The wisdom of crowds

It is incredible to me that a group of people can find the answer to a nearly impossible question, without consulting each other, and simply by averaging their reponses. Its like this, if you ask a group of people to run 100km, their average time will not be faster than those of the fastest runners, it will be quite mediocre in fact. But if you ask a group of people to solve a problem, the solution they come up with, when you average the aggregate of their responses, will be (normally) far more accurate than the response of the smartest person in the group. Its amazing to me, but I'm just one guy, not a hyper-intelligent group of people.

trolls...?

just learned about internet trolls, and just what exactly it is they do. why would a person want to disrupt a bunch of people talking about something as menial and insignificant as wedding dresses or motorcycle preferences? I think it hilarious that some idiots can't stand to let a Usenet group have a conversation about whatever it is they choose to talk. so are they Trolls? definitely. And they definitely all seem to be living under a bridge... or their mothers' basements.

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link to my ta

tanes' blog link

My first blog post. woo hoo

Sweet, so now i have a blog.