I have a hard time believing this. The correlations they point out aren't enough to support the conclusions they're drawing. While it makes sense that evolution would select against brains that are too large to pass through the birth canal, shorter gestation is just one of multiple adaptations that could address this.
Anecdotally, my sister and I had pretty straightforward births but my younger brother had a devil of a time getting out. He did seem to get the lion's share of the attention but I always chalked that up to him being the last in line and also my parents actually having the time/money to spend.
You got the point, we have an oversized brain size compared to our body, so we have to get birth early to pass through the birth canal.
If you take the brain size (compared to the body) as proxy for intelligence of course bigger brain imply early birth. Now, does a bigger brain mean more intelligence?
Agreed though I find that as a professional I'm not as motivated to see side-projects through to completion because I'd rather spend my free time doing other things.
They are both great platforms. The Pi can in theory do everything an Arduino can while also allowing access to a full Linux based OS (or RISC, but I can't comment on that). If you were limited to just one, I'd say to get the Pi just because you can do more with it. The Pi is also better if you're more interested in the software side of things.
In my opinion the Arduino is a bit more mature overall and has better tutorials for beginners starting out in electronics. You can also use it with Windows or OSX if Linux isn't your thing. Even if your long term goal is to do electronics on the Raspberry Pi, I'd recommend getting an Arduino to learn on because it is simpler and doesn't require Linux knowledge.
Yes this is what I was wondering. Some brief searching on similar devices suggests it's a combination of precise sensors and algorithms to tie everything together.
I wish the article had explained how the individual regions on the map are determined. It probably has to do with how the searches are geo-located but it seems like it could've skewed the results for some places.
I discovered Microcorruption thanks to another HN post and I love it. It's one thing to read about things like buffer overruns and stack smashing, but another thing entirely to do them yourself.
No matter how many times I encounter this it never ceases to amaze me. Maybe it's because I played these games growing up, or maybe it's just my interest in low level bit twiddling like this, but probably a bit of both. The process he uses to figure it all out is just as impressive as the hack itself.
