If they started based on economic value I'm assuming the first seeds included were Hemp. It's the biggest cash crop in the US.
Mod parent insightful. You know, I think what's hemp really needs, to get away from the drug/hippie association, is a new NAME.. Hey, if it worked for mahi mahi (formerly dolphinfish) and orange roughy (formerly slimehead) and canola (formerly rapeseed) and Chilean sea bass (formerly patagonian toothfish), why not hemp? Let's just start calling it "Spink," and then we can sell Spink blankets and Spink paper and Spink oil and no one will be the wiser.
The 100,000-year glaciation cycle is as regular as clockwork, and nobody really has a clue how to stop it. (Chucking massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere isn't anywhere near enough.)
Our government policy should help in this regard. In other words: "If brute force isn't working, you're not using enough of it."
And then I can just see the environmentalists, shouting "Save the Interglacial!!", frantically encouraging everyone to go out and drive Hummers...
Just increase the rate of global warming. The warmer atmosphere will expand further into space, and all the junk will re-enter and burn up.
Paradoxically, just the opposite is occurring. The thermosphere (topmost layer of the atmosphere) gets thinner as carbon dioxide increases, which only makes space junk stay in orbit longer. In light of our dependence on satellites for so many of our modern conveniences (GPS, satellite TV, etc.), the Chinese missile test was a painfully shortsighted and frankly idiotic thing to do.
There are even better ways to undo a smudge or motion blur. The linked process takes about an hour to compute, but gives impressive results... I give it three years til it shows up in Photoshop.
The mosaic effect cannot be directly deconvolved the same way; the approach in the article is based on a priori knowledge of the original image, which greatly constrains the problem and makes it well-posed. The basic reason it works is that different numerals use different amounts of ink, a property which is not completely destroyed by blurring or mosaicing. An approach such as this one (scroll down to Figure 8) would solve this problem, and also make documents less readable by someone looking at them from further away.
One of the main criticisms (by consumers) of the CF bulbs is that they're funny-looking, which leads people to prefer the more familiar-looking incandescent bulbs. Why couldn't CF bulbs be made with a frosted outer bulb-shaped shell, to hide the funny-looking part? Sure, it's functionally pointless, but that's hasn't stopped marketers from adding nonfunctional door-close buttons to elevators, or super-saturated gaudy dyes to breakfast cereals, or breast implants to perfectly ordinary women (you'll have to google that one yourself).
Oh wait a minute...it already exists. Why don't they just sell those then?
>>The only way to put to charge the Prius's battery is by putting gasoline into it's tank.
>Regenerative braking.
Aha, the solution is obvious. Simply get a giant electrically powered treadmill, and let the Prius perpetually roll down it to charge the battery:) Considering how inefficient the gasoline->electricity conversion is, I wonder if this could actually work?
Actually, I kind of like it. It coincidentally has the same format as my phone number (ABBBBBC), and as we all know from the Hitchhiker series, 42 is what you get when you multiply six by nine; the universe has a sense of humor that way... Also, there's no reason I can't try again when the ID's approach 2000000. In any case, my main account has the karma maxed out; where's the fun in that?:)
OTOH, I wonder who did get the cool million, and whether they were trying for it?
I'd like to see one of these website claim they have an AI bot, but actually join two users together. Then post the conversation somewhere.
This has been done, with fascinating results. See Douglas Hofstadter's Conversation with NICOLAI (scroll halfway down the page, to the Post Scriptum), where Hofstadter was fooled into believing he was conversing with an AI, then tried to rationalize the AI's responses during the conversation. This was in 1983!
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one good way to pull it out of the atmosphere is to stop whacking every forest within reach.
Or, if you are going to whack forests, whack THESE forests.
(Whack, Forrest, Whack! Whack, Forrest!!)
I for one welcome our new laptop overlords.
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it could happen to a 'Dotter. Some day. The odds are certainly no worse than finding, say, extraterrestrial life.
Hey, maybe we could find the extraterrestrial life and marry it!...
Even if one were talking about efficiencies on the order of only 20% (such as we see with photovoltaic cells), 10,000 times that would be 2000%.
You wouldn't work for Verizon, by any chance?
"Embarrassingly parallel" is the technical term for problems like ray tracing.
Otherwise known as "Embarrallel."
If they started based on economic value I'm assuming the first seeds included were Hemp. It's the biggest cash crop in the US.
Mod parent insightful. You know, I think what's hemp really needs, to get away from the drug/hippie association, is a new NAME.. Hey, if it worked for mahi mahi (formerly dolphinfish) and orange roughy (formerly slimehead) and canola (formerly rapeseed) and Chilean sea bass (formerly patagonian toothfish), why not hemp? Let's just start calling it "Spink," and then we can sell Spink blankets and Spink paper and Spink oil and no one will be the wiser.
The 100,000-year glaciation cycle is as regular as clockwork, and nobody really has a clue how to stop it. (Chucking massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere isn't anywhere near enough.)
Our government policy should help in this regard. In other words: "If brute force isn't working, you're not using enough of it."
And then I can just see the environmentalists, shouting "Save the Interglacial!!", frantically encouraging everyone to go out and drive Hummers...
The website was challenged in a defamation suit filed by surgeon Jonathan Sykes
Did anyone else read this as "deformation suit"??
Just increase the rate of global warming. The warmer atmosphere will expand further into space, and all the junk will re-enter and burn up.
Paradoxically, just the opposite is occurring. The thermosphere (topmost layer of the atmosphere) gets thinner as carbon dioxide increases, which only makes space junk stay in orbit longer. In light of our dependence on satellites for so many of our modern conveniences (GPS, satellite TV, etc.), the Chinese missile test was a painfully shortsighted and frankly idiotic thing to do.
To be fair, most countries can't fit in any sort of vehicle.
Well, The Vatican can fit on a Supertanker. Almost.
Well, you could fit three of them onto one of these.
There are even better ways to undo a smudge or motion blur. The linked process takes about an hour to compute, but gives impressive results... I give it three years til it shows up in Photoshop.
The mosaic effect cannot be directly deconvolved the same way; the approach in the article is based on a priori knowledge of the original image, which greatly constrains the problem and makes it well-posed. The basic reason it works is that different numerals use different amounts of ink, a property which is not completely destroyed by blurring or mosaicing. An approach such as this one (scroll down to Figure 8) would solve this problem, and also make documents less readable by someone looking at them from further away.
One of the main criticisms (by consumers) of the CF bulbs is that they're funny-looking, which leads people to prefer the more familiar-looking incandescent bulbs. Why couldn't CF bulbs be made with a frosted outer bulb-shaped shell, to hide the funny-looking part? Sure, it's functionally pointless, but that's hasn't stopped marketers from adding nonfunctional door-close buttons to elevators, or super-saturated gaudy dyes to breakfast cereals, or breast implants to perfectly ordinary women (you'll have to google that one yourself).
Oh wait a minute...it already exists. Why don't they just sell those then?
1) Wireless mouse pad
Q: "Sure, but where does the mousepad gets its electricity?"
A: "It's mousepads all the way down."
>> The only way to put to charge the Prius's battery is by putting gasoline into it's tank.
:) Considering how inefficient the gasoline->electricity conversion is, I wonder if this could actually work?
> Regenerative braking.
Aha, the solution is obvious. Simply get a giant electrically powered treadmill, and let the Prius perpetually roll down it to charge the battery
You can't fold a dollar coin in half and stick it behind a G-string.
Well, actually, you can. But it may not have much buying power afterward.
I really don't think CBT is the best solution for depression.
Unless you're a woman.
Actually, I kind of like it. It coincidentally has the same format as my phone number (ABBBBBC), and as we all know from the Hitchhiker series, 42 is what you get when you multiply six by nine; the universe has a sense of humor that way... Also, there's no reason I can't try again when the ID's approach 2000000. In any case, my main account has the karma maxed out; where's the fun in that? :)
OTOH, I wonder who did get the cool million, and whether they were trying for it?
I bet people were saying: "Shut your pi hole."
Bah. I once saw CNN mislabel Syria as Iraq on a map graphic once.
Not surprising, seeing as how they stumble over the concept of high-school physics.
I wonder, if in the future, NASA will develop a type of self cleaning aparatus to aide in "dusting" them.
Perhaps they could use a self-cleaning mechanism like this?
...Imagine a Beowolf cluster of those!
I never petaflop I didn't like.
I'd like to see one of these website claim they have an AI bot, but actually join two users together. Then post the conversation somewhere.
This has been done, with fascinating results. See Douglas Hofstadter's Conversation with NICOLAI (scroll halfway down the page, to the Post Scriptum), where Hofstadter was fooled into believing he was conversing with an AI, then tried to rationalize the AI's responses during the conversation. This was in 1983!
Well, Wikipedia does have a stubble article on it.