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If you COULD get both, or measure one without affecting the particle in any way, Quantum Mechanics wouldn't be a game of probabilities. It would be a game of certainties, just like the macroscopic universe we all know and love
You would have to know both values not just for the particles in which you are concerned, but for every particle in the universe because every particle affects the behavior of every other to some degree or another. It is this fact which goes back to the point I was trying to make about assumptions in the reductionist approach.
There is an absolute, multilayed interconnectedness between matter which causes many confusing effects, and is quite chaotic/complex in nature. The fact is, it may be simple and straightforeward in design, but we may never know because all we can and ever will be able to see are the 'effects', or the fractal image as referred to in the original example.
But you then go on to point out perceived fundemental flaws in physics, such as this "nothing but a mathematical abstraction" bullshit argument you drag out to neatly present some fluffy mystical thinking.
No, my point is not to allow 'fluffy thinking', but to indicate that there are other 'levels' of interaction occuring which may be governed by very simple mandelbrot type alogorithms, but will likely be beyond our comprehension simply because their effects on our universe are so 'apparently random and complex' that we will not ever be able to derive their underlying simplicity.
Guess what? This means that science, with physics at the vanguard is ALWAYS revising/refurbishing/theorizing ideas, explanations, and mathematics that attempt to explain to varying degrees of completeness the multitudinal plethora of natural phenomenah that nature puts in our path (Thumbing her nose at us all the way too, that bitch)
Of course, and my point wasnt to say that traditional reductionist science is not usefull, of course it is! But the fact remains that it is not complete, and that many more usefull findings and theories will be found once we realize that the reductionist approach is fundamentally restrictive and simplistic when dealing with complex, seemingly chaotic or random effects.
There is much that is explained rather well, within the limits of the HUP
True, and there is much that isnt. My point again is that for a more complete view of the universe around us, we have to accept the limits of reductionism.
Evidence of intelligent design
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There is a lot of talk about these types of issues in science and for good reason. It is becoming more and more obvious that quantum physics and biochemistry contain puzzling inconsistancies and mounting evidence of external influences in the interactions of subatomic particles, and the complex processes of life itself.
A few examples: dissapative structures like those seen in very hot liquids, to biological cells.
The effect of the observer in 'collapsing' the wave function describing the probabilities for various characteristics of quantum particles.
Things like these are baffling and puzzling because they are very hard to explain. The reason for this is the fact that they are complex.
A nice mental illustration of this would be the following:
- Given a large wall sized image of the Mandelbrot set mapped into fractal form, you are asked to determine what created this image.
If you have no previous knowledge of fractals, it would appear to be an increbily complex algorithm which generated this image, and the complexity of the images within evidence of this.
However, it is actually a very simple iterative algorithm that produced the image. The algorithm is complex because each iteration depends on a previous iteration. Thus, a small change in initial conditions yeilds wild variety from similar initial conditions. This is chaos theory, and im sure you've heard all about it.
So where does this come into play in physics?
Physics is mathematical relationships based on verifiable experimental results. We call atoms and subatomic particles particles because they behave as such (for the most part) but they are actually something else. We now know that the subatomic particles arent really solid at all, but interact according to complex wave functions that predict their behavior on average. That last but is important, because it shows that our understanding of sub atomic particles and matter in general is based on a large number of assumptions wich may not be valid.
For example, consider that each particle is in fact a solitron, or a collection of smaller peices (super strings? M-theory?) that are acting as a whole particle, yet very distinct in and of themselves.
These solitrons would function identical to the subatomic particles they represent, however be comprised of intirely different units.
The point is, physics is nothing but a mathematical abstraction for generalized behavior. And that this fact alone bases many of the assumptions of science on shaky ground. It is becoming more and more evident that there are additional levels of interaction at work in all aspects of matter, from the subatomic to the biochemical. The fields of complexity, chaos, self organization all relate to this abstract 'other' quality in this universe of ours, and have a striking symmetry with the Tao and eastern philosophy.
The modern style causual approach to science with every element of our world conforming to a chain of effect is coming to its limits. It is certainly usefull, but it is absolutely limited and incapable of viewing the entirety of the processes at play within our universe.
In the end I think we will find that god is not a single entity outside our universe, but a common fundamental effect on every part of this universe.
I have havoc penningtons book on GTK/GNOME. I have worked with GTK/GNOME and it is because I have worked with these libraries/tools that I am curious about the implementation and design.
True, it is a very powerfull object system. But it is also overly complex and needlessly limited. This complexity and inflexibility are there because the code is implementing object oriented features that would normally be within the domain of a language. You can write object oriented code in assembler, but thats not the point. The point is that when doing this type of development, it becomes increasingly more efficient to use a language designed for object oriented programming, as well the various other practices which aid OOP development. Such as models, detailed designs, patterns, frameworks, etc.
Although I would admit that C++ is good for things and for allowing for a changeable design I wonder if it's totally necessary. I got headaches just trying to comphrend some of the C++ concepts. I have read books which indicate it's really useful however I haven't seen anything that couldn't be just done in straight C.
Its not about not being able to do something, its about the efficiency of doing the development and the stability/maintainability of the end product.
In small development tasks the benifits of C++ are not very large compared to C or some other procedural lanugage. When you start developing large scale, distributed systems, OOD/OOP becomes not only a nice feature, but mandatory.
C++ can add some whoppers to bugs and trying to get them to work. I think before we start to develop in C++ too much we need a tool that does a good job of creating and IDE with compiler, easy debugger, and other features. That's the biggest problem I get into. using vi and the command line is simple and fast but I like interactive things that allow me to see bugs and squash them quickly.
GDB seems to be quite suitable for finding bugs in any code. The name mangling of c++ functions and templates can be annoying, but hopefully we can have tools to ease these troubles soon. A tool like purify and quantify for linux (opensource) would be awesome, however, i wont hold my breath for something like that. glib does a good job of finding memory errors within itself..
Also another thing you have to consider is that perhaps the libraries that are being used the most are C related and not C++ as of this time? That can put a damper on things.
Actually, its a very trivial matter to call C functions from within a C++ program. The keyword extern is used for this.
Do you see object oriented deisgn and implementation playing any part in GNOME's future?
The architecture of GTK/GNOME is technically somewhat object oriented, however, without all of the benifits of an object oriented language (at least the parts written in C)
It would seem to me that as the scope and size of the GNOME project increases, it would be increasingly advantageous to use C++ or Java with much more CORBA support and more structured design (UML design models?) for reference by the developers. Standard components and frameworks would also fit well into this type of extension.
Do you see GNOME increasing in complexity and size to the point where these types of development techniques would be required?
Actually, well built systems are more reliable than people. Always are.
There is a lot of interest in the airline industry these days concerning the possible use of fully automatic flight systems for commercial and other flights. These systems have been shown to be more reliable, and the level of fault tolerance is impressive (it better be...).
Initially pilots would still be there to baby sit the autopilot.. but it would handle take off, flight, landing.
Some companies are even proposing no pilots whatsoever and solely automated flight systems.. Though I doubt that will catch any time soon.
So, as far as safety and ability in a statistical sense, computers always outperform humans in such critical tasks. The higher the time sensitivity and complexity, the larger their advantage.
Have you ever called SCO tech support? Apparently not.
'SCO Tech support, may I have your credit card or account number so that I can begin charging you the $50 hourly support fee please?'
And their systems are incredibly over priced. The reason its dying is because linux/bsd can do everything it can, but better. Makes it rather hard to sell thousands of dollars worth of system software when you can download it free off the net, with source.
I love Unix as well, but SCO was asking for this for a loooong time.
Of course all technology has good and bad uses. And the fact is, once scientists discovered how to exploit the instability of large atoms, the cat was out of the bag.
So, would you rather have nazi germany with their A bombs while moralist america decides not to bulld them? THen follow that by the russian nuclear build up?
The point is, regardless of wether you want it or not, there will be 'bad' applications of usefull technology simply because it is needed to counteract the 'bad' applications by antagonist entities.
The only way to stop this process is to stop the scientific and industrial progression. Some people have suggested this as humanities sole hope for long term survival, but thats another story...
So, instead of beefing it with the geeks, blame your government which decided to use these weapons on people.
It is the minds behind the use of these tools for evil that are the cause.
massive computational power, evolutionary software, knowledge stores; sprawling into existence... the tech of today is a glimpse of what is to come.
technology is power. knowledge is power. and the ever increasing power available to the individual in the coming decades will be limited only by the minds that use it.
computational technology in general will have the most concentrated power density in the coming years. machines can think. not in the way in which we think. but similiar in some respects, and a perfect complement.
human minds an endless sea of creativity, machine minds an unfathomable behemoth of parallel analysis, simulation, and execution.
the influence and capability of our machines ever rising, ever expanding. cold boxes of silicon controlling more and more.
power and knowledge. it will be available in amounts never before seen, proportional to the skill of the mind.
anarchy will be possible. Not in a broad, general sense, but in a specific, personal sense. Laws and government only apply when they can be enforced; when they can exhert their control. the synergistic fusion of mind and machine reaching critical mass will free the capable mind from the reach of the law and governing control to varying degrees.
this will be obtained completely by a rare few; it has already begun.
a double edged sword. offering tremendous freedom and power for good purpose.. and incredible harm and destruction. the skill and patience required to master reducing the probability of malicious use based in fear, ignorance, stupidity, greed.
the blade is held by all. your decisions directing one way or another. your choices determing your path, and influencing the paths of others.
open your eyes and expand your mind. the grey mass between your ears has only begun to see its capability. infinite possibilites.
yes, the good thing is that only truly ambitious, intelligent people will be able to utilize the technology bill talks about for the kind of widespread effect... The bad thing is that just one such person with ill intent will be able to cause destruction on a level far beyond the random shootings, and bombing we see today.
"Allright son, were gonna give you one last chance before we nail your balls to the wall.." "Man, what the hell.. I dont REMEMBER the key.. i dont even know what the hell is in that file.. jesus christ. how many times to I have to tell you this??" "DO you reliaze you are conspiring against the government? Do you understand that your breaking quite a few laws by retaining the key to this information? I'm gonna ask ooone laaast time.. what is the passkey?" "Oh man.. fuck off! I dont know! that files a year old!! i have no freakin clue whats in there, what the key is, or even where I got it.. " )) Agent Smith smacks Nero around a bit with a large trout. "Please, let get the hell out.. you can have the file.. you crack it.. youve got your big fancy computers.. thats your job you spooked out freaks.." "Allright boys, take him off.. File charges on this scumbag.." -- Epilogue... -- LittleNero spends 10 years in a federal penn for some bullshit. Had this been within the state jurisdiction Nero would have gotten off on parole, and served a setence only slighter extreme for hsi so called crime. However, the federal system doesnt know the meaning of the word parole, and thus, Nero gets to suck off a beefcake mofo named Bubba for 10 years before he is killed the day before he gets released by some big mFr he told to screw himself. And uncle sam lives hapilly ever after...
Quite a few posters seem to think this will simulate the entire nuclear blast process, which would entail a large amount of fluid dynamics (weather prediction basically).
However, this is not the case. What they are doing is simulating the compression -> supercritical process that occurs when the detonation lenses used to implode the nuclear core or 'pit' are detonated.
These calculations usually rely on finite element analysis and atomic decay / fission simulations. (nuclear & some quantum physics calculations)
The simulations have to handle multiple variables which interact with each other like: - detonation shock wave velocity - detonation shock wave effects of lensed charges on the heavy metal driver layer of the pit. - implosion vectors for the heavey metal (usually uranium) driver layer as it implodes through a surrounding vacuum around the inner beryllium/plutonium core. - implosion vectors for the inner core (beryllium jacket and hollow tritium / dueterium filled plutonium sphere) as the driver transfers kinetic energy and implodes the core itself. - Calculation of effects on rate of fission and efficiency as the inner core goes super critical. - Calculation of the effects of the beryllium neutron reflector layer surrounding the super critical core. - Calculation of the effects of the neutron source at the center of the imploding core (the deuterium / tritium)
All of this together is used to determine the yeild and efficiency of a given nuclear device. In all likelyhood they have the lensed detonation charge values already computed / interpolated and the majority of the simulation goes towards the fission reaction simulation.
All sorts of variables are optimized by this approach, such as the shape of the heavy metal driver layer (surprise! a perfect sphere is not the most efficient geometric shape, probably due to the slight differences in the effects of the implosive shock wave generated by the surrounding lensed charges relative to the position of the lenses and location and rate of triggering detonations)
The size and shape of the beryllium neutron reflector jacket surrounding the plutonium core.
And finally the size and shape of the plutonium core itself, and if/ how much deuterium / tritium is at the very center.
So, hopefully that clears up the issues regarding what exactly they are simulating, and why the need for massssive floating point power is mandatory.
Actually, they arent simulating the blast effects, they are simulating the supercritical state which exists during the first nanoseconds of a nuclear explosion.
These computations will be used to design / build more efficient (read: clean) nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately you wont find much information on this, as the government considers this REALLLY sensitive information. The design of the nuclear pits used atomic weapons is fairly well known (go to your library;) however, it is the details where things get tricky.
Computers are used in implosion simulations to calculate fission / fusion efficiency, and to interpolate different design modifications to enhance yeild.
This involves very very large amounts of floating point operations to calculate effects from the properties of the fission reaction, namely the fission material density, the half life, the shape of the compressed fission material, the rate of compression, etc.
Quite complex. I wish I did know details, that would be some juicy code.
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cmon man, it would be operable as soon as you could boot linux, all the rest would be background.. the disk would be moved from a critical bottleneck component, to a secondary, backup type device.
Course, youd have to be sure you flushed everything before the power goes out..:/
Unfortunately genes and base pairs are quite different. Genes occur within the billion or so long base pairs chains, but to recognize them takes much effort and ingenuity. It is this process that makes genes sort of patentable (or absolutly patentable depending on who you talk to).
So, encoding your DNA is no big deal, there are companies that will sequence yourt genome for you. Making any sense of the information however, is many times worse than reading cat/dev/hda.
True. I wish I could find out exactly how fast this process is going to be. If it is going to take three days to etch my billion transistor wafer, then Id rather suck a donkey.
Even better, just sell giant wafers of programmable hardware so you can organize your wafer anyway you want. Use it as a giant FLOPPER number chruncher for a while, then realize your ready to use it for some ahrdcore gaming, and reburn the image.
You could squeeze the instructions for building a physical body like yours onto a CDR, but your body is uniquely yours, and to save its configuration (meaning the output from the genetic program at this point) would still require orders of magnitude more information. Sorry, i misread your comment, i was under the impression you were saying you and your mind..
Sir, what you need is a cubic meter crystal of computational ecstasy.
"All tasks can be designed / computed / evaluated / indexed / summarized / optimized / etc by a solid cubic meter crystal super conducting FPGA like nano scale self assembled ceramic block running at 90 gigahertz and chilled to 20 degrees kelvin running evolutionary systems of simulations / knowledge agents / neural networks / genetic algorithms / bayesian probability maps / self organizing pattern matching systems. All types of evolutionary systems layered and nested to unlimited levels of abstraction and complexity. Hardware capable of performing a centillion teraflops and holding a centillion terabytes of memory in core, operating at crystal speed. "
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If you COULD get both, or measure one without affecting the particle in any way, Quantum Mechanics wouldn't be a game of probabilities. It would be a game of certainties, just like the macroscopic universe we all know and love
You would have to know both values not just for the particles in which you are concerned, but for every particle in the universe because every particle affects the behavior of every other to some degree or another. It is this fact which goes back to the point I was trying to make about assumptions in the reductionist approach.
There is an absolute, multilayed interconnectedness between matter which causes many confusing effects, and is quite chaotic/complex in nature. The fact is, it may be simple and straightforeward in design, but we may never know because all we can and ever will be able to see are the 'effects', or the fractal image as referred to in the original example.
ehehe.. i think you misunderstand.
But you then go on to point out perceived fundemental flaws in physics, such as this "nothing but a mathematical abstraction" bullshit argument you drag out to neatly present some fluffy mystical thinking.
No, my point is not to allow 'fluffy thinking', but to indicate that there are other 'levels' of interaction occuring which may be governed by very simple mandelbrot type alogorithms, but will likely be beyond our comprehension simply because their effects on our universe are so 'apparently random and complex' that we will not ever be able to derive their underlying simplicity.
Guess what? This means that science, with physics at the vanguard is ALWAYS revising/refurbishing/theorizing ideas, explanations, and mathematics that attempt to explain to varying degrees of completeness the multitudinal plethora of natural phenomenah that nature puts in our path (Thumbing her nose at us all the way too, that bitch)
Of course, and my point wasnt to say that traditional reductionist science is not usefull, of course it is! But the fact remains that it is not complete, and that many more usefull findings and theories will be found once we realize that the reductionist approach is fundamentally restrictive and simplistic when dealing with complex, seemingly chaotic or random effects.
There is much that is explained rather well, within the limits of the HUP
True, and there is much that isnt. My point again is that for a more complete view of the universe around us, we have to accept the limits of reductionism.
There is a lot of talk about these types of issues in science and for good reason. It is becoming more and more obvious that quantum physics and biochemistry contain puzzling inconsistancies and mounting evidence of external influences in the interactions of subatomic particles, and the complex processes of life itself.
A few examples: dissapative structures like those seen in very hot liquids, to biological cells.
The effect of the observer in 'collapsing' the wave function describing the probabilities for various characteristics of quantum particles.
Things like these are baffling and puzzling because they are very hard to explain. The reason for this is the fact that they are complex.
A nice mental illustration of this would be the following:
- Given a large wall sized image of the Mandelbrot set mapped into fractal form, you are asked to determine what created this image.
If you have no previous knowledge of fractals, it would appear to be an increbily complex algorithm which generated this image, and the complexity of the images within evidence of this.
However, it is actually a very simple iterative algorithm that produced the image. The algorithm is complex because each iteration depends on a previous iteration. Thus, a small change in initial conditions yeilds wild variety from similar initial conditions. This is chaos theory, and im sure you've heard all about it.
So where does this come into play in physics?
Physics is mathematical relationships based on verifiable experimental results. We call atoms and subatomic particles particles because they behave as such (for the most part) but they are actually something else. We now know that the subatomic particles arent really solid at all, but interact according to complex wave functions that predict their behavior on average. That last but is important, because it shows that our understanding of sub atomic particles and matter in general is based on a large number of assumptions wich may not be valid.
For example, consider that each particle is in fact a solitron, or a collection of smaller peices (super strings? M-theory?) that are acting as a whole particle, yet very distinct in and of themselves.
These solitrons would function identical to the subatomic particles they represent, however be comprised of intirely different units.
The point is, physics is nothing but a mathematical abstraction for generalized behavior. And that this fact alone bases many of the assumptions of science on shaky ground. It is becoming more and more evident that there are additional levels of interaction at work in all aspects of matter, from the subatomic to the biochemical. The fields of complexity, chaos, self organization all relate to this abstract 'other' quality in this universe of ours, and have a striking symmetry with the Tao and eastern philosophy.
The modern style causual approach to science with every element of our world conforming to a chain of effect is coming to its limits. It is certainly usefull, but it is absolutely limited and incapable of viewing the entirety of the processes at play within our universe.
In the end I think we will find that god is not a single entity outside our universe, but a common fundamental effect on every part of this universe.
I have havoc penningtons book on GTK/GNOME. I have worked with GTK/GNOME and it is because I have worked with these libraries/tools that I am curious about the implementation and design.
True, it is a very powerfull object system. But it is also overly complex and needlessly limited. This complexity and inflexibility are there because the code is implementing object oriented features that would normally be within the domain of a language. You can write object oriented code in assembler, but thats not the point. The point is that when doing this type of development, it becomes increasingly more efficient to use a language designed for object oriented programming, as well the various other practices which aid OOP development. Such as models, detailed designs, patterns, frameworks, etc.
Although I would admit that C++ is good for things and for allowing for a changeable design I wonder if it's totally necessary. I got headaches just trying to comphrend some of the C++ concepts. I have read books which indicate it's really useful however I haven't seen anything that couldn't be just done in straight C.
Its not about not being able to do something, its about the efficiency of doing the development and the stability/maintainability of the end product.
In small development tasks the benifits of C++ are not very large compared to C or some other procedural lanugage. When you start developing large scale, distributed systems, OOD/OOP becomes not only a nice feature, but mandatory.
C++ can add some whoppers to bugs and trying to get them to work. I think before we start to develop in C++ too much we need a tool that does a good job of creating and IDE with compiler, easy debugger, and other features. That's the biggest problem I get into. using vi and the command line is simple and fast but I like interactive things that allow me to see bugs and squash them quickly.
GDB seems to be quite suitable for finding bugs in any code. The name mangling of c++ functions and templates can be annoying, but hopefully we can have tools to ease these troubles soon. A tool like purify and quantify for linux (opensource) would be awesome, however, i wont hold my breath for something like that. glib does a good job of finding memory errors within itself..
Also another thing you have to consider is that perhaps the libraries that are being used the most are C related and not C++ as of this time? That can put a damper on things.
Actually, its a very trivial matter to call C functions from within a C++ program. The keyword extern is used for this.
ex: extern "C" int foobar(void);
Do you see object oriented deisgn and implementation playing any part in GNOME's future?
The architecture of GTK/GNOME is technically somewhat object oriented, however, without all of the benifits of an object oriented language (at least the parts written in C)
It would seem to me that as the scope and size of the GNOME project increases, it would be increasingly advantageous to use C++ or Java with much more CORBA support and more structured design (UML design models?) for reference by the developers. Standard components and frameworks would also fit well into this type of extension.
Do you see GNOME increasing in complexity and size to the point where these types of development techniques would be required?
Actually, well built systems are more reliable than people. Always are.
There is a lot of interest in the airline industry these days concerning the possible use of fully automatic flight systems for commercial and other flights. These systems have been shown to be more reliable, and the level of fault tolerance is impressive (it better be...).
Initially pilots would still be there to baby sit the autopilot.. but it would handle take off, flight, landing.
Some companies are even proposing no pilots whatsoever and solely automated flight systems.. Though I doubt that will catch any time soon.
So, as far as safety and ability in a statistical sense, computers always outperform humans in such critical tasks. The higher the time sensitivity and complexity, the larger their advantage.
Because SCO SUCKS.
SCO SUUUUCKS ASS.
Have you ever called SCO tech support? Apparently not.
'SCO Tech support, may I have your credit card or account number so that I can begin charging you the $50 hourly support fee please?'
And their systems are incredibly over priced. The reason its dying is because linux/bsd can do everything it can, but better. Makes it rather hard to sell thousands of dollars worth of system software when you can download it free off the net, with source.
I love Unix as well, but SCO was asking for this for a loooong time.
Think about what you are saying.
Of course all technology has good and bad uses. And the fact is, once scientists discovered how to exploit the instability of large atoms, the cat was out of the bag.
So, would you rather have nazi germany with their A bombs while moralist america decides not to bulld them? THen follow that by the russian nuclear build up?
The point is, regardless of wether you want it or not, there will be 'bad' applications of usefull technology simply because it is needed to counteract the 'bad' applications by antagonist entities.
The only way to stop this process is to stop the scientific and industrial progression. Some people have suggested this as humanities sole hope for long term survival, but thats another story...
So, instead of beefing it with the geeks, blame your government which decided to use these weapons on people.
It is the minds behind the use of these tools for evil that are the cause.
And why some people will be scared of it...
massive computational power, evolutionary software, knowledge stores; sprawling into existence... the tech of today is a glimpse of what is to come.
technology is power. knowledge is power. and the ever increasing power available to the individual in the coming decades will be limited only by the
minds that use it.
computational technology in general will have the most concentrated power density in the coming years. machines can think. not in the way in which we
think. but similiar in some respects, and a perfect complement.
human minds an endless sea of creativity, machine minds an unfathomable behemoth of parallel analysis, simulation, and execution.
the influence and capability of our machines ever rising, ever expanding. cold boxes of silicon controlling more and more.
power and knowledge. it will be available in amounts never before seen, proportional to the skill of the mind.
anarchy will be possible. Not in a broad, general sense, but in a specific, personal sense. Laws and government only apply when they can be enforced;
when they can exhert their control. the synergistic fusion of mind and machine reaching critical mass will free the capable mind from the reach of the
law and governing control to varying degrees.
this will be obtained completely by a rare few; it has already begun.
a double edged sword. offering tremendous freedom and power for good purpose.. and incredible harm and destruction. the skill and patience required to
master reducing the probability of malicious use based in fear, ignorance, stupidity, greed.
the blade is held by all. your decisions directing one way or another. your choices determing your path, and influencing the paths of others.
open your eyes and expand your mind. the grey mass between your ears has only begun to see its capability. infinite possibilites.
yes, the good thing is that only truly ambitious, intelligent people will be able to utilize the technology bill talks about for the kind of widespread effect...
The bad thing is that just one such person with ill intent will be able to cause destruction on a level far beyond the random shootings, and bombing we see today.
ehehe./. its a blank page, no cookies, no scripts, nothing but a freaking blank page with a little text and two links..
I think some people are pissed off.. ehehe..
(i guess I would be too)
But that seems to border on the edge of slander..
"Allright son, were gonna give you one last chance before we nail your balls to the wall.." "Man, what the hell.. I dont REMEMBER the key.. i dont even know what the hell is in that file.. jesus christ. how many times to I have to tell you this??" "DO you reliaze you are conspiring against the government? Do you understand that your breaking quite a few laws by retaining the key to this information? I'm gonna ask ooone laaast time.. what is the passkey?" "Oh man.. fuck off! I dont know! that files a year old!! i have no freakin clue whats in there, what the key is, or even where I got it.. " )) Agent Smith smacks Nero around a bit with a large trout. "Please, let get the hell out.. you can have the file.. you crack it.. youve got your big fancy computers.. thats your job you spooked out freaks.." "Allright boys, take him off.. File charges on this scumbag.." -- Epilogue... -- LittleNero spends 10 years in a federal penn for some bullshit. Had this been within the state jurisdiction Nero would have gotten off on parole, and served a setence only slighter extreme for hsi so called crime. However, the federal system doesnt know the meaning of the word parole, and thus, Nero gets to suck off a beefcake mofo named Bubba for 10 years before he is killed the day before he gets released by some big mFr he told to screw himself. And uncle sam lives hapilly ever after...
Quite a few posters seem to think this will simulate the entire nuclear blast process, which would entail a large amount of fluid dynamics (weather prediction basically).
However, this is not the case. What they are doing is simulating the compression -> supercritical process that occurs when the detonation lenses used to implode the nuclear core or 'pit' are detonated.
These calculations usually rely on finite element analysis and atomic decay / fission simulations. (nuclear & some quantum physics calculations)
The simulations have to handle multiple variables which interact with each other like:
- detonation shock wave velocity
- detonation shock wave effects of lensed charges on the heavy metal driver layer of the pit.
- implosion vectors for the heavey metal (usually uranium) driver layer as it implodes through a surrounding vacuum around the inner beryllium/plutonium core.
- implosion vectors for the inner core (beryllium jacket and hollow tritium / dueterium filled plutonium sphere) as the driver transfers kinetic energy and implodes the core itself.
- Calculation of effects on rate of fission and efficiency as the inner core goes super critical.
- Calculation of the effects of the beryllium neutron reflector layer surrounding the super critical core.
- Calculation of the effects of the neutron source at the center of the imploding core (the deuterium / tritium)
All of this together is used to determine the yeild and efficiency of a given nuclear device. In all likelyhood they have the lensed detonation charge values already computed / interpolated and the majority of the simulation goes towards the fission reaction simulation.
All sorts of variables are optimized by this approach, such as the shape of the heavy metal driver layer (surprise! a perfect sphere is not the most efficient geometric shape, probably due to the slight differences in the effects of the implosive shock wave generated by the surrounding lensed charges relative to the position of the lenses and location and rate of triggering detonations)
The size and shape of the beryllium neutron reflector jacket surrounding the plutonium core.
And finally the size and shape of the plutonium core itself, and if/ how much deuterium / tritium is at the very center.
So, hopefully that clears up the issues regarding what exactly they are simulating, and why the need for massssive floating point power is mandatory.
Actually, they arent simulating the blast effects, they are simulating the supercritical state which exists during the first nanoseconds of a nuclear explosion.
These computations will be used to design / build more efficient (read: clean) nuclear weapons.
No, fluid dynamics is used for weather.
;) however, it is the details where things get tricky.
Unfortunately you wont find much information on this, as the government considers this REALLLY sensitive information. The design of the nuclear pits used atomic weapons is fairly well known (go to your library
Computers are used in implosion simulations to calculate fission / fusion efficiency, and to interpolate different design modifications to enhance yeild.
This involves very very large amounts of floating point operations to calculate effects from the properties of the fission reaction, namely the fission material density, the half life, the shape of the compressed fission material, the rate of compression, etc.
Quite complex. I wish I did know details, that would be some juicy code.
We need to clone you and keep a few dozen instances onhand to fight the degredation of intelligent subvertification via parodization!
P.S Your parody rox, as does most of your comic.
Requirements for obtaining the status 'Good' as a database driven developer.
Candidate must have experience designing, implementing, and extending the following features:
- Oracle 8i server extensions (XML focus).
- Multi value database searches based on associations of meta level relationships with database information.
- Creation of dynamic interfaces based on unique process associations retrieved from above. Not simple substitution but analysis of meta data (structure, relationships, similiar content) to develop individually unique interfaces optimal for a given view into database information.
- Scalability and efficiency of database information via multi tiered database instances based upon multiple shared storage subsystems using a C++ CORBA framework.
- Site analysis processes using the above CORBA framework and stored database packages to dynamically reassign database and CORBA resources for optimal efficiency. All transparent to higher level CGI/DB/XML processes generating web content.
And some others, but my fingers are getting tired. So, are you a good database driven site coder?
Then a judge pulls up your page in lynx / amaya / etc... Ooops.
It sucked in comparison, but the point was good.
Besides, how can you top such an instant classic like Uncle Fucka?
cmon man, it would be operable as soon as you could boot linux, all the rest would be background.. the disk would be moved from a critical bottleneck component, to a secondary, backup type device.
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Course, youd have to be sure you flushed everything before the power goes out..
Unfortunately genes and base pairs are quite different. Genes occur within the billion or so long base pairs chains, but to recognize them takes much effort and ingenuity. It is this process that makes genes sort of patentable (or absolutly patentable depending on who you talk to).
/dev/hda.
So, encoding your DNA is no big deal, there are companies that will sequence yourt genome for you. Making any sense of the information however, is many times worse than reading cat
True. I wish I could find out exactly how fast this process is going to be. If it is going to take three days to etch my billion transistor wafer, then Id rather suck a donkey.
Even better, just sell giant wafers of programmable hardware so you can organize your wafer anyway you want. Use it as a giant FLOPPER number chruncher for a while, then realize your ready to use it for some ahrdcore gaming, and reburn the image.
Well, not really.
You could squeeze the instructions for building a physical body like yours onto a CDR, but your body is uniquely yours, and to save its configuration (meaning the output from the genetic program at this point) would still require orders of magnitude more information. Sorry, i misread your comment, i was under the impression you were saying you and your mind..
Sir, what you need is a cubic meter crystal of computational ecstasy.
"All tasks can be designed / computed / evaluated / indexed / summarized / optimized / etc by a solid cubic meter crystal super conducting FPGA like nano scale self assembled ceramic block running at 90 gigahertz and chilled to 20 degrees kelvin running evolutionary systems of simulations / knowledge agents / neural networks / genetic algorithms / bayesian probability maps / self organizing pattern matching systems. All types of evolutionary systems layered and nested to unlimited levels of abstraction and complexity. Hardware capable of performing a centillion teraflops and holding a centillion terabytes of memory in core, operating at crystal speed. "
yes, that is what im waiting for...