A central tenet of post-modernism is that "there is no such thing as merit". Anyone who succeeds can only do so because privilege, as there is no such thing as merit. Every successful person is an oppressor, as there is no such thing as merit.
Meritocracy, the idea of meritocracy, is the very antithesis of post-modernism. And post-modernism is the most evil philosophy that has ever been conceived.
Substitute socialists for kids and you still have a true statement.
Most kids are socialists, and rightly so: they've only lived in a way where an authority provides for their every need. Socialism is the only thing they've known. And that's fine, but eventually one should grow up.
The idea that this activity plays a great part in 'climate change' aka 'global warming' is debatable: look at the sun. How much more power does it send in our direction? Did you count the sun spots?
Shhh. Warmists get angry when you point out that the Earth is warmed by the Sun. They like it even less when you point out that as limited as our climate models are, they're still way better than our models of the solar atmosphere and internals.
There's a consensus, you moron; know your place and don't argue with your betters.
Who cares about anything that's going to happen 100 years from now? Only what happens the next election,
100 years from now? The world's going to end in 20 years! Or so I hear every few years. Nuclear war between the US and Russia was a real threat to all humanity. Everything panic after is at most "meh".
But. yeah, the Dems and GOP are both almost-entirely owned by the.01%. They only actually disagree about things that don't matter to the economy. Everything else is for show (e.g., Republicans crossing the aisle to stop the wall being built - can't let the economy be affected by that pesky democracy!).
I'm not sure we can vote our way out of problems with economic consequences any more in America. Pity.
Policies that limit pollution. What are you afraid of, economic catastrophe? Mommy telling you what to do?
My college roommate was an environmental engineer. The actual tenet of the field is: "there is no such thing as too little pollution, but there is such a thing as too little production".
Something to consider. If it's free of hard tradeoffs, it's not engineering.
Since the Slashdot janitors don't edit, all I can do is rant:
offers a cut-down NVIDIA TU116 GPU comprised of 1408 CUDA cores
"Comprise" means "include" not "compose". "Comprise" implies these are all the things included, where "include" leaves open the possibly that you didn't list everything.
It's never correct to say "comprised of" any more than "included of"; That's just someone trying to look smart but instead babbling nonsense. If you want to say "composed of", say "composed of". If you want to use "comprise", use it just like you would "include".
So "offers a cut-down NVIDIA TU116 GPU comprising 1408 CUDA cores" would at least be a well-formed English sentence, but I think "composed of" would read better here.
I think this is the biggest generational flip between the Millennials and the Digital Natives: their attitude towards privacy. Here's hoping that the kids also grow up not caring at all about social media outrage and snowflake sensitivity.
There is a clear and obvious way that computers can improve voting, and that's computer assisted voting.
You can have a touch-screen UI with pictures of the candidates. You can have assistance for the blind. You can have all the chrome you want. And when the voter is done, the computer prints a clearly marked paper ballot, which the voter reviews and casts into the ballot box.
So no, it's not the complicated proper math. They really should have been able to find the closed form solution. However, the lead author is a grad student who is apparently Python happy, so...
That explains it then. Heck, you don't even have to be able to solve the integral, that's what Wolfram Alpha is for.
This i why my TV is just the monitor for my HTPC. Plus if I want to search for something on YouTube/Netflix/whatever, I can use an actual keyboard to type on, not mess around with a remote and an on screen keyboard.
I'm not sure they reversed entropy either. I thought that wasn't actually possible (much like time travel).
Everything in physics is reversible, though you have to reverse polarity and chirality when you reverse time.
Importantly, entropy works the same in both directions. A system in a state of low entropy will probably increase in entropy in both directions in time!
Here's an example. The classic example of entropy is that an egg breaking seems natural, but an broken egg re-assembling itself is so unlikely as to seem impossible. But the change in entropy in breaking an egg is tiny compared to the change in entropy in digesting an egg. So what are the odds of an egg re-assembling itself from CHON atoms? Well, it happens so often we have a name for the process: chicken.
When played "forward" in time, a chicken uses energy to reduce entropy to form an egg, and that energy is released when the egg is digested. Played "backwards" in time, once again energy is used to reduce entropy to form an egg, and that energy is released in the chicken.
tldr: like everything else in physics, entropy looks about the same "backwards".
Does Chrome autocomplete for you? Yeah, that's everything you type in the "omnibar" going to Google, and they save your history.
There's a Gooogle privacy setting for that:
Web & App Activity (Paused) Used by Assistant, Google Maps, and others
If you turn this setting on, Google will save your activity on Google sites and apps in your Google Account, including searches and associated info like location. You can also choose to save which apps you use, your Chrome history, and which sites you visit on the web.
All nicely GDPR compliant, I'm sure. You might check if you still have it enabled, as perhaps you're not comfortable with it.
If you search on DDG on Chrome, that url becomes part of your "Chrome history". And Google knows how to parse the URIs of common sites to extract everything.
That's because DuckDuckGo is basically a frontend or wrapper for Google.
They've never been a frontend for Google. They started as an anonymizing frontend for Bing. They've grown a lot since then, though Bing is still a big part of results.
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A central tenet of post-modernism is that "there is no such thing as merit". Anyone who succeeds can only do so because privilege, as there is no such thing as merit. Every successful person is an oppressor, as there is no such thing as merit.
Meritocracy, the idea of meritocracy, is the very antithesis of post-modernism. And post-modernism is the most evil philosophy that has ever been conceived.
Please, use your ammosexual fuckery
ammosexual
Made of win.
Substitute socialists for kids and you still have a true statement.
Most kids are socialists, and rightly so: they've only lived in a way where an authority provides for their every need. Socialism is the only thing they've known. And that's fine, but eventually one should grow up.
A. Occasionally Coherent
That's pronounced "occasional cortex".
The idea that this activity plays a great part in 'climate change' aka 'global warming' is debatable: look at the sun.
How much more power does it send in our direction?
Did you count the sun spots?
Shhh. Warmists get angry when you point out that the Earth is warmed by the Sun. They like it even less when you point out that as limited as our climate models are, they're still way better than our models of the solar atmosphere and internals.
There's a consensus, you moron; know your place and don't argue with your betters.
Oh, well, there goes my karma.
Who cares about anything that's going to happen 100 years from now? Only what happens the next election,
100 years from now? The world's going to end in 20 years! Or so I hear every few years. Nuclear war between the US and Russia was a real threat to all humanity. Everything panic after is at most "meh".
But. yeah, the Dems and GOP are both almost-entirely owned by the .01%. They only actually disagree about things that don't matter to the economy. Everything else is for show (e.g., Republicans crossing the aisle to stop the wall being built - can't let the economy be affected by that pesky democracy!).
I'm not sure we can vote our way out of problems with economic consequences any more in America. Pity.
Policies that limit pollution. What are you afraid of, economic catastrophe? Mommy telling you what to do?
My college roommate was an environmental engineer. The actual tenet of the field is: "there is no such thing as too little pollution, but there is such a thing as too little production".
Something to consider. If it's free of hard tradeoffs, it's not engineering.
Sounds hardly newsworthy that google shuts down something. Perhaps a monthly list would be more interesting.
I think a monthly list of project they don't cancel would be shorter.
I sure as hell not taking their rockets. Halfway they will just decide: cancel the prroject.
If they get a working rocket in the first place they're ahead of the SLS.
Exactly! We already have this in some places, the security is fine, and it gives all the useful benefits of "computer voting".
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comp...
Every result I see says I'm right. I see no one arguing the other way.
Since the Slashdot janitors don't edit, all I can do is rant:
offers a cut-down NVIDIA TU116 GPU comprised of 1408 CUDA cores
"Comprise" means "include" not "compose". "Comprise" implies these are all the things included, where "include" leaves open the possibly that you didn't list everything.
It's never correct to say "comprised of" any more than "included of"; That's just someone trying to look smart but instead babbling nonsense. If you want to say "composed of", say "composed of". If you want to use "comprise", use it just like you would "include".
So "offers a cut-down NVIDIA TU116 GPU comprising 1408 CUDA cores" would at least be a well-formed English sentence, but I think "composed of" would read better here.
I think this is the biggest generational flip between the Millennials and the Digital Natives: their attitude towards privacy. Here's hoping that the kids also grow up not caring at all about social media outrage and snowflake sensitivity.
There is a clear and obvious way that computers can improve voting, and that's computer assisted voting.
You can have a touch-screen UI with pictures of the candidates. You can have assistance for the blind. You can have all the chrome you want. And when the voter is done, the computer prints a clearly marked paper ballot, which the voter reviews and casts into the ballot box.
So no, it's not the complicated proper math. They really should have been able to find the closed form solution. However, the lead author is a grad student who is apparently Python happy, so...
That explains it then. Heck, you don't even have to be able to solve the integral, that's what Wolfram Alpha is for.
Seriously, there are more important problems to solve. How about something that's actually useful?
Hey, now, this research evelated pedantry to a whole new level! If ever there was a story that belonged on Slashdot...
But I don't get why they "simulated" this. Isn't this just an integral?
The direction of time is just, like, your opinion man.
Netflix sometimes show previews during the end credits, which annoys me.
This i why my TV is just the monitor for my HTPC. Plus if I want to search for something on YouTube/Netflix/whatever, I can use an actual keyboard to type on, not mess around with a remote and an on screen keyboard.
I get my internet service over cable. There is, however, no cable connected to my television.
Surely there's a power cable. And perhaps an HDMI cable too.
I'm not sure they reversed entropy either. I thought that wasn't actually possible (much like time travel).
Everything in physics is reversible, though you have to reverse polarity and chirality when you reverse time.
Importantly, entropy works the same in both directions. A system in a state of low entropy will probably increase in entropy in both directions in time!
Here's an example. The classic example of entropy is that an egg breaking seems natural, but an broken egg re-assembling itself is so unlikely as to seem impossible. But the change in entropy in breaking an egg is tiny compared to the change in entropy in digesting an egg. So what are the odds of an egg re-assembling itself from CHON atoms? Well, it happens so often we have a name for the process: chicken.
When played "forward" in time, a chicken uses energy to reduce entropy to form an egg, and that energy is released when the egg is digested. Played "backwards" in time, once again energy is used to reduce entropy to form an egg, and that energy is released in the chicken.
tldr: like everything else in physics, entropy looks about the same "backwards".
"no regulations at all" is not a principle of capitalism. - It's THE principle of retard-Republicanism however.
Oh, the Republicans love regulatory capture. Much like the Democrats: more regulations or fewer, whichever pleases their corporate masters.
Does Chrome autocomplete for you? Yeah, that's everything you type in the "omnibar" going to Google, and they save your history.
There's a Gooogle privacy setting for that:
Web & App Activity
(Paused)
Used by Assistant, Google Maps, and others
If you turn this setting on, Google will save your activity on Google sites and apps in your Google Account, including searches and associated info like location. You can also choose to save which apps you use, your Chrome history, and which sites you visit on the web.
All nicely GDPR compliant, I'm sure. You might check if you still have it enabled, as perhaps you're not comfortable with it.
If you search on DDG on Chrome, that url becomes part of your "Chrome history". And Google knows how to parse the URIs of common sites to extract everything.
The lesa fair economy
"Laissez-faire": literally "let do", but idiomatically "hands off".
And, yes, laissez-faire capitalism is silly, and "no regulations at all" is not a principle of capitalism.
It's win-win for Google. They get your search history without the cost of serving results. Everything you type in Chrome goes to Google, of course.
!wa is the best. Yes, I could just go to Wolfram Aplha's site, but since DDG is my default search engine, !wa is awesome. Best web calculator around.
For those unfamiliar, try
!wa (e^x + e^-x)/2
!wa integral of e^-(x^2) dx from negative infinity to n
That's because DuckDuckGo is basically a frontend or wrapper for Google.
They've never been a frontend for Google. They started as an anonymizing frontend for Bing. They've grown a lot since then, though Bing is still a big part of results.