aardvark
1yr ago
What are you talking about? Pz 3&4 were worse than T-34 and they were unable to penetrate armor of KV-1 heavy tanks, Germany started to use heavy tanks noticeably later and in small quantities because they were overengineered. The only thing better was radios, and that every tank was equipped with it rather than select ones (in Soviets).
Americans didn't need to put much effort in tanks because tanks weren't useful in terrain where they fought Japanese.
aardvark
1yr ago
Nope, it doesn't.
Suppose (numbers random for sake of example)
QoL depends on phenotypic IQ & how good government is. Phenotypic IQ depends on genetic IQ and QOL.
PIQ = GIQ + QOL
QOL = 0.3 * PIQ + 0.7 * government quality
Yes government seems more important looking at coefficient, but ultimately government is function of genetic IQ too, just in more complex and indirect way.
aardvark
1yr ago
No they claim that racial purity
HBD advocates claim that if you mix two populations of same size, IQ of mix would be very close to average of these ancestral populations. Don't they? What does this have to do with racial purity?
aardvark
1yr ago
The implied point is that given same IQ, poverty is advantage for math contests.
Math is low, very low status.
America-born individuals very much prefer going into positions where they can exploit value of labor by foreign-born high IQ individuals. They don't need math.
aardvark
1yr ago
and assassinates people near Moscow
Did you miss that part that a lot of Ukrainians live in Russia, and Ukrainians still can enter Russia without a visa, while Baltic sea isn't full of Ukrainians boats/subs?
aardvark
1yr ago
Spending all day is cruel, executioners should unionize and limit it to 8-hour work shifts.
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They probably got paid, and maybe even explained why their work is important.
aardvark
1yr ago
no, i thought about the one making a big fuss on 'determination'. Undertale
aardvark
1yr ago
I heard some people migrate between hemispheres to be in summer all the time
aardvark
1yr ago
Has someone generated ML sets of pictures to play Dixit/Imaginaium, or something in that direction?
Btw, the meatspace game is unnecessarily long with operating cards.
aardvark
1yr ago
You can print source code on paper. Some programming contests allow it (those where team of 3 has only 1 computer but can use printer).
aardvark
1yr ago
I have issues as well, but then I also grew to hate programming.
You can use nicotine in plaster form ah I see you already have a solution.
aardvark
1yr ago
Don't think "small" in modern population size or modern area of country, think population share at the time when the events happened. In 19th century, Africa was less populated than Europe and was growing at slower rate.
aardvark
1yr ago
With all that progress in machine learning, WHEN will be we able to upscale frame rate of old animes from effective 5-8 fps to 60 fps?
Early pre-neural network attempt (SVP) is about as effective as nil, older DAIN still leaves a lot to be desired.
aardvark
1yr ago
Chess is a lot less in a sense that very crude algorithm which evaluates trees is enough to beat an average human, because of low branching quotient and it's a perfect information game. Games with incomplete information require more complex AI.
Sorry, what? Mass production of guns is what enables mass armies, it's a lot faster to learn to use gun than sword or bow (which required life dedication to efficiently use).
Completely lopsided kill ratios existed well before Maxium gun. Historically horses chariots were a big game changer too. Battle of Otumba, etc.
that's both unkind and untrue. The Soviets had numerical advantage but not that much. 170 million USSR in 1939 vs 80 million Third Reich (and what if you count only ethnic Russians)? . Considering how much better was German war machine than Soviet (in part, because of Stalin cleansed nearly all military leadership and officers) it wasn't impossible target.
For country of 1.5 billion, they do have a shortage.
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