I have a seismology PhD. We really didnt LEARN the physics equations we had in undergrad class until we had to implement them in computer programs and simulate or reduce real data. Then you learn the equations, numerical implementations, and data are all approximations with limits you WILL RESPECT.
An equally challenging alternative is to teach physics to someone else. Then you discover the holes in your learning too.
Both the basic SAT and ACT only test up to 10th grade math.
Furthermore, many students might accelerate these a year or two
and take calculus in high school.
I never got perfect, but did go to MIT. I figure I was sloppy with a question or two. Someone who is very careful and gets it all right could be a good editor, lawyer, programmer, etc where exact detail is paramount. Then of course the lady might enjoy a career interacting with people more than ideas.
The first genome cost $3 billion. This one did two genomes for $500K apiece. Future costs are expected to drop another thousand in a decade. They may need to do a thousand of these kind of sequencings to capture the range of the major cancers.
Plus once you know the range of genomic differences for each kind of cancer, you could develop a set of cheaper makers. Each cancer is expected to consist of a couple dozen mutations, maybe ten or so for each specific instance.
A lot of science fiction is difficult to make into movies because (1) requires too much off-earth or futuristic special effects or (2) is too cerebral and does translate tot he screen easily. Crichton bypassed this mainly by extrapolation dangerous implications of recently invented technology and blending into a melodrama. in fact most of his later novels read like pre-screenplays.
Cancers usually horrible - painful, disfiguring, debilitating. There are more peaceful ways to die in old age. besides eliminating cancer does not add too many years to the average lifespan - about six. Antibiotics and hygene nearly doubled lifespan.
In Star Trek Movie IV, the whale one, Scotty trys to do something on a 1990s vintage PC by talking to it at the mouse. Then someone shows him the keyboard and he gets it working. User expectations change drastically over time.
I recall people studying the evolution of locomotion by allowing any kind of movement- walking, tumbling, slithering, wheels, etc. Computer programs "evolve" trying random mutations and look at resulting locomotive efficiency. Some clever, unexpected solutions result which you dont see in nature. I forget the reference, but may be associated with the Sante Fe Artificial Life Institute, etc.
Maybe four limbs gives you more bang for the buck in terms of the energy of development and survival locomotion. However insects and relatives have been more creative with all even numbers - 2, 4, 6, 8 and dozens.
Alan designed SmallTalk to run on the Dynabook and other PARC computers. It was the second Object Oriented language after the Norwegian Simula. In some sense SmallTalk is still ahead of current OO languages which mostly descend from UNIX-C (C++, Java, C#, Objective-C, Motif, Groovy, Ruby, etc) [OK there are better boutique alternatives like Eiffel]. What we call the operating system, then a subset called the machine environment, was implemented in SmallTalk, so you have uniform UI and programming behavior from top to bottom in the Dynabook. This wasnt really attempted in the commercial world until Steve Job's NeXTStep OS. Also SmallTalk was interpreted with dynamic method binding, i.e you didnt have to know everthing about a class in advance of using it. People still argue about this versus strong typing decades later.
There are cell jammers available online, but the corporate-owned FCC considers them illegal in the US. I nearly lost it when a bitch orally answered a message in the middle of a Swan Lake performance last week.
Since the beginning of summer. I guess we return to scam mortgages (radio) and erectial disfunction drugs (tv) now. I was starting to think Barack was the Big Brother since he had more screen time than the TV actors in some time periods. I also got tired of a half-dozen robo-call messages in my message box every day too and spam mail from the candidates.
You can really make someone's day if you compliment an idea posted on the web. That might propagate to that person's relationships and help others too.
However their governments regulates they must offer a single price without age or pre-existing considition differentials. This pretty much how US employer insurance operates. Seems to work OK.
A recent Nature article ran Watson's genome (3rd in world) against a 5000-gene disease database and found between 20 and 32 matches. Like one for retinitous pigmatosa. Yet none of these were expressed in his first 80 years of life. This shows how little we understand yet. Medical insurance companies should not jump the gun.
We've seen people like Cheney and Palin intentionally avoiding email and other traceable electronic records.
Plus dubious claims of "losing white house backup tapes". (No IT shop is perfect and some mistakes happen.)
The internet is seen as the modern version of the watergate tape recording system. It could return to haunt politicians operating illegally.
Something like seven people in the State Department were
caught looking up passports of people without permission.
I lost track what happend to them, though I recall some
lost their jobs.
They shared video development with NYC Rose planetariam. Originally Denver was powered by a SGI supercomputer, but they switched to HPs after SGI stopped making new supers. Also they switched to a new 6-megapixel system with higher contrast (blacker blacks) and less frequent bulb replacements (monthly instead of weekly).
The videos consist of solar system trip, a galaxy trip, black holes, meteors, astronaut training, several kalideoscopic light shows, each 20 minutes. Individual museums get grants to develop these video (Denver did black holes) and they are shared among digital planetariums. Some resampling-format may be required since different museumshave different projector counts.
They also have a custom astronomy program that shows several hundred bodies in ot solar system at arbitray epochs and viewpoints. They use something similar to Google Earth and Google Sky. They use the first to teach geograph by first crusing over a spherical earth at orbital altitude, then swooping into locations of interest. Its pretty effective in the hands of a competent geography guide. The effect is immersive becasue the dome covers your entire field of view. So you feel like you are in a space ship leaping about the earth.
I also seen many of the Mars Rover surface panaromas displayed in 360. When they do slow panning it feels like you are in car riding about Mars with your seat moving. It can be stunning.
Since its pretty much kosher SGI Open software, my company hired it during a scientific convention a couple years back and displayed our seismic exploration visualization software in 11-megapixel immersive mode. And it pretty much worked with minor glitches (the cursor jumped between projector seems in funny ways).
A beer or shot greatly dampens the emotional content of my memories formed under the influence. They are still there, but dont have the impact. Thats why I'm guarded about combing drinking and doing something important.
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I have a seismology PhD. We really didnt LEARN the physics equations we had in undergrad class until we had to implement them in computer programs and simulate or reduce real data. Then you learn the equations, numerical implementations, and data are all approximations with limits you WILL RESPECT.
An equally challenging alternative is to teach physics to someone else. Then you discover the holes in your learning too.
You'd think they'd have exhausted that theme by now :-)
What did people expect from the perhaps the most amoral general in history?
Both the basic SAT and ACT only test up to 10th grade math. Furthermore, many students might accelerate these a year or two and take calculus in high school.
I never got perfect, but did go to MIT. I figure I was sloppy with a question or two. Someone who is very careful and gets it all right could be a good editor, lawyer, programmer, etc where exact detail is paramount. Then of course the lady might enjoy a career interacting with people more than ideas.
The first genome cost $3 billion. This one did two genomes for $500K apiece. Future costs are expected to drop another thousand in a decade. They may need to do a thousand of these kind of sequencings to capture the range of the major cancers.
Plus once you know the range of genomic differences for each kind of cancer, you could develop a set of cheaper makers. Each cancer is expected to consist of a couple dozen mutations, maybe ten or so for each specific instance.
A lot of science fiction is difficult to make into movies because (1) requires too much off-earth or futuristic special effects or (2) is too cerebral and does translate tot he screen easily. Crichton bypassed this mainly by extrapolation dangerous implications of recently invented technology and blending into a melodrama. in fact most of his later novels read like pre-screenplays.
Cancers usually horrible - painful, disfiguring, debilitating. There are more peaceful ways to die in old age. besides eliminating cancer does not add too many years to the average lifespan - about six. Antibiotics and hygene nearly doubled lifespan.
In Star Trek Movie IV, the whale one, Scotty trys to do something on a 1990s vintage PC by talking to it at the mouse. Then someone shows him the keyboard and he gets it working. User expectations change drastically over time.
I recall people studying the evolution of locomotion by allowing any kind of movement- walking, tumbling, slithering, wheels, etc. Computer programs "evolve" trying random mutations and look at resulting locomotive efficiency. Some clever, unexpected solutions result which you dont see in nature. I forget the reference, but may be associated with the Sante Fe Artificial Life Institute, etc.
Maybe four limbs gives you more bang for the buck in terms of the energy of development and survival locomotion. However insects and relatives have been more creative with all even numbers - 2, 4, 6, 8 and dozens.
Alan designed SmallTalk to run on the Dynabook and other PARC computers. It was the second Object Oriented language after the Norwegian Simula. In some sense SmallTalk is still ahead of current OO languages which mostly descend from UNIX-C (C++, Java, C#, Objective-C, Motif, Groovy, Ruby, etc) [OK there are better boutique alternatives like Eiffel]. What we call the operating system, then a subset called the machine environment, was implemented in SmallTalk, so you have uniform UI and programming behavior from top to bottom in the Dynabook. This wasnt really attempted in the commercial world until Steve Job's NeXTStep OS. Also SmallTalk was interpreted with dynamic method binding, i.e you didnt have to know everthing about a class in advance of using it. People still argue about this versus strong typing decades later.
There are cell jammers available online, but the corporate-owned FCC considers them illegal in the US. I nearly lost it when a bitch orally answered a message in the middle of a Swan Lake performance last week.
Since the beginning of summer. I guess we return to scam mortgages (radio) and erectial disfunction drugs (tv) now. I was starting to think Barack was the Big Brother since he had more screen time than the TV actors in some time periods. I also got tired of a half-dozen robo-call messages in my message box every day too and spam mail from the candidates.
You can really make someone's day if you compliment an idea posted on the web. That might propagate to that person's relationships and help others too.
Unless the homeowner calls directly. There is just too little qC in DIY systems.
Except for gamers it doesnt affect anyone, save their immediate families.
However their governments regulates they must offer a single price without age or pre-existing considition differentials. This pretty much how US employer insurance operates. Seems to work OK.
A recent Nature article ran Watson's genome (3rd in world) against a 5000-gene disease database and found between 20 and 32 matches. Like one for retinitous pigmatosa. Yet none of these were expressed in his first 80 years of life. This shows how little we understand yet. Medical insurance companies should not jump the gun.
We've seen people like Cheney and Palin intentionally avoiding email and other traceable electronic records. Plus dubious claims of "losing white house backup tapes". (No IT shop is perfect and some mistakes happen.) The internet is seen as the modern version of the watergate tape recording system. It could return to haunt politicians operating illegally.
Something like seven people in the State Department were caught looking up passports of people without permission. I lost track what happend to them, though I recall some lost their jobs.
Like his VP who left MicroSoft some years ago.
As the next VP says: Mavericks!
They shared video development with NYC Rose planetariam. Originally Denver was powered by a SGI supercomputer, but they switched to HPs after SGI stopped making new supers. Also they switched to a new 6-megapixel system with higher contrast (blacker blacks) and less frequent bulb replacements (monthly instead of weekly).
The videos consist of solar system trip, a galaxy trip, black holes, meteors, astronaut training, several kalideoscopic light shows, each 20 minutes. Individual museums get grants to develop these video (Denver did black holes) and they are shared among digital planetariums. Some resampling-format may be required since different museumshave different projector counts.
They also have a custom astronomy program that shows several hundred bodies in ot solar system at arbitray epochs and viewpoints. They use something similar to Google Earth and Google Sky. They use the first to teach geograph by first crusing over a spherical earth at orbital altitude, then swooping into locations of interest. Its pretty effective in the hands of a competent geography guide. The effect is immersive becasue the dome covers your entire field of view. So you feel like you are in a space ship leaping about the earth.
I also seen many of the Mars Rover surface panaromas displayed in 360. When they do slow panning it feels like you are in car riding about Mars with your seat moving. It can be stunning.
Since its pretty much kosher SGI Open software, my company hired it during a scientific convention a couple years back and displayed our seismic exploration visualization software in 11-megapixel immersive mode. And it pretty much worked with minor glitches (the cursor jumped between projector seems in funny ways).
A beer or shot greatly dampens the emotional content of my memories formed under the influence. They are still there, but dont have the impact. Thats why I'm guarded about combing drinking and doing something important.
In the biennial college international collegiate solar house decathalon the resulting house must be fully functional, save plumbing connect. They transported to the DC mall where inhabitants must perform a weeks worth of living functions like meals and television.