Well, that is something you can develop. I suffered with bullies during childhood. My parents were aware of that and sent me to a psychotherapist, while giving me plenty support (without actually trying to solve the thing for me). This simple act did no end of good; one less excessively introspective guy in he world.
Offtopic!? I mention a related fusion power project and get modded "offtopic". Someone mention a related way of making things going kaboon and get modded "interesting". Ohh, insane world.
... all I can say is that, apart from caption in maps and clothes, everything is fine. It is also a very good topic to start a conversation at the bar table: "sure you are colorblind?! What color is this?" Sundenly I become the center of the attention and I like it like that! Stay away from my genes!
During my undergrad in CS, a professor told us that children can manage set theory more naturally than arithmetic. In his view, set theory should be more prominent in children education. He said that during a course of categories (the meta-theory of set theory).
They could do two passes on places and use the double collected data in order remove people and other movable things. I think this is and practically theoretically feasible.
Sometimes I feel that, if Tevatron succeeds in this task before LHC, it will be difficult to try to convince future politicians and administrators to finance such big science projects, like the LHC.
As long as parents have the legal "right" to force their (property) offspring into organized religion, ethical people have the RIGHT to use force to oppose such religions.
Sorry for replying myself. I forgot to finish my comment. In fact, this problem is related to the Symbol Grounding Problem. It addresses the issue of "grounding" symbols (like words) into their sensory representation, e.g., the symbol "triangle" into the raw pixel representation of a triangle. In the case of symbols about visual objects, some researchers used intermediary 3d abstraction of sensory data, mapping the symbols to these intermediary representations. It is a hot research topic since 80's.
While I agree with you, I must ask if it is possible to follow this "intelligent design" path forever. These systems are becoming more and more complex. Increasing the amount of knowledge in the system is becoming a difficult task. I cannot avoid thinking that the emergent approach like this has a better future.
Mod parent up!
However, while I trust Red Cross and other serious institutions, I am a little bit skeptical about the use of the money. To be more precise: when the resource is given to local authorities. Living in a developing country, I tired of seeing money and othe donations vanishing in all levels of local administration. This seems to be especially true during the "reconstruction" stage after disaster, when it is easier to hide corruption in false contracts with contractors.
According some reports, it was probably caused by the weather. Two main high-voltage power lines faulted simultaneously, causing part of the system to shutdown for safety. So, no hackers this time, I guess.
Radioisotope microbattery based on liquid semiconductor
Wacharasindhu, T. Kwon, J. W. Meier, D. E. Robertson, J. D
A liquid semiconductor-based radioisotope micropower source has been pioneerly developed. The semiconductor property of selenium was utilized along with a 166 MBq radioactive source of 35S as elemental sulfur. Using a liquid semiconductor-based Schottky diode, electrical power was distinctively generated from the radioactive source. Energetic beta radiations in the liquid semiconductor can produce numerous electron hole pairs and create a potential drop. The measured power from the microbattery is 16.2 nW with an open-circuit voltage of 899 mV and a short-circuit of 107.4 nA.
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Funny. People seems to have more problems with products in version 4. I can remember that Netbeans and Winamp sort of jumped from v3 to v4.
They could stay quiet about it.
There is no common sense at all in call centers.
When I read about these cases, I start to think that in USA people can outsource common sense. :)
Would they put my name as a coauthor of the papers? Yes? Deal!
Well, that is something you can develop. I suffered with bullies during childhood. My parents were aware of that and sent me to a psychotherapist, while giving me plenty support (without actually trying to solve the thing for me). This simple act did no end of good; one less excessively introspective guy in he world.
The punch line is usually in science.
Offtopic!? I mention a related fusion power project and get modded "offtopic". Someone mention a related way of making things going kaboon and get modded "interesting". Ohh, insane world.
On the subject of fusion power, the researchers at Focus Fusion seem to be doing a great job as well.
Why are they selling the wrong one?
... all I can say is that, apart from caption in maps and clothes, everything is fine. It is also a very good topic to start a conversation at the bar table: "sure you are colorblind?! What color is this?" Sundenly I become the center of the attention and I like it like that! Stay away from my genes!
During my undergrad in CS, a professor told us that children can manage set theory more naturally than arithmetic. In his view, set theory should be more prominent in children education. He said that during a course of categories (the meta-theory of set theory).
You are right. However, I guess it is possible to combine such algorithm with face detection, improving the accuracy off the remotion.
They could do two passes on places and use the double collected data in order remove people and other movable things. I think this is and practically theoretically feasible.
Sometimes I feel that, if Tevatron succeeds in this task before LHC, it will be difficult to try to convince future politicians and administrators to finance such big science projects, like the LHC.
As long as parents have the legal "right" to force their (property) offspring into organized religion, ethical people have the RIGHT to use force to oppose such religions.
Dangerous phrase.
Some time ago, they tried something similar with blogs.
Sorry for replying myself. I forgot to finish my comment. In fact, this problem is related to the Symbol Grounding Problem. It addresses the issue of "grounding" symbols (like words) into their sensory representation, e.g., the symbol "triangle" into the raw pixel representation of a triangle. In the case of symbols about visual objects, some researchers used intermediary 3d abstraction of sensory data, mapping the symbols to these intermediary representations. It is a hot research topic since 80's.
Similar things have been done in the past. However, this kind of approach still is an active research topic.
While I agree with you, I must ask if it is possible to follow this "intelligent design" path forever. These systems are becoming more and more complex. Increasing the amount of knowledge in the system is becoming a difficult task. I cannot avoid thinking that the emergent approach like this has a better future.
Mod parent up! However, while I trust Red Cross and other serious institutions, I am a little bit skeptical about the use of the money. To be more precise: when the resource is given to local authorities. Living in a developing country, I tired of seeing money and othe donations vanishing in all levels of local administration. This seems to be especially true during the "reconstruction" stage after disaster, when it is easier to hide corruption in false contracts with contractors.
If you believe in gun rights then you support terrorism in the US
That one is going to let some Al-Qaeda people confused.
According some reports, it was probably caused by the weather. Two main high-voltage power lines faulted simultaneously, causing part of the system to shutdown for safety. So, no hackers this time, I guess.
The "usual" orgasm is theoretical then?
Radioisotope microbattery based on liquid semiconductor
Wacharasindhu, T. Kwon, J. W. Meier, D. E. Robertson, J. D
A liquid semiconductor-based radioisotope micropower source has been pioneerly developed. The semiconductor property of selenium was utilized along with a 166 MBq radioactive source of 35S as elemental sulfur. Using a liquid semiconductor-based Schottky diode, electrical power was distinctively generated from the radioactive source. Energetic beta radiations in the liquid semiconductor can produce numerous electron hole pairs and create a potential drop. The measured power from the microbattery is 16.2 nW with an open-circuit voltage of 899 mV and a short-circuit of 107.4 nA.