What he didn't state were the instructions for those tests. The instructions specifically state to read every question before answering any of them. It's not a test, but a lesson in reading and following the instructions. As such, I think it has great value.
If by a great value you mean confusion, then your system of values is, um, confusing.
the first instruction is to read all the insctruction: while you are executing it, you read the other but don't execute them.
When you finish reading everything, you finish executing instruction 1, and can safely go on and execute instruction 2.
So what? What makes you think that your strategy is better (when you say things like "you should always look at everything before actually doing any[thing]") than answering straight away any questions one knows how to answer?
As I'm no math nerd, perhaps someone who is can explain why infinity is disallowed?
Infinity is not disallowed, and it has a precise mathematical meaning. In the context of physical theories, when a theory that should give a finite number for some physical quantity gives infinity instead, well, then something's wrong with that theory.
BTW, my physics is really rusty, doesn't one of Einstein's equations devolve into a newtonian equation at slow speed? Which just shows that things are truly built on top of one another.
It's easy to get Newtonian physics from Relativity. The hard part was to get Relativity knowing just Newtonian physics. Ergo, things are not just built on top of one another, but it's more like building beneath of what you don't know.
Not really. In SI, M stands for mega, which is 1 million.
It stands for mass, with capitalization distinguishing between the minor body and the major body in a simple system, or subscripting on a capital M being used to denote various bodies.
Not true. SI only regulates expression of units, not how symbols are used in mathematical formulas. Also, at least in physics and astronomy, M and m in formulas usually do denote masses, but no "major"/"minor" masses, whatever that might mean, but larger (M) and smaller (m) mass. This notation is not SI nor is it formalized.
K?
In SI system, K stands for Kelvin, unit of temperature. K does not stand for kilo (which is 1000), ok? SI symbol for kilo is k.
Stylization and capitalization and subscripting/superscripting bullshit does not translate at all to plain text or anything written by hand.
...what might happen if we could run a copy of The Sims on a truly massive supercomputer. It would need to be somewhat customised for that particular machine/environment, of course, but I think it could be interesting.
Yes, especially because scientists don't really have anything better to run on those computers.
There were times when I did see something close to genuinely emergent behaviour in the Sims 2, or more specifically, emergent combinations of pre-existing routines. You need to set things up for them in a way which is somewhat out of the box, and definitely not in line with real world human architectural or aesthetic norms, but it can happen. [emphasize added]
I see here something close to being genuinely interesting, especially when you say that the observed behavior of the game is "not in line with real world human architectural or aesthetic norms, but it can happen." You mean: it can happen in the computer game.
Isn't this movie about the guy who fakes his genetic id and still does stuff that was supposedly meant to be done with somebody with better genetic material than his?
In Europe, the focus is on whether Oracle will have the potential of building a dominant position in the enterprise-server market by acquiring MySQL. Oracle is the market leader in proprietary databases, while Sun's MySQL database product is the leading open-source database, the commission said.
Eugene Kaspersky once told a competitor to his face: "I will eat you." The co-founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab was certainly not into cannibalism,[...]
I work at a physics lab, and demand for these newer NVIDIA cards are exploding due to general-purpose GPU programming. With a little bit of creativity and experience, many computational problems can be parallelized, and then run on the multiple GPU cores with fantastic speedup. In our case, we got a simulation from 2s/frame to 12ms/frame. It's not trivial though, and the guy in our group who got good at it... he found himself on 7 different projects simultaneously as everyone was craving this technology. He eventually left b/c of the stress.
Why bother buying a computer motherboard, cpu and case? Maybe the case to store it in, but you could make a full fledged computer with just a graphics card they are so powerful.
Why bother with GPU and just go with a CPU they're so powerful?
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What he didn't state were the instructions for those tests. The instructions specifically state to read every question before answering any of them. It's not a test, but a lesson in reading and following the instructions. As such, I think it has great value.
If by a great value you mean confusion, then your system of values is, um, confusing.
Which makes me wonder what kind of smell you prefer in the morning.
the first instruction is to read all the insctruction: while you are executing it, you read the other but don't execute them. When you finish reading everything, you finish executing instruction 1, and can safely go on and execute instruction 2.
How do you then execute instruction 4?
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So what? What makes you think that your strategy is better (when you say things like "you should always look at everything before actually doing any[thing]") than answering straight away any questions one knows how to answer?
As I'm no math nerd, perhaps someone who is can explain why infinity is disallowed?
Infinity is not disallowed, and it has a precise mathematical meaning. In the context of physical theories, when a theory that should give a finite number for some physical quantity gives infinity instead, well, then something's wrong with that theory.
BTW, my physics is really rusty, doesn't one of Einstein's equations devolve into a newtonian equation at slow speed? Which just shows that things are truly built on top of one another.
It's easy to get Newtonian physics from Relativity. The hard part was to get Relativity knowing just Newtonian physics. Ergo, things are not just built on top of one another, but it's more like building beneath of what you don't know.
M means many things in the SI world.
Not really. In SI, M stands for mega, which is 1 million.
It stands for mass, with capitalization distinguishing between the minor body and the major body in a simple system, or subscripting on a capital M being used to denote various bodies.
Not true. SI only regulates expression of units, not how symbols are used in mathematical formulas. Also, at least in physics and astronomy, M and m in formulas usually do denote masses, but no "major"/"minor" masses, whatever that might mean, but larger (M) and smaller (m) mass. This notation is not SI nor is it formalized.
K?
In SI system, K stands for Kelvin, unit of temperature. K does not stand for kilo (which is 1000), ok? SI symbol for kilo is k.
Stylization and capitalization and subscripting/superscripting bullshit does not translate at all to plain text or anything written by hand.
This is bullshit alright.
...what might happen if we could run a copy of The Sims on a truly massive supercomputer. It would need to be somewhat customised for that particular machine/environment, of course, but I think it could be interesting.
Yes, especially because scientists don't really have anything better to run on those computers.
There were times when I did see something close to genuinely emergent behaviour in the Sims 2, or more specifically, emergent combinations of pre-existing routines. You need to set things up for them in a way which is somewhat out of the box, and definitely not in line with real world human architectural or aesthetic norms, but it can happen. [emphasize added]
I see here something close to being genuinely interesting, especially when you say that the observed behavior of the game is "not in line with real world human architectural or aesthetic norms, but it can happen." You mean: it can happen in the computer game.
Isn't this movie about the guy who fakes his genetic id and still does stuff that was supposedly meant to be done with somebody with better genetic material than his?
Oh how do I love thee? Let me spell the ways: GATTACA
What is this GATTACA thing?
or created something non-C like...
Roderborg idiot.
In Europe, the focus is on whether Oracle will have the potential of building a dominant position in the enterprise-server market by acquiring MySQL. Oracle is the market leader in proprietary databases, while Sun's MySQL database product is the leading open-source database, the commission said.
you don't understand?
You speak as IF_He_were_G*d.
Eugene Kaspersky once told a competitor to his face: "I will eat you." The co-founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab was certainly not into cannibalism,[...]
He only wanted to eat him. Then eat him Eugene!
Just be careful not to think "first post"
Or "frost piss".
Well at least now we know what it is for.
Wouldn't the circular version of the periodic table be better represented as a spiral to reflect continuity in sizes?
No, it wouldn't.
[...] I think not.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Dude, it's a dart board.
Some people quite simply comprehend things more efficiently when the information is supplied in a context that is comfortable to them.
While some other people comprehend things more efficiently when the information is supplied in a context that is comfortable to them.
I work at a physics lab, and demand for these newer NVIDIA cards are exploding due to general-purpose GPU programming. With a little bit of creativity and experience, many computational problems can be parallelized, and then run on the multiple GPU cores with fantastic speedup. In our case, we got a simulation from 2s/frame to 12ms/frame. It's not trivial though, and the guy in our group who got good at it... he found himself on 7 different projects simultaneously as everyone was craving this technology. He eventually left b/c of the stress.
That sounds like a physics lab alright!
Most of my customers just rave about how "blazing fast" the new dual and quad AMDs I've been building them are, [...]
That surely puts a whole new perspective on the next generation of GPUs.
Why bother buying a computer motherboard, cpu and case? Maybe the case to store it in, but you could make a full fledged computer with just a graphics card they are so powerful.
Why bother with GPU and just go with a CPU they're so powerful?