"low IQ that are strongly linked with criminal behavior."
I find this hard to believe.
Couldn't it be that IQ has nothing to do with one's predisposition towards criminal behavior, but rather with one's propensity to get CAUGHT committing a crime (and thus influence statistics such as these)?
A well-prepared linux installation is fairly unassailable and maintenance-free. Google 'lock down linux', do a bit of reading. Once you get a feel for the security measures that should be enacted, any distro with gnome or kde should work nicely for you.
From the article:
"Almost everything in quantum theory is mind-boggling and outside the box, sometimes transforming the box into an inverted spherical cube of infinite volume or forcing an entirely new definition of the essence of boxness."
I possess only a layman's knowledge of quantum physics, and I was wondering if any other readers could shed some light on this paragraph.
Is this a good analogy for some technical aspect of the physics the researchers are working with, or was the author just getting cute with words?
I wonder if I am wasting my time trying to picture an inverted spherical cube...
in the U.S. investors/shareholders enjoy most of the profits from research; execs' profits come in at a dismal 2nd. incidentally, most of the research is funded by tax dollars via the NSF and defense spending, and the resultant technologies and products are then shelled out as corporate welfare (free tech for corporations). these technologies and products are then sold to consumers in the U.S. by the very companies they have subsidized. true story.
FTA:
"We want to be able to explore different ideas, different connectivity patterns, different operations in these areas..."
Building this system of interconnected processors is not 'building a brain' or even 'building the cortex.' The scientists/engineers are buidling a scaled down, highly abstracted implementation of a certain subset of subsystems of the brain, none of which are well understood. This is good exploratory science, laudable in its goals, but it is a laughable proposition that this system will be even a rudimentary modeling of the real world. A [human] brain is a highly integrated set of systems, whose most interesting attribute is [arguably] that it allows humans to think. Whatever this silicon system [or any subsequent system, no matter how advanced] achieves, 'thinking' [as in the common-sense definition] will not be one of its abilities; that is, unless you wish to engage in a semantics game... Turing knew this... see Chomsky's "Language and Thought: Some Reflections on Venerable Themes"... relevant excerpts here http://www.zmag.org/CHOMSKY/pp/#C1
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Intriguing, could anyone provide a little more detail?
"low IQ that are strongly linked with criminal behavior." I find this hard to believe. Couldn't it be that IQ has nothing to do with one's predisposition towards criminal behavior, but rather with one's propensity to get CAUGHT committing a crime (and thus influence statistics such as these)?
A well-prepared linux installation is fairly unassailable and maintenance-free. Google 'lock down linux', do a bit of reading. Once you get a feel for the security measures that should be enacted, any distro with gnome or kde should work nicely for you.
...and is responsible for the foundation of modern mathematics. and Chess!From the article: "Almost everything in quantum theory is mind-boggling and outside the box, sometimes transforming the box into an inverted spherical cube of infinite volume or forcing an entirely new definition of the essence of boxness." I possess only a layman's knowledge of quantum physics, and I was wondering if any other readers could shed some light on this paragraph. Is this a good analogy for some technical aspect of the physics the researchers are working with, or was the author just getting cute with words? I wonder if I am wasting my time trying to picture an inverted spherical cube...
All you had to do was turn up the gamma!
What reasoning led you to justify LOTRO's departure from WoW's 2-faction set-up? The lore and the market, it seems, were begging for it.
in the U.S. investors/shareholders enjoy most of the profits from research; execs' profits come in at a dismal 2nd. incidentally, most of the research is funded by tax dollars via the NSF and defense spending, and the resultant technologies and products are then shelled out as corporate welfare (free tech for corporations). these technologies and products are then sold to consumers in the U.S. by the very companies they have subsidized. true story.
see Language and Thought: Some Reflections on Venerable Themes
FTA: "We want to be able to explore different ideas, different connectivity patterns, different operations in these areas..." Building this system of interconnected processors is not 'building a brain' or even 'building the cortex.' The scientists/engineers are buidling a scaled down, highly abstracted implementation of a certain subset of subsystems of the brain, none of which are well understood. This is good exploratory science, laudable in its goals, but it is a laughable proposition that this system will be even a rudimentary modeling of the real world. A [human] brain is a highly integrated set of systems, whose most interesting attribute is [arguably] that it allows humans to think. Whatever this silicon system [or any subsequent system, no matter how advanced] achieves, 'thinking' [as in the common-sense definition] will not be one of its abilities; that is, unless you wish to engage in a semantics game... Turing knew this... see Chomsky's "Language and Thought: Some Reflections on Venerable Themes"... relevant excerpts here http://www.zmag.org/CHOMSKY/pp/#C1