Posted on 10/29/2010 3:44:39 PM PDT by bcafrotc
How do we explain the current sorry spectacle of a highly intelligent president who repeatedly makes bad choices and decisions? Make no mistake about it – President Obama has done just that. Ever pause and wonder how ostensibly perspicacious individuals can show remarkable errors in judgment? History is filled with people like this, proving repeatedly intelligence is no guarantee of good judgment and decision-making. Why?
In the 1980s, American aerodynamicists faced a conundrum: How did the USSR, using comparatively rudimentary computers and without CAD/CAM, nonetheless closely match America's best fighter designs? The answer, not immediately obvious, was that Soviet programmers simply wrote better software – using far fewer lines of code, easily handled by their slower computers. The key was in the programming, the software – it was at least as important as the super-fast computational power of our defense industry's ubiquitous super computers.
How does this explain a highly intelligent individual making manifestly bad decisions? The answer derives from the basic computer science of a hypothetical personal computer. Optimizing its design, we introduce the fastest and most capable CPU; next, abundant RAM and hard-drive capacity. Now the important stuff: the data and then, of course, the software. There it is again, the software – without which all that proceeds can be next to useless.
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BINGO!
Idiot Savant BSer DOES NOT = intelligence.
There. Fixed it.
How did the USSR, using comparatively rudimentary computers and without CAD/CAM, nonetheless closely match America's best fighter designs? The answer, not immediately obvious...is that the USSR had a network of spies that was far beyond anything previously known. There were three or four moles in the Manhattan Project who passed to the USSR the information it needed to catch up with the US nuclear weapons program.
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