Comments on: Male & female rotation

By: Hirsch

Hirsch — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:41:37 +0000

It states that having boys/girls is an inherited trait. If your father had lots of boys, chances are that you will too if you are a man.

If the womb is acidic, female sperms wins( stronger yet slower).

By: wongba

wongba — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:09:21 +0000

"My new PC comes with a separate graphics card with a 3-d graphics chip so enormous that it has its own fan to keep it from melting down from all the heat it generates."

welcome to the 3d graphics world... of 10 years ago. apparently u aren't much of a gamer. the gpus of today handle physics calcs too. but the two are beginning to converge as cpus get more cores and gpus become more generally programmable.

but, i'm not sure that visual processing in ppl is really all that similar to graphics processing. the gpu is running algorithms designed to output colored pixels on a monitor. the visual part of the brain is running algorithms to interpret incoming visual data. gpus are doing almost the opposite of what the visual brain is doing. maybe they could do the same thing if given the correct algorithms, but even then i'm not sure the gpu architecture would be very optimized for the task. would the brain's architecture look the same if it was designed to output information instead of interpret it?

this is however speculation. someone familiar w/ neuro-architecture feel free to debunk me.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:48:16 +0000

Lord, I hate that shitty scientific English. How about “The surface area of the parietal lobe is greater in men than in women”? If you find “greater” rather archaic, replace it by “bigger”.

By: Steve Sailer

Steve Sailer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:24:24 +0000

My new PC comes with a separate graphics card with a 3-d graphics chip so enormous that it has its own fan to keep it from melting down from all the heat it generates.

On the other hand, Dell didn't even offer a separate sound card because sound processing can be done superbly just using the main CPU.

So, if the human brain is at all like a modern PC, then strong 3-d visual processing is likely to take up a sizable volume of brain.

By: chemdude

chemdude — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:14:53 +0000

This is a bit off the topic, but did anyone see this article? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211121835.htm

It states that having boys/girls is an inherited trait. If your father had lots of boys, chances are that you will too if you are a man. This makes sense if some people have genes that would be comparitively advantageous in either males or females (like 3d visualization for males or beauty for females). It has already been shown that attractive parents are more likely to have daughters.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/MES/pdf/JTB2007.pdf