Are better singers smarter?

Are better singers smarter?

A simple restatement of the developmental stress hypothesis is that certain attributes of bird song are honest indicators of sig-naler quality because of their developmental costs. Spencer and

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Better Security via Smarter Devices

This white paper promotes a new approach to network security in which each individual device erects its own security perimeter and defends its own critical resources (e.g., network link or storage media). Together with conventional border defenses, such self-securing devices could provide a flexible infrastructure for dynamic prevention, detection, diagnosis, isolation, and repair of successful...

The Skill Paradox : Is Smarter Always Better ?

In the matter of investment forecasting skill it is often supposed that more is automatically preferable to less. In other words, the marginal utility of improving one’s forecasting accuracy is monotonically positive. However it is also commonly believed that large scale speculative capital flows (presumably driven by skilled investors) are a major contributor to financial market volatility. Th...

Spammers Are Becoming "Smarter" on Twitter

T witter has become one of the most commonly used communication tools in daily life. With 500 million users, Twitter now generates more than 500 million tweets per day. However, its popularity has also attracted spamming. Spammers spread many intensive tweets, which can lure legitimate users to commercial or malicious sites containing malware downloads, phishing, drug sales, scams, and more.1 S...