The growth rate could be proportional to 1/r^2 on a galactic scale, but diverge from that on an intergalactic scale.
Unlikely? Probably. Worth looking into to? I don't know NEARLY enough about physics and the observations that have already been made to make any kind of call on that.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Board games are hard for computers because a doubling in power doesn't double how far ahead you can look, it only increases it by a constant amount.
That's not the only reason a system like this is ridiculous. It's essentially a tax on everyone, except they're going to spend a ton of money figuring out exactly who to tax. For god's sake, just raise the tax instead of hiding it in systems that will end up making people pay more taxes.
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DRM cracking requires the end user to hit "copy dvd". Lock picking requires the end user to understand the art and practice it. They are completely different.
Now they just need to argue that being formed in the womb, and learning to play an instrument is an algorithm which takes DNA and produces music. Instant lawsuits vs everyone!
Did you even read the study? It wasn't investigating diseases, it was investigating electro-sensitivity to see if it was a real effect or a psychological effect.
They did a non-blinded and a blinded run. When the subjects knew the field was on or off, their symptoms correlated with it (not surprising). When they didn't know, their symptoms DIDN'T correlate with the field. That suggests the symptoms aren't caused by the field, but by their knowledge of it.
That won't work well with ads in general, because your desires change over time. For example, you'll be interested in car ads only when you're considering buying a new car.
Also, people like me would just vote every ad down until we didn't have to see anything. If I want to see advertisements for a product I'LL GO LOOK FOR IT.
Horrible idea. Majority of user won't understand why the site won't work (even with the "SCRIPTS BLOCKED" message). At best, they should be optional. Oh wait... THEY ARE
More choice is better. If there's more branching then there's a much better chance that one of the branches will have a very high quality. Then the other branches slowly die off and you're left with the best (which is branched again, leading to more improvement). It is very much an evolutionary process.
That is one of the advantages linux will always have over windows: windows only gets 1 chance. If vista were to fail, windows would be in serious trouble.
That would be easy to defeat: ignore 11 and 00, count 01 as a 1, count 10 as a 0. There's a name for this, but I don't remember it. At the very least it turns liquid nitrogen into a DOS instead of a break.
Quicksort is randomized, has fantastic cache performance, and its worst case behavior is very unlikely. There are plenty of other randomized algorithms with bad worst-cases but which work better the majority of the time. That's what makes randomized algorithms so sexy.
You thinks that bad? I had noscript/adblock on and it still somehow managed to get a flash ad through. Looked like some kind of XSS, and now I need to run a few virus checks...
There are four issues we should be worried about with these photos, compared to a passer-by: - Photos are permanent, and can be shared very, very easily with others - You can tell when someone is looking at you, will you recognize the Google van? - Photos can leave out important information that becomes obvious when glancing in - You can look through photos for the interesting ones
I think a "worst case" would be a photo of a man hitting his wife, except it's just a trick of perspective. Imagine the social damage done, even with the wife denying it.
Tracking your speed as you travel from point to point and using that to estimate speeds in the future would probably work just as well as this after a month of use.
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The growth rate could be proportional to 1/r^2 on a galactic scale, but diverge from that on an intergalactic scale.
Unlikely? Probably. Worth looking into to? I don't know NEARLY enough about physics and the observations that have already been made to make any kind of call on that.
Theories change as more evidence is found?! NOOOOooooo!!! /sarc
note: there are steps in between
One would assume at that point they could just give you an artificial spine, which could support 100's of pounds.
The paralympics would become a lot more popular.
Don't forget Remote It Permanently and/or GreaseMonkey, for those websites that really, really want to deliver ads and sign-up links.
Don't miss out on the irony.
When it's THEIR data, they refuse to give it to the government.
You are going to love this new fangled game of mine: probabilistic rock-paper-scissors.
Paper beats rock 2/3 of the time, scissors beats paper 2/3 of the time, and rock beats scissors 2/3 of the time.
They could always just apply a one-way transformation to the sample so you couldn't get that kind of info out of it.
The monkeys sound intelligent. Kill one and put its head on a pike medieval style to scare the rest away.
Why yes, it would be, thus "the computer beat him".
You have no idea what you're talking about. Board games are hard for computers because a doubling in power doesn't double how far ahead you can look, it only increases it by a constant amount.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_go#Why_perf
That's not the only reason a system like this is ridiculous. It's essentially a tax on everyone, except they're going to spend a ton of money figuring out exactly who to tax. For god's sake, just raise the tax instead of hiding it in systems that will end up making people pay more taxes.
DRM cracking requires the end user to hit "copy dvd". Lock picking requires the end user to understand the art and practice it. They are completely different.
Now they just need to argue that being formed in the womb, and learning to play an instrument is an algorithm which takes DNA and produces music. Instant lawsuits vs everyone!
A year or so ago our credit union ran a promotion where they mixed a few 50s in with the 20s. Does that count?
Did you even read the study? It wasn't investigating diseases, it was investigating electro-sensitivity to see if it was a real effect or a psychological effect.
They did a non-blinded and a blinded run. When the subjects knew the field was on or off, their symptoms correlated with it (not surprising). When they didn't know, their symptoms DIDN'T correlate with the field. That suggests the symptoms aren't caused by the field, but by their knowledge of it.
You can find a link to the study on this page:
http://www.badscience.net/?p=470
That won't work well with ads in general, because your desires change over time. For example, you'll be interested in car ads only when you're considering buying a new car.
Also, people like me would just vote every ad down until we didn't have to see anything. If I want to see advertisements for a product I'LL GO LOOK FOR IT.
Horrible idea. Majority of user won't understand why the site won't work (even with the "SCRIPTS BLOCKED" message). At best, they should be optional. Oh wait... THEY ARE
More choice is better. If there's more branching then there's a much better chance that one of the branches will have a very high quality. Then the other branches slowly die off and you're left with the best (which is branched again, leading to more improvement). It is very much an evolutionary process.
That is one of the advantages linux will always have over windows: windows only gets 1 chance. If vista were to fail, windows would be in serious trouble.
That would be easy to defeat: ignore 11 and 00, count 01 as a 1, count 10 as a 0. There's a name for this, but I don't remember it. At the very least it turns liquid nitrogen into a DOS instead of a break.
All of these articles and comments about people spreading FUD are just FUD. Also annoying.
Quicksort is randomized, has fantastic cache performance, and its worst case behavior is very unlikely. There are plenty of other randomized algorithms with bad worst-cases but which work better the majority of the time. That's what makes randomized algorithms so sexy.
To me, "hardcore" includes altering your appearance so you don't get spotted at random.
You thinks that bad? I had noscript/adblock on and it still somehow managed to get a flash ad through. Looked like some kind of XSS, and now I need to run a few virus checks...
There are four issues we should be worried about with these photos, compared to a passer-by:
- Photos are permanent, and can be shared very, very easily with others
- You can tell when someone is looking at you, will you recognize the Google van?
- Photos can leave out important information that becomes obvious when glancing in
- You can look through photos for the interesting ones
I think a "worst case" would be a photo of a man hitting his wife, except it's just a trick of perspective. Imagine the social damage done, even with the wife denying it.
Tracking your speed as you travel from point to point and using that to estimate speeds in the future would probably work just as well as this after a month of use.