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  1. Re:Who let US out of the playground again? on EU Committee Says No To Bank Data Sharing · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I hear it's a great place to live if you're a white, christian, non-slavic person of northern european descent with a lot of money.

    We Norwegians are very white, mainly christian, non-slavic, oil rich, and live in the most nothern parts of Europe, ...and we are not members of EU.

    Kim0

  2. I will lose money on this on Data Mining Competition To Improve Drug Safety · · Score: 1

    ...even if I win, since the prizes are so small. Kim0

  3. Re:Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 1

    I post an actual mathematical proof of my claim,
    and gets a score of "0, Troll".

    This is evidence that Slashdot contains its more than fair share of aggressive truth deniers, just like religions, politics, and newspapers.

    Yet another reason to be even more discriminate when listening to people, and to consider them as entertainment instead.

    Kim0

  4. Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lack of free climate data was in itself evidence that there was something wrong with the global warming theories.
    Lack of records, source, and IPCC records are of course also evidence of something deceitful.

    And for those of you that do not believe that absence of evidence is evidence of absence:
    it has been proven mathematically to be true:

    http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

    Kim0

  5. 3 types of ideas on How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away? · · Score: 1

    These are the 3 types of ideas I myself have worked with.

    1. The idea is impossible in practice.
    This is almost always due to the idea being incoherent in some way, and you can ask about the part you guess might be incoherent.
    Next is that the idea has some kind of bottle neck, such as there being no widely known fast algorithm to solve the problem.

    2. There is an essential part of the idea, typically an unknown or too slow algorithm.
    When you ask, those smart enough to answer, will often immediately understand the idea, while those not smart enough to understand the idea, will not know if there is a good enough algorithm.
    However, I have experienced on several occasions that very smart and knowing people did not get my idea, because it was too unusual. So, if your idea is sufficiently unusual or untypical, but can be made from parts that are typically used in other fields, asking can be done relatively safely.

    3. The idea is doable, and only needs excellent people to implement it.
    In this case, there tends to have already been several teams which have tried it, and failed, typically in Java.
    My experience is that these ideas can be asked in parts without revealing too much, and even if revealed, it is not a big problem because people usually fail at implementing it. This is the kind of idea that I typically am able to implement myself, alone, but which I will fail implementing when part of a team, especially if it is a Java team.

    You guessing that contracts is disliked, is an indicator that you are smart enough to actually come up with genuine original idea.

    Kim0

  6. I can do better on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are much better stuff than white paint for reflecting the sun light.

    There are retro-reflectors, which send the sun back into space, while white paint sends most of it to the ground and clouds.

    My system can even turn off the reflection, to cool off at night. It is a sun driven air conditioner, or heater, and cheap as well

    http://kim.oyhus.no/SunValve/

    Kim0

  7. Re:Making solar sails on Space Sails Could Bring Used Rockets Back To Earth · · Score: 1

    No, it is not aero-breaking,
    because of all the holes, which let air through.

    Kim0

  8. Making solar sails on Space Sails Could Bring Used Rockets Back To Earth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here is my idea for making an extra light solar sail:

    http://kim.oyhus.no/Solar_sail.html

    Kim0

  9. No real information on Leg-Paralysis Sensing, Stimulation Device Steps Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    It says nothing about what the neural cuffs do, or how they do it, or what they do it for. All it says is that there is some 'electromagic' box connected to the nerves, helping paralyzed people in some mysterious way. And that it took time and money to make.

    This lack of real information irritates me.

    What is it? Investor fodder?

    Kim0

  10. RiscOS on 10 OSes We Left Behind · · Score: 1

    Anyone want my functioning RiscPC 700, with RiscOS and NetBSD?
    With Acorn C/C++ and Star Fighter 3000.

    Kim0

  11. Future on Sacrificing Accuracy For Speed and Efficiency In Processors · · Score: 1

    By doing noisy calculations twice, or more, or slower, the errors can be decreased a lot.

    This is the same effect as in reading of DNA, where it is read several times to remove errors.

    I guess that for low power processors of the future, there must be methods to adjust these trade offs between accuracy, speed, and energy use.

    I can think of several ways of doing this by traditional programming.

    Kim0

  12. Re:Fracking Halleluja on Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution · · Score: 1

    I understand that you believe in evolution and you don't believe in God,..

    No, you do NOT understand that.
    You only believe that.

    If you had understood, you would have known that theories, like evolution, are verified or falsified, instead of believed in.

    Kim0

  13. Re:Measuring productivity on When Agile Projects Go Bad · · Score: 1

    You did not supply any evidence for your claim.
    Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

    Kim0

  14. Measuring productivity on When Agile Projects Go Bad · · Score: 1

    Measuring productivity is easy:

    Just give the same projects to 2 teams,
    with randomly given different methodologies,
    and then see how often and how fast they succeed.

    One can then use the usual statistical tools to analyze these results.

    Of course this costs a lot.
    But not knowing also costs a lot.

    Kim0

  15. Re:Title on Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed · · Score: 1

    I am sick of people abusing Occam's Razor. It is by no means a scientific law, but rather a method of choosing which guess is the best guess. Even used as such, it's much more philosophical than scientific.

    Read Wikipedia if you like.

    Ockhams Razor is much more powerful than you believe.

    If you have 2 theories which explain the data equally well, but one theory is 10 bits simpler, then it is 1000 times more probable.

    Algorithmic Information Theory is about stuff like this.

    Kim0

  16. 1 bit more per cell on Four SSDs Compared — OCZ, Super Talent, Mtron · · Score: 1

    I know how to get one bit more per flash cell, without increasing error tolerance.

    Kim0

  17. Re:Enemies of our trade on Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction · · Score: 1

    Considering that you were wrong on all counts,
    your claim that you have been bettering yourself,
    is only consistent if you were even worse to begin with.

    As for jobs, it is my experience that people are disposable, no matter their quality.

    Kim0

  18. Re:Enemies of our trade on Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction · · Score: 1

    I am European, M.Sc. in physics, etc, so you are wrong on all accounts.

    Kim0

  19. Enemies of our trade on Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction · · Score: 1

    Yet another reason for obsoleting judges, like the music industry has been obsoleted by computers and programmers.

    It is a pity their trade is an enemy to our trade,
    since this is totally unnecessary.

    So, what about making free systems that predict judgings?

    Any other suggestions on how to accomplish this?

    Kim0

  20. We are geniuses on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1

    To us, this is terribly obvious,
    but to the patent examiners, and their cohorts,
    this is not obvious, because if it were, it would not be patented, since it is not legal to patent obvious stuff.

    This means that we are far smarter than patent examiners, lawyers, judges, etc.

    So, the reason we work in depressing distracting places instead of being rich and happy due to us being geniuses, must be that the stupids are attacking us, suppressing us, and generally flocking together in order to harm us, steal from us, and generally oppress us.

    But then again, another explanation might be that the patent system and similar is insane.

    Kim0

  21. the Stokke Duo chair on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    I have used the "Stokke Duo" chair for many years programming and other stuff. It is very good, because it allows so many different sitting positions.

    It once got a prize for being the best office chair.

    http://www.opsvik.no/index.asp?page=works_11002_balans_Duo_anim&ver=6

    Unfortunately, they apparently do not produce it any more, or I would immediately buy a new one, as mine is quite worn and partly broken.

    Kim0

  22. Making connections on Career Choices for Computational Biologists? · · Score: 1

    In my experience, making connections for your next job is bullshit.

    I have deep experience in fingerprint analysis, and made connections, but no jobs. I know of others in the same predicament. Experience seems to correlate negatively.

    Same for the oil business, and unix system administration.

    I now consider it to by a myth that one can get jobs by connections like that.

    The reality is getting very different jobs sequentially, as one gets good at a business, and then gets unpopular in that business.

    Kim0

  23. Re:Awesome! on First Superheavy Element Found In Nature · · Score: 1

    What about using superheavy elements as a thorium reactor catalyst?

    Perhaps something like this could work:
    Proton hits superheavy nucleus and gets absorbed, which makes the inner electrons relativistic, so one gets absorbed and turns one proton into a neutron, which gets emitted, hits a thorium nucleus, which splits, giving away energy, driving the whole thing.

    Kim Ãyhus

  24. Making a better solar sail on Finnish Electric Solar Sail Nears Implementation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This should make the solar sail about 100 times lighter,
    and therefore faster:

    http://kim.oyhus.no/Solar_sail.html

    Kim Øyhus, the inventor.

  25. Easy to fix on Space Elevators Face Wobble Problem · · Score: 1

    Just absorb wobbles when they reach the ground station, by moving it.
    The elevator string behaves like a one dimensional wave, and they can be completely absorbed at a point.
    It could also be steered by that point, the ground station.

    Kim0