I agree the hype was a little too much but you can't deny that everyone wanted a little for it to be true. I mean, whatever happened there, if it was true some really cool stuff would have come out of it.
And, like others said, he didn't say OMG, WE PROVED EINSTEIN WRONG!. They actually tried for a long time to explain their results and couldn't. Big deal, that is how science works. They should just go back to work and forget about it.
They modded you troll because of the username... Higgins Boson. They are obviously LHC operators and are sick of the pranks the Higgs Boson keeps pulling on them.
I wouldn't democratically choose with my doctor, my lawyer and my accountant which medical treatment I should follow nor how to manage my contracts and my finances.
Not a correct analogy. Some laws don't require specialization in law or economics, only a decent amount of common sense. OTOH, a medical diagnostic does require a medical expert.
In the short run you are better just continuing with the next approach. However if all the people keep publishing said "failures" and constantly look for other researchers' failures then in the long run, everyone does more research because they know what attempts are going to fail beforehand.
Ideally, researchers would also publish the attempt when they get started on it s.t. there aren't too many people working on the same approach but then you need to factor in the fact that an approach might be to tough for a researcher in which case he should let someone else do it. (Of course, this also assumes that all people are honest and their skills perfectly quantifiable which is obviously wrong)
Well if you know that happens tell all your friends and everyone you know. It's going to take a long time but at some point enough people will understand and care about what happens. When that happens the governments won't be able to ignore the people and force companies to change a little. In time we will succeed, we just have to keep trying.
You know what? I'm tired of these apathetic replies that say "Yeah so? Bad stuff happens. Nothing new".
Yes, people with a lot of money will sometimes pay other people to do bad/evil stuff for them...
The fact that everyone knows this doesn't mean we should just look away. On the contrary we should seek these guys and stop them. Hence why this is news. We get to find out about people paying for bad things and people doing bad things for money. We can stop and/or prosecute them.
Yeah but if you look at the sequences without knowning their source you probably can't figure out how to recreate them as easily as they were created initially.
f = open("dump", "wb")
for x in range(1000000):
f.write('%s\n' % (random.randint(1000000))
f.close()
By selecting different seeds you can create millions or billions of sequences with a tiny piece of code, even if you include the random number generator.
What? The fact that I don't like endings to be rushed? The way it usually happens in movies - 1h20min of talking and buildup and 10min of hasty conclusions...
The last Harry Potter really was good (still not as good as the book). I hope they make Doctor Who a multipart series since that seems to work well. When you don't need to end the story in 1h30min you can put in some interesting side-stories and back-stories.
It's a game because unless you're using creativity mode you can't build anything you want or at least not easily. That is, you need to gather the resources for the design you are making and fight the monsters in the meantime.
Even so, if you *are* using creativity mode there are some limitations on the way you can construct and the materials you can use.
So I think it's kind of a creativity game, you express yourself but according to a set of rules. Maybe the equivalent of haikus in gaming?
and those microscopic organisms ate corpses, i.e. dinosaurs. When they say "dinosaurs" they mean "decomposing dinosaurs" and yeah, decomposing is done by micro organisms
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The summary says it's an infrared survey of the sky. So I'm guessing 16bit with an infrared filter (and obviously an infrared sensitive CCD).
Well you pointed out exactly what you need to do now. Don't travel to the US and the UK...
I agree the hype was a little too much but you can't deny that everyone wanted a little for it to be true. I mean, whatever happened there, if it was true some really cool stuff would have come out of it.
And, like others said, he didn't say OMG, WE PROVED EINSTEIN WRONG!. They actually tried for a long time to explain their results and couldn't. Big deal, that is how science works. They should just go back to work and forget about it.
So what? I'm guessing that working on an MMO is that guy's dream (or one of them).
They modded you troll because of the username... Higgins Boson. They are obviously LHC operators and are sick of the pranks the Higgs Boson keeps pulling on them.
I wonder why the secretaries can't get any sleep... *wink* *wink*
I wouldn't democratically choose with my doctor, my lawyer and my accountant which medical treatment I should follow nor how to manage my contracts and my finances.
Not a correct analogy. Some laws don't require specialization in law or economics, only a decent amount of common sense. OTOH, a medical diagnostic does require a medical expert.
It's still a lot better than 500$/TB
In the short run you are better just continuing with the next approach. However if all the people keep publishing said "failures" and constantly look for other researchers' failures then in the long run, everyone does more research because they know what attempts are going to fail beforehand.
Ideally, researchers would also publish the attempt when they get started on it s.t. there aren't too many people working on the same approach but then you need to factor in the fact that an approach might be to tough for a researcher in which case he should let someone else do it. (Of course, this also assumes that all people are honest and their skills perfectly quantifiable which is obviously wrong)
Well if you know that happens tell all your friends and everyone you know. It's going to take a long time but at some point enough people will understand and care about what happens. When that happens the governments won't be able to ignore the people and force companies to change a little. In time we will succeed, we just have to keep trying.
You know what? I'm tired of these apathetic replies that say "Yeah so? Bad stuff happens. Nothing new".
Yes, people with a lot of money will sometimes pay other people to do bad/evil stuff for them...
The fact that everyone knows this doesn't mean we should just look away. On the contrary we should seek these guys and stop them. Hence why this is news. We get to find out about people paying for bad things and people doing bad things for money. We can stop and/or prosecute them.
Depends on how you process the wood to turn into paper.
Yes, me too. If I have a dream I really want to happen, getting into outer space would be it...
Yeah but if you look at the sequences without knowning their source you probably can't figure out how to recreate them as easily as they were created initially.
Not correct - do this in python:
import random
random.seed(5)
f = open("dump", "wb")
for x in range(1000000):
f.write('%s\n' % (random.randint(1000000))
f.close()
By selecting different seeds you can create millions or billions of sequences with a tiny piece of code, even if you include the random number generator.
A, there you are sergeant pedantic...
What? The fact that I don't like endings to be rushed? The way it usually happens in movies - 1h20min of talking and buildup and 10min of hasty conclusions...
The last Harry Potter really was good (still not as good as the book). I hope they make Doctor Who a multipart series since that seems to work well. When you don't need to end the story in 1h30min you can put in some interesting side-stories and back-stories.
It's a game because unless you're using creativity mode you can't build anything you want or at least not easily. That is, you need to gather the resources for the design you are making and fight the monsters in the meantime.
Even so, if you *are* using creativity mode there are some limitations on the way you can construct and the materials you can use.
So I think it's kind of a creativity game, you express yourself but according to a set of rules. Maybe the equivalent of haikus in gaming?
Yeah, I have a 9800GT and it never disappointed me yet
Isn't that the DHS? I'm not from the USA so I'm confusing them all the time...
and those microscopic organisms ate corpses, i.e. dinosaurs. When they say "dinosaurs" they mean "decomposing dinosaurs" and yeah, decomposing is done by micro organisms
Holy batman! That's more meta than thinking about the meaning of the word meta.
Just out of curiosity... What's the third degree?
There already are systems like that in place... They have some kind of energy battery which gets charged by braking or peddling.