That's like saying "can you take a measurement of every instance where force is applied so that we can determine the strength of newtonian mechanics?" I think the OP means to stay that every time a study on prayer/astrology has been done, it has demonstrated that there is no connection between the two. Some claim that prayer saves them from illnesses, but the third variable here is a positive attitude/will to live, something often held by religious people who are dying and therefore confused with prayer as a cause of their survival.
No, the pixel counter was actually a project for image analysis in an animal behavior lab I work in until we got a grant for more funds. And it did more than just count pixels.
And since when was java a long lasting language? I look stuff up in the API and it seems like a good fraction of the stuff is deprecated.
For the record, I am not a CS major, so all the comments trying to provide insight into my programming skills (or apparent lack thereof:-P ) aren't relevant to the discussion.
People like you are the reason why the CS/engineering crowd are considered arrogant douchebags. Java is a clunky language that should not be taught to intro classes. Not everyone is a genius like you are, apparently. FYI, I'm going into a career in neuroscience, and the CS department is overriding me into the AI course next semester even though I have less than a year of programming under my belt.
Yeah, I do google things and visit forums when I am having trouble, but its a huge time suck.
I just think its amazing that as a novice programmer I managed to write a program in python that does pixel counts in images and will soon be able to clunk them together, but in Java it takes me ages to do my homework. I really do spend more time trying to figure out how to create the algorithms in *java* than I do logically/in my head, if you see what I mean.
As a current college student, let me tell you that the Java Hype bomb is still around. I say that Java is to computer languages what English is to spoken languages....clunky but totally acceptable to people that don't know any better. I find myself spending more time solving Java related problems than I do solving the problems of my assignments. I really wish they would do python at the intro level so students could learn how to think about coding and then do C/C++ or something so we can see how shit *really* works at a more basic level. (I believe this is what MIT is doing at the moment?)
They are far right religious right wing assholes who believe in nearly everything most slashdotters are against. While I am happy to see them get shafted for numerous reasons, I still think the NFL are a bunch of assholes for doing this, because obviously they aren't the only people getting hit by this.
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I have one of those, and it even runs leopard like a dream.
I think the issue wasn't pain, but just surviving the injuries. There is no way they would *all* be walking after that crash. Especially when the crew, who is trained in things like that, didn't make it.
generally I avoid being the arrogant poster. But you are acting as if we are not worthy to hear your theory, so please share it with us and/or the world. Otherwise you are just another Internet crazy person that gives actual researchers a bad name.
Free will probably doesn't exist. The brain is like a very complex computer, and we like to think that we are special and think for ourselves. Not really. There is no neuron or area of the brain that is "you." If you look at people with split brains, it is clear that the two halves of their brain think and behave differently. This leads me (and others) to believe that there cannot be free will, but only the illusion thereof.
Really? Because everyone on here thinks that you are a huge joke. If you have such a wonderful idea of what a neuron does, validate it, share it, or get some professional help.
I follow your logic completely, but there is a difference between behavior and what is actually going on inside, because behavior is what we are observing. So while neuron x1 signaling y2 to y400 may be a computer simulation without any chemical processes whatsoever, as long as the end results are the same they can actually say that they have simulated it with 100% accuracy.
You are exactly right. The cellular stuff is the least complex (...for the purposes of this conversation), followed by systems, behavior, and then finally cognition. Some might put consciousness at the end of the list. This is precisely why we study rats or evolutionary ancestors (I work with fish) behavior and cellular systems, so we can discover the basic functions. Starting out with the human brain (with no comparative animal studies) is a bit like dismantling a nuclear reactor to figure out nuclear physics.
The human brain can do complex math, its just that we don't train it to. There are some exceptions, such as autistics and savants, something I would like to study in grad school. Special populations such as these will unlock loads of useful information.
Ok, since when is using the scientific method to determine the causes and mechanisms of behavior, cognition, and so on NOT a science? You seem like one of those elitists that believes that if there isn't esoteric amounts of math involved that x is not a science. Utter bullshit. If that is the case, I'll have you know there is a ton more math in psychology than many of the other "hard sciences." Dr. Phil is not psychology! Freud is dead. Biologists have only just *recently* realized that they need to use statistics to demonstrate the strength of their results. Psych has been doing that for ages. No one in Neuroscience is guessing. Think back to primary school where you learned the difference between a guess and a hypothesis. I don't think that Neuroscientists have forgotten that lesson, either.
The corporate agreements to set up a business (or in this case, base or warship, etc) with all MS products is much more extensive and useful than what you get when you go out and buy vista.
While I agree with your time analogy, Gnome and kde are desktop environments, not entire OSes. When a linux disto is updated every sixth months, it is quite impressive, although the amount of changes are not as substantial as a windows release. Having said this, many of the changes are under the hood and not in userland. Now OS X every 18 months....I don't know how they do it. THAT is amazing.
The concept you refer to is called experimental naiveté, meaning that you CANNOT use the same animals in multiple experiments because it will skew the data. I can't even do that with the beta fish in the lab I work in. What happens with animals is that they are sold, donated, adopted out, etc, but are not used again for research unless say, monkeys that have already been trained are needed for a related experiment. So assuming that they followed one of the most basic rules of animal research, the study isn't crap.
The thing I find the most appalling about this is that the two Senators who added this to the bill are on the higher ed committee! Their purpose is to protect and assist higher education and students, not to hurt it.
I wonder how long it will be before someone does something violent to the MAFIAA....
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If you mean to say that prayer is like a placebo, then yes, you are correct.
That's like saying "can you take a measurement of every instance where force is applied so that we can determine the strength of newtonian mechanics?" I think the OP means to stay that every time a study on prayer/astrology has been done, it has demonstrated that there is no connection between the two. Some claim that prayer saves them from illnesses, but the third variable here is a positive attitude/will to live, something often held by religious people who are dying and therefore confused with prayer as a cause of their survival.
No, the pixel counter was actually a project for image analysis in an animal behavior lab I work in until we got a grant for more funds. And it did more than just count pixels.
:-P ) aren't relevant to the discussion.
And since when was java a long lasting language? I look stuff up in the API and it seems like a good fraction of the stuff is deprecated.
For the record, I am not a CS major, so all the comments trying to provide insight into my programming skills (or apparent lack thereof
People like you are the reason why the CS/engineering crowd are considered arrogant douchebags. Java is a clunky language that should not be taught to intro classes. Not everyone is a genius like you are, apparently. FYI, I'm going into a career in neuroscience, and the CS department is overriding me into the AI course next semester even though I have less than a year of programming under my belt.
Yeah, I do google things and visit forums when I am having trouble, but its a huge time suck.
I just think its amazing that as a novice programmer I managed to write a program in python that does pixel counts in images and will soon be able to clunk them together, but in Java it takes me ages to do my homework. I really do spend more time trying to figure out how to create the algorithms in *java* than I do logically/in my head, if you see what I mean.
As a current college student, let me tell you that the Java Hype bomb is still around. I say that Java is to computer languages what English is to spoken languages....clunky but totally acceptable to people that don't know any better. I find myself spending more time solving Java related problems than I do solving the problems of my assignments. I really wish they would do python at the intro level so students could learn how to think about coding and then do C/C++ or something so we can see how shit *really* works at a more basic level. (I believe this is what MIT is doing at the moment?)
It wasn't in service yet. The F117 (the other stealth, aka the stealth fighter) did *loads* of missions, perhaps that is what you are thinking of.
I went to this church for a while as a kid.
They are far right religious right wing assholes who believe in nearly everything most slashdotters are against. While I am happy to see them get shafted for numerous reasons, I still think the NFL are a bunch of assholes for doing this, because obviously they aren't the only people getting hit by this.
I have one of those, and it even runs leopard like a dream.
I think the issue wasn't pain, but just surviving the injuries. There is no way they would *all* be walking after that crash. Especially when the crew, who is trained in things like that, didn't make it.
generally I avoid being the arrogant poster. But you are acting as if we are not worthy to hear your theory, so please share it with us and/or the world. Otherwise you are just another Internet crazy person that gives actual researchers a bad name.
Free will probably doesn't exist. The brain is like a very complex computer, and we like to think that we are special and think for ourselves. Not really. There is no neuron or area of the brain that is "you." If you look at people with split brains, it is clear that the two halves of their brain think and behave differently. This leads me (and others) to believe that there cannot be free will, but only the illusion thereof.
Unless you were actually beamed in bits and pieces across space.
I agree with your statements about continuity. Quite interesting.
Really? Because everyone on here thinks that you are a huge joke. If you have such a wonderful idea of what a neuron does, validate it, share it, or get some professional help.
I follow your logic completely, but there is a difference between behavior and what is actually going on inside, because behavior is what we are observing. So while neuron x1 signaling y2 to y400 may be a computer simulation without any chemical processes whatsoever, as long as the end results are the same they can actually say that they have simulated it with 100% accuracy.
You are exactly right. The cellular stuff is the least complex (...for the purposes of this conversation), followed by systems, behavior, and then finally cognition. Some might put consciousness at the end of the list. This is precisely why we study rats or evolutionary ancestors (I work with fish) behavior and cellular systems, so we can discover the basic functions. Starting out with the human brain (with no comparative animal studies) is a bit like dismantling a nuclear reactor to figure out nuclear physics.
The human brain can do complex math, its just that we don't train it to. There are some exceptions, such as autistics and savants, something I would like to study in grad school. Special populations such as these will unlock loads of useful information.
Ok, since when is using the scientific method to determine the causes and mechanisms of behavior, cognition, and so on NOT a science? You seem like one of those elitists that believes that if there isn't esoteric amounts of math involved that x is not a science. Utter bullshit. If that is the case, I'll have you know there is a ton more math in psychology than many of the other "hard sciences." Dr. Phil is not psychology! Freud is dead. Biologists have only just *recently* realized that they need to use statistics to demonstrate the strength of their results. Psych has been doing that for ages. No one in Neuroscience is guessing. Think back to primary school where you learned the difference between a guess and a hypothesis. I don't think that Neuroscientists have forgotten that lesson, either.
I for one welcome our simulated rat overlords!
The corporate agreements to set up a business (or in this case, base or warship, etc) with all MS products is much more extensive and useful than what you get when you go out and buy vista.
While I agree with your time analogy, Gnome and kde are desktop environments, not entire OSes. When a linux disto is updated every sixth months, it is quite impressive, although the amount of changes are not as substantial as a windows release. Having said this, many of the changes are under the hood and not in userland. Now OS X every 18 months....I don't know how they do it. THAT is amazing.
The concept you refer to is called experimental naiveté, meaning that you CANNOT use the same animals in multiple experiments because it will skew the data. I can't even do that with the beta fish in the lab I work in. What happens with animals is that they are sold, donated, adopted out, etc, but are not used again for research unless say, monkeys that have already been trained are needed for a related experiment. So assuming that they followed one of the most basic rules of animal research, the study isn't crap.
....are you sure that isn't Star Trek in its purest form?
i++ will then become the new symbol of freedom! Way to go dude.
The thing I find the most appalling about this is that the two Senators who added this to the bill are on the higher ed committee! Their purpose is to protect and assist higher education and students, not to hurt it.
I wonder how long it will be before someone does something violent to the MAFIAA....