Jun 23, 2010

Do you have 'Raw Intelligence'?


Stepped on this term 'Raw Intelligence' while browsing a job requirement. Pretty attractive term. A little bit of googling has the following definitions posted by real humans:

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is supposed to describe an individual's ability to grasp abstract concepts, recognize patterns, apply prior knowledge to novel situations, things like that.
basically, it is the kind of intelligence that you can't really teach. you can teach someone a lot of facts, and if they have good memory and recall they can be a human encyclopaedia, but that isn't "raw intelligence".
 i think it's a stupid way to think of it though
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you can't be taught how to do those kinds of problems, you just need to be able to recognize the pattern. the ability to do so is what people are calling 'raw intelligence'.all it is is a way for educators to think about the flaws in the standardized assessment protocol. they say that not everybody is book smart (lots of knowledge), but that doesn't mean that they aren't intelligent in other ways. they come up with all these other kinds of things and label them as intelligence and the whole thing is completely unscientific and abhorrent
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It's supposed to mean the REAL intelligence of someone, untainted by the methodology behind any kind of testing.
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1. Complex Pattern Identification.
2. Simple Pattern Identification.
3. Inductive Thinking.
4. Conductive Thinking.
5. Language Skills.
6. Attention Span.
7. Retention.
8. Categorization.
9. Association.
10. Recognition.
11. Spatial Understanding.
12. Mental Speed.
13. Emotional understanding and identification.
14. Spatial Awarenes.
15. Reading Comprehension.
16. Being able to solve problems over multiple mediums (language, math, symbolic).
17. Mathematic Creativity
18. Linguistic Creativity
19. Artistic Creativity
20. Inventive Creativity (ingenuity)
21. Persuasion.The list goes on and on. Really, intelligence is a broad spectrum.
I bolded the ones which I feel are most likely to make a person IDENTIFIABLE as intelligent to others through normal interaction
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Raw intelligence is processing speed, abstract and creative thought (which lends to higher maths and problem solving), and the ability to create associations through learning which are applicable.

Jun 2, 2010

Have you used a wiki in your project or group?

I am big fan of Wiki. I have used it in a project in the past. Zero documents. Everything goes into Wiki. Use cases, Func requirements, Wireframes, Screen mocks, UI guidelines, Coding guidelines, Milestones.. love it!! But, few companies i have know dares to venture to that extent.

Found this discussion on using Wiki in projects and was reminiscing the good ol days.

Have you used a wiki in your project or group? - Stack Overflow

.NET 4 Web Application Startup Time

Scott Hanselman has some stats on performance improvements that come with .NET 4.0 for server based systems. Checkout the url.
Scott Hanselman - .NET 4 Web Application Startup Time