I find that, using only the nearest wall and/or bystander and my fists I am able to get incredibly realistic haptic feedback based on my brain's state. Even better, the graphics are amazing(except when I try to play it in the bar, not sure if there is a hardware compatibility problem)!
Fair enough. I usually think of computer software as being a 'mathematical context'; but I suppose that it has such an enormous applied/engineering side at this point that it would be far from obvious that I meant to include software people in saying that.
They are asking Russians to do it, so Chaves will be ok:)
I would love to live in a world where all presidents or whatever called heads of a state are embalmed and stored in a mausoleums for the amusement of the next generations.
What somewhat surprises me is that they don't get the wacky plastination guy in on the project. The actual product isn't really a preserved body in any useful sense(as the name suggests, the original tissue is largely replaced by polymers); but the replacement occurs down to impressively tiny details, the results look fantastic, and they last nobody-knows-how-long-but-a-long-time under normal indoor conditions.
That would be more plausible than doing it for cash directly(though it would also make him a veritable poster child for any of the various 'sugar daddy' "dating" websites that allow older guys with money to go out of their league without ending up in cushy Bolivian prison...)
The only redeeming feature is that people who would be capable of thinking up the phrase "Enchant Me, Simplify My Life, and Make Me Amazing", much less think that it was a good idea, probably aren't the people that they actually allow near the codebase...
Given the sheer quantity of Silicon Valley huckster circlejerk that SXSW has managed to attract, though, the talk was probably well tuned to the event.
It is international. My comment was purely addressing the issue of why your experience in actually getting one may differ markedly by jurisdiction. They are 'international' in the sense that ISBNs are supposed to be globally unique and the data tied to them should be available across the board; but the market/allocation mechanism is a series of nation-specific monopolies with their own distinct policies.
What would be odd, though, about the 'it was deliberate' case is that(at least going by popular accounts and a rough survey of people who get caught) being a coke mule is kind of a shitty job. Lots of surplus value in the supply chain as a whole; but not a terribly compelling slice(especially given the legal, and in some methods lethal, hazards involved) of that actually goes to the peon doing the carrying.
I'd assume that squeaky-clean white Americans are rather more desirable mules than 'impecunious locals who don't have a convincing story for how they even bought a ticket', because they are less suspicious and more likely to bring the package to its destination, unless the sniffer dogs get them; but unless the premium paid is pretty good, it still seems like a strange career move, particularly for somebody sharp enough to hack it as a physicist.
It wouldn't be the first time that somebody did something moronic; but 'coke mule' is not high on the list of fantasy dream jobs...
What is the point of calling something a 'principle' if it is so vacuous as to both affirm and reject practically any design decision you might choose to make?
According to TFA, the ISBN is international; but for whatever historical reason 1 entity per country(no word on what happened to countries that have ceased to exist or come to exist since 1959, though those probably aren't hotbeds of writing and publishing...) was made the local monopoly distributor for that country.
As with most words, the etymology is a pretty sketchy guide to the definition. Not unrelated; but words pick up(and lose) a lot of baggage over time.
In this case 'hagiography' is the genre of writings about saints and miracles and holy places and whatnot. It also tends to carry the perjorative assertion that the writing in question is somewhere between excessively uncritical and overtly fawning in its treatment of the subject. Would there be other ways to convey the same point? Sure. Does that particular word compactly encapsulate what I wanted to say? Quite conveniently so. (I'm generally in agreement that using 'orthogonal' outside of mathematical contexts is a bit off; but it's hardly a synonym for 'tangential').
I think it's fair to say that Yale's research lead on that project, Charles Morgan III, may not be what we call a 'quick study' or a 'good learner from experience'...
His research specialty is stress and PTSD, so he has worked with the SERE program for quite a while. Back in 2007 he was oh-so-horribly-shocked to discover that we were using methods we had previously associated with the forces of commie aggression. Now, in 2013, he is seeking “someone they can’t necessarily identify with” in order to provide better practice for special forces interrogators? Is this guy the clueless optimist that keeps hopeful nigerian scammers clogging up our inboxes year after year?
I read the linked articles and I see that Freedom House, an NGO, says that Singapore has the same rating for political and civil freedom as Nigeria. The Economist compares the democracy in Singapore with that of Liberia. So that does beg the question... what genius sat down and said "this would be a great place to put a new campus for Yale!"
'Freedom' talks, money walks. It's pretty similar to the (on the whole practically hagiographic) coverage that Dubai gets. If the GDP per-capita is high enough and most of the violence is reserved for locals who get mouthy, rather than expats who don't give a fuck because they can always just fly home, you can have pretty much any western investors, corporate branch offices, or prestige institutions you are willing to buy.
If you have the sort of unfreedom that is bad for property values(like Nigeria), then you can still get extraction industries and CIA agents; but probably not a Yale branch campus...
1. You do realize that being denied tenure is closer to being fired at/before the end of a probationary period, not passed over for promotion from fry cook to shift manager? It is true that the ongoing trend toward permatemping higher education by stringing along assorted adjuncts and other cheap labor has eroded the traditional process a bit; but it is still generally the case that 'denied tenure' = 'pursuing opportunities elsewhere is exciting and mandatory!' rather than 'you will remain an associate professor'.
2."This guy seemed to be best known for his harsh criticism of the government of Singapore... which the university depends on in many ways! Yeah, that sounds likely that they would want that guy on board." If the state of Singapore is serious about 'academic independence', then sometimes they end up cutting checks to people who say mean things about them. It's the quieter and more bookish version of not having the majority party send the minority party to the firing squad. It's a neat concept. If they aren't up to that, well, their 'universities' are pretty much stuck being fancy vocational schools and nothing more.
The OS doesn't really do anything. It's a glorified web browser.
I'd be more impressed with OpenBSD not being hacked, and even that is essentially just an init process and sshd.
It is a bit more interesting because Chrome, the browser, was among the fallen on Windows(not sure if they tested it on OSX).
ChromeOS is, indeed, mostly web browser sitting on top of a sparse-but-nowhere-near-as-weird-as-android linux distribution(Incidentally, might Google be the one to follow through on Mark Andresson's 1995 threat concerning reducing the OS to a collection of poorly debugged device drivers, albeit not the OS he was talking about?); but it wouldn't have struck me as obvious that it would behave notably different from Chrome running elsewhere, for exactly that reason.
Scientists have been proven to be human beings after all. They can lie and cheat like the rest of us. So that begs the question. Why should we all believe what they tell us at face value rather than using our deductive reasoning to figure out whether what they say is plausible? Why shouldn't we ask for hard evidence before accepting their conclusions at face value? If they are just as fallible as anyone else then why should we believe what they say rather than judging whether what they are saying makes any sense?
Well, you don't need to take what they say at face value(if you did, we could skip the tedious 'experiments' and 'peer review' and 'writing scientific papers' and 'data' and other boring stuff). More generally, the reason we don't generally use deductive reasoning is that it's somewhere between cumbersome and useless outside of toy examples written for deductive logic exercises. Induction is kind of lame by comparison; but it has the advantage of actually providing us with information about the world...
Cut all the whiny human 'cry, cry, I'm all worked up about where the abnormally close star is right now' crap and just adopt TAI across the board. Now that is proper time.
You are probably one of those whiners who wondered why a space age civilization appears to have only one spacecraft, the first one it ever launched, which is responsible for conducting all war, trade, police action, zookeeping, and ethnography, no matter how large it grows... How could you possibly argue with such a sensible and realistic policy?
A statement emblematic of so many issues, but I'll choose to respond with snark:
What makes you think a clone would ever go out with you?
Hasn't bad sci-fi taught you anything? Despite being genetically identical to humans, because they are, clones mysteriously exhibit a creepy lack of free will and/or near-identical personality to the original(despite a developmental history that includes no life experience other than 'grow to apparent age of ~20 years with alarming speed in tube full of medical fluid'), perfect for producing armies of robo-hitlers or servile sex kitten harems!
It's probably because they only get allocated one soul per genome or something, couldn't make any less sense than the answers usually provided....
Given how expensive the process is likely to be, I'm not terribly concerned.
Now, given how expensive the process is likely to be, I'm also not wildly interested, outside of some very niche applications and the value as pure science...
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Good old Jeremy Bentham makes an entertaining visit...
I find that, using only the nearest wall and/or bystander and my fists I am able to get incredibly realistic haptic feedback based on my brain's state. Even better, the graphics are amazing(except when I try to play it in the bar, not sure if there is a hardware compatibility problem)!
Fair enough. I usually think of computer software as being a 'mathematical context'; but I suppose that it has such an enormous applied/engineering side at this point that it would be far from obvious that I meant to include software people in saying that.
Worse, it does seem to describe MS Bob, truly a humanistic UI paradigm ahead of its time!
They are asking Russians to do it, so Chaves will be ok :)
I would love to live in a world where all presidents or whatever called heads of a state are embalmed and stored in a mausoleums for the amusement of the next generations.
What somewhat surprises me is that they don't get the wacky plastination guy in on the project. The actual product isn't really a preserved body in any useful sense(as the name suggests, the original tissue is largely replaced by polymers); but the replacement occurs down to impressively tiny details, the results look fantastic, and they last nobody-knows-how-long-but-a-long-time under normal indoor conditions.
That would be more plausible than doing it for cash directly(though it would also make him a veritable poster child for any of the various 'sugar daddy' "dating" websites that allow older guys with money to go out of their league without ending up in cushy Bolivian prison...)
The only redeeming feature is that people who would be capable of thinking up the phrase "Enchant Me, Simplify My Life, and Make Me Amazing", much less think that it was a good idea, probably aren't the people that they actually allow near the codebase...
Given the sheer quantity of Silicon Valley huckster circlejerk that SXSW has managed to attract, though, the talk was probably well tuned to the event.
How is 1 entity per country not international?
It is international. My comment was purely addressing the issue of why your experience in actually getting one may differ markedly by jurisdiction. They are 'international' in the sense that ISBNs are supposed to be globally unique and the data tied to them should be available across the board; but the market/allocation mechanism is a series of nation-specific monopolies with their own distinct policies.
What would be odd, though, about the 'it was deliberate' case is that(at least going by popular accounts and a rough survey of people who get caught) being a coke mule is kind of a shitty job. Lots of surplus value in the supply chain as a whole; but not a terribly compelling slice(especially given the legal, and in some methods lethal, hazards involved) of that actually goes to the peon doing the carrying.
I'd assume that squeaky-clean white Americans are rather more desirable mules than 'impecunious locals who don't have a convincing story for how they even bought a ticket', because they are less suspicious and more likely to bring the package to its destination, unless the sniffer dogs get them; but unless the premium paid is pretty good, it still seems like a strange career move, particularly for somebody sharp enough to hack it as a physicist.
It wouldn't be the first time that somebody did something moronic; but 'coke mule' is not high on the list of fantasy dream jobs...
What is the point of calling something a 'principle' if it is so vacuous as to both affirm and reject practically any design decision you might choose to make?
According to TFA, the ISBN is international; but for whatever historical reason 1 entity per country(no word on what happened to countries that have ceased to exist or come to exist since 1959, though those probably aren't hotbeds of writing and publishing...) was made the local monopoly distributor for that country.
As with most words, the etymology is a pretty sketchy guide to the definition. Not unrelated; but words pick up(and lose) a lot of baggage over time.
In this case 'hagiography' is the genre of writings about saints and miracles and holy places and whatnot. It also tends to carry the perjorative assertion that the writing in question is somewhere between excessively uncritical and overtly fawning in its treatment of the subject. Would there be other ways to convey the same point? Sure. Does that particular word compactly encapsulate what I wanted to say? Quite conveniently so. (I'm generally in agreement that using 'orthogonal' outside of mathematical contexts is a bit off; but it's hardly a synonym for 'tangential').
I think it's fair to say that Yale's research lead on that project, Charles Morgan III, may not be what we call a 'quick study' or a 'good learner from experience'...
His research specialty is stress and PTSD, so he has worked with the SERE program for quite a while. Back in 2007 he was oh-so-horribly-shocked to discover that we were using methods we had previously associated with the forces of commie aggression. Now, in 2013, he is seeking “someone they can’t necessarily identify with” in order to provide better practice for special forces interrogators? Is this guy the clueless optimist that keeps hopeful nigerian scammers clogging up our inboxes year after year?
I read the linked articles and I see that Freedom House, an NGO, says that Singapore has the same rating for political and civil freedom as Nigeria. The Economist compares the democracy in Singapore with that of Liberia. So that does beg the question... what genius sat down and said "this would be a great place to put a new campus for Yale!"
'Freedom' talks, money walks. It's pretty similar to the (on the whole practically hagiographic) coverage that Dubai gets. If the GDP per-capita is high enough and most of the violence is reserved for locals who get mouthy, rather than expats who don't give a fuck because they can always just fly home, you can have pretty much any western investors, corporate branch offices, or prestige institutions you are willing to buy.
If you have the sort of unfreedom that is bad for property values(like Nigeria), then you can still get extraction industries and CIA agents; but probably not a Yale branch campus...
1. You do realize that being denied tenure is closer to being fired at/before the end of a probationary period, not passed over for promotion from fry cook to shift manager? It is true that the ongoing trend toward permatemping higher education by stringing along assorted adjuncts and other cheap labor has eroded the traditional process a bit; but it is still generally the case that 'denied tenure' = 'pursuing opportunities elsewhere is exciting and mandatory!' rather than 'you will remain an associate professor'.
2."This guy seemed to be best known for his harsh criticism of the government of Singapore... which the university depends on in many ways! Yeah, that sounds likely that they would want that guy on board." If the state of Singapore is serious about 'academic independence', then sometimes they end up cutting checks to people who say mean things about them. It's the quieter and more bookish version of not having the majority party send the minority party to the firing squad. It's a neat concept. If they aren't up to that, well, their 'universities' are pretty much stuck being fancy vocational schools and nothing more.
The OS doesn't really do anything. It's a glorified web browser.
I'd be more impressed with OpenBSD not being hacked, and even that is essentially just an init process and sshd.
It is a bit more interesting because Chrome, the browser, was among the fallen on Windows(not sure if they tested it on OSX).
ChromeOS is, indeed, mostly web browser sitting on top of a sparse-but-nowhere-near-as-weird-as-android linux distribution(Incidentally, might Google be the one to follow through on Mark Andresson's 1995 threat concerning reducing the OS to a collection of poorly debugged device drivers, albeit not the OS he was talking about?); but it wouldn't have struck me as obvious that it would behave notably different from Chrome running elsewhere, for exactly that reason.
Honestly now... You should know better than to leave a strawman near heat or open flame. That sort of behavior is a fire hazard!
Scientists have been proven to be human beings after all. They can lie and cheat like the rest of us. So that begs the question. Why should we all believe what they tell us at face value rather than using our deductive reasoning to figure out whether what they say is plausible? Why shouldn't we ask for hard evidence before accepting their conclusions at face value? If they are just as fallible as anyone else then why should we believe what they say rather than judging whether what they are saying makes any sense?
Well, you don't need to take what they say at face value(if you did, we could skip the tedious 'experiments' and 'peer review' and 'writing scientific papers' and 'data' and other boring stuff). More generally, the reason we don't generally use deductive reasoning is that it's somewhere between cumbersome and useless outside of toy examples written for deductive logic exercises. Induction is kind of lame by comparison; but it has the advantage of actually providing us with information about the world...
If it can't detect facecrime, I'm just not interested.
Cut all the whiny human 'cry, cry, I'm all worked up about where the abnormally close star is right now' crap and just adopt TAI across the board. Now that is proper time.
Is that they're bees. Tiny, flying murder machines.
Bees know nothing about how flying murder machines work, except by harsh experience.
But does this increase bee's productivity? Can we improve that productivity with 6-sigma? Let's have discussion during the break-out.
Listen kid, unless you want to give all your future status updates entirely by getting up on the conference room table and waggling your ass frantically, you'll stop that analogy right now...
You are probably one of those whiners who wondered why a space age civilization appears to have only one spacecraft, the first one it ever launched, which is responsible for conducting all war, trade, police action, zookeeping, and ethnography, no matter how large it grows... How could you possibly argue with such a sensible and realistic policy?
A statement emblematic of so many issues, but I'll choose to respond with snark:
What makes you think a clone would ever go out with you?
Hasn't bad sci-fi taught you anything? Despite being genetically identical to humans, because they are, clones mysteriously exhibit a creepy lack of free will and/or near-identical personality to the original(despite a developmental history that includes no life experience other than 'grow to apparent age of ~20 years with alarming speed in tube full of medical fluid'), perfect for producing armies of robo-hitlers or servile sex kitten harems!
It's probably because they only get allocated one soul per genome or something, couldn't make any less sense than the answers usually provided....
Just what the planet needs.
Given how expensive the process is likely to be, I'm not terribly concerned.
Now, given how expensive the process is likely to be, I'm also not wildly interested, outside of some very niche applications and the value as pure science...