I was going to make the same comment as the P.P. The article said that areas with individual competition should represent a higher number of lefties. Their analysis makes sense with baseball being higher than football, but the way their model is explained the most individual sports (golf, ping pong) should be the highest. Also, once at the professional level, course design is not much of a factor for left vs. right handed golfers.
correlate with supernovae rate? This is a interesting analysis and paper, although I think it is hard to draw the distinction when only two (or three, if you count bacteria over all time) clades have actually 'dominated' the earth, reptiles and mammals. I don't know enough about classification to also include the oceans, but it is my understanding that they contain relatively low biomass other than microorganisms. I guess you could consider some sort of insect or arthropod for both, but those have dominated fairly consistently with bacteria as far as I know.
Hate replying to myself, but I think it might be worthwhile to add: I have seen the internal workings of the water control systems of my fairly modest local area (3,000,000 area, largest municipal serves ~200-300 K). I would hate to see what happened if any of those controls were maliciously compromised, as it could lead to problematic flooding or draining municipal systems. I am concerned that the major controls for these systems are maintained computationally, but the tradeoff has been reduction in monitoring, and there may not be enough people on staff to mechanically secure the system if something seriously goes wrong. ~Fear mongering late on a Monday night.
I have absolutely no professional or political insight on this issue. Circumstantially, I think it is fairly convenient that the recent controversy about Hormuz and the duplication of the drone happened recently and this story broke, along with the whole stuxnet business. I am not comp-sci literate enough to even understand what happened with that (although, I might be on par with a lot of folks who are dealing with these issues). Are we entering a new stage of 'cyber-warfare' that has been talked about since basically WWII, or are we talking about local infiltration of systems looking to debase a reigning power regime? Is this a serious national problem for Iran, or is it Imperialistic forces taking pre-emptive steps? I probably will never know, but I would like to, just because I am a huge nerd.
the musical fruit,
The more you eat, the more you toot!
The more you toot, the better you feel,
so eat your beans with every meal!!
-a song my mom used to sing to me as a child. I'll never forget it.
Nice post! I am running a ten year old Dell on XP with a 15 year RT monitor (I broke the nice 21 inch or whatever they were selling in 2002, and replaced it with a 'throwaway' 17 inch CRT from a friends business). The only thing I have replaced in the machine is the video card, and it is still going strong. I admit that the last high end game I bought was HL2, but it plays nicely. I am not a person that buys into the 'three year old hardware is obsolete' crowd, but the 'planned failure' model pisses me off. I am writing this post from a 2009 netbook my brother bought, HD failed, so I installed Ubuntu linux from live boot to a USB external HD. Works fine.
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It's not real science if it comes from Instituto Superior Taquito, although they do make some great snacks.
While I agree with your point, I think your admitted anger (username for example) is directed at something that could be solved if your anger was directed at a different problem for which I share the same, if not quite as pointed, anger. Education should be locally based and locally controlled.
I know many Canadians from the SW Ontario region who fight for jobs at Anderson Window (one of the last good family run companies in the US). Where do they shop for subsistence goods? 2-3 times a year, they drive into the US, back up to Winnepeg, and shop at the Costco/Walmarts there ~200 mi. each way, do not quote me on the distance. Reason? It's cheaper to drive across border four times and shop the mass retailers than it is to drive 50-100 mi. and shop the same places in the US.
I agree with you, people should RTPWRT. I read yours and the parent, and I fully agree. I am currently taking a course in higher level calculus (I'm a biologist, not an engineer) because I want to expand my engineering/compsci/logic/maths before I pursue a phd, as I don't fully understand some of the lab equipment I work with and some of the analysis I do. I fully understand the concepts that I am testing and the methods that we are using, but I am not a person that likes to put things into a machine and get things out without knowing how it happened. Point is, I thought that beyond the extravagant pricing of credits for an online calc course, I would be done. After I registered, I found out that I also had to purchase the supplemental 'materials' from the university bookstore. Not resellable, of course, because there is a unique user for the purchase. I have gotten by so far with used text books (some of which were published in the 80's, often found at used book stores for a dollar). Sure, it has taken some effort on my part to google things from the curriculum that I can't find, or even easier, just ask people I know who might have some insight. I got a $3,000 (four calc courses worth) education on partial derivitaves over the course of four days from a theoretical physicist friend of mine by taking him and his wife out to a nice dinner and asking him for help. He's no Richard Feynman, but I have known him for 20 yrs (2nd Grade). Cost to me, $300. Sometimes I think that the Greeks had it right, open forum, open discussion. If there is a question of intellectual prowess severe enough to come to blows, then fight it to the death. The victor has the right to share the knowledge with others that want to learn. Untill, of course, a giant thinks he is smarter than him.
I don't think it was about looking for knowledgeable people, it was about finding a jury that would be most easy to sway from making informed opinions on the evidence presented. My background would probably lead people to think that I am competent in (or at least believe in) forming opinions based on presented evidence. Therefore, struck from jury.
Because the defense gets to question jurors first, the prosecutor did not even get a chance to talk to me. I was called in to the court room with the defense and the defendant, and the prosecutors (also of course the judge). After cursory introductions, the defense asked me one question about my level of education and one very broad question about DNA evidence in trials. The defense struck me immediatley, and the judge sent me on my way.
I probably would have been more specific, except that as the lawyers cannot actually discuss anything involving the process regarding collection or analysis of evidence, the question was more along the lines of "do you think that DNA evidence can assist a jury in making a decision." I would have been more literal if I actually thought people could so pedantic about a somewhat sarcastic antecdote.
will be well enough educated in technology to make a reasonable decision based on evidence. The last time I had jury duty on a first degree murder case, the person selected from my pool brought a herd of ants into the jury room with his lunch bag (plastic bag from store checkout) and kept going on about how special he was because he and his wife had the only set of twins in the world with identical fingerprints. I am a biologist and was strucken from further review by the defense because I answered the question "Do you believe that DNA technology is accurate?" with "Yes sir, I believe it is accurate." It must be great to be a lawyer.
I would accept it if they reqired the researchers disclose how they will plan to license their results. Or they could do something like provide legal documentation for those researchers who choose to disclose. That way, crowd-sourcers could actively choose those projects that are both cool and fit their feelings on freedom of information.
Try $100 each. And where I'm from, publicly funded stadiums for the atheletes and owners to profit from in the sake of 'beautifying downtown and bringing jobs and businesses in'. I am a sports fan, my family has had Vikings season tickets since their inception, and Target Field is beautiful. I do not agree with public funding for inflated business models, which is what sports has become. If you are worth a $1,000,000,000 stadium, build it yourself, and if you expect me to pay for it, well, you are losing a customer.
Thanks, AC. There is an analogy here to the NFL controversy surrounding the bounty with the Saints. Do you think they didn't know what was going on? If they truly did not, isn't there job to know what is going on?
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I was going to make the same comment as the P.P. The article said that areas with individual competition should represent a higher number of lefties. Their analysis makes sense with baseball being higher than football, but the way their model is explained the most individual sports (golf, ping pong) should be the highest. Also, once at the professional level, course design is not much of a factor for left vs. right handed golfers.
This guy already did... http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Minecraft-Calculator-Graphing-MaxSGB-Scientific,15109.html.
It's called South Dakota.
correlate with supernovae rate? This is a interesting analysis and paper, although I think it is hard to draw the distinction when only two (or three, if you count bacteria over all time) clades have actually 'dominated' the earth, reptiles and mammals. I don't know enough about classification to also include the oceans, but it is my understanding that they contain relatively low biomass other than microorganisms. I guess you could consider some sort of insect or arthropod for both, but those have dominated fairly consistently with bacteria as far as I know.
Good analogy...
Hate replying to myself, but I think it might be worthwhile to add: I have seen the internal workings of the water control systems of my fairly modest local area (3,000,000 area, largest municipal serves ~200-300 K). I would hate to see what happened if any of those controls were maliciously compromised, as it could lead to problematic flooding or draining municipal systems. I am concerned that the major controls for these systems are maintained computationally, but the tradeoff has been reduction in monitoring, and there may not be enough people on staff to mechanically secure the system if something seriously goes wrong. ~Fear mongering late on a Monday night.
I have absolutely no professional or political insight on this issue. Circumstantially, I think it is fairly convenient that the recent controversy about Hormuz and the duplication of the drone happened recently and this story broke, along with the whole stuxnet business. I am not comp-sci literate enough to even understand what happened with that (although, I might be on par with a lot of folks who are dealing with these issues). Are we entering a new stage of 'cyber-warfare' that has been talked about since basically WWII, or are we talking about local infiltration of systems looking to debase a reigning power regime? Is this a serious national problem for Iran, or is it Imperialistic forces taking pre-emptive steps? I probably will never know, but I would like to, just because I am a huge nerd.
the musical fruit, The more you eat, the more you toot! The more you toot, the better you feel, so eat your beans with every meal!! -a song my mom used to sing to me as a child. I'll never forget it.
Nice post! I am running a ten year old Dell on XP with a 15 year RT monitor (I broke the nice 21 inch or whatever they were selling in 2002, and replaced it with a 'throwaway' 17 inch CRT from a friends business). The only thing I have replaced in the machine is the video card, and it is still going strong. I admit that the last high end game I bought was HL2, but it plays nicely. I am not a person that buys into the 'three year old hardware is obsolete' crowd, but the 'planned failure' model pisses me off. I am writing this post from a 2009 netbook my brother bought, HD failed, so I installed Ubuntu linux from live boot to a USB external HD. Works fine.
It's not real science if it comes from Instituto Superior Taquito, although they do make some great snacks.
My first Bible was 20,000 Leagues Under the Holy See.
While I agree with your point, I think your admitted anger (username for example) is directed at something that could be solved if your anger was directed at a different problem for which I share the same, if not quite as pointed, anger. Education should be locally based and locally controlled.
I know many Canadians from the SW Ontario region who fight for jobs at Anderson Window (one of the last good family run companies in the US). Where do they shop for subsistence goods? 2-3 times a year, they drive into the US, back up to Winnepeg, and shop at the Costco/Walmarts there ~200 mi. each way, do not quote me on the distance. Reason? It's cheaper to drive across border four times and shop the mass retailers than it is to drive 50-100 mi. and shop the same places in the US.
I agree with you, people should RTPWRT. I read yours and the parent, and I fully agree. I am currently taking a course in higher level calculus (I'm a biologist, not an engineer) because I want to expand my engineering/compsci/logic/maths before I pursue a phd, as I don't fully understand some of the lab equipment I work with and some of the analysis I do. I fully understand the concepts that I am testing and the methods that we are using, but I am not a person that likes to put things into a machine and get things out without knowing how it happened. Point is, I thought that beyond the extravagant pricing of credits for an online calc course, I would be done. After I registered, I found out that I also had to purchase the supplemental 'materials' from the university bookstore. Not resellable, of course, because there is a unique user for the purchase. I have gotten by so far with used text books (some of which were published in the 80's, often found at used book stores for a dollar). Sure, it has taken some effort on my part to google things from the curriculum that I can't find, or even easier, just ask people I know who might have some insight. I got a $3,000 (four calc courses worth) education on partial derivitaves over the course of four days from a theoretical physicist friend of mine by taking him and his wife out to a nice dinner and asking him for help. He's no Richard Feynman, but I have known him for 20 yrs (2nd Grade). Cost to me, $300. Sometimes I think that the Greeks had it right, open forum, open discussion. If there is a question of intellectual prowess severe enough to come to blows, then fight it to the death. The victor has the right to share the knowledge with others that want to learn. Untill, of course, a giant thinks he is smarter than him.
'The only music that you can hear for free is when the birds sing,' apparently doesnt hold in the US. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/26/2141246/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copyrighted-music
I don't think it was about looking for knowledgeable people, it was about finding a jury that would be most easy to sway from making informed opinions on the evidence presented. My background would probably lead people to think that I am competent in (or at least believe in) forming opinions based on presented evidence. Therefore, struck from jury.
Because the defense gets to question jurors first, the prosecutor did not even get a chance to talk to me. I was called in to the court room with the defense and the defendant, and the prosecutors (also of course the judge). After cursory introductions, the defense asked me one question about my level of education and one very broad question about DNA evidence in trials. The defense struck me immediatley, and the judge sent me on my way.
I probably would have been more specific, except that as the lawyers cannot actually discuss anything involving the process regarding collection or analysis of evidence, the question was more along the lines of "do you think that DNA evidence can assist a jury in making a decision." I would have been more literal if I actually thought people could so pedantic about a somewhat sarcastic antecdote.
will be well enough educated in technology to make a reasonable decision based on evidence. The last time I had jury duty on a first degree murder case, the person selected from my pool brought a herd of ants into the jury room with his lunch bag (plastic bag from store checkout) and kept going on about how special he was because he and his wife had the only set of twins in the world with identical fingerprints. I am a biologist and was strucken from further review by the defense because I answered the question "Do you believe that DNA technology is accurate?" with "Yes sir, I believe it is accurate." It must be great to be a lawyer.
I would accept it if they reqired the researchers disclose how they will plan to license their results. Or they could do something like provide legal documentation for those researchers who choose to disclose. That way, crowd-sourcers could actively choose those projects that are both cool and fit their feelings on freedom of information.
Is that RMS?
Work pod, travel pod, overnight pod, they're all the same pod!!! Doesn't anybody else notice this!!! Am I going crazy!!!
Try $100 each. And where I'm from, publicly funded stadiums for the atheletes and owners to profit from in the sake of 'beautifying downtown and bringing jobs and businesses in'. I am a sports fan, my family has had Vikings season tickets since their inception, and Target Field is beautiful. I do not agree with public funding for inflated business models, which is what sports has become. If you are worth a $1,000,000,000 stadium, build it yourself, and if you expect me to pay for it, well, you are losing a customer.
This also requires holding people indefinetely without bringing charges, something that is constitutionally not allowed in the U... oh, wait.
Thanks, AC. There is an analogy here to the NFL controversy surrounding the bounty with the Saints. Do you think they didn't know what was going on? If they truly did not, isn't there job to know what is going on?