are no pictures or family records either, nothing that is but oral tradition.
I've noticed lately these stories are a bit more flexibly rendered than I'd like which makes me suspicious though I can't say why the Indian heritage would've been fabricated in the first place. Any ideas on this? But, hey, if a "white" person can survive in this AA dominated world by morphing into a group with protected status, I can't say I'd blame them.
David Davenport said...
And for all its problems, California is still a net contributor, not drain, on the federal budget. The state is home to multiple industries-- from Silicon Valley to entertainment to agriculture-- that generate titanic amounts of wealth.
Is some Hollywood lieberal paying you to paste that?
You surely know that movie and TV show production in CA is declining because of higher taxes and the cost of doing business there.
Agriculture? US taxpayers outside Cal. pay to subsidize social services for all the low wage Mexicans toiling in the fields. Wonder how profitable CA ag. would be if the peons were paid decent wages?
Also, I notice that you forget to mention defense contractor and military spending in CA. What ee-kon-O-me would San Diego have without the Navy Dept.? Long Beach is gonna be really cheerful when C-17 production shuts down, etc.
Silicon Valley? So last century.
The Golden State is over the hill. Face it.
RKU said...
Ha, ha. Wasn't there just a recent thread in which a whole bunch of commenters kept denying that (on average) Asians were smarter than whites?
So what's the explanation for this? Are all these Asians cheating? Or is it just a mysterious coincidence.
Also, I'll bet that a huge fraction of the Asian students are majoring in real subjects like history and engineering, while lots of the white students are majoring in things like psychology and "self-actualization"...
I've noticed lately these stories are a bit more flexibly rendered than I'd like which makes me suspicious though I can't say why the Indian heritage would've been fabricated in the first place. Any ideas on this?
Maybe the hardy Scots-Irish folks admire the Injuns for being a strong warrior race?
Asian academic success (as far as getting accepted to the top schools) is due more to amazing study ethic than amazing intelligence. It is no accident that the percentage of Asians in the top UCAL schools shot up relative to whites when UCAL decided to deemphasize the SAT in favor of GPA (as a way to remove the SAT as the insurmountable obstacle for NAMs.)
Just check this out, white applicants to UCAL actually have HIGHER SAT scores than Asians. And surprise surprise, Asians do better on the SATIIs, which test acquired knowledge in specific area rather than being straight out IQ tests like the SAT. There is no reason to make Asians out to the some sort of ubermensch.
http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=18634
Big Bill said...
Mr. Eh, I clicked on your link "well_almost" and laughed at the title of the article: "Making UCLA look like LA". The subtext being, of course "how do we enroll as many Mexicans as their are Mexican street vendors in LA".
The point, of course, is that UCLA should use the CITY race statistics and not NATIONAL race statistics in admissions since the are so many more Mexicans in LA as a percentage of the population than there are in the rest of the USA.
For over 30 years at UW-Madison they have been haranguing the University to use NATIONAL race statistics and not CITY or STATE race statistics in order to eliminate as many white Wisconsinites as possible and replace them with browns from Chicago and elsewhere.
Maybe they should try a new slogan: "Make UW-Madison look like Wisconsin".
IIRC the discussion was whether Asian-American IQ accurately reflects global Asian IQ. If a self-selected high IQ sample group is going to prestigious American colleges in greater numbers, that doesn't contradict the position that most of China's human capital is of low quality. India has experienced a similar brain drain.
ben tillman said...
So what's the explanation for this?
Do we really have to explain this to you? California isn't Asia. You're looking at a self-selected sample of Asians.
Instead they claimed to be part of tribes like Apache or Cherokee but as far as I could see none of their families came from areas where Apache or Cherokee were prevalent.
The Cherokee are the largest tribe in the US. Historically they were an advanced, highly civilized tribe that covered major portions of the South. I think intermarriage may have been quite common for people living near the frontier. I'm supposedly part Cherokee, though it's almost a rounding error (<2%).
What ee-kon-O-me would San Diego have without the Navy Dept.?
Um, biotech? But California probably is a net drain. If not it will be there shortly. It's a drain politically (CA politicians getting us to waste money on stupid programs) if not economically.
Mr. Anon said...
Whether the Chinese, as a group, are smarter than whites or not is irrelevant. The point is that whites in California are being dispossed of thier own iheritance. It was white Americans who built the state and made it what it was - and THEY built it for thier own descendents, not for those of people form Asia.
4/9/09, 5:48 AM
stari_momak said...
Who really cares if Asians have a higher IQ or study harder. The main point should be for white, American folks that they are being squeezed out of the universities their parents and grandparents built and paid for.
i don't have any problem agreeing that east asians are better at school. i see how their time is used. however, the amount of evidence that they are not smarter than europeans is overwhelming. i figure the two groups are about equal in intelligence, and that's being generous to the east asians. chinese underachievement is the THE story of HBD, and yet here we are, still not acknowledging it. there are 1 billion of them. they are, supposedly, smarter on average than europeans, as well as more industrious too. on paper it's a slam dunk for east asians. bookies wouldn't even take bets on such a sure thing. yet when the game is played, the chinese go down in the first round.
as for the europeans losing the "great admission battle of the 21st century" i don't think it will have all that much effect, because they're the leader group. they do most of the work, and it won't matter if they can't get into the "best" university, which increasingly means, the university with the most book studying, expert test taking east asians. there are so many good universities today where you can have access to relatively the same material. they'll just go to some other college, graduate with decent grades, and come up with something important in their 30s and 40s. not many of the titans of american society went to "superU" or as it may be increasingly known, "asian central college". the people who control major industries, and whose ideas shift the entire society, usually went to "random state U" or "liberal arts college 24". or they even dropped out.
eventually europeans will need to take steps to protect themselves. it won't make sense to do most of the creating, yet be forced by the rules of fair play to turn over all of their creations to the other races who massively outnumber them. africa is exploding in population. in the future, what will be the point of turning over every single NCAA sports enterprise to hordes of africans who demand a near monopoly, and the almost complete exclusion, of the founding group? likewise, should the engineering department at every white founded college turn into the department of asian global population domination? the chinese will flood these places, graduate, go back to china, and engineer...nothing of global importance.
i don't have any problem agreeing that east asians are better at school. i see how most of them spend their time. but the amount of evidence that they are not clearly smarter than europeans is overwhelming. they might be smarter, but what about all of the things that suggest they aren't?
if they were smarter, why would any of them leave east asia to go to college? it would be like millions of europeans going to mexico and brazil for college. the only way this makes sense is if we argue that it's actually the dumb among the east asians who have to settle for inferior universities like UCLA, while all the east asian geniuses stay in east asia and go to the world beating, nobel science prize monopolizing universities there.
i figure the two groups are about equal in intelligence, yet that is being generous to the east asians. they appear to have an advantage in learning and memory, while at the same time having less problem solving, obstacle breaking ability. both learning and problem solving are displays of intelligent behavior, but learning can only get you so far. as i've said before, i struggle greatly with the idea that europeans coming up with 80% of everything in the modern world is actually evidence that east asians are clearly smarter. what were the east asians working on while europeans were developing the oil age, the information age? it must have been dreadfully important.
if you took the two groups and put them on identical earths in seperate solar systems, what would each planet be like after 10000 years? would the east asian planet still be going through dynasty after dynasty where a highly organized but technologically stagnant society was unchanged for thousands of years? would the europeans go through an era of barbarian chaos and then figure out science, then space flight, then leave their planet, discover the east asian planet, and invade with laser cannons? i don't know for sure, but let's put some science into the discussion and not just stick to what east asians can do when spending all of their time studying books and taking tests. evidence, experiments, then conclusions. not calling the game before it's even played. and to really be scientific about it, you'd have to do that "seperate earths" experiment about 20 times, the generally accepted figure for reliability in experimentation.
chinese underachievement is the THE story of HBD, yet even here it is not acknowledged. 1 billion people with who are supposedly more intelligent AND more industrious than any european group. yet what do they accomplish? the factors in this equation need to be repeated in every discussion on this topic. it is certainly not scientific by any means to ignore the mountain of data that is china, in exactly the same way the rushton "3 races" idea crashes the very second you first encounter short, fat brown guys loitering outside the local big box store or working in the neighborhood fast food joint. how does rushton account for this group? how does the "east asians are clearly more intelligent" camp account for positively gargantuan chinese underperformance? as a guy with a science degree, the only thing that is evident to me is that in the world of "scholarly" HBD, evidence is ignored when it contradicts the hypothesis. or, perhaps it is more accurate to say that researchers do not even notice negative evidence, because it is not a part of their lives. rushton wasn't dealing with short, fat brown guys every day, so despite the fact that there are hundreds of millions of them in north and south america, they were never part of his model. likewise, chinese underperformance is SO VAST that we typically forget it is even occuring, in the same way HBD people almost never even talk about what south asians are doing. their spectacular lack of effect on the world is their only remarkable quality, and despite indonesia being the 4th largest nation on earth, it is NEVER discussed.
i'm definitely open to the idea that east asians are smarter, but i don't see the CLEAR evidence, the smoking gun, the argument ender. it is, for instance, just so obvious that west africans in the US are more athletic on average than any other group, even other west africans. where is the same proof for east asian intellectual superiority?
The point is that whites in California are being dispossed of thier own iheritance. It was white Americans who built the state and made it what it was - and THEY built it for thier own descendents, not for those of people form Asia.
Five basic spelling errors in two sentences?!!
Maybe this comment was actually by a smart Asian trying to make anti-Asian whites seem like sub-literates...
The SAT/IQ gap between Asian Americans and whites is about the same as found in large scale tests of students in E. Asia versus Europe or the US.
See data here:
http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2008/06/asian-white-iq-variance-from-pisa.html
In other words, there is no evidence of significant selection effects when comparing Asians in the US and those in their home countries. The Asians in California do not outscore the E. Asians in Japan, Taiwan, Korea on carefully normed international tests administered to hundreds of thousands of students.
Of course, when Asians outperform it must be because they study harder. When whites outperform blacks it's due to genetics ;-)
It is indeed ironic that white gentiles are several times more underrepresented at the top schools than either Hispanics or blacks. If you look at schools like Harvard, Stanford, UChicago, etc, Asians form a good third of the population and jews form probably another good third. White European gentiles probably get a third too, so they get a bit less than a third of their share of the college age population. Blacks get two thirds of their share or so. But nobody cares about that. hehe.
It was white Americans who built the state and made it what it was - and THEY built it for their own descendants, not for those of people form Asia.
It wasn't just immigration that destroyed California. This destroyed the social fabric, making it harder for White Californians to organize and save themselves.
You obviously did not read what the article I posted was saying. The California Education Commission found that Asian applicants to the UCAL system have lower SAT scores than white applicants. Therefore, it is not a great stretch of the imagination to say that their success in dominating the UCAL system is not due to their superior intelligence.
I am a premed student (majors: biology, economics,minor: mathematical computer science) at a university where 25% of the overall student population is Asian. In the classes and groups where I spend my time the percentage of Asians is even greater. I even room with an Asian guy and an Asian girl, so I'm speaking from experience here. Asians are successful, they are intelligent, but their success relative to whites is much more due to outlook on life than higher IQ.
I hope your powers of logic improve if you are going to be a doctor someday.
Given the relative population sizes in CA, for Asians to produce 40% or so of the UC population with scores roughly comparable (slightly higher or lower doesn't matter) to the white UC population means they are already outperforming on cognitive tests. If the two SAT distributions were equal Asians would have similar *proportional* representation to whites (i.e., they might make up 12% of UC population, in line with their overall population fraction in CA), rather than several times higher. Instead, (roughly) the 90th percentile Asian scores the same as a 96th percentile white (2.5x over-representation if the UC cutoff were 96th percentile), which is similar to what is found on PISA (half standard deviation gap).
But of course these higher scores on g-loaded tests only imply that Asians study harder than whites. (Oops, can one raise g by studying?) When whites outscore blacks it's not because their lower T-levels allow them to sit still longer in class, it's because blacks have genetically low IQ's right?
clem said...
The Cherokee are the largest tribe in the US. Historically they were an advanced, highly civilized tribe that covered major portions of the South.
Yes, a highly civilized tribe which kept negro slaves:
"American Indian tribes such as the Cherokee engaged in extensive enslavement of negroes. The Cherokee Indians owned large plantations on which they worked their negro slaves in gangs."
"White slaves were actually owned by negroes and Indians in the South to such an extent that the Virginia Assembly passed the following law in 1670: 'It is enacted that noe negro or Indian though baptized and enjoyned their owne freedome shall be capable of any such purchase of christians....'"
--Michael Hoffman, They Were White and They Were Slaves, p. 39-40.
Interesting how to work out the "reparations" for that, no?
Given the relative population sizes in CA, for Asians to produce 40% or so of the UC population with scores roughly comparable (slightly higher or lower doesn't matter) to the white UC population means they are already outperforming on cognitive tests.
It looks like you're the one that needs to improve your powers of logic. How can you say that Asians are outperforming on cognitive tests in the same paragraph in which you admit that their scores are "roughly comparable (slightly higher or lower doesn't matter) to the white UC population" If the scores are comparable then clearly no outperforming is taking place. As it is the scores are not comparable but lower for Asians.
Also, note that the article talked about the SAT scores of Asian and white applicants, not admits. White applicants, whether they got accepted or not, had higher average SATs than Asian applicants. That's a crucial distinction that makes it irrelevant that there are fewer Asians than whites. Hopefully I don't have to explain to you why that is.
I'll say this again: Asians are dominating the UCAL system vs whites because UCAL decided to deemphasize the SAT in favor of gpa. THAT'S where the superior study ethic of Asians comes in. You take an Asian and a white with similar IQs and almost every time the Asian will end up with a higher GPA. Just a different outlook on life. On the other hand like you said yourself studying does not help much on the SAT. That's why when UCAL abolished affirmative action (which affected whites and Asians equally) and instead changed its weighing of SAT and gpa, Asian representation shot up relative to whites.
Last anon,
You seem to imply lower T levels in Asians may explain their 1/2 SD higher IQ compared to Caucasians? Do women also have higher IQs than men because of lower T levels?
Do you have any evidence that T levels affect or even correlate with IQ? Something that compared high/low T-level groups within the same race would eliminate a major variable in race. Color me skeptical.
You are right that Asian have a higher average IQ according to the data presented. I suspect Asians' per capital underwhelming performace in advancing civilization at the edge suggests that Caucasians have much fatter tails on the IQ curve. Time may prove sub-continent Indians have fatter IQ tails more like Caucasians than East Asians.
Any ideas why East Asians have contributed so little in the way of ground breaking intellectual accomplishments? Any metrics that suggest this is changing?
"Interesting how to work out the "reparations" for that, no?"
Not all all. Whitey will pay up. The End.
Any ideas why East Asians have contributed so little in the way of ground breaking intellectual accomplishments?
My personal belief is that the Orientals have spent millennia under arbitrary despotic government.
Felix: If you don't understand the argument, just look up the average SAT scores for NE Asians versus whites. The half sigma gap is approximately the same as shown by PISA. Then, fixing a threshold like the average SAT score at Berkeley or UCLA, find the respective fractions of whites and Asians that are at this level. You will find an over-representation of Asians relative to population. BTW, I don't disagree with you that Asians probably also study harder and get higher grades, but both g and personality or cultural differences are at work.
Re: historical intellectual accomplishments, I think any serious historian would not put the Asians behind until after 1500 or so. In fact they were well ahead for most of recorded history (see, e.g., Marco Polo or Needham's many books). Just because you don't know who actually invented printing, paper, paper currency, the compass, zero, "Arabic" numbers, meritocratic bureaucracy, gunpowder, ceramics, the Pythagorean theorem, futures markets, etc. doesn't mean it was done by Europeans.
To have lagged for a few hundred years does not signal very much. For example, from 600 BC to 600 AD (a full millennium) the Romans and Greeks had every right (by your logic) to question the intelligence of northern Europeans. There are multiple factors affecting intellectual achievement beyond just IQ -- social stability, system of government, institutions, culture, etc.
The fatter IQ tail theory doesn't seem to be supported by actual data -- the Asian variance is similar to that of Europeans; see link to PISA data in earlier comment.
RE: Historical Intellectual Achievements
Yes, I know who invented most of the things you mentioned which is why I called out SE Asian Indians for special consideration. Indians are usually credited for the majority of profound intellectual contributions coming from Asia (eg mathematics, astrology, religion) which China borrowed heavily and disseminated into Korea, Japan and other parts of Asia. Not coincidentally, SE Asian Indians are much more closely related to Europeans than Han Chinese or any other NE Asians.
The inventions China is credited with during their thousands of years head start in a highly organized, specialized dense urban civilization (vis-à-vis Europe) are relatively sparse and mundane. Things like paper, printing press and gunpowder were arguably independently invented and/or in more useful and superior forms once similar levels of social organization arose elsewhere creating the necessity.
From another perspective, Germany was one of the bloodiest and msot chaotic areas of Europe, but since unification in 1871 they have vastly outperformed China intellectually with a fraction of the people over a fraction of time. The same with tiny England and France.
What is holding China and the Chinese back now? Even if China itself is not conducive to heavyweight intellectual progress, the Chinese Diaspora (incl. many intellectual elites) have enjoyed the advantages as N. Europeans throughout the Western world for several generations (perhaps only a generation or so more than Jews in America). When will we see as many Chinese as European/Jewish standouts in heavy weight intellectual pursuits?
The PISA exam you refer to appears to had have data released for only one iteration in 2000. This test also appears to be less of a g-loaded IQ test (e.g. SAT) and heavily reliant on study/prep (e.g. SAT subject tests) because it tests the application of specific mathematical training and concepts to solve problems.
It was new to discover that UC "applicants" who are Caucasian outperform Asians on the more g-loaded SAT, but I did expect a lower GPA and SAT subject test. And no, some people have used data to argue NE Asians have a higher avg IQ but smaller SD to explain why NE Asians underperform in the extremes of intellectual pursuits.
Data to compare IQ across countries are fuzzy, but the notable lack of fundamental breakthroughs coming from NE Asia is not.
MacSweeney said...
You're correct, China itself is not currently conducive to heavyweight intellectual progress. As for the diaspora, it's highly difficult in the modern era for ANY individual of any race to make "fundamental breakthroughs", because progress in this field has been taken over by corporations and group science projects. The era of one guy coming up with the telephone, and two brothers designing an airplane are over. Northeast Asians are still well represented as elite scientists and mathematicians, considering they make up a fraction of the Western population. Yes, we all know Ashkenazi Jews are vastly over represented, but they're something else.
It's funny that you don't want to consider data from PISA re: variance and other issues. When that data came out people like Lynn were very quick to use it to justify the questionable tiny statistics results they had used to characterize national IQs. Since you seem to agree the SAT is g loaded, do you deny there is a roughly half sigma gap between whites and NE Asians there? You can even see here that when family income is middle class or above (removing most recent immigrants), Asians outscore whites on the verbal part as well:
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/testing.htm#APPENDIX%20B
Re: "Germany was one of the bloodiest and msot chaotic areas of Europe, but since unification in 1871 they have vastly outperformed China intellectually with a fraction of the people over a fraction of time. The same with tiny England and France."
But don't you see that the same argument could have been used, over a much longer period of time, to argue that Greeks and Romans were somehow intrinsically "smarter", or had "fatter tails" or were "more creative" than N. Europeans? Those claims seem quite ridiculous now, so the method of reasoning is suspect. What it leaves out is cultural, institutional, historical factors which are largely independent of IQ.
If you look at the small Asian populations in the West today, you will find them over-represented at the high end of scientific contributions -- Nobels, National Academy of Science/Engineering, tenure at top universities. Many older Jewish scientists today bemoan that fewer Jews are pursuing science, and observe that Asians seem to be taking over. If you're not familiar with the pipeline this might surprise you.
BTW, crediting India with certain inventions or discoveries, rather than NE Asia, suffers from the same bias as accounts for "Arabic" numbers -- proximity to western historians. Much less is known by western historians about NE Asian scientific progress; I suggest you have a closer look at Needham. For example, the origin of zero (India or China) is rather controversial and unsettled.
rec1man said...
Anon wrote
Asians outscore whites on the verbal part as well:
The Asian group here includes Indians
Per the Sue and Abe study 1988,
on the verbal segment of SAT,
Indians outscore whites by 8 points and chinese by 47 points
rec1man,
Based on the 1995 numbers from LaGriffe for the > $60k family income group the gap between S and NE Asians cannot be as large as indicated in the study you cite for middle and upper middle class families.
NE Asian verbal averages are suppressed by large number of test takers who are from recent immigrant families.
Indians certainly have an advantage with English, given their colonial heritage and the fact that Hindi is an Indo-European language.
I do not reject the PISA result you mention, but put it in context as I do Lynn's results. The PISA results you emphasize are results released for the very first and only administration of an entirely new math exam testing specific math concepts requiring particular training. Lynn also has to rely on sparse and sometimes suspect data to fill in gaps, but both have value in beginning to quantitatively answer difficult questions with real world consequences.
I'm willing to follow wherever the data leads. Most data and empirical evidence I've seen suggests (NE) Asians have a slightly higher average IQ but smaller SD than (N. European) Caucasians. Large differences in educational motivation and focus cloud the issue of "average" Asian results as some have mentioned (although I was explicit in focusing on "SD"). Any evidence that Caucasians outscore Asians on the SAT in CA is the best apples-to-apples comparisons between these two groups I've seen (CA has the largest legacy Asian pop more representative of norms than federal data it seems). If true and consistent, this info would seriously challenge the conventional wisdom.
Again, my focus is on the exceptional individuals that advance society individually or in teams. These are not 1SD college students or 2SD doctors or even further out run of the mill researchers or academics. Sixty-one percent of the world lives in Asia vs 12% in Europe (20% in China, 1.2% in Germany, 0.92% in UK). Most people in Asia with the ability so far in the right tail as I'm speaking about would probably come from at least middle-class or better backgrounds given the genetics involved, get recognized for such exceptional talent and have the ability to work at nearly any of the world's top research institutions – most in the US or Europe. Thus, many of the top Asian-America researchers are drawing from 62% of the world's population, not <5% of America's Asian-American population as is a popular misconception. This is easily verified by looking at the birth places of the handful of only the very top Asian academics and researchers in the US.
A minimal level of social complexity and stability is required before civilization creates the environment for these individuals to reach their potential to contribute and advance their societies. One meaningful watershed is the establishment of universities or academies which coincidentally marks the intellectual ascent of Europe. Before such state supported institutionalized learning, such exceptional individuals would find fitting in and possibly even survival a struggle. This is why thousands years of (pre-)Germanic barbarians wandering in the forests does not suggest a thin-tail IQ distribution nearly as much as those same years where the Chinese lived in a civilization that had many more opportunities for intellectually exceptional individuals to advance and prosper.
While no expert on the Greek vs Indian vs Chinese disputes over intellectual ownership of profound breakthroughs of the ancient world, it does seem China is at best playing the defensive role in vis-à-vis India. I've seen Indian academics identified in Chinese sources associated with breakthroughs in areas like religion and astrology. I've never read about Chinese missions sending information to India. I also sense that Western historians have a strong bias towards China and Chinese sources over Indian ones both modern and ancient given the relative proportions of East Asian studies and research papers as well as paucity of historic Indian sources. I'm curious to learn more and will take a look at Needham as you suggest.
I have never seen any actual data supporting a smaller Asian SD. Could you supply references please?
PISA has been administered since 2000. In terms of funding, expertise, systematic methodology, sophistication, it blows away the amateurish efforts of the few psychometric researchers cited here. If you want to claim that Asians here are highly selected you should just compare the performance of Asians in the US to those in their home countries. There is no sign of selection when averaged over the whole immigrant population (kids of dish washers are included with kids of engineers). The half sigma gap is seen here and in the home country groups. Lynn et al. would agree on the consistency of these results -- selection is not evident.
Re: "Any evidence that Caucasians outscore Asians on the SAT in CA is the best apples-to-apples comparisons between these two groups I've seen."
Caucasians don't outscore Asians on the SAT, that is easy to verify (see LaGriffe link for actual data). The comment you are referring to is about UC applicants, which are a small selected pool. A much larger percentage of Asians vs Caucasians apply to UC, so it is quite far from an apples to apples comparison (i.e., they are over-represented among applicants as well as admits -- you might be comparing 60th percentile Asians against 85th percentile Caucasians). I've tried to explain this several times now.
I suggest you have a look at Needham -- there are significant snippets available at Google books. Look at mathematics or ship building or metallurgy or hydrology.
Your estimate of the bias is completely off -- recall why we refer to "Arabic" numerals. Proximity -- cultural, linguistic and geographical -- is the main effect biasing understanding of histories of distant peoples. Europe was behind for a thousand+ years and the Arabs stood in their way to accessing the fruits of much more advanced (technologically, economically) civilizations. Why did Roman emperors crave Chinese silk or ceramics? What was Columbus looking for? How big was Indian ocean trade relative to the size of the whole European economy at the time? You might want to research these questions before advancing any theories about global intellectual achievement.
As stated previously, I feel the data on international IQ comparisons is suspect and I don't think a good g-loaded exam benchmark exists. The PISA exam may be one of the best, but it is highly dependent upon previous training (not a great g-loaded exam) and has been administered only 3 times (not once).
As repeated in several posts, my working assumption is that Asians do have a higher average IQ, but they probably have a smaller SD. I have not seen the original data on the CA SAT and subject tests and thus qualified that it would be significant only if "true and consistent" given it contradicts "conventional" results. You appear to know the approximate magnitude of a significant sampling bias or are extrapolating it to fit your PISA data. Either way, your criticisms about average IQs are focused on an aside that I too discounted until further proven.
As another poster here asked, one of the biggest HBD questions is why Asian intellectual achievements have not dwarfed those of Europe given higher average IQs, a population many times larger and a far older civilization structured to reward uncommon intelligence over club wielding. Part of the obvious solution would require first looking into IQ SD.
One of the easiest ways to quantify even small differences in SD is to observe how they result in large differences at the far ends of the distribution. These intellectual oddities of nature operate in a relatively frictionless and public globalized marketplace of human talent today much like world-class sprinters.
While Asian-Americans are overrepresented in many intellectual fields like medicine and engineering, one cannot help but notice that their percentages drop off at the far tails. It is worth restating that the top Asian American intellectual contributors are not drawn from <5% of America but closer to 62% of worlds population that is Asian (it would be more accurate to compare Taiwan/China to the UK/Germany). For example, the following website has only 1 of the 7 most eminent Asian American Scientists born in the US under normal circumstances even though most came to the US decades ago when travel from China was far more restrictive. To imply that the US and the West is not receiving a disproportionate number of the Chinese intellectual elite is not credible despite another misdirected use of "average".
http://www.goldsea.com/Personalities/Brilliant/brilliant.html
Regarding Indian contributions to Chinese religion, mathematics and astronomy, ad hominems do not constitute a counter argument. Although medieval historical bias may have been a result of geography, current historical bias results more from the ethnocentric views inseparable from surviving histories. Even the "middle earth" Chinese acknowledge in their own histories intellectual contributions from India while I have not seen any citations for the reverse flow.
Sue and Abe analysis of 1984 University of California freshmen
Reported in book, The asian american educational experience by Don Nakanishi
In their analyses of all freshman students enrolled in the eight University of California campuses in 1984, Sue and Abe (1988) reported on both the high school GPAs and SAT scores of different subethnic groups of Asian Americans. With high school GPA, they found East Indians/Pakistanis had the highest GPAs (3.8) followed by Japanese (3.75) and Chinese (3.73), and Filipinos the lowest (3.56). All subethnic groups had higher mean GPAs than whites (3.59) with the exception of Filipinos (3.56). With SAT verbal and math scores, East Indians/Pakistanis had the highest verbal scores (520.0), followed by the Japanese (510.8) and Chinese (473.4), and Koreans the lowest (417.8), whereas the Chinese had the highest math scores (611.8) followed by East Indians/Pakistanis (605.8), Japanese (603.8), and Koreans (594.0). Only the East Indians/Pakistanis had higher verbal SAT scores than whites (512.4), whereas all the subethnic groups had higher math SAT scores than whites (576.9) with the exception of Filipinos (519.5) and Other Asian Americans (555
Here is my theory for lack of east asian high end achievement
The main ruling doctrine of china ( Japan ) is Legalism,
very crudely it is a more intelligent form of islam
Islam forbids freethinking and freethinkers get killed as apostates
Xtianity also persecuted freethinkers from Hyapatia ( 400AD ) to Gallileo ( 1600 AD )
( read Umberto Eco's novels )
and the deeply catholic parts of Europe are still backward
In northern protestant Europe, Freethinking was allowed and this allowed for innovation
The doctrine of Legalism each generation for thousands of years killed off freethinkers
and created a nation of conformists
And this, not low SD is the cause of the east asian vacuum at the high end
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Justia Patents John F. O'Donnell Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications
Patents by Inventor John F. O'Donnell
John F. O'Donnell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Mounting assembly of controlled resilience for basketball goal hoop
Abstract: A plate is mounted to a basketball backboard by bolts passing through the four standard bolt holes and forms a horizontal fulcrum. A standard hoop having a conventional L-shaped mounting bracket is positioned with the vertical leg thereof abutting the plate. A bolt passes from the plate through a hole in the vertical leg. A resilient shock absorbing mass is mounted between the outer face of the vertical leg and the end of the bolt, and acts as a shock absorbing device when the goal hoop is deflected about the fulcrum due to downwardly directed forces applied to the hoop. The shock absorbing device is positioned centrally with respect to the four mounting holes with all parts thereof ahead of the front face of the backboard.
Assignee: Saflex Systems
Inventor: John F. O'Donnell
Flanged bearing mount
Abstract: A bearing mounting member having a first portion adapted to engage and hold a bearing housing, and a second portion in the form of a flange for engaging and being secured to a cooperating support surface, and including an annular groove formed in such second portion for enhancing the strength of such flange and concomitants facilitating the formation of a seal to such support surface.
Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
Assignee: Development Engineering and Associates
Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
Assignee: Safelex Systems
Safety flexure for articulated channel-shaped roadway posts
Abstract: A safety flexure for articulated channel-type roadway posts wherein a resilient member interconnects the upper and lower portions of the post by means of connecting studs substantially complementary in size and shape with the channel portions thereof.
Date of Patent: August 8, 1978


ruthan wrote: I tested Yamaha 744 on GA-Z97P-D3 with loaded DSDMA driver, driver can be loaded, but when i try to test FX i get freeze, also YMHIRQ has some problem - message found and error on next line.. Its no go, or we need some programming..
Tried running Duke Nukem 3D setup? It's usually detects the source of the problem, if it's problems with I/O, IRQ or DMA.
Kamerat wrote: Tried running Duke Nukem 3D setup? It's usually detects the source of the problem, if it's problems with I/O, IRQ or DMA.
I tried Blood one, should i try Duke3D too?
The chipset-dependencies is the strange thing here.
dr.zeissler wrote: The chipset-dependencies is the strange thing here.
There is lots of variables, even board vendor could matter in theory, same as used PCI slot and of course IRQs.Bios settings and drivers.
That Yamaha pure dos FX problem, i still believe that is not working because DSDMA.exe is not loaded, after sound driver.
I have ESS-Solo 1 on the way, multiple ones so probably at least one will work.
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ruthan wrote: I tried Blood one, should i try Duke3D too?
Did it just crash when trying to play samples in Blood setup?
Yeah, no error message, plain freeze before 1st-center sample..
btw. the intel q33 chipset including gam 3100, what are the oldest possible drivers?
I think win9x does not work, therefore i915 should be the latest.
wrong here and it starts with winXP?
In first post i have found this: It (means ESS 1938) works almost flawless on VIA K8T890/VT8237x based motherboards, even on Socket AM2 boards that used the chipset. K8T890 means that VT8251 soughtbridge worked.. and AM2 quite new so i theory it could be better that some Core 2 duo machines.. I did small reasearch and VIa8237 southbridge was used from Socket A years, that is good sign.
Any experience with such boards?
Yeah, I have VT8237S. It's not AM2 platform, but still same southbridge.
ESS Solo-1 is working flawlessly in DOS (7.1), sometime in the future I want to test it with some wavetable board too.
ruthan wrote: In first post i have found this: It (means ESS 1938) works almost flawless on VIA K8T890/VT8237x based motherboards, even on Socket AM2 boards that used the chipset. K8T890 means that VT8251 soughtbridge worked..
No, that board (GA-K8VT890) is using the VT8237R southbridge, but I'll guess the VT8251 would also work fine with the Solo-1.
ruthan wrote: and AM2 quite new so i theory it could be better that some Core 2 duo machines.. I did small reasearch and VIa8237 southbridge was used from Socket A years, that is good sign.
The same southbridges were also used in socket 775 motherboards, some also supporting Core 2 CPUs like the Asus P5VD2-VM SE I got.
Kamerat wrote: No, that board (GA-K8VT890) is using the VT8237R southbridge, but I'll guess the VT8251 would also work fine with the Solo-1.
K8T890 - has VT8251, original author probably wanted to say that K8T890 + others MBs with that VT8237R southbridges are supported.
I'll guess the southbridges are interchangeable, but VIA list the VT8237(R) for the K8T890 on their page.
K8T890 is usually paired with VT8237 series (R/A/S). There's a K8T900 that's to be paired with VT8251.
K8T900 and VT8251 are said to be pin-compatible with K8T890 and VT8237x respectively, so they should be compatible with ES1938.
Sadly, I personally haven't really seen any motherboards actually featuring K8T900/VT8251 pair. However, it seems VT8251 exists in some mATX motherboards like this one.
ruthan wrote: I tested Yamaha 744 on GA-Z97P-D3 with loaded DSDMA driver, driver can be loaded, but when i try to test FX i get freeze, also YMHIRQ has some problem - message found and error on next line..
Hm, in the dump I can see that brirges cascade have enabled the subtractive decode (PCI0->PCI5, PCI5->PCI6, PCI6->Aureal) so I don't know what else could make problem, esp. when it's random - it's bad.
You can try to make PCI dumps before loading the vortex driver for multiple times and compare logs for case when it feeeze and when it didn't freeze to see it there would be any difference. Also, did you try to swap the soundcard to second PCI slot?
RayeR wrote: Hm, in the dump I can see that brirges cascade have enabled the subtractive decode (PCI0->PCI5, PCI5->PCI6, PCI6->Aureal) so I don't know what else could make problem, esp. when it's random - it's bad.
I tried both slots its the same. I wonder how SMB working, is list affected by virtual drivers devices etc.. or its only HW level, because from you post it seems to that it is affected by SW too??
Because its freezing in most of the cases 80% and even when it is working it failing very quickly.. it would be hard to make those logs, it would take lots of time..
I also tried to Aureal V1 with PCI-E to PCI bridge on X58, im not 100% sure that all was connected how it should be (these adapters are clunky), but there is big change that it was.. and when i tried create log with SMB.. i got pc speaker beeping and some strange binary characters on screen freeze.. i now that it is beta, but in all other cases it worked well.
Some board manufacturers included the vt8251 with later IGP models. I believe it was an inexpensive way of bumping up the feature count.
smb /pci use direct IO access to address all devices on PCI bus(es), it doesn't rely on PCI BIOS services. But some drivers may affect PCI devices configuration or enable/disable PCI devices. Hm, beeping speaker and screen garbage - I never seen this. PCI scan should not harm PC at all. But some HW/BIOS/SW combinations just may be unstable.
So far no success with X58 or i865 but it could be driver problem above.
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Serena Williams beats sister Venus, passes Steffi Graf with 23rd Grand Slam title
Posted: 8:32 AM, Jan 28, 2017
MELBOURNE (CNN) -- Serena Williams rewrote tennis history books once again, this time with sister Venus across the net and her fiance Alexis Ohanian watching from the stands.
When Serena beat her older sibling in the Australian Open final 6-4 6-4, she collected a 23rd grand slam title to surpass Steffi Graf for the Open Era lead.
Now she only trails all-time leader Margaret Court by one major and the way she played in Melbourne -- not dropping a set -- Serena, 35, is looking good to achieve that feat later in 2017.
"It's never enough, 23, 24, 25," Serena told the crowd after her win. "I felt like I really elevated my game this year."
As a considerable bonus Saturday evening, Serena also regained the No. 1 ranking from Angelique Kerber. Last year the German upset Serena Williams to win the title.
Serena had her game face on throughout, but the sisters exchanged an extended hug after Serena converted on her first match point in one hour, 22 minutes. The competitors in them took a backseat.
"Your win has always been my win," Venus told the crowd. "All the times I couldn't be there, didn't get there, you were there."
It simply wasn't meant to be for Venus, who appeared to be the crowd favorite at Rod Laver Arena.
At 36, she was the oldest Australian Open finalist in the Open Era. Her celebration after winning in the semifinals is sure to be one of tennis' memorable moments come the end of the long campaign.
Venus had last played in a grand slam final in 2009 at Wimbledon, when Serena once again came out on top. Her career has been slowed after she was diagnosed with autoimmune disorder Sjogren's Syndrome in 2011.
In keeping with their head-to-head record -- Serena now leads 17-11 and 7-2 in grand slam finals -- it was her kid sister who would have the final say in Melbourne.
The sisters have always been close but it was all business, especially from Serena, even before the match -- the oldest grand slam women's final in the Open Era in combined age -- began.
They didn't chat in the tunnel on the way to the court. Venus placed her arm around Serena for the habitual pre-match photo, but Serena kept both hands by her side.
She was clearly focused on the task at hand, perhaps fueled by the fact that in 2016, she lost two of her three grand slam finals. Very unusual.
This didn't turn out to be like their last duel at the US Open in 2015, which was one of the finest matches of the season.
At one stage Serena struck three double faults in one game, and Venus, sporting strapping on one leg, wasn't able to serve in the fashion she did in previous rounds.
Serena also received a warning for smashing her racket in the third game when a net-cord winner went against her.
She, however, earned the pivotal break of the first at 3-3 and broke again in the same game of the second. In that second set Serena's first serve -- which she said hadn't helped her out much of the tournament -- became more of a factor.
She ended up with 10 aces and an impressive 76% points won on first serve.
The crowd wanted a third set and when Venus won a 24-shot rally to get to 15-30 on the Serena serve at 5-4, it may have been coming. Venus though made a pair of unforced errors before Serena forced an error on match point.
She sunk to the ground, before the long embrace.
Later near the locker room Serena exchanged hugs with her team and fiance Ohanian, the Reddit founder. One wondered if parents Oracene Price and Richard Williams -- so instrumental in their daughters' careers -- watched back home in the US.
Their daughters were in another grand slam final, with Serena -- based on what happened in Melbourne -- playing some of her finest tennis.


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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what new proposals and additional resources he plans to allocate to deal with mental ill health and(a) drug use, (b) ethnic minority communities and (c) children and youth; and if he will make a statement. [55804]
§ Jacqui Smith
The mental health national service framework (NSF), published 1999, is a 10-year programme which sets out national standards for mental health. The NHS Plan built on the NSF and provided over £329 million by 2004 to fast forward the NSF and deliver our NHS Plan commitments. Plans for mental ill health are:
(a) drug use—include every health authority area having received a 30 per cent. increase in funding for the drug treatment pool budget for 2002–03 for drug treatment. The national treatment agency for substance misuse are working to reduce drug treatment waiting times around the country to ensure that all drug users who need access to treatment services will receive it. A good practice guide has also been published on dual diagnosis;
(b) ethnic minority communities—a strategy on black and minority ethnic mental health is currently being prepared and will be sent out for consultation later this year; and
(c) children and youth—a strategy for the development of child and adolescent mental health services is on-going with the aim of improving the overall quality and accessibility of local services for children and young people with mental health problems. £85 million has been invested over the last three years across the NHS and local authorities, with each agency receiving funding. A further £20 million is being allocated to local authorities this year.
§ Dr. Gibson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how the increased spending earmarked for mental health has been allocated in the current year. [55628]
The increased funding of £75 million allocated to health authorities in 2002–03, earmarked for mental health, was allocated with baseline health authority allocations. A detailed description how health authority allocations are calculated can be found in the health service circular ref: HSC 2001–024 Health Authority Revenue resource 2002–03.
§ Dr. Kumar
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 29 April 2002,Official Report, column 622W, on mental health, if he will make a statement on the range of initiatives being introduced to address issues of inequalities in access to mental health services for people from Asian, black and minority ethnic groups with special reference to how such initiatives are being developed and implemented; and where and when professionals and members of the public can learn more. [55999]
Addressing inequalities in access for minority ethnic groups is recognised as a crucial issue for mental health services. Consultation documents on the black and minority ethnic mental health and women's mental health strategies will be published later this year.
Following publication of these documents, the Department will be consulting with a wide range of key stakeholders, including service users and carers and representative organisations, to develop final implementation strategies.
The strategies will be placed on the Department's website when published.
Also, to assist implementation of mental health policy the National Institute for Mental Health for England (NIMHE) will develop targeted programmes aimed at assisting change within service and improving access to services. NIMHE will disseminate good practice and create and share developing evidence through its research development centres.
§ Mr. Heald
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of the primary care mental health workers he intends to recruit will work in children's and adolescents' services; and if he will make a statement setting out his plans for the recruitment of extra primary care mental health workers for children and adolescents [56323]
[holding answer 14 May 2002]The NHS Plan said that by 2004 "one thousand new graduate primary care mental health workers trained in brief therapy techniques of proven effectiveness will be employed to help general practitioners manage and treat common mental health problems in all age groups, including children". Additional financial resources for their appointment are planned for next year. This year we are concentrating on the establishment of training programmes to support them.
Last year the NHS Modernisation Fund allocated million of targeted funding to improve child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) at primary care level (which could include the recruitment of primary care mental health workers) in accordance with the national CAMHS development strategy. Preliminary results from Departmentally-commissioned research into CAMHS in Primary Care indicate that one third of provider trusts have already developed primary mental health worker posts and one quarter had plans to do so.
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The reigning champions travel to Regenboogstadion high on confidence after beating Anderlecht in the season derby last weekend at Jan Breydelstadion.
Emmanuel Dennis and Hans Vanaken notched goals for Blauw-Zwart to keep them level with Genk at the very top of the First Division A ladder with 13 points after five rounds.
The match with the champions and current table-toppers comes in the worst possible moment for the hosts who have suffered back-to-back defeats to Cercle Brugge nd KV Oostende in last two rounds.
To make things worse for Francky Dury, his men revealed a number of holes at the back allowing three goals in each of the mentioned losses.
That's certainly not the kind of form you want to have ahead of the clash with the strongest attacking line in the country.
We could be in for a high-scoring thriller in the first game of the new Matchday judging by the most recent head to head history.
Each of last six H2H games saw three or more goals scored, while both teams found the back of the net in all of past five meetings.
Club Brugge were much more successful in the process, winning five and drawing one of these six matches.
Given that Vossen & company will be up against the struggling defensive line of Zulte-Waregem's here, it's really hard to predict anything else but the comfortable aw2ay victory.
The head to head trend also suggests a host of goals in Zulte's net as Cub Brugge Over 1.5 Team Goals looks to be a banker bet at the 1.83 odds.
Since each of last five head to head outings saw goals at both ends, we have to try with the away win & BTTS at 3.75 odds.
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Q: Mixing augmented and original samples using tf.data.Dataset.map() As far as I understood from tensor flow documentation map is used to modify the image based on the function parse_function_wrapper.
dataset = dataset.map(parse_function_wrapper,
                  num_parallel_calls=4)
dataset = dataset.batch(32)

Now the dataset will have only the augmented images does not have the original images. So my doubt here is we need to train our model with original data as well as augmented data. Can anyone tell me how to train with the original data also?

A: I see two simple solutions:
1) Keep the original dataset and the augmented one, then zip them, flat_map and shuffle:
augmented = dataset.map(parse_function_wrapper,
                  num_parallel_calls=4)
mixed_dataset = (tf.data.Dataset.zip([dataset, augmented])
                 .flat_map(lambda x: x)
                 .shuffle(BUFFER_SIZE)) # use an appropriate buffer size

2) Make parse_function_wrapper stochastic by applying augmentation with probability p < 1 and returning the unmodified input with probability 1-p. This, plus repeating your dataset, obtains a similar effect to the previous solution, but it's logically simpler to understand. Moreover, this way you can control much better the ratio of augmented vs original samples in your training dataset, since you can explicitly set what percentage of the "mixed" dataset should be augmented data.

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Fox World Travel is pleased to announce the addition of Sam Hilgendorf as Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this role, Hilgendorf will oversee the Fox World Travel Information Technology (IT), Application & Product Development, Travel Technology, and Data Analytics teams.
With over 20 years of experience in the IT and professional services industry, Hilgendorf has a broad understanding of today's technology landscape. He also possesses an intense focus on creating a positive customer experience, which is perfectly inline with Fox World Travel's customer-centric approach.
Most recently, Hilgendorf served as Vice President of Advanced Services for OneNeck IT Solutions. His team was accountable for the design and implementation of customer on-premise IT solutions along with cloud migration services. Under his guidance, the team went through a significant transformation, substantially improving their profit margin in under two years. Previously, he was Senior Manager of Professional Services at CDW with accountability for the services portfolio for the Great Plains region and for the Services Product Development Team.
Fox World Travel is proud to announce the promotion of Jeremy Dyken. In his new role as Director of Application & Product Development, Dyken will continue to oversee and develop innovative, intuitive and intelligent projects with his two decades of technology experience.
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Don't ditch your latest product or service, only because your ads aren't converting to sales! What if it has nothing to do with your offer and everything to do with how you talk about it? Or who sees it?
In this episode I'm taking you through the step-by-step process for what to pay attention to in your marketing and your funnels. There are 3 factors; I'm diving into them in order of importance (and pssst… changing your offer is the very last one!).
[9:02] This happens to the Big Names, too!
In this episode, I'm going to talk about the three factors that you should always be or will always be paying attention [to] when you market your sales funnels. Whenever something is or isn't working with your marketing, these are the three main things … And I put them in order of importance, basically, of what usually is wrong with your Facebook ads or funnels. We usually start … Because we run ads for clients, we start the with ads, and this is where you start, because the ad is usually the front part of your funnel and the first thing people see.
The first thing to pay attention to and really hone in is your messaging. And this is most of the time what people have not given enough time and effort to testing … different ways to test their messaging … that they either jump to that it's something else or they give up too soon. And most of the time, it is your messaging. It takes a while to really understand messaging and hit messaging in the right deep, emotionally-connecting level with your ideal client.
When we are looking at this for the ads, we look at the messaging, and we pull up the ad, as if we are the lead. First of all, our client goes through an extensive strategy session with me, where we really pull out and make sure there's a deep understanding of who their ideal client is. And we pull my creative team into this, where my copywriter will get on … my head of the creative team … will get on a call with the client and really understand, on a deep level, those emotional pain points with their customer.
Normally there's a few different angles that you could go. Think of a chart … I've talked about this in other podcast episodes … think of a chart, if you were to list 4-5 different pain points, or problems people have, or angles that you can even go at. You could even go as far as saying, "We could target health people, or [people] having health issues, or we could be targeting people with time issues" … different angles basically. And you build that out, and then you build the messaging around that. It's so, so crucial that you are able to really connect with people on a deep level, emotionally, from the start of the ad. The webinar, yes, but the ad matters here, because this needs to stand out.
A lot of times, when something is not converting, it is the messaging, and that's the first thing that we try and fix, and troubleshoot, and test. We're usually putting … We start with two or three creative versions, and if it doesn't convert, we keep on putting new creative versions out there until we get something to convert. So that's the first thing to look at and really, truly understand, and in your ads and your entire funnel and your webinar and all of it, is the messaging.
Then the next thing to pay attention to is the actual targeting. So when we're testing ads, first we look at the messaging … and especially for us, because we have so many clients that we know what audiences do and don't work. If you're running your own ads, obviously you have to do a lot more testing, because you don't have this background information about "Here's the Top 10 audiences in the coaching industry," like we do. So you have to do a lot more testing with your targeting. But, for us, we're like, we know that Marie Forleo is a top audience in the business-to-business entrepreneur space, and so if it's not converting at all or barely getting any clicks on the ads, it's the messaging. But there are audiences that work better than others and lookalike audiences, and here, with targeting, it's either that, if your ads aren't working, the targeting is wrong, or you haven't tested enough different targeting options and put enough of a net out there to try and get something to work, especially with things like lookalike audiences.
Really leverage that data and try and grab all possible lookalike audience options that you could, and make sure … Between the messaging and the targeting, you will have a lot of ad sets that you're testing, and that's where you start. If something isn't working, or even if something is working and you want to optimize it, that's also an option.
Those are the two main things. Usually, that's what's wrong.
The third factor that you have to pay attention to is the actual offer. And I don't just mean the end product offer, because yes, that obviously matters with sales, but it could even be as simple as, "This PDF we're trying to offer, this opt-in, is not what people actually want, and we were totally off mark with this," or "This webinar topic and title is not what people are wanting, it's not going to convince them to come for an hour to this webinar, and we were off with this," as well.
Once you do extensive testing with the messaging and the targeting on Facebook and in your ad strategy, and you've really exhausted what you think is all [the] options, then you can move to the offer, and then you can look at that. And sometimes that is the issue. And sometimes, the other thing people do is, they feel like, "Well, we'll just keep on throwing things out there on Facebook," when it's actually the offer.
The important thing to remember here is, sometimes people get caught up in like, "Oh, I'm giving a free PDF, and it's free, so why does it matter?" But especially if you are targeting the business-to-business space, but really anyone … people value their time, they value their email, they value what they sign up for … even down to your PDF basic checklist. They need to have a promise. What is somebody going to get out of downloading that? Like, what are they going to get out of downloading that? What micro-problem is it going to solve for them if they download this checklist or they attend your webinar? Whatever that is, you need to actually know what your promise is, and your problem that you're solving on a small level is, for even just your opt-in. And if you haven't clearly defined that … or in the flip side, if it doesn't solve a problem big enough, if the problem is not big enough … then it's your offer.
You can pull these three things, and you can say, "Let's look at our Facebook ads. Is it the messaging, the targeting, or the offer that's making the ads not work? Let's look at our webinar. Is it the messaging, the targeting, or the offer that's not working? Let's look at our sales page, at our emails … all of these factors." Normally, it fits in one of those categories, why something is not working. Analyze all the stats, and just … Where are people dropping off? A lot of times, it is starting with the Facebook ads that it's not working. We start there. We say, "Is it the messaging, the targeting, or what we're actually sending people to in the Facebook ads that's the problem?" We solve that, we get people in the funnel, and then we analyze the next step. Maybe the next step's working. Maybe once we've solved that, it's working. Maybe it's not.
It's one of these three things always, and this is what you always have to pay attention to, because with anything you do, if there's a gap, it's going to be one of these three things. And I believe that 75% of the time, it's the messaging. It's very little the targeting, especially if you're smart about it and you use standard audiences and lookalike audiences. It's just a matter of testing enough. And maybe another 25%, 20% of the time, it's the offer.
You're going to put out things that don't work as well as other things. And even the more and more successful entrepreneurs … this still happens to big entrepreneurs. The more you connect with your ideal audience, the more you know what they want and the less that this will happen. But this still happens, and you have to be willing to look at it and shift gears and listen to that advice, to be able to move fast enough to get the results.
If you enjoyed this episode, and if you would like somebody to come in and help you do your done-for-you ads or sales funnels and work with my team, if you go to HelpMyStrategy.com, you can book in a call with the Hirsh team. Thanks so much for listening today.


Whether you are looking to purchase the appliances for a brand new kitchen, are remodeling your kitchen, or you just think it's time to replace your old appliances, you might be wondering how you can get the best deals. After all, you might be looking forward to having nice, new appliances, but you might be concerned that they will be too expensive. Luckily, following these tips can help you save big money on the major appliances for this part of your home.
Unless you're absolutely in love with the look, you may want to consider bypassing stainless steel and choosing black or white appliances instead. Stainless steel appliances are often more expensive than the exact same model in black or white, which can really drive up the cost, particularly if you are buying multiple appliances at once. Additionally, many people find that stainless steel appliances are difficult to keep clean and that they have to purchase expensive stainless steel cleaner in order to get the job done. If you choose black or white kitchen appliances instead, you can save yourself a lot of money and a whole lot of cleanup work.
It might seem easier on your budget to buy one appliance at a time, but in many cases, you can score a discount if you buy a "bundle" of kitchen appliances from one manufacturer and one line. Not only can this save you a ton of money, but it can also simplify the process of choosing good appliances that will look good alongside one another in the kitchen.
Nowadays, many modern appliances are designed to conserve energy as much as possible while still making kitchen chores much more convenient for homeowners. By shopping around and looking for EnergyStar-rated appliances that are designed to conserve energy, you can save money in the future. In the meantime, you may qualify for a rebate for buying eco-friendly appliances, which can help make the cost of buying new appliances a little less overwhelming.
As you can see, there are a few ways that you can save money on appliances for your kitchen. If you are ready to buy new appliances but don't want to spend a fortune on them, consider giving these three tips a try. Then, you might just find that it's more affordable than you thought it would be to outfit your entire kitchen.


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Torre dei Gualandi (også kendt som Torre della Muda) er et tidligere tårn i Pisa i Toscana i det centrale Italien. Det er i dag inkluderet i Palazzo dell'Orologio.

Det er placeret i den nordlige ende af Piazza dei Cavalieri. Tårnet lå i den østlige del af den nuværende bygning.
Gualandi var navnet på den familie, der ejede tårnet i 1300-tallet.

Ugolino della Gherardesca, hans sønner og børnebørn blev muret inde i tårnet og sultede ihjel i 1200-tallet. Dante skrev om Gherardesca i Den guddommelige Komedie.

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 Ugolino della Gherardesca

Eksterne henvisninger
 https://web.archive.org/web/20060720081434/http://www.sns.it/en/scuola/luoghi/palazzodellorologio/
 http://www.comune.pisa.it/turismo/itinerari/1itinerario-gb.htm
 https://web.archive.org/web/20061110050809/http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/ltpisa/ltparticles/ltp%20rapid%201948/ltp%20rapid%201948.htm
 http://www.pisaonline.it/ulisse/eng/manoscritti.htm

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