The book The Bottomless Well discusses the concept of "the refined energy pyramid" where each level is smaller and more useful than the one below it. Electricity and computer are two levels medium-high on the pyramid. The books shows how auto technology has been rising up the pyramid with increasing fractions of its energy level at more refined levels. The book says about 15% of a modern auto's energy density (excluding hybrids and plug-ins) is now electrical and increasing. Computing is growing too, replacing items like distributors, etc with more efficent computed actuators and increasing mileage. Memisters will probably more compact implement soem electronic functions the other three are used for now.
I assisted some ill and dying people manage finances in the past and am amazed at how many accounts people can have. So I went through 12 months of my statements and found I had over 40. About a dozen are associated with work because that it seems that every benefit and way of saving has its own account. Another dozen are for house-related stuff like utilities and insurances. And a bunch for investing. Congress has a very piecemeal tax system and you can get little bit here and there. If I had young children there'd be yet another pile of educational savings, care credits, etc. My estate is going be one big cesspool when I croak.
SOAP_BOX_ON- I think this mainly due to the way Congress buys votes. A little new benefit for this election, another for the next election, and they start adding up. I'd really prefer a simplified tax system with single tax-advantaged account for all encouraged financial activity. Several presidents have suggested this, but its too big of a change. -SOAP_BOX_OFF
Its like the peole who wait in line overnight for new electronic hardware or movie takes that everyone else can buy online or at normal times. Both cool and assinine.
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Amusing story is that when editors tried to cut Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein just crossed out all of the "the"'s. That does may the computer character sound more like a computer or Russian (which does have definite articles).
No young person wears watches anymore. Some of the newer cell phones now have secondary clock LEDs, mainly to save screen-lighting power beacuse this is the most popular cell-phone use.
In a very engrossing movie, I rarely see cell phones opened. For example last week at the new James Bond move which mostly action.
The amorality of the always-wired new generation is appalling to their seniors. Although there may be a case for obnoxious digital copyrights, this "free" attitude pervades classroom cheating and is graduating into professional life. Although thieving business executives are a terrible examples, it is not an excuse. Watch me modded down for saying this!
My company's lawyers wont even challenge a badly-drafted or incorrect patent until there is a six-figure upside. Lawyer costs quickly approach that. More likely the threat results in cross-licensing royalties, usually both ways.
I find I have to juggle about 20 ideas my mind at the same time to write good code. Some are a perspective of the overall project while others are the immediate entities I'm working on.
I find these burrow into my subsconious with some active work on them when I'm doing other things. The first day of a vacation or diversions else like jogging they sometimes bubble to the surface. I guess when my short term memory falls below a certain threshhold I wont be able code, or write prose or music either.
The one main concession I make to memory aids now is a notepad to write down new ideas or bugs I plan to return to in a few hours. In my 20s I kept that all in my mind.
I wonder if is why you dont see too many older people *starting* programming. There are older programmers like myself, but we all started in our teens or 20s.
A supercomputer is the world's fastest computer and computers within one magnitude lower. That that is 100 teraflops and faster these days. Latest list announced last week.
Venus has 10,000 time the atmosphere of Mars and 90 times the earth.
Yet no magnetic field protection and a ten times strong solar wind at that distance (r-squared divergence).
For all three planets, the planetary outgassing ratye from the interior is not well known and could be a factor in replenishment.
In the two fields I specialize in I notice two distinct populations through the ups and downs of economic cycles. The first are "true believers" in the field that stick with it through the good and bad times. These people tend the retain jobs in the filed because of their experience. Then we have the "economic mercenaries" with luke-warm interest in the field attracted mainly because its lucrative at the time. They tend to migrate to the "next best thing" at the turn of an economic cycle. I'm guessing the higher participation of women in the past was due the latter influence. The elastic nature of the American workforce needs both types.
> I doubt that anybody of American descent would be allowed to see top-secret Chinese data, 20-year citizen or not!
I found the opposite sometimes. Because much internal Chinese data is secretive- overly at times- I've been "spilled the beans" mainly out of accomplishment pride rather than espionage. For example on one 1980s visit to a Chinese Oil Company research center I was shown an exact clone of the original style cylindrical Cray supercomputer. Officially China hid they had copied Cray and had supercomputer manufacturing capacity. However some of the individual scientists were bursting at the seems with pride that they were skillful enough to do this.
A similar thing was reported in Physics Today. A physicist casually asked to see a nuclear material assaying facility and was surprising granted the request. The Chinese had implemented world-class assaying techniques as advanced as the US at the time, enough though China was rather poor then. The Chinese scientist probably shouldnt have shown this much, nor could the US physicist admit US capabilities. But the exchange appeared to be more out of pride rather than espionage.
Even though the overall undergraduate MIT female enrollment has increased to the 40%s(*), the number of females majoring in CS has dropped in the past decade. Not even MIT is immune from this phenomena.
(* MIT always accepted women studies. But numbers stayed around 10% until the administration focused on balancing enrollment in 1980s.)
Lying about inside trading was more serious than the modest trading itself.
However the the SEC stripped her of the right to be CEO and be on boards for the trading conviction. Was that permanent?
Some styles of presentation are useful for learning the material first time through, while others are useful for reviewing the information after you've mastered for a while. I consider Penrose an excellent choice for the latter.
For pedagogy you want material ordered from basic to complex, ditto for underlying mathematical tools.
For review work I love to read historical narratives of the inventing physicists. That adds personal color to the ideas. And it also shows false avenues explored before coming up with the best answer. A basic physics course lacks time to do this.
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The book The Bottomless Well discusses the concept of "the refined energy pyramid" where each level is smaller and more useful than the one below it. Electricity and computer are two levels medium-high on the pyramid. The books shows how auto technology has been rising up the pyramid with increasing fractions of its energy level at more refined levels. The book says about 15% of a modern auto's energy density (excluding hybrids and plug-ins) is now electrical and increasing. Computing is growing too, replacing items like distributors, etc with more efficent computed actuators and increasing mileage. Memisters will probably more compact implement soem electronic functions the other three are used for now.
I assisted some ill and dying people manage finances in the past and am amazed at how many accounts people can have. So I went through 12 months of my statements and found I had over 40. About a dozen are associated with work because that it seems that every benefit and way of saving has its own account. Another dozen are for house-related stuff like utilities and insurances. And a bunch for investing. Congress has a very piecemeal tax system and you can get little bit here and there. If I had young children there'd be yet another pile of educational savings, care credits, etc. My estate is going be one big cesspool when I croak.
SOAP_BOX_ON- I think this mainly due to the way Congress buys votes. A little new benefit for this election, another for the next election, and they start adding up. I'd really prefer a simplified tax system with single tax-advantaged account for all encouraged financial activity. Several presidents have suggested this, but its too big of a change. -SOAP_BOX_OFF
They are just looking quick buck which lazy laptop owners provide. People leave their laptops in hotel rooms and cars, which thieves know.
Its like the peole who wait in line overnight for new electronic hardware or movie takes that everyone else can buy online or at normal times. Both cool and assinine.
Editors just gave up editing.
Amusing story is that when editors tried to cut Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein just crossed out all of the "the"'s. That does may the computer character sound more like a computer or Russian (which does have definite articles).
But its a question of manpower. These large argo ships have may one, two dozen people to keep costs down. The pirates have a semi-infinite supply.
No young person wears watches anymore. Some of the newer cell phones now have secondary clock LEDs, mainly to save screen-lighting power beacuse this is the most popular cell-phone use.
In a very engrossing movie, I rarely see cell phones opened. For example last week at the new James Bond move which mostly action.
The amorality of the always-wired new generation is appalling to their seniors. Although there may be a case for obnoxious digital copyrights, this "free" attitude pervades classroom cheating and is graduating into professional life. Although thieving business executives are a terrible examples, it is not an excuse. Watch me modded down for saying this!
My company's lawyers wont even challenge a badly-drafted or incorrect patent until there is a six-figure upside. Lawyer costs quickly approach that. More likely the threat results in cross-licensing royalties, usually both ways.
The Apple Airbook has the netbook weight and memory capacity. Except you pay $1700 for a legible screen, first-rate operating system and Apple class.
Else you have zoom them and see itty bitty pieces
Its going to be much nastier to discover software weaknesses after war begins.
I find I have to juggle about 20 ideas my mind at the same time to write good code. Some are a perspective of the overall project while others are the immediate entities I'm working on. I find these burrow into my subsconious with some active work on them when I'm doing other things. The first day of a vacation or diversions else like jogging they sometimes bubble to the surface. I guess when my short term memory falls below a certain threshhold I wont be able code, or write prose or music either.
The one main concession I make to memory aids now is a notepad to write down new ideas or bugs I plan to return to in a few hours. In my 20s I kept that all in my mind.
I wonder if is why you dont see too many older people *starting* programming. There are older programmers like myself, but we all started in our teens or 20s.
A supercomputer is the world's fastest computer and computers within one magnitude lower. That that is 100 teraflops and faster these days. Latest list announced last week.
Venus has 10,000 time the atmosphere of Mars and 90 times the earth. Yet no magnetic field protection and a ten times strong solar wind at that distance (r-squared divergence).
For all three planets, the planetary outgassing ratye from the interior is not well known and could be a factor in replenishment.
Aliens responsible for creating ancent empire - Stargate and IJ-4.
They were the gold standard of supercomputing in the 1970s and 1980s, then lost their way after the founder's death in a car accident.
Would it be able to walk?
Cost cutting as its stock approaches double-digits.
Without gravity to constrain its size, it will grow to ten feet very soon.
In the two fields I specialize in I notice two distinct populations through the ups and downs of economic cycles. The first are "true believers" in the field that stick with it through the good and bad times. These people tend the retain jobs in the filed because of their experience. Then we have the "economic mercenaries" with luke-warm interest in the field attracted mainly because its lucrative at the time. They tend to migrate to the "next best thing" at the turn of an economic cycle. I'm guessing the higher participation of women in the past was due the latter influence. The elastic nature of the American workforce needs both types.
> I doubt that anybody of American descent would be allowed to see top-secret Chinese data, 20-year citizen or not!
I found the opposite sometimes. Because much internal Chinese data is secretive- overly at times- I've been "spilled the beans" mainly out of accomplishment pride rather than espionage. For example on one 1980s visit to a Chinese Oil Company research center I was shown an exact clone of the original style cylindrical Cray supercomputer. Officially China hid they had copied Cray and had supercomputer manufacturing capacity. However some of the individual scientists were bursting at the seems with pride that they were skillful enough to do this.
A similar thing was reported in Physics Today. A physicist casually asked to see a nuclear material assaying facility and was surprising granted the request. The Chinese had implemented world-class assaying techniques as advanced as the US at the time, enough though China was rather poor then. The Chinese scientist probably shouldnt have shown this much, nor could the US physicist admit US capabilities. But the exchange appeared to be more out of pride rather than espionage.
Even though the overall undergraduate MIT female enrollment has increased to the 40%s(*), the number of females majoring in CS has dropped in the past decade. Not even MIT is immune from this phenomena.
(* MIT always accepted women studies. But numbers stayed around 10% until the administration focused on balancing enrollment in 1980s.)
Lying about inside trading was more serious than the modest trading itself. However the the SEC stripped her of the right to be CEO and be on boards for the trading conviction. Was that permanent?
Some styles of presentation are useful for learning the material first time through, while others are useful for reviewing the information after you've mastered for a while. I consider Penrose an excellent choice for the latter.
For pedagogy you want material ordered from basic to complex, ditto for underlying mathematical tools. For review work I love to read historical narratives of the inventing physicists. That adds personal color to the ideas. And it also shows false avenues explored before coming up with the best answer. A basic physics course lacks time to do this.