This has possibilities for me...
Principia Brookmatics
Russell had reduced mathematics to logic. He knew a little about both.
So, Brooks says that baseball is exponential. He is describing, but also reducing, baseball in this sense to exponentiality in mathematics.
Brooks knows nothing about either.
Brooks says soccer is logarithmic. He is describing, but also reducing, soccer to logarithmic theory in mathematics.
Once again, he knows nothing about either.
Presumably, he would give much the same analysis, of reducibility and contrast, between, say, cricket and rugby....
He likes to talk about mathematical curve functions in this article too. Changes in the curve function, different phases of a learning curve, things like that. Wonder what he knows about these?
Maybe we can ask Brooks to analyze the statistical distributions in, say, The Bell Curve, and the theory behind it, some time? Is human intelligence logarithmic, exponentialistic, or what, whatever that may mean to him? Presumably it will mean something. Who knows, maybe he already has!
The Bell Curve lurks somewhere behind the learning curve.
Here you go:
Re Brooks' article: The Great Divorce, Jan 30, 2012
He recommends jamming the top 20% and the lower 30% together...a national service program!
This is not a bad an idea, in itself, but our political, and social, system has never been set up to accomodate such an initiative.
Under what I have described as a redevelopmental Marshall type plan for the US, such a program might be feasible.
His remarks, on the wrongness of both parties' views of the problems of America, while perhaps containing a grain of truth, do not get very far in explaining anything to anyone.
Blaming the liberal top 20% for wrongly blaming the top 1% only confuses the issue, because both liberals and conservatives are in the top 1%.
Brooks wants to get away from blaming both parties together. That would start to get at the truth. He still wants to blame mostly the Democrats of the top 20%, and not address the real problem. That is safe, and that is the story.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/1/31/1060220/-
He likes to talk about mathematical curve functions in this article too. Changes in the curve function, different phases of a learning curve, things like that. Wonder what he knows about these?
Maybe we can ask Brooks to analyze the statistical distributions in, say, The Bell Curve, and the theory behind it, some time? Is human intelligence logarithmic, exponentialistic, or what, whatever that may mean to him? Presumably it will mean something. Who knows, maybe he already has!
The Bell Curve lurks somewhere behind the learning curve.
Here you go:
Re Brooks' article: The Great Divorce, Jan 30, 2012
He recommends jamming the top 20% and the lower 30% together...a national service program!
This is not a bad an idea, in itself, but our political, and social, system has never been set up to accomodate such an initiative.
Under what I have described as a redevelopmental Marshall type plan for the US, such a program might be feasible.
His remarks, on the wrongness of both parties' views of the problems of America, while perhaps containing a grain of truth, do not get very far in explaining anything to anyone.
Blaming the liberal top 20% for wrongly blaming the top 1% only confuses the issue, because both liberals and conservatives are in the top 1%.
Brooks wants to get away from blaming both parties together. That would start to get at the truth. He still wants to blame mostly the Democrats of the top 20%, and not address the real problem. That is safe, and that is the story.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/1/31/1060220/-
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