Your comment is very helpful. When I first read the article I thought, "they sent an automatic message to astronomers around the world in less than a minute. Why did it take them so long?" However, after reading your comment, now I realize they probably used the likelihood calculations you mention to automatically tell the astronomers where in the sky to look.
However, since you were performing these calculations in 1989, I'm still kinda wondering why it took them so long to do this. Are these calculations difficult to automate?
It would be interesting to see a visual diff between the denoised result and the source image before the random noise was added, in order to see what kinds of artifacts were generated during the denoising process. For example, did it add any leaves to the image of the koala?
The second image in TFA (a picture of a human head) shows exactly that.
OTOH if you're actively cooling your reactor then there's something wrong, you're throwing energy away.
Well, right now nuclear reactors are only capable of converting nuclear energy into heat energy. So an engine is needed to do useful work with the heat.
Barring a major breakthrough in disproving Carnot's Theorem, or a breakthrough in reactor technology, a significant portion of the heat from any engine has to be dissipated, even in the most ideal circumstances.
See, temperature itself cannot drive an engine. You could put an engine in the hottest part of the universe and not produce any usable work. A change in temperature is required to run an engine, just like a change in voltage is required to do anything useful with electricity.
Therefore, the larger the power plant, the larger the cooling system. There is no way around it barring an incredible technological breakthrough. The loss of convection and conduction in outer space is a HUGE problem for providing power to any interstellar spacecraft.
I don't understand how you can ban testing on a substance because it has no known medical use. If you can't test it, how will you ever know?
I could understand if the list of substances under schedule 1 was basically just potent poisons like arsenic, and cyanide. However, even those may have some therapeutic uses.
Sounds like a union. If an employee is fired, they can appeal to the union to get their job back. However, I've never seen a case where the union didn't side with the employee.
I'm betting they implemented this process to avoid true unionization.
There is a third option. Use a robot to augment a human ref. One option would be to have the robot evaluate the referee's performance. If a referee is performing poorly, they get taken out of the game.
My monitor is about 12 years old. I've thought about buying a new 4k monitor, just because mine is old. This data really surprised me. I figured most people would have 4k monitors by now. (especially with all of the advertising Apple is doing about their Retina displays)
Why is that? Reading some reviews online, a few people said 4k was unusable as a computer monitor because all of the icons became impossibly small. Is that true?
I haven't found it to be a chore. There's a nice GUI and everything. I even setup my system to have a separate/home partition so I can switch to any distro I want without touching my data.
This is like the opposite of Milton. Not actually laid off, but through a glitch in accounting, was escorted out of the building and stopped receiving a paycheck.
Pig parasites don't work. There's not much data on human parasites. Pig parasites don't remain in the human body naturally, so a patient would need to take them often. Human parasites remain inside the body for years. I don't see much information on those.
The pharmaceutical industry isn't too interested in it because it's so cheap and will be difficult to patent. There are groups of people that grow them at home. If interested, try finding some of these people.
Personally I dislike Arial because it doesn't distinguish l and I, which more than once has caused me confusion.
OMFG! I have a software supplier that likes to name data structures with different combinations of L and I. There is only one approved interface for their software and it uses Arial font only. (this is an embedded system, so I don't get to use anything I want to interface with the software) Calling a data structure is a nightmare! You can't get it right the first time.
Because at some point those CAD Models/ 3D CG/ Scientific Models need to be presented to the bosses/customers. Reality is, you can have the fanciest models in the world, but if you can't show them to other people, they are basically worthless.
Example:
Boss: Johnson! What have you been working on?
Johnson: This really important CAD model.
Boss: This will be the perfect thing to impress the board of directors. Have it ready to show them in an hour. Meet me in the board room.
Johnson: I can't get my massive computer to the board room.
Boss: That's too bad. Smith! What have you been working on?
Smith: An equally impressive CAD Model.
Boss: Can you show it to the board of directors in an hour?
Smith: My super spiffy laptop and I will have a presentation that will blow their minds!
Boss: Perfect! If we impress them enough I'll ask for a raise.
Smith: If you get a raise, can I have one too?
Boss: Absolutely!
In France (for instance), retirement is mostly paid by taxation on the next generation. In many places, the community will take care of you. If my future well being is not based on market investment, why would I even need to understand it. This would be a purely academic skills.
2. Never take financial advice from someone trying to sell you something.
When I was in grade school a financial advisor sold my mother some shares in a mutual fund for $500. It was the early 90's and the fund invested in technology stocks. The idea was that it would grow enough to help pay for college.
Years went by, and it was time to go to college. That mutual fund was worth $490. Lucky for me, I had a scholarship. However, that experience really turned me off to mutual funds.
After some years went buy, I discovered low cost index funds. I looked back at that fund my mother bought all those years ago, and discovered it had a 5.25% management fee! That fund did make money, but the fees took it all!
The moral of the story is, never take financial advice from someone trying to sell you something. There are a lot of shady "financial advisors" out there getting kickbacks for selling you high fee mutual funds. Stick with low cost index funds and you won't go wrong.
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Everything is political now. Welcome to 2018.
...run by ex KGB...
I prefer KG-used-to-B
Your comment is very helpful. When I first read the article I thought, "they sent an automatic message to astronomers around the world in less than a minute. Why did it take them so long?" However, after reading your comment, now I realize they probably used the likelihood calculations you mention to automatically tell the astronomers where in the sky to look.
However, since you were performing these calculations in 1989, I'm still kinda wondering why it took them so long to do this. Are these calculations difficult to automate?
These guys were scum...
They are scum. Most of the Gawker staff just moved over to sister sites during the restructuring. I can't read Gizmodo anymore because of it.
Just because the Gawker name is dead, doesn't mean the organization is.
Bugs and bad letter templates all have the same cause: human error.
Computers don't make mistakes.
It would be interesting to see a visual diff between the denoised result and the source image before the random noise was added, in order to see what kinds of artifacts were generated during the denoising process. For example, did it add any leaves to the image of the koala?
The second image in TFA (a picture of a human head) shows exactly that.
Yeah, I guess you can say at least he's out, but who knows who Trump will replace him with. Probably just another oil and coal industry lapdog.
Andrew Wheeler- You hit the nail on the head. A former coal industry lobbyist.
OTOH if you're actively cooling your reactor then there's something wrong, you're throwing energy away.
Well, right now nuclear reactors are only capable of converting nuclear energy into heat energy. So an engine is needed to do useful work with the heat.
Barring a major breakthrough in disproving Carnot's Theorem, or a breakthrough in reactor technology, a significant portion of the heat from any engine has to be dissipated, even in the most ideal circumstances.
See, temperature itself cannot drive an engine. You could put an engine in the hottest part of the universe and not produce any usable work. A change in temperature is required to run an engine, just like a change in voltage is required to do anything useful with electricity.
Therefore, the larger the power plant, the larger the cooling system. There is no way around it barring an incredible technological breakthrough. The loss of convection and conduction in outer space is a HUGE problem for providing power to any interstellar spacecraft.
...a period is a sign of anger.
I believe you mean schedule 1.
I don't understand how you can ban testing on a substance because it has no known medical use. If you can't test it, how will you ever know?
I could understand if the list of substances under schedule 1 was basically just potent poisons like arsenic, and cyanide. However, even those may have some therapeutic uses.
The current list just makes no sense.
Sounds like a union. If an employee is fired, they can appeal to the union to get their job back. However, I've never seen a case where the union didn't side with the employee.
I'm betting they implemented this process to avoid true unionization.
There is a third option. Use a robot to augment a human ref. One option would be to have the robot evaluate the referee's performance. If a referee is performing poorly, they get taken out of the game.
My monitor is about 12 years old. I've thought about buying a new 4k monitor, just because mine is old. This data really surprised me. I figured most people would have 4k monitors by now. (especially with all of the advertising Apple is doing about their Retina displays)
Why is that? Reading some reviews online, a few people said 4k was unusable as a computer monitor because all of the icons became impossibly small. Is that true?
I haven't found it to be a chore. There's a nice GUI and everything. I even setup my system to have a separate /home partition so I can switch to any distro I want without touching my data.
No carbon dioxide? Let them use nitrogen!
I'm guessing the flow of Guiness is unaffected as they use nitrogen instead of CO2 in their taps.
Yes, this is a good way to prevent rogue former employees from doing damage to the company. All of the loose ends are taken care of neatly.
This is like the opposite of Milton. Not actually laid off, but through a glitch in accounting, was escorted out of the building and stopped receiving a paycheck.
A human failed to renew his contract...
Another reminder of why contract work sucks. You can keep this "gig economy".
Will it only be available on the infernal "All Access" app?
Pig parasites don't work. There's not much data on human parasites. Pig parasites don't remain in the human body naturally, so a patient would need to take them often. Human parasites remain inside the body for years. I don't see much information on those.
The pharmaceutical industry isn't too interested in it because it's so cheap and will be difficult to patent. There are groups of people that grow them at home. If interested, try finding some of these people.
Personally I dislike Arial because it doesn't distinguish l and I, which more than once has caused me confusion.
OMFG! I have a software supplier that likes to name data structures with different combinations of L and I. There is only one approved interface for their software and it uses Arial font only. (this is an embedded system, so I don't get to use anything I want to interface with the software) Calling a data structure is a nightmare! You can't get it right the first time.
Because they want/need portable workstations.
Because at some point those CAD Models/ 3D CG/ Scientific Models need to be presented to the bosses/customers. Reality is, you can have the fanciest models in the world, but if you can't show them to other people, they are basically worthless.
Example:
Boss: Johnson! What have you been working on?
Johnson: This really important CAD model.
Boss: This will be the perfect thing to impress the board of directors. Have it ready to show them in an hour. Meet me in the board room.
Johnson: I can't get my massive computer to the board room.
Boss: That's too bad. Smith! What have you been working on?
Smith: An equally impressive CAD Model.
Boss: Can you show it to the board of directors in an hour?
Smith: My super spiffy laptop and I will have a presentation that will blow their minds!
Boss: Perfect! If we impress them enough I'll ask for a raise.
Smith: If you get a raise, can I have one too?
Boss: Absolutely!
In France (for instance), retirement is mostly paid by taxation on the next generation. In many places, the community will take care of you. If my future well being is not based on market investment, why would I even need to understand it. This would be a purely academic skills.
The United States is supposed to have a system like that. The politicians are now telling everyone the retirees are a bunch of deadbeats taking money from the government. It's really messed up.
2. Never take financial advice from someone trying to sell you something.
When I was in grade school a financial advisor sold my mother some shares in a mutual fund for $500. It was the early 90's and the fund invested in technology stocks. The idea was that it would grow enough to help pay for college.
Years went by, and it was time to go to college. That mutual fund was worth $490. Lucky for me, I had a scholarship. However, that experience really turned me off to mutual funds.
After some years went buy, I discovered low cost index funds. I looked back at that fund my mother bought all those years ago, and discovered it had a 5.25% management fee! That fund did make money, but the fees took it all!
The moral of the story is, never take financial advice from someone trying to sell you something. There are a lot of shady "financial advisors" out there getting kickbacks for selling you high fee mutual funds. Stick with low cost index funds and you won't go wrong.