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"What we see is that the early part of the record has been adjusted downward (cooler) by over half a degree F"

If you're interested in learning more, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives a weekly(ish) live stream via instagram to bring a lot more climate studies knowledge to the masses; here's one from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Anecdotally, this summer has been the coolest and wettest I can remember in at least 60 years or more. The average first frost date is November 4th. We had a hard freeze of 27F three weeks early, which followed a 5" snow on Oct 14th. Elephants and Giraffe in Africa are wading through 10" of a late spring snow. While claiming such snow falls are common the news media are still making a big deal of it, so it must not be as common as some claim. How many times in the past have you seen photos of elephants in Africa wading through deep snow?
https://www.msn.com/en-za/trav...

And, why would he pay of the "winner" had the advantage of being supported by fudged data?

https://realclimatescience.com...

https://science.house.gov/news...

https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

AGW is all about dialectical materialism: the transfer of wealth from the West to Marxist countries via "Carbon Credits", which made Al Gore a millionaire.
http://variable-variability.bl...

... But one must explicitly say: We de facto redistribute the world’s wealth due to climate politics. That the owners of coal and oil are not enthusiastic about this is obvious. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate politics is environmental politics . This has almost nothing to do any more with environmental politics, ...

IOW, Climate Change is used by Globalists to justify their push toward Marxist "solutions" to all problems. They have their "Arm and Hammer" and they see every problem as a nail requiring hits from their hammer.

Is this temperature graph showing the temperature data before or after NOAA's retroactive 'corrections' to the temperature record? It's curious that all the corrections make historical temperatures colder and recent temperatures warmer. Almost as if they needed to fudge the data so that the 'global warming crisis' wouldn't fizzle out in the face of lack of evidence.

At 3840x2160, the jagged edges of fonts are almost gone. I can still see them but at such a low level that it is almost subconscious. A doubling of resolution should make that all go away PERMANENTLY.

Jagged font edges can be "fixed" by anti-aliasing. Your brain is incredibly good at making up details that aren't there if it helps it make better sense of what it's seeing. So if it sees what looks like the smooth curve of the letter O, then it will see a smooth curve even if it's actually made up of different-brightness dots. The illusion is only broken when other info (non-aliased pixels) makes it obvious that the curve isn't smooth.

If you don't believe anti-aliasing fixes it, then prepare to have your mind blown. Every TV image you've seen has been displayed at non-native resolution. When you watch a 1920x1080 TV, you're actually only seeing about 1890x1060 pixels. For obscure historical reasons, TVs overscan the video image. So if a show is recorded at 1920x1080, the image that's displayed on your 19201080 TV is actually a crop of the center portion of the original image, enlarged to fit the 1920x1080 pixels of your TV screen. That breaks the 1:1 correspondence between image pixels and display pixels. But it's fixed by anti-aliasing. Usually bicubic interpolation, although lately Lanczos has been becoming more popular (it's more processor intensive, but processing power is cheap nowadays). So every TV image you've seen since we moved to digital TVs has had jaggies, they're just hidden from view by good anti-aliasing.

The real problem with modern displays is that the pixels are square. Pixels aren't supposed to be square. They're supposed to represent an infinitesimally small point, so the most accurate representation is a round blob called a point spread function. Brightest (greatest representation of the pixel's color) in the center, with the edges fading out (color info mixing with that of adjacent pixels). This is actually how the old CRT monitors and TVs displayed pixels, which is why you could use them to display any screen resolution.

But modern displays typically use a LCD grid with fixed-sized square pixels. Those squares add nonexistent information to each pixel (the sharp edges and the corners). This extraneous information makes the display appear sharper when displaying perfectly vertical or horizontal lines. But that sharpness is an illusion, and you pay the price in jaggies whenever displaying anything that's not perfectly vertical or horizontal. It also doesn't work when the underlying pixel grid of the image doesn't fall exactly on the physical pixel grid of the monitor. Which is why LCD monitors look fuzzy when displaying a non-native resolution which isn't divided by an integer multiple (which are the only resolutions which maintain the correspondence between image pixel edges and display pixel edges).

Anti-aliasing can help, but it's just a band-aid rather than a real fix. Moving to higher resolutions makes the band-aid less noticeable, and from a technical standpoint may be easier than a true fix (which I'm not sure can even be done with LCDs or even OLEDs). I use a 1080p projector to display a 150" image. And the reason I'm anxious to move up to a 4k projector is that I can actually see the pixel grid. It's easy to zone out and ignore it when watching a movie, but every now and then I notice it and it becomes annoying.

Let us blame DONALD TRUMP for the steelz of DEC designs. The RUSSIANS did it and then used the designs to literally hack into Americans' minds and MAKE them vote for Donald Trump.
 
How did I do on my BeauHD impression?
 
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https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/c...

Here you go.

The relativistic hydrogen atom.

Better pay more attention in class kid.

No, not when we can't audit the process of reinterpreting old data downward.
Also, I don't trust the team doing the work.

You're wrong of course. Hispanic immigration is not some special event that defies all historic precedent in the US.

Companies are spending a lot of time and money trying to tap into this changing demographic

http://hmc.comm.fsu.edu/blog/d...

And Hispanics even start becoming criminals at the same rate as any other American when they start to acculturate

http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...

Just to put out a few examples of what should be obvious.

Maybe you should consider that what you're suggesting has been widely suggested of every wave of immigrant to the US and each time it was proven wrong. Evey time they said "this time we're right!"

Don't worry, deniers. With 2015's El Nino now over, you can look forward to cooler temperatures in 2017, and then when 2018 rolls around, you can declare that 2017's lower average global temperature proves that global warming has ended (again). Patience is key. Good luck!

Ahh, but with NOAA's admitted retroactive adjustments to temperature records, NASA has already determined that 2017 will have been the hottest year on record... just as soon as they can apply their adjustments to the data.

"The weather in Florida is just as good as California and no earthquakes. "

Between 1900-2007, Florida had suffered $60B (in 2005 dollars) worth of hurricane damage. Discuss.

http://myweb.fsu.edu/jelsner/P...

Thanks a lot! In exchange, I can advise you to get a 'Numerical Recipes in [language of your choice]'. And if you need any complex snippet of code, make sure that John Burkhardt has not already written it for you: https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jbu... Have a great weekend!

Anecdotes? Whoa there, buddy, you're argument about a few people is clearly statistically significant! I guess we should discard what scientists say because it doesn't seem right to you.

Its a data point, and one shared by others. It's shared as well by universities, who are spending that money to retrain students and especially their parents

You want references? Need data? Of course in social matters what constitutes data is ephemeral but here goes:

http://counseling.uoregon.edu/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://news.fsu.edu/news/educa...

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/pag...

I can give you hundreds more, so label Universities as trolls and call each one irrelevant.

My anecdotes - and I can give you more - merely corroborate the larger experience. Point is, young adults come out with unrealistic expectations, have not been allowed to grow up and have trouble making their own decisions, and are prone to depression and disappointment, and their parents are the cause.

They are damaged goods, and will need a decade of trying to sort out what they should have learned since childhood. Don't blame your grandparents, and don't blame yourselves. But blame only goes so far, so ya gotta pick yourselves up and move on.

http://climatecenter.fsu.edu/d...

yeah... one site... and you know there are a fucking million of them that are independently arriving at the same conclusion because if you actually look at the old data and compare it to the new data... you see "this".

If you'd like we can talk about the other planets in our solar system and how it can be shown rather easily that air pressure and distance from the sun are actually the overwhelming drivers of atmospheric temperature and that chemical composition is not especially relevant. I mean... its really easy. Look at any planet in the solar system. and match it with another solar system at equal air pressure. That is... look at the temp data at 1 atmosphere say on Venus and compare to Earth at 1 atmosphere... What you'll find is that Venus while hot is not actually that much hotter than earth. Factor for distance from the sun and the two harmonize. You can do the same thing for Jupiter or Uranius... and if you match at fractions of an atmosphere you can match Mars to earth etc.

Here you'll again tell me "but we did experiments where if you filled a chamber with CO2 it would absorb more heat than if it didn't have CO2"... Great. And did those tests factor for water vapor being a common denominator in both situations? From what I've seen they didn't.

I mean if you want to talk painted window, we can compare the chemical spectrums of CO2 with every other gas in the Earth's atmosphere and subtract from CO2 anything that is already being occluded. What is left as I'm sure you know is a tiny sliver of CO2's full spectrum and given that CO2 is itself not an especially prevalent gas you're talking about a fraction of a fraction of a fraction.

It doesn't make sense. And that's why this is an issue that despite all the arrogance and "the science is settled" stupidity... you are losing the argument.

I know, its all the evil oil companies that lie about it... never mind that you have the UN behind you, the US government behind you, and the EU behind you... but you still will probably claim to be the underdogs here. Negative.

Some of the points the men's right movement are valid and worth debating, such as disparity in prison sentencing and child custody. However, this Return of Kings guy is a fucking moron.

Sorry if I've found the wrong stuff. I'm doing this via a quick googling...

Is this really the code for reading and writing the HPET?

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/d...

I've been a powerpc programmer in aviation for a while. If you need to read the time base register (also a 64 bit up counter) you have to be aware that your read might coincide with the lower 32 bits incrementing and carrying into the upper 32 bits. So you read the upper 32 bits, read the lower 32 bits, then re-read the upper bits and make sure the upper bits didn't change. If they did repeat this process. But if they are the same then you combine the 32 bit halves into a 64 bit time and call it good.

Actually it's about equality.

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Actually it's about equality.

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The problem here is that AGW supporters loved to toss Hurricanes out as "proof" of global warming AND evidence that GW makes Hurricanes worse. The problem is neither is factual, and neither is even remotely accurate. Making falsifiable claims is one reason why I don't listen to AGW proponents any longer. They are just Religious nutjobs, using quasi-science to foist their belief systems on to others. Here is more detailed and significant analysis that basically makes "hurricanes" a non-issue and why the AGW proponents should stop using hurricanes as "proof" of anything.

Here is a good outline of the problem :http://www.growth-dynamics.com/news/DEC27_04.htm

Here is an outline that proves my point ... http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...

Or here: http://www.realclimate.org/ind...

Or here: http://climateaudit.org/2007/0...

Or here (pay attention to Fig 3-6) https://coaps.fsu.edu/papers/r...

True, however the steepness of the peak is relevant.

Compare the spectral footprint of sunlight at sea level:

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With the typical power curve of pure blackbody emissions:
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The latter one has a single peak. The former has a much "flatter", but also noisier distribution. One can optimize at the near infra-red band, where the blackbody emission peaks consistently, and harvest the vast majority of the emitted photons. Especially since this band is also very close to the innate emission/capture band of pure silicon.

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This means that PV cells tailored for near-IR and IR capture will be WILDLY efficient with this setup.

As long as you can create your Chimera in 3000 base pairs or so. Putting them all together gets very much harder.

Perhaps if you are worried about very, very tiny monsters. Otherwise, not so much.

I thought about how much paperwork I usually had to get involved with when I deal with the government, so I laughed and said, "I'll be glad to give the talk. There's only one condition on the whole thing"--I pulled a number out of a hat and continued--"that I don't have to sign my name more than thirteen times, and that includes the check!" http://www.chem.fsu.edu/chemla...

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/kernel/timer.c?v=2.6.25.8#L1059

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Sorry for replying to myself... left out the href...

See the chapter "Altered States" on page 128 of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!".

"... it's gonna be bad. Real bad. And because its gonna be bad, we're gonna charge you an arm and two legs for coverage."

This illustrates exactly how NOT "unbiased" insurance companies are.

Gonna charge higher rates for hurricanes, due to "global warming"? Hmmm... let's see. We have been in a long (actually 30 years or more) slump in global cyclonic energy (hurricane-like events). Yes, ONE season saw quite a few in the North Atlantic, which just coincidentally happens to be where cities are. But that's essentially a random event. In fact the 2005-2006 season mentioned actually saw LESS cyclonic energy than recent prior years, and it has kept going down. Shit happens, but there is no "trend".

As further evidence, even the IPCC has pulled back on its predictions of more and worse storms. In fact, the previewers have been saying they removed any mention of it at all from this year's report.

So this isn't "unbiased science" at all. It is simply "Sure, we'll go with the scare stories. We can charge higher premiums that way."

Available in PDF:
http://www.chem.fsu.edu/chemlab/isc3523c/feyn_surely.pdf

Random number generators cannot be verified - it's a computationally infeasible problem. If the NSA has subtly tampered with a product, there's no way to tell from the outside looking in. You *might* be able to tell by looking at the generator source.

While the generator may not be able to be verified, the output should be. Generating a large amount of random data from the questioned source, then testing for randomness should allow you to establish a level of confidence in the generator.

See: http://www.stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/

Homophones were my first thought as well, especially given how many times I've seen misuses of:

• their, there, they're
• to, too (and two)
• than, then
• your, you're

For more words, see: multinyms. Therein are differently-spelled yet similarly-sounding words in groups of triplets up to and including septuplets!

Here are some potentially troublesome examples that came to mind; please reply with more!

• you.are.here
• yew.our.hear
• have.whey.their
• marry.merry.Mary
• hale.seas.are
• tolled.inn.vane
• knot.holy.rued
• won.hilt.wander

As a concept for monetizing something they don't even own, I think it's absolutely brilliant. I remember when "pet rocks" were all the rage, and then the "blank on board" signs. As a novelty item, they'll probably make a fortune. Of course, the natural name for their sequel would be: four.words.too.

lord no, not the convoluted, bloated, slow mess that is WPF. Even MFC was better for coding GUIs than that. Sure, its more powerful, but the hoops you have to jump through to make it work! A class with a variable and a get/set property for every control you want to get the data from. The IPropertyChangedNotification interface that needs implementing. The binding declarations in XML! Horrible.

C# has more libraries in one place than C++ has, which makes people think its got more of them. The trouble with C++ is that, apart from Boost, all the library support is scattered all over the web. (I kinda with the best libs would be merged into Boost sometimes). So if you use WCF, you could use WWS or gSoap instead (both of which are considerably faster and less "magic"). If you want websockets, try libwebsockets etc :)

LINQ is a bad thing anyway - its a classic case of making everything look like a nail, once you have a C#-shaped hammer.

So anyway, sure C# is easier to break into, everything laid out for you in an easy-to-see way. C++ is just more powerful, only you have to do a little searching to find out what is available.

What a bunch of clowns.

Actually, that's on the other side of the state.

FSU would also have been an acceptable answer, since they have a circus.

No, you are 100% incorrect. Java has await, and has since 1.5 in 2004. The linux kernel has had an asynch waiting api since 2004, and due to interrupts basically forever informally. Clojure also has await and runs on the JVM. Got to love a C# developer who thinks a feature 9 years behind the times makes his language cutting edge.

You can get a BS in CS from Florida State University: http://www.pc.fsu.edu/Academics/Online-Programs/Computer-Science It's a good program and has been great for my career.

FSU Computer Science

If you decide to choose it, be careful, FSU has a more stringent foreign language policy than some other universities in the state university system of Florida. All degrees require 3 semesters of a foreign language or appropriate scores on a CLEP test.

"You did not post a compile able "*.c" file but a "*.h" file."

As I said, the file I got the code from is e100.c See lines 494 through 571. Also, there is no real difference between a .h and a .c file for the purposes of our discussion since both are comprised of two fundamental atoms, to wit comments and code. The purpose of a header file is to include certain elements of a program's source code that will be reused by multiple files so that they can share interfaces and data structures. When no such sharing is desired they don't belong in a header file. In this case the struct has file scope, and putting it in the .c file ensures that nobody else can or will manipulate elements of the struct. This is done in order to properly implement abstraction.

As you can see, what you don't know about what you are doing could literally fill a book.

"I suggest you consult your favorite dictionary what a 'janitor' is :D"

I know exactly what it is, but you seem to be the one who cannot understand simple English. My statement is that the best thing one can say about your knowledge of software engineering is that you would probably do well emptying trash, mopping floors, and cleaning toilets.

The Christian community then does not include the Convservative/Fundamentalist sects that do the exact opposite?

Your approach makes sense. Characterize a billion Christians by the oddest, isolated, strangest church of a dozen you can find. Yes, that is fair.

Tell me, what are your thoughts on the socialists know as Communists? They were good atheists, as I'm sure you know. Obviously they couldn't be backward. And you don't have to look for a dozen people in the foot hills of West Virginia to characterize them: trustworthy, peaceful goose steppers, lovers of the law, stewards of the environment. Are they not the flower of humanity?

You are probably thinking of the Silicon Zoo. Fun site.

Only a socialist planned economy on a global scale can deal with the environmental pollution crisis. Workers to power! Expropriate the bourgeoisie! Dogfart!

It won't work, based on the record of previous "Dictatorships of the Proletariat".

EUROPE'S ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARE: HARD ROAD TO RECOVERY

Dogfart!

A fair characterization of Communist governance.

Make sure you have identified the problem correctly.
It may not be sexual harassment per-se.

In Is There Anything Good About Men?,
Roy F. Baumeister writes

All-male groups tend to be marked by putdowns and other practices that remind everybody that there is NOT enough respect to go around,because this awareness motivates each man to try harder to earn respect. This, incidentally, has probably been a major source of friction as women have moved into the workplace, and organizations have had to shift toward policies that everyone is entitled to respect. The men hadn’t originally built them to respect everybody.

When "respect" is an entitlement -- rather than something that must be earned -- then "achievement" becomes meaningless.

Make sure you have identified the problem correctly.
It may not be sexual harassment per-se.

In Is There Anything Good About Men?,
Roy F. Baumeister writes

All-male groups tend to be marked by putdowns and other practices that remind everybody that there is NOT enough respect to go around,because this awareness motivates each man to try harder to earn respect. This, incidentally, has probably been a major source of friction as women have moved into the workplace, and organizations have had to shift toward policies that everyone is entitled to respect. The men hadn’t originally built them to respect everybody.

I have worked in teams that were all male or mostly male for 15 years and have never encountered this kind of dysfunctional group dynamic. There has always been plenty of respect to go around, and motivation was derived from self-respect.

In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Roy F. Baumeister writes

All-male groups tend to be marked by putdowns and other practices that remind everybody that there is NOT enough respect to go around,because this awareness motivates each man to try harder to earn respect. This, incidentally, has probably been a major source of friction as women have moved into the workplace, and organizations have had to shift toward policies that everyone is entitled to respect. The men hadn’t originally built them to respect everybody.

You're correct, but even so, the statement

10,000 times the biggest fields that can be generated on Earth

is complete bullshit. Superconducting MRIs produce 3T fields just fine. And check out the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory; they have the record field strength of 100.75T

Our magnet crazed Floridians have a 45 tesla magnet that can operate for short periods without destroying itself and the most powerful 'destructive pulsed electromagnets' can reach ~1000 tesla, for their quite brief operational lives. (.flv of such a magnet giving its life for science)

Our magnet crazed Floridians have a 45 tesla magnet that can operate for short periods without destroying itself and the most powerful 'destructive pulsed electromagnets' can reach ~1000 tesla, for their quite brief operational lives. (.flv of such a magnet giving its life for science)

This is just a funny little and harmless joke. Actually, Easter eggs are quite common in IT. Let's take the playboy bunny etched in silicone as an example. That's less hazardous to health than silicone implanted within a playboy bunny, isn't it? But I guess the former is more objectionable to some puritans and people without any sense of humor than the latter.

Read the article and only hope Microsoft's apology was meant as
"Were sorry for your lack of humor and will change it."

FTA: "since the vast majority of grownups have come to recognize that this kind
of juvenile nonsense has no place in the business world."

I just have this to add: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/bunny.html

From the collection of http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html

Read the article and only hope Microsoft's apology was meant as
"Were sorry for your lack of humor and will change it."

FTA: "since the vast majority of grownups have come to recognize that this kind
of juvenile nonsense has no place in the business world."

I just have this to add: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/bunny.html

From the collection of http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-05-29/news/8702090594_1_customs-agents-computer-equipment

FWIW: They took out the computer, filled the crate with cement, and let them pay shipping on it as part of the sting. See also this phrase on the CVAX die:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

-- Terry

I think what you see is the spikes. They are (locally) stronger then the smear, so they blot out the smear so you don't see it, but it is there. This is what you can see in the spectrum I linked to earlier. If we look at a pure mercury spectrum, the first for copies in your image could correspond to four of the peaks (blue at 405 nm, cyan at 436 nm, green at 546 nm and yellow at 579 nm, the yellow is less defined, which could be because of its lower intensity). I don't know where the red copy (or copies, there seem to be at least two overlapping) comes from.

Coincidentally, FSU has degrees in Computational Science: http://www.sc.fsu.edu/education

Formally, a language can be defined as the strings generated by a formal grammar. I do not believe the courts have ruled on whether the output of a program (in this case the BNF specification + string generator) can be copyrighted but I have used open source libraries that claim just that. For example:

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html