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Freitag, 13. April 2007

So Google 411 ain't just a HashMap ... wow.

2007-04-13-goo411

Charles Murray: Jewish Genius

Recommended (weekend) reading. Arts & Letters Daily's lead:^* "Jewish accomplishments in the arts and sciences as well as Jewish IQ are subjects many Jews prefer to be quiet about. So here is a Scots-Irish Gentile from Iowa to tell the story..."

Murray is not just any Scots-Irish Gentile from Iowa, tho, but co-author of the highly controversial The Bell Curve. You might want to get some context & prepare an appropriately sized grain of salt; Bell Curve criticisms probably apply to Jewish Genius as well.

^* Oh, those leads ... elevated to an art form.

2007-04-13-jewishGenius

Very long, very good November 2005 interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt; uncut.

"So I project that everything I've just told you is going to break down."

The two Googles: "It's relatively easy to see how to manage international sales because sales is organized pretty much hierarchically. You have a country manager and you have somebody who runs all of Europe and somebody who runs Japan, somebody runs Asia, and we have that, and that's traditional. / Engineering, however, is done in this odd consensus way, right, unusual, and it's never been done with the kind of engineering, international engineering scale that we're proposing."

"I know this sounds really stupid but intellectuals, and I'm an intellectual, tend to sort of wander, right. Whereas the rule in the jet is if you see it, call it, because we don't have time. Jet flying is all about lack of time."

2007-04-13-gooVista

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