Keep Dreaming. Its hard enough to get the average researcher to make sure he or she includes accession numbers for mandatory deposition of data related to publication. Getting them to a contribute to a big community database is sheer fantasy. Plenty of opportunities for this already exist. Centralizing it won't help matters much. Scientists are just like anyone else. They need to make a buck and they don't give away products (data) for free and they certainly don't go out of their way to make it accessible. Now, if google could buy all of the journals and force scientists to deposit data, publish accession information, and formalize meta-data of said data, then we might be getting somewhere.
You can mismanage FEMA and let a major city turn into a swamp
I'm risking getting OT here, and I love to bash Bush as much as the next guy (trust me on that), but you must be more nuts than me (see any of my previous posts to calibrate your nut-meter) to believe that mismanagement of FEMA was in any way related to the levies in New Orleans breaking.
You are 24, 27 max. You should think about things and get health insurance. I do not work for or sell health insurance, nor am I a doctor or a lawyer or in the pharm industry, but unless you are rich, you will need it sooner than you think.
I wonder if the military might get more than they bargained for if they try to use "fear pheromones":
Afterwards subjects were asked to try and distinguish between pads worn by people seeing each film. The results showed that they could -- though subjects thought the smell was aggression rather than fear.
Perhaps, as animals do, people respond to fear with aggression and so people are really describing what they experience when the smell the arm pads. Maybe Uncle Sam will drop a fear pheromone bomb on a pack of peaceful protestors and produce a violent mob...well, maybe that might actually be a good technique. Then the military would have a good reason to mow them down. Ok. I'm scared shitless now.
Perhaps, but even so it is still better than many of the alternatives. I often hear the lament, particularly from new college graduates, that offshoring is killing their job opportunities or that their wages are stagnant and any number of other gripes with the possible exception of age discrimination.
Everyone is talking about college graduates. If these belly-achers stopped and read the actual article, they would find their complaining was ill-founded except for the natural bitterness that comes with old age. None of the key indicators suggested that the abilities of college graduates have declined. The indicators suggest that the numbers of such graduates are not keeping pace with the rest of the world.
This knee-jerk bashing of new college graduates and the irresponsible moderators who give these idiots a voice need to be stopped. Such attitudes and bias are likely part of the force that drives the US's decline in science. Get over your old age! I have.
Surface tension arises from cohesion and not adhesion. The two types of liquids were probably chosen such that the cohesive forces in the experiment were similar to that for water in air. Adhesive forces may exist between the liquids, but should not affect the experiment. Cohesive forces can be calculated by measuring the angle of the meniscus (if the adhesive forces between the liquid and its container are known).
Why not just suck water out of a sponge? This is twice as good as a silly straw (aka "corckscrew cup") because you could use it to clean up spills as well as prevent them.
> Several things make me question that. One, why is the robot in north Carolina and the monkey in Japan? It's just for show. Nothing of scientific significance is being demonstrated by that. We all know that internet can connect two gizmos across large distances. The experiment could have been conducted much more simply at one location and made no less effective a point (except to clueless investors maybe).
If you had built a robot in Japan and your friend figured out a way to read a monkeys thoughts in NC, why would you ship one operation to the other location when you can link everything up with wires. Sounds like they saved a lot of money here.
> Secondly, because of the distance, there is a significant delay (TFA says 250ms, about what I might have guessed.) This would seem to preclude the monkey being able to control the robots actuators in any direct sense. I.e. lift thigh, swing lower leg forward, position foot, lower thigh, positioning body over front leg. Walking is a "controlled fall". No way you could issue all those commands 250ms ahead of seeing or feeling their effect. You'd trip and fall.
The conscious information required to generate human walk is tiny in comparison to its complexity at the physical scale. Most movements required for walk are processed between the muscle and the spinal chord and never involve the brain at all. This is called "reflex". It is legitimate to locate the reflex action in the robot when one considers the actual physiology of walking.
> My guess is that they are simply getting a binary command value from the monkey: "walk" or "don't walk". And the whole robot thing is just for effect. I hate to be such a cynic but this looks like showmanship, not science. If that is the case then this is equivalent to the simple video games that have been demonstrated using brain control.
The use of a robot is *proof* of principle. You can not simply model a phenomenon on a computer screen and claim success. We live in a physical world and so we need to perform physical experiments to validate our theories or test our systems. This is why Nobel prizes go to experimentalists as a rule (or at least to the people who acquire funding for the experiments).
Wouldn't pretty draconian laws against spam make this sort of surveillance easier by lowering the noise? You have to see both sides of the coin, people (this coin, of course, not being a nickel).
It won't be wrong or right until we find out who actually gets them. Are you going to put your money where your righteous mouth is and make an actual prediction? Racist will likely characterize the distribution of the laptops. Racist does not describe the tag, which suggests only what the predicted distribution of laptops and says nothing of the qualities of any race as far as I can tell. You, sir, are more racist than the tag to suggest that the tag describes the economic disposition of black children.
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Imagine a bunch of /. geeks discussing humor. Now the irony there is hilarious!
Keep Dreaming. Its hard enough to get the average researcher to make sure he or she includes accession numbers for mandatory deposition of data related to publication. Getting them to a contribute to a big community database is sheer fantasy. Plenty of opportunities for this already exist. Centralizing it won't help matters much. Scientists are just like anyone else. They need to make a buck and they don't give away products (data) for free and they certainly don't go out of their way to make it accessible. Now, if google could buy all of the journals and force scientists to deposit data, publish accession information, and formalize meta-data of said data, then we might be getting somewhere.
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I'm risking getting OT here, and I love to bash Bush as much as the next guy (trust me on that), but you must be more nuts than me (see any of my previous posts to calibrate your nut-meter) to believe that mismanagement of FEMA was in any way related to the levies in New Orleans breaking.
You are 24, 27 max. You should think about things and get health insurance. I do not work for or sell health insurance, nor am I a doctor or a lawyer or in the pharm industry, but unless you are rich, you will need it sooner than you think.
Your just mad because you didn't coin the word "mod-tard".
Did not know that.
Yes, its called "boot camp".
What fucking idiot modded the parent to 0? The AC is correct. Fucking mod-tards!
Perhaps, as animals do, people respond to fear with aggression and so people are really describing what they experience when the smell the arm pads. Maybe Uncle Sam will drop a fear pheromone bomb on a pack of peaceful protestors and produce a violent mob...well, maybe that might actually be a good technique. Then the military would have a good reason to mow them down. Ok. I'm scared shitless now.
Athiests are smarter--they would be less likely to confuse the issues of religion and technology, as was done in the post that you are replying to.
No, the difference is that you are an engineer. This doesn't happen in basic research.
Everyone is talking about college graduates. If these belly-achers stopped and read the actual article, they would find their complaining was ill-founded except for the natural bitterness that comes with old age. None of the key indicators suggested that the abilities of college graduates have declined. The indicators suggest that the numbers of such graduates are not keeping pace with the rest of the world.
This knee-jerk bashing of new college graduates and the irresponsible moderators who give these idiots a voice need to be stopped. Such attitudes and bias are likely part of the force that drives the US's decline in science. Get over your old age! I have.
Surface tension arises from cohesion and not adhesion. The two types of liquids were probably chosen such that the cohesive forces in the experiment were similar to that for water in air. Adhesive forces may exist between the liquids, but should not affect the experiment. Cohesive forces can be calculated by measuring the angle of the meniscus (if the adhesive forces between the liquid and its container are known).
Why not just suck water out of a sponge? This is twice as good as a silly straw (aka "corckscrew cup") because you could use it to clean up spills as well as prevent them.
"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."
> Several things make me question that. One, why is the robot in north Carolina and the monkey in Japan? It's just for show. Nothing of scientific significance is being demonstrated by that. We all know that internet can connect two gizmos across large distances. The experiment could have been conducted much more simply at one location and made no less effective a point (except to clueless investors maybe).
If you had built a robot in Japan and your friend figured out a way to read a monkeys thoughts in NC, why would you ship one operation to the other location when you can link everything up with wires. Sounds like they saved a lot of money here.
> Secondly, because of the distance, there is a significant delay (TFA says 250ms, about what I might have guessed.) This would seem to preclude the monkey being able to control the robots actuators in any direct sense. I.e. lift thigh, swing lower leg forward, position foot, lower thigh, positioning body over front leg. Walking is a "controlled fall". No way you could issue all those commands 250ms ahead of seeing or feeling their effect. You'd trip and fall.
The conscious information required to generate human walk is tiny in comparison to its complexity at the physical scale. Most movements required for walk are processed between the muscle and the spinal chord and never involve the brain at all. This is called "reflex". It is legitimate to locate the reflex action in the robot when one considers the actual physiology of walking.
> My guess is that they are simply getting a binary command value from the monkey: "walk" or "don't walk". And the whole robot thing is just for effect. I hate to be such a cynic but this looks like showmanship, not science. If that is the case then this is equivalent to the simple video games that have been demonstrated using brain control.
The use of a robot is *proof* of principle. You can not simply model a phenomenon on a computer screen and claim success. We live in a physical world and so we need to perform physical experiments to validate our theories or test our systems. This is why Nobel prizes go to experimentalists as a rule (or at least to the people who acquire funding for the experiments).
Because they have absolutely no concept of what a moderator is supposed to be doing.
> Overt hostility is much more useful than covert hostility--but you just drove this guy underground.
You don't understand, no hostility is better than overt hostility...and if I click my heels thrice, I'll be back in Kansas, Toto.
That's one of the funniest posts today. The moderators must be idiots.
Because I sleep until 2pm.
Wouldn't pretty draconian laws against spam make this sort of surveillance easier by lowering the noise? You have to see both sides of the coin, people (this coin, of course, not being a nickel).
> No awareness of what 'on-line rental' means: Priceless.
Reason for no interest in 'on-line rental': explained.
It won't be wrong or right until we find out who actually gets them. Are you going to put your money where your righteous mouth is and make an actual prediction? Racist will likely characterize the distribution of the laptops. Racist does not describe the tag, which suggests only what the predicted distribution of laptops and says nothing of the qualities of any race as far as I can tell. You, sir, are more racist than the tag to suggest that the tag describes the economic disposition of black children.