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To: Scumbria who wrote (125620)10/10/2000 12:01:24 PM
From: jcholewa  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570133
 
OT, Re: schooling and capacity for intellect

> Einstein had poor grades, but that was not necessarily indicative of a poor understanding of technology issues

You know, being a person of reasonable intellect who happens to have gotten his ass kicked in college (in terms of grades), I get insulted whenever somebody tries to link educational prowess with intelligence.

Personally, I identify good grades with either inhuman study skills on the order of Vernor Vinge's "focused" people from "A Deepness In the Sky" or with borderline immoral and very aggressive maneuvering amongst class material. In my stay at college, those two groups constituted the vast majority of the people whom I observed attaining high grades.

So, pbbbllltt!

-JC



To: Scumbria who wrote (125620)10/10/2000 11:06:34 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 1570133
 
Scubmria,

Haw was the AMD presentation at microprocessor forum? Were you able to attend?

Joe

PS: OT

Einstein had poor grades

Sorry that I have to break it to you, but Al Gore is no Einstein.